So yesterday was pretty rad!

I mean...the weather was crap. Frickin' monsoon-like rain and near zero temperatures, and wind. Oh the wind.It was c-c-c-cold out.And that's coming from someone who takes pride in being able to weather the...weather...you know what I mean.

But I was distracted...I was on my way to get my chest tattooed. I was more nervous than you can imagine. Like, more nervous than for any tattoo I have ever gotten before, really! I guess because everybody I have ever talked to about it has made crazy pain faces even at the mention of it, and so many people have said it was the most painful tattoo they've ever gotten.

In actuality, mostly because I was prepared for it, it wasn't so bad. It still hurt, don't get me wrong, but it was like, just another tattoo kind of hurt. Also? I took like three advil just before we started which probably had something to do with it. :)

I don't want to put pictures of the entire thing up here, because you know how people are with stealing crap from the internet, and it's not finished yet...I just feel really protective over it. And Colin hates the internet...I'd be so bummed if someone stole his hard work.  Here are a couple sort of semi-pictures of it with really fancy watermarks, haha.

They're not the best pictures but you can get the general idea of what it's going to be like anyway. On the other shoulder it meets up with my mummy/My Little Pony sleeve and goes kind of behind the mummy's head. Thanks a billion COLIN! I feel all proud, it's so pretty and he has been working like fourteen hour days every day for the past two weeks. It was so nice of him to fit me into his schedule.

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After I left the tattoo shop, I went to the photo place and picked up some photos I dropped off a few days ago. I have finally figured out my lomography fisheye camera! This time the majority of my photos actually worked out, which is great news. Usually they're underexposed or my hand was covering the flash or something. This bunch of  photos totally ruled. Here's a preview:

Pretty good, right? I'm going to be posting more throughout the next month or two. 

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And so I took the bus home wearing a ridiculous chest bandage...I put a couple pictures of it on my Tumblr here. Check it out for a laugh. I looked ridiculous in that v-neck sweater and a big blue thing taped to my chest. I went to the grocery store looking like that because getting tattooed turns me into a ravenous freak. A couple chocolate bars made it into my grocery basket...the cashier asked if I was going to eat both of them myself, and I smiled and told her "As soon as I get home" and she said

"You go girl."

Hahaha. Yes. I do go. I eat two chocolate bars whenever I want. Girl power!

When I got home I found mother effin' TOMS shoes waiting for me. They must have come in the mail while I was out. I tried them on and they fit like a glove. I know everyone on the internet keeps saying how great they are, but I'm going to add my voice to the chorus...AMAAAAAZING!

What a great day!

TOMS SHOES, BITCHES!

COMFIEST SHOES EVER!

The hilarious conversations you have in bed...

Lying in bed a while ago, Ryan and I were talking about the natures of our housepets. We decided to pair them up with celebrities who matched their demeanors best. I can't remember the criteria we set but we were laughing pretty hard when we came up with their celebrity twins.

Yeti is a chubby Meryl Streep.

And Tank is John Goodman.

self-portrait, sitting at the bus stop

Music Monday: White/Rob Zombie

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Yes, I am serious. In high school in the mid to late nineties I listened to a lot of White Zombie, and then subsequently Rob Zombie. I also went through a reaaaal goth phase. Black clothes. Black eyeliner. Black nailpolish. Black everything. Let me see if I can find a photo...

Um, well I guess you'll have to take my word for it. I'm the one in the back and I'm wearing a Marilyn Manson 'sweet dreams' era t-shirt. That's my friend Sheena in front of me, also in her goth phase, obviously.

Anyway so we liked music that was kind of cheesy metal-dance music with distorted vocals with songs about monsters. We also liked Rammstein and Prodigy back then, so...yeah. I took this video seriously, because I thought that Rob Zombie was a total babe, there was a cool girl in the band, and I used this video as a guide on how to dress and *ahem* how to dance.

 

I can also remember listening to  AstroCreep 2000, cruising in infinite loops around our small town. Of course, every time More Human Than Human came on, my mom was in the room or something...on the CD there's a lot of sex noises. MORTIFYING.

 

And then Rob Zombie went on to do his own thing...which was worse. But I still liked it. 

 

 

Luckily, the music thing isn't the only thing he does. Rob Zombie directed the movie House of 1000 Corpses which is one of my all-time favorites. It's gory as fuck, creepy, and visually...awesome.  

 

He also directed the sequel, The Devil's Rejects, one of the trailers on Grindhouse, a Halloween remake and tons of other stuff. Check out his imdb page for everything. 

 

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I'm being super harsh here, calling him cheesy and stuff...I still have a soft spot in my heart for the guy. AND I just found out that Slayer is touring up in my neck of the woods this summer and Rob Zombie is sharing the headline...guess I'm gonna see him in concert after all these years after all! ;)

 

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I think she had a hard time being taken seriously.

dog-ti-pede

My phone takes panoramic photos. And they're fun! Also, I did this by accident.

What ever happened to...

...salad fingers?

Do you remember these videos from, like, the beginning of the internet? They were my favorite. Just the right mix of funny and totally terrifying. Here are eight of them. Enjoy!

LOOK WHAT I WON! (Alternate title: Zoe is awesome.)

In February I basically put my name in a hat to win a hand-made cross-stiched brooch from Zoe at A Giraffe in a Scarf. And I won! The fun thing about this giveaway was in the comments section of the blog that was hosting it, (My Girl Thursday) all the contestants had to write down some stuff they were interested in and then Zoe would take the winner's list and use those ideas to make their brooch.

I said:

My favorite things are my white cat and my bulldog, hearts, coffee, vintage Halloween stuff, Russian-tattoo-inspired things, and photography. 

