The Ramblings of a Distracted Soul

NEED THESE!! NOWWWWW! hello-kitty: Street...

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:18:49 -0700

NEED THESE!! NOWWWWW!

Street Fighter x Sanrio Collection by Mighty Fine

welovefineshirts:

It’s here! The Street Fighter x Sanrio Collection is now posted at WeLoveFine.com! Six tees pictured above are up now, but we’ll have more soon - A must have for the gamer fans who love Hello Kitty & friends!

Browse the Street Fighter x Sanrio tees NOW at WeLoveFine.com!

makeup-madness: EAR CUFF GIVEAWAY! My new friend Brittany is an...

Mon, 21 May 2012 20:35:14 -0700

makeup-madness:

EAR CUFF GIVEAWAY!

My new friend Brittany is an amazing jewelry maker and has kindly offered to give away one of her beautiful creations to a lucky follower (shown in the photo above)! Ear cuffs are one of my favorite trends lately because they can really glam up a look and anyone can wear them; no piercing necessary!

How to enter and rules:

-Must be following makeup-madness.
-Must be at least 18 years old or have a parent’s permission. (I’ll need to know your address if you win!)
-Must reblog this post. Only once, please!
-You may enter until Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at noon EST. Winner will be chosen randomly and announced that night, so stay tuned!
-Brittany has kindly made this giveaway international!

Feel free to check out her other ear cuffs at her etsy, madebyabee.etsy.com.

Happy giveaway!

glowpinkstah: My hero!!

Thu, 10 May 2012 18:36:46 -0700

glowpinkstah:

My hero!!

Photo

Wed, 02 May 2012 02:08:50 -0700

notmrmartinez: lol Fan-freaking-tastic! I hate that song. =(

Wed, 02 May 2012 01:54:39 -0700

notmrmartinez:

lol

Fan-freaking-tastic! I hate that song. =(

Definitely a dramatic morning. I still haven’t eaten anything all day. And I’m still...

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:31:27 -0700

Definitely a dramatic morning. I still haven’t eaten anything all day. And I’m still pissed off. There’s no coming back from words said that I’m assuming have been pent up for awhile. So much for fairy tales. They exist but reality always finds a lovely way to crash your revelry. I will not bend and break to this. I will stand firm and let the chips fall where they may.

<3

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:26:44 -0700

Ahhhhhh! Definitely forgot my password after I dropped -and broke- my laptop. Ah well. Must return...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:32:19 -0700

Ahhhhhh! Definitely forgot my password after I dropped -and broke- my laptop. Ah well. Must return to the random additions to the “blogosphere”. I’m sure I’ve heard some hipster turd using that term before. Feels right. Well, sounds dumb but right context!

Starting watching “Let’s Make Love” last night...

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:12:23 -0700

Starting watching “Let’s Make Love” last night when I couldn’t sleep and finished it this morning. I’ve always been a fan of her quirky acting and this movie just reaffirmed my love.

marilyn-love:

Marilyn Monroe and Yves Montand in a Let’s Make Love poster

Renege.

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:01:24 -0800

I am reneging my previous rant as I found out some bad news about the main person I was whining about. Just goes to show that over-analyzing is still the death of me. Ah well, at least they are okay and much better than a few weeks ago and I can stop panicking, or rather being an emo kid.

I am sitting quite comfortably with my Hello Kitty lap desk smelling Bronx’s thick fart cloud while the sweet tea I’m brewing cools. People said puppy farts were the worst. I’m just trying to figure out when they stop since he’s already a year and five months old. He’s technically an “adult” now but in the real world, it takes much longer for us to mature to calling ourselves adults so I don’t see how that’s even a fair title for him. Rambunctious not so young puppy sounds right to me. He’ll be a puppy for a longggg time because his energy and spunk are going no where.

I have a huge secret that only a couple people know and I can’t wait for it to unfold so everyone can be surprised. I wish I could gush about it to everyone so I find myself biting my tongue when I start babbling too much and get close to spilling the beans. I must also be careful not to advertise the days following up to the unveiling because that would wreck the surprise as well. It’s like planning a secret mission; I love it!

My birthday is in a couple weeks and 26 seems like a death sentence. I’m one foot in the grave and don’t even have a career path yet. What the hell am I doing? Soon all things will align as they should. Pedro is planning something special for me that’s supposedly going to top the message in a bottle he sent me for our 7-year anniversary while in Afghanistan. He did an amazing job because I love cheesy romantic gifts, the note was super sweet, and I had no clue I would get anything. Oh, and it was yellow which is by default my favorite color but only when I’m forced to choose as I love the entire color spectrum. I wish I knew what he was planning but I suppose I’ll have to wait and be surprised.

