Waxing
Posted on | June 30, 2009 | No Comments
I’m not generally one for any sort of beauty product, but I must have gotten bored lately because I decided to try waxing.
After some experimentation, I have found myself incapable of allowing the hair on my legs to grow long enough to wax. It feels disgustingly prickly and leaves me more prone to sweat, and after just a few days I gave in and shaved. Besides, the wax left red marks on my leg that didn’t disappear for several days. I might try again in the winter.
However, I am fairly sure I will try facial waxing again. I definitely would benefit from more practice in order to make the end result smoother and more complete, but for the most part I didn’t find it painful. The exception to this was my upper lip, which made my eyes water. I sort of had to coach myself through that part.
For the record, I am fairly sure I don’t have really obvious facial hair. Everyone has hair all over their body, it just grows longer and more obvious in some places than others. The hair on my face grows short, fine, and white-blond due to my natural coloring. I doubt it bothers anyone but me. I am fairly sure that many people, after looking in the mirror every morning, find things just begin to be bothersome. This is one of mine. Tweezing takes too long, and the one time I tried threading I didn’t manage to remove a some of the hairs completely and had an area of patchy ingrown hair as a result. So of the three, I am finding waxing to be my preferred at-home method for face hairs.
So there, my contribution to blog posts about beauty care on the internet. Ta-da!
Anti-cancer diet.
Posted on | June 17, 2009 | No Comments
Anyone who is even mildly interested in how what they eat affects their health ought to read this article. I knew some of it, but not all of it.
“Cancer lies dormant in all of us. Like all living organisms, our bodies are making defective cells all the time. That’s how tumours are born. But our bodies are also equipped with a number of mechanisms which detect and keep such cells in check. In the West, one person in four will die of cancer – but three in four will not: their defence mechanisms will hold out.”
Full article can be read here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-1025497/The-anti-cancer-diet–introducing-healthy-new-way-life.html.
I have found my alcohol tolerance. It’s not very high, naturally.
Posted on | June 14, 2009 | No Comments
Last night I went to the neighbors block party and had one strawberry margarita. Naturally, could not taste the alcohol. Didn’t find out until after I’d drank the whole thing that the neighbor was mixing them half alcohol.
Went home and went to bed.
Woke up this morning with my first hangover ever. Showed up to work with my first hangover ever. Was stupid enough to tell my coworkers that I had a hangover from one stupid margarita.
My alcohol tolerance is the suck. Not that anyone is surprised by this, least of all me. But it needed to be said.
It wasn’t a bad hangover, really. I felt nauseous most of the morning, like I had the normal flu. By 9 I was mostly better, and by noon I felt completely normal.
Of course, because of the hangover I got a slow start this morning, and as such worked about an hour later than usual. Am afraid this will prompt my evil strict boss, who didn’t work today, to pull me aside and give me a warning/lecture tomorrow. Hopefully I’m just worrying about nothing; I know that everyone else has shown up to work at least once hung over. Including my strict boss.
Stop laughing at me, you bastards.
Amazing mushroom sandwich!
Posted on | June 3, 2009 | No Comments
I made the most amazing sandwich this morning! So I am sharing the recipe.
This makes a greasy, strongly flavored sandwich. The mushrooms add a denseness to it that is very satisfying.
I MUST SEE THIS MOVIE
Posted on | May 18, 2009 | No Comments
The greatest sadness is that I must wait until August.
I can’t escape the sugar.
Posted on | April 24, 2009 | No Comments
Since the weather has warmed up my new thing is to eat frozen fruit. I have a really bad habit of chewing on ice in the summer, so I’ve been trying this instead, just until we have our air conditioner up and working again.
My favorite is, of course, the frozen strawberries. They are very sweet, and it didn’t occur to me to wonder why they were so much sweeter than the rest of the fruit I had brought.
While I was finished off the container today I read the ingredients, thinking that I was being stupid because OBVIOUSLY since it’s frozen the only ingredient will be fruit and fruit juices.
No no, the second most common ingredient is sugar.
Now I have I brush my teeth again.
It shouldn’t be this difficult to knit a scarf.
Posted on | April 22, 2009 | No Comments
After reviewing the rest of the book, have realized I’ve learned all the basics needed before starting a project. Cast on, cast off, knit stitch, purl stitch. The rest is experimentation and practice, methinks.
