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Yayyy

2010-01-16T05:46:49Z

FIRST: If you've been tagged, you must write your answers in your own LJ and replace any question that you dislike with a new, original question.

SECOND: Tag eight sexy people. Don't refuse to do that like a pansy. Unless you really don't want to of course. And if you're not tagged and you want to do it, then do!

Favorite song right now?:
Ain't no stoppin' sister Nancy - Sister Nancy

What did you last eat?:
Yaki Soba

What kind of books do you read?:
Comical books, David Sedaris. Michael Crichton books (RIP :( ), and moree

What are you reading right now?:
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Favorite television show right now?:
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia - it's the only show I catch up on, on Hulu

What are you wearing right now?
T-shirt dress, SOOO COMFORTABLE, leggings, green socks yeah!

What's your current fandom / obsession / addiction?:
Always Julian Casablancas

What did you really want to do today that you didn't?:
Work on work stuff :(, whyyy must I think about it on my day off.

What are you most excited for?:
Going to New York in February woooooo!

If you could be anything in the world, what would you be?:
Sassy

What was the last thing you bought?:
Yakisoba

If you could have any pet, what would it be?:
Hmmm, Liger, or a tiny tiny monkey

What do you want right this minute, off the top of your head?:
To be in NY :(

Where is the place you like to return to in order to calm down / relax / etc.?:
My bed, under the blanket just chillin'.

Who was the last person you visited?
Van and Joe

Are there any bits of childhood that you miss?:
Yes, sitting around all day watching TV, not having to worry about food. Eating all I wanted without health concerns. Summerrrrrsssss

Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter?:
Autumn, best time of year in Houston

Say something to the person who tagged you:
No one tagged me, I'm just boreeeeed.

monicamelt @ 2009-08-17T11:26:00

2009-08-17T16:27:04Z

August 16, 2009

Everyday my dad calls and wakes us up to eat. We eat nonstop, it's kind of ridiculous and awesome. So we went to a place that I cannot recall for some reason haha. I guess I was too sleepy. But then for lunch we ate at some fancy Vietnamese restaurant with my dad's friends and our travel agent lady. Afterwards we went and got our hair washed and head massages. I decided that I do not like getting my hair washed by other people. I never...really liked it before but I wasn't so sure. Like I said with the facials, I can't sit still that long and I feel very uncomfortable...plus it hurts when people scratch my head :/ Anyhow, we went to this place called My-Anh and it was just a basic beauty salon. It's really strange though because the girls there are all dressed up with a lot of make up on and skank dresses and there were probably about...6 of them just sitting around doing nothing and one guy. They were pretty much hoes..for real. But two of them washed Amy and I's hair. They have lay down beds that are right next to the hair washing sink. They tried to talk to us in Vietnamese and uh...yeah not sure if that worked out too well haha. We are so bad, it's kind of embarrassing. They were basically trying to work it for a tip though, because the hair wash and blowdrying was terrible. They also kept trying to make us get a massage...

Anyway, after that we had to go pack up our hotel room in Saigon and head out to the airport. We were Da Nang bound. My grandparents live in Da Nang, and that is the city where my dad is from so we were headed out there for the next several days. The airport sucks as usual, we were almost late for our flight because my dad forgot he had scissors in his carryon and the security guard wouldn't let us into the terminal unless my dad sent the scissors in a check-in bag. So he had to run out to the ticketing counter and send the bag and then run all the way back and go through security again. We made it though, yay! It only takes 45 minutes to get from Ho Chi Minh City to Da Nang by plane, so the ride wasn't too terrible.

We checked into our hotel called the Furama Resort, Da Nang and it is danggg nice. It's liek the ones off those brochures for tropical islands. There is a huge lobby with many seating areas, and when we got there this lady told us to have a seat and wait while we were getting checked in. She brought us these dragonfruit drinks with mint, and they were in the dragonfruit shell, which then sat upon a small wooden chair. I had no idea how to drink it because it was me holding a chair with a fruit on it...and sipping out of a straw. It was adorable though.

When we arrived there were tons of people at this place because apparently a huge wedding was going on. We heard from some people there that the costs for the wedding was $300,000 (USD). That's ballin! I mean their reception area was the courtyard of the hotel, which faces the beach so it's pretty nice. The groom was a 31 year old man who owns the cable company in Vietnam (a cable company?). The bride was a 16 year old girl/woman. She was pretty though and did not look 16. She had the craziest dresses, with a ton of sequins and tulle. She also had about 6 bridesmaids wearing full wedding gowns, which I thought was weird. There were also performances! A huge stage was set up with lights and fog machines and everything. Apparently some of the singers were big names because people were jumping up on stage and taking pictures with this one guy who I had no idea who he was.

