Today was pretty damn girly.

I went clothes shopping. I didn’t get what I wanted, which is a shiny shirt for holiday parties but I got other stuff.

Then I went to Ulta and sprayed myself with too many Demeter fragrances so I smelled like a Sugar and Spice Laundry Mojito. I’m not a perfume type girl but I love me some Demeter.

My trip to Ulta was not to play with scents, it was to get hair dye. I love having red hair or red highlights but they fade out so quick that it’s not worth getting them done professionally. So I tried the at home all over color/highlight kit and it didn’t turn out too bad. There’s one section of highlights that is way too light but its under my top layer of hair so I’m not concerned.

And tomorrow I’m going to Macy’s with the parents and they have a Lush boutique in the store so more girly-ness!

Thanksgiving was not too eventful. My aunt brought lamb butter. She claimed she thought it was turkey butter but no, that’s definitely a lamb and this has definitely been sitting in your freezer since Easter. So I did the only thing you can do with months old lamb butter. I decapitated it during prayer.

I always go and see zombie movies with a certain friend. There haven’t been any zombie movies recently, holidays are the slow time for gore. We decided to branch out and see a vampire movie, 30 Days of Night. It’s inexplicably still showing at a theater near me.
I read the IMDB reviews on the movie and was kind of concerned when I realized a 3 year old was sitting in my row. The kid did pretty well, I just heard her whisper “This is scary.” once. And someone’s head was being chopped off at the time. Fuck, I agree, little kid. This is scary. Other than the beheadings, the most interesting things about the movie was that both my friend and I accidentally spilled our drinks all over ourselves.
The vampires kind of reminded me of clowns, with their white faces and red stained mouths. Wipe your mouths, crusty blood stained vampires. Their faces were also a bit mongoloid. I like my vampires all Anne Rice hot, not vaguely deformed and retarded. IMDB gave all the vampires names even though I don’t remember their names being mentioned in the movie. It would have been more helpful if IMDB just listed “round headed vampire” or “Marilyn Manson looking vampire” in the credits.
I was amused that one character reminded me of another friend. Maybe because they both like to spout gibberish in Cajun accents.
I need a good zombie movie.

And on the topic of the undead, my cab driver was listening to some religious radio station and the guy on the radio said that the rapture is coming in 2011. He also said that god will  resurrect all the good dead people, no matter what shape your corpse is in. That’s right, he will animate your bones! That’s fucking scary. This is why I don’t like religion.

I’ve been downloading music tonight and I’m pretty impressed by Sigur Ros. The songs keep my attention and I have no idea what they’re saying. I’m big on lyrics, a song is much more memorable to me if I can sing along. But I can’t even get translations to the “Hopelandic” Sigur Ros lyrics.

I’ve been watching a bunch of movies the last couple weeks, something I don’t normally do.

First one was No Country For Old Men. Lots of killing and that guy. You know, that guy. He’s in everything. Even my dreams. The movie felt like it was 10 hours long. Maybe it was because everyone had a Southern accent and talk reaalll slooww. Maybe it’s because I don’t have a hard on for the Coen Brothers like I do for Wes Anderson.

So I finally saw The Darjeeling Limited. There’s a group of actors that will always have work as long as Wes Anderson is making movies. I don’t even know some of their names, it’s just “Oh, thats the same Indian guy from Life Aquatic.” The movie was good, the scenes on the train were excellent but it didn’t stun me like Life Aquatic did. I still think Life Aquatic is a great movie and I love the animation with the fishes.

In between these two movies I saw Knocked Up. It made me mad. Mad because it was not nearly as funny as everyone said it was. Does the girl have a single funny line or is it all riding on the guy and his stoner friends? Even the bitchy sister is funnier than the girl. Also mad because one conversation with her mom about “taking care of it” is not “addressing abortion as an option.” Funny that right after I see the movie, I see an article in Bitch magazine addressing the same thing I was bothered by. Why create this movie that has so many serious parts (too many for a comedy) and totally gloss over abortion? Yes, I know there would be no movie if she wire hangered the thing but she can at least have a moment where she thinks about her career, the fact that she doesn’t even have her own place, her pretty little figure, her dumbass baby daddy and say “fuck, I can’t have this baby.”

