All About Me: Odds and Ends

I’m supposed to be writing my paper for my Mexican American Studies class. Seeing as it’s 65% of my grade, I should be focused, but I’m not. While I am typing this, I am also uploading pictures from my camera and listening to Amy Winehouse and her music leads to deep thought for me, but not about gender stereotypes and race relations, which is what my paper is supposed to be about. I should probably change that…..

It’s almost Holiday season. My shopping is normally almost done by now, but I haven’t even started. I am having a hard time finding any of my friends that I truly want to buy presents for. How sad is it that I would find more joy buying presents for people that I’ve never met, namely blog friends, and friends that I’ve reconnected with on Facebook, than friends that I see every day or at least twice a month? Maybe I’m being perverse, but I just don’t care too much anymore. I kinda decided I’m only buying practical presents for people that need them. I am not contributing to anyone else’s gluttony…well, unless I find out that someone I wasn’t intending to buy a present for buys me one. I’ve had that happen to me too many times and I refuse to be the one making someone else feel dumb for putting the time and effort into buying a present and then receiving that “Oh shit!” look that clearly conveys they didn’t buy you anything.

I wanted to blog about my trip to Vegas with Paul. I keep trying to wait until I’m in a better mood but “permanently bitchy” seems to be a constant state of mind, so I will probably just write it and pray he doesn’t read it because he gets his feelings hurt *entirely* too easily and some feeling hurting is going to occur if I write about that trip.

Sorry for the suck fest. I will try to be more cheerful in my next entry. As usual, there’s something else going on and, as usual, I don’t know how to constructively process it. I think that’s a life skill your parents are supposed to teach you but, seeing as I don’t think they know how to do it themselves, I might be outta gas….

State of the Union: Depressingly cheerless
Listening to: When Doves Cry by Prince

Posted: 1:49 PM, Sun 15 Nov 2009 in All About Me

Edited: January 25th, 2010

All About Me: Suckage

I am in a rut. I get up. I go to school. I go to work. I go home and do homework. I go to bed. I get up. I go to school. You know how it goes. On weekends, all I want to do is sleep. If I didn’t have friends that would beat me stupid if I didn’t go to their parties and events, I probably wouldn’t go anywhere at all. Life has no color. No texture. No scent.

I was depressed when I started dating my ex. I will freely admit it now. It was bad. Now? Now I’m in a free-fall. I cry. I eat. I eat some more. I don’t cry for him. He isn’t worth it. I cry because I’ve tasted of life and it isn’t sweet anymore.

State of the Union: Sad
Listening to: Not a thing

Posted: 5:48 PM, Thu 5 Nov 2009 in All About Me

Edited: January 25th, 2010

All About Me: Odds and Ends

I’m supposed to be writing my paper for my Mexican American Studies class. Seeing as it’s 65% of my grade, I should be focused, but I’m not. While I am typing this, I am also uploading pictures from my camera and listening to Amy Winehouse and her music leads to deep thought for me, but not about gender stereotypes and race relations, which is what my paper is supposed to be about. I should probably change that…..

It’s almost Holiday season. My shopping is normally almost done by now, but I haven’t even started. I am having a hard time finding any of my friends that I truly want to buy presents for. How sad is it that I would find more joy buying presents for people that I’ve never met, namely blog friends, and friends that I’ve reconnected with on Facebook, than friends that I see every day or at least twice a month? Maybe I’m being perverse, but I just don’t care too much anymore. I kinda decided I’m only buying practical presents for people that need them. I am not contributing to anyone else’s gluttony…well, unless I find out that someone I wasn’t intending to buy a present for buys me one. I’ve had that happen to me too many times and I refuse to be the one making someone else feel dumb for putting the time and effort into buying a present and then receiving that “Oh shit!” look that clearly conveys they didn’t buy you anything.

