Dress code

I've been informed that all the salons in our chain will be complying with a black and white dress code by the first of January next year. I'm fine with black, but I'm too messy for white. Solid white anyway. Black and white prints are ok. This is kind of irritating because I fairly recently bought a bunch of new clothes, few of which are black or white. But I will probably be due for new ones by Jan anyway. I also fairly recently lost a black skirt I really liked. I have no idea what happened to it. None. The other reason this kind of sucks is it will make it harder to buy 99% of my clothes on clearance at 75% off or more. There is little left to pick from at that point so being limited to two colors is going to make that even harder. But I like the whole 60's mod look so the actual colors (non-colors) are ok.

I've been oof for a month and just started back up at work this week so I'm soft and mooshy and out of practice. So tonight I have a raging case of tendonitis in my right arm. I'm keeping heat on it. Hopefully it will be better by tomorrow.

Yay!

I finally got my stupid manicuring license. I'm going tomorrow to figure out a schedule and then I will start on Sunday. I already know I will be working Sundays because she said she doesn't have anyone that day. I used to work Sundays in Anchorage for the same reason. I'm a lone heathen. :P

I ordered a bento box from ebay for my lunches because the food court is closed for renovations and will be for a while. There is a Qdoba across the street but that would get expensive to eat there every day, plus I'd get really fat because even without any cheese or sour cream my burritos there are like 850 calories. I kind of doubt if I will get the bento before Sunday, but I guess it's possible. She said she upgraded my shipping to priority and it's coming from CA. I got a pink one with two tiers and it comes with an elastic and chopsticks, and I also got six little divider cups and two sauce bottles with fruit guys on them.

Of course after I ordered it I found out that there is a Daiso (Japanese "dollor" store chain) on 4th and Pike and they have a lot of that stuff for really cheap. Oh well at least when I can affor dto get more accessories I can go there. I still need some fake grass and animal shaped picks, and some of those tiny soy sauce bottles would be good. And maybe a gyoza press, since it's one of the few packable foods I like to eat cold and it's generally cheaper to make your own. I'm becoming more willing to try onigiri too, but not with any nori on it.

Seriously

toothpastefordinner.com

I can't believe

I have just wasted half an hour at lolcats.com

I made an account at Indie Public and it's going to serve as my main art website until I can get a halfway decent HTML editor.

Work Crappiness

I just checked this friday's paystub online and they have managed to fuck up once again. I was supposed to get all of my PTO paid out to me during my transfer. I had 54 hours. Half of it should have been on the paycheck for the last week I worked, and the rest on the next paycheck. Instead I got no PTO on my last week worked paycheck and 26 hours on the one after that. Not only that but it wasn't direct deposited even though my direct deposit info is still current so I had to wait for them to mail it to me. When I called the friday before last to have them mail it to me I told them to please make sure I got the rest of my PTO paid out on the next check. But they only paid out 18 hours. So that's 55$ I am not getting that I was supposed to get, AND it's not going to be direct deposited again, so I get to call again and wait over the weekend for it again. Yay.

I hate it here

I was walking back from downtown and accidentally went the wrong way. There was some scaffolding and there was a woman underneath it. She had a lot of bags. Her pants were halfway down and she seemed like she was trying to get up but she couldn't. She just kept rocking back and forth. Maybe she was just trying to go to the bathroom, I don't know but she did not look ok, and I was afraid that either someone had hurt her or that somebody would hurt her. I went to a pay phone and called 911. They said that they would send someone to check on her. :( I can't shake off things like that. It's going to be burned into my memory for days.

I bought a Snickers at Walgreens because I decided to get some cash and take the bus back. It was after I left Walgreens that I got disoriented and went the wrong way and saw her. I don't even want it now. I just feel sick. I have been feeling sick for days though. Looking at food or thinking about food makes me ill. I used to be able to always eat candy, even when I was sick. Nothing sounds good anymore.

Trader Joe's is neat

I can't believe how cheap they are!! The QFC charges so much more for the same stuff. It's a pretty small store though, so they don't have a huge selection, especially of the soy-dairy stuff. Like they have lots of brands and flavors of milk yogurt but only one brand and three flavors of soy yogurt.

