| It's been a long time.... |
[Tue, September 22nd, 2009 | 8:43pm] |
I shouldna left you...without a dope post to comment to.
Not much has happened with me...wait, that's not true
I brought her home today. She is so perfect. She has big brown eyes (just like me), and everyone who's seen her thinks she's the most gorgeous thing ever.
( I know you want pics of my baby-girl! )
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| New endeavor |
[Thu, April 23rd, 2009 | 4:20am] |
I've decided to try my hand at making jewelry to earn a few extra bucks on the side. I'm going to be selling on Etsy and it's been really fun researching vendors and coming up with ideas for the pieces I'm making--I do plan on eventually getting paid to do this after all.
For the last 3 weeks I've been making Excel spreadsheets outlining all the quantities and prices of the materials I need. Every piece I'm making has been planned down to the last jump ring. How cool is it to be able to apply what I've learned in school to a real-life situation? Very, very cool.
Today, I ordered all my supplies (and was finally able to fill out my 'purchases' spreadsheet, wooo!) and I also came up with an illustration to use for my banner logo on Etsy:
Isn't she fierce?? My Etsy name is MechanteFille ("mean girl") so I needed an appropriately sassy image. I think she fits the bill. This is hand drawn in Photoshop using my old-school drawing tablet (bought it in 2001 and it's still going strong!). The bird and flowers are free vector images from the net.
I cannot wait for my stuff to arrive. I'm already itching to get started!
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| HGTV ain't got nothing on me |
[Sat, February 28th, 2009 | 1:13pm] |
Last month I did some minor decorating in my room. I didn't have the energy to do anything after dealing with moving in here all by myself last August.
After my interesting trip to Naija-land, I figured I could use some cheering up so I hit up a bunch of stores.
I like to decorate, but it is work. Especially the shopping part. You'd think it'd be fun but after your fourth hour of walking through Ikea, your feet start to hurt--and then you realize you still need to hit up WalMart, Target, Big Lots, etc.
Anyway, I only picked up a few things. I've wanted shelves in my room since the dawn of time, so I got some of those. I got an actual night stand for my bed, relieving my fridge of night stand duty. I got some cool knicknacks and tchokes at Target and Walmart and a shitload of stuff from Ikea.
I took these pics of my room last month, but since I was avoiding the NIGERIA RECAP OF DOOM, I never posted them.
My room still looks kind a plain, but I'm okay with it. I feel like I reached the halfway point between my decorating proclivities and my desire to have enough money for survival.
( clicky, clicky )
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| I'm terrible, I know |
[Tue, February 24th, 2009 | 5:24pm] |
So...I know I've been neglecting the hell out of my journal. Our trip to Nigeria was bad. So bad that I couldn't think of a reasonable "I'm back" entry to write that didn't rehash all the shittacular shitty shit that happened. Essentially, I've been avoiding my LJ because I didn't want to write it.
*Sigh*
I think I'll settle for a quick recap of the highlights (lowlights?):
( I told you I hated going to Nigeria )
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| I hate group projects |
[Fri, December 5th, 2008 | 1:46am] |
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I have to do a 'mini fashion line' group project for my apparel evaluation class and the entire thing is one big clusterfuck. My group has been late turning in every assignment associated with this project and we never actually met together as a group outside of class until tonight--our presentation is tomorrow.
Long story short, the other two girls put together the presentation almost entirely by themselves without my help. Ordinarily, this would be fine with me, but the presentation looks like shit.
It was agreed from the jump that I would be the one to work on the design and printing of our project. A few weeks ago, I floated the idea of using a damask pattern background with grungy, urban designs to incorporate our idea of mixing urban with elegance for our garments.
They responded to that idea by taking the prettiest damask pattern they found on Google fucking Images and using that as the background for our project.
( This is the result )
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| Cyber Monday deal |
[Mon, December 1st, 2008 | 2:55pm] |
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I just picked up these boots from Shoebuy.com:
My sister bought some Ugg boots last year and they were literally like walking on clouds. So, I went ahead and bought some Ugg-style boots for myself.
Faux-Uggs they may be, but they still cost a pretty penny--$79.95 to be exact.
Luckily I had an awesome 25% off coupon which knocked the price down to $59.95. THEN I used google checkout to get an extra $5 off, further knocking the price down to $54.95 for a net savings of $25. That's a full tank of (sweet, cheap) gas.
Shoebuy also does free shipping (unfortunately, not free overnight shipping like Zappos)/free return shipping.
The 25% off promo code is EMLPRIVATESALE08. The website is currently advertising 15% off if you use the code HOLIDAY. My code is obviously much better.
If you have any other "Cyber Monday" deals you want to pick up, check out Slickdeals.net. It's a gold mine for coupons and sales.
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Now playing: Janelle Monae - Many Moons
http://foxytunes.com/artist/janelle+monae/track/many+moons
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| Note to LJ |
[Wed, November 26th, 2008 | 3:21am] |
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Dear LJ,
Please stop fucking around with my email notifications.
Signed,
Me.
P.S. Srsly. Stop it.
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| Crystal's brain is giving these motherfucking T-accounts the side-eye |
[Sat, November 22nd, 2008 | 3:49pm] |
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I HATE accounting. I hate it, I hate it, I fucking hate it. I have an exam tomorrow and I'm ready to drive off a fucking cliff.
Accounting is by far the worst class I've ever taken. My blind rage may be tainting my memory, but it's def. in the top 3 worst classes I've ever had.
The math makes NO sense to me. I'm far from being a math whiz, but I took calculus and still managed to scrape a B in that class, despite having a professor who made his bitterness about having to teach at a public college abundantly clear.
I've taken macro and micro economics, both which have numerous formulas to deal with and got a B and A in those classes respectively.
Math-based courses are NOT beyond my realm of understanding, but this accounting shit is impossible to comprehend! URGGHHHEAFAEFAEFAEWF!!!!!!
The worst part is that I have an A average in another class I'm currently taking called merchandising problems, which has tons of overlapping concepts with my accounting class.
Merchandising problems is nothing but spreadsheets, formulas and calculations, yet I haven't scored less than a 90% on any of the exams we've had so far. In contrast, I haven't scored higher than a 72% on any of my accounting exams, and each of those grades includes a ten to fifteen point curve.
I cannot take afford fail and take this class all over again, but this material is just impenetrable! I seriously feel like taking a drill to my temple right about now.
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| ~*Stardust*~ |
[Sat, November 22nd, 2008 | 2:46am] |
I just finished watching the movie Stardust and it was really good. I watched it on my computer, but I'm definitely going to buy the DVD (which is something I never do).
It was a very sweet and campy sort of movie, and it contains a lot of fantasy elements without taking itself too seriously. In other words, it doesn't fall in love with its own mythology, which is a trap a lot of fantasy stories fall into.
The only negative I see is that it's a bit long. In general, theatrical movies are like, 90 minutes. A decent quality DVD rip for a movie that long is about 700 megs in size. Stardust is currently taking up 1.35 gigs of my hard drive space because the movie is two solid hours and change.
However, the movie really sucks you in. Like I said, it's on the schmaltzy side, but without being cloying or saccharine. It's very action/adventur-y and the story and plot are pretty solid. Also, there are lots of CGI effects to ooh and aah over. Very fun. I liked it a lot. It's a shame it didn't do better at the box office.
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