I wanted to blog about my trip to Vegas with Paul. I keep trying to wait until I’m in a better mood but “permanently bitchy” seems to be a constant state of mind, so I will probably just write it and pray he doesn’t read it because he gets his feelings hurt *entirely* too easily and some feeling hurting is going to occur if I write about that trip.

Sorry for the suck fest. I will try to be more cheerful in my next entry. As usual, there’s something else going on and, as usual, I don’t know how to constructively process it. I think that’s a life skill your parents are supposed to teach you but, seeing as I don’t think they know how to do it themselves, I might be outta gas….

State of the Union: Depressingly cheerless
Listening to: When Doves Cry by Prince
Posted: 1:49 PM, Sun 15 Nov 2009 in All About Me

Edited: November 15th, 2009

All About Me: Suckage

I am in a rut. I get up. I go to school. I go to work. I go home and do homework. I go to bed. I get up. I go to school. You know how it goes. On weekends, all I want to do is sleep. If I didn’t have friends that would beat me stupid if I didn’t go to their parties and events, I probably wouldn’t go anywhere at all. Life has no color. No texture. No scent.

I was depressed when I started dating my ex. I will freely admit it now. It was bad. Now? Now I’m in a free-fall. I cry. I eat. I eat some more. I don’t cry for him. He isn’t worth it. I cry because I’ve tasted of life and it isn’t sweet anymore.

State of the Union: Sad
Listening to: Not a thing
Posted: 5:48 PM, Thu 5 Nov 2009 in All About Me

Edited: November 10th, 2009

All About Me: New Blog

So, I set up camp at the new blog site. I can hear you snickering and asking “which one?” I know we’ve had 50,000,000 of them. I’m laughing right along with you. I love you guys enough to migrate to the new site. That and the fact that it is a pain in the butt to flip from site to site trying to keep up with everyone, and I hate RSS feeds, and there is the fact that I’m lazy. I hope I see all of you over there once this place goes ker-plooey.

I’m totally unoriginal, so you can find me at: http://slayerbarbie.efx3.com. Send me a line with your address thingy and I’ll make sure to add you because I don’t want to lose contact with anyone when this place goes up in a puff of dust.

I am glad that, in a spurt of anger at EFX after an extended downtime (damn you, spammers!), I manually transferred all my blog posts to Blogger. At the time, I thought I was being passive-aggressive, but it made it that much easier to transfer all of them to the new site. I just clicked two buttons and my whole blog was transferred in less than five seconds.

I don’t know how to do many techy things, but I love it when someone dumbs it down so much that even *I* can do it…..

State of the Union: Optimistic
Listening to: Me and Mr. Jones by Amy Winehouse

Edited: June 1st, 2009

All About Me: New Blog

So, I set up camp at the new blog site. I can hear you snickering and asking “which one?” I know we’ve had 50,000,000 of them. I’m laughing right along with you. I love you guys enough to migrate to the new site. That and the fact that it is a pain in the butt to flip from site to site trying to keep up with everyone, and I hate RSS feeds, and there is the fact that I’m lazy. I hope I see all of you over there once this place goes ker-plooey.

I’m totally unoriginal, so you can find me at: http://slayerbarbie.efx3.com.

I am glad that, in a spurt of anger at EFX after an extended downtime (damn you, spammers!), I manually transferred all my blog posts to Blogger. At the time, I thought I was being passive-aggressive, but it made it that much easier to transfer all of them to the new site. I just clicked two buttons and my whole blog was transferred in less than five seconds.

I don’t know how to do many techie things, but I love it when someone dumbs it down so much that even *I* can do it…..

State of the Union: Optimistic
Listening to: Me and Mr. Jones by Amy Winehouse

Edited: March 16th, 2009

All About Me: The BBC Thinks Very Poorly of Us

I stole this from Amy’s BookFace page and was outraged.

The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.

Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read.
2) Tally your total at the bottom.
3) Tag others and pass it on.