Decided to make a scarf. I’m purl stitching, because I’m better at purl than knit stitch. It’s mostly something to keep me busy and practicing. I mean, I just have one roll of grey yarn to tide me over until the next paycheck, when I’ll be able to buy a larger gauge knitting needle and chenille yarn for the next project I want to try. There’s a project in my book that shows how to make a chenille scarf. Soft much?
Anyway, my scarf experiment is not going so great. First time I tried I made a lot of mistakes the first day and unraveled it. Second time it got to being about two inches long, with no major mistakes, and the cat BIT MY YARN AND KILLED IT! Seriously, he bit the ball end of my string as I was knitting, and severed it in half. Then, as I was looking at my severed yarn, in shock, he had the audacity to lick me, as if that made it better. And he started purring.
I’m sure I could have fixed it, but fuckit. I’m starting over again. Though, at this point I’m not sure I have enough yarn left to finish a full scarf. We’ll find out. Hopefully. Barring further mistakes.
Points for Today
Posted on | April 19, 2009 | No Comments
I went to work today. It sucked. But the rooms I cleaned are really frikkin clean. +1
Vacuumed and picked stuff off bedroom floor so that the carpet could be shampooed. +1
Went to the the neighbors block/birthday party. Was somewhat sociable. Wanted a margarita but decided I’d best not after that strawberry daiquiri. Have felt really floppy and tired and could probably go to sleep right now. Also, conversational skills may have been slightly aided by ingestion of very alcoholic daiquiri. Minor conversational abilities +1. Conversational skills requiring alcohol -1. Overall +/- 0
Helped give the cat a bath. +1
He didn’t like it much. -1
Have decided that should I ever call upon my top secret and oh-so-very well known life backup plan, will definitely aim for St. Johns College in Santa Fe. +1
Actually clicked out of a fanfic search and instead picked up a book. +2. Am relatively sure that this action was aided by droopiness caused by alcohol. -1. Overall +1
Overall Points for Today: +4
I am a half-assed knitter.
Posted on | April 13, 2009 | No Comments
My newest half-assed plan is to learn how to knit. Mostly so that I might be able to sit still enough to watch movies, which is probably not the best reason. In any case, am going the difficult route and learning from a book. Not so easy to do it that way. Instead I have thus far learned to cast on and do a basic knit stitch utilizing YouTube, and then referred to the book for reminders on how to position the yarn and such.
Naturally, first set of stitches were too tight and had to be unraveled. Oh well.
Arriving home from Gran’s pristine house always realigns my views on cleanliness and organization. My room and the bathroom look like a sty.
Oh shit.
Posted on | April 6, 2009 | No Comments
This woke me up out of near-sleep this morning.
Yesterday I checked the schedule at work and saw that they had me scheduled to have Monday (today) and Friday off.
This morning it occurred to me that meant I was working the majority of the week, which I requested off so I could go to New Mexico for my grandparents.
Oh shit.
So I called work and my boss said that I have the week off starting on Wednesday, as I had requested.
I thanked her and hung up.
I am not sure if this means that I read the wrong schedule, or that she saw the mistake this morning and changed it. I’m really pretty sure I was looking at the correct week when I checked, but I’ve been wrong before.
Then it occurred to me, if I have the week off starting Wednesday, do I still have today off? I called her just after I normally come in. She didn’t say anything.
Unless she calls back, I’m assuming I still have today off.
Noumena: VCN
Vanessa, 22, on quest for furthered productivity.
Tries to: Write novel? Improve art skills?Efforts often thwarted by cold temperatures. And also, laziness.
Consummate job hopper, only not so much in times of economic recession. Wants to do clerical work, but will likely end up Wal-Mart cashier.
Woe is logos and advertisement! Money is evil, evil theology.
Am also framed for display here: Flickr, DeviantArt, Shelfari, Last.fm.
My portfolio website is temporarily offline until I redesign it and update content. It has been a while and may be a while longer before I get around to it.
Organized Chaos
Inter Nos: What is Between Us
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In the lost lilac and the lost sea voices
And the weak spirit quickens to rebel
For the bent golden-rod and the lost sea smell
Quickens to recover