One of the performances was a thai dance with several girls, and after the dance we met up with a couple of them because my dad is a player and told them to come have drinks with him and his friend after they were done. After some of the girls saw Amy and I there, I think it weirded them out because they decided to go home. One of them stayed though and went to dinner with us. She is really nice, she's 27 and a dance teacher. She seems like a pretty genuine person! Her name is Khi (I don't think I spelt it right) and she basically showed us around DaNang and has been telling us the best places to go. We drove around near the riverside to see all the new bridges that were built within the last few years. It was magical because they hung lights all over the streets, and the bridges themselves were lit with color changing lights. One of the bridges was lit underneath where the support columns were. Another bridge was lit along the suspension lines, and the lights would change colors and go up and down the lines. It was very pretty! We drove past this mountain cafe place and the taxi driver told us it was a cool place to go for coffee, so we stopped by. The name of the place translated to english is "Rock Mountain". But basically it was this outdoor cafe that is carved into the side of this mountain/cliff and there are different levels that people can on to drink coffee. They have railings and steps that lead up to little huts with thatched roofing. It was very darling! They also had tons of tropical plants surrounding the whole place as well as christmas lights hanging from the trees. After coffee we were pretty exhausted, so we took Khi home and she showed us around her house, she's a very sweet lady! Then it was back to furama for bedtime!

monicamelt @ 2009-08-16T11:50:00

2009-08-16T17:08:01Z

August 15, 2009

Still in Vung Tau, got up at 6am due to jetlag. It kind of sucks big time haha. Anyway, my dad called and told us to go downstairs for breakfast at the hotel. They had the strangest foods there. Vietnamese of course! Some of it I can understand. Banh cuon with cha, understandable. Eggs with bread, yes. Fruit..yes. Fried rice and stir fry noodles? Yes, I guess. The one thing that stood out to me was ca kho...fish cooked in a savory sauce. It was really random? Oh well. After breakfast we headed over to this place called Lan Rung, it's a resort hotel that was on the beach. My dad's friend apparently knows the owner, who is from San Jose and built this resort for $2 million. It was so beautiful! There are plants everywhere, beautiful architecture, covered areas with reclining chairs and a view of the ocean. There was also a private beach area, which was wayyyy nicer than the first beach we went to. We pretty much relaxed there for a few hours, had some smoothies and just watched the boats in the water. I saw a man in a basketboat (as I call it). He was fishing pretty close to the shore along these rocks. It was kind of cool because he had only one oar and the had to use it a very specific way so that he wouldn't row in circles! At the resort they even had these jugs that said "Nuoc rua chan" meaning "Water to wash feet", which I thought was pretty cool haha...why am I so easily amused?

Checkout for our hotel was at 12 noon, so we had to head back to our hotel and then go back to Saigon. It was a three or four hour drive back, and Amy and I slept the whole time. We got back and had Chao Vit, Duck Congee. It was soooo gooood. There was a dog at the restaurant that looked like a small German shepard. It was hanging out and walking around eating stuff off the floor. Amy tried to give it some food but apparently it's a really picky eater! Beggars can be choosers after all. Then it was massage time! But not ghetto massage...fancy massage. We went to this place called La Cochinchine, it's a pretty nice massage parlor. The prices were steep for Vietnam, but in comparison to the US it's wayyyy cheaper. We got massages and facials. But first they had us sit in this seating area and served us ginger tea. For the massage there were a few steps. First was this stone bed that had water spouts on top coming down. Basically a water massage, you lay there for 5 minutes, then head to the sauna for 15 minutes, and then there were these two baths of cold water that you stay in for 5 minutes. Amy and I were super noob and retarded so we tried to go into the sauna first with our robes on...they sort of laughed at us and told us what to do after that. Then, it was off to the massage room! The lady I had was pretty nice, I was completely awkward though haha. She spoke to me in Vietnamese, which I can understand but it's difficult for me to respond in complete sentences without making a fool of myself. It was still nice though. Then, she did my facial which consisted of applying these creams/lotions/facial cleansers and massaging it in, and also leaving a mask on. It was pretty nice, I'm not sure if I liked the facial though :/...I can't sit still for that long, I get bored easily.

Post-massage, it was food time! We went to this place called "The Sushi Bar", it is amazing how cheap the food is! Like...a 16 piece nigiri combo was roughly 12 dollars. Which is pretty good in comparison to the US! The food was good too. We were going to go karaoke-ing afterwards, but man...doing all of that stuff is tiring, not to mention still being jetlagged! So it was home time and sleep time.

monicamelt @ 2009-08-16T11:31:00

2009-08-16T16:32:43Z

August 14, 2009

I was granted the awesome opportunity of being able to see Saitex International, the manufacturing company that owns Fresh Ink, with whom I interned with over the summer. We drove 30 minutes outside of Ho Chi Minh City to Phuong Phu textile compound to visit. My contact was this lady named Thao and she is Sanjeev's assistant of sorts. She showed us around the office area where they had the Merchandising, Accounts payable and Shipping departments. There were also showrooms for their different brands. Then we went to this place called the Laundry, which was a couple buildings away. There, they had to "wet building" and "dry building". At the wet building, they did all the washes for the jeans, as well as destruction. They had grinders and they also did the wrinkling and whiskers were done there. All of the samples are also constructed in this building. At the "dry" building they did the washing and drying of all jeans, so that any extra dye will come off. They also have a research/laboratory area where they would test new washes. I'm really glad to have been able to see all of this! The inner workings of a manufacturing company. They also had a sewing building, but it is 45 minutes away from their main building, so I am going to try to go back there before I leave Vietnam sometime.