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen (x)
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien (x)
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte (x)
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee (x)
6 The Bible (x )
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte (x)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell (x)
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens (x)
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott (x)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy (x)
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller (x)
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (x)
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier (x)
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien (x)
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger (x)
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot (x)
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell (x)
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald (x)
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens (x)
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy (x)
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams (x)
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky (x)
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck (x)
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll (x)
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame (x)
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy (x)
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens (x)
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis (x)
34 Emma – Jane Austen (x)
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen (x)
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis (x)
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini (x)
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden (x)
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne (x)
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell (x)
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown (x)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (x)
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery (x)
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood (x)
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding (x)
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan (x)
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen (x)
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens (x)
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley (x)
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (x)
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck (x)
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas (x)
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac (x)
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy (x)
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding (x)
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville (x)
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens(x)
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker (x)
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett (x)
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce (x)
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath (x)
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray (x)
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens (x)
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker (x)
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro (x)
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert (x)
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White (x)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom (x)
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (x)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad (x)
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery (x)
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams (x)
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas (x)
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare (x)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl (x)
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo (x)

72 out of 100. In your face, BBC!! I’m not even counting all the movie versions I watched as well. I am totally kvelling. Yes, I am a nerd. I will admit it….

State of the Union: Smugly Superior (Only six? pssssh!)
Listening to: Horizon by Rachel Yamagata

Edited: March 16th, 2009

All About Me: An Elantra? You Stole My Elantra?!?!?!?!

In case you haven’t seen my My Space, Facebook, or Twitter page, my car got stolen on Friday night. Not broken into. Stolen. My car. Mine. My Hyundai Elantra. It’s not like I drive a Mercedes or a Lexus or anything. I have a beater Elantra with 15 more payments on it. My car got stolen from downtown Austin. From a parking garage. I could understand if it was parked on the street or in some shady alley, but a parking garage?!??! Seriously?

I was downtown celebrating Julie’s birthday. We went to Cork and Co. Yes, I was in a wine bar. No worries, though, because you know I didn’t drink any of that crap. Everyone kept laughing because I kept declining glasses saying,” No thanks, I don’t like moldy grapes.” I had two glasses of champagne. Then we went to Qua where the asshole doorguy wouldn’t let my friend Vanessa in. He kept saying that she was violating the dress code (she was wearing jeans, a black dress shirt, high heel sandals, and a gray jacket) but he would never come out and say what the violation was. Basically, he was discriminating against her because she’s a bigger gal, but he didn’t want to say it because he didn’t want to get sued. Julie was livid and went off on him because we had just celebrated Vanessa’s birthday like two weeks before there and she was wearing the same outfit she wore that night.

We ended up at Grüv. I only had one gin and tonic and a woo woo shot. I also got felt up on the cool by this hot redhead in the bathroom, but that’s typical. We ended up in the V.I.P. section dancing and being stupid. Some black dude comes up where Julie and I are dancing, takes my hand and then says,” Are you guys up for fucking?” *screech* Say wha? I jerked my hand back and said,”Absolutely not.” Then the asshole had the nerve to get mad and say, “Well, I wasn’t really talking about you since you’re overweight.” Scuze me, honey, but seeing as you were looking me in the eye and holding my fucking hand, who the hell else could you possibly be talking to? Me, being the evil bitch I am, just laughed and told him,” I’m smaller than the bitch you walked in here with.” (Judging by the look on his face, it *had* to be his sister or his first cousin. He looked like he wanted to Ike Turner me). I looked him up and down and told him I don’t like dark meat and I gave up ugly boys when I turned 25. He slunk off like the maggot he is. Then, as we’re leaving, I see him talking to some coked out blond chick with the darkest roots ever and the ugliest outfit in creation. I know he saw me laughing at him because I did it ALL in his face.

