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Puebla. [27 Dec 2009|11:30pm] malunatic [ mood | tired ] [ music | family talking ] Calles empedradas, paredes de talavera, iglesias barrocas, mercado de antigüedades, licor de pasita (mmm!), comida rica, dulces típicos, convivencia familiar... Y en la noche de ayer, los 5 ilustres caballeros nos fuimos de juerga al barrio de los sapos, en el Café de las Brujas. Mientras escuchábamos trova y yo tomaba una michelada de tamarindo(!) platicamos de viejos (y nuevos) amores... hablé de ti (cuando no!)... y decidimos que si fueramos una banda de matones bien machotes y rudos nos llamaríamos Pollis, Bebezcurrio, Macario, Valerio y Pulguis (Yo). De regreso escuchamos a Calamaro... y como siempre, no pude evitar pensarte. Hubo mucho tráfico, pero al menos el buen Andrés nos amenizó el viaje mientras los dos bohemios de adelante cantábamos sus canciones... Esta es de Joaquín Sabina, pero la canta Andrés Calamaro también... te la dedico a ti y solo a ti ♥ Yo no quiero un amor civilizado, con recibos y escena del sofá; yo no quiero que viajes al pasado y vuelvas del mercado con ganas de llorar. Yo no quiero vecínas con pucheros; yo no quiero sembrar ni compartir; yo no quiero catorce de febrero ni cumpleaños feliz. Yo no quiero cargar con tus maletas; yo no quiero que elijas mi champú; yo no quiero mudarme de planeta, cortarme la coleta, brindar a tu salud. Yo no quiero domingos por la tarde; yo no quiero columpio en el jardin; lo que yo quiero, corazón cobarde, es que mueras por mí. Y morirme contigo si te matas y matarme contigo si te mueres porque el amor cuando no muere mata porque amores que matan nunca mueren. Yo no quiero juntar para mañana, no me pidas llegar a fin de mes; yo no quiero comerme una manzana dos veces por semana sin ganas de comer. Yo no quiero calor de invernadero; yo no quiero besar tu cicatriz; yo no quiero París con aguacero ni Venecia sin tí. No me esperes a las doce en el juzgado; no me digas “volvamos a empezar”; yo no quiero ni libre ni ocupado, ni carne ni pecado, ni orgullo ni piedad. Yo no quiero saber por qué lo hiciste; yo no quiero contigo ni sin ti; lo que yo quiero, muchacha de ojos tristes, es que mueras por mí. Y morirme contigo si te matas y matarme contigo si te mueres porque el amor cuando no muere mata porque amores que matan nunca mueren. Te extraño! Rock On! -Malú- 6 comments|post comment

2009 recap [25 Dec 2009|11:25pm] __aimless Hi world!! Haha this space feels so unfamiliar now that I don't know how to start. Anyway hopefully I'll keep up the stamina to come back and continue blogging here for good; wanted to change to another blog host but I guess there's too much memories here. The year has been full of tumbles, and lots of things have happened that drained my emotions too much that I switched to a private blog. But now I guess things are looking up, and the new year provides a refreshing start for everything (I hope) so yeah :) So in chronological order, ( Recap of later half of 2009 in 5 pictures! ) Merry merry Christmas and have a great boxing day friends!! :D 4 comments|post comment

Twittering [24 Dec 2009|12:00am] eleneala 12:03 AAAAAAAH!!!! Tomorrow is Christmas Eve! WHERE is my candy delivery!? # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter post comment

