my *2010* has got *one*day*left*...

...but, it's okay.

I've got my *new* Nikon for 2011.

...and yeah, I've been allllllllllll about it this week,

bein' trapped inside for DAYS because of Sunday's blizzard.

I love the sound it makes when it snaps a moment.
[i won't even try to type the sound here.
an onomatopoeia couldn't capture how lovely it sounds.♥]
***

here the babies were sitting by the window as we were shovelling:

They seem just as confused about what to make of all the snow as the NYC Department of Sanitation did for four straight days!

YA PLOW IT, idiots!

Ohhhhhhh...SNAP!

***

they are funny.

***

***

***

my Nikon's awesomely fast shutter speed

finally

made it possible to capture Carmen's "face".

The face of hers I painted on the pumpkin.
***

the

face...

...that reminds me of Rodney Dangerfield's:

Bwaaaaahaaaaahaaaahaaahaaa!
***

****

so, yeah...my *new* Nikon...it's a love affair...

...can you say "sharp"?
and
"detail"?
♥ my two sleepy babies ♥ ***
***
So, my *2010*,
tomorrow's the last day of you.
I might get a little teary-eyed,
but i'll stop once I think of
how my sweet little darling baby girl
looks like Rodney friggin' Dangerfield.
So weird.
2011 with my Nikon should be fun,
and
1.01.2011
[which is only a day away]
is the launch of my
*new*blog*

...and gosh darnnit, I've been working all cabin-fevered on it the past few days. I even taught myself some HTML. No joke! You saw these suckers: "♥" all up in this post?

I learned that!

Yep.

Soooo cool.

I'm excited about it.

Hee Hee.

That's about all for today.

I'll have a post up tomorrow, but if you don't visit, then I wish you whole-heartedly, a resounding

Happy New Year!

♥

**bliZZZaRD**

to all you L.A. - Wes' SIGH-YEED - Cali bloggers,

we East-Cost bloggers listened to all your

woes about the rain last week.

***

here's our woes about the gosh darn snow e'rywhere!!

***

below is what everyone walking

around outside looks like:

oh, it sucks.

***

i have a full day of snow-shovelling to look forward to.

being bossed around by the 'rents and strenuously scoopin' and tossin'

scoopin' and tossin' and scoopin' and tossin' and wiping the snot and scoopin' and...

***

how do I politely explain that, "ahem, ahem...I'd rather stay inside and...uhmmm...work on my new blog for 2011. You see, I feel like i'm done using the *Blogger* platform and would rather explore the possibilities of TypePad, but I don't know how to make my way around, and I'd really like to spend my free time this week trying..."

Oh Lord.

That would not go well

with my chore-crazy mother!

***

Haa haa!

***

So thanks, snow, for adding hours

of back-breaking work to already

sore and beat-up inactive winter body.

***

[did I mention how much I miss the Summer?]

[did I mention how much I H.A.T.E. the cold?]

Grrrrrr...

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**

******

**

**

okay, well,

anyway...

...here're

some

shots

taken from

lazy, dazy

Christmas Eve

before

arriving at

the boyf's

grammy's

house

for our

5th

X-mas Eve

together:

lazy cats.
really lazy cats.
[8 months old now, btw]
****
my
Christmas Eve
look:
curly curly curly curling-ironed curls
[posted about for the first time - a long time ago - here]
and
underneath those curls
were my new
heart earrin's
from
Forever21:
[uhmmmm...they were $1.50...shwiiing!!]
***
curls accompanied by my
kitty-cat ModCloth top
which I spotted
in this post at
the beginning of
the month.
i love this top.
***
i also love this necklace.
not sure where I bought it, though.
***
did you catch the pattern???
:)
***
along with my
Christmasy
glittery
gold nails:
[kinda looks like bokeh light bubbles, eh?]

bling blingy bling,

sparkle, sparkle.

***
even on the houses

in the Brooklyn neighborhood

by the boyf's grammy's house:

yeah...overkill??

***

every blow-up Christmas decoration in creation,

on one front lawn.

Overkill?

***

ten-foot tall wooden soldiers up against your house's Grecian columns??

overkill?

Nah.

What's gonna be overkill is the work in the snow I mentioned earlier that's coming my way in later hours of today.

Shit.

Happy Monday-after-X-mas!

Hope it leaves you chillin'.

*fall*jog*

...and the consensus: I miss my spring/summer jog.

the leaves were beautiful, but that's about it.

