With the changing of the seasons come changes to my blog. Did you see that nifty ad box in my blog's upper right corner? That's here to stay now. And, depending on its success, more ad boxes might join it. In other news, I'm going to start taking this "I'm a freelance graphic designer" thing seriously. I ordered some business cards today, 100 of them. There was this promotional deal where I got them for free and just had to pay shipping. In hindsight, I should have probably made my company website first, but oh well. So yeah, I run my own company now. It's called Honeybee Designs and I plan to create my new website for free using Blogger, so you guys will be the first ones to know once that's up and running. G and I are really starting to get into the holiday spirit. Mainly because it's nearly freezing out lately, 40 degrees F. So yesterday we bought pumpkin ice cream and ate it while cuddling under blankets watching movies. Two movies we watched over the weekend that were both really good and are on Netflix, that you should totally watch, but I'm not going to review them properly right now, since this blogpost is going to be long enough without it, are Paper Man and Cherry. Paper Man is one of my new favorite movies. And Cherry is also pretty fantastic. So watch those.
In football, the Washington Huskies got their butts thoroughly kicked by Stanford Cardinal this past weekend. Let's just say we lost by over 30 points and leave it at that. Seattle Seahawks and Cleveland Browns played a game of who sucks slightly less on Sunday. Nobody scored a touchdown, but the Browns beat the Seahawks 6-3. Truly pathetic. Sidenote: in my mind, today is Monday. Because G took the week off to work on his paper for his master's degree and I've been staying at his house until today. I helped him transcribe his entire 48 minute long video for his paper. It took me significantly longer than 48 minutes.
The other big news is that I am going to start reselling thrift store clothing and stuff on eBay in an attempt to make some extra money. It was G's idea, since he always marvels at the things I find for so cheap at thrift stores, and he hasn't even seen the little black dress I got on my last trip yet. So I plan to list all of the clothing I don't wear and use whatever money I make off of that as capital to buy more stuff to resell. I'll blog about how that goes, of course.
In other news, I received my E.L.F. order today and I'm really excited about that. Like I said, I'll review one product from that every once in a while on here, so you can expect to see lots more pictures of me in the future.
And last of all, I have an announcement: in my next blogpost, I will be having a giveaway with two winners, who will each receive a tube of lipstick, so watch out for that.
I hope you are all staying warm and healthy, and I'll be back again soon.
poor-quality picture of me laying in bed in my pajamas
I'm sick as a dog, a very sick dog. This morning I woke up, and changed my pajamas for different pajamas that I didn't sleep in. The only food we have right now is cereal, so I texted my roommate to see if she can get me some more instant oatmeal and cup o noodles. She texted back that she's busy but she texted my other roommate. I've received no reply. So today I will continue my sick-day tradition of watching Gremlins at least one time while I am sick. I also plan to watch Gremlins 2, which I haven't seen yet. I don't know how this became my tradition but it seems fitting with Halloween coming up.
As delicious as boiling water is with honey, cinnamon, and pepper, I'd much rather be healthy and drinking hot cocoa. At least I have lots of great blogs to read to occupy my time. Thanks for being so entertaining, everyone.
And on that note, everyone say hi to my newest follower, Chio. I just discovered her blog, Happy Dying Sun, and it's great so you should all go check it out. I'm off to rest and drink plenty of fluids.
Also, these are some ridiculous Halloween costumes that actually exist: sexy rubber ducky, sexy pool table, sexy Hulk Hogan (complete with mustache), sexy Freddie Krueger, sexy woodchipper, sexy Scrabble board, sexy snowman, sexy Tin Man (from The Wizard of Oz), sexy Brian from Family Guy, and sexy George Washington. The good news is there aren't any sexy Hitler costumes (that I can find anyway), but there are children's Hitler costumes.
Guess what, everyone? I have a cold, once again. To make things worse, our house is almost out of food, and I don't think shopping is a thing I'll feel up to anytime soon. I only have one of each "sick day food/drink left", which means one cup o noodles, one packet of instant oatmeal, and the mix for one cup of russian tea (a super awesome drink for when you have a sore throat, which my amazing mother makes me the mix for and she's sending me more, and she totally unexpectedly sent me a check for this month's rent, because she's so ridiculously super awesome). So anyway, my death cough has returned and I'm trying to take it easy. Filling out job applications is totally taking it easy, right?! I did job applications yesterday and today I've been taking it easy for reals. Want proof? I finished watching all the shows in my Hulu queue, so I cleaned up my blogroll, then searched out new blogs to read/follow.
And then I got to thinking: there is probably some stuff you guys don't know about me that you would find interesting. So now it's sharing time!
1. I sing in the shower. I have only started doing this since I moved into this apartment and there's nobody here during the day. Some of my favorite songs to sing in the shower are I'm Yours by Jason Mraz, Love Song by Sara Bareilles, Bubbly by Taylor Swift, and Jar of Hearts by Christina Perri. The last one is super depressing but it's such a fun song to sing, in my opinion, if you ignore the lyrics.
2. My all-time favorite cheer up song is Build Me Up Buttercup by The Foundations. It's so bizarre because if you actually listen to the lyrics, it's not a happy song, but the piano part is just so cheery that you can't help but smile.