After seeing Saitex, we went to eat at this place called Pho 2000, apparently Bill Clinton ate at this place a while ago. There were pictures of him with the employees all over the walls. It was really random and weird. Then, we headed home to the hotel to pack our things and head out to Vung Tau, this small beach town a few hours outside of Ho Chi Minh City. I liked looking out the window while we were driving, there's so much to see! The traffic is here wild, people are EVERYWHERE. There's not really any defined lanes, people just do as they please and honk constantly. People drive around in mopeds and honda bikes and crowd the streets. Anyway, we got to Vung Tau and immediately went to the beach. No swimming involved, just relaxed and ate some seafood. Watched people playing soccer, apparently it's a popular thing here. Afterwards we checked into our hotel and went to dinner at this Korean-owned shopping center. "The Imperial Department Store". It was pretty nice and large but apparently business was bad because no one was there! We had dinner on the rooftop. Very relaxing and nice because it looks over the beach, too bad it was night time though so we couldn't see anything. After that, it was coffee time. There is a coffee franchise here called "Highlands Coffee", I thought that was interesting for some reason.

Down time.

2009-08-16T06:21:38Z

Travel log:

August 11-13, 2009

Left Houston from IAH Bush intercontinental airport on the way to Vietnam! It took a total of 28 hours for the whole trip, including the plane ride and layovers. We stopped in Moscow and Singapore on the way there. Moscow's airport was kind of rundown and the landscape was mostly farmland and small clusters of suburbs. They also had a bunch of red roofs! Singapore's airport was sooo nice. It was very clean and decorated with flowers and plants. They really like the whole natural look. At Vietnam's airport, it was kind of weird. They have this area where they screen people's temperature for swine flu, and then they check passports. There's a very strange communist feel there. All the uniforms are that military green with red and gold trim. Then, as we went through customs, they tried to stop us saying we had too many laptops. Not really sure what that's supposed to mean, but I think they were looking for a payoff.

When we got out of the airport, we met up with my dad's friend Tan. He got us a taxi and took us back to the hotel we're staying at, Hien Anh. Then we went to a Hue restaurant and they had a deal where they'd give you 5 small dishes for 37,000 dong. Also found out that 18,000 dong = 1 US Dollar. After that shopping times at Diamond plaza, this department store at the center of Saigon. It's like...6 stories tall I think? There's a bowling alley/arcade/game area on the top floor. Amy and I played pool there, kicked her butt of course! On the way home...I saw a guy picking his toe nails while smoking his cigarette. The feet and cigarette were too close for comfort. :/

For dinner we went to this Korean BBQ restaurant, it was pretty cool. They had the low tables where you sit on the floor and eat. The food was pretty good, very different from Korean BBQ in the US! After dinner, Amy and I walked around the area while my dad drank with his buddies. Since I had been to Vietnam in 2001, sooooo much has changed. They've built countless amounts of buildings. They have high class shopping now! Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Chloe, Marc Jacobs, Dolce and Gabbana and more. It's really crazy to see because there are so people living in poverty, yet right next to that is a Versace store. The disparities between the rich and the poor in this country are shocking! Luxury hotels that are 50 stories tall are also being built, none of this for the Vietnamese people. It's all for foreign business people who come here. It's sad, but compared to 2001 it's so much better.

Post dinner, my dad and his friends wanted to show us a club...that was interesting. We went to some place called MTV (I think) and it was so weird. First of all, they only played Techno. Secondly, there was a dance floor that...no one was dancing on. Third(ly?), Vietnamese people are weird. HAHA. There was people all over, but it felt so awkward. Like no one was really dancing, they were all sitting at tables, and they just...stood around not doing much. The service industry here is ridiculous because everyone's working hard for a tip. So there would be people surrounding us, lighting cigarettes, pulling out chairs, leading us to the restroom, opening doors, bringing food, refilling our drinks, doing anything they can for a buck! My dad got wasted..it was crazy to see because he's never been like that around us. It was pretty bad...not going to go into detail. OH! Not only were there waiters/bouncers around us helping...but there were prostitutes coming around too. Pretty young girls who would come up and dance and like chat it up. They were basically escorts, and possibly more if that was what a person desired! Makes me come to appreciate my life a little more, not having to turn tricks for money.

monicamelt @ 2009-07-22T15:05:00

2009-07-22T19:05:41Z

My heart is hurting.

monicamelt @ 2009-07-17T15:53:00

2009-07-17T22:59:43Z

New York is awesome.

