Happy 16th Birthday, My Dear Sister

My plan to write 10,000 words by Friday went out the window when I started making my sister's cake. I only managed to write 3,500 words, which is pretty good by my standards, but her cake came out great and tasted good as well. I'll have to post the pictures later since  have to get them off of Ash's device.

For my sister's birthday, she had us go to Beach Place at Ft. Lauderdale by the sea to walk around and shop and to walk along the really cold beach. She checked all six of her friends into a suite and I and another friend was basically there to supervise. We spent most of the night playing around in the pool, in the sauna and finally ended our day chatting and gossiping until 4:30 in the morning. It wasn't as bad as I thought and for eight girls in a one bedroom suite we got by with only four complaints and two visits from the night shift security guards.

When I got back home around 2:00pm today, I felt as if I was run over by a truck. I had to take pain killers and a nap. One major disappointment for me is my diet. I spent so much time doing other things I just ate whatever was available, so I weight about 127 right now. It not so bad for two reasons. The first is about five months ago I was 140lbs and second, I'm only 10lbs away from my goal and I'm in no real rush.

I decided to start knitting a grocery bag. I've bought a lot from the store, but after a month or two, the rip. I think it's mainly because I don't have a car, so they have to take more of a beating. Anyway, I figure that a knitted bag would be much stronger.

That's all I have to say for now. Time to get more sleep!

Pretty Dresses Make Me Smile!

I went dress shopping with my younger sister today. She wanted to find something nice to wear for her 16th birthday, but unfortunately she has a weight problem, which she make a big deal about everywhere she goes. We almost didn't get out the house today because her cousin told her that the dress she was wearing made her look pregnant. I think that ruined the whole dress shopping experience.

I haven't bought any cute clothes in months, so after roaming through some stores with her, I finally broke down and tried on some. I fell in love! There was a cute one arm, striped number from Macy's that looked so great on me. I almost broke down and bought it. If only I had a job. I also tried on a few outfits that my sister had tried on. Biggest mistake of my life. She always looked over at me and told me how unfair it was for her to be that size and how much better I looked in the outfit, yet she kept encouraging me to try on the same outfits. She finally did settle on a black pencil skirt and a cute pink top that says me first. I almost gave in to the skirt as well, it was cute, comfortable and the right length for me and only $15.

Here's the link in case you're interested seeing the dress of my dreams. Good Night!
http://www1.macys.com/shop/product/rampage-dress-long-sleeve-one-shoulder-striped-cutout-mini?ID=629196&PseudoCat=se-xx-xx-xx.esn_results

I Need To Stop Making Promises

At least post-wise and to my sister. My sister will make you regret any promise you ever made to her and don't think of breaking even a small promise.

Well she's turning 16 on the 22nd of January. For her birthday she decided to go to the Hard Rock Casino and have a sleep over with four of her friends at the Sheridan Hotel. Sounds nice, I hope it goes well, so she doesn't cry and ruin her own birthday. She's known for spoiling joyous occasions.

Today I manage to write about 1,800 words, which is not bad, but compared to the 1,300 yesterday, that means that I will have to work much harder the rest of the week. That's all I have to say for now. Goodnight.

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!

Today is Monday, January 16th, 2012. Martin Luther King Jr. Day! Today we honor the birth of one of our greatest civil rights heroes!

I fell asleep before posting yesterday, so I 'll post twice today. Since I'm going to have some free time, I'm starting a mini goal of writing 10,000 words by Friday. I think I can manage that. I've already written down an outline for three scenes in my story.

On Saturday, I asked my friend to help me free up some space on my computer. I have a MacBook Air with only 64GB of internal memory and I was down to my last GB. He did free up six more, but he erased all the knitting patterns I collected over the past month along with some content writing and proposal writing information that I referred to when I needed help at work. It took a long time to collect all that information and I won't know how to get have of them back. Granted, I should have labeled my stuff better, but the info was just for me and I knew what I was looking for.

Anyway, I was so upset about losing the patterns, I tried to get them back, but I didn't find any. Instead I came by this beautiful picture (which is not mine to share so I won't) called The Dragon King's Daughter and that inspired an idea for my mural. I'll start trying to sketch it out soon. Once I have a decent sketch, I'll have Ash go over it in Adobe and add a grid. This will allow me to use a ghost grid poster board to blow it up. I may draw it over or get it professionally printed if it doesn't cost too much. After that I will be able to transfer it on to the fabric, then go through the long tedious process of putting it on a slate frame.