*

the colder air hurts my lungs when i breathe in...like, stings them cold,

and something happened yesterday while jogging that's never happened to me before:

my butt cheeks were itching like mad!
*

i don't mean to be graphic, but

those chubby cheeks of mine were on fire!

*

i looked it up,

and most likely it was a combination of

a long stretch of inactivity and not moisturizing before setting out in the cold

[found information on it here and here]

*

okay...on another note...I feel mentally exhausted.

fall/winter does that to my brain...hibernates it like a grizzly,

but i'm sad,

because i feel an intense lack of inspiration.

Arg!

*

i'm so frustrated!

*

i think i'll go for a run.

??

:/

happy Sat, cats.

*inactivity*

this has been *me* since fall started:

my *inactivity* level

has been off the charts

***
***

with

/subbing by day//waitressing by night/

/having sham-college/

/having sham-homework for sham-college/

and

/this goddamn COLD weather/

i end up doing this::

no energy/time/desire

for my beloved biking,

or my beloved running,

or

ANYTHING!
************

*********

******

***

**

that's all changing today!

**

***

******

*********

***********

because today

I'm

going

to:

oh yeah, baby!
ZUMBA!

***

I've been craving *activity* and Lord! here it is!

***

***

never heard of *ZUMBA*???

check out the

video low-down

here:

***

***

*yay*

for

working out

fo' sho'

and

*yay*

for...

happy happy. joy joy.

a random as *fuck* post here ya'll, 'kay, got that?!?! sound like a plan, totally awesome planner...ramble*scramble*shambles...

i feel delirious.

*

for the past two days

since my double on friday i've

had not one cohesive thought

i can recall.

it's all been a jumble of craziness like a

group of cracked-out piranhas to a cow thigh.

[no, i did not see piranhas 3D, nor do i want to]

[a cracked out piranha...

i have pretty much felt & still feel like that, above]

I

am one

big ball

of frustration, coupled with indifference.

It's like

I have

a raging locomotive

inside of me,

but

I'm standing perfectly still.

*

there's no other way i could describe it really.

*

this post is going to be

the randoms of my brain right now

'cause it needs to be.

*

sorry if this bores you,

or gives you a seizure.
*

let's start with the last thing first

and go in reverse.

rewind:::

**

**

**

**

okay,

so thinking a relaxing

viewing of last night's

VMAs

would help

my

uber-neurotic brain as of late

was

a

COMPLETE MISTAKE.

**

I felt

even more

mentally exhausted after watching,

but can't really pinpoint why.

**

oh wait.

**

oh yeah:

a fuckin' meat dress??
...and a meat hat??
i mean,
i kind of get it, i guess.
**
VMAs, right?
Veal Meat Accessaries?
makes sense.
i mean, as much sense as she's gonna make.
i'm not sure if i'm glad she won.
i mean, i do like me some
rah rah rah mah mah, roma rum mah mah, gaga ooo laa laa
sounds in mah ear and mah body while dancing.

**

Chelsea Handler was disappointing.
*
Taylor Swift bugged me.
*
Kanye, in that red outfit, with that douchebag song...
...i have no words.
*
what I
thoroughly did enjoy,
however,
and was by far my favorite part::

was
Florence + the Machine's performance
of 'Dog Days are Over'
*
i friggin' love this song:

the performance of this had me wigglin'

on the couch next to Tomas as we were watching it.

i even sang along.

so, thank you, Florence, for

singing your reassuring song [...what felt like...] just for me.

**

i also liked the mickey-mouse bobble head DJ guy.

he was awesome.

**

**

alright,

i think that's enough

of the VMAs

[Viewing of Major Attention-whores]

moving on the the next piece of my convoluted brain-puzzle:

i

shall soon

be

getting

an
iphone.

i am excited for this,

but i hope it lives up to all its hype.

i want a white 4G.

when is this coming out????

does anyone know?

maybe i do want the black.

did anyone hear about the 'antenna' problem??

aren't they supposedly fixing it by October?

know any good apps?

*

that's all I have to say about that.

*

*

moving along to one of the most

random lines from one

of the most random books/movies

ever to be put into this random existence:

???

*************************************************

tomas & I

went on a

triple date

Saturday

night

to:

i love saying this outloud:

KOTOBUKi!

**

try it.

it's really fun.

no really:

KOTOBUKi!

**

okay, well, anyway...

...I so looked forward to

my friends' company

& sushi-ing it up with Tomas.
**

most fun,

though,

was the time

i gave myself

saturday afternoon

preparing for dinner.

**

got me a mani.

got me a pedi.

