bumblepug

rising with the roosters

this morning i was up at the crack of dawn!  i'm trying to get a lot done in a short amount of time.  i did 2 loads of laundry, self tanned, gave dog a quick walk, collected stuff for garage sale, kinda cleaned living room, and made a smoothie all within 2 hours.  i had to drive like a maniac to get to work at a reasonable time, and wouldn't you know it- there was a major backup on a road that has been smooth sailing forever!  ugh!

last night we bought a new self tanner by neutrogena called instant bronze, deep.  it's better than the build-a-tan but careful, this does come off in water and if you're in a pool, you'll have an embarrassing copper tint around you.

i think i'm done with my self tanning experimentation for the day...

getting greedy with the self tanner

yesterday i wrote about how much i enjoy self tanning lotion now.  well, careful who you share it with because you might start getting greedy with the bottle so you can out-brown them on the water!

last nigth ralph woke me up 30-minutes into my evening sleep to apply self tanner to his upper back.  i can't complain because i woke him up yesterday morning to do the same and he usually gets to sleep in an hour longer than me- so no gripes here.  but, since i was half asleep i wasn't able to get up and wash my hands off.  today my hands look so weird.  my right is way darker than the left!  needless to say, this stuff really works!  ralph said he wiped them off with a rag but i'm not so sure about that.  well, maybe so since it is splotchy.  well, nobody looks at my palms so who cares, the rest of my fake tan is quite smooth!

now we're bickering about which house to leave the bottle at...i'm always up first so i have a feeling i'm going to be darker since i can grab the bottle before him! ;)

wishlist

it's almost my birthday (31 days- i think!) so i decided to update my wishlist.  if you know me, you know where to find it.  if you don't know me and want to send me gifts, please feel free to do so via email!

;)

tan without the sun

who knew self tanners could be so great?!  i think the sun is going to be put out of business fairly soon.

i used one for the first time last night (i know lindsay is laughing right now!).  i never felt i needed to use them before because i'm kinda naturally tan (well, by most peoples standards) but in my opinion my less exposed areas (thighs, stomach) could use a lot of work- just to catch up with my arms and face.  i used neutrogrena's build-a-tan ("gradual sunless tanning") which allows you to control your shade based on how many applications you do.  i did an application last night before bed and i woke up a shade darker.  i did another application before work and i got another shade darker- i think i'm obsessed with this.  i'll probably continue to do 2 applications per day until we make it to the lake (this weekend).  i don't want my legs to blind anybody and i think darker legs look slimmer so that's what i'm hoping for!!!

the lotion didn't stain my clothes and it looked a little smudged where i put lots of layers on, but nothing too obvious.  it does warn not to put any on your knees, ankles, etc- but that may be the norm for all self tanners.  who knows?  they also have a version of build-a-tan specifically for the face.  i think i get that one on the way home!

i would definitely recommend going out and buying a bottle at the closest drug store, right now!

when ralph is gone

when ralph is out of town i do things like watch napolean dynamite ten times in a row, and play the notebook at insane volumes so i can hear it from the living room into the bathroom while bathing.  you know, things that would really annoy another person.

where am i going with this...

i have tons of lines stuck in my head from napolean dynamite (big surprise, huh?)but my favorite is "do chickens have large talons?"  this may have something to do with the spelling bee clip that anthony and christine showed me which i'll post soon enough so you can join my laughter!  my other favorite line is his response to how his day went..."it was the worst day of my life, what do you think?!"

as for me, today has been the most boring day of my life thus far.  i'm beginning to think i will die of boredom if a bug doesn't bite my ass or something eventful like.

my boredom is compounded by the fact that i want to vomit because i have such a throbbing headache, and to make things better i just drank a glass of milk- yuk!  hmm...what a great day. 

