In and Out

Hello Blogosphere! I"m back after leaving this poor blog alone for what seems like nearly a year!!! (Has it been.......?)

Anyway, hello, I'm back again. I hope I haven't missed out on too much even if the real world had moved, well at least mine has... and SIGNIFICANTLY!

I've again started a new job but something that is different is that I have moved out of my home of 5 years, and moved into a new one.  I have been in the process of changing it up, even if it is a rental, by giving it a lick of paint and new furniture.  I just wish that the landlord was a little more involved and allow us to take out the furniture that is left here, which frankly is...... well, it is not our style. And it is sadly old. Really old. Like, 1970s old.  But hey, no complaints. It is a lovely new apartment up on the 8th floor, and we have a gorgeous balcony, and wind... wow is there lovely wind! Especially when it is raining :)

Because we have a balcony, I've started to build us a small little balcony garden. It's just a few plants NOW, but it will soon hopefully, be flowering and smelling the way I'm imagining it to be.

That is my toes and my humble basil, chive and lavender plants.

Slowly, slowly things are coming together.  :)

There is another piece of news that I am DYIIIIING to write about but.....

I think I will wait til next time to tell my news to cyberspace.  I still want to keep the secret a little longer ;)

It's nice to be back, and as always, I am so sorry I left in the first place. I won't do that again...

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Whooooweeeeee. It has been a while since I've blogged. A lot has changed since I was last here.

Biggest of all the events is that I'm seeing so many concerts now. I'm gona head over to HK in two weeks time to see the Gorillaz. Gorillaz "On Melancholy Hill"  I've posted it before, but well here it is again :) 

I've just seen the Gin Blossoms two nights ago wherein I relived my 16 year old self but forgot to wear my doc martens and flannel shirt.  That was a good start actually.

Apparently, I found out that Green Day will be coming over in January, and Aerosmith sometime in Feb.  Also in February, the Deftones are coming over (!) and I will again go back to HK around the 18th to see Eric Clapton.  My life is full of music anyway, may as well have visuals to go with the soundtracks. :)

I am single again after a long period and having a great time at my new job.  It's an interesting thing that everything seemed to fall into place recently.  Not that I wanted to be single or anything but events following that seem to be I don't know, something I needed. Perhaps the shock did it. 

Now that it is November, I don't understand this whole thing with the mustache.  What's up with that?  Why November? Can't we be mustachioed all year round?? Just a thought.

Still trying to figure out WHAT color under heaven I can make my room.  I know it will be in the faded sort of near pastel-ly range of color, and that the hue will be green or blue, but WHAT?  I must start before the end of the year comes.  I don't want my room to not be ready for New Years.  

Something like this hue of green...but a little more blue....does that make ANY sense?

 

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Or like the blue of that pillow all the way to the right of the frame but a little more green.

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But yeah that PALE. :)  I'll know it when I see it!!! 

I'm loving all these prints that Team Manila made for our country.  I hope our Tourism Department gets a brain and decides to use them :)

I'm also, I THINK, becoming a bonafide girl after say, about 25 years.  I'm starting to like all these wedge booties.  And I'm starting to use the word "LIKE" a lot.  Like, right there.  

And oh the new job.  The new job is much like me being the fish and the job being the water.  JOY.  Not only can it make my career, but I know I can kick ass in it.  Which, I will. :)  So, though it has been a sucky year, the end looks like it's turning on itself and is giving me a little reprieve.  YAY ME!  YAY LIFE! :)

So everything is looking good coming into the Christmas season.  I hope I do more blogging soon, I really should get back into it. :)  I think I''ll re-dye my hair red just for the occasion.

Saturday musings

Just some stuff I've come across today:

I personally don't know if I could do these to my old books, but they are really cute ideas :)

I'd love to make this but I don't know where I can get the rope.

I am going to have this dress made!!!!

Lovely site :) Love this site too!!! :)

Especially for THIS photo.

I heart this dress so much.... 

...and this sweatshirt.... 

