tea berry-blue

I was all set to do a LOST post when the show started tonight, and then about two minutes into it, I just couldn't really get my stride. Let's face it, I think everyone here knows that LOST is not really the show it was the first season, but last season finally started to feel like it was getting back on track; it wasn't quite so soap-opera ridiculous, there was more sci-fi type stuff in the show again. More Tempest references, among other things. It was like they finally got a writing team reassembled that got all the references the first season writers had stuck in.

This season premiere, and I don't think this will spoil the show for anyone who's not yet watched it, just felt like a rehash episode. They have the hour long special to re-introduce the characters and plot, and you KNOW it's getting convoluted when I actually was surprised by things I had forgotten from previous seasons. Then the two hour premiere...didn't really set up anything we didn't already know. It was more like a three hour refresher episode instead of just one.

Also, I was disappointed that they didn't find the hatch when Kelvin was there. I was so waiting for a Kelvin cameo. Boo. Okay, that's a spoiler. Sorry.

I still have high hopes for this season and next, because I feel like they can have a directed plan and know where they're going now, and that I am looking forward to-- it's one of the things that I always liked about the 4400, is that that show always felt very carefully planned out, and LOST wasn't as good when it was too open-ended. I just felt like the show has gotten so complicated that it took way too long to set things up in this opener.

Instead, I will tell you about what I did today! Today, at lunch, I went to get my chin and lip waxed. Now, one thing you might not know about me is that, well, I have massive old lady whiskers. Like, not enough to be a bearded lady, but I can certainly sport the ol' five o'clock shadow. I could totally be a Marlboro man or something like that. I have tried waxing at home, but I always got massive acne, and for years, I've just tweezed. I've gotten my eyebrows done once before, but...well, I felt sort of silly, putting all that effort into changing the shape of my eyebrows? Seriously. But I know it made a difference, and I wondered if it would work on my chin and lip so I wouldn't have to tweeze so much.

The lady was very nice and very efficient, and very worried when she finished that my skin was so red, so I assured her that that was normal, and went my merry way. The redness was gone within an hour, but I will remember that if I try it again, not to do it in the middle of the day. Way home from work would be better.

Now, here's the trouble. It got rid of all the nice, soft white peach-fuzzy hair that to me is completely innocuous and unoffensive, but it didn't get rid of the ugly black whiskers. I had to tweeze those myself when I got home, and to make matters worse, I don't know if it makes the whiskers more visible, but it certainly makes them more evident when I rub my chin, because now it's not just some coarser spots and finer spots, it's like, smooth skin, smooth skin-- GIANT OLD LADY WHISKER. And I may just be paranoid, but I think I can feel them growing in! I have already tweezed my chin twice tonight since I got home from work.

So I'll see if it keeps the hairs down to a minimum at least, and maybe try a different waxing place to see if it's just that this one wasn't very good, but my first impression of waxing is not so impressed. I did notice, though, that it leaves significantly fewer bumps or red spots than shaving (YES I HAVE TRIED SHAVING MY FACE, SHUT UP), so I am actually kinda considering trying a bikini wax sometime. But I'm a little disappointed that this didn't more completely decimate my old lady whiskers.

I was all set to do a LOST post when the show started tonight, and then about two minutes into it, I just couldn't really get my stride. Let's face it, I think everyone here knows that LOST is not really the show it was the first season, but last season finally started to feel like it was getting back on track; it wasn't quite so soap-opera ridiculous, there was more sci-fi type stuff in the show again. More Tempest references, among other things. It was like they finally got a writing team reassembled that got all the references the first season writers had stuck in.

This season premiere, and I don't think this will spoil the show for anyone who's not yet watched it, just felt like a rehash episode. They have the hour long special to re-introduce the characters and plot, and you KNOW it's getting convoluted when I actually was surprised by things I had forgotten from previous seasons. Then the two hour premiere...didn't really set up anything we didn't already know. It was more like a three hour refresher episode instead of just one.

Also, I was disappointed that they didn't find the hatch when Kelvin was there. I was so waiting for a Kelvin cameo. Boo. Okay, that's a spoiler. Sorry.

I still have high hopes for this season and next, because I feel like they can have a directed plan and know where they're going now, and that I am looking forward to-- it's one of the things that I always liked about the 4400, is that that show always felt very carefully planned out, and LOST wasn't as good when it was too open-ended. I just felt like the show has gotten so complicated that it took way too long to set things up in this opener.

