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I’m Thirsty.

27 Thursday Jun 2013

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You know what I don’t like?  Tea.  You know what I’m drinking right now?  Tea.

I have a very romantic ideology of tea, what with it being British and something Doctor Who drinks for it’s antioxidants, but… I can’t.

For one thing, I don’t know if I can make it correctly.  The flavor seems off, and since I’m stealing it from my super cool brother while he isn’t home I’m guessing at how much to put in with the water in the thingy that he got from Teavana.  Also, it takes possibly 15 minutes to make.  That is a lot of time I could be sitting and playing Angry Birds, or doing laundry, or contemplating the idea of exercise while watching HBO.

I’ll finish my mug, just so I’m not wasting my brother’s money.  And I’m very overtired and feeling icky so maybe it’ll do me some good, but God, at such a cost.

I try at times to find different beverages to pass my time trying because I usually drink water or vodka, whiskey, tequila, etc.  I keep thinking that the key to not coming home from work and taking 2 shots while complaining about how no one in this family understands that dinner time is at 6:30 pm and not 9 pm is to switch from shots to something else.  I have considered coffee, but what with how it makes me feel sort of ill and jittery, plus how I am a fan of teeth whitening strips that may make my teeth all the more able to stain, I don’t really go for it these days.

I’ve been thinking that perhaps a pretentious sparkling water would work, as I’m a huge fan of San Pellegrino Pompelmo.  It is the most delicious of all the sparkling lemonade drinks in the entire world, but it’s expensive.  I got bills, son, about 40 grand of ‘em.  I can’t always be spending $10 on a six pack of mineral water goodness.  So I have tried to switch over to polar seltzer water.  I only buy it in 12 packs of cans because it’s the best way to force yourself to drink a carbonated beverage before it goes flat, and the rest of the supply won’t get flat either.  I have a few issues with this beverage as well though, such as how it’s not very tasty unless you doctor it.  This can be problematic because I always seem to find vodka in the mix… also, it’s quite dehydrating.  I always feel way more thirsty after having a can, and the more I drink the thirstier I am!  Then there is the fact that my brother likes to steal them and drink 6 out of 12 cans in 36 hours of their being in the house.  This becomes a problem, because I have an issue with running out of things.  For some reason I need to have something fully restocked before I use the last of it.

My point is, this is my journey.  It’s a part of my life and in this season I am trying to figure our how to tantalize and entertain my taste buds without alcohol.  Suggestions are welcome. dirty

TV Teaches Me Things part 3

24 Monday Jun 2013

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tinadanceWhen I was a junior in college I was introduced to a show by a friend that she swore was one of the best things she’d ever seen in her life. It was one of the best things I had ever seen in my life as well, and I became a fangirl immediately. The show was 30 Rock.
Here is a random list of things that I have learned from my beloved show. It is incomplete, but it is still gonna happen.

  • Reaganing is defined as a continual streak of perfection. It is similar to a ‘no hitter’ in baseball however with a more broad application that refers to a series of non-related events. Named after the 40th President of the USA Ronald Reagan.
  • It is possible to have male-female friendships. Liz and Jack are strictly friends, business buddies, work spouses, mentor-mentee, and work husband slash uncle/co-worker slash little brother. It can work. It doesn’t have to get complicated and weird.
  • Live every week like it’s Shark Week.
  • There are secrets to fashion, ranging from tie colors (having more than 2 colors in a tie means you’re looking for a certain type of bar) to the proper way to dress as a spinster (sweatshirt, mom jeans, fanny pack), from the secrets behind trends (your friend is Michael Khors and will make wizard capes cool to hide your girlfriend’s pregnancy) to the wrong way to color block (tan slacks with a tan turtleneck will make you look like a giant condom), and of course the proper way to treat evening wear.

    Lemon: “Why are you wearing a tux?”
    Jack: “It’s after 6. What am I, a farmer?”

  • Reality TV will always be on because it always wins the ratings.
  • The Bubble is defined as the world in which beautiful people live where they are protected from all criticism and all of life’s unpleasantries and never get a true sense of their actual limitations
  • Nothing brings people together like fear and/or the hatred of something. Bonding can happen over fear of the end of the world, budget cuts, or even bed bugs.
  • There are 3 things you should not do in a negotiation: speak first, smile, and negotiate against yourself.
  • You can’t out-crazy Tracy Jordan
  • An EGOT is the combination of winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony; the highest peak an actor can attain.
  • There is a difference between positive reinforcement and stating facts.

    “I do look like the Arrow shirt man, I did lace up my skates professionally and I did do a fabulous job finishing my muffin.”

  • I want to go to there is an expression of yearning for a feeling, place, or situation. Use it in reality. I do.dirty

Style Inspiration – Kiki’s Hair

22 Saturday Jun 2013

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It’s the hair. It’s really all about the hair.

I have always had so much envy for KiKi’s hair. It is never too done, the color is always in the blond family (except when it’s red), and she parts her hair in a side part on the same side of her head as I do! We are obviously going to be hair twins forever!