**

me & my curlin' iron

worked together in harmony.

**

...and my favorite, favorite part:

my all-black ensemble.

black & gold.

lovey dove dove.

**

it made me feel so *put*together* because

as you can tell from this post, I am so not.

**

even just the picture makes me happy.

the solid one-color is keeping me calm.

let me carry on...

[Josh, Elisa, Natalie & Carlo]

my fellow triple-daters
**

both of these girls have their own classrooms this year.

**

[pause]

**

i'm happy for them.

i'm sad for me.

**

okay, yeah.

i'll leave it at that.

**

i had me Japanese beer:

Sapporo.

that was delicious.

I also had me edamame.

also delicious.

I had some of Tomas's sobo soup,

and yum yum yummy was that.

then the sushi:

my stomach was not in love.

any more than three pieces in my mouth,

and it would've been KOTO-PUKE-EE.

it tasted great,

but about two years ago, I got sick after a sushi dinner and barfed.

when you throw up about a pound of sushi,

you're body doesn't want it for a while, even if yo' brain does.

{{deep sigh}}

oh, well.

maybe some other day,

beloved california roll,

maybe some other day.

**

**

**

a

*so*true*

three-block

cartoon:

{{quiet whimpering}}
**
**
**
**
the dress i talked about here and ordered
came Saturday.
here it is hanging in my
"view-what's-new" spot in my room
to rev up my enthusiasm.
definitely gonna wear it wit'
black tights and black flats.
**
i really really tell you,
thoughts of outfits
are really the only thing
that's keeping me sane lately.
**
maybe it's this thesis class.
**
maybe it's the late nights at this lousy restaurant job.
**
maybe it's my frustration that i'm going to be subbing another year
when i should be with my own class already in my own classroom.
**
my mood is so fucked today.
**
i think i gotta nap right now.
i have work later at the goddamn restaurant,
and work with no nap makes Amanda a tired,
binge-eating, unfocused, cracked-out piranha.
YOU
WANT THAT SERVIN' YOU DRINKS
DURING CRAZY
MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL??
**
**
**
change of topic:
Maegan from
...love Maegan
posted this link to an outfit post she wrote last week,
and
let me tell you,
this song speaks
volumes of truth.
good job, christina agui,
for making one listenable-song
on your new bionic album.
it's going to take a lot to undo
the damage you did after i heard the woohoo song.
**
pretty much,
though, i love this song.
describes
how i felt
this week exactly.
i love when that happens.
**
i think i want to be done now.
**
a few more
sporadic randoms
that are
*ping*pinging*
around my
cerebral cortex::
*
What am I going to be for Halloween??
maybe Lady Gaga in a meat dress.
no, but seriously...
...i wanna win $300 at the costume party i'm going to.
i also need a workable costume to wear at the restaurant.
yes, the manager said "mandatory costumes".
jerk.
*
*
*
*
also, i have
SOOOOOO
many
*south*fla* pics.
I
wanted to create a slideshow,
but don't know how,
so...
...I think I'm going to post them in pieces.
we'll see later this week.
*
*
*
*
lastly,
*2010* is going to be
over before we know it.
*
notice my blog's title?
*
i'm in the workings
of developing a *new*blog*
*
how did ya'll decide on your blog's title?
did you find that once you picked one
that sounded good,
you hated it, like, 15 minutes later?
haa haa!
*
what blogging program do you all use?
*
i think i'll talk more about this in a future post.
**
**
time for me to like, legit, bolt from this 'puter.
i
leave
with
this
ending
image:

cute hair. cute sunny-g's. wish i had a louis. love the outfit, and the kinda zen surroundings, and homegirl's got my iphone.

this is my wooosah focus pic.

...WOOOOSAH...

*fuck*you*, Labor Day

I'll do anything.

this makes me want to *CRY*

this along with my double shift @ the restaurant today

september is the rape of summer

...and because of this,

september always gets me down.

i spend every september remembering my

warm and open and favorite

past two months

head in my hands,

deep sighs of longing for

June 30th of next year,
playing catch-up and restart

to school things

and

work things

and

boxed-in things

is

my friggin' september

*

[sour face]

*

and

all the while,

it starts getting colder right under my nose,

until

one day i wake up

and i'm freezing

***

i think

Greenday

says it best

when they sing:

"...summer has come and passed
the innocent can never last
wake me up when September ends

ring out the bells again
like we did when spring began
wake me up when September ends..."
*

uneventful, mundane, and typical september Thurs.