Clutter

Your Mind is 68% Cluttered

Your mind is quite cluttered. And like most clutter, it's a bunch of crap you don't need. Try writing down your worst problems and fears. And then put them out of your mind for a while.

How Cluttered is Your Mind?

While in Minneapolis

Pat me on the back guys. I am sitting here in Minneapolis’ airport and I’m eating by myself! Hurrah! I haven’t eaten all day and this Quizno’s sandwich tastes like the best thing on earth right about now. You should see me scarfing this down. But hell, I don’t care. This mama’s hungry and no one is going to get in her way. LOL.

I’ve only been gone for 4 hours and already, I feel my heart tugging for some rice. Hey, maybe I’ll lose weight for the days I’ll be gone, eh? The flight was hardly bearable (I was stuck sitting in the middle for around 3 hours!) but I’m thankful no one stunk and nobody talked to me at all. The last thing I needed was conversation. I just want to be in Ohio already.

There’s snow in Minneapolis! I thought of Alaska and the winters past where snow had everything to do with Christmas. I could certainly go back to snowy Christmases, I realize now.

Ohio, here I come.

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Strike a pose!

Oh yes, this little one is mine. Notice how she's very much into her poses with the middle pictures. I didn't even have to ask her to do that. The little girl thought she was on some kind of photo shoot, I think hahahaha. She does this pose quite a bit at home -- to say she loves an audience is an understatement.

I was stressing out the night before her pictures were to be done because I still hadn’t found an outfit (and shoes!) for her to wear. I was going to cancel altogether when good ‘ol Target came to the rescue and I was able to find the last pair of her shoes and an inexpensive dress in just a few minutes. We’d been walking up and down the mall prior trying to find her something and while I did walk away with something from Gymboree, the price I paid just wasn’t worth it (and it wasn’t even red or too Christmas-y). Anyhoo, I was happy altogether with mommy’s cheap find (because realistically, she’ll only wear this one more time).

She's growing up. SIGH.

Taste of a real winter

Nope, not in Ohio yet. I’m actually leaving first thing in the morning. Done packing, you ask? Oh heeeeeeeeeeeeell no. I’ve pretty much packed everything except the junk I’ll stuff into my bag and then my toiletries. I wouldn’t call it “stress” but this whole winter thing in Ohio has got me pretty disturbed — I have absolutely nothing that equates to true winter clothing. In fact, I was driving the other day when it hit me that maybe, just maybe I would need a coat. So I called O and stupidly asked her, knowing full well she’d say yes. Ugh. And I wasn’t exactly going to go out and buy a coat just to use while in Ohio (just today I was wearing flip flops because it was so warm). So I’ve gathered the thickest sweaters I have (read: 2) and hope that they’ll do if I layer myself with clothes underneath. Oh and scarves and gloves too. Shoes? Flats will have to do since flip flops are out of the question. With the way I talk, you’d think I didn’t grow up in Alaska for the first 24 years of my life. Stufid.

Pay no tax and get free shipping

While my sister was here, we window shopped at several furniture stores. She fell in love with a few pieces and decided that she wanted a king-sized sleigh bed. I took it upon myself to see if she might be able to get a better deal online. I came across a website that features a few bedroom sets that have that sleigh bed feature and let me tell you, the prices are very reasonable. Plus, there’s no tax and shipping is free. It got me thinking that maybe I should order a new Bed for our room as well (queen size just isn’t cutting it!) but then again, we plan to move somewhere so I’d hate to have to haul it all in the end. There are also quality sofa sets that I’m going to show my sister when she gets back (again, her order would be tax free!). Check out their selection of Furniture pieces if you too are in need of a few pieces.

Peeking in

So much to update and some pics to upload of Erynne–but I’ll do that later (making this again but this time, with the right noodles and I bought some shallots. Couldn’t find any arugula so spinach it is!). She had her Christmas photos taken at the mall yesterday morning but those won’t be out for another 10 days so I made sure I got some photos of her before we left the house. Didn’t post them last night because I was being a scaredy cat and didn’t want to walk from Erynne’s room to the family room for fear of mumu’s (everyone was asleep when I finally got the chance to sit in front of the computer, you see. Hi Apols :D). Don’t ask me why I’m scared, I’m just crazy like that.

Also, I have a hair appointment “in the city” manana. My mom flies back in tonight from Alaska so woohoo, I have someone to babysit Erynne while I most probably head to another salon to get my nails and eyebrows FINALLY waxed after the haircut. And I just dropped my sister off at the airport not too long ago for her flight back to Vegas. She’ll be back in 2 weeks time for the Christmas holidays and yaaaayyy, I was able to convince my dad to spend the holidays with us here in California so that we’d all be complete. However, I had to bribe him and tell him I’d buy him a new laptop. We’ll have to see about that because God knows the real deals were right after Thanksgiving. I’d like to get him a Dell laptop, finances-willing.

Dinner-making awaits.

Who says you have to be tiny to wear a swimsuit?

You need not be anorexic-looking to wear a swimsuit to the beach. I am a perfect example of that, I'll tell you right now.