I’ve had a great week of laziness and playing computer games. I can’t say completely lazy because I have woken up every morning to walk the dog, do some exercise, then eat breakfast like normal people do. At least I’ve been getting out of bed before 10! I’m sure one of these days I’ll be dying to clean and organize and won’t stop until after midnight. It’s feeling like spring/summer out here so it’s hard not to get the spring cleaning bug. Plus I’ve already started weeding out clothes to donate to goodwill so I must continue with that impossible task. It should be illegal to have as much clothing as I do. Although, I’ve already done a good job throwing out old shoes and putting quite a few pairs in the giveaway pile! Our closet almost looks like I don’t have as many shoes as I do but that’s because there are stacks of boxes in the far corner that my clothes cover. XD

Nothing else to report except that it doesn’t smell like puppy fart anymore! Yay!!!

Year of the Dragon ParadeChinatown-NYC

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:01:14 -0800

Year of the Dragon Parade
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Year of the Dragon ParadeChinatown-NYC

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:56:09 -0800

Year of the Dragon Parade
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Year of the Dragon ParadeChinatown-NYC

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:39:05 -0800

Year of the Dragon Parade
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Year of the Dragon ParadeChinatown-NYC

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:28:46 -0800

Year of the Dragon Parade
Chinatown-NYC

Forgotten

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:22:56 -0800

It’s odd to leave a place that was once home and to be forgotten by everyone you once held dear. Why is it in our nature as humans to need people to be physically near to put any importance to them? As though because they are far away, they have ceased to be your friend and to exhibit any sort of understanding of your life. I miss New York for the people I live behind and the giant city I have not yet fully explored but maybe I am wrong to miss people who don’t seem to miss me. I cannot stop caring about my friends but it would be nice to actually keep in touch. People say that so idly and so often. You sign it in yearbooks, say it when you run into someone you haven’t seen in awhile and are in a rush, and then you say it when people move away. How often do we genuinely mean that and not say it as the “right” response?

I appreciate having had the opportunity to move cross country a few times at this point. I have had the experience of a tearful goodbye not knowing when I would see my loved ones again and have had the excitement of going back to them. I know that people’s lives are sometimes so full they don’t realize how long it’s been since they last spoke but it seems to me that this is an excuse. You invest your time and your friendship into someone with the hopes of having the same returned to you. When it fades, what do you have to show for it aside from bits of memories that may or may not matter? I am not trying to say that all my friends write me off whenever I’m not around because I’m sure they all have their reasons, it’s just an odd feeling to cling to an old life that moves forward without you in it as though you were never an intrinsic part of that movement.

Aside from my melodrama, I have been in California for about 3 weeks now and it’s easy to remember why I fell in love with it so hard the first time around. Even having nothing to do all day, I have no pressing feeling that I should be rushing to get things done. It’s giving me time to plan out my course of action to get the rest of my life rolling. First step, license. Second step, register for college. I shouldn’t be but I am afraid of going to school and then failing miserably. I’m sure it won’t be the case but without fear what would drive us to do anything knowing that it all lacks risk? This has always been my fear and that’s probably why I never went to class in high school and I’ve promised never to set myself up like that again. I will succeed at whatever it is I decide to do I just need to get myself in motion and start making things happen.

Tour du NY Airports 2012

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:24:39 -0800

Marveling at my morning travels still. I was to be in San Diego by 11am PST and it’s 1:40pm in Denver where I actually am right now. Things are infinitely more complicated when you fly with a pet and I don’t know if this is something I ever want to do again. This is only Bronx’s second time flying and it’s gone wrong both times. Hopefully San Diego will be a permanent move this time around so that Bronx can stay comfortably with his paws on terra firma.

My initial flight was at 6AM in White Plains. I got there at about 4:45am to find out that the agent would not be in till 5am although the other airlines were already set to work. This mofo rolls in at almost 15 minutes after 5am. The first rule of flying with a pet is that you need at least ONE hour to check them in. Not 45 minutes. You’d think he’d at least come bearing coffee and donuts. Thank God my ride hung around with me to make sure I got well underway with my journey or I’d have been stranded there. I managed to forget the food and water bowl for Bronx’s kennel which is a major requirement so he can be fed during flight if necessary. The agent decided he had no idea where to get replacements from and didn’t have any on hand. This only gets better because he decides to give me the opportunity to catch a later flight from JFK so that I can retrieve the bowl from home on the way. Then to top of his rudeness, he throws in that normally there would be a fee for this kind of transaction so if this were to happen again in the future, I shouldn’t be surprised if I have to pay a fee. F you man. Don’t think for a second I’d ever fly through White Plains again knowing your incompetent ass still works there. You had no solution to a problem you should have been prepared for as other airlines are. So we reload the car and schlep all the way back to the Bronx then to Queens.

