A Perfect Afternoon

I'm going to make this, sit in the sun and enjoy it with a good book. Then my life would be temporarily complete.

Original Gangsters Eat Strawberry Ice Cream Bars

A couple days ago it was nice and hot. Just the way I like my men. (joking! har har) And nothing says hello to a hot summer's day than short shorts and a tasty strawberry cream bar. It was hot and I had run out of my small pint of ice cream so I dragged the Cautious Optimist with me to the closest grocery store to buy ice cream. And so here's post #2 of My Messy Closet edition.

Obey 'Original Gangster' tank. thrifted RVCA cutoff shorts. Target sandals. Strawberry ice cream bar from Ralphs. (Like that one arm action grabbing my hat as if the non existent wind is going to blow it off? haaaaaaaaaaaaa, why am I such a nub?)

You see, I have somewhat of a difficulty putting some color into my skin ever since I stopped doing track and field. Spent these last 4 years in Socal and I still look like i've still been living in Norcal. This summer i'm putting Operation Crispy Bacon in the works. I'm going to legitimately try and get a tan this summer, or at least a little bit more color. This plan is called Operation Crispy Bacon...not because I am referring myself as a piece of meat but just because I love bacon. Mmm.........bacon sounds good right now......

Friday Night & The Feelings Right

It's 9:30PM Friday night. Lily & I were at her house trying to come up with ideas on how to entertain ourselves for the night. We couldn't come up with anything so since we had just gone shopping, I suggested we just throw on a little something new and go to Gyu Kaku to eat since we were kind of hungry. We get to the restaurant and while we wait for our table Lily suggests "Hey, let's act like a lesbian couple. Come on! We're here to celebrate our anniversary! Should it be 1 year? Nah, 6 months is good." Of course my initial reaction is wtf? Put yourself in my shoes. The girl you've shared a room and bathroom with for the last 3 years asks you to pretend to be a lesbian couple for the night...........Wth, right? I laugh but i'm intrigued by the idea because it's so ridiculous that no one does it but at the same time it's so embarrassing. I look at her and say "No, it's going to be so embarrassing. What's the point?" She answers me, "For fun. Come on, cheap thrills." Those are the words and the little bit of hesitation I have is gone. Cause for the sake of cheap thrills, i'm down.

So this is the night of Lily & my 6 month anniversary as a lesbian couple.

The server seats us walking past a bunch of packed tables into a semi secluded room with a very roomy booth for us, and a group of around 6 at the booth next to us. We sit down semi disappointed because the lack of large groups means the less fun and the small intimate group next to us in this enclosed space might just make it even more awkward. The server hands us our menus and Lily tells her that we're celebrating our 6 month anniversary. She congratulates us with a smile and wishes us a happy anniversary. The table next to us overhears it and it's obvious because all of them are looking over at us. As we order, we start playing our roles as the lesbian couple. Because i'm wearing a long maxi dress, I start acting more dainty and girly while Lily says things like "You want water too, right babe?" in front of the waiter. I'm pretty sure everyone believed us because I mean, what 2 normal girls would joke about something like that? Us apparently.

Here's my "girlfriend" with our food. I'm not sure if it's because of a) natural instinct and reflex with the room placement or b) because we're girls or c) people thought we were lesbian but guys would past by our booth to go to the bathroom and i'd end up accidentally making eye contact with them as they walked back looking in. Let's go with option C.

So we order sesame ice cream for dessert but to our surprise another waitress comes in with our ice cream with additional s'mores on top and a lit candle. She congratulates us saying "Happy Anniversary" and the other waitress comes back in smiling saying the dessert is on her. LOL oops? Haha hustling dessert by accident. The group next to us starts saying/singing happy birthday and at this point I feel pretty freakin' awkward.

Here we are with our 6 month anniversary free dessert on the house. Don't we make a cute couple? Afterwards we decided to grab a drink at Tin Lizzie. Of course right? For those around the area you'd know it's a pretty popular gay bar. hahaha The perfect way to end our night. Here's Lily with a bunch of cute gay men in the background.

After we grabbed a drink at Tin Lizzies as wallflowers we decided to end the night on a straight note. So we end up going to a nearby bar and 5 minutes in, Lily was immediately approached by a drunk creeper. Ah....the life of a straight girl. How I missed it so...hahaha

So yeap, this is how Lily and Tiffies do on Friday night. All done in the name of cheap thrills. And shoutout to Lilycakes cause I know she's reading this ish. Happy 6 month Lilycakes, but uh, let's hold up on the texts. It was a one night thing all right?

10 Simple Mistakes We Make

1. Taking the qualities of someone who is soft spoken and quiet and mistaking them as being a nice, good person.

2. Throwing a red shirt in with a full load of whites and coming up with a bunch of newly pink clothes.

3. Yelling at a friend for not responding to you, only to realize that you've been yelling at a stranger and your friend is nowhere near you.