I'm a free bitch, baby [23 Dec 2009|11:46am] kitteninparis [ music | Lady Gaga - Monster ] Go to your LJ entry calendar and find the first entry for each month in 2009. Post the first line of it in your journal. Tammikuu Joululomani Kajaanissa oli ihana. Viikko meni totta kai aivan liian nopeasti, mutta siihen mahtui paljon hauskuutta ja iloa. Helmikuu En millään malttaisi odottaa maaliskuuta! Mutta ainakin kerrankin ehdin suunnitella ja järjestellä tulevia aikoja huolellisesti etukäteen, yleensä kun teen kaiken niin spontaanisti turhia aikailematta ja miettimättä. Maaliskuu Sain vihdoin ja viimein pakattua ja siivottua tämän asunnon. Ehkä vähän tyhmää jättää kaikki pakkaaminen viimeiselle päivälle, varsinkin kun unohdin ostaa sanomalehtiä ja teippiä, joten niiden loputtua jouduin käärimään astiani puhelinluettelosta ja Victoria's Secretin kuvastosta silputtujen sivujen väliin. Huhtikuu Jokainen kerta Monacon yöelämässä on niin ainutkertainen, ja sisältää jotain kerrassaan jännittävää! Eilinen ei ollut ollenkaan poikkeus, vaikka kyseessä olikin vain pieni pyrähdys Monte Carlon alueella. Toukokuu Perjantai oli lämpimin ja aurinkoisin päivä pitkään aikaan. Koska täälläkin vappu on pyhäpäivä - joskaan vappuaattoa ei toki juhlita täällä suomalaiseen tapaan - oli minulla vapaapäivä. Kesäkuu I have a lousy taste in men. Niin. Luulen että kuka tahansa, joka on miesjuttujani seurannut, voisi täydestä sydämestään allekirjoittaa tämän. Minulla on ihan kamala miesmaku. Heinäkuu Edellisestä päivityksestä on jälleen sen verran aikaa, että turha edes yrittää kertoa kaikkea mitä sen jälkeen on tapahtunut. Suomi-vierailu oli kaikkiaan ihana, vaikkakin mielestäni yksi viikko siellä oli enemmän kuin tarpeeksi! Elokuu Tänä iltana...en aio tehdä yhtään mitään. Milloin viimeksi olen viettänyt illan yksin kotona ainoastaan rentoutuen omassa seurassani? En muista. En ole levännyt tai nukkunut pitkiä yöunia ainakaan viikkoon, takana on lukematon määrä pitkien työpäivien jälkeen vietettyjä myöhäisiä kesäöitä lounge-baareissa ystävien ja rose-viinin siivittäminä, ja nyt tarvitsen tylsän rauhallisen koti-illan. I need some 'me-time'! <3 Syyskuu Viime viikolla Gallaseille tuli uusi suomalainen au pair Maija, ja minun tehtäväni on ollut opastaa häntä niin töiden kuin Monacossa vapaa-ajalla liikkumisenkin suhteen. Lokakuu Perjantaina tapasin Julian ja Maijan rannalla, pidettiin pieni picnik ennen kuin siirryttiin Zelokseen. Marraskuu Viime viikon alussa pakkasin jälleen laukkuni ja tein aika spontaanin ja huonosti suunnitellun mutta kaiken kaikkiaan ihanan matkan Rivieralle ja Monacoon. Tekosyyni lähtöön oli valokuvamalliksi suostuminen, mutta suurimpana innostajani totta kai ikävä tuttuihin rakkaisiin maisemiin, viettämään jälleen aikaa ihanien ystävien kanssa. Joulukuu En ole kirjoittanut tänne ikuisuuksiin. Ette silti ole oikeastaan menettäneet mitään, sillä en ole edes tehnyt mitään kirjoittamisen arvoista. Aloitin kolme viikkoa sitten työt toimistoharjoittelijana asianajotoimistossa, ja rakastan tätä työtä. post comment

I didn't know they gave out rings during the Holocaust. [23 Dec 2009|01:33am] cooking_spray [ mood | stressed ] [ music | Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses ] It's the "yaaaay, the holidays are here!" entry! (uranus_sama posted this awesome GIF, and it was too appropriate not to use. Not that I feel the need to justify posting egregious photos of Conan in my LJ. . .) Anyhow, I really wanted to share some photos of our Christmas decorations with all of you, because I personally enjoy seeing those of others, and I put a silly amount of effort enjoying and assembling my own. I'm staying up later than advisable, considering this is the third consecutive night where I've gotten an indecent amount of sleep before work in the morning, but what good is a Christmas entry after Christmas? There's some photos from the library, too, because we have a lot of pretty things on display there (and because I have the illusion that some of you share my voyeuristic curiosities and take interest in seeing my workplace up close and personal). Intense picspam beneath the cut! ( Jingle my bells, jingle my bells. . . ) And this isn't exactly Christmas-y, but do I need an excuse to share photos of cute furry animals? These are two cocker spaniel puppies one of my mother's customers owns, and I get to look after them on occasion while my mom is cleaning house. Of course, I bring my camera. =P ( You said our dog didn't bite! . . . It doesn't. That's not my dog! ) I'm quite dismayed at the weather at the moment. It's been bitterly cold the last few days, but of course, now that there's moisture in the air, the temperature has skyrocketed into the upper forties. They're predicting rain for Christmas. Rainy Christmases are always the most depressing, because you have the knowledge that if only the mercury would drop a little lower, there'd be snow on the ground instead. Ever year, I hear about places to he south of us getting several feel of snow, and it's quite unfair. I'm going to move north the first chance I get, where I know white landscapes are an eventuality and not just a vague possibility. We upgraded our cell phones, too, and now the entire family has texting. It's hilarious to see my parents trying to adapt to this new technology. My mother is definitely not any sort of tech savvy, but she's really trying to get the hang of the whole texting business, although she seems to think txtspk is obligatory. Both she and my little brother were ecstatically texting me at work yesterday to ask me all sort of inane things just because they could. Like the ingredients to Watergate salad and which part of Inglorious Basterds I liked best (the scene with the Bowie song, obviously). Tomorrow, my aunt and uncle and my mother's side of the family is visiting in the evening for a small gift exchange (mainly just for my second cousins, who are the only ones young enough to still enjoy it). And on Christmas Eve, my grandparents on my dad's side of the family, as well as my aunt and my cousins are coming over for dinner and another gift exchange, which I'm a little excited about, I have to say. They haven't visited on Christmas Eve in nearly ten years, since they got a new house and relocated to the city, and this used to be a big family tradition. It'll be nice to recapture old times. I'm almost done wrapping all of my gifts, and after tomorrow's shift at work, I am free until Tuesday. As usual, I can't wait for the holidays to get here, but at the same time, I'm also saddened that they pass by so quickly now that I'm older. All for the better this year, though, as I have a ton of costuming things to finish before FC, and in a few days, my plate will finally be clear enough to devote my attention solely to it. I've never excelled at multi-tasking. Happy holidays to everyone in advance! May they be joyous, however humble or however grand. <3 7 comments|post comment

