Eternal Sunshine

Other Red noted something I’d forgotten I set here…lack of comments. So I was nice and turned it back on so you can comment without an account. I may regret this when the SPAM attacks.

WHEN SPAM ATTACKS!! That sounds like a movie, I would watch it. What of it?

I’m house and puppy sitting for my oldest dearest homie this weekend which I am hoping will afford me some much needed time to muck my way through some things. It also will afford me some quality puppy love time which is the best healing mechanism ever invented.

Very much needed.

I swear I had a reason for writing when I started this…I have forgotten. Lots to do anyway, to the coding!

For the record and posterity I really don’t like today. Or days like today and I’m frankly pissed that my memory banks are as filled with days like this as they are.

Days like this make me want to go to the gym and run for miles…and I probably will at some point. Try to run…I can’t actually run my body isn’t up to it just yet.

Now to find distracting things on YouTube and Wimp…

I just spent the better part of 20 minutes trying to find an image of an angry person stabbing a checkbook. Internet, you are disappoint. Instead I give you an angry Hello Kitty.

She is in wallet form, so I suppose that is the closest we are going to get.

I’ve been attempting to actively follow finance blogs, read books, and learn from resources for both the young and fabulously broke, and women in general. It’s amazing how many blogs exist specifically geared towards women and finance. I almost feel offended if we all really suck at it that much.

Anyhow, I need to do better at this. The only way to do that is to just do it. Nike was right, y’all. For those with even mild interest, these are the blogs I’m actually going to start reading again instead of going, yeah yeah that looks nice, yep cool thanks and marking as read in my reader.

Bloggies

Wise Bread - http://www.wisebread.com/ - This one’s entirely new to me but it’s linked from some other blogs I read and it came up in a google search this morning while I was eating my cereal so clearly that’s a sign I should read it.

Money Saving Mom - http://moneysavingmom.com/ - I am not a mom, and I never plan to be (I assure you posts on that later) but the nature of mom’s in this modern age make them a vast resource for how to do awesome things with what you have

I Will Teach You to be Rich - http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/blog/ - Ramit is a fun guy, I have and have read his book. I just overall like his no BS approach to things.

Get Rich Slowly - http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/ - If I recall this one was recommended by Google Reader. They get linked to by LifeHacker quite a bit, and it’s easy to see why.

The Simple Dollar - http://www.thesimpledollar.com/ - Another GReader find I’m thankful for but don’t take the time to really read enough.

Daily Worth - http://dailyworth.com/daily/all - Trust me, don’t just go to dailyworth.com, the only thing about this site that drives me batshit is that they are constantly trying to get you to sign up for daily emails. I already get them, I do read them please stop asking me to sign up!! That aside, some great info geared towards women, and I love the real life money stories series they do where 4 women are given two free sessions of financial advice and blog about what they do with it.

Booky Wooks

I Will Teach You to be Rich by Ramit Sethi – I already own it and read it once. Going to read it again and re-do some of things he suggested as needed.

The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous and Broke by Suze Orman – I own this one too, have a lot of pages/sections marked on the Kindle

Biggest thing I worry about is that we’re in pretty much still a check by check household and I want to get us out of that and into more savings mode even with my student loans being due looming on us like a black cloud of poo.

I’m on a clean out the apartment mode today but we’ll see if that actually translates to having bags for goodwill by Monday. 

When I have that glazed over look on my face…inside it’s all Charlie Day…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FYTc55nGE

I’ve been feeling very much like Garth ala Wayne’s World as of late:

“we fear change”

Change is something I enjoy watching other people do, I’m very comfortable not making any changes myself until something triggers a mental donkey to kick me square in the brain-ass. I’m convinced that brains have asses, I mean really there’s a crack like structure up there so brain-ass it is.

My bestie recently got a job back here close to me and purchased his first home. This ran me through an interesting glass case of emotions including pretty much every deadly sin and then some. This, coupled with a few interesting weeks of ‘shit, is it payday yet?’ thoughts created a chaotic weekend for myself and the love but we pushed through and we’ve got a plan. It’s not fun but we can do it and hopefully then we won’t be drowning when I have to start paying back my student loans and we can actively start saving for a house of our own instead of always just talking about it.