also i think one of my neighbor's was murdered at 2 am and they woke me up!  i was so p.o.'d that i didn't even think to call the cops.  i better be a good citizen next time instead of eating a bowl of flax seed cereal and dozing off to three's company.  who knew such great tv was on at that time?! 

dog is a flirt

my mom and i took dog to the beach today and she didn't have her usual running partner there (ralph).  i tried to do my share of running but i wasn't cutting her grade.  we sat to rest and there was a wakeboarder doing his thing and dog must've thought he needed company and/or rescuing.  she ran over to him and wanted to be pet, and she was jumping all over him, and she was crying and barking for him when he returned to the water (this must be what they call animal magnetism).  she's such a flirt!  if ralph's not there she goes for the next guy which this guy happened to be.  what have i raised?

after the beach we went downtown for some sweets and i saw one of the sweetest pugs ever- a black pug pup (my favorites!).  i also saw a cute pug/beagle mix yesterday at santana row.  it had a pug face, pug shaped longer ears, and a beagle body.  it was a rusty-chocolate color- what a sweetheart!  i wanted to steal it when the owner looked away but that's just asking for bad karma. 

would somebody please buy me a ranch so i can buy 10 more dogs, please?!

can i just say...

i officially hate tom cruise.  he's such a bugger and just by association katie holmes is starting to get under my skin.  all of his recent comments are over the top and he's totally obnoxious!  his top gun days are definitely coming to an end because he's shooting himself in the foot left and right lately.

btw, if i haven't mentioned it already, i slept through batman begins.  sidenote: i saw mr. & mrs. smith and loved it!  they're such a great duo and possibly two of the most attractive people in the world, yup, world.

(ok, back to tom cruise and katie holmes) how is it possible for 2 people who i don't know to annoy me so badly?  i'm sure it'll get even better when the media comes up with some stupid name for them like the oh-so-clever benifer (sp?).  i'm sure i'll find the answer to my loathing for them at the next hr meeting, and more than likely it is rooted with me.  yay!

week of rejection

this week has been a week of rejection!  i was rejected from the rt program (which i was waitlisted for last year), and i had 2 job rejections.  what's going on here?!  i think my luck is running out.  but i like the way ralph puts it, better.  he says that it's all part of the course of finding my path.  so buddha, huh?  he's sweet to make me feel better.

so, it looks like i'm going to esthetician school.  i'm excited, i just had to pursue all paths so i wouldn't have regrets.  i'm going to try to start in september though technically i'm not supposed to start until december.  i'll see if i can talk myself in to an earlier class- wish me luck.  this is good because i'll still be able to do my nine to five and then class in the evenings.

if anybody needs makeup done let me know because now is a good time for me to play around on willing guinea pigs!  a, i'm talking to you!  we can do some really wild looks! ;)

and can i please put fake lashes on somebody?!

whale's hell!

this is funny (well, not in the haha sense) because ralph and i were just talking about whales for an hour on the way home from the beach last night.  here's an interesting story about a fast food chain in japan that is serving whale burgers-this is truly the whale's hell...

random memory to share-

i went whale watching in maui a few years ago and it is one of my best memories because it was so amazing and they were so enormous!  when i went into the water to snorkel, i could hear the whale songs!  how cool is that?!!!  they were eerie yet beautiful.  it felt so peaceful!

i hate personality tests!

it's official---i hate personality tests.  now i know hate is a strong word to use but i truly hate personality tests.  do i need to repeat myself?!

i had to take the myers-briggs and the kolbe test:

myers-briggs says: extrovert, intuitive, thinking, judge (whatever that means!)

kolbe says: i'm a quick starter with great follow-thru

wonderluc: who knows?  but i had to take this too!

ug, who cares?!  in the end can we really define a person by their answers to some stupid tests that will have variable results depnding on the day and the testing enironment!

anyways, my point here is that if an employer asks me to take one of these tests...it's likely i won't get it because i just have too much personality- at least this is my theory!

if another company wants to personality test me, i'm running the other way!