On my future.

Yesterday when I was blogging, I got a text soon after my last post from one of my best friends in CT who asked me what moisturizer I used.
I told her which I used for day and also added that I use Olay Regenerist Night Recovery Cream, and a Lancome product as well.
She texts me "you're going to be an anti-aging obsessed housewife haha"
I seriously love this. She is probably 75% correct, but I am starting early. I won't be Kim Kardashianing botox before age 30.

Hey, I could do worse, right?

Miracle product - No more dark circles.

Behold, with shitty picture quality, the Garnier Nutritioniste Skin Renew Anti-Dark-Circle Roller. A miracle product.

I had something like this in high school and early years of college that was essential. For some reason, probably because I deemed it old and useless, I threw it away at some point cleaning out my makeup bag. It was a Clean and Clear product, and I think I just never used it, or settled into me looking tired and ridiculous like everyone else in college. I am not sure. Sometime last year at work, riding to lunch in my stoner friends Mercedes, I noticed he had the same thing. I don't know why he had womanly cosmetics in his car, but hell, if it makes your dark circles less evident...
I realized with the hellish job I was doing and weird hours I kept, I could really use some of that stuff too. I searched high and low, Target, Walmart, drug stores, etc. This Clean and Clear product still existed, according to the internet. Just not in Raleigh metro apparently. All I could find was old lady cream for undereyes. I just wanted something with the caffiene and cooling sensation. I already have solid eye cream, olay regenerist, and moisturizers (preventative measures y'all). I did not need like, Hydrolyze or Hydroxatone, or the drugstore equivalent.

Enter, the Garnier roller thing. Had to get it. I used it this morning, exactly what I wanted and needed. It does have a bit of makeup tone in it, but the ball on the top is cold metal, and caffiene is one of the listed ingredients. With me possibly getting less rest sometime soon, this will be a staple. Thank you, Garnier for making my life easier. You have my seal of approval.

When you feel like you're watching your life on TV.

This past weekend I went to Boone/Blowing Rock to attend a Life Celebration service for the brother of one of my best friends. It was really an amazing ceremony and gathering, the perfect way for family and friends to remember a person. In such a beautiful place as well.
Growing up in Connecticut, I lived in a place surrounded by landforms. Everywhere you looked on the horizon was a taller hill or mountain. (Yet I was about an hour or a little more from NYC) I believe it is technically the foothills of the Berkshire ranges, but I could be very wrong. Anyways, driving on the highway, I noticed an increased presence of mountains and was just really taken aback. I really haven't seen more than flat land in about 4 years. I think the overall feeling of the week had me very detached, and when I saw something familiar I was very moved by it.


(via BlackBerry)

After the ceremony, I met some of my friend's high school friends. I always like meeting people's friends from high school if I only knew them from college, and hearing like names of the people who were hot or thought they were soooooo cool back in the day. I hope someday to introduce the couple of remaining northerners I keep in touch with to my southern friends. I think we would all get along.

The whole feeling of watching my life on tv really occurred when a local friend took us to the party of one of his friends in a house near downtown. I feel like we all walked in and were totally puzzled, confused, detached from that situation. It really reminded me of this one time in Greenville where I went to a similar party with LWJ and it was like that Stealer's Wheel song, "clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with you." You're there, but you're separate from the situation. There were Marine and German flags all over the house, which really took me back to another part of my life as well, one that I don't like visiting. Overall it was just strange. We were all there, but at the same time, really just observers.

Back in Raleigh now, the weekend made me really want to go home again. I also was talking to one of my friends from home that I have known since preschool. She was saying there was a bar with my last name that they all frequent. I think that is a sign more than any that I should probably take some time soon to head back home. I don't think I could do cold weather again, living in a place where you have to start your car 30 mins before you leave home, but I could use a trip up there. I need my fill of landforms and elevation for the next few years.

VOW - Talking Heads

Talking Heads - "Road to Nowhere"

I just like this song, and the video is kind of crazy. Well it's cool minus that weird choir they have. That's odd. They could have done without that visual.

When adulthood rudely hits you in the face.

I think I am there.

Moments from the weekend

This weekend was Tom Petty, aka, one of the best days of the year. This comes in line with Christmas, and I would say also my birthday. Although I am not a lover of celebrating my age or making a day all about me...my birthday is just a cool day, a conversation starter at many a time in my life. I will leave it at that. I would pretty much hate the actual "birthday" if it was not that day. Someday maybe I will tell all of you about my 23rd birthday, and how it was finally exactly the way I wanted to spend a birthday, but until then, I will just share with you some retarded moments from the weekend. In quote form. (attributed to several sources)

"Actually I would rather you contact my secret boyfriend to meet you in a sketchy dark alley to get the money, don't give me your check in person."

"Ok that one is actually in a joutfit."
"It's two different shades of jean..."
"A joutfit isn't meant to match!"

On the man waving us into the parking spot, "I think Rick Ross wants us to move forward."

"Has anyone ever told you you look like David Crosby?"

"You look like a bear ravaging that cooler in the trunk of the car"

"Will trade psychedelic art for tickets."

"I didn't respond because my phone literally died after you finished text raping it."
(Why my friends should have BlackBerrys)

"Shit would be raw."

Someday I will probably have some photos of this event to share, when they are sent to me. I need to start working on taking my own pictures! Either way, I laughed to tears at most of these. I love these girls.

On my undergrad

So let me make this clear, I really love the place I chose for my undergraduate education. It's really just an amazing school, and I could not have asked for a better overall college life. I have now moved on to an all women's college for my further edu, but I will never really associate myself with that institution past my resume. Besides the blatant sticker on a car window that anyone around here could spot for a mile away. I really love football, our team, going to games, and tailgating. But I just can't take it too seriously. If we do well, its amazing, if we do not. Meh, there's next year. I am much more passionate about the New York Giants, but I really just don't want to blog about that. There are some things you can't knock that start when you're two.

Anyways I was talking to a friend today, and this made me laugh really hard. I was debating going to the large public university library tonight to get some work done, and realized the team has a Thursday night football game...

M: I decided not to go to the lib tonight, I would feel like an old loser. We have a football game, and like its a Thursday, and I just shouldn't go. I'm not prepared to feel that old yet.
J: Meg, the only losers there will be the ones on the field wearing red jerseys.

(die)

i still have it.

I am really still good at studying. Check out my index cards.