I'm having a relaxing day just working on my website, which really isn't going anywhere. It's so much more complicated than I thought it would be. We'll see if it ever even makes it to the web.

Only a week and a half left here and I'm pretty sad to be leaving. Amy's leaving tomorrow and I'm going to be all alone :( Going to the airport is going to be hell, especially since I have 3 suitcases! It's ridiculous, I know...but I've got too many clothes haha. I'm just going to take a taxi there, but having to haul all that stuff around the airport will suck. Hopefully they'll have curbside check-in for luggage! We'll see. I'm taking Southwest and they allow 2 items to be checked for free! It's pretty coooool!

Work is shaping up to be better than I thought it'd be. I've met some awesome people and learned a lot on the business side of the industry. Stuff I wasn't able to learn in school, so that's good! It's what the internship was all about! I'm hoping to get a job in Houston, save up a good amount of money and then move back here within the next 6 months! We'll see how that works out though because once I get here it's...hardcore job searching for me.

Let's see where life leads me!

Monica

monicamelt @ 2009-07-08T01:25:00

2009-07-08T05:26:43Z

My name is Monica and I am sooooooooooooooo Monica-y.

I Monica all day and alllll night.

My monica is the monica's monica.

Lazy Sunday

2009-06-21T23:36:01Z

I think things are looking up a bit. Seems like I found myself a couple friends to hang out with and we had a great time this weekend. I think I'm getting used to the city and everything. I sort of desperately want to live here...I will make it happen somehow! I don't know how I'll find my way around here though because I have the WORST sense of direction. I'm not sure how I'll get places, but I will!

Work has been not so bad. Since the sample sale has been going on, I actually have people working with me from the Blend Showroom next door. It's kinda cool. I hung out with my coworker Jessica last week, and I found out she's really cool! And she introduced me to her roommates and they're also cool. It just sucks because she just left for a 5 week vacation and she won't be back until after I leave. :( But it's nice to know someone that lives here.

I'm still watching Lost as usual..it's really confusing man. Pretty interesting though! Hot mans everywhere haha. It's pretty ridiculous everything that happens on it though.

Not much else going on I guess. I haven't really posted because I've been super lazy. Oh well!

monicamelt @ 2009-06-10T16:49:00

2009-06-10T21:06:29Z

I hate that feeling when you get to the end of a book. I always feel like it's not enough, even if the ending is a happy one. It's very unsatisfying. I finished When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris and it was really good. I laughed out loud many times on the subway and at home. I love the way he presents his stories. It feels like everyday things that he does, but the way he writes makes it hilarious.

I'm moving onto Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. So far it's been okay. I didn't really like his last book that much The Tipping Point, just because I get bored easily. But we shall see!

Grocery Shopping tonight hopefully. I need:

-Vegetables
-Yummy cheese and crackers
-Healthy Snacks
-Lunch Foods
-Floss, random I know
-Passport Pictures, also random!

By the way, after I get back from New York, I'm going to Lubbock to graduate on the 7th-8th of August. Then I am leaving for a month long trip on August 11th to Vietnam, Hong Kong/Korea, and maybe Paris. It's crazy I know! But it sounds really fun, it's a great way to end my college career. The only downfall is that I'm gonna miss my birthday. Which makes me sad because after I get back, school will have started and people might be busy and stuff. I don't care about presents or anything like that, I just wanted to spend time with my friends in Houston before everyone gets busy with school (those still have school). Oh well, there's really nothing I can do about it, my dad already bought the tickets. Plus, I should have time to hang out with people for the rest of my life since I'm going to be done with school! It's weird to think about...

Well, work is almost over, gonna head home soon!

monicamelt @ 2009-06-10T14:19:00

2009-06-10T18:21:19Z

Things I'm liking at the moment:

-David Sedaris
-Hi-Chew Mango
-Crab Chowder Soup
-A nap
-Jalapeno Chips

Sad that most of them are food.

Fattygay.

2009-06-07T23:51:48Z

That's what Michelle says when she tries to pronounce Fatigue in French!

But anyway, busy weekend! I just got home and did some homework not too long ago and my feet are killlling me. My legs feel like I've been jogging all day long or something.

So, saturday we had our photo shoot at the office. It was a basic one though, just getting pictures of the jeans on a person for the catalogue and website purposes. Amy and I went to the office around 11 and sort of helped set up the "Studio" and Caroline came by a little later and watched too. Jacob was the photographer, and Tricia, my boss, was supervising and they just took pictures of different jean styles and washes. It was pretty cool to see how it worked and how it's done. Towards the end of the shoot, Bridget came by to look at my workplace and then we went around shopping in Times Square to kill time. Bridget has a friend who was doing this reading/play thing at this drama book store near my work. So we went over there and watched the reading. They did like three dialogues from this one guy. Joseph...something. Some of them were good, but I didn't get one of them. It's kind of weird watching people act, without ...actually acting it out physically. They were just reading the play, and then I have to imagine all the stuff that's going on. It was interesting.