4. Looking at a black window to see your reflection but it turns out that black window was just tinted and everyone in the restaurant/store knows you were checking yourself out.

5. Singing out loud along to a song when you realize you only have your headphones on and you're in public.

6. Dating someone you knew you probably shouldn't have.

7. Going to a "Cash Only" place with only a credit card on hand.

8. Driving all the way to a place to eat only to realize it's closed when all of this could have been avoided with a call beforehand or checking the place's closing hours online.

9. Falling asleep with sunglasses on in the sun and getting a funny tan.

10. Making a joke and putting a profile picture of you and a friend looking couply with the caption "Save the date! Next year, August 16, 2011" and having people who don't know you as well think you're an actual couple, and on top of that, that you're actually engaged. What nubs.

Miss Whatswong

My Messy Closet Edition

Dressing up has always been kind of fun. I've always had an interest in it and playing around with style. I don't think I could ever really keep a fashion blog, but I think i'm going to try and just expand my current blog and try to put in random style blogs for kicks. After all this blog has the most random of things in here, so who knows what you'll find. Hopefully my random style blogs do not fail as much as my vidblogs. hahaha The posts won't be too crazy or anything because i'm nub but i'll just add in random outfit pictures or something clothing related. They'll be under the tag labels of "My Messy Closet." :)

Jawana & I at the LACMA

Maxi dresses make me happy because I feel like im sauntering all over the place. Saunter is such a fun word. I think maxi dresses are perfect for summer because it brings more class than short shorts. And unlike short shorts, you don't need to shave since no one sees your legs anyways. HAHA True but nah just kidding, I still prefer smooth legs. It feels nice to have the dress brush against the legs.

So recently i've been shacking up with the Cautious Optimist and she'll be my current accomplice in taking pictures for these "My Messy Closet" posts. Doesn't she look lovely? She's rocking a pair of thrifted Michael Kors, a super great find!

The summer sun feels good on the skin. I really hope the gloomy summer days are over. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Ghost Of An Existence

When you start moving out, you start to pack. A vital component of packing is determining what's to be kept and thrown away. Things such as old midterms and notes are tossed right away, especially those midterms that share the same number as an anorexic girl's weight. But then you get to the sentimental stuff and it's a different story. Small things like old notes, old pictures, small gifts, letters, birthday cards, movie and concert stubs, even business cards of people you know or restaurants you go to and random crap are put into in a box to be kept aside. No matter what, they have a place in your heart and you can't bear to throw them away. After living in this apartment for the last couple of years, things have accumulated. And coincidently things have changed.

It's crazy coming across an old birthday card from a person you barely talk to anymore. Or encouragement notes from people who you had barely knew at the time but now you've gotten to know them better. A silly gift from the guy you dated before. A picture of a group hangout from freshman year that you look back and it just looks so foreign now. A ticket stub of a bad movie you saw with friends. Memories flood in and it's as if you're dealing with the ghost of an existence. A slight taste of bittersweetness kicks in. Sometimes people come in your life and stay. But sometimes people come in and out of your life for only brief moments of time and at some points, you may have even been attached at the hip. And reading through these old notes or going through these old pictures reminds you of times you've spent with the person. These last 4 years at UCI have gone by so quickly, it's crazy.

I think the craziest thing is that on the other side of the spectrum, i've written plenty of cards, encouragement notes, graduation cards to the years above me, picture and given random things to other people. But at this very exact moment in time, what place do I hold in that person's life? A good friend? An acquaintance? Someone foreign now? Or am I just a ghost of a past existence?

What ever it is, I hope the memories we have are ones you can look back on and smile. And if we're lucky, we'll create even better memories in the days ahead.

It seems as through the whole process of moving out leaves a taste that's a little more bitter than bittersweet.

What The Random

Warning: This post is utterly useless and i'm tired so it's going to sound very jumbled.

Okay, I was just about to hop into my bed wearing my "Carifornia" sweater that my friend got me when he went abroad in Japan because apparently they don't use "L's" in Japan and that is amusing. But yes, he went abroad to Japan and ended up getting me a "Carifornia" sweater..........yea, I don't get it either. Hence, it has become my comfy sleeping sweater. haha Note* he is the same guy who got me that letter "T" that sits in my back trunk (I'm pretty sure he does not read my blog, if for some crazy reason he does, um....HI AND I APPRECIATE YOU! haha).

ANYWAYS, back to what I was saying.......I was about to hop into bed when I realized I haven't posted in awhile (awhile meaning like 5/6 days) haha so just to update you a little.....my days have been surprisingly quite filled doing I don't even know what, but it's been good. Today included bowling, Tastea, Boiling Crab, buying tons of good priced nail polish (I freakin was acting like a kid in a candy store), ice cream & movies, and just simply hanging out.

4th of July was yesterday and next year I want to own/wear something as cool as this jacket for the occasion. So I got about 364 days left to find something as badass. Wish me luck.

That is all. This was a completely random, useless post. Goodnight, gotta get sleep for my long day tomorrow.