Saturday, September 8, 2012

Wonderful day

I love it when everything in the universe aligns and I have a wonderful day.

It doesn't happen all the time, which I guess makes it all the more precious when it does occur.

Today started out pretty lazy.  I woke up at around 8:40ish due to a text from JB saying that he had a fun time at the movies.  Then after I ate breakfast I busied myself with cleaning my room and doing laundry.  Tidying up my room is always therapeutic for some reason... Also, I always seem to find things that I've forgotten about, like my first Harry Potter shirt that I got in the 8th grade!

I can still fit in it too... sort of.  It's a little tighter in the chest area than what I remember, so it'll just have to be a "wear at home" type of shirt.  I don't want to besmirch the brilliance of Harry Potter with skankyness.

From 2-8ish I ran around town with Rebekka doing random things.  We went to Books-A-Million like we usually do and read magazines and gossiped about people and girly things.  For fun (and added blog content) I decided to document our reading choices.
Le me on the top, and Rebekka below.
As you can see from above, I fancy the Scientific American, Rolling Stone, Time, Wired, Mental Floss, and Newsweek, and Rebekka enjoys perusing Wired, Rolling Stone, Vogue, and Cosmopolitan.  Whenever we find an interesting article or factoid we always share them with each other.

One of my favorites from tonight's exchange was a story explaining why Kristen Stewart cheated on Robert Pattinson with the director of Snow White and the Huntsman. According to the article, in nature, peahens like to steal peacocks from their mates because their appeal is higher than that of a loan bird.  In a human case study, women viewed pictures of men alone as well men with another woman, and it was found that most of the women found the men in the couple picture more attractive than that of the singular men.  Apparently they are more appealing because they've already proven themselves to have desirable qualities that make other women want to mate with them.

After a bit of discussion in the aisles of Toys R Us , Rebekka and I came to the conclusion that the article was full of shit.  We're not birds.  We're human beings with complex thought and reasoning, and using examples in nature is just a cop out.  Bitches will be bitches, and they will steal your significant others if they can.  I mean, whenever I find out that a guy has a girlfriend I'm just like, "Okay, we can still be friends, but let's keep a respectable distance between us so that nothing is misconstrued.  Also, broski, did you see the newest Mythbusters episode?"

Gotta respect the girl code.

Anyway, I also bought more yarn.  I started a scarf after my last post, but I ended up running out of yarn before I was finished so I decided to buy more.  Sadly, Hancock Fabrics was selling the yarn for $6.99 and being the Jew that I am I refused to pay that much for 102 yards of yarn, so Rebekka and I journeyed to Walmart to see if they had the same yarn, but at a lower price (plus, she let me use her employee discount!).  When we arrived I was sad to see that they indeed carried the brand of yarn, but not the color.  Instead of leaving empty handed I bought a different type of yarn.  It's a golden yellow color and it's SO SOFT. As soon as I picked it up I envisioned myself wearing it with one of my navy dresses and sipping tea at a cafe.  It's so autumnal.  I'll have to post a picture of it later.

Also, an update on my painting:  I did indeed sketch it out last night, but I ended up not liking the way it looked, so I erased all of it.  So I'm back at square one.  Ah well, the muses are fickle.

Oh, and before I forget, here's a picture of me eating the most delicious tortilla soup in my town:
Nom, nom, nom!
The waiter came up just as the flash went off and started laughing and all I could say was, "I'm sorry!  It's for my blog!" and he just laughed even more.  Ah well, at least he was nice about the odd situation.

To wrap up my splendid day I came home to a new episode of Doctor Who that was just BEYOND brilliant, as well as the news that I had won Lina's Polaroid camera giveaway for her blog's 5th birthday!

I'm very, very happy.  I hope that tomorrow is equally as grand.

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  1. Mmm tortilla soup! Yes, Doctor Who was amazing. It had Mr Weasley and Filch in it :D x

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  2. I haven't seen the new Doctor Who yet (shame on me) but I'm glad it's good. The preview didn't look all that good really. That does sound like a pretty good day. I prefer your choice of magazines, though I guess if you're sharing, it's okay. We might not be birds, but we are still animals. Some of us do follow our most basic and natural instincts, although not all animals try to steal mates from others. We should at least compare ourselves to other mammals.

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    1. Yeah... I'm more into the science/news ones, but I guess that's what makes are friendship work so well. We're not clones of each other.

      I know we're animals, but the fact is that compared to other animals we have advanced reasoning. That should be enough for us to resist something as vile as home-wrecking.

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  3. Days like that are what make memories awesome! Also, I've never heard of neither Books A Million nor tortilla soup. Crazy Texas stuff sounds rad!

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    1. Ahhh! You have to try some tortilla soup some time! It's delicious.

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  4. i'm so happy you won my giveaway! i'm trying to find a box that is perfect for it...haha
    i'm sorry, but i haven't been blogging for a bit, is jb a love interest for you?? :)

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    1. Ahhh! I'm so excited! I've wanted a Polaroid camera for the longest!

      JB is a guy that I work out with at the gym. We just recently started hanging out together.

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  5. Wow, that was a nice day. That would have been about the greatest day of my life. Oh well. I think I use to have great days like that, though I didn't appreciate them. Hopefully, I will have good days ahead of me. Sadly, I think the article on Kristen Stewart is right. You are just a superior, highly evolved member of the female species, which is why you are so logical. You need to be a leader in a new era of feminism and snap Kristen Stewart, and these other wayward chicks out of their funk.

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    1. Someone as awesome as you should always have good days!

      And, I think my slogan for this new wave of feminism would be, "Real chicks don't steal dicks" or something along the lines of that. Yeah! Rhyming!

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    2. Awww..oh stop it...I don't take praise very well.

      Just for coming up with "Real Chicks Don't Steal Dicks" you should become a millionaire, and then be invited on Oprah...which will then make you a billionaire.

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  6. So happy you had such a wonderful day. <3

    Also, I can't remember if I ever told you, but I got my postcard and I LOVE it! That was such a cool project, and you should do neat things like that more often.

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  7. I'd argue that the article is true, and if you don't believe it's true it's because it was poorly written. Of course there are exceptions to everything but this and similar studies show disturbing trends in how we as a species date.

    Another good example was how men and women when asked what they looked for in a potential significant other. Almost everyone said things like personality. In reality, the men favored younger women. The women favored men with money and power.

    I'm not saying everyone is like this. But when you have a large majority of individuals acting a certain way and has been replicated and observed outside of lab settings, I think we're onto something here.

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    1. And that just makes me really, really sad. Sad for humanity, and sad for everyone that believes that.

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