Got what I wanted for Christmas!
Thanks to my wonderful John for perfume-searching with me at Sephora.
Typically, I tend to stick with the non-threatening likes of Bath & Body Works or Victoria’s Secret scents. I figured at 24 years old, it was time for me to find my signature perfume.
With my picky and literary nature, I wanted a scent that not only smelled damned GOOD but one that reflected my damned personality. After a few nauseating trips & whiffs to the store (my limit is about 4 scents a day), I finally came across the Kenzo Amour… light, floral, with a musky hint of vanilla. Feminine, sweet, but also subtly alluring. I was sold.
Thank you corporate America for yet another successful product I can break the bank to purchase!
Someone needs to explain this to me.
How is it possible for a container of water to grow an ice shark fin?
Here is the container with the water frozen into ice:
Here is the ice shark fin:
How is that possible?!?!
Now I know water can expand when it is frozen but how is it expanding in just 1 spot on the surface of the water?
Someone explain this to me!
Here’s another view since it is hard to see because it is an ice fin on the surface of ice:
If I figure this out I might be able to market this as shaved ice shark fin. Shark fin soup is expensive so maybe this could be profitable too… maybe not. But if anyone has any idea how this is possible please let me know.
It’s a little late for Thanksgiving but it’s never too late to give Thanks.
2007 has been a crazy year but there is still a lot to be thankful for.
First and foremost I have my family and friends to be thankful for. They have shaped my life and are responsible for most of what I have become. Thus, if you have a problem with me or if you don’t like my website, you should blame them! HA! I kid. I can imagine life without them and it’s not any fun. My family and friends bring real meaning to my life and for that I can never be thankful enough.
(Photo from ((brian))’s flickr photos)
Now a new year is upon us and in order to be really appreciative of the previous year that we have been so fortunate to live, despite all the financial troubles I have been having, I feel that we must seek improvement. Unfortunately improvements don’t happen over night. Even more unfortunate is that it is sometimes easier to start from scratch than it is to improve on what is already there.
Thus, I have decided to proclaim 2007 as: The Year I Learned Much From My Many Failures.
[side note: Just in case anyone is wondering about the whole proclaiming of a year thing... I like to name my years in accordance with what I want to do with my life. It's normally a self improvement goal but I reserve the right to make any goal I wish. It's like chapters in a book. This way there is always an expectation at the beginning of the year. Also like a book, what actually goes on in the chapter may be a disappointment compared to the title of the chapter. In which case I also reserve the right to change the title of my year.]
With 2007 behind me, 2008 shall be: The Year I Start Over.
It’s time to put yesterday behind us.
I figure that much of what I have been doing I have been doing wrong.
Just as my Tae Kwon Do Master said back in the day when I was practicing Tae Kwon Do,
“Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.”
In other words, if we’re practicing the wrong thing we are just becoming better at doing things wrong.
So, I am going back to learning the basics. Well I guess I’m not going back to learn them since I never learned the basics to start. Instead, I will enroll myself in learning the basics. What better time to step back than after a year of failure. It’s kind of like flunking in school. That’s a sad thought. But I will not be discouraged. For years I have been trying to improve myself without learning the proper basics. It’s like trying to grow a mighty redwood in a tiny pot. You don’t get too far.
2008: Build a Proper Foundation
Hi everyone,
For those of you who support my freelance writing interest, I just wanted to share the latest article I wrote (actually available online!):
http://www.nguoi-viet.com/absolutenm/anmviewer.asp?a=70469&z=11
So far, this is the 4th article I’ve written, but is the first one for a newspaper instead of a magazine article.
Best,
Pauline
I had a crazy dream the other day.
I dreamed I was driving my car and for some reason I had to pull over. I think it was to get the mail (I live in one of those communities where everyone’s mail is in one spot on a random street). When I got back into my car to drive off my headlights weren’t on. I thought I could make it home but I couldn’t see anything. I leaned forward to try to focus on an area that I knew should have something but I saw nothing. It was pitch black. Then I started to roll back but the brakes weren’t strong enough to stop the car. I guess I was on a hill because the car was slowly slipping. I figured I could restart the car but when i turned it off the car wouldn’t restart and the rolling got worse. I was rolling back faster and faster. Soon enough I had lost control while I tried to steer my car to a safe area. However, I panicked and couldn’t control the car nor find a safe area. It was a residential area and I didn’t want to drive the car into someone’s driveway and possibly through their garage. I spun the car forward and back and all over the place but nothing worked. I was keeping the car from going through a house but I couldn’t get control of it.
When I awoke, I thought it was strange. It’s not the first time I had a dream about being in a troublesome predicament with my car. I figure it’s because I feel like I’ve lost control of my life and it’s my brains way of trying to think it through. Yet, no answers present themselves. Then a friend told me something the other day that was quite relieving.
“Life is chaotic and we can’t control chaos.”
I can’t stop my car from rolling but I can steer it where I want it to go. I couldn’t fight the chaos. Knowing this I hope I’ll be able to keep a clam head and steer clear of obstacles. If I can’t stop the car, then I’ll just keep driving. She’s gotta run out of gas sometime. The tough times will too.
