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Before I get to posting about today, check this out!

They’re cute little erasers! The first set is a Burget Shop set from Japan, and the second is a Dessert set from Korea. A few of my coworkers and I were in Claire’s, and one of them is a Korean man who doesn’t speak much English. I pointed the Korean erasers out to him, and he grabbed them and the Japanese ones and bought them for me. XD They’re too cute to actually use, though. I think I’ll just put them on my desk as a cute little decoration.

Anyway, my post is about the beautiful weather we had today! This winter, western PA experienced the coldest, snowiest winter since 1993! Today was actually about 50F/10C. Quite warm compared to the 15F/-9C we’ve been having. There was not a cloud in the sky, either! Jesse and I decided to go downtown, have lunch in the park, and take a walk. I love my hometown.

If you’ve ever seen the movie “My Bloody Valentine” that was released in 2009, this bridge is shown soooo many times in that movie. It’s also the bridge that collapses in “The Mothman Prophecies” movie that Richard Gere was in (though they digitally modified it to have pillars in between the arches).

I took a lot of pictures, but I don’t feel like posting them all. Most of them were just of the lower areas of the park. The water temperature rose a lot in late fall / early winter, and because of that there was a lot of debris in the park. Cool looking, worn logs, shells and such. There was also sand! XD I only see sand when I go to the beach, haha. It was so nice to walk around and enjoy the beautiful day!

We walked for a long, long time and decided we deserved a treat. We went to Dairy Queen. I got this bright ice cream cupcake because it reflected my mood so well:

I can’t wait for spring~~!~ :D

I was taking a look through the notes I take during my History of Medieval Europe class (which I absolutely LOVE, by the way), and I found this:

LOL.

It doesn’t make sense at all if you just read it as is, but thankfully I remember what the professor meant. It’s the Alan Rickman part that cracks me up, because I don’t remember that at all. I’m assuming this was the day I was feeling ill and wasn’t paying too much attention in class. Oops.

Because I’m a busy college student and also work around 30 hours a week, I have no real interest in endgame raiding on WoW. I’m pretty content with where I am right now on my main, Nikoru. I just can’t seem to get back into “the swing of things” with Hanami (though that has been slowly changing now that Jesse’s mage alt has reached the same level as Hanami, and we can now queue for instances together), so I decided that the time has come for me to make a new alt.

Meet Nekrosia, my level 22 Undead Warlock. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I decided I am sick of Belfs. XD They’re lovely, but I wanted something a bit more badass. I like her rotten jaw and lack of eyes. I’m not sure what I want to spec in, though. I’m Affliction atm, but I’m thinking about switching to Destruction or Demonology. Jesse is leveling a Resto Troll Shaman as I level Nekrosia, and as it’s his first healer and I’ve been healing for a long time now, I get to give him tips for once. I must say I’m enjoying the role reversal!

Also, I have made some little changes to this site:
- Added more links to the list blogs I visit often, which you can see under “Lovelies” in the sidebar, and also on the Links page. The new links are Brittany(Brittanythings), Milktan(Momoberi), and Megan(Frags and Heels).
- Made a small banner and added more verses from Dragon Age’s Chant of Light to the script I have on my sidebar. There’s no point to it, but I love Dragon Age and I find the Chant pretty, so it’s there. Refresh the page and you’ll get another random verse. XD
- Added an “Idols” section to the “About Me” page. Included are Felicia Day because she’s an awesome nerdy gamer girl, and Nana Suzuki because I’ve always loved her style (reading her blog makes me miss having a Popteen subscription).

My week of babysitting is finally over! Living in the country was torture. Well, I usually describe where I live as “country,” but this was like, COUNTRY country…farms everywhere. XD So glad to be home~~!~ ♥

I thought I’d do a quick update on the condition of my hair. For those of you who are not friends with me on Facebook, this is what my hair looked like after that horrible bleaching/dying incident:

The ends were broken, and my hair was super dry and frizzy with a rubbery texture. The camera actually does it justice. It was much more horrible in person.
Well, after nearly one month of using Pantene Pro-V Restoratives Anti-Breakage Shampoo and Conditioner, as well as Garnier Fructis 3-Minute Undo Dryness Reversal Treatment every other day, I’m proud to say my hair now looks like this:

SUCH an improvement, wouldn’t you say? I lost a good bit of length and volume (I haven’t even had it trimmed yet!), but at least it’s smooth and doesn’t break anymore!

Now that my hair’s condition has improved, I feel more inspired to put effort into my makeup again! Here’s what I did tonight (my best friend and I decided to go get sushi at the restaurant I work at):

I’m wearing my King Brown circle lenses~~!~ I love them! I want to get some accent lashes and bottom lashes.

My outfit. Awkward pose, but the shirt is loose and flowy and I certainly did not want my boobies in the picture. XD Anyway, the glasses are from Claire’s, the top is from Rue 21, the cropped jeans are American Eagle, and I also wore white ballet flats from Payless.
Also! The white spots on my mirror (that I covered with sparkles haha) are from a curling spray. NOTHING seems to get them off! Any advice?

I will most likely not be updating this week. My mom’s best friend and her husband are in Cancun, Mexico, for vacation this week. I’m living in their home to watch their two sons. They’re actually old enough to take care of themselves, but the parents want me there to make sure the kids actually get up and go to school every day, haha. And since they live way out in the country and the oldest son is still too young to get his driver’s license, I have to be there in case of an emergency.

They’re such well behaved kids, though. It’s really like no work at all…and I’m getting paid for it! XD

Anyway, a mini gaming update:
Jesse and I have been kind of bored on WoW lately, mostly because our guild has become inactive. Some of the most outgoing members in our small, casual guild left for raiding guilds. We once had over 100 players, most of which were active, and now we are down to 26. Well, our guild leader got on the other night and informed us that he hasn’t been on all that much because one of his toons on the Alliance side of another server was unexpectly promoted to the leader position of a guild over there…and then the former leader just up and left, taking all of his characters out. So, our leader has been busy with his new guild. I asked some questions about it, and apparently it has a lot of active players on it. So, I started a Night Elf Rogue on the Borean Tundra US server, and joined the new guild, Warlords. Everyone seems so nice and fun, but I’m also hoping that this doesn’t turn into me going all Alliance. XD I doubt it will, though! I love being Horde too much. ♥