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Saturday, December 29, 2012 ( 3:26 AM ) shut up christine 
five free solid perfume samples from pacifica perfume
(or $10 off your first order)
many years ago
i sat next to a bush and fell. in. love.
thee most beautiful smell i had ever smelt
i gathered a handful of its white flowers and rubbed them all over my face (not weird at all, right?)
to physically impress the scent into my mind
WHATT ISSS THISSSS?!??? i asked a random man
jasmine, he said. then he backed away slowly
i've been searching for that smell ever since
okay actually i just googled "jasmine perfume" last night
but i found this website with pretty scents that are natural and vegan!
and they sell sample tins of their solid perfumes for $2!
AND! if you use this link you'll get a one-time code for $10 off your order (pero you'll need to create a pacifica perfume account during checkout in order for the discount to pop up, which then automatically applies to your order)
so if you choose five solid perfume samples you'll just pay $2.95 total (for shipping) which is quite reasonable, no?
i chose waikiki pikake: this hauntingly beautiful blend combines sweet Pikake - a delicate, exquisite jasmine flower native to Hawaii - with sensuous and velvety sandalwood.
california star jasmine: dreamy, beautiful star jasmine is woven into subtle, lush driftwood notes. Bright orange shines at the top. Carefree and sun-kissed.
lotus garden: a meditative and intoxicating blend of sparkling yuzu, lotus blossom, jasmine, olibanum and bright, radiant green notes
and persian rose and spanish amber
Thursday, December 27, 2012 ( 3:07 AM ) shut up christine i know i was very sheltered as a child i know my parents tried to "protect" me well into my adult life they did this for me more so than for my older sister these ranged from tiny annoying eye-roll inducing things, like cutting my steak into bite-sized pieces for me at restaurants even in my late teens to... much bigger things i think a result of this is that i was a little under-prepared for life i still feel unsure when wielding a knife, i'm always youtubing common sense things, like how to cut up a tomato and maybe i was a little naive which i overcompensated for by traveling to other countries (sometimes secretly) and backpacking alone and at times making questionable choices (i regret nothing) and perhaps purposely trying to scare the crap out of my parents i believe another side effect is that i was largely oblivious to all the cray drama that goes on in my extended family for the first time it appears this curtain is unraveling and finally i'm seeing how things are fucked up. anyway one of my cousins is missing he disappeared last friday i'm not a big prayer person, but if you are into that kind of thing can you please send one to us, to my family # Tuesday, December 25, 2012 ( 1:09 PM ) shut up christine couldn't have said it better. below is a message written by my friend and hero, ann nguyen, pictured in the middle along with her daughter monica. every year ann organizes an event (among many other events throughout the year) to deliver toys in the city of stanton. she is just an incredibly beautiful person with an infinite capacity to give  So this is Christmas. I was a little teary eyed this morning and prayed for all including those in the Middle East, Africa and family and friends here and far away. This time of the year for me is about Hope and Possibility. I commit myself to trying to be hopefilled and loving. May this season bring with it contemplation on the possibilities for peace and justice in the world. May each of us grow in wisdom, and may we use our hands and hearts for good. May 2013 bring with it more love, more time building up communities and more willingness to talk with each other, and listen to each other. Thank you for all you do in the world. I have gained so much from your friendship, your love and your service. You hold a very special place in my heart. ~Ann happy christmas everybody! # Monday, December 24, 2012 ( 12:14 AM ) shut up christine i remember in india i went through a rough patch where i cried a lot and i kept asking myself what am i doing here? what am i doing here it took me a while to realize that you just do what you can # Sunday, December 23, 2012 ( 2:08 AM ) shut up christine an impossible christmas gift request it took me one week to watch both seasons of Game of Thrones approximately 3 episodes (read: 3 hours) per day and while i loved the show, dude that's a lot of tv. there are a bunch of shows i'd like to watch but i don't actually want to take the time to watch them nor do i want to look up lengthy synopses on the internet i wish someone could succinctly yet thoroughly and vividly explain every season of each of these shows, in 10 minutes or less downton abbey arrested development the walking dead lost grey's anatomy how i met your mother homeland # Friday, December 21, 2012 ( 12:13 PM ) shut up christine it's just money in middle school my mom promised me $20 a week if i got straight As on my report card i got "paid" every friday when i was 10 i had like $800 saved up in a pencil box under my bed i can't remember how i spent it... actually i don't know if i ever did. i was so painfully shy back then that i never would've