Compliments
Posted at 06:38 PM

I have a hard time taking compliments.  Back when I was little and growing up, my parents never really encouraged or complimented me in anything.  They would let me know when I wasn't doing a good job, but never say a word when I was.  It was to be expected that I be perfect and wonderful at everything I do the first time.  That's what a 'good' kid would do.  So I grew up taking criticism and verbal lashings like a champ, while compliments would just baffle and fluster me.

So when I walked into studio today to drop off my stuff from another class and a classmate makes the comment,

"Damn Cindy, you have such perfect legs. I want them!"

I immediately thought "Whose legs? Mine are too curvy; thighs are a bit flabby; they've gotten tanned all wrong from falling asleep at the beach with one leg crossed over the other; I've got too many scars on my knees from roller blading, biking, climbing trees...
(And really its the magically-comfortable-hide-all-that-looks-bad-and-make-your-butt-look-great-shorts that I'm wearing that's really doing the work)."

So I dropped my stuff off, and, as I stepped outside the building, took a long, hard look at my legs.  I still don't see why she said they were great, but hey, at least one person in the world thinks I have great legs!

And I walked home with a little more spirit in my step.

Compliments are such great things to give!

Contents of my Purse
Posted at 08:11 PM

So I was emptying out my purse today because the strap broke (cry). My purse contains:

A wad of old reciepts (crumpled)

A wad of carefully folded reciepts

A plastic Wendy's spoon with the plastic wrap packaging

A set of 6 stardust gelly roll pens

A .8mm felt tip black pen

A mechanical pencil (green)

A mechanical pencil (green with the clip at the end broken off)

A small plastic baggie with the plastic replacable ends of my tan strappy heels

Bath & Body works Pearberry antibacterial hand sanitizer (the kind that makes your hands soft, not the ones with the blue dots in them)

Two sharpies (orange and green)

A Staedtler .1mm black pen

Hot pink saftey scissors

Pink ipod mini

Ipod Charger

Old piece of chocolate

A thin yellow marker

Sparkly hair pin

Non-sparkly hair clip

Small brown notebook from Barcelona

Set of 4 faber-castell black pens (varied thicknesses)

A double-sided black prismacolor marker

An old dried up piece of grass. From Italy. (really!)

Wallet

Cellphone

Plastic rhinestones that fell off my cellphone

Keys

Fall Break: Disney!
Posted at 12:33 AM

More pictures to come!

drained.
Posted at 06:17 PM

Since pulling that all nighter Thursday for my final review for project 2 on Friday, my sleeping pattern has been all screwed up.  I'll be sleepy but not tired, or tired but not sleepy.  The days drift into one another, and though the colors of autumn are coming in brightly and vibrantly, I see them with the saturation decreased by about 25%.

Listening to depressing songs on the other hand, does not help. So I felt the need to do a little shopping to lift my spirits... and boy did I do some shopping. I got a light khaki colored corduroy jacket with one large button in the front, and then went to get some brown/olive green pants to go with it, but found a pair of nice light khaki colored pants on sale for $15 so I decided to get that instead.  Later on, my friend Lynn, her friend Ohmar, and I went down to Atlantic Station to go homecoming dress shopping for Lynn.  By the time the stores closed, Lynn had talked me into going to homecoming for a sorority I'm not even in, AND buying a pricey dress for it.

I spent so much in one day Visa called me to report some 'suspicious' activity on my account.

Visa rep: Did you spend $30 at this gas station, m'am?
Me: Yes.
Visa rep: Did you go to Wet seal today?
Me: Yep.
Visa rep: Did you go to Old Navy too?
Me: Mmhmm.
Visa rep: Did you buy a lot at Dillards?
Me: Yes, but I only bought one thing there.
Visa rep: Looks like you've been doing a lot of shopping.
Me: Yep. But I deserved it, I swear!

Problem is, I'm not sure if I deserve this dress.  I'm probably only going to wear it like twice, and it's $107.  Oh, but it's so worth the money! It's a Jessica Mcclintock dress (the same lady who designed my prom dress too) and it's high quality satin and tulle, and it's well made, it holds itself up well, and the curves fall right at the seams.  The price is justified.  Why I have to have it, isn't.

To keep or not to keep?

Norah Jones - The Prettiest Thing

Eat Your Veggies!
Posted at 01:55 PM

I'm being bad today, and I think I'm going to skip my 3 hour visual arts studio and like, sleep. Because I feel sickly and blaargh.
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I've consumed nothing but fast food and fried/greasy food the last two weeks.  I can't remember the last time I had something green and healthy.

Once, when I was little, I told my mother, "When I grow up and leave home, I'll never eat yucky vegetables ever again! And you can't do anything about it!"

My mother looked at me, laughed, and said "Ha, you'll die."
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I think I'm dying :(