After that we headed to the East Village and ate these hummus plates...it was sooo good! I love food, and then it was to the bar! We met up with some other girls, Christy and Misty (they're twins!) and it was so weird because at the place, they slide IDs with this machine, and Christy's didn't work for some reason, so they said her's was fake! Which..is ridiculous because Misty's worked and they're the same age haha. The guy didn't believe them though because they're fraternal twins. So we had to head off to another place. We went to this place called the Magician on Essex...and we met this girl at the bar before named Brittany whose from Tennesee and hung out with her! She's cool, aspiring hairdresser who moved here two months ago. I was standing outside on the phone...and this australian guy comes up to me and he's like "excuse me who are you talking to?" I told him, my friend. And he was all "I'm matt and I'm visiting my friend Paul here" He was pretty cute! haha so I talked to him for a while and then we went into the bar, and I was like "well it was nice to meet you guys" and shook their hands, and Matt just kissed my hand and then twirled me around and kissed me on the cheek...it was interesting! Then, we all split up and went our separate ways home.

Today, I went around with Bridget and Christy to this Bushwick Open Studios thing. It was pretty much an art trail around Bushwick. We went to a bunch of different studios and just looked at everyone's art work. Some stuff was really cool, like this one guy Tyrome Tripoli, he made these elaborate space stations out of ordinary machines like, printers, old typewriters, sewing machine, and pieces of metal and plastic. He had these TINY people on them...it was SO cute. The people were no taller than the width of my fingertip. And it was really cool because it's hard to tell what the space stations and stuff were unless you look closely and see the tiny people. It had like little space pods and things. I wish I took pictures of it. I took pictures of some other stuff we saw. I'll post them on facebook or something. But I've always been a fan of artwork so it was really fun and interesting to see what people did with different types of mediums, and I haven't seen anything like the stuff I saw today. One guy took rocks from construction sites and made fountains out of them, so he had this studio with a bunch of rocks and ash from the rocks, and it was pretty cold looking, and then he took us upstairs and he had this rooftop garden. It was amazing! He built the entire deck himself and there were plants everywhere and they grew strawberries and different herbs, as well as daisies and roses. They were beautiful. We got to eat some of the strawberries and they were nothing like the strawberries that you get from the store. Anyway, I'm at home now, so tired from walking and not wanting to work tomorrow ughhh! Now, I'm off to post pictures yay!

Another friday!

2009-06-06T00:22:44Z

Busy day today! I didn't have to into work today because I'm going in tomorrow for the photo shoot. So, since Amy and I had some free time. We needed to go get some groceries and stuff but it's been really gloomy and rainy out lately. We went anyway!

First stop was Canal street to go to the bank, and I went shoe shopping...because I was wearing sandals all up in the rain! I got these pretty cute...rain boots. Not the usual kind. After that we went to chinatown and ate some Pho...it was soooo good and warm. The best time to eat pho is when it's cold outside! Next store was this chinese grocery store..we headed on in there and got a bunch of snack foods and ramen haha.

Next stop, Target! It was inside this shopping center that I'm convinced is a mall, but Amy says it's not. It's a two story target, and it's really cool because there's an escalator that leads to the second floor and right next to it is a cart escalator for your shopping cart! I got to admit...I'm pretty easily impressed haha. We got our shop on there, buying some foods, Koolaid mix, cat food for mr. fatty, and a comforter! It was a pain in the ass bringing all that stuff home on the subway along with the snacks from china town. I brought like 3 reusable bags with me and stuck all of the stuff in there.

Last stop, home! We had to bring all that food home haha...we love the food. I think it's time for more Law and Order now. I totally had a dream that I made out with detective Stabler the other night! I think I've been watching too much...he forced himself upon me and I...totally let him! I resisted first of course, but eventually gave in. It seems like something Jessica would dream of, not me!

OH, yesterday I stopped by Barnes & Nobles on the way home to look at some books. I like to read, but I hate picking out books because I never know what I'm going to like. A couple semesters ago I bought a bunch of books on amazon and ended up only liking some. I'm a sucker for those self help books...but I didn't get one. I got When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris and Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. I'm reading the first one right now, and it's pretty good. I've always like David Sedaris so I knew I'd like it. I'm not sure about Blink though because I read another book by Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point and I thought it was kind of boring. The premise sounded interesting though...OH well! We'll just see.

I'm excited for the photo shoot tomorrow! It's not going to be a huge fancy one with a bunch of models, but it'll still be cool to see what goes on at one. I get to help out a little too, so that's cool. Then, my boss said that I will be in charge of setting up the sample sale later in June..which is kinda scary! We do a combined sample sale with this other place on our floor so there should be a good amount of people there. Our sample sales are pretty good too because they sell the jeans for like $10-20 dollars. They retail at $108+, so it's a LOT cheaper. We have some pretty cute stuff too. Jeans, shorts, and skirts. There's also some corduroys, and black pants I think. If anyone wants to come it's going to be June 16, 17, & 18! Probably during opening hours, 9-5:30.

