Palette
I’ve never bought any makeup that wasn’t from Walmart, Rite-Aid, or the Real Canadian Superstore. However, I am seriously considering buying myself Jeffree Star’s Thirsty Palette, mostly because of that beautiful yellow.
I love yellow eyeshadow.
(Sorry, it’s been a slow month in the blog department)
Need to Concentrate?
I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned this on here or not, but when I really need to buckle down and concentrate and get shit done, brown noise is the thing to listen to.
It’s like being by the ocean. It really improves my ability to focus. So if you’re in a “GOTTA GET IT DONE NOW” situation, try this out with some nice headphones. It might help.
Edit: Putting this video on 0.5 speed does NOT help it does the OPPOSITE my SOUL had an anxiety attack.
Skydive Arizona
Hey, so remember when I went skydiving like seven years ago? I finally found the DVD of the jump and decided to upload it to YouTube. Here ya go.
(Note: the video was originally some weird-ass file format, so I had to screen record it, haha).
Hole
This is…ominous.
Is this how we die?
I AM A HYPER
THIS IS A BLOG
ELEVATORS GONNA ELEVATE
Who’s heard of a Paternoster Lift?
I certainly hadn’t. But this YouTube vid was in my recommended list, so I gave it a watch:
It’s basically a continuous loop of “boxes” that act as an elevator as the loop lifts the boxes up and then spins them back around to the bottom.
From watching the video, I can see why these aren’t installed anymore for safety reasons. Still, though…it would be fun to ride in one and see what it’s like.
Zoom North
Headed back up to Calgary today. Not ready to go back. I want just a bit more time in Moscow.
Edit: THIS KOKANEE FOOT HAS SIX TOES
Aaaaand now it’s stuck in my head.
Ha. Cute.
More Spokane
I FORGOT TO MENTION THIS, TOO
So when we were in Spokane, we also happened upon this:
This is Mille Bornes, a game that we used to play with my grandma and grandpa back when I was in like 4th grade or so.
The box is all updated and modern, but the cards are the same “old” style. They just don’t have the French on them anymore.
Basically it’s like a card racing game: you want to be the first to get to 200 miles. You get certain distance/mileage cards, hazard cards to give to others, and safety cards to protect against hazard cards or to undo their effects. I remember it being very fun. If you ever see it, you should get it and try it!
My Feet: An Intimate Look
When my mom and I were in Coeur d’Alene the other day, we stopped at Fleet Feet and got our feet scanned. I just got my scan emailed to me today, so let’s take a look together! THERE’S NOT ENOUGH OF MY FEET ON THIS BLOG AND YOU KNOW IT.
Here they are from the front.
Fun fact: my left foot is size 6.9 D and my right foot a 6.6 D. This is very strange to me because everything else on the right side of my body is larger than the left side of my body except for, apparently, my feet.
Here’s the view from the top. I don’t know what my right pinky toe is up to, but it looks like it’s trying to break free.
I have wide-ass feet. I already knew this, but now I have proof. The “D” in my shoe size is code for “duck feet” because they’re basically flippers in terms of their width. They’re not the widest, but they’re pretty wide. This is why I keep having to size up in my Kinvaras, because they keep making them narrower with each new version.
I also have short feet (toe to heel length) compared to the rest of the female population, so that’s great.
My feet are pretty similar except in their arches. I have a low arch on my left foot and a high arch on my right. You can kind of see it in the scan.
I also have a low instep height compared to the rest of the female population and narrow heel width compared to the rest of the female population
AND ANOTHER THING…
AND SPEAKING OF BLOGGING…why don’t any of y’all blog anymore? I miss reading other people’s blogs and hearing about their lives.
I mean, I can’t be the only source of entertainment here. Someone has to take over during those two-year gaps I leave between uploading my blogs.
I’m in a blogging rut
I feel like I don’t have anything worthwhile to blog about.
Which, you know, is nothing new; I never have anything worthwhile to blog about.
But now it all feels extra boring.
At times like this, I often consider just quitting the daily blogging. But then I realize that I am 30 years old and I have a daily log of almost* my entire adult life.
Which is too cool to not continue, so yeah.
*I turned 18 in February 2006 and started blogging on May 1, 2006.
SNOW WAY
Sung to the tune of Frère Jacques:
It is April, it is April
What is this? What is this?
Winter can go die now, winter can go die now
I am pissed, I am pissed
A Thought I Had Today:
We use the same prefix “im-” for both impossible and impossibility, but why do we use “un-” for unstable but “in-” for instability?
I did a bit of internetting to see if I could find a reasonably believable answer. Turns out the word “unstable” dates back to the 13th century and borrows from Old English and Old French, both Germanic languages. Germanic languages use the “un-” prefix.
“Instability,” on the other hand, is slightly newer and dates back to the 15th century. It borrows from Latin; Latin uses the “in-” (or “im-”) prefix.
Both “impossible” and “impossibility” borrow from Latin, hence the same “im-” prefix.
The more you know!
WINTER APPROACHETH? WINTER NEVER LEAVETH!
Ah yes, April. The dead of winter.
What the shit, Calgary?
Also, it’s supposed to get to like 50 degrees tomorrow, so guess what’s going to happen to all that snow? Time for sidewalk flooding!
BUH.
News Flash Part II:
I also have a lot of eyeshadow.
Some of them I’ve had since high school, which is kind of scary. And before anyone says it, yes, I know that like the maximum “safe to use” time on makeup is like 24 months depending on the type of makeup but my eyelids have yet to fall off from old makeup, so fight me.
Some of my favorites:
NYX – “Mermaid”
Covergirl – “Lime Alive”
Prestige (I don’t know the color name; this one is from JUNIOR HIGH and the back info is all worn off. This is the perfect orange, though)
Wet n’ Wild – the “Poster Child” palette
Wet n’ Wild – the “Not a Basic Peach” palette
Emori
NYX – “Ultimate Brights” palette (all of these are fantastic)
e.l.f – “Moss,” “Solar”, “Heat,” and “Candy”
News Flash:
I have a lot of earrings. I’ve been slowly amassing them ever since I got my ears pierced and now we have this madness.
Some of my favorites (plus a few I’ve acquired in the interim between when this blog was written and when it was actually posted, haha):
More Ted
This is really interesting.
HOLES
I keep forgetting to mention this on here, so I’ll use today’s blog for it because why the hell not.
That industrial piercing I have in my right ear? It’s gone now.
I used to never take the industrial bar out, but it gets so ridiculously cold up here that I got paranoid about the bar freezing my ear during my walks, so I’d been taking it out for decently long stretches of time. I had it out for less than 48 hours a while back and when I tried to put it back in, the lower hole was completely healed over. Completely. Like, you can’t even tell there was ever a hole there.
I could still jam the bar through the hole in my upper ear cartilage, but just barely. I suspect that it’s completely healed over as well.
I had that piercing for TEN YEARS. I take it out for less than two days and my dumbass body heals everything over.
Fantastic.
CC
Remember that bomb blast simulation I mentioned a few days ago? They have an interactive “how will climate change affect you?” map as well.
Scary stuff.
SimNuke
I like these kinds of things.
(Simulations, not nukes.)
If you click on the little menu on the upper right-hand corner, they have a lot more info on nuclear weapons than just the interactive sim.
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