Who’s got +1 to Adulthood? This gal!

In other much more vain and vaginal news one of my coworker peeps bestowed some awesome free beauty goods on me this week so I’m giving them a whirl.

I am by no means a girlie girl when it comes to my hair or makeup. I style my hair when I feel like it which is usually just because I have to look presentable at work. I recently chopped my hair short just to not have to deal with styling beyond wash/dry/go unless I wanted to. It is fab and I don’t know that I’ll ever go back to long hair. I’ve pondered it briefly until I remember how much time I used to spend drying/fighting with it to not look like shit. Short hair FTW!

The hair goodness bestowed on me was a fresh starter kit box of Wen cleansing conditioner in Sweet Almond Mint containing:

• 2 16 oz. bottles of the cleansing conditioner
• 1 4 oz. tube of styling creme
• 1 4 oz. tub of re moist intensive hair treatment
• 1 .5 oz. tub of defining paste

Wen is something I stumbled on when Jinx (our asshat cat) woke me up at 4am on a Saturday because he thought he needed to be fed RIGHT NOW!

Ever since I started to regularly highlight/color my hair I’ve noticed that even though I have notoriously oily scalp issues my hair started to feel like a straw mess. I switched shampoos a lot and thought I’d finally settled on one that I really liked, Bed Head’s Urban Recovery line.  Loved that but still had the dry ends and oily as frak scalp by the end of the day.

Tried the Wen this morning and was surprised that my hair didn’t feel disgusting when I got out of the shower. I’d expected it to feel like it does when I only rinse it on the weekend instead of doing a full wash but it didn’t. Their website recommended 3 pumps of the stuff for each of 4 sections of short hair. 12 pumps seemed ridiculous to me and given that I have oily hair I didn’t want to make that whole situation worse when I have to go to work so I did 4 pumps and called it good.

Overall my hair felt pretty good today. I did notice it was shinier and easier to style. I purposely didn’t use anything but Wen stuff to give it a test. Normally if I am in an “I’m going to style this biz!” mood I use Bed Head Queen for a Day thickening spray, Bed Head Whipped Marshmallow Texturizing Paste and Treseme Tres Two HairSpray to do a spikey/flippy thing.

However, now that the day is over the more I’m noticing it’s really got a greasy sheen to it especially in the front where I flick it behind my ears and run my fingers through it. May be because of the oils on my hands but I don’t know, going to use it again tomorrow then cut back to shampoo for a day just so I’m not getting a huge conditioner build-up going.

The other goodie she gave me was a trial size of bareMinerals Matte foundation.

I was afraid the shade she gave me was going to be too dark for me initially but I threw it on when I got home from work and it’s pretty decent actually. Might actually wear makeup for a few days…which is shocking because I’m pretty much a no makeup beyond lotion, mascara and maybe eyeshadow person.

On to non-girlie things I am absolutely addicted to the Geek and Sundry YouTube Channel Felicia Day is involved with. She’s pretty much my nerd-spiration though so no shock there. I’ve also gotten very addicted to the writing of Jenny Lawson aka The Bloggess. She suffers from similar mental issues to those I have experienced and it’s rather refreshing to have someone speak and write as candidly as she does. Actually that last sentence I wrote is probably the most candid I’ve gotten on the topic in years. Anyhow she has her blog, writes a sex satire column for another site and has a hilarious parenting advice column on another more SFW work site. She rocks, and I want her book. Maybe after I finish A Clash of Kings.

I love the world George RR Martin created with this series but my god the books are biggens!! I feel like I’m aging into stupidity when reading an 800 page novel make me want to cringe a little. I love to read but lately I’ve been very 400 pages is the max man. Took me a solid month to read Game of Thrones which I loved, BTW, it just made me feel like I should be on the short bus.

Well that is enough of me, else tomorrow will be more like this than normal…

I feel that it’s customary and just polite to give warning to those that decide to join me on this little excursion.

I lead a fairly boring life, but my brain tends to be a massive little labyrinth of random and often disconnected/polar opposite thoughts. Sometimes it’s fun, others it’s just confusing and people run away from me assuming I’m crazy.

I probably am a little crazy, but it’s fun!

I have no idea what I’m going to do with this. I’ll think of something. Maybe.