3. I can sneeze realistically on purpose. I'm not sure how/when I discovered this particular skill? talent?
4. I cannot lick my elbow, though I have attempted on numerous occasions.
5. I am super ridiculously awesome at keeping a hula hoop up, not doing any tricks, but I can keep it up for hours at a time, and have done so in the past, while either reading a book, playing my Nintendo DS, or doing my Rubik's cube, because after about 5 minutes hula hooping gets boring. I can also do the macarena while hula hooping.
6. I know some karate and could kill a person with my bare hands if I needed to, and they didn't have a gun or a knife.
7. I know how to cross stitch and it was one of my biggest hobbies in middle school and the first part of high school. It slowly became replaced by other things and I sort of forgot about it until today.
8. Not to brag or anything but I'm a pretty good flute player. I would probably play it a lot more if I could find where I put the sheet music I printed out for classic rock songs, as well as The Legend of Zelda and Mario. I may or may not have a Star Wars sheet music book and know how to play every song in it.
9. I can do handstand pushups, like against a wall.
10. I have never been trick-or-treating in my entire life, because my dad always called it "the devil's holiday" and Halloween was always the day my parents had a huge fight (just verbal but it still scars a kid), since my mom wanted us to go but my dad didn't. My dad always won.
11. I have this crazy wish to be a model, that I haven't told anyone until just now. But it's not so much to be a model as just to have pictures of me that are like model quality, and that I look really good in. I am not a photogenic person. Also, I want to be given a makeover.
12. I have just finished watching "My So-called Life", which is a show from the 90's so I might be using the word "like" a lot more than I ever should, at least for a while.
So that's some stuff I felt like sharing with you all. One more thing, I intend to design a proper blog layout sometime very soon, since it is something I haven't taken time out for, and it's really starting to bug me.
Prepare for discombobulation; you have been warned.
I've been MIA for a few days. I had the most awful migraine headache EVER for three days straight. G was starting to get worried about me and started tossing around words like brain tumor and brain aneurysm, which started making me feel pretty worried too. But he talked to his mom, who is a nurse, and she said it's most likely just a migraine, and if I start having other symptoms with it to see a doctor, but for now just to take some ibuprofen and try to sleep it off. So that was Wednesday through Friday. I felt quite a bit better on Saturday and had just the tail end of the migraine hanging on, but I took some more ibuprofen and it let go by game time. Which was great, since I got to watch the Washington Huskies thoroughly stomp the Colorado Buffaloes 52-24. We are now 5-1. Washington Huskies are now a ranked team, number 22 in the AP ranking. We take on number 7 ranked Stanford Cardinal, who has had an undefeated season so far, on Saturday. It's certainly going to be interesting.
Now my allergies are being ridiculous, but other than that I'm feeling great.
I would like to welcome my newest blog follower, The Silver Swann. She's really friendly and very nice, so be sure to stop by her blog and say hi, maybe enter her bracelet giveaway. She can also be found on Etsy, which is where we first "met" one another. She handcrafts some amazing jewelry, and you should go check out her Etsy shop as well.
And now I would like to wish a happy birthday to one of my first subscribers ever. She's a lethal combination of writer and fashionista. She's got looks and brains, and some super-cool tattoos. And she writes an awesome blog. So if you get a chance, stop by and tell her happy birthday.
Tsaritsa, I hope you're birthday is super duper fantastic and you're surrounded by your loved ones having a great time right now (now, as in, when I'm writing it, not when you're reading it, unless you normally surround yourself with your loved ones to read blogs). Anyway, I thought I'd go along with the theme of your dad's birthday greeting, and get you something cat-themed as well, so here's a cat playing you happy birthday.
And the last thing I want to discuss is E.L.F. I never knew how inexpensive some of their makeup is! I always hear people talking about their stuff and I just assume it's some sort of brand that I can't afford. But I stumbled upon their website yesterday, and if you're poor like me, listen up. They have all of the basic stuff you need for $1 each! I'm not sure how great the quality of some of it is, but I know that it's been in different magazines and stuff. Anyway, I ordered a bunch of stuff, since they sent me a code for $10 worth of $1 each products for free with a $20 or more purchase. So I bought $36.95 worth of products, with shipping included, for $26.95, and I'll be reviewing everything once I get it. I'm pretty excited, since at the moment my makeup collection is very small. I only have one brush, one eyeshadow palette, three single eyeshadows, one mascara, one eyeliner, foundation, concealer, and two kinds of lip gloss. I will be getting two different palettes, one with 60 eyeshadow colors, 20 lip colors, 3 blushes, and 2 bronzers, and the other with 20 lip colors and 28 eyeshadow colors. That is the $20 portion of my order. For my $1 each products, that would end up being free, I chose: a foundation brush, a blush, 3 different kinds of lip gloss, a lipstick, a mascara, an eyeliner, a foundation, and a concealer. It should arrive in about 10 days, and then I'll review one product every time I blog. If you visit their site right now, they have 2 really great deals going. The first is you can get an 83-piece set that normally costs $35.00 for only $3.50, with any $25 minimum order. The other deal is free shipping on an order of over $25. These deals cannot be combined, however, as E.L.F. only allows one code per order. Their site is very user-friendly, and if the inexpensive products are any good, I'll be saving lots of trips to the drugstore. So I'll just have to wait and see if these products are any good or if the saying, "You get what you pay for" applies here.
I have an announcement: Sometime in the not-too-distant future, I'll be doing a giveaway, so be on the lookout for that.
