Wishlist

This is mostly for my brother's reference.  Haha.  I HAVE to do this every year 'cause well, I have different taste ;)  I guess you could say, I'm hard to shop for at times. This I really want have asterisks ***


SierraSnowboard.com
Use coupon code: Extra 10 (get 10% off)

• Foursquare Polo Scout Belt - $5.99 ***
• Special Blend Checkmate Bandana - $2.40
• Special Blend Scout Belt - $4.79
• Coal Dubai Hood Womens Beanie 2009 - $5.00
• Arbor Saigon SS Tshirt (Red, Sz S) - $11.99 ***
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Photojojo.com

• Ultra Wide and Slim Camera + 24 exp - $32.00 ***
• Magnetic Photo Rope - 2 for $20.00 ***
• Fotoclips (110 pcs) - $10.00 ***

TKBtrading.com

• EZ Eye Shadow Kit ***

Steppie's Shop @ Etsy

• Flying Panda T-shirt (Sz S) - $25.00 ***
• Panda Bums Tunic (Sz +1) - @28.00 ***

Lovely Charm's Shop @ Etsy

• Big Sweet Kawaii Monkey lovers toy Phone Charm Strap - $18.00 

Ebay 

• Panda MEDIUM Hand bag - $43.00 ************

Shadows Fall.

"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you." 
Peter took this photo of me the day we went pumpkin picking @ Tigges Farm. I post processed it in Photoshop. Have a great weekend!

Winners Circle.

I took a break from sweepstakes & contests when my life started going haywire and I basically lost interest due to all the background noise (drama) going on.  I got back into it end of September-ish and I'm glad that I did!  I've had a steady stream of wins and it's pretty amazing.  Just a recap of what I've won over the 2 months:

those that I won under peter's name are in red.

10/13 - Snow White Blu-Ray Deluxe Edition - Fandango.com
10/17 - Snow White Blu-Ray Deluxe Edition - thedvdlounge.com

10/24 - 2 movie tickets - Coke
10/30 - NCAA Football '10 game Xbox 360 - Wendys
11/4 - Michael Jackson PEOPLE Tribute Book - People Mag
11/13 - DodgeTag toy - @FamilyFun
11/13 - Madden Football '10 game Xbox 360 - KFC
11/13 - Adidas Superstar shoes - Dew Green Label Gear
11/16 - Bayonetta Demo Early Access Code - Sega
11/17 - $10 BestBuy GC - MyCokeRewards.com
11/21 - $10 HomeDepot GC - Wendys
11/22 - NBA Live '10 game PS3 - GamingShogun.com
11/23 - New Era Hat - Dew Green Label Gear
11/24 - $25 Pizza GC - @ComcastSports
11/24 - $5 Home Depot GC - Wendy's
11/26 - CSI Drawstring Backpack - deadlyintentgame.com
11/26 - 2 oz soy-based candle - Glade
11/26 - $10 HomeDepot GC - Wendys
11/26 - $15 Best Buy GC - MCR
11/28 - 200 Microsoft Points - @getxboxcodes
11/29 - $25 BeautyTicket.com GC - @stylebakeryteen
11/29 - South Park XBL Download - @Xtival09
11/29 - 600 Microsoft Points - Doritos
12/1 - $15 Best Buy GC - mycokerewards.com
12/3 - Pantech Impact smart cell phone - @PantechUSA
12/4 - DJ Hero game XBOX 360 - mycokerewards.com <3333
12/4 - $5 F.Y.E. GC - @fyeguy


I also won a box of Little Debbie's cupcakes and probably some random other things.  I am pretty damn super stoked to start receiving all of these things in the mail.  LOL.  DJ HERO!  You can't even imagine how stoked I am for that.  Man.. I hope I can get those video games in time for Christmas!  Peter is going to be so so happy.


I have been quite lucky indeed.  I am definitely blessed by The Man Above ^^... I won 2 big ticket items in the past 2 days.  WOW.  Is this what you call GOOD Karma?  Maybe I should go pick up more children's names off of the angel tree?  Haha, just kidding!  Here's to hoping December will bring lots of luck and blessings.  Tis the season :)


Oh & Lastly,  if any one of you could be so kind to do me a tiny favor:
Can you please vote for my photo (http://twitpic.com/s1zzs) @ http://bit.ly/50iJcA -- It is #13 London Shenanigans. I'd greatly appreciate it!

Suspect.

It's 4:30 am, but I just have to blog this.  I am becoming more and more paranoid by the minute.


