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Finally!  My first day of volunteer work has arrived!!!  It took me almost a month and a half of preparation before I could even start volunteering! (⋋▂⋌) During the later part of May, I got an interview and was accepted into the hospital volunteer services.  I was told about a bunch of stuff I had to do such as TB tests before I was allowed to volunteer and that's what took up most of the time before starting. I went in this morning and somehow woke up on time even after sleeping through my alarm (or my subconscious shutting it off).  I was afraid I wouldn't wake up to my alarm...; I had worked the night before and couldn't fall asleep. D: I was put into the service area of floor hosting which is cool because it let me interact with patients being able to enter their rooms, ask them if they needed anything, and if they wanted the morning paper.  I was also able to do other small helpful things such as restocking gloves and fetching certain supplies for patients.  The

Since I've been watching lots of movies these days, I thought it would be cool to share what I've been watching and my brief thoughts on each of them.  I think these short movie batch reviews might be cool if you're looking for something that's not too deep but just a short snippet of what I thought of them.  Enjoy! Prometheus  Rating: 5/10 The first thing I thought about this movie was why do they have to have so many landscape shots for the first 10 minutes of the film?  lol  Did they have any significance?  I don't think so... This movie was pretty much what every critic told you to expect.  I read all the spoilers and reviews before watching this so I wasn't as disappointed as I should have been.  I wasn't even freaked out by anything.  And they call this a thriller... =_= I highly recommend anyone who watches this movie to pirate it (as to not waste your money) and make sure to read spoilers, critic reviews, and parodies before watching.  It w

Use selective face priming: Instead of priming your entire face, try priming only the areas that need it such as your T-zone.  Primer actually prevents the skin from breathing by forming a seal over it (much like plastic wrap) so it isn't always the best thing to prime the entire face.  Only certain regions may need it. Don't use sunblock under liquid foundation: Doing this will make your makeup even more oily and cakey.  This also applies to sun serum which I have tried using.  Your makeup will get oily much faster if you do this.  Instead, opt for using a powder foundation over your sunblock during the hot summer months.  I've tried this and found much better results with my skin getting less oily throughout the day! :D If you must use a liquid foundation, try to get one with SPF in it and use only that without sunblock. Facial mists are a good alternative to touch up powders: Facial mists cool down the face and actually refreshes your complexion.  Is your f

Hello again!  I know I've promised to write more but sometimes it gets so redundant.  So that's why there's about a week gap between now and my last post.  This may happen again if I don't have many fresh blogging ideas.  I've been watching a lot of movies lately.  Redbox has become one of my new best friends!  Hehe, jk.  I even went to the library to attempt finding some good fiction and eventually failed, ending up with only travel books, lol (but travel books are cool!  No bashing intended).  So it's back to movies for me..  And since I'm not the most articulate writer, I thought, hey, why not just make some brief reviews for whatever I'm watching?  Alas, I shall save that for another day. It's been really hard trying to save money.  I want to save enough for my future nursing school tuition.  Surprisingly, it's not been as easy as I anticipated.  I mean, even if I commit my life to not spending money on frivolity and rarely going out anyw

Hello friends!  I had the opportunity to watch two of the biggest summer movies with my dad in theaters within a day of each other (Star Trek Into Darkness and Iron Man 3).  Since I watched Star Trek Into Darkness first, it shall be the first to be reviewed. Surprisingly, after absolutely LOVING the first Star Trek movie, I wasn't all that excited about the second one.  Maybe I was getting tired of movies always having this trend of getting darker as the series go on.  :/ Besides all that, I was taken aback at how great this movie was.  I don't know what I was expecting and I couldn't exactly imagine a Star Trek movie being bad; I have this sci-fi, space travel bias.. This movie had everything: -Drama -Action (tons of it) -Fights on moving vehicles -Alien duke outs -Battles in warp -Hostage bargaining -Suspense -Romance -Space jumps -Politics -Deception, -Character development -Great villain -Awesome CGI & practical fx -AND they even managed to

