✖ carving out our names ✖

So, it's a little late and I haven't been here in over a year and I had to spend 5 minutes trying to remember what my password was and then I actually just spent a good 60 seconds staring at the screen and trying to figure out how to make a new post.  Probably no one is reading this (and that's probably for the best, given this huge run-on sentence fiasco), but hi anyway.

One of my new year goals is to update more often.  I haven't actually been successful with that anywhere, yet.   No, wait.  I did update my Livejournal with my Flickr retrospective.  And I've uploaded pictures to Flickr in 2009.  I guess I'm getting there. 

It seems like vox.com may have done some upgrades since I was around last, so I should probably check that out.  And see if anyone is active that I know.  And all that other stuf.  Maybe after lunch.

For those of you who are perhaps unfamiliar, they are alien characters from the children's show Sesame Street.  In the show, they had a small segment where they went around saying "yipyipyipyipyip.... uh-huh...uh-huh..."  As a child, they freaked me out.  These ones were taller than me!  Still, the costumes were cool and I liked that they did it as a group.  My sister got some video of the dancing one.

I've bought a bit more tokidoki lately.  I keep meaning to take a new picture of my collection but I've just been so unmotivated lately after getting home from werk.  Here's a picture of Mozarella that I took.  I'm collection the little mini Moofia characters slowly; I have about 2/3rds of the set now.  I've been buying them by blind box, which means I have gotten some duplicates, but I give them to my sister.

Sorry for the disorganised ramble.  I'm pretty tired and a bit out of sorts.   Hopefully more posting here, more often, soon.

This is me.  Before my haircut.  My hair had gotten quite long.  It's sort of hard to tell in this picture, which I took at arm's length in the car just before going to try to get a haircut.  But, you probably get the idea. It's a decent length.

I didn't really know what I wanted to do with it, so I just been letting it grow out over the last few months. Within the last week or so, it started to get annoying.  It was taking too long (in my opinion) to dry.  Sometimes, it wouldn't pin up the way I wanted it to.  I was getting irritated. It should be noted that this is the longest my hair has been in years - since high school, I think.  I'm used to shorter hair now!

I went to the mall on Monday night.  The mall has three salons, one of which is my regular salon.  Alas, I could not get a walk-in appointment scheduled at any of them.  They were all booked for the night.  I was able to get an appointment the next day, but not until 6pm.  I left, disappointed.  (I'm an impatient girl.  I don't like to wait!)

The timing the next day was odd.  I ended up wanting to try to move my appointment back an hour because I wanted to eat beforehand. (I'd left werk a little bit late.) I called the salon, but again, they were booked for the rest of the night.  I skipped dinner and went in.  It was at this point that I realised everyone was busy due to Valentine's Day.  Oops.  Next time, I should probably think these things through.

Sadly, I don't really have any decent pictures of my hair cut afterward.  I took Thursday and Friday off from werk, in honour of my birthday.  (Since we get Monday off for President's Day, that means a five-day weekend for me!)   I decided to get the oil changed on my car on Thursday.  It was slightly overdue.  What better time to get an oil change than during the day when everyone else is at werk!  Less wait time.  I hate going and having to wait in a line of people.  It can take forever, and again, patience is really not one of my virtues.  (I know I need to werk on it.)

I drove to the place I normally get my oil changed and they only had one other person in their garage, so I was able to get in right away.  This is me, waiting for them to finish up with my car.    It didn't actually take them too long, which was nice.  (I'd brought a book, just in case.)  You can (sort of) see my hair is about 3.5 inches shorter now.

Afterward, I went out to my beach to have a little thinking time and take some Pinky:st pictures before I had to meet everyone for dinner.  I managed to get some pretty good shots, some of which I haven't quite gotten online yet.   Despite the fact that it was pretty overcast and quite windy, it wasn't actually very cold.  I was wearing a skirt and a jacket, but didn't need gloves.


All in all, a good time.  My family bought me a new camera (the Canon a640, which was the one I'd been looking at) for my birthday.  I'll have to break it in soon.  (My sister, who spoils me, also got me a little Louis Vuitton case that fits my camera or that I can use as a wristlet.  It's so cute!  Pictures to come.)

My sister recently went crazy and bought an entire box of Trexi plus series  "tokidoki vs devil wrestling fighters" figures. Of course, since no one really needs an entire box, she split it with me.  This one of the devilrobot fighters from the set.

Mostly she bought it because she knows I like tokidoki.  And she likes tokidoki.  And she knows I collect toys like this.  (I have a few others Trexis in my collection.)  So, now she's started a little collection of her own. 

I have all the tokidoki Trexis now, but I haven't taken pictures of them yet.  Hopefully I'll get some this week.  I'm really behind on the whole picture taking thing.

On Friday, I went out and grabbed some of the new tokidoki Moofia mini toys.  I ended up also grabbing Gloomy Bear keychains for my sister and I.  (Everyone needs more cute killer bears!)  I exercised restraint and did not buy out the entire store.  I probably shouldn't go shopping on pay day, though.

I wouldn't say it's the best picture I took in 2006, but it's one of my favourites.  I looked through a lot of my pictures from last year when I was thinking about this vox hunt question.  I hadn't quite realised how many I took last year (and especially how many I never got around to posting to Flickr.)

I think I took a few good pictures, but I'm really loathe to say which one was "best".  I wouldn't know how to quantify it.   I couldn't even tell you what my absolute favourite was.  I have a few that I really love, but there's not one that I look at with absolute certainty and say "That's the one."

This particular photo was posted as part of a set of 4, plus there were a few that I never got around to posting to Flickr.  In all of the other photos, there is a second Pinky:st figure.  This is the only one I took of one of them alone.  I think that might be why I like it best out of the set.  I like the mood it sets in my mind.  It reminds me that every once in a while, you just have to stop and take a moment to yourself.

I have been decidedly lax in keeping up to date over here.  But now I've reorganised some of my other things, so I'm back!

In the meantime, I've bought more tokidoki (the makeup - which I don't currently have pictures of), fallen in love with the show House MD (I know, I'm totally slow), and started using the xbox 360 a little (mostly UNO on xbox live).  I also received many shiny toys for Christmas, which I also need to photograph and post pictures of.

This picture is apropros of nothing, except I love tachikoma.

I'm sorry I've been so neglectful of all of you.  Hopefully, you'll forgive me!

Unfortunately, I cannot write too much right now, as I tomorrow I have to give two presentations in a row (over the lunch hour, no less; who schedules these things?) and I need to go over my notes.  And also figure out what to wear.

This isn't the best picture of me.  I took it after a long day at werk for a girl who wanted to get some perspective on the different sizes of tokidoki bags.  So, I grabbed part of my collection and snapped this picture really quickly to throw online for her.

For the tokidoki fans, the picture includes: a bella (foresta), nuvola (fumo), stellina (original), dolce (playground), bambione (original), bocce (citta), braccioletto (citta rosa).   I meant to put my tokidoki hairclips in for fun, but I'm just way too tired.  I'm so glad this is a short week in the US.

Seattle is full of rain and thunderstorms this month.  We're having some record-breaking wet weather.  I don't even own an umbrella or a raincoat.   Today it was semi-clear until mid-afternoon when suddenly a huge stormcloud blew in, complete with thunder, lightning, and hail.  I am not even kidding when I say that a lot of people ran to the windows to watch it come down.  (Seriously, it's Seattle!  Haven't you all seen the rain?)

I'm off to kaiten sushi now!  More posts later.