By now it’s at least 6:30 am and I thought I would be set up well enough that I could let my ride leave and not wait around for me. Since JFK is nuts with parking and letting your car stand for too long, I didn’t want him to drive in circles waiting. Nice me, but shitty situation ensues. The flight I got rerouted to is on a small plane whose cargo compartment is not big enough to get the kennel through the door. No one at the airport can understand why someone would route me to something that could not accommodate the most important part of my flight. Then they mentioned that there’s no way I could have fit on that express flight either as it’s a similar small plane I was booked on. So United Airlines customer service, you suck for not doing your outsourced job properly. So after about 45 minutes of trying several different solutions that all fell short, they decided to reroute me AGAIN to La Guardia as a last resort.

At this point I was so resigned to just get onto whatever I could and get the hell out of New York so I was down to pay for a taxi no matter what. Since I just waited patiently the entire time and didn’t complain, they decided to set me up with a taxi and pay for it. Nice not to have to shell out $65 (which was still a discounted price from what they actually charge). They really were apologetic for all the runaround I was given and though it was initially my fault that I wasn’t set up properly with my first flight, they took full responsibility. I even got credited with like 10,000 extra miles for my frequent flyer collection. So off I go to catch a 10AM flight when it was barely 8am. I get there and have to go through all the motions of checking the kennel, filling out the right paperwork, furnishing Bronx’s health certificate, and checking myself in. The lovely people at JFK sent me with everything I could possibly need just in case they decided not to have any supplies at LGA.

Poor Bronx got so antsy from all the back and forth that he nervously broke the damn bowl that made us get turned away from the first flight. Luckily, this airline had two smaller ones available to give me or I would have been screwed again. He was so good the whole time that I am scared he’s freaking out now since I have a 3 hour gap until my connecting flight takes off. I’m hoping they’ll let me see him or walk him or something because he’s probably scared shitless if they didn’t put him in a dark, quiet room to sleep. He really did mommy and daddy proud. Everyone was so impressed with how calm and well behaved he was in the airport and how easily he was willing to go back into his kennel after they scanned it. I’ve never heard so many pro-Pitbull people in New York and it made me sublimely happy that people actually recognized his awesomeness. Of course he’s handsome and well behaved, he’s MY dog!

Gotta love the TSA’s “random screening” of me when going through security. This is the second time it’s been “random”. “It’s not an alarm, just a random screening.” I mean I’d been through 3 airports in 3 hours. I wouldn’t trust me either. Not that they knew about my tour but I assume I have international germs on me flagging me for espionage. I really wish I was smuggling something so that this whole spiel made more sense. Imagine me, an international spy. My business cards would read “Jax Slax - Professional dog transporter” just as a front for my true mission. I’d even get Bronx fitted into a little suit so he can fit the part too, maybe help smuggle some dog treats. I’m sure the airport people would go nuts. I mean, I was told like 7 times today that my kennel was unacceptable. None of these effers bothered to open up the latches that house the required screws until I repeatedly said so and had to open them myself. Come on guys, I did this with you 6 months ago. I’m not retarded and nothing about his kennel has changed.

All in all, this has been the worst flying experience I’ve ever had, aside from the decent flight. I’m set to be a frequent flyer for life but maybe I should plan a few cross country road trips in between just to give Bronx a break. Now when Pedro comes home I can tell him about my sacrifice to make my United States Marine happy and get my ass back home. I’m sure I’ll get a medal. Or at least a pin. Alright, maybe a thank you and a kiss. That’s more than I can ask for anyway so I’ll accept. I can’t wait till this week is over! Pedro will be home and I’ll be able to let him handle all the dog stuff for awhile. Especially since Bronx is due for shots next week. Welcome home, Pedro, haha ha ha!

Sandy, Chinese New Year pics will be up soon!!! <3

San Diego Sunday. I can’t wait. Will be followed by “California outfit pics” as...

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:28:27 -0800

San Diego Sunday. I can’t wait. Will be followed by “California outfit pics” as per request. This week is flying by. So excitedddddddddd!!!!

=]

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:32:53 -0800

Pure happiness = 1 part Marine coming home from deployment + 1 part awesome new apartment + 1 part amazing San Diego weather + 2 parts it’s all only a couple weeks away.

Love when things fall into place so well on their own.

Even if I’m still terribly sick. I’ll be better in California! ^.^

Christmas is AWESOMEEEEEE! The end.

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:14:59 -0800

Christmas is AWESOMEEEEEE!

The end.

<3 Indeed.

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 20:14:00 -0800

<3 Indeed.