It already feels strange if it is not here... [22 Dec 2009|02:10pm] bubblebee [ mood | jubilant ] We've had a bit of exciting news since my last post. On the 14th November, 2009, my darling boyfriend became my darling fiance. *1, 2, 3... awww* This is us just after the proposal: Pretty awesome, huh? There's a cute little story about how it happened to. A lazy afternoon a few months back, I asked Tam to tell me something. Something I didn't know about this impending engagement that was "eventually" going to happen. He was almost asleep, and he said "It'll happen before the end of the year". I'd heard this before, so I confirmed, "before the end of this year? Before the end of 2009?" A lazy smile, and he said, "yes, it will happen before the end of this year". We had a family reunion coming up in December, so I thought, "Well, of course it will happen before that. But when? How?!" The jewellery shop was in the city, and seeing we live about half an hour outside the CBD now, it was becoming a bit difficult for him to get in there on the sly. Saturday morning came along - we'd been invited to a BBQ at Melissa's place, but Tam wanted to go into the city to pick up his comics. I said, "oh, can I come into the city with you?". "No." he said very bluntly. I raised my eyebrows, and went "okay then. Fine. We'll go to the BBQ first and then I'll drop you off at the train station". But by the time we got to the BBQ, Tam wouldn't have had time to get to the city via the train - the comic book store closed at 4pm, and it takes about an hour to get to the city via the train. He gave in, and I said, "Don't worry, I won't follow you around. You can do whatever you need, I'll just sit and knit in the food court!". As we left Melissa's, I gave her a very strange look as Tam said something about buying comics, which tried to convey "I think he's going to pick up the engagement ring today!!!!!!". Unfortunately the message didn't get across ;) We made it into the city about 2:30pm, craving some lunch. The closest Commonwealth ATM I knew of was at Broadway on the Mall, which also housed Gillett's Jewellers. Tam mentioned needing to buy a external hard drive for his aunt at Harvey Norman's, which is just about the jeweller's. He asked, "do you want to come with me upstairs?". I said, "No, it's okay. I'll go and have lunch." Tam stared at me with a funny look on his face, saying "are you sure?" "No, you can go by yourself". 20 minutes later, I had almost finished lunch, when Tam comes back from Harvey Norman's, an external hard drive in tow. I felt... a little sad, and I assumed he had paid some money off the ring, or he really didn't need to go in there, he was just buying a hard drive. We had lunch, went to Comics Etc, and headed back to the car, which was parked down near the Belgium Beer Garden. While strolling back to the car, hand in hand, I looked down at one stage and saw something in his cargo pocket. Puzzled, I snuck another look a few minutes later - that looks like a box! A box that it little enough to put a ring in! Oh gosh oh gosh oh gosh... that sneaky boy! I began to giggle. "What's wrong?" he asked. "What are you giggling about?" "Nooooooooothing!!!" I replied. This continued for about two blocks... giggling... trying to get closer to his pocket. He finally worked out what I was trying to do, and he swapped sides, putting me as far away from the pocket as possible. "What!!" I cried. "So I'm allowed to be over here, touching this pocket" - I pat the empty one - "but not the pocket over here?" - I tried to pat the other pocket, but he ran away, laughing as well. We got back to the car, and he unlocked it, put the bag from Harvey Norman's in the back seat, closed the door and said, "Do you want to go for a walk?" More very inappropriate giggling: "maybe!!" We toddled down to the Botanical Gardens, where we walked around for a little bit, until we found an empty park bench. Then we sat down, and watched the house boats for a little while, giggling at the people rowing from their house boat to the shore. We sat there for a little while, until Tam said, "I'm not very good at speeches". I smiled, and replied, "It's okay, I still love you". I don't remember what else was said now. I'm a bit sad about it. But there was smiling... and feeling safe... He fumbled in his pocket, and took out a little purple box. And then there was a box within a box. Heh. And then he got down on one knee, and asked, "will you?" "Will I what?" I asked with a grin. "Will you be my wife?" "I'll have to think about it ;)" "Oh." "Of course I will be your wife!" This ring has actually been picked out for over three years now. The details written down on a card, chilling out in his wallet for that long. Actually, I think we've had them written down two or three times. Every time we'd go into Gilletts, we'd look through the rings... none of them looked as nice as this one. After, Tam called my dad, asking permission. Originally, he said no. And then he said I suppose so. And then asked something about our new house. That seemed to be a common theme in telling our male relatives about our upcoming nuptials. Our families are very excited about this - as of we, of course! We had a little engagement party on the weekend for my family in Mackay - just a few friends were invited as well. We are thinking of an April 2011 wedding. We don't have a theme or a plan or anything as of yet, but hopefully after our other engagement party in January, we will start jotting down some ideas. So very exciting! :DDD 8 comments|post comment

