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Halloweeeeen is not nearly as fun when you're too old for trick or treating

The amount of candy I have eaten in the last two days is not okay. I guess it was my Halloween present to myself?? haha. All of the candy at work combined with the left over trick or treating candy at home means a lot of candy made its way into my tummy. So hard to resist! If little kids can go trick or treating and eat a lot of candy then so can I. I went to a Halloween party last night and threw together an impromptu Russian costume which consisted of a military jacket from Express and a furry hat with a Russian flag taped to it. It turned out better than I thought. Now I'm sitting at home drinking tea and watching the Halloween special movies on TV.

Happy Halloween weekend!

It's Halloween weekend! My dad and my sisters left for Wisconsin yesterday to visit my relatives and I came home this  morning to find a bag of Halloween candy my dad left for me..YES! It's too bad I have to work tonight but I have to save money like crazy  before I leave for Boston in January if I want to go to Germany over the summer. It's so hard though!! Especially when I'm always looking at clothes and fashion sites online :// Seriously, I have a wealth of fashion blogs/sites in my bookmarks, it's kind of pathetic. If anyone is ever bored, come to me, I  can give you blogs to look at from any country. There's always something new for me to convince myself I need (like cheap monday sweaters). My job also sucks so getting myself to go to work is a challenge in the first place...but I just have to keep thinking about the $$$ and Deutschland. 

You're the only one who knows

Cheap Monday pleaseeee

My day for Swedish movies

I guess today is my day for Swedish movies...I feel very unproductive because I've hardly done anything today. But you know what? I think I'm okay with that for now.


I just watched You, the Living which is a "tragicomedy" based on Goethe's poetry. From the description on Netflix I thought it was going to be one of those movies about different people's lives and then in the end they all fit together somehow. This movie was about different people's lives and stories, however, it was about a bunch of different people, so many that you cannot keep track, so that the viewer does not become emotionally or mentally attached to any of them. The different scenes range from a minute or two to about ten minutes. The minimalist Scandinavian decor is a common theme throughout the movie; the color scheme hardly strays from grey, white, and beige yet the lack of color is oddly distracting at times. The egotistic nature of humans is highlighted in many of the scenes; there may be a room full of people, each interacting in a different way, each with their own problems yet we still think about ourselves, our problems are always the worst.   It is definitely not a movie for everyone as it requires the viewer to step out of their comfort zone; to stop looking for a plot or connection between the different snapshots. It requires the viewer to take a hard look at life and death and the complexities of each individual's life. The beauty of this movie is that in the slew of seemingly random images, each viewer will relate to a different character or story in a different way. What one takes away from this movie is purely their own.

Life trickles in everywhere

It's dreary and rainy and a perfect day to relax and watch Ingmar Bergman movies. You have to be in the right mood to watch his movies because they can be just as heavy as they are beautiful. I know this Italian Vogue issue is from 2008 but I only discovered it now. It's inspired by Ingmar Bergman's Persona and I think it's such an aesthetically pleasing shoot that accurately portrays different aspects of the women's relationship. Vogue you are so clever sometimes <3

Finally feeling better

I'm finally starting to feel almost back to normal today! My face is still a little puffy but I can eat semi-solid foods now so hopefully by tomorrow my face will look normal again. The amount of TV and movies I've watched over the past few days while I've been recovering is sickening. I watched the full first season of Weeds yesterday on netflix...and I don't even like that show! It just became so addicting the more I watched it. But now I'm back to being a fully functioning human being that has to go to class and work...ugh. 

fall nail polish

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New nail polish for fall. It's called Commander in Chic by Sally Hansen. 

my wisdom has been taken away from me

Wahhh I got my wisdom teeth out yesterday and now I'm in a lot of pain and it looks like I gained ten pounds just in my face. Yesterday the pain wasn't that bad because my mouth was still numb from the anesthesia and the swelling really wasn't bad...but today is a whole different story. So now I'm icing my face like crazy hoping the swelling will go down and I can go out and do something today. I get so restless sitting at home for too long. I felt sick from the anesthesia yesterday so all I did was alternate between the TV and the computer and watch way too much America's Next Top Model.Thank god my baby came over last night to watch movies and keep me company (and listen to me complain) Pudding and sorbet are delicious but I can't wait to be able to chew real food again.

Hellloooo fall

I'm loving these new sweater/shawls and it's finally cold enough to wear them! It's basically a big blanket that you can wear out of the house...it's so comfy! I had to go back and get one in white too. The fall weather has made me so happy..I can drink hot coffee and tea and wear tons of layers. The only problem is that fall in New England does not last long before it gets unbearably cold and starts snowing. Then we're in for a long cold winter. 

So I decided to make a new blog because it's been too long since I wrote in my last one (sinking-ships) that if I began again it would feel weird and disconnected. I was about to delete the whole thing when I realized there were a lot of little things on that blog that I would never remember without it...random things I did everyday, short stories or poems I wrote etc...So I haven't deleted it yet. Part of me wants to because I feel very exposed when there is too much personal information about me out on the internet, some people are very comfortable with millions of strangers reading what they write and seeing what they do everyday, but it feels weird to me.