Going to keep reading, yay!

monicamelt @ 2009-06-04T11:32:00

2009-06-04T15:32:47Z

Why am I so discontent as of late? I didn't think I was that kind of person.

monicamelt @ 2009-06-01T18:43:00

2009-06-01T23:00:12Z

Bah to Mondays they really suck.

Amy and I stayed up late watching Law & Order SVU yesterday. We ended with the episode with Ludacris in it! He murdered a woman by stabbing her in the vagina and stomach several times..and burying her son. AND he got off the hook because his lawyer got information on all the cops and made them witnesses and made them all look bad, so the police seemed corrupt. So sad. I should stop watching haha.

Anyway, I totally didn't want to work this morning..I'm tired of the 9-5 already haha. Maybe everyone was right about school being the good life! Eff school...I have to write stupid daily reports about everything I do and send it to my teacher. I have some other assignments to do too. It kind of sucks to be not in school yet still doing homework. Oh well, it's life!

On a happy note I got some jeans today! My coworker ordered me one jean in three sizes so that we can see what size I wear and now that we know my size we can order more later on. I got 2 pairs of skinny jeans, one darker one and one really light one. Wooty! I feel like really short and gross though, and chubby as of late.

So Amy and I are living poorly as of late. Or trying to live cheaply, we got rice from the grocery store and are eating ramen haha save money for the reallllll fun! Knaww'm sayin?

Well, time to get my grub on...lates!

It's friday whoo!

2009-05-29T15:44:51Z

Hollers it be friday.

Which is cool because I don't work on weekends, so hopefully I'll get to go out tonight. Yesterday, I got home at like...7/8, and I was online for like half an hour and went to sleep at like 8:30 haha, but I had a restless sleep because of the allergies. But before I went to bed...I swear to god, I heard a gunshot. Or a LOUD popping sound...it was kind of scary. I don't want to go out at night because the G train station to go to Williamsburg is like...RIGHT next to government housing. And when I was walking home last night some dudes whistled at me, and when I ignored it they tsked or made weird noises...and I don't like it! It scares me. On a lighter note...this morning when I was walking to the JMZ train station..some guys were all "Goodmorning lady" and "goodmorning mami, have a great day" I was like "...yeahhh...thanks." It's so weird! I don't really like that either. I'd rather no one talk to me haha. I'm so anti-social!

Yeah, after work yesterday I went to a sample sale with Bridget, one of the girls that graduated from Tech and is doing her internship here. They had some cool stuff from Christopher Deane, Sophia Eugene and more. Tops were $40 and dresses were $80, shoes $40. Which is good considering the dresses are a few hundred dollars retail. I got this white crop jacket with double lapels for $40! Pretty good...considering you can get a crappily made jacket from forever for like $50. I need to stop shopping for now though ahhhh...spending too much money. I do need new black flats though..and some heels. Fierce heels. haha

I'm sort of doing nothing at work right now because I ran out of work to do. I'm waiting on these folders to be delivered so that I can start making tabs and organizing the filing cabinet. But yeah, I bought this stuff from Walgreens this morning called "Chloraseptic Allergen Block Gel" and you put this gel around your nose and it dries and apparently it like has a positive charge and so it'll attract negative charge allergens to the gel...so that it doesn't go up your nose. And it all sounds like BS to me...but I read the reviews online and a ton of people said it works really well...so I thought I'd give it a try. If something can make me feel better around the cat, it's worth a try! I don't know if it works yet though because I haven't gone home...but we shall see!

After work, I'm gonna go home and go to the grocery store with Amy and get some rice and eggs, yum! I've got to live cheaply for a while if I want to make my money last this whole summer. Then, after that I might go out with some girls from Tech because it's friday, and friday is the day to celebrate! Haha..I am kinda worried about going home at night though...I get SO paranoid! I have my mace....but what if it doesn't work. OR what if I spray someone who is trying to ask me for directions or something. Like....and after I spray them what if they get all vengeful and like wait for me on a different day and surprise attack me? I'm pretty...scared haha. I'm not very strong or fast or anything so....if I get attacked I couldn't really defend myself. :(

The weather here has been pretty nasty...rainy all day for the past couple days. I don't like walking through water and stuff when I'm going to work. The one reason I don't like rain is because I don't like getting all wet when I have to go outside! Other people are all "I loveee when it rains" and junk...but only if you have nothing to do and can nap all day. Otherwise it's miserable. True dis!

I'm hoping to get tickets to Late night with Jimmy Fallon! I called the other day and they were only selling tickets for like...june 15-19 or something like that. So I've gotta wait a couple weeks and get the tickets for the beginning of July so we can go with Tiffany and Johnny! Whooo! That'd be so awesome...I'm still really sad Conan left :/ SNL doesn't start til later, so I won't be able to get tickets to that. I just realized that I haven't been over to Rockefeller plaza yet! That's something I should do while I'm here. And I also want to go to the Farmer's Market in Union Square this weekend...get some fresh fruits and veggies to cook! That'd be awesome.