But their in house brands are very inexpensive, even compared to conventional grocery store prices. Like they have fennel flavored toothpaste for 1.99. You can't even get aqua fresh for 1.99. I am used to paying 5-6$ for Tom's of Maine. I'd been using the peppermint Tom's just because it was carried at the less expensive stores for 3 or 4 something and I had to get used to the baking soda taste of it. I bought a pint sized bucket of pectin fruit slices for 1.99 too. Those things are so freaking expensive elsewhere and they are about my most favorite candy ever. They have pints of sorbet for 1.99 too. The TJ is about ten blocks uphill so at least I get good exercise going there. It's probably a good thing I felt kind of sick today or I'd have bought a lot more candy and junk. :p

I gave the thumbs up to a recent Gladys Knight song on Pandora and now they keep putting Christian music in my lineup. It's ok, kind of funny but I don't care as long as it's good music. I like Gladys Knight. Joel said he had some Christian death metal come up in his playlist once and he thumbs downed it as soon as he realized it. :p I grew up with it so it doesn't offend me or anything. Music is music and I believe in religious freedom and the first amendment and am very respectful of others' beliefs even if I don't share them. It seems like a lot of people who grow up with Christianity and then later reject it tend to be sort of bitter Christian haters but that hasn't been the case with me. It was more of a gradual realization and I still believe in many of the tenets of Christianity (true Christianity, not what many people have made it about), just not the salvation part. I won't even say that I absolutely would never go back to it, but I admit it would take something pretty major to convince me. I've just never really felt it in my heart so I couldn't keep going on like I did. It wasn't genuine.

Hello again

I'm going to make another valiant effort to stay current with this thing. Today Joel is at a Mariners game with his friend Joe, and I am going to walk up to Trader Joe's on Madison because I haven't been there yet, and I also have some painting to do. I have to finish up a painting for a swap and do a couple more for a consignment shop in Columbus. I feel queasy today. For a while here I cracked under the stress and ate tons of donuts and milk chocolate which of course made me sick, but I've been off that stuff for at least a week and I still feel crappy. I took my medication last night too. :(

Can't sleep... clowns will eat me

My friend Ken gave me a tshirt that said that for christmas a long time ago, and I left it at this guy's house and never went back for it. Sigh. Ken called me today from Bellevue where he lives to find out if it was raining in Seattle because he wanted to go downtown, but not if it was raining.

I am listening to my "station" on Pandora. Joel set it up for me on his account back in anchorage, but my connection was never fast enough to do streaming audio. We get super fast internet here so it's not a problem. My station plays lots of R&B, new wave 80's, Mtv rock, and classic country. Plus lots of stuff that I don't really know how to categorize. Eww. Just had to get rid of some Amy Winehouse. Don't need that stuck in my head all night. Now it's playing some 70's funk.

Right now I am looking at pictures of bento lunches on Flickr. I found this one person's account with hundreds of just bento pictures. I don't know why but I find them interesting. Food voyeurism.

I'm not dead

I'm just lazy. I have been here in Seattle for a month. Sadly, my fish Rainbow died before I left when a fungus outbreak threatened the whole tank, but Boo Boo came on the plane with me and is doing well inhis new tank. Joel got a tiny plecostamus and named him Emperor Suzuki. He is about three times as big as he was a month ago now. I have been waiting on my nail license to transfer so I have no started work yet. It was issues yesterday so hopefully I should get it in a week or so. Everything that could have gone wrong did, so it took a really long time.

A costume and bridal shop a few blocks down from here had a garage sale a few weeks ago, and they had a box of slightly scuffed dyeable satin shoes in various styles and sizes for 1$ a pair. I bought 7 pairs of them to paint. I just finished painting the fifth pair and I have them up on etsy for sale. I've been doing lots of painting since I have been here, cause that is really all there is to do. That and watch movies. I watched Factory Girl which wasn't very good last night, and I also watched Crumb a documentary about Bob Crumb the artist. It was good but it was also depressing.

I guess my ex is getting remarried. I have heard that regardless of how long it's been since the divorce that it's always a hard time when your ex remarries. They were right. I don't really know why because it's not like I have any feelings for him, it's just generally upsetting and depressing, but for no real good reason.