These days, everything feels like a marketing ploy or a cliche.

This all takes me back to AP English with Lindemulder where she made a point about puns, cliches and quotes eventually losing their meaning from being constantly reinterpreted and reused.

I feel like that’s what a lot of our digital world has become now. A big void of cliches and quotes and reblogs that eventually fall to unoriginality and a passing fad. D:

Here goes nothing.

It keeps hitting my lens and scraping on them! XD

But I think age is getting to me because the dolly eyelash look doesn’t look cute. At least not on me. Boo. :(

I guess I’m okay with rocking the barely-any-makeup-on look more. :P

@biddingwar - I’m back in school for a programming degree. :)

Expectations

• 6:30am-7:30am Wake up, breakfast & get ready for work
• 8am-2pm Work
• 2:30pm-4pm Class
• 4:30-6pm Get home, eat, do nails
• 6pm-midnight Study, shower & sleep

Reality

• 7:30am-8:30am Wake up, breakfast & get ready for work
• 9am-1pm Work
• 1:30pm-2:30pm Computer lab at school
• 2:30pm-4pm Class
• 4pm-5pm Shop -__-
• 5:30pm-7pm Get home, eat, do nails
• 7pm-9pm Watch YouTube makeup/hair tutorials -__-
• 9pm-9:30pm Shower
• 9:30pm-midnight Study :( :( :(

Ughh.. I fail. I feel like complicate my schedule if it’s not planned out down to the last detail. I wish I could be a person of habit and commit to the same schedule every day, but noooo.. anything that sounds fun/good that I can fit in is always good game. >___<

I think in high school, I actually outlined my plans for the whole day on my Xanga and made it my mission to complete it all. :P

At least this time I didn’t play 3 hours straight of solitaire or something stupid like that. :D Making progress!

But hmmm.. I don’t know if I can get much work done in ~2 hours.

I might need to go into hermit mode until summer.

Four weeks of school left. Dx

Today was an adventure after work.

I had to retail therapy to the max and got tons of stuff to spoil my hair.

After all the shopping, I had to rescue someone from his dentist visit. It turned into a pet adventure to a food adventure, haha. @_@!

Then we cooked chili and Spaghettios since he could finally feel his face and eat. It all ended around 11 PM.

I was planning on working on my projects all afternoon, though.

Ah, well. Spontaneity killed the boredom. :P

Girls’ night out! Our first dinner plans were cancelled so we relocated to Banana Bay & then headed over to KTown for my psis’ birthday party. We made friends with a super cute import model. A server also randomly dropped off 3 bottles of yogurt soju and told us it was on the house. I have to say, that was a pretty good night even though I was DD. :)

I spent all of Sunday going to Humane Societies checking out dogs with Danny! The San Gabriel one was kind of depressing, but the Pasadena one was like a suuuper nice zoo! They even had an alligator and a duck up for adoption. XD

He wants to get a Dachsund, but he fell in love with this mellow female Rottweiler mix who was 5 years old. Kind of old for a dog, but she was really sweet. We figured we’re kind of getting lazy/tired all the time, so a nice dog who we could go home to and cuddle up with after a long day of work and class would be perfect. Those hyper louds ones were too much haha. We’re getting old, man.. turning into grandmas and grandpas. :P

I fell in love with this 10-year-old Chow Chow that had the prettiest white fur coat everrr. He was at least 4.5 feet tall. He seemed really depressed though and ignored everyone who tried to get his attention.

Danny and I did research on dogs after our adventure. We grabbed Happy Hour Frappuccinos at Starbucks on the way back. :) I found out that Chow Chows are very loyal to their owners and family, so it made me sad that he was picked up as a stray four days ago. :( Ended up chilling at his place for a bit, just doing nothing really. I was playing games and he was looking up pet info. It was fun doing nothing and being bored together. :P

We don’t really have the time or freedom to own dogs, so he’s thinking of getting a bearded dragon instead. I’m thinking of getting a hamster whenever I finish cleaning my room. I kind of want to see if I can be responsible enough to take care of a small mammal before I move on to a dog or something. Luckily, Danny has hamster and guinea pig habitats and toys for me to have. He’s gonna let me borrow them when I go up to NorCal with him over the summer. ^__^

After Petco to look at bearded dragons after! I think I want a teddy bear hamster, but I haven’t found the color I wanted yet. :] He wants a juvenile bearded dragon so that he can watch it grow up. He wants to carry it on his shoulder while he does his CS homework, haha.