Anywhos, I'm gonna eat my turkey sammich now and maybe...work? Just maybe!

Back to LJ, yay!

2009-05-27T18:15:37Z

So, it's been a while since I last posted! Hopefully that'll change, maybe.

I'm in New York at the moment, at work right now actually haha. I've been here for a little more than a week and it's been insane. Looking for an apartment is the least fun thing I can think of doing. Everyday it's been so exhausting because the place I'm staying is pretty far from the city, so once I leave I can't come back until like late at night or until I finish everything I was gonna do that day. So I saw a bunch of apartments and there was this one place I really wanted to stay, it was awesome...brand new building, really cool graphic design roommates, an amazing rooftop terrace with a great view, and private room/bathroom. But unfortunately they decided to go with someone else :(. But the place Amy and I got isn't bad at all. It's near Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which is where all the hipsters are. And the neighborhood seems safer than some places we saw. It's a one bedroom apartment, so no sharing with anyone. One hugeeeeeee con is that there is a cat that lives there, and...cats are not good for me because my allergies go nuts! So I'm gonna have to get used to it or get some strong medicine. :/

I can't wait to like...really live in a place and settle in and everything, it feels like I'm not really living here since I've been staying with someone. I'm moving into the new apt today after work, yay! It's pretty dang expensive to live here, so I'm not sure if I'll be staying after my internship, plus I miss Houston and all my friends and all the familiarity. I also miss Lubbock peeps, never thought I'd want to go back there haha. But I'll be back in August for graduation...which everyone is invited to! yay!

As for my internship, the company is really cool and my coworkers are really nice. It's a pretty relaxed week since my boss is out of town, so I'm not expected to do that much right now. The only problem I'm having is that I wanted a design internship, which is what this one is supposed to be...but there is no designer here. The designer moved to where the factory is, and so I'm really not doing any sort of design, and it really bums me out. I hear about other girls draping things, and getting to work with patterns and things like that and I'm pretty much a receptionist. I get to deal with Line Sheets and get to see more of the production side of things, but I'm really interested in Design! I do get paid in jeans which is pretty cool because they have some nice jeans here. They have some shorts/skirts/dresses too but not as much. I wonder how many pairs I get...they're about $100 retail, so that's pretty good because I probably wouldn't spend that much on jeans!

There are some girls here that I know from Tech who graduated with me, which is cool. But so far haven't really met anyone. Maybe I'm unapproachable! Or shy....I don't know. Well, I met some guy on the subway who works at a bank/cafe haha. He told me to swing by sometime. But other than that, nothing really. Amy's been hanging out with her friend Caroline who graduated in her Communication Design class. She's really cool though! All I've been doing here is eating lots and lots of food! I feel like I'm gaining...a good amount of weight haha. The walking doesn't really counterbalance the eating. And food is so expensive :(. But soooooo gooooood!

Anyways, I'm pretty sleepy and tired, and should probably get back to work haha!

Until next time!

New York

2009-05-22T04:54:19Z

Spiderman was on the subway today.

That is all.

monicamelt @ 2009-05-09T07:02:00

2009-05-09T12:14:28Z

One more day and I'll finally be done with Lubbock, until I come back in August for graduation, that is.

It's kind of crazy that I'm already done with college, it's not really something I expected to happen so soon! I'm really trying to keep myself awake right now. The warmth of my bed is so tempting, especially since I haven't slept. I've been lazy packing up my room, and it's really catching up to me. Going out with friends was important to me though, because I might not get the chance to do that again? So why not! Packing is something that is going to be done no matter what, so I think that spending time with people you care about is more important.

But since I was being lazy, I pulled an all nighter to pack, two of those hours were spent at Wal-Mart getting, I swear to god, 100 boxes. It was ridiculous, at 5 am. But we did need them, so I guess it was time well spent? Maybe? I have a feeling I'm just gonna throw a bunch of random stuff in boxes when the time comes for us to start moving out. Ten o' clock sunday morning is when I'll get kicked out :/ and everything has to be ready to go and in the car. It's going to be miserable walking up and down two flights of stairs with heavy boxes. D: Not something I look forward to, especially on little sleep.

I feel like I haven't gotten a thing done! There is still so much junk in my room, not to mention the living room. I've never been this unprepared before. I think Senioritis got the best of me this semester! I've been half-assing everything. On a different note, I'm not really sure what I'm going to do with Bernie since I"m going to be in New York for the whole summer. I'm thinking about giving him away, any takers? He's very cute!

I really just want to lay down and sleep for a couple hours, but I'm afraid I won't wake up in time to pick up Drew from the airport :/. SO I'm not sure it's the wisest idea bah! It probably was not a wise idea to go out last night til 2am either. Anyway, this is getting really repetitive because I can't think of anything else!

