It’s Friday night! We’ve all conquered January 2012 once and for all. Winter is supposedly sticking around for six more weeks and it’s time for the weekend open thread, complete with bonus points.
To get the conversation started, here’s the only song I can play on the guitar. I can play it maybe 1/8th as well as this fella here.
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I have asked three friends for help in planning my birthday party this Saturday – I just need ideas on where to go. Not that hard.
ONE friend has acknowledged the email I sent her last week. And she offered Nothing. WTF.
I hate this birthday. I don’t even really want to do anything. STOP MAKING IT DIFFICULT.
(Honestly, I don’t think the birthday person should do the planning unless they really want to. It should be customary for friends or family to do the actual planning stuff.)
The opening of this thread made me laugh. I always wanted to play the piano but the only thing I can manage is “The First Noel.”
I can play the shit out of that one, though. :-)
Aghh, I have a dilemma! My advisor royally screwed me over last year by not giving me the recommended course sequence and telling me to take certain classes, which I took. I found out halfway through the semester that I needed to take a different course than what she told me and managed to talk my way into a course I needed this semester that because of her I didn’t have the prerequisite for. Our program is extremely structured, and the courses are set up in a specific way for a reason. It’s a 66 hour MA program, which is super long for one of those, and in order to finish in three years you have to do more than full time (full time for a grad program is considered 9 hours; we have to take 12). So now, because she is a shit advisor, I have the choice of doing 9 hours in summer (6 hours in one month, 3 hours in the second), or 15 in the fall, which also includes my 10 clock hour/week practicum, so I can get the class I’m missing. I’m leaning towards the summer thing, because I think it will be easier to be extremely stressed for one month than very stressed for four. What say y’all?
Summer. Â Definitely summer.
I was thinking summer as well. I figure that I can go ahead and get it over with then. That way not only will I not have to worry about it for a full semester, my next spring semester will only be 9 hours!
Summers tend to be more relaxed, so even if it is super stressed, it’ll be manageable.
Lawd, I’m so bored I waxed some rogue body hair (curse you PCOS) and polished my silver bangles. Now it is time to do NOTHING.
Get crafty! Or do what I’d do, which is open a bottle of wine and surf Netflix.
I may do that! I might paint my nails, cannot decide what colour though!
I’m about to do my nails now and I’ve decided on a very pale pink with a sheer gold glitter top coat. I’m very addicted to Essie’s glitter topcoats- they’re so pretty!
Sounds gorgeous! Essie is so hard to find here, and it’s not cheap either. I will have to have a look through my stash, see what jumps out!
Orange! Mine are Essie’s Bright Tights. They are neon and blinding, and an instant pick-me-up.
In terms of unwanted body hair, oh, the books I could write. I would start with how I thought it was a great idea to regularly Nair (regular formula, of course) my upper lip when I was a teenager and didn’t know better.
My issue is also caused with my attempts to get rid of it as a dumb teenager! I used to shave my arms and snail trail, so I wax them semi-regularly to try and thin them back out.
I ended up painting my nails with Orly Androgyne, it’s pretty sweet.
Ooh, that’s the glittery black, right? I almost bought it a little while ago but I wasn’t sure how it would turn out. Is it worth getting?
It’s fluorescent orange and the best perky summer color ever! Glittery black though, that’s one I don’t yet own, clearly I need to work on that.
ETA: Clearly, it’s bedtime and I totally just realized you weren’t talking about neon orange nail polish.
It’s a 3 coater, but it’s not bad! Â I wouldn’t buy it full price but it’s worth getting.
I looked it up, unless the internet lies, it’s so pretty! I only have an Orly topcoat, but I really love that the bottles have grippy tops.
And as for snail trails…I’d say mine’s more of a happy field for snails to frolic in on a lovely day. I gave up after awhile, so I generally take care of it when it’s going to see daylight. I tell myself it’s better for my skin..
I like it! I think I might mattify it tomorrow, I think that will be sweet. Fair enough on the snail trail, I am generally very lazy with it. Mr Cesy has never complained so I don’t do it too often!
Oooh, I’ve definitely fallen onto the matte bandwagon. If you want to try something fun, OPI had a bunch of ‘suede’ polishes out last fall, I think they’re still around? They’re matte AND sparkly.
Ha! I’m so bored I watched a single episode of Gray’s Anatomy twice! Sounds like painting nails was a good little project for an hour or so. Maybe I should do the same?
Do it! I’m considering doing my toes while watching Top Gear.