That's no good.

Thought 1 for the early morning:
I can't cook. It's true. This means I will never make a good wife. Ever. Also means I'm not a good catch. See this would be okay if I wanted to be a nun and live my days out devoted to God. Not that cool when I can't woo someone with my cooking skills.

Thought 2:
Why can't I sleep? Oh who knows. I have a problem...

Thought 3:
Will we go to war with China? Interesting... that'd be no good. Plus I'd prefer not to be put into an internment camp like back in WWII... I'm just saying. I don't like the idea.

Thought 4:
I like being Asian these days. I'm trying to embrace it. Note: trying. Practicing my Chinese, looking for ways to cook (even though I can't), etc

Thought 5:
What does dating look like? I have no idea anymore.

Light My Sapphire

Yes, please. Light My Sapphire!!!

Don't have a dirty mind. It is the color of the nail polish I'm currently wearing. My manicure has me showing different colors this week. It's a super dark blue, almost close to black. I've never worn such dark polish, but it makes me feel bad a$$! Now all I need is a streak of lightning blue in my hair... one can only dream.

Now really, I spent all of Saturday puking my brains and insides out. Oh classic hangover... my abs hurt so much from it. My body also just hurts. It started off as a great Friday night though. Drinks all around. Happiness in the air. Oh, I may have hung out a bit with the Asian Posse and had fun!! I am trying to embrace my inner Asian... I'm trying. Maybe one day you'll see me and I'll be a true Asian. tehehe.

I have tons of work to do this week, but I just can't get over how awesome my nails look. Looooooove!

I also love the name of the polish.

All-nighter

There is nothing like sitting up at 3:30am and writing a disaster of a paper on a humanitarian disaster. I'm so screwed for finishing this paper... I have about 5.5 hours left before I need to turn it in and right now I just need a mental break to type things not pertaining to my paper. Thus the blogging. I haven't pulled this late of a night in a few years. It's pretty mind-blowing. I'm not actually that tired- more worried about the grade I'm going to get on this paper. Tomorrow I will worry about sleep. I probably won't be able to function properly. Oh wait, by tomorrow, I mean today. When the sun comes up.

At one point in time, I had all these witty things to say on the blog. Thoughts I wanted to share. And as of right now, my mind is mud. NO idea what I was planning on writing. At least my sentences are mostly real sentences... nouns, verbs, etc. I haven't completely failed out of the English language quite yet. Soon though. Probably in another 12 hours, I will turn into a comatose thing. Yes a thing... there should be a better word to put after "comatose" but I can't think of one right now. My iTunes has cycled through some of the most random songs... for example: Avril is singing right now. Haven't heard her in a while.

One thought... oh wait, I lost it. Never mind. Brain officially fried. Mmmmkay... I guess I should go back to writing. See? This semester is keeeeeeelllllllling me. Maybe if I hadn't worked all weekend, I would have been able to find time to write this freaking paper.

What tastes good at 3:30 in the morning?

A Sound Bite

Yesterday I saw a guy who looked exactly like Russell Brand. Except this guy was Asian. So just picture Russell Brand and make him Asian. And there you have it! It was uncanny and amazing at the same time.

Well, I haven't had a day off work since I got back last Sunday. So I'm a little exhausted. Already behind in school- I'm 1 week in. It's going to be a long semester. A life-draining, soul-sucking, energy-depleting semester of work and school. I pray that it's worth it and that I'm alive in May.

I really have nothing new to say other than that... so I think I will now do homework

Mohawks, Mojo, and Much More

On my way back to this side of the US, I saw this kid on my flight. He had the most impressive mohawk going. And managed not to ruin it the entire flight. THEN as we left the plane, he put on this great hat. It had a hole cut down the center to accommodate his mohawk. How crazy yet cool is that?! I was pretty impressed. With the hair, the hat, and his entire get-up. Pretty sweet. PS he was Asian. And no, I didn't find him attractive.

It's back to the grind here. Back to school... back to reading more than I ever want to. And back to the insomnia. I am currently unable to fall asleep. It sucks. I lay here and just think. Mind racing all over the place. I can't ever seem to quiet down. Too many things to do, to plan... tomorrow is always another day. I don't get a day off of work until next Saturday... I just hope my mojo can last that long.

