Lizzycakes Shop Update
>> 07 November 2009

I Asked the DC Bargain Hunter- and she Answered
>> 06 November 2009
A couple days ago, I posed a question on my Twitter: I need a new wallet. Anyone know where to go that won't cost me an arm and a leg? After all, what's the point of a wallet with no money in it?
Richele Cole of the Examiner answered, and wrote a piece for her column on the Examiner. Check it out, and help me decide! It's a tough call between 1, 4, and 6.
Random Acts of Beauty and Kindness
Day Before Election Day
>> 02 November 2009
Quick note that is sadly necessary: I blog here personally. Personally means "no association or affiliation with my job, where I also blog and keep to the company line". Therefore, it goes that what I say here does not reflect the views of anyone but myself, and most certainly not any organizations that pay me. Kthx.
Friday night, I was out buying supplies for fajitas and wine night (which was supposed to be fajitas and work but then Cline and Mark had wine and cupcakes, so we all know how that goes) when I ran into Tim Nank, the Republican candidate for delegate in my district. I got to talking with Tim, telling him I was a supporter, and let me say, I am very excited for Mr. Nank. I would really, really strongly urge people to look at Tim Nank (Rose Hill/Alexandria) and Jay McConville, running for an open seat in Mount Vernon, as delegates and consider voting for them. Both of them are the type of candidates who can really bring positive change for Northern VA. Overall, I'm happy we have an exciting crop of Republican candidates running under Bob McDonnell and I am so, so excited for Election Day.
That being said, make sure y'all are voting tomorrow. Remember, not voting means you effectively lose your right to kvetch about the way things are, since you didn't do jack to change it.
In the meantime, I watched the events in NY-23 and shook my head from afar over it. I've kept my mouth shut due to work conflicts about this race; however, as a pro-choice "moderate" Republican (and I hate, hate that word, "moderate". I am a Conservative, darnit, just socially libertarian. Bite me.) I did not like Scozzafava, and felt she was a particularly weak candidate. In the end, I think that this race could mean a multitude of things for the GOP. I hope that the Hoffman followers mean it when they said this was less about her position on social issues and more about her position on card check and taxes. Bloggers all over have stated that they aren't for chasing every moderate out of the Party, etc, etc, etc. That being said, I think only time will tell. Perhaps the biggest lesson learned for the GOP is the one we should have gotten by now: all candidates need to be aggressively vetted in this day and age. No matter the race- if a National Party will endorse him/her, vet them and be ready to have no surprises on their records or personal lives.
And on a completely random note: the demon zombies from Evil Dead 2 look a lot like the vampires of Buffy. Weird.
Failure
>> 30 October 2009
I think it is safe to say that I failed (epically) at the Don't Go Over Challenge.
Maybe it was the $60 splurge on wine, the laziness of making coffee in the morning (or just not having time- damn you, Daylight Savings Time! It's hard to get out of bed when you look outside and see that the clock says 7:00, but the lack of light says 6:00). Maybe it was that once I got set back once I kinda said, "Screw it".
Either way, I went over.
Merde.
In fact, I went over, I feel badly, and I'm wondering where my self control went. Luckily, Cline and I on purse savings plans that she devised (I am so much better when the rules are clearer than my wishy washy crap and I have a goal). It still bothers me. Failure. I'm not a failure type. I told myself in 2007, during one of my breakups and before a beach vacay, that I was going to get back to 120 (I'd gained six pounds). I ended up hitting 115, then 109, then 105 (NOTE: This wasn't done in the healthiest manner. As in, people were concerned and I have to accept that I have a dangerously unhealthy perspective about food and my body, as I have hinted about many, many times on this blog. So while I hit my goal, it was done in a very stupid way so I should probably be less proud of it).
Still, when I set a goal, I'm used to hitting it. Then surpassing it. I'm not very pleased with myself today.
Even worse is that I won't be participating in NaNoWriMo thanks to law school applications that have a precident over writing a novel (dangit).
So now, I'm trying to be positive about everything. This month, I did pay off my Visa, finally- though 300 went back on, thanks to my cat. I hit my autism walk goal and surpassed it. My work goals are actually being hit too. I survived the LSAT. I'm applying to law schools. I launched my shop (no sales yet, but I still launched it).
I think this is less a lesson of "failure" so to say and more a lesson on "too much on my plate". I've been known to do this, and its one of my biggest flaws. Then I failure, sulk, get sucked down in the sulk, and stay in a hole. Now I need to make sure I don't do that.
Any advice, dear readers? How do y'all figure it out, stay organized, etc? I need to get myself back into whack, stat. Or else the blog will continue to be whiny, and nobody wants that.
Confessions of a former Sorority Girl
>> 28 October 2009
I don't remember the last five Halloweens. I know that each time, I drank myself silly since I was in a silly costume that I was highly uncomfortable in while trying to fit in. I know that usually, each year had a ton of drama and I spent way, way too much money. See the timeline of what I remember:
'08 Halloween
Went as beer wench. Was so hungover I could barely function on my 6 AM train ride to campaign up north in CT. Spent too much money.
'07 Halloween
Went as DC Madam. Found out from a roommate I should have believed that C (ex) was cheating on me. Big fight in a public area. Spent too much money, ruined good shoes. Lost a friend when I didn't believe Shannon. Train wreck.
'06 Halloween
Went as Britney Spears. Got in fight with C's ex, who a) swung at me first and b) alleged that he was cheating on me. In hindsight, I should have not followed Britney's example, listened to Shar Jackson and walked out on K-Fed. Spent too much money at Wal-Mart.
'05 Halloween
I... don't remember. I'm pretty sure I went... as... something a friend talked me into. Spent too much money, I'm sure.
'04 Halloween
Still in bad breakup mode, went as something likely whorish to a Kappa Sig party. Almost drunk-dialed ex, lost cell phone, and had to pay for replacement phone. Spent too much money.
As you can see, Halloween brings out the train wreck for me, though that was 3/5 times not my fault, but C's fault. Now, I'm less train-wrecky. I have a solid, stable relationship where monogamy means monogamy, and I'm also madly in love with the guy. Halloween should be smooth for me. Erm, smoother until I get vodka, and then it's no-holds-barred.
But this former sorority girl is tired of long lines at bars. I hate dressing in those stupid costumes that require me to starve for the few days before to fit in them, and then a few days after to reassure my neurotic dysmorphia that I don't really look that fat. I'm tired of buying costumes that I'll never wear again unless I become really desperate in law school and start doing porn. I hate crowds. I hate waiting forty five minutes for a beer.
This is why I'm saying "screw it!" and issuing this declaration for Halloween: I am not going out. I am sitting at home in sweats, with N, watching the Evil Dead 2, passing out candy to youngsters and what not. I will be dressed as an apathetic, carefree college student. I will have to walk only twenty feet to get my beer, and it will be paid for already and a better selection than Miller and Coors. If there's a line at the fridge, I'll reach past N. I'm going to make manicotti and love my life. Lame? Yes. Uncool? Yes. Do I care? No. I'll be drunk by ten, in bed by midnight, and able to function the next morning. And I will save money. Beat that, Nightmare on M Street.


