FALLing into the season, or what I like to call dresses with cardigans season

Today I bought my brother a 20 dollar Star Wars costume. TWENTY DOLLARS! I know what you are thinking... I'm RICH. Like buying fancy (fancy) bread- rich, filling my car with premium- rich, eating a full three meals kind of rich. What can I say, I'm living the easy life now a days. Or... Not.

Anyway, with adjusting to being employed and balancing all the responsibilities I don't actually have, I've made some observations about life.

Why is it that WHAT I want never matches WHEN I want it?

I found a purple bowtie. Four years ago I scoured the city of Chicago for a purple bowtie for my roommate. Today, there it was just mocking me in my random need to spend money. A few months ago every store had a mustard yellow cardigan, it was like they sold no other color sweater than this mustard sweater. This week I thought it would a nice addition to my current dress collection and could not find mustard sweater anywhere!
Oh and hey brain, do what I want. Need to sleep the whole night? Brain says, "lets get up at 3AM." Need to stay up til 7AM brain shuts down... like the US government.

Back to the topic at hand... if there is any such thing. A fashion observation from someone who is not fashionable.
Can we stop or at least give it a rest on the knee high boots.
You know who made knee/thigh high boots really popular? Prostitutes.
And also you don't ride horses, stop wearing riding boots.

I kid (kind of) but when did boots become the signal for fall. Can't we make... any other fashion thing fall. The colors, scarves, cable knitting OR what I really prefer football and drinking.

CHARTS!

Is this funny or weird?
I want sharing!
PHAM

The Great Time Suck

With all this extra free time that suddenly appeared in my life, I have been analyzing the amount of time I spend doing absolutely nothing all. Let me tell you, it is A LOT. And I have no excuses for it anymore because school is done, no social life, and currently my favorite hobby is laying in bed with a stack of books. Which is what I would tell people if they ask, because my real favorite hobby is being on my old Mac looking for entertaining things on the internet.

So some things about me that I've noticed. 

The amount of status updates that I post in no way reflect the actual amount of time I spend on FB. 

I spend extraordinarily more time on my own profile than looking at anyone else's.

The people who contact me most on FB are the same 3-5 people I contact most in real life.

I get way more LIKES on posts if they involve drinking.

But in good news (or sad news), I watch a lot Youtube videos. And I don't mean funny cat playing the piano or sneezing panda videos. Though they are really entertaining. But videos that are educational in humorous ways, or mini movies in 9 minutes, and a shockingly large amount of makeup tutorials. It helps me live vicariously through other humans who feel the need to project their lives on the internet.

CHART time!

What do normal gainfully employed people do with all their free time? I really want to know.

I want sharing!

Pham

That is NOT okay, cupid.

So this year I've had many new things in life happen. One of them being internet dating. Now I did not set this up, a one Kelly Pierce created a profile for me on OKCupid and "challenged" me to go out on 3 (or 12) dates with guys from this site. Well fast forward 10 whole days later, I needed to delete this dating profile partly because it gave me anxiety (about having my picture potentially go into spankbank vaults) but mostly because guys that were contacting me were creeps.

Things I learned from my week of internet dating:
1) Apparently people (meaning men) lower their standards... for everything.
From using capital letters and punctuation in messaging a stranger to not even asking for my name before asking me out.

2) "you hott" is an acceptable greeting to a stranger when internet dating.
It's not.

3) Men put no effort into what their photo says about them
(Maybe that angle is not the BEST angle for your... face)

4) You will be contacted mostly by your looks.
I had a few guys contact me (with three word messages) and their profiles stated things like "I don't read", "homosexuals should not have the right to get married", "I want my children to be the same race"  Ummmm, Hi have you seen my face? Did you even read my profile? We agree on nothing in every FUNDAMENTAL value and expectations for life.

CHARTS!

Needless to say, internet dating was very weird and awkward and not in a good way.

Will someone let me know if you are still reading this? Because I want sharing!
Pham

You're getting to that age...

My dad casually mentioned for the first time, that I need to get married. Now its probably not so surprising as I am 27, single, and just awesome but it came as a surprise because I have never given any indication that I wanted to get married, settle down any time soon. But then he followed up that statement with "I need someone to help me around the house." Phew, thanks dad. You want me to get married not because you are worried that I will live a sad life alone (forever) but because you really just need a son (one that is fully grown, Sorry Ben).
Not getting into the aspects that I'm still pretty young, in school, and lived a nomadic life the last few years, I still feel like my life has places to go before I "settle down." And I would like a regular paycheck before being responsible for.... well anything in life.

PLUS relationships make people crazy. Take any rational girl on any normal day, put them in a relationship and for some reason, maybe its a pheromones, that girl will do, say, act something crazy. Think about it. Really think about it. You know its true.

So let me know what you think. Please. Like I said in my last post, I need friends.

Chart Time!

I want sharing!

Pham

GREETINGS (to my five friends)!
So I'm excellent at a lot of things. (Just reread my post about the many different talents that I have) But I am really sucky at keeping a blog. But so are the 5 blogs that I read so I don't feel soo bad.

Moving on.

As nursing school has taken over my life and I spend most of my time with classmate, I've noticed that I STILL have no actual friends in this city. Now before you start protesting (or agreeing), I want to say I am friendly with my classmates, social like a real human being, I don't have anyone that I would actually call up say... when I'm drunk (looking mostly at you Kara, my favorite person to call drunk, be honored) or anyone I would really go get a drink with.

So at this point you may be thinking, "Wow Jen, you are just an antisocial, super nerdy, almost cute short little asian." Uhhhh, True. No arguments. I forget where I'm going with this...

Right... Oh my ability to socialize is greatly hampered by my lack of funds. Its close to two years now that I haven't had a job (the first time since I was 16) So really its not my fault... for choosing not to work... when I could... whatever.

CHART TIME!

Well that is the post for this time... see you next year!

I'm awkward. You're awkward. Difference is that I care slightly less.

As I almost pat myself on the back for being the smartest person in my classes this semester, I remind myself that I am currently writing a blog on a Saturday night, with only a slightly depressed dog as my companion. I could be studying (NERD) or call friends in which I hope are inebriated and try and have a conversations with but... priorities.

Because the lack of friends in the area, and the lack of effort to make friends in the area, I have taken to doing things alone. In my discovery of single adult female (without cats... yet), there is a definite scale of awkwardness to certain activities. Here are my rankings from least awkward to most awkward...

9. Studying (I've always this viewed as a solitary activity)

8. Shopping

7. Seeing a movie (which is recommended if you are embarrassed for wanting to said movie) (not me and seeing From Justin to Kelly... in the 11th grade)

6. Going to a concert (gets less awkward as the show goes on and you realize no one cares)

5. Eating at fast food place (which is less than..)

4. Eating at a sit down restaurant (which is less than...)

3. Eating Brunch

2. Romantic Walks on the canal (its just not as fun conversing with myself)

1. Couples therapy (this is just my attempt at humor)

Note: If you can't spot the weird awkward person at any event, sad to say that person is you. (or me in most cases)

PIE chart!

I need more blog post ideas.

I want sharing!

PHAM

Orange you glad I blogged

Sitting in the break room at Barnes and Noble, peeling my orange (the only meal of the day, what am I? Made of money??) I came to the realization that peeling this orange ALL IN ONE PEEL (pretty impressive) was going to be the BEST part of my day.

CHARTS!

As you can see, I haven't been blogging because my mediocre life has taken over. And blogging while unhappy makes for emo blogs where I start putting up song lyrics as posts.

Stay in school, kids.

I want sharing! Pham

(Title provided my Katie Knickerbocker)