On Tuesday it snowed overnight, which was awesome because I LOVE snow.  On Wednesday, there was a beautiful white coat of snow over everything.  Peter let the dogs out in the backyard as usual.  Aside from the snow, Peter noticed that there were FOOTPRINTS on our deck that led to our kitchen window.  WTF.  They were fresh footprints because obviously, the snow would've covered them up and who the f&ck would go in our backyard!?  It's OUR private backyard.  It was obviously a boys/men's footprints as well.


Now, I was up the whole time till 8AM Wednesday morning (I can't sleep at regular hours these days and usually sleep only 4-6 hours a day).  I didn't hear anything except these new people that moved downstairs alive and kicking til the early morning.  I didn't think anything of it until Peter told me what he saw.


Now tonight, I fell asleep in the living room and I suddenly start hearing BANGING noises coming from downstairs.  It's 3:30AM what the f&ck man?!  I listen closer and I can hear the dad, an older teenager, and their young son who doesn't seem any older than 6 years old.  It's now 4:30 am and I can still hear them downstairs.


I can't sleep because I am so sketched out!  They were banging around something and then one of them goes outside and I can hear them walking around.  I can hear him poking around or doing something outside, but what?  I didn't hear their car start (it's loud and clear as day when they start it), it's 4AM, 7 degrees outside.  They're not smoking outside because they've been smoking inside ever since the fucking day they moved in!


I am getting freakin paranoid because something is NOT right here.  I'm a night owl and apparently they ALL are too?  However, who let's their young child stay up in the wee hours of the morning like that?  Does this kid not go to school?  I don't want to pass judgement, they seemed nice at first, but now I am just annoyed at everything.  


These people are heavy smokers and I don't know why, but apparently they are allowed to smoke in the house!  This REALLY annoys me, especially because we were asked if we smoked before we signed the contract.  There is nothing in our lease that blatantly states that smoking is prohibited in the house.  Therefore, Peter went down and nicely asked if they could smoke outside because our house shares a central AC/heating system.  Therefore, all the vents in the house are interconnected.  Unfortunately, smoke rises UP and even worse gets SUCKED THROUGH the vents when the heater turns on.  Moreso, because of the weather, the wood windows warped and we haven't been able to open any of our windows for MONTHS now (this may be a good thing I guess if someone tried to break in).  All the smoke gets caught in OUR house and is making our whole house wreak of the stench.  I've had to open my doors on 30 degree nights because I couldn't breathe.  I fucking hate smoke with a passion.  These people were good about smoking outside for TWO days.  I've resorted to covering our vents with Saran Wrap because they just smoke all freakin day.


I don't have a problem with people smoking.  That's your fucking business.  If you're around me and you're smoking, I'd just walk away and come back when you're done.  Unfortunately, I can't leave my own house and these people simply can't go outside and have to subject me to this poison.  I know it's like, "why should they bend over their ways because I don't smoke?"  But where the fuck is the common courtesy?  Obviously, I can't go outside in 10 degree weather everytime you're smoking.  You're doing it all day!  I don't smoke for a reason.  I could never handle the smell, my nose is incredibly sensitive, and I can't breathe around that stench.  Most importantly, second hand smoke is HORRIBLE for you.  


A call to my landlord will be going out soon.  We are getting out of our contract one way or another!  I'll have to site the clause in the lease "Refrain from activities and/or noise or practices which disturb other TENANTS or neighbors."  They are certainly disturbing my livelyhood.  Peter & I should not have to suffer because of my landlord or these tenants.  This place is overpriced, these people are using OUR driveway (yes it's ours. says so in our contract.), and I just want to get the hell out of here.


Goodness, I just really freakin` hate people sometimes.  The more annoyed I get, the more I'll give back a taste of their own medicine.  Good thing I have two huge doggies that like to run around a lot.  If only I could teach them to bite on command.


/end rant

Friendships.

I chatted with an old friend today.  He never fails to make me laugh, whether intentional or not.  I enjoy those kinds of friends.  He brought up the obvious past that we never truly confronted head on.  It was always blatantly obvious.  No one could be so naive to not notice a single droplet of that energy.  It was really hard to keep a straight face on during the conversation, without letting a smirk, smile, or bit of laughter slip through.  To dissect someone who in many aspects share many of your own traits is challenging at best.  It's hard to resist and maintain a perfectly good friendship.  It's also relatively easy to ruin a perfectly good friendship over things we selfishly desire.  We're an enigma in a riddle.  An unavoidable addiction I tried to avoid so well.  I love and hate him all the same.  

