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Pictures! Finally some superficiality.

I originally started this blog for some mindless [virtual, public] self indulgence. To post pictures, and talk about myself. Somehow I've broadened into a wider variety of topics, I'm not too sure how it happened.

For a long time I was pretty hardcore about making sure every post was loaded with pictures. It's always nice to have something to look at - kind of a blogzine instead of just writing. But sometimes I just can't be asked to post pictures.

Today though, I'm going to go back to all the picture posting. I've played with some electro looks, practicing for the euro-summer clubbing [June 26-Sept 4, will be drinking, partying, clubbing, and electro-style funtimes].

I have a thing for lightning bolts - not sure why, but I just can't help it. Maybe it's some secret desire to bring Bowie-type glam rock androgyny back, mixed with Mighty Boosh and nu rave interests. But whatever. It's fairly easy to do too!

Good thing it's my summer soon - I've been going hardcore at school, and working, and I can't stand it! I've suspended fun life for serious life, and it's stifling. But I went hard so I could take a couple months off in the summer instead of having stupid two day weekends. I just converted a year into a week - 9.5 months on; 2.5 months off. Sorted.

Top 10 World Cities

I've made my way around quite a bit over the last year, so I've chosen 10 cities (most of the main ones that I've been to). I'm going to start with the worst, which would be my least favourite visit and last to go back to and work my way up to the best. I'll add pictures. It's going to be a relatively long post so before linking for the full page I'm putting (in alphabetical order) the cities I'm going to talk about:

Birmingham
Canterbury
Cardiff
Dubai
Liverpool
London
Milan
Monte Carlo
Nice
Paris
Vancouver

Hairspray Problem Solved - Crazy Fun Hair

For the last couple months I've been looking for good hairspray in Canada (see previous hairspray post) That problem has been solved - I've found a fairly good one that works. It's not as good as getting the massive bottles from Boots, but that's okay.
I found one that seemed perfect, just by the description and the name so (riskily) tried it out with an entire look. I wanted to combine a few things. One aspect, was this Robots in Disguise picture:

I really like the dark eyes/blue triangle with the fringe almost down to the eyes. I like the ultra-straight fringe with really big parts. I wanted to do big hair, but make my hair look like this:

The combination (and the hairspray worked even better than I expected...

Paris Trip. And Pictures!

**click on the pictures to go to the album**

It was a long trip to get there, but fortunatly we got cheap flights from Cardiff to De Gaulle - there are tons of flights that fly London - Paris but that would add a 3 hour train ride. We ended up having to catch a bus at 5am to get our flight, and then from Paris we took the metro from the airport to a train station fairly close to out hotel. it turned out to be a huge metro station (Gare du Nord) which also was also a huge train station full of shops and many levels, so it was interesting to try to navigate. Right after getting off the train, my the handle for my bag got stuck going through one of the exit gates. So while I struggled with that, everyone else just went around in the gates on either side of me, and were probably quite amused. Since I had already put my ticket through the gate wouldn't move, and I eventually had to bend the metal handle to get it out.

Fortunately, after seeing this a French lady (must have realized we were tourists) and helped us find our way out of the station and pointed us in the right direction. I had written out directions from that station to the hotel, so it was fairly easy to find but as we got closer to the hotel we saw alot of neon signs and shops that seemed quite... questionable. We ended up staying a block away from the Moulin Rouge.

We got into the room and dropped off our bags, changed and went right back out. We walked down from out hotel to the Arc D'Triumph (about a 45 minute walk) and then all the way down the Champs-Elysees, grabbed cafe lunches and amazing pastries and pretty much just wandered up, down, and all over that area - just to see as much as we could in that area. It was nice just walking around, because we would end up in places that we didn't exactly intend to be (but saw so many places and buildings that we never would have ended up with a map and cab).

Discovery: Photo Albums

I finally found out how to make photo albums on typepad! Like most of my discoveries, I was completely clueless about it until I randomly stumbled across something that said "Photo Albums" and decided to investigate! It's really helpful because I like to take/post pictures, but it's kinda of a pain to post them throughout the post - if I have alot.

I put tog ether a photo album of some mixed pictures of me on nights that I went out after I got back from Cardiff, in all of my blondeness. Henceforth, here is what I will try to do: I will try to put some of the pictures into my posts where appropriate (or possibly sometimes innappropriate). But wait, here is where it gets fancy - the pictures will link to corresponding pictures in the photo album! Or maybe sometimes they won't correspond. Just to shake things up. So you just click on the pictures before, during, or after you read the entry! And, if you are like I am with magazines, you can just look at all the pictures and skim through/skip over all of the writing.

*click click* ... weekend.

I had a couple good nights this weekend - and got some fun pictures!

I ended up getting home really early Friday night (well it was about 11:30 - alot earlier than normal for me) but didn't end up doing out until alot later. So we just kind of drove around to random places and took pictures.

I wanted to go to the beach! But it was reallllly windy. That's okay though.

I love this though: I'm not entirely sure what I was thinking, but I'm always looking for new fun ways to pose and things to pose with! So here, I am with a tree. But just wait...

Yeah! I pretty much just booted it up that tree! That may be a little dangerous considering I had a few drinks, I can't believe I didn't have any trouble (or fall).

I really like that picture though! Even though my nose looks like it's kind of a strange shape - but I'm okay with that!

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Picture Perfect

This weekend didn't turn out at all as I planned. I had all of these plans and I ended up doing doing totally different things. But that's okay!

I went to Michelle's party and I knew pretty much no one there. So I'll only introduce Michelle (who I haven't seen forever but I love) because I really am not sure who the hell most of these people are that are in the pictures.

Except I remember his name! That was Ben - he had a beer bong and put two cans of beer into the things and drank in in seriously like only 2 or 3 seconds. I was so impressed I could hardly believe it! He wanted me to try, but I declined. It was pretty impressive though.

Ginger

Is it too late to talk about the weekend?

Um, no.

I realize that technically it's Thursday, but on IanTime it's really only Wednesday evening.

I went down to Vancouver last weekend (it's turning into quite a frequent thing, since Kelowna really isn't all that exciting). It's actually perfect though, if I drive down Saturday afternoon, get there in the early evening and have all night (and the next day to recover from said night's festivities). I visisted my cousins who took me to Ginger since - well I guess we aren't actually related, he is my cousins husband - DJs there Saturday nights.

Last Day of Classes! (Yesterday)

Yesterday was the last day of classes, and so of course something had to be done to celebrate! After tequila, I always have some weird ideas (as you can see from the pictures.. and the movie) but I always end up having fun!

And here is the movie....

Some Erratic

Hey loves!

I know, I'm bad at posting regularly - I tend to get caught up in things and go hardcore and forget about huge other pieces of life. Sometimes I don't get to le blog, sometimes I totally forget I have a midterm and don't study for it and don't realize until the morning of, but then get 85% anyway, sometimes I forget to eat! It's different all the time.

But, here are some more pictures from last weekend. I went out to Level, and had, an emotional night - I had fun for most of it, but I think the alcohol rubbed my brain the wrong way for a while and I was really angry. I was kind of bitter and I saw some people that I went to high school with and I really felt like I wanted to get in a fight and beat someone up! Which is pretty silly - no idea why. I managed to stop myself, but I was pretty close to starting a fight. Hahaha I was thinking to myself "none of them are taller than about 5'10" ... I'm wearing huge boots, I bet a kick to the face would do it." Hahahah not exactly sure what I drank that put me in that mindset, but I should avoid it!

I looked pretty haggard that night though.

Some pictures coming up!