i tried to be like grace kelly

What I've been up to today:

I ended up doing one of those random searches a few nights ago and I found Tomboy Style, and after going through some of their archives I saw this outfit. And today I more or less found my own version when I got an orange tank top from Old Navy and bright blue shorts from Walmart. SUCCESS. I think the only shoes that would be acceptable to wear with it would be white Converses, which I do not have. In the meantime, sandals will do.

I constantly filter/second-guess posting things on Tumblr because I know that some people I follow dislike them, and I hate that I do that. I've been maintaining a blog/various other forms of social media for such a long time that I've been through bouts where I wondered why someone else was following me/making comments/reading my stuff because I don't always post serious things, and I'm silly a lot of the times or kind of a mess re: my personal life, but I rarely cut entirely back on posting what I liked. But on Tumblr, it's like, I'll see something about Glee (for example, as that's one of the major hot-button things with the people I follow) that I think is cool, and I'll like it instead of reblogging it because some of my followers have a visceral dislike of it.

And I get that. It's cool. But sometimes I read that dislike and their remarks about their dislike as being something of a judgment of everyone who likes that particular thing, and I feel like they're thinking less of me, because while I do have my own issues with various things that I like and I understand the criticisms that other people have about them, it's just... taxing. Is it ever possible to say "I understand why you dislike this, and why it makes you angry, but when you go on at length about how terrible it is makes me feel like you're saying that I'm terrible for liking it" without sounding whiny?

At any rate, I'm trying to tell myself that followers/online friends read my stuff for a reason: because they like it and they like me, and that there are people whose stuff I read and like, and we don't always share the same opinions about all sorts of things, but I don't see them in a less-than stellar light because of it.

And, to close on a lighter note, a gif of Castiel from Supernatural barfing a rainbow!



I have no idea where the "barfing rainbows" thing came from, but I enjoy it so much.

For the first time ever, I didn't write yesterday.

I am going to watch the episodes of Lost and Supernatural that I've missed and I will then discuss them accordingly, because even though I haven't really been saying it lately, I have missed my shows and hate that I work on Thursdays so much because I miss them.

Re: American Idol. The guy with the dreads auditioned in Dallas, and I vaguely recall seeing him when I was there. We... haven't heard him sing at all, have we?

On the random front: my nose has been achy and sore for at least a week. When I touch the bridge, it is sore, and my right nostril is sore when I press on it. I have tried Googling that ("nose pain", "nose ache") to no avail and I also checked out Web MD. I told my mom when it first happened, but we both just thought it was me having a sinus infection. My sinuses have cleared up, but my nose still hurts. Watch, in a few days I'm going to go to the doctor and find out that I have some whack disease that only Gregory House can diagnose.

Also, if anyone has the following songs, could you plz hook me up with them? They are:

Splash Waterfalls, Ludacris
Crazy, Areosmith
Ribbon in the Sky, Stevie Wonder
Don't Call Me Baby, Madison Avenue
Song 2, Blur
Wrapped Around My Finger, The Police
Popular, Nada Surf
Middle of the Road, The Pretenders

Supernatural's back! Hurrah! ( Minor spoiler talk. )

Also: NaNo time is arriving soon, and I am, once again, going to participate. However, I've got two plots I want to pursue, and I cannot decide between them.

The first: high school girl contracts disease that puts her up in quarantine. While there, she meets a guy who has the same disease as she does, and though he creeps her out at first, they form a friendship, and despite the whole disease thing, it'd be a comedy. Initially, I was going to have her have tuberculosis (post-health scare of mine), but now I don't know. The thing is, I have a lot of this plotted out and even have a title (Girls in Ivory Towers, for some reason), but I don't know if I could make it work without listing a lot of health facts and trivia.

The second: college guy decides to participate in a sociology/psychology experiment. In this experiment, he is assigned a partner--a girl--who he has to talk on the phone to at least two times a week. The point of the experiment is to decide if a person can be attracted to someone by their voice, and if so, would later seeing pictures of the person you only knew by voice affect your decision on how attractive they were? So college guy ends up talking to this girl, and he likes her voice and genuinely likes talking to her, and he's hell-bent on finding out who she is, though it's going against the point of the experiment and she insists that he would never like her as she is.

More and more, though, I am leaning towards the second. Mostly because I keep wanting to write it with dialouge and correspondence (IMs, letters, journal entries) only, just to be different. Which one do you like more?

Randomly: last week, my dad found a plastic bag containing my Girl Scout patches, badges, and pins. God, it made me miss scouts. I'm actually going to try to volunteer with a Girl Scout troop, as they're looking for some in the area. One of my biggest regrets will always be that I never got my Silver and Gold Awards.