OHHHHH, awesome news, for me, Julian Casablancas has a new song that is apart of Danger Mouse's "Dark Night of the Soul" album. I listened to it, and I think it sounds good. But...I am pretty biased. I like the relaxed feeling of it.

That is all for now. Happy graduating everyone!

Hmmm...

2009-04-09T06:34:37Z

I've felt like I'm living in Limbo lately...

Neither here nor there, I'm sort of in a Daze, just doing what I need to to get by. It all seems like a dream. And this semester is going by so quickly, I'm hardly getting a chance to experience anything besides sewing! I'm still so unsure about life, it's very discouraging. I'm not really sure where I'll be in a couple months. I'll probably be doing absolutely nothing...being a bum and such. So many changes and transitions really make me nervous! I don't like it! Now I know why people want to be children again! Seems so easy.

Anyway, just a late night ramble!

May go for a walk...it's not too cold outside.

And on with the emo-ness.

2009-04-03T05:41:47Z

One of the things/person (to me) I love most in the world died today. And I'm not really sure how to deal with it, or feel about it. I feel pretty strange even writing it down. But what do you do? I fought for him and ruined my relationship with my sister for him. He means so much to me, it's kind of sad to invest so much feeling and emotion into an animal...but I don't care. I know he loved me back, there's no doubt to that. He would always jump on my duffle bag and cry when I was leaving for Lubbock, somehow he'd know I wouldn't be coming back for a while. I think dogs are smarter than people give them credit for. I liked seeing his face when he'd see me for the first time in a while, his ears would perk up and his eyes would open wide, and he'd run as quickly as he could over to me and jump in my car even though I was going inside. I'm sad because he was only 5, but he acted like a puppy, always so happy and excited and loved to play with his toys. But accidents happen, I understand this and no one is at fault for what happened. I had big plans for us though, and it's really unfortunate that those plans won't pan out.

He's pretty clever, and knows my sense of humor.

All my more recent pictures are on my camera which I'm not looking to go through right now.

R.I.P. Bijou Ha

I'm really going to miss him.

P.S.-I'm sorry Amy, if you were home I would tell you in person.

Bummed

2009-04-02T05:00:52Z

Warning: I'm being emo!

I'm pretty bummed today because for the past couple weeks I've been doing nothing except for sewing and working on my two contest garments. I turned them in yesterday finally and was really happy to get it all off my back! I got a call this morning from my teacher saying that one of my garments didn't pass inspection and will not be going to the Dallas Career Day contest. I'm really sad because I've put so much time and effort into it and I'm really disappointed in myself because 1 tiny mistake messed up my whole outfit. The reason it didn't pass inspection was because when I cut out my pattern pieces I didn't match the plaids on the front and back of my pants and so they didn't line up all around the pants. That tiny mistake cost me. :( I usually try not to get down about things often and keep a really good outlook on life...but this really sucks. It's my livelihood! And I'm a perfectionist when it comes to anything ADM and so I'm just really disappointed in myself.

On a different note...I've been so crazy busy I haven't even had time to think! I've been finding an internship, looking for a place to live in New York, working up until last week because I had to quit my job. Too many things to do! First of all contest was kicking my ass! and now I have only 4 days to finish like 3 outfits for my senior show. It's ridiculous! And after that it's more work more work! Fixing old garments, and then preparing my portfolio for portfolio review and designing displays for Senior Show. Too many things! ugh! Quitting work has helped A LOT though because now I'm able to stay up late and work on homework and it just frees up a lot of my time...I felt bad quitting on the spot though! No two weeks notice. Oh well, Kirk is cool and understands.

Anywho, not much else going on except school...not many inner thoughts since I haven't had time to think! Just been feeling really lonely lately. Having no boyfriend sucks more than I thought....but it gives me time to clear my head and so I'm grateful for this. I'm thankful for great friends too! Those who listen and provide great advice and if not advice, then support and love. Thanks everyone! :)

Should be getting to bed now! Gooodnights!

monicamelt @ 2009-03-18T03:31:00

2009-03-18T08:31:43Z

I'm gonna be emo and say...life is meh.

monicamelt @ 2009-03-11T10:21:00

2009-03-11T15:22:30Z

ughhhhh, I really want this Marchesa internship!!! Or Zac Posen....that would be nice too! I wish these people would get back to me already!!

Unattainable - Little Joy

2009-03-08T19:01:42Z

Only when the goal is unattainable
Do I start to feel like I'm losing myself
And this deep secret
that hasn't come out yet
is buried, down deep
with the rest

I can't coerce you into this one
Jealousy lay all your spells to bed
I'll choose unloved instead

If only songs we're sung
To guide the doubtful ones
Beyond the rough
where not as much is good enough
Oh if you find yourself
Amongst the lonely ones
I'll be waiting here with open arms

I can't coerce you into this one
Jealousy lay all your spells to bed
I'll choose unloved instead
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I love this song! It's so prettyy.