I feel sort of bad because I had these food pics for a long time but never got to creating a blog post to do them justice.  D: But I will now , so here it is!!! I created these within the last month now that my class is over and I have so much more time to get creative in the kitchen. The first dish I made was this pasta cheese bake and a bruschetta appetizer that was inspired by my favorite beauty guru, Bubzbeauty ! (^o^)  I liked her cooking video so much that I decided to attempt her dish.  Here's the video for it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0NFgCYlnGA The pasta bake is extremely delicious right out of the oven when the cheese is still nice and crispy.  It lasts a very long time in the fridge too as long as you keep it in an airtight container.  Somehow my sister really enjoyed this dish; She had no idea that there were mushrooms in it and if I told her about the mushrooms, she probably would have been too closed minded to try it!  xP I'll post the pics of

I closed at work yesterday and alas, I had to face the rigors of the night shift... lol, okay it wasn't all that bad but I was a little freaked out by Mr. Crackhead who was twitching around all over the store.  ( ಠ_ಠ ) So I was in my department, just minding my own business and I see this dude walking around (Note: I didn't notice anything weird at the time).  I say hello, how are you, and then ask him if he needs help with anything.  I do notice at this point that his eyes were really wide open and bloodshot.  Seriously would this scare you because it made me feel a bit scared. lol It's weird because I got this sort of feeling as if he was this serial killer or something.  Like the type of feeling you get when you think you've just met this person who's going to kill everyone in the vicinity.  Sorry for the visual but I was getting that vibe from him. On top of all of this, last night I watched the most recent episode of game of thrones "The Rains of Ca

I'm sure most people ask themselves this question at some point in their lifetime.  Hell, they might ask this question all the time. As for me, I'm still in my 20's and it's proven to be one of my most lost and confusing years. I've been in school literally around 4-5 years and still haven't gotten a bachelor's from it.  I feel lucky to have somehow put together an Associates degree. When I think back, I feel like I've been spending a lot of time running around aimlessly, unsure of where I'm going or why I'm doing this. It's nice to say that I haven't spent every waking moment lost and confused but I still feel that a lot of time was spent experimenting with no real direction. I think the only good thing I got out of this was that I learned so much about myself that I probably never could have learned in other ways...  Which is actually quite a great thing but not so much in the eyes of society. At this moment, I'm remi

Believe it or not, I was inspired by POGO's Winnie The Pooh remix to make a Disney drawing.  x)  It's a very cute, relaxing, and child-like remix. I don't know when I'll finish it but I'm hoping I get it done before the summer is over.  I started practicing again because my original style of drawing is anime/manga so when I attempt to draw Disney characters, their eyes are always larger than they should be; It's weird because everyone always talks about how big Disney character's eyes are. lol I want to create a fanart where a few of the Disney child characters from England are all at a cafe or in any place where they'll be eating food.  I got the idea of the Disney characters from England because while listening to that Winnie the Pooh remix, I realized that Christopher Robin is from England and then so is Wendy, Alice, etc.  The cafe idea came from Maid Cafes in Japan. Yes, MAID CAFES. My sister got to go to one of these cafe's before me a

So sorry.  I would have created a new post sooner but I was yet again sucked into tumblr's black hole of gifs.  That site can be sooo evil...  In a 'too good' kind of way. I was literally up until around 4am browsing through gifs. ( o _ O )  Well, I might as well celebrate my finds with more gifs in this post! Right now I'm drinking a nice hot cup of green tea...   ... And munching on some pirouettes.  Life is good. *Leaves to refill cup* Okay I'm back!  So yes, I'm trying to get back in touch with my artistic side and putting an effort to draw and experiment with different anatomical perspectives.  I'll try to remember to post pics when I finish my reference sketches. I spent one of my afternoons just looking up some research material for poses...  Me after I was finished ----------> ლ(́◉◞౪◟◉‵ლ) I was inspired to make a character design by one of my most absolute favorite shows for the summer,   Game of Thrones!!!