Sarcastic Spoiler Alert! It has a happy ending. Even the though whole movie is about how wrong these people are for each other, they stay together. For the baby. Aww, isn’t that the worst decision ever? Yes it is! Yes it is!

And in the To See pile: Why didn’t anyone tell me that Angelina Jolie is in Beowulf? I’m seeing that in 3-D!

Unrelated, my computer speakers seem to be getting quieter. I can’t even dance to Daft Punk in my room! Now that I think about it, my speakers are at least 5 years old but I don’t think they are the problem. My little brother just bought an insane amount of computer parts from an auction at his school. I might enlist him to help me put my computer in a new case(one that actually has a back!) and get a new sound card. I also hate that each program I use has it’s own volume control. And there is a master volume control for my computer and an external volume control for my speakers. WTF redundant.

I have been sick, unrelated to alcohol this time. Related to others in my office being sick and no one opening a damn window even if the office is a gabillion degrees like it was today. Well, maybe that didn’t make me sick but it made me feel much worse and I paced the building looking for a cool spot (North women’s bathroom).

I’ve come to the conclusion, with no help from professional social work sites, that I am eligible to get my LCSW even if I’m not in direct service. On the licensing paperwork, there is a list of “what kind of work do you do?” and research is listed. So, good enough for me. I’m starting to think it’s ridiculous that I’m looking for an outside licensing supervision group. I like the group supervision experience more than 1 on 1 but I have at least 3 LCSW’s at my workplace. Maybe I could rotate between them.

I’m going to be trained to be a trainer at work because I opened my big mouth after our last training and told my boss “I could do that.” And she said “OK, do it.” Damn having a boss that let’s me do everything.

Is it possible to go to a trader bar and not get incredibly messed up? All signs point to no. First time I went, I had an awesome frozen drink called Shark Attack. It came with a plastic shark toy and I was amused. I decided to end last night with 2 Shark Attacks (which came with marlins this time, not sharks) and a shot. I spent much of my morning staring at things, wishing I could will inanimate objects to move so I did not have to.
Even though I was miserably hungover, I still finished and submitted my brief proposal. My proposal that has my name as a co-investigator. Yay! I thought my boss would just put my name on the study as research staff but no, I’m an investigator! This means between now and the time we find out if the proposal was accepted, I have to take really boring online courses so I’m IRB approved. I’m so excited! My First Proposal!

And did you know that Cadbury eggs are now sold as Xmas candy? They also seem to be shrinking every year but this is excellent timing. As soon as my stash of Xmas eggs runs out, the Easter versions will be out! We need some summer holiday Cadbury eggs can be tied into. Memorial Day eggs?

I’m supposed to be finishing my brief proposal so I can throw it at my boss tomorrow and tell her to tear it to shreds so I can rebuild it by Wednesday. I have 1 more page to write and I just can’t seem to do it. And I still need to go grocery shopping tonight! I’m not sure what my problem is-anxiety over writing my first real proposal, lack of focus, bitter that I didn’t work on this last week because I was editing policy all week. Other than the few amusing policies on topics like “explicit materials”, it’s boring and time consuming.

I went to work in dress pants and my ninja top/mask on Halloween. I was very amused with myself and spent the day jumping into coworker’s offices and threatening people. I had a meeting with my intern minions last week. My boss wants me to be a Narc and talk to the interns casually and see if the things they complained about continue to suck or improve. Well, I am a ninja, should be no problem.

I went to the new Threadless store today. It’s super sexy,flat screen monitors above every display case showing the graphic, price, comments and pictures of smiley people in the shirt, nice big Macs for browsing their site. Upstairs is artwork and I’m told they host digital art classes there, too. I got this shirt.