When we were getting ready to go on our cruise to the Bahamas, I had the hardest time trying to find a swimsuit because of the fact that summer was coming to an end and most stores were already loading their racks with fall clothes. What little swimsuits were left were for smaller-sized women. So I tried looking for the next best thing -- those beach dresses where I can cover up most of my tummy, hips and thighs. Unfortunately, I couldn't find those in my size again as most stocks had been cleared days before. I wish I had known about this swimwear website because then I would have at least looked fabulous on the beach -- in all my plus-sized glory at that!

Luckily, I was able to score a simple black swimsuit on clearance sale just a day before our cruise (yes, in my size!). It's just too bad I hated the beach we visited and I couldn't prance around like the plus-sized diva I wanted to be. Who says fat girls don't feel sexy in swimwear?

It's the hair, I say

I couldn’t get an appointment with Katie Holmes’ hairstylist. She’s totally booked til next year and she lives too far. Plus, her prices are outrageous. Not to mention, I don’t know even know who her hairstylist is. *insert real laughter here*

HAHAHAHAHAHA. I am so full of it sometimes, aren’t I? The stuff that comes out of my mouth and mind sometimes — makes you and I both wonder, I tell you. LOL.

So who’s the next best thing on my list? Some chick named Joey Stevenson (look here and here) at Notorious For Hair in San Fran’s Castro Valley. I was on yelp.com determined to find the goddess of all haircuts. Such great reviews on this Joey gal here and here so I’m convinced to try her. Plus $28 for my first (and hopefully not my last) haircut and guys, this is in “the city.” It doesn’t get any sweeter than that, considering I’ve been paying a stupid $50 bucks for haircuts that I realize I haven’t totally been IN LOVE with. Like, loved but INLOVEINLOVEINLOVE? Nah.

For a few minutes, I was about ready to find a reason to head back to Fairbanks, Alaska to look up my old hairstylist from college. Sarah was her name and she was young and sweet and really knew my hair. In fact, she was the one who brought the Meg Ryan choppy look into my life and I have to say, if you don’t mind, that those were the best hair days of my life, period period period period PERIOD. I went from blue highlights to green and then finally she tamed me down and I came to know blond hilites together with that ohsofab Meg Ryan choppy/flipped out ‘do. Oooh, how I loved the experiments she’d do on me, though I hate to coin those past experiences as “experiments” because Sarah really did have a huge clientele then and was already an expert at her craft. *sigh* Hair is so important to me, you just don’t know. Which does not explain why, to this day, I have not ventured into hair school. What the hell man. I’ll be old and gray and then I’ll think to enroll into hair school? Whatever man. Who’ll want to see an old gurang like me when I’m old and gray and wearing who-knows-what by then (oh goodness, collar-ed flowery sweaters? HEAVEN FORBID!). And you all know what I’m talking about if you’re as crazy about hair as me — why would you want to go to some old lady when you can go to someone funky, spunky and cute? Holler if you know what I’m getting at.

So what was I saying? Oh yes, hair.

For someone as huge as me, hair is really all I’ve got to shine. Really. I’m being totally honest here. I’ve lost a lot of my brain cells being a SAHM so my chances of holding a decent conversation with anyone unless it’s about Filipino showbisms is very, very slim (oh wait, and if it’s about food, I might know a thing or two considering I consume so much of it). And I can’t wear the greastest of clothes so wanting to look cute in clothes is completely out of the picture (for now). So what do I have left? My hair.

So I’m calling this Joey chick first thing tomorrow morning. I hope she’s a keeper. And I pray to your God that she’s going to have an opening asap.

Mommy Makeover surgery

I have always been the type of person who said they’d never consider any type of plastic surgery. And I’m still that same person—to an extent. With the conversations I’ve been having with my sister about a Mommy Makeover, let me be honest here. I need, want and would consider a tummy tuck as part of my Mommy Makeover if given the opportunity. Heck, you might even suggest for me to go ahead and do the whole works and get liposuction done altogether but no, I don’t think I’d go that far. Tummy tuck, yes—liposuction, no. Don’t ask me why. (But did I tell you, during an IE from my ob-gyn one day, she told me point blank I was a perfect candidate for liposuction right after birth? The nerve! Couldn’t she have at least waited until I was dressed, legs together?!?!?!).

I saw some photos of before and after tummy tuck results. What can I say, I’m envious! Granted I’ve always had a big tummy because I’m already a big girl but it’s nothing like it is now. Pregnancy exacerbated what was already a problem from the beginning, what with my skin stretching to accommodate Erynne and the extra poundage that came after the birth. At this point, I don’t know that exercise alone could fix my problem, realistically speaking. Who knows, maybe one day, I’ll finally speak to a Los Angeles plastic surgeon about a tummy tuck.

And then there’s my nose. Not that it’s been a major problem in my life but it is pretty flat. I saw some photos of before and after pictures of a Beverly Hills rhinoplasty procedure and I have to say, the results were excellent! I can just imagine it now—I’ll start with a tummy tuck and then I’ll just want more. To each his own, right?

Shut.Up.

Ever watch Stacy London? Okay, this is so a Stacy London moment right now. Look at her hair!


Brilliant. Absolutely f&^%$@# brilliant. Look at the shape! Gawd, I am lovin’ it! I’ve been watching this chick and I just can’t get over her — she is getting better and better and BETTER. Who would have thought?????

Give me a moment will you. I’m about ready to book myself a ticket to see her hairstylist. See more photos here.