Louis Vuitton. Seriously?

Oh, I have been absent for my blog.  There's been numerous moments where I've attempted to write up a "New Post" but I never got anywhere with it.  FAIL on my part.  There were a lot of things that I wanted to blog about.  Unfortunately I just didn't.  I spent time with friends, Peter, my pups... amongst other things.


Today was Black Friday.  Peter was gracious enough to go with me to check out the deals.  I wrote out a list of each store and items that I wanted from that store.  However, some of the deals from the ads online clearly did not reflect the prices in store :( I want to go back today and see if there's any other deals out there.


Since Peter worked, I took to the internet to do some shopping!  I ended up buying a sweet new FourSquare snowboarding outfit for myself -- jacket and pants.  It was perfect since I've been eyeing that Jacket for over a month since I saw it at Zumiez!  I got the last one in my size so I am happy! I also bought Peter's "big" present which was a FourSquare Michalira snowboarding jacket for him.  I hope he likes the design... LOL.  I went with a semi-crazy design but with neutral colors to go with his FourSquare pants that he already has.  The reviews for this jacket was solid and he mentioned today he needed a new jacket :) 


I also bought him a family-sized Black & Decker griddle (hey, it benefits me too!).  I didn't realize how big it was soo I had to try and cover part of it up with my jacket and told him not to turn around the whole time.  LOL.  I also bought him "The Office" season 4 and when he put his stuff in the basket he was like "OoOoooo... I saw what you're getting me!"  I guess that evened out the fact that I saw him with "House" in his hands.  We're silly.  Who actually thought you could shop for your significant other when you're WITH them?!  Haha.


Conflict of the day: My brother calls me up saying, "Hey, what kind of Louis Vuitton bag do you want? We're at the LV store with mom." 


Long story short, I thought I almost got out of it when she settled to (and bought) me a bag from Guess.  && then my mom went and kept insisting I find a bag that I want from LV. She kept saying, "All the LV bags you have are my hand-me-downs.  You don't have a bag of your own."  I basically told her I'd rather have a "cheap" bag from Guess and cash to spend on stuff I am interested in like Electronics.  I think that hurt her feelings and she sounded mad at me :(  (man, I just can't justify spending THAT much on a bag!) She pulled the "Alright!  I'll send you the Guess bag and cash.  You and Dianne (my bros gf) can split all my bags when I die" card.  Oh boy.


Yeah ok, so I guess she really wants to get a bag for me because that's the one thing she LOVES.  I understand that.  It would really give her pleasure to get something for me that she really loves.  I can't believe I felt selfish denying her the pleasure by refusing a bag?  I totally think that's what she thinks.  Isn't that so backwards?!  After talking to my bro again tonight, I decided to just go with the dang bag.  I can't believe I got talked into this.  Hello Louis Vuitton bag.  


I don't know what my mom was on today (she bought herself and my bro's gf an LV bag)... but OK mom, be happy and buy me the bag.  I have to send my bro a style that I like tomorrow.  I'm eyeing the Totally PM in Damier Canvas.  At least this style is less noticeable than the monogram canvas.  Maybe I'll change my mind when I wake up...

I seriously don't need anymore bags than I already have.  Hmm..  is it normal to already know everything I'm getting for christmas?  That kind of sucks.  Where's the element of surprise these days?  Am I that hard to shop for?  Boooo.

Twitter Contests

I've been transitioning into doing more Twitter contests.  They're rather easy to enter.  Though my friends probably don't enjoy all the messages that I send out.  "SPAM BOT" .. sure.  Most of my friends rarely ever use Twitter anyway except to lurk and update every so often.  In any case, I've made an account geared towards Twitter related giveaways.  The first day, I managed to win a DodgeTag toy from @FamilyFun.  It looks like a game Peter & I will enjoy.  


Currently, most of my focus is on winning Twilight related contests.  Hey, New Moon is coming out soon!  I have Twilight fever.  Nothing gets me going like a bunch of sexy vampires & werewolves ;) Here's some contests to check out:

• @twilightMOMs - New Moon Soundtrack Giveaway: http://bit.ly/4A1EXF (ends Today! 12PM PST)
• @twilightees - Free Twilight shirt w/ every 50 followers
• @Shakefire - Shirt worn on screen by Robert Pattinson or The complete TWILIGHT book series & Twilight BLU-RAY: http://twurl.nl/syvm1l

Twitter Name: @xriyah