I have Blonde Bond's number. Um?

And in other news:

1.) Still have not seen Spider-Man 3. I am thinking that I won't be able to until Tuesday. This is like Dead Man's Chest redux, but not quite as bad as not even seeing the second movie until the end of the summer.

2.) Still have algebra homework to do. It's all due before 11 Sunday. I will knock out some of it after I get back from Petsmart.

3.) I need Maroon 5's new album now. And Kelly Clarkson's new one.

4.) I saw American Idol days late and am still "...DUDE"ing over Blake.

5.) We had a crazy storm on Wednesday and it knocked out the power. So I missed Lost. I am going to watch it whenever I get some time. Conversely, apparently we will soon find out how many more seasons of Lost there are left. And at lost_tv:

On one end, I don't want it to go forever, but on the other end thats like knowing when your girlfriend is gonna dump you. Your girlfriend who doesn't put out and hides a secret life leaving you always asking questions...--comineeyeaha

HEE.

6.) Is it neccesary to have that many glittery things in one profile? Really?

7.) Supernatural, WHY MUST YOU CRUSH MY SOUL?! And that is both re: this week's episode and the preview for next week's.

8.) ONE MORE WEEK UNTIL THE END OF MY FINAL SEMESTER AT CVC.

9.) I can now wear size 12 pants from Old Navy. One one hand, this makes me extremely giddy, but on the other: I DON'T HAVE MANY PAIRS OF PANTS OR SKIRTS THAT FIT ME ANYMORE.

10.) Borders is awesome.

11.) Dear Dallas Mavericks: YOU GUYS SUCK. No love, Me and Everyone Else at Work

12.) I got my hair done yesterday in loose crimps. And Blonde Bond said he liked it. Really liked it. He even said, "I bet you get hit on more with your hair like that."

13.) I am a horrible, horrible person.

14.) Confession: I like Hannah Montana.

I have been thinking about this off and on for the past couple of days, so I decided that it had to be made into a poll to get an answer.

[Poll #953056]

See, the Petrellis have superpowers. Michael is scary smart and Lincoln is the brute force of the two. And Sam and Dean, well... they have guns with rock salt.

I don't know. I watch too much TV.

I have no idea if anyone else is doing this, but what the heck: http://www.lost.eu/1611e. I NEED POINTS!

Barnes and Noble is having a Buy One DVD Box Set, get the second free sale that is on through the thirtieth, so a few days ago I finally got the second season of Lost and the first season of House, for both my mom and I, because though we love the show, we never really got around to watching all of the first season. And since Mom semi-finally got caught up on S1 of Lost, we've got the second season ready to go whenever we both have time.

It's weird--I feel closer to my mom now than I did when I was younger. For some reason, there was a short time when I was a kid when I was afraid of my mom. She started working full-time again when I started kindergarten and my brother was in preschool, and then she began to work a lot more--overtime and everything. My dad was the parent who was around the most, as he was the one with the nine-to-five job, the one who took us to school most mornings and brought us home most afternoons and made dinner and stuff. I don't know if I was so much afraid of my mom, though. It was strange. We used to fight a lot, and now, we still do have disagreements about semi-petty things (like cleaning and folding clothes, of all things), but I'm more forthcoming with her.

How I went from TV to my mom is beyond me.

But anyway: ( Supernatural, days later. )

The following is now currently my favorite picture of Jared Padalecki ever:



( Finally, BEST CAT MACRO EVER. )

So right now, I really want some Campbell's Chunky Chicken and Egg Noodle Soup. Why didn't I get two when I went to the store earlier? And in addition to that, I want a grilled ham and cheese sandwich. I totally know how to make grilled ham and cheese sandwiches, and good ones. Except they're infinately better with cambert. God, I love French cheese, but it's so freaking much.

So I'm making Supernatural icons, and while perusing screencaps, I am constantly amazed at all of the brilliant and funny faces that Jensen Ackles makes. Like this one right here--so totally one of the many reasons why "Phantom Traveller" is one of my favorite episodes. It makes me break into peals of giggles. And then there's the this face, and this face. But then he just also does some really great looks. Oh, and the smile.

I saw something at indilime's journal, a poll asking which set of TV brothers is better, the Winchesters or the brothers Schofield/Burrows (Michael and Lincoln from Prison Break). I can't decide, but dude, crossover needs to be written.

I seriously think I should've went to church yesterday. I might've been spared from the crap parts of the day if so. Good grief.

To cheer me up: poll!

[Poll #800860]