Instead, I will tell you about what I did today! Today, at lunch, I went to get my chin and lip waxed. Now, one thing you might not know about me is that, well, I have massive old lady whiskers. Like, not enough to be a bearded lady, but I can certainly sport the ol' five o'clock shadow. I could totally be a Marlboro man or something like that. I have tried waxing at home, but I always got massive acne, and for years, I've just tweezed. I've gotten my eyebrows done once before, but...well, I felt sort of silly, putting all that effort into changing the shape of my eyebrows? Seriously. But I know it made a difference, and I wondered if it would work on my chin and lip so I wouldn't have to tweeze so much.

The lady was very nice and very efficient, and very worried when she finished that my skin was so red, so I assured her that that was normal, and went my merry way. The redness was gone within an hour, but I will remember that if I try it again, not to do it in the middle of the day. Way home from work would be better.

Now, here's the trouble. It got rid of all the nice, soft white peach-fuzzy hair that to me is completely innocuous and unoffensive, but it didn't get rid of the ugly black whiskers. I had to tweeze those myself when I got home, and to make matters worse, I don't know if it makes the whiskers more visible, but it certainly makes them more evident when I rub my chin, because now it's not just some coarser spots and finer spots, it's like, smooth skin, smooth skin-- GIANT OLD LADY WHISKER. And I may just be paranoid, but I think I can feel them growing in! I have already tweezed my chin twice tonight since I got home from work.

So I'll see if it keeps the hairs down to a minimum at least, and maybe try a different waxing place to see if it's just that this one wasn't very good, but my first impression of waxing is not so impressed. I did notice, though, that it leaves significantly fewer bumps or red spots than shaving (YES I HAVE TRIED SHAVING MY FACE, SHUT UP), so I am actually kinda considering trying a bikini wax sometime. But I'm a little disappointed that this didn't more completely decimate my old lady whiskers.

tea cut her hair.

or rather, mikey cut tea's hair.

( see the results )

grar, i don't update enough, really. so now i will. with actual things that are happening to me because that's fun. and not outrage over treatment of marshmallow parodies or photos of me in my latest purchases.

okay, but first i need to sneeze.

i'm going up to boston to visit saxtonownzyou, and liret will be coming up as well, i hear. hee, i haven't slept in a dorm since...hmm, 2000, i guess, because even though i've gone up to visit at vassar several times, i've always slept at people's houses. so this will be an exciting adventure. i feel like a dip, though, because i'll be there for 2 nights and i have packed a bag that i have taken on multi-week-long vacations, mostly due to my packing a zillion snacks and a pillow (most of the bag is taken up by pillow). oh, and loads of movies, more than we'll get around to watching. and dress-up clothes. i would say i'd take pictures but my camera is the one thing i forgot. :P

note: stop at duane reade at lunchtime and pick up a cute little portable pencil sharpener so i can draw on the train.

it's getting warm and that means there are people out on the street in full force. it makes it take so much longer to walk a few blocks and that's really frustrating. and because i'm going away for the weekend, i needed to wear a jacket just in case, you know, and it makes me wayyy too warm.

i'm still in my eternal struggle to decide whether to cut my hair, which has been going on for so long that my hair is now shoulder-length, as i'm sure many of you have noted from my photgraphic journal entries. i kind of want to get a short boy-cut and dye it dark purple. but i'm wondering if i should go to a salon or not, and then it's like, make an appointment, pay someone, erg.

i did snip my nails. they're not short,but...short for me. like a quarter inch short. and very squared-off. maybe i should paint them some cutesy color. i haven't painted my nails in ages.

okay, now i'm starting to see why i don't talk about my life more.

grar, i don't update enough, really. so now i will. with actual things that are happening to me because that's fun. and not outrage over treatment of marshmallow parodies or photos of me in my latest purchases.

okay, but first i need to sneeze.

i'm going up to boston to visit saxtonownzyou, and liret will be coming up as well, i hear. hee, i haven't slept in a dorm since...hmm, 2000, i guess, because even though i've gone up to visit at vassar several times, i've always slept at people's houses. so this will be an exciting adventure. i feel like a dip, though, because i'll be there for 2 nights and i have packed a bag that i have taken on multi-week-long vacations, mostly due to my packing a zillion snacks and a pillow (most of the bag is taken up by pillow). oh, and loads of movies, more than we'll get around to watching. and dress-up clothes. i would say i'd take pictures but my camera is the one thing i forgot. :P

note: stop at duane reade at lunchtime and pick up a cute little portable pencil sharpener so i can draw on the train.