We were walking through downtown and passed this girl that had a guy in front of her and a guy behind and I stopped dead in my tracks when I heard him say,”Maybe we can get some double penetration action.” That girl looked like she was a little high, but completely turned on by the idea. I bet her ass is mighty sore today. We went to Vanessa’s SUV and then she took me to go to my car, except my car wasn’t there. We kept driving up and down the whole garage and it wasn’t there. We retraced my steps that night and she and Julie insisted on checking all the neighboring garages, but I know me. I’m a creature of habit. I park my car in the same garage every time I go out. I just assumed it got towed or something. I called the tow company like four times. It didn’t even dawn on me until 8 a.m. the following morning that someone actually stole my car. Like I said, I drive an Elantra. Who would honestly steal my car?

My mom flipped out. My dad was shocked like me. An ELANTRA, People! The police came to file a report (that officer was totally hot!!!!!) and, when I told him what kind of car I had, even *he* rolled his eyes and said I’d get my car back eventually. He thinks some teenage asswipes are joy riding in it and it’ll turn up. I ended up having to get a rental car that guzzles gas and I am just not happy. One of the belly dancing skirts my nana made me for Hanukkah was in my trunk and my iPod was hooked up to my stereo. I was going to get an iPod touch anyway, so I’m not mad about that, but I’m PISSED because my Britney Spears remix cd was in the cd player and I had to practically give away my first born to get one of my deejay friends to make it for me, so I’m livid about that. Everyone has remarked on how not angry I am about this. I don’t know. I should be mad, but I feel strangely detached. I’m more pissed off about my c.d.

If your cousin stole my car, please tell him to leave it on the side of the highway so the popos can get it and I can turn this rental car in. He can keep the stereo and the iPod, but tell your cousin that he’d better return my belly dance skirt and he’d *definitely* better return my c.d. or else I’m going to break his fucking face.

State of the Union: Flabbergasted (A flipping ELANTRA)
Listening to: If You Seek Amy by Britney Spears

Edited: February 27th, 2009

All About Me: Furze

You ever want to just go out and be reckless and irresponsible? That’s how I felt. That’s what I was prepared to do. For many, many years, that’s how I lived. I partied seven days a week from dusk til dawn and managed to work my family, my friends, and my studies in around going out, mingling, and drinking with a bar full of strangers. I wanted to go out? Ask me what night of the week it was and I could tell you where the happening spot was. I felt like waking up in another city, state, or country? Bon Voyage. I had my passport at the ready and I was off. I see a guy I liked? All it took was one look and a toss of red hair and I would be making out with him before the night was over.

Everywhere I went, there was someone I knew, some adventure waiting to happen, some wild story that I knew I would be telling the next day. I look back on that time and it was a wild, hazy, beautiful mess.That’s the life that I retreat to when things get rough, when they don’t go my way, when everything sucks, basically.

Work is the same. School is the same. My friends are the same. Everything is the same, except me. I don’t want to be here. I force myself to stay here. I force myself to be responsible and to plod on. I know what my problem is. It’s rapidly approaching the one year anniversary of the worst month of my life. I know why I feel sad. I know why I cry. I know why I want to crawl out of my own skin.

Nothing is going right and I just hate my life right about now. There are isolated incidences of great merriment, but everything just sucks for the most part. I know that it’s me that’s making everything worse than what it is. I know that it’s psychological and can be tied in with my subconscious mind remembering that, at this time last year, my whole world was falling apart. I know there are people out there that have it way worse than me. I shouldn’t be sitting here crying because there are people out there that really have something to cry about.

Death is a natural part of life. I get that. You want the people that you love to not be in pain anymore. I get that. I just wish that it didn’t hurt so badly and I wish that it didn’t mean that I would have to be left behind without those that I love. I don’t know which one of them I’m crying for more. I just know that I’m crying and I can’t stop.

Edited: February 27th, 2009

All About Me: Oh Dear

Batten down the hatches, boys. I feel a bout of self-destruct coming on…..

Edited: February 27th, 2009