My Wonderland: 2010-02-21

2.27.2010

Au Natural or Faux Natural?

Dear Ones,

As a female who chooses to wear makeup daily, I often find myself wanting to scrap the whole thing and never wear the stuff again because of the time, and cost. But it's fun for me, and I enjoy the art of it, so I continue.
But I can't help but want to move down to Arizona where I never wear makeup because it's so dang hot and the dry air and sunshine always does wonders for my bare skin.

QUESTION OF THE DAY:

What do you think about makeup? ( in any context )

OBSESSIONS:
-1- Wearing lots of rings and bracelets again (screw winter and it's conduction of cold through metal)
-2- Jogging
-3- My vitamins
-4- Cleaning (what a shocker!)

Happy Saturday!

PS All my Peppermint Schnapps is gone...is the peach flavor any good?

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2.26.2010

You Know, I do kind of feel like a ram!

Dear Ones,

Whether or not you follow your horoscope, are into astrology, or not, you must have at least once encountered your zodiac symbol and thought about it.
You may have even thought these very thoughts:

"Does this thing represent me accurately?"
"How does this symbol make me feel as a person?" (hardy har har)
or
"What the hell is that?"
"If my symbol is cancer, does that mean I have or will have cancer?"
even
"Even though I don't believe in that stuff, my symbol can beat up yours."
or
"What happened to Miss Cleo?"
"Get to the point, Allis."

Okay.
For the most part, I just like seeing similarities between what the horoscope says and what actually happened. It's like a little injection of magic in my daily life.

But I was looking at pictures of rams today (very busy girl here) and I thought, "you know, I do kind of feel like a ram" but what does that even mean?
I don't know other than I like to run a lot, hiking uphill is fun, and maybe I prefer being on the solo more often than not.
And maybe I had horns that were removed at birth that I don't know about...Rosemary's baby, anyone?
Take from that what you will.

QUESTION OF THE DAY:

Do you ever fantasize about being from a different culture (I'm not saying race because I've taken far too many race-relations classes, etc. in college to know that there are no seperate races...)such as Irish, Bengali, Chinese, Chilean, etc.?

(Me? I've always wished I could've been born %100 Native American)

OBSESSIONS:
-1- Andy Warhol obsession has reemerged...eeek look out

Happy Friday!

2.25.2010

Was I laughing, or coughing? (See: no one really cares)

Dear deer,

(the cuteness of this picture makes up for the lameness of today's message)

So, I was leaving Target last night and on the way to my car, I was about to pass a mother/daughter team. I can't remember what happened, but I think the daughter said something really lame, or maybe it was a baby and started crying (obviously I was paying very, very close attention to the details) and I coughed - however, I was hyper-aware that my cough may have sounded like a laugh that I coughed twice again to reinforce that I wasn't laughing.

Has this ever happened to you?

Why did I care if that mom thought I was laughing at her lame daughter and/or crying baby?
I didn't have any reason to think she'd kill me if I did happen to laugh.

Next time, I'll just laugh.

QUESTION OF THE DAY:

Do you associate individual numbers and/or letters with emotions?

(For example, I've always thought that the #8 was rather snobbish, that 3 was such a loner and way too cool for school, and F is kind of mean for no reason at all.)

OBSESSIONS:

-1- Keeping my bed so neat that it looks like I live in a hotel.
-2- Pilates
-3- Falling asleep with my heating pad and waking up sweating (why can't i learn my lesson?)
-4- Walnuts
-5- My new vitamins (rah rah for B-12)
-6- Knuckle Rings

Happy Thursday (is it Thursday already??) Cheers to feeling better!

(And, yes, I have a lot of pictures today because I kept looking for more thinking "I really don't have that many, so I'll keep looking until I accumulate an obscene amount.")