We’re planning on selling our fish supplies that we don’t want anymore. I think we’ll eventually just downsize our fish hobby to nano tanks because fish keeping really is a hard hobby. It’s more like something to do when you’re all settled down, but since we’re still moving around with our lives, it’s really hard to keep up with maintaining large aquariums. One gallon of water is around 10 pounds.. imagine how hard getting rid of around 50 gallons of water was from my room. That was around 500 pounds of water! >.<

We’ve pretty much almost mastered our knowledge of freshwater fish now, so everything about it isn’t so new and exciting anymore. I think in the end, I’d want to finish off with a nice 12g rimless tank and turn it into an aquascape with shrimps. That will probably be whenever I want to settle down into my own place. Hopefully shrimps will be cheaper so that it doesn’t cost like $3-15 dollars a shrimp, haha. Buying 10 of those adds up! Hoping that they survive transportation and acclimation is another thing. :P

We were gonna go to Youngdong for dinner, but ended up cheaping out and having a cheap date at Taco Bell. The freaking “I’VE GOT THE LATE NIGHT MUNCHIEESSS” song is stuck in my head now cuz he was singing it all day. HAHA. I wish we drove thru and sang that song into the drive thru speaker, but we dined in instead!! XD I like the cheap date, though. We eat out to too many expensive places, so I’m glad there really wasn’t any shame going to Taco Bell and eating tacos ungraciously. :P Oh, the Doritos Locos Taco is whatever.. This is my second time eating it, and the whole shell broke. -__- It was so hard to eat.

His ring fell off of my finger when we were in the parking lot. It fell into his car’s hand brake!! :( :( We tried fishing it out with chopsticks and screwdrivers and even pulled out his cup holder to try to get it, but I think it’s STUCK THERE for good. I’m so sad. T__T I’ve been wearing it since we got together and now it’s stuck in the depths of his car. I think we lost it deeper inside his car, too, cuz when I was trying to fish it out, I lost it under some wiring. :(

Found out my little brother left me his car at 4000 miles over his last oil change.

I fit in 5 job interviews these past 5 days.
No leads.
Job economy sucks ass.

My car technicians were wondering if I was okay cuz I KO’d the instant I went to their waiting room. I was really super tired hahaha.

Yesterday was pretty exhausting, but fun. Luckily, I had a job interview in Pomona so I picked up Danny from CalPoly and we went to dinner in West Covina. The Johnny Carino’s there sucks. Terrible service, but good food. Loitered at West Covina Westfield for a bit until the movie. It was $6 movie night at the Edwards, so we watched Five Year Engagement since Avengers won’t be out til Friday. :P We laughed so hard. I think it might be better than Bridesmaids, actually. Bridesmaids focused more on friendship revolving around marriage. Five Year Engagement was more family and relationship-focused. I liked it that way. It was a lot more relevant with things that people my age should be looking forward to in the next 5-7 years.

We decided that we need to cut down our hangouts to 2 days a week. He’s busy with his research at a robotics company and I’m busy with work and school. At first, I was kind of sad at the lack of seeing each other, but we always manage to make time when we can. He does need to focus on his research because he’s the only undergrad CS major working on it with a bunch of engineering grad students. :X I’m really proud of him, though. Even though he worries that he doesn’t have any work experience, the fact that he’s working alongside grad students on this super crazy project is really awesome.

Me, on the other hand — working full-time and studying more than full-time this summer. I actually want to get in on this mobile application internship that’s 15 hours minimum a week.. Two downsides, though: (i) It’s unpaid and (ii) It will cut into my time at work, but they’re really not giving me enough hours. Maybe.. two 8 hour days at the internship & three 8-hour days (24 hours) at my job? That will be enough to match what I’ve been earning so far. And then I can find some sort of afternoon or weekend job for extra money.

But if I do get the internship, I will learn sooo much more than what I haven’t been learning on my own at my job. I really need some real-world practical mentorship, and an internship will really help me drive that nail deeper and strengthen my resume.

Good thing my summer classes are online and in the evening. :)

My posts have been kind of depressing lately, but there are definitely positives that I can’t forget! Even though I’m tired as all hell, I’m actually really happy and content with things. Sure, things could be better.. I’m not getting paid enough, but at least I have a job in the industry I want to be in. Classes are cutting into my work hours, but at least I have an A average in all my programming classes right now and will most likely finish this degree by Winter or Spring. I also have a loving and appreciative boyfriend who’s so supportive and understanding of how much I love computing, even though I neglect him from being so busy! xD

I just wish I got more sleep though.. and that I didn’t have to drive so much. I hate driving. HAHA. But I’ll live.

Things are tough now, but at least I love what I’m doing. Going through this hardship is making me appreciate my work a lot more. At the end of the day, I know that I still love what I’m doing, and that’s enough to get me through another day. I don’t think I would be able to live with myself if I earned a ton of money doing a career I didn’t care for. I feel like that’s really sad and unfulfilling, and I would want to eventually pursue that happiness I desire. (Save all that money I earn and invest it into something that I really want to do, hahaha.)

I think I’m gonna be super busy until September. Full-time work and full-time school doesn’t give much fun time. >.< Hopefully after summer, I can slow down with classes, but I really just want to get this degree out of the way to move up in my career. :]

By New Year’s, things should hopefully work out for the better. I can’t wait!

PS. Oh yeah. Depending on how Master’s degree stuff goes in 2014, I might consider moving up to San Francisco. :)

But I get treated like shit, unappreciated and forgotten.

Four years of this. I’m done.