it's getting warm and that means there are people out on the street in full force. it makes it take so much longer to walk a few blocks and that's really frustrating. and because i'm going away for the weekend, i needed to wear a jacket just in case, you know, and it makes me wayyy too warm.

i'm still in my eternal struggle to decide whether to cut my hair, which has been going on for so long that my hair is now shoulder-length, as i'm sure many of you have noted from my photgraphic journal entries. i kind of want to get a short boy-cut and dye it dark purple. but i'm wondering if i should go to a salon or not, and then it's like, make an appointment, pay someone, erg.

i did snip my nails. they're not short,but...short for me. like a quarter inch short. and very squared-off. maybe i should paint them some cutesy color. i haven't painted my nails in ages.

okay, now i'm starting to see why i don't talk about my life more.

you know, there are truly a lot of people in the world who are walking stereotypes. and sometimes that means they're really pretty, because in order to be the perfect walking stereotype, you have to be the prerfect example of whatever stereotypical look you're trying to pull off, so you're gorgeous, but you're still a walking stereotype. you look like a photo in a magazine or catalog. and you write exactly what people expect to see in your journal to the point that yes, if you ever died, someone could write an algorithm to keep filling out your journal till the end of time and no one would really know you were gone except for the fact that you somehow were no longer posting all those pretty pretty pics of yourself, looking just like the epitome of style you are. and i think, at least if all i do is write stupid random crap in here, i'll be unpredictable to the point that i defy the algorithm.

sometimes i think i would like to go out and buy an entire wardrobe of whatever walking stereotype strikes my fancy that day, but, dears, i don't have "the look." don't get me wrong, i don't think i'm un-pretty, though i don't think i'm the gorgeousest girl in the world, but i will never fit anybody's idea of a steretype no matter how hard i try. there is no walking stereotype that requires naturally curly red hair, besides frieda from peanuts, because it's too hard to get. little dark-haired bobs will always be a key component of someone's stereotype because seven out of ten people can get them. tattoos can be a part, but lovely massive scars will never be. too hard to get. it doesn't matter what i define myself as, if i wear clothes that are anything besides nondescript, i never look like i belong the the group defined by that fashion; i look like some shmoe dressing-up-as. and i think i always will.

my hair is currently chin-length, just long enough to put in a ponytail and just long enough to drive me nuts all the time, but too short to do anything wild and wacky with.

i need some moral support to either forge my own path and whack it off or decide to stick with it for the long run. *shrug*

[Poll #50423]

my hair is currently chin-length, just long enough to put in a ponytail and just long enough to drive me nuts all the time, but too short to do anything wild and wacky with.

i need some moral support to either forge my own path and whack it off or decide to stick with it for the long run. *shrug*

[Poll #50423]

yesterday i gave myself a facial, with this ooky-gooky stuff that you put all over your skin and it turns dry and REALLY SHINY so i looked like plastic-o. it was cool; someday i'll do that and dress in all black and slick my hair back and take photos. but not last night. then it peels off, like elmer's glue. it really hurt over my lip where i have my nice little transparent girly-stache peachfuzz. but then it came off and my skin was oh-so-smoove.

smooooooooooooove.

now i am at work. almost done with this current project. i worked more on the nekomimicon last night because i couldn't decide really how to draw lily for the SP doll, so i drew hathor and khnum instead.

i had an awesome idea this morning, for a doll of a kid who works in mcdonald's who secretly daydreams of being a superhero, called "golden arches youth army defense force kelly o'neill" she would have typical uniforms from mcdonalds and a ronald suit and then cool superhero clothes that were the micky-dees colors and a SM-type wand with a big golden M on it...but it would be set in a little fast-food joint and there would be happy-meal toys and condiments and you could customize the specials menu with snap-to ingredients.

but i don't think i will probably make that doll. it sounds like a good idea, but no. if anyone wants to steal the idea, tell me and maybe i will submit something to it, but i don't think i woud do it myself.

the valentine's colab is coming okay, i don't even have half the submissions yet though which concerns me. last time i had most of them well ahead of time. i will write to everyone tonight. however some of the submissions are freakin' AWESOME! wow. they's amazin'. i'm really excited by them. i have to figure out how to showcase them properly. i think i know. i think i will make candy hearts with the name of each person who submitted and then you can click on them and when you do, their submission maps.

food comes soon! food is good! yay food! i am getting tofu tod and steamed seafood dumplings for lunch, whenever they come.

they came as i wrote that. deeeeeelicious.