My poor friend (who's a designer) had carpal tunnel this past week...  I'm just spreading the word :(

SOOOOOOOOOOO CUTE!!!  I want everything from there!

Perfect for the weather here in the Philippines!   Plus you can cover it up if it is too risque.

 I would totally love it if SOMEONE did this for my birthday :)  Yes, I am a Harry Potter freak. And YES, I'm 32 years old.  Weird but those books changed my life.

Nice thought for the day :)

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The last few weeks I've kind of been out of it.  Even if I'm on detox, I'm not feeling like I'm aware of everything around me. I'm been so lethargic and indifferent to stuff going on around me.  Though I love to stay home, I think it's becoming unhealthy.  Ah but maybe age is also catching up with me, telling me to stay put and such.  Fair enough.  Then of course the 3 day migraine didn't help matters.  Ah well.  I'm trying to take care of myself, so far I think it's working.  I just need to maybe cheat a little and give myself a shot of coffee on Monday morning!!!!  OR go back to Serenitea today and buy me a few mugs :D Yeah I think that's what I should do :) 

Been craving for those for a while now...hehehehe!!!

Old movies :)

There was a John Hughes "festival" at the cinema near me and they were playing "Breakfast Club", "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", "Pretty In Pink" and "Some Kind Of Wonderful".  I watched the first and the last.  :)

I was then reminded WHY those two particular films resonated so much with me.  The Breakfast Club is because this whole adolescent getting to know yourself thing is just something that interests me.  It was such a weird and fascinating time of my life and pieces of film, or music, or art or books that resonate that feeling that I had back then, trying to find myself or whatever, appeals to me.  The whole, being defined by those who don't know you, or you questioning everything you are, if you really are a jock for example, or a geek, or the popular girl.  Though on the outside these all mean totally different things, how really different are you from everyone else? 

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With "Some Kind..."  I just always thought that Eric Stoltz was cute (I have this weird fascination for redheads), Lea Thompson was oh-so-cute, and Mary Stuart Masterson was so damn COOL.  She had 3 earrings in one ear, wore fringed red FINGERLESS gloves, drove a car made by PEARL and played the drums.  She delivered the line "I'd bet my hands on it", which I as a drummer, KNOW the gravity that went behind that statement.  Also, she showed me that being pretty didn't mean being the same as everyone else.  Being cool didn't mean following the crowd.  Being yourself was that was needed and no one could ever touch that, no matter what they said about you.  Or that, when Eric Stoltz's character, Keith, became friends with the school punk, it taught me that you could find help and friends in the weirdest of places, yes, even detention.  Actually BOTH movies taught me that!!!  And it also taught me that that was usually where the cool kids were anyway.  They were cool because, yeah ok, they're punks and they don't give a shit about the rules, but it was more that they would question the rules, that those weren't the end all be all with just a "Coz I said so" as the excuse.  You do something, you fail or you embarrass yourself, or *gasp* you may even succeed.  Instead of kicking one's self for not doing anything, kicking onseself for doing something and being embarrassed because of it.             

"Some Kind Of Wonderful" poster via

And a quick note about "Some Kind..." the girl that Craig Sheffer's character (Hardy...?) cheated on Lea Thompson's character (Amanda Jones) with, the blonde chick?  That's Chynna Phillips.  As in, from Wilson Phillips and who's now Mrs. William Baldwin.  Sorry.  Unnecessary geekness came through.  :) 

Anyway I had a wonderful Saturday today.  I can't wait to stay in and have a great Saturday night.  :)  Hope you all are too, whoever is reading this.  Take it easy!

Saturday staying in

Finishing some projects. I just need to remind myself that I'm lucky I've got projects lined up. At least I'm still needed. At least I can still get paid. YAY!

Ok that pick me up was good. Back in the few maybe.

Here's my limbs, hair and sometimes eyes crossed for favorable results for the first project of today. GOOD VIBES!!!! :D MUST IMBIBE GOOD VIBES!!!!