Buff Dirt On My Face

I just bought Bare Mineral Makeup! I found the Bare Mineral store in the San Mateo Mall, close to where I work. I walked into the store, and a young lady wearing WAY to much makeup greeted me. Her perkiness combined with her ruby red eyeshadow was kind of scary at first, but I decided to persevere. I walked out of this store with my "starter kit". I spent 82 bucks on this kit, which consists of a few "essentials", a DVD, and three brushes. I have never spent so much on makeup in my life.

I do not really have that much of an opinion on makeup, because I do not use much of it and for the most part I do not understand how it works. But I ran out of powder last week (which I use to make my oily skin not shine so much) and I decided that since I was putting this stuff on my delicate facial skin I should probably try to buy something natural looking that was not make out of chemicals I cannot pronounce.

When I got home, I showed Alan my DVD and proceeded to explain how my makeup was high-tech and cool. I though this would impress him, since he is in to things that are high-tech and cool. He was only mildly amused. I told him that my makeup was made out of colored minerals, no preservatives or chemicals of any kind; this is a good thing. As I said this I realized that my makeup was basically very expensive colored dirt. Alan then replied "Yea, girls will buy anything".

Whatever, I swirled. tapped, and buffed my face today. It was awesome.

GroomZilla, Cont.

Since I have Wedding Block, I have obsessed about finding a wedding location. I figure that the best way to start planning our wedding is to find a great location. Depending on the location we can figure out a date, and how many people we can invite. A beautiful location might inspire me out of my Wedding Block. Unfortunately, everything boils down to money: the places that we really like we cannot afford, the places we can semi- afford Alan detests, and the places we can afford are righteous dumps that we cannot make our family members and friends fly across the country to sit in. After two weeks of combing the internet and visiting places, I am done. This is too hard, and not healthy. All this wedding crap is getting on my nerves. I just moved and I am broke. Therefore, I am giving myself a break starting now from all things wedding related for at least until the next month.

Do NOT talk to me about wedding stuff for a month, please. This task is going to take a lot of mental effort on my part, since I love my groomzilla and I want to marry him.

GroomZilla

I have wedding-block (much like writter's block, only about weddings) and, my dear fiancee is groomzilla. More to follow shortly.

It Is About Time

It is about time that I start getting serious about my grad school goals. I'm looking into MBA programs. Guess what? They are expensive. This makes me mad for the following reasons:

1- Money is generally scarce among poor and middle class people.
2- Poor and middle class people need to go though grad school programs in order to increase their salary potential, and thus not be so poor anymore.
3- The good MBA schools (and grad schools in general) are expensive. Regular people cannot afford to attend "the good" grad schools. Therefore, logically, expensive MBA programs are designed for rich people to get richer.

I hope you are as outraged as I am. This brings me to the following noble cause: The Margaret Needs Help to Go To Grad School Charitable Fund. Would anybody like to donate about 65,000.00 dollars over the course of two years? Think about it as investing in the future of America, and the good of the world... something that the US government seems to believe is not important at this time.

Come and Visit

Dear Friends and Family: please come and visit! I really want to show you our new place. We have a pool, hottub, sauna, gym... and we are within walking distance of downtown Mountain View, where all kinds of little shops and restaurants are. I would love to make you dinner, and I need an excuse to bake a cake.

New Life

I am starting a new chapter of my life: I have a new job and new living arrangements! Alan and I found a cute little one bedroom apartment in Mountain View, just 2 miles away from Google central. We are currently in the process of opening the last of the moving boxes and decorating. We finally hung the hammock that my mom gave to Alan in April of last year... And, to make our new place seem more like home, we hung the Mona Lisa in the bathroom. We have a small, framed, Mona Lisa poster that we hung in the bathroom of Alan old apartment. I purchased this poster from the Louvre in Paris a couple of years ago. It was strategically placed facing the toilet, so that it looked at you with a knowing smile no matter what you did. Unfortunately, we were not able to hang the Mona Lisa in the same location in our new home, but the overall "Mona-effect" is still quite charming.

I cannot count how many times Alan and I have been to Ikea in these past couple of weeks. Almost everything in our home is from Ikea, and we still have more things that we need to purchase. We will probably be going back next week to buy a dresser for me. In general I would have to say that Ikea stuff is cool and affordable, but then you have to build it. The durability of the items that we have purchased is also somewhat questionable. However, for the prices I am paying I will not complain. One major purchase that we still must make is that of a couch. Couches are expensive! and Ikea does not offer a couch that we would like to habitually sit on and/or look at. So, we are on the look-out for a comfortable, reasonably priced sofa. I am especially interested in sofa-beds, because we only have one bedroom in our place. (If you have a nice sofa that you need taken off of your hands, please contact me.)

My new job is, ahhemm: Human Resources Manager for the San Mateo Branch! Thats right, I'm officially a manager now. I can't wait to start. The branch I am going to is about 1/3 of the size of the one I am working in now, so I expect to see a slowing down of pace. I'm so happy. I'm sure I have a lot of work ahead of me. I start in my new position this week.