I was secretly hoping that if I won, she'd ignore the hearts and coffee and go for either a cat, a bulldog (because how hilarious would that be?) or the Russian Tattoos thing. I'm not like, into criminal tattoos but they are SO INTERESTING and cool looking, I thought I'd mention them there and see what happened.


Well, I won! And I just found out that Zoe spent 8-9 hours stitching this thing! Amazing! The work is so detailed and pretty, and the brooch is AWESOME!

Click here to read what she found out about the Russian cat design. It's pretty bad-ass!

I took some pictures of me being a major dork with it. Uh, so here they are. 

Here's me being surprised that it's pinned to my chest...(?)

Thank you SO MUCH for putting so much hard work into this, Zoe! I love my new (and only) brooch! 

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Also exciting, yesterday I bought myself a floor ticket to see SLAYER! (SOOOOO EXCITED) And I ordered my first ever pair of TOMS shoes from their website. In grey. Although the sparkly ones really wanted me to buy them. Maybe next time.

Yeti tries some plain yogurt...

I think she's a fan.

Things I Love Thursday

I first saw these drawings by Megan Eckman on Katie's blog and fell in love!

You can buy prints of her stuff (and more) in her Etsy shop.

I also love...


"The Bubblesmith" Sterling Johnson.

This Love Birds print.

The paleofuture blog...each entry is hilarious because it shows what people of the past thought the future would look like. (I.e. flying cars, jetpacks, etc.) And speaking of the future, World War 3 propaganda posters.

The A to Z of awesomeness by Neil Cameron.

This world map made of post-its:

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The Brita Sweden photos that I originally saw on the Yes and Yes blog.

This weird diagram GIF-thingy that contains all the letters of the alphabet.

Out of context comic panels. This one kills me! WTF?

And last but not least, My Best Friend's Birthday...aka Quentin Tarantino's first movie!

She told me not to say anything...

...but big thanks anyway to Erin for the awesome semi-surprise I got in the mail today.

I can't wait to read the crap out of this book and see what all the fuss is about. :)

VLOG. Not even joking. I even talk a little bit.

So my camera (the Canon G11) makes videos. Duh. What camera doesn't? I just never thought about it before and you know what? My blog is missing that certain je ne sais quoi that most of yours have...

that's right. Vlogs.

I am terrified of vlogs. I mean...they're straight up scary. You're basically putting yourself at the mercy of the entire internet. Your voice is all up there...and your face. I don't know. Something about it is so scary. But what the heck, right?

I got all pumped to do one, but then realized I had zits and was ugly so I tried to go all black and white and artsy, except my camera only has this thing where it does black and white...and one color that you select. I chose reddish-orange apparently. Here's me testing it out, and/or being a little confused and disgusted? It's really weird, it made the inside of my nose orange and only part of the My Little Pony on my arm.

 ANNNND here's my video blog! 

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Just kidding, that was just me trying to talk to my camera for the first time. You know, that first time where you're like "What do I say? I'm alone in this room, talking to my camera. This is weird. I don't think I'm gonna do it." haha

But then I changed my mind and just went for it. Just give'er. That's my motto. Please excuse the nose scratch and the awesome black shorts that are actually just cut-off sweat pants my mom gave me. I really hadn't planned on 'vlogging' until like four seconds before I did all these things.Maybe next time I'll wear an evening gown and be all classy. But here's the real me on my day off.

Anyway. Yeah. It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. I urge you all to say hello with a little video if you haven't already. It's kind of fun!

Presenting my sister! v.2

 

The prettiest sister ever! 

I introduced you guys to my sister Lyndon earlier this month HERE with some beautiful photos she took of my family. What I didn't show you were these Halloween photos from October 2010. Get ready to be blown away by these photos of my little brothers and sister.

 Lyndon just takes photos as a hobby...what do you guys think? Should she start a blog? Or at least a flickr account? I think so. Let's encourage her to share her talent with the world! :)

Music Monday: Turtles

 Just watch. You will smile and feel awesome after you hear this song. I guarantee it.

It must be spring, and a lesson for bloggers everywhere.

I realize that the majority of my posts lately have been straight-up pictures and not much more. If you're like me, you read 45 trillion blogs and you wouldn't have even really noticed except for that I just told you. But for those few of you who are probably all like "oh man, that might-as-rella chick is so uninspired and I HATE PHOTOGRAPHY" I just wanted to say that I've been feeling really un-talkative lately, and really focused on real life. Sometimes blogging is a treat, and sometimes it starts to feel like a chore. 

Actually, let's turn this into a lesson for bloggers that I've finally learned after years of practice:

Always keep a week or two worth of posts lined up ahead of time. I try and schedule my 'things I love Thursday' and my 'music Monday' stuff like a month in advance, plus some other things as well, just in case I get a case of the negatives or some big personal event happens in my life. That way the blog still goes on as usual, and is fairly consistent. 

I've been in a negative kind of hating everything space for like a month. Finances are not working out the way I'd like, and that can really affect the way a girl feels about herself after a while. That kind of thing would feel good to blog about until the moment I hit the publish button, and then I would completely regret it. You guys really don't want to hear about me eating Mr.Noodles for the third day in a row no matter how empathetic you may be. Complaining is not what my blog is meant for. I love to share joy, humor and pretty things most of the time, with a side of ranting. Not the day to day doldrums.

Anyway, that's what's up. And I actually did take these next pictures just yesterday, so don't feel like you're getting stale ol' crappy pictures from three weeks ago or whatever. Same with the camera pictures, that did just happen a couple days ago...

And now back to my regularly scheduled post:

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You know how I know it's spring? We stood outside at work yesterday for like half an hour, half the city was drunk before 4pm and coming into the tattoo shop asking me if I had any condoms (?), and

the Cherry blossom trees are blooming... 
and covered with little notes hippies tied to them.