gone up to a cash register on my own i'm not sure why i'm like this i didn't grow up poor, and thankfully i can't ever remember a time when my family struggled to make ends meet but as an adult i have a strange relationship with money i keep trying to write the next paragraph but i've erased it like 10 times already so i'll just end it with this: it's just money. # Tuesday, December 11, 2012 ( 11:59 PM ) shut up christine  # Saturday, December 08, 2012 ( 2:35 AM ) shut up christine new year resolutions 1. a place for everything and everything in its place when i'm stressed/nervous, for some reason i vacuum. when i was studying for the nclex i vacuumed every day and cleaned the litterbox every few hours like a nutso, BUT i wouldn't say i'm a neat person. my desk/dining table is forever a hurricane and it drives makoto insane because he's quite neat. right now my table has stacks of photos and random papers, pencil box, several legal pads, candles, netflix movie, hair ties, flashcards, a picture of gandhi, some rocks....gahh. i try to do this every year and it's that time again-- been hardcore paring down. my wardrobe, bookshelf, car trunk, everything. speaking of which, i have stuff to unload if anyone wants, even though no one reads this. bah i'm currently in the process of finding a permanent home for everything we have. and if it doesn't have a home, it better find one or it gots to go in 2013 my dining table will be stack free 2. drink water one time i had to take a drug test and i hadn't had anything to drink that day therefore i could only eek out the smallest amount of urine and it was orange!! hella embarrassing. i've been drinking lots of water and i feel a difference. need to keep it up 3. brush my hair my hair was so dang tangled that i broke my brush. tried to run the hairbrush through and the handle broke off. in the last year i think i've brushed my hair maybe 15 times holy cannoli on a sidenote we just gave pickles a bath and makoto cut off some matted locks on her tummy. what's sad is that pickles spent an hour afterward on her back seemingly looking for her dreads. pickles: where are my dreads? where are they?? poor pickles, she spent a lot of time trying to grow them and we go in and stifle her only means of self expression :( 4. buy less stuff i caved and bought some clothes even though i told myself in october that i wasn't going to buy anything unnecessary til the end of the year. also, makoto and my sister gifted me some things and i told myself these didn't count because technically i didn't buy them. i love the $14 sweater my sister got me though. i love it! and i'm pretty sure i'll wear it til it's shredded if i'm going to buy something unnecessary, i'm only going to get it if i absolutely love it 5. continue with meditation practice it's hard but worth it # Friday, December 07, 2012 ( 2:51 AM ) shut up christine
in the last year i discovered/acknowledged that i need A LOT of sleep (at least 10 hours, preferably 12), and i'm still fatigued even when i do sleep well.
i find it very hard to wake up in the morning. waking up can be accompanied by painat times i have mental fogginess. an example is forgetting simple words weird vision problems, like poor depth perception and adjusting to darkness my hands and feet swell, to the point where my ring doesn't fit and my shoes are tight. thought this was due to my period but it happens even when i'm not menstruating i'm anemic cold fingers blood pressure is usually around 80/50 or 90/50 sometimes feel dizzy and fall when i get up too quickly (probably due to low blood pressure) and rashes which make me paranoid because i think could this be a lupus flare? when you google beta thalassemia minor, most medical websites say you should have no noticeable symptoms, other than anemia. beta thalassemia major is a serious life-threatening condition, but the minor form is no biggie and needs no treatment makoto jokingly says i'm a lazy kitty. that i sleep just as much as pickles, who sleeps like 19 hours a day he tries to wake me up and i just can't i, too, blame myself for being so lazy i cried today when i found this forum because there are so many other people out there who have btminor and they know what i'm talking about and they know that i'm really not the lazy depressed person i thought i was all this time # Wednesday, December 05, 2012 ( 11:07 PM ) shut up christine boyfriend is one of the nicest people i know laid back very calm even-keeled reserved but he enjoys watching violent videos of people punching each other on youtube Y U DO DIS?? # Tuesday, December 04, 2012 ( 11:30 PM ) shut up christine things we found on the beach today: 
aviator sunglasses
each seaweed anchored to its own pebble.
reminds me of a bouncy ball with streamers attached that i had when i was a kid
 
hairy feet
this is the second crab net we've found on this beach!
Monday, December 03, 2012 ( 3:40 AM ) shut up christine truman show each of my last five sudoku puzzles were completed in 24 minutes. each one, exactly 24 minutes it's 3am and i keep doing more. always 24 minutes the universe is imploding # Sunday, December 02, 2012 ( 3:43 PM ) shut up christine loved this movie. will begin and build the next year in this mindset # |
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