I think that the intense hair envy really got started when I saw her in Wimbledon. Her hair in that movie is so naturally textured, which is exactly what I wish my hair was. Her character puts it up simply to get it out of her face because she is an athlete, so it’s carefree in that her do’s are about function, not really how it looks. Her character is an american tennis player, and you would think that she were going to become a version of Anna Kournikova, because of the blond hair and tennis skirts, but because her hair texture is allowed to be a bit roughed up, wavy, loose, her character can’t be confined to the typical blond athlete that our media knows so well. Instead her hair adds to the carefree and adventurous aura of her character’s personality.

Basically, I want it. dirty

Dirty Dozen: Birthday Wishlist

18 Tuesday Jun 2013

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I’m going to be 26 in a month! Let’s not go into all the gory details, let’s just read my birthday present wishlist!

    1. The New Girl season 1 on DVD.new girl
    2. A durable and good sized external hard drive. I’m afraid of losing all the pictures I’ve taken over the past few years.
    3. Anything from Wildfox. I especially like these shirts. One is fricken BA and the other represents delicious flavor.
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    4. A professional layout for DirtySean.com. I’m a big fan of this girl, and this one. I think it’s just make the site a little more… professional, stylish, exciting!
    5. A Tristar Air Climber, cus I want to be working on my fitness and also alone in my room watching The New Girl.
    6. Another tattoo. Just a little one. Or maybe just two little ones.
    7. 26_cowher_92_2I would love a new pair of quality boots. I’m really picky about them, the style and the heel and what have you… but the ones I like are always basically rock and roll. These aren’t bad.
    8. Anything from Lauren Conrad’s Khol’s collections. 4aa35af448725f00d46fdc90fdc69cbaSeriously, don’t I belong in this dress?
    9. A nice new pair of quality shears for my hairdressing-Mary-Poppins bag.
    10. The Craig Camera Bag from Rebecca Minkoff. 0470efe7fa093b0ef138d2067fe9c3c9I said wishlist.
    11. A clean closet. To go through all my clothes and clean my room. adf4b247ad5ef081e4fb50e345171b99This will never happen.
    12. To see my friends. The ones I haven’t seen in 6 months or more. The ones who live a state or two away. Guess what? This, like the camera bag and the clean closet, most likely won’t happen either. Don’t get me wrong, I’m so happy to have my family around me this year, I am so thankful for everything that they do to support me and try to make me feel loved. But I miss the people I left behind with the life I couldn’t quite make work. I keep trying to make a plan to go to them, but I’m really bad at that apparently. It’ll happen at some point.15961_10151185888349340_959981093_n297146_586135558083_1257042056_n

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Of Patience and Waiting

13 Thursday Jun 2013

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A while ago I found this guy who really understands me.  It’s like, no matter where I am in my life he seems to know exactly what’s going on with me, and he always knows how to say it out loud so I don’t have to.

Too bad he’s dead.

The apostle Paul knew exactly what I am going through today.  He even wrote it down for me.

“Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the worst. But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his immense patience as an example for those who would believe in him and receive eternal life.”  – 1 Timothy 1:15-16

I have always known I am the worst Christian, and it’s something I’ve come to accept about myself.  No matter how many people I’ve met, no matter how many could say that they are worse, I’ve known for a long time that they can never understand how deeply sinful my heart is.

I used to feel relieved when I found out that people who I considered holy were sinners too.  The girl who read her bible all the time had a selfish streak a mile wide.  The guy who acted as a spiritual leader was jobless and petulant about it.  The super compassionate and loving had a bit of a drinking issue and a history of premarital sex.  I was so happy when a beloved pastor’s wife spoke louder than normal to get her point across about a broken dish that I almost forgot that it was her way of yelling at me, because I finally saw a side of her I could relate to: the human side.

I get very impatient.  I decide to do something myself or decide it will never happen.  I get anxious when waiting for something that is promised or guaranteed, to the point of convincing myself it will never get here.  These are not very good ways to prove my trust in an incredibly patient God.

When Paul says that he was shown mercy so that Christ Jesus would be able to display his immense patience I feel like the man had visions of a future where an impatient and rebellious girl would never be satisfied.  It’s like God gave him a special dream where he showed a bunch of tin boxes with wheels and big metal birds and enormous scary buildings, pointed out a girl in the middle of it with constantly changing hair color and whispered in Paul’s ear, “She is going to have days where she won’t believe that she will be able to make it.  I need you to write to her and remind her about me.”

And that’s what I’m getting today, a reminder of why I’m here and what my life is about.  I get to read a reminder that Christ is working in me, being patient with me beyond my understanding, so that my life can be an example to other people.  And when I remember his patience, which I don’t think anyone else in the world can have for me, I want to have that patience.  I want to be an example of what the patience of Christ Jesus looks like on this earth.  So that’s what I’ll be praying for, because believe me, I’m not there yet.dirty