Well that's all just an idea for now. We'll see when I really get it going. There's still so much to learn.

That's my first post for today. See ya later.

A Very Lazy Saturday

So today I woke up and spent the whole morning watching 4kids TV with all the cartoons I never really got into Yu-Gi-Oh and Sonic X. It was boring and funny, but it's what my girlfriend and friend wanted to watch. Generally on the weekend I take a break from Netflix and watch local television, mainly the cooking and gardening shows.

Later in the day, we went to Swap Shop to visit our neighbors barn. He's pretty much picks up anything he thinks he can resell, then effectively "injure" our diets. Ash had a big basket fried buffalo wings with curly fries. I had some of her fries and I ate half of a wing, but I didn't really like it. Something about the texture, plus the feeling of grease running down my fingers sparked a reaction in my brain that screamed "This is wrong!" My friend had a felafel sandwich, which did look good, but I wasn't really craving the carbs. So I settled on frozen yogurt. I think I safe enough for today.

On to my goals!

1.      Learn proper makeup application

Well every time I  put on makeup I look like a tramp, clown, raccoon, or prostitute, so I want to learn how to put on makeup without over or under doing it.

2.     Have 1,000 followers on Twitter

This isn't a big deal, but I would like to have a following. I want to be a more interesting person. I just have to figure out my niche.

3.     Own 15 pairs of stylish shoes

I own two fairly decent shoes. I need a variety. I love variety. Know what I mean.

4.     Go to the Renaissance Fair

I went last year and that place has a way of draining your cash, but it was so much fun!

5.     Learn to sew and create the My Queen dress

In my story, "My Queen" there is an elegant embroidered dress and it is hand made. I want to keep it that way and actually make it as I envisioned it, but first I need some better hand embroidery skills.

That's all on my social and lifestyle list. Finally! There's not much left. See ya!

Friday the 13th!

I didn't have any bad luck today, so for that I'm grateful. I'm not on my computer so this post will be very short. Right now I'm chewing on sunflower seeds, which is against my diet and watching my girlfriend play Fable III. To my right, on the bed with me, is my ex boyfriend, who likes to visit on the weekends.

I got plum wine and Cabernet Sauvignon from Publix and I can't wait to give them a try. Today was pretty uneventful. The two giant holes in the floor are finally fixed! I'm happy about that, but wasn't too comfortable with the stranger in the house.

Anyway that's all I have tonight. I hope your Friday the thirteenth was a lucky one!

Rabbits Galore!

Since I have some free time on my hands, I decided to clean up the rabbit environment. I'm really glad that I got this time because we were really neglecting them. It took all day and I got to wash 3 out of the six rabbits. Since I don't have a car anymore, it's been hard trying to get a hold of some rabbit food, so I decided to get some through Amazon.

I love Amazon! I found some rabbit food available for free shipping with Prime along with timothy hay and bedding. Yey! My bun buns will finally have everything they need.

Here is an awful picture of just two of my bunnies, taken from my girlfriend's Ipod Touch. The white one is named Bechamel after a french white sauce and the black one is names Collar because of the white fur around her neck looks like a collar. Bechamel is the mother and Collar is her daughter who was born on Easter.

I show you my entire bunny family later. Most likely under the family section.

Anyway I weighed in again this morning and I was 124.2lbs. That's fabulous after 10 days. From 129 to 124.2, that's 4.8lbs and I haven't even exercised as much as I want to.

So finally I go back to explaining some more goals.

Social and Lifestyle

This list is basically all the fun lifestyle stuff I want to do.

1.     Compile a Lifestyle Lolita Handbook for Starling’s Lifestyle Lolita

Lolita is a fashion statement, but you can't help wondering what a person who dresses like that is like. I want to create my own Lifestyle Lolita guide book based on my ideals. I think it'll be a fun side project.

2.     Go to a Lolita meet up or create a club in person or online

There's not many of them in South Florida, so it'll probably have to be online.

3.     Purchase Lolita Dresses (8+ complete outfits)

Lolita clothing are expensive and with all the things going on in my life I know this will be a challenge.

4.     Join a club with another interest for at least six weeks (Toastmaster?)

I like making speeches and I find that a club like this will help me meet new people.

That's all for tonight. I'll post again tomorrow.