Current favorite song: Brooklyn by Wakey!Wakey! (yes it rocks)
Current favorite class: the one I have from 9-12 Monday, Wednesday, Friday. It's great, but it's also going to kill me.
Current favorite pastime: finding new recipes that I will probably never make
Current favorite CD: Ben Folds' Rockin' the Suburbs (yes it is still that fantastic)

My thoughts go out to the earthquake victims in Haiti. Can't wait to see how the Proposition 8 trial turns out. Seoul made it on New York Times' 31 Places to Go in 2010 list. Maybe I will venture that way this year. And finally, the BBC has told me that UK experts say having a large butt, hips, and thighs is good for my health. Does that mean I can stop working out?

Feeling like P Diddy...

Favorite upbeat song right now: Tik Tok by Kesha. Pretty sure I'm going to try to wake up to that song every morning to see if I do wake up feeling like P Diddy after hearing her sing it. I find it weird how some songs have the most absurd lyrics but are still so freakishly catchy.

Today is my last full day in Wisconsin, I fly back to that place over to the East tomorrow afternoon. (sniff) And then I start school... I'm not looking forward to it at all. I will probably die slowly and have an aneurysm by the time this semester is over. If I'm still alive in early May, I am going on a solid vacation where I can just sleep and relax.

There's so much snow. It's like living in a crazy winter wonderland where I'm scared to death to drive because let's think about it. I drive like 3 weeks a year, when I'm in Wisconsin. Other than that, I walk and take public transportation (which I have a love-hate relationship with). So the driving in snow/bad roads thing gives me nightmares.

Speaking of dreams/nightmares, I dreamed I was flying to Germany last night and I forgot my carry-on on the flight from Milwaukee to Chicago. I totally freaked out and woke up thinking I was going to forget something when I fly back to school. I wonder what that dream means... sometimes I think dreams don't mean anything. Then other times, they are a blatant indication of things I'm thinking about. I need a dream-teller... dream-explainer... you know, someone to tell me what my dreams mean. I wonder if it's kind of like fortune telling...

So my little sisters go to their friends' birthday parties and I marvel at what gets given as gifts these days. Gift cards to clothing stores... really? For my birthday, back when I was young, I had all these cool things that I wanted. I received some pretty spiffy stuff and went to some birthday parties where other people received superbly cool stuff. Parties back in the day were so much better than they are now... maybe that's because I hail from the 90's.
FOR EXAMPLE:

• Bop-it: Probably one of my favs... I wonder what that would be like to play with drunk now... probably awesome. Maybe I'll have to hunt one down to give it a whirl.
• Furbies: My music teacher in grade school had a furby that he would sit on the top of his piano during class. What a weird invention... I never had one. Back in the day, I wish I did... not so much any more.
• Beanie Babies: Okay, these toys were supposed to be worth "soooo much money." They were bean bags that had heads and tails sewed onto them. What a weird thing to have people obsess about.
  
• Pokemon vs Digimon: still haven't figured out the difference, nor do I really care.
• Fairy Winkles: Does anyone remember what these things are? I had 3 fairy winkles... or did I have the Wee Winkles... who knows. They were so cute! A little strange, but a fun toy.
  
• Polly Pocket: My absolute favorite toy as a kid. Now if you think about it, it's definitely a chocking hazard. But I loved them. I had so many... and I'm pretty sure my parents still have them all stored somewhere. A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. toy. I swear by that toy

Well now that I have word vomited all over this post, I'm going to go to lunch with my mom.

A New Year

There is no better way to start off a new year than to do it by applying life lessons to your own life, cleaning out the old crap that you've accumulated over the last decade... And jamming out to the most ridiculous songs you can find in your iTunes library.

For example:
"Boom Boom Boom" by the Vengaboys
"Mickey" by B*Witched
"Blue" by Eiffel 65
"The Humpty Dance" by Digital Underground
"99 Luftballoons" by... no idea
"Ooh Ahh... Just a Little Bit" by Gina G
And a crazy combination of Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, and good ol' Britney

So I may be going a little bananas spending all my time cooped up at home, surrounded by the wonderful snow. But it's actually pretty fun and relaxing. I've started reading The End of Poverty but it's so dense that I have a habit of dozing off ever other paragraph. New Years Resolutions, anyone?

Here are mine:
1) Leave the country
2) Do something spontaneous and unexpected
3) Workout on a regular basis rather than my typical 2 months on, 3 months off cycle
4) Try as many new things as possible, whatever they may be
5) Say no less often

It's a start to a new decade, why not do something fun and crazy with my life this time around?!