Twittering [21 Dec 2009|12:04am] eleneala 10:14 more snow. REAL snow! over an inch XD # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter post comment

Calamaro... [20 Dec 2009|01:13am] malunatic [ mood | exhausted ] [ music | Los Chicos ~Andrés Calamaro ] Es imposible escuchar a Calamaro sin evitar pensarte. Y es imposible pensarte sin evitar extrañarte. 2 comments|post comment

Christmas cards! [19 Dec 2009|10:08pm] coffinxcandy I recieved cards from byfaith and melnjimslilbean this weekend. Thank you both for remembering me this holiday. byfaith: Your family picture is so cute! Your puppies are absolutely precious! 9 comments|post comment

Comeback [19 Dec 2009|10:12pm] __aimless Gonna revive this place soon, keep a look out! :) 3 comments|post comment

playing catch up [18 Dec 2009|04:07pm] brownvelvet_hat [ music | watching hellboy ] Day 06 → Whatever tickles your fancy http://www.burienlittletheatre.com/ come see it. one more weekend. woop woop. Day 07 → A photo that makes you happy Day 08 → A photo that makes you angry/sad post comment

Twittering [19 Dec 2009|12:03am] eleneala 12:08 I've figured out what kind of tree I am; I'm a 'Sappy Weeper'! ;) # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter post comment

he ate my heart and then he ate my brain [18 Dec 2009|04:48pm] kitteninparis [ music | The Sounds - No One Sleeps When I'm Awake ] Tein päiväkirjalleni pitkästä aikaa uuden layoutin. Sen kunniaksi että rakastan niin kovasti sekä Lady Gagaa että Ellen Von Unwerth'iä. ♥♥ 6 comments|post comment

Unable to Validate! Have to Re-Install Again!?! [17 Dec 2009|08:55pm] eleneala All in all it is with a very sad heart that I am deciding to freeze my account and un-install WoW. (Edited to add that apparently, I need to switch to the US version of the client (even though previously this meant I couldn't play the game at all) and that should fix these issues. So, I will give it one more go but if I need to reinstall again within the next month and a half I don't think I'll be doing so. :P This is the last gasp...) I am a rare case but not a unique one, in that I am in the EU yet I have a US registered account. This is due to the fact that I began playing WoW some 4+ years ago when I lived in Canada. My characters have been with me that long and some of the folk I play with now I have played with nearly that long as well. I am invested on the US servers, pity an EU account won't allow me to access them. Because it causes this problem... Every now and then, between a day to a week or so after a new patch, my game version will become unable to be validated. And often, deleting interface folders and WTF folders etc, solves the problem. But sometimes it doesn't, and when it doesn't it seems that the only answer I have is to re-install the entire game. fair enough. If reinstalling the entire game took only a few hours I wouldn't mind so much, but as it is it take a closer to anywhere from 6 to 12 hours depending on the download rate of all the patches involved during which time my system is tied up with it all. I have experienced being hacked and waited through getting my characters back and even that did not cause me to un-install the game and freeze my account. Now, however, facing my fourth reinstall in the past 5 months, I am ready to give up. Maybe I will come back when cataclysm is released... but then again maybe not as my glee at having finally gotten a character over 70 with my casual game play time and being so very close to 80 (comparatively) and then one morning logging off for a server restart only to find that a couple hours later when I tried to log back in I was entirely unable to... well, it's a bit lost right now.   3 comments|post comment

NEW!!! Lady Gaga Icons [17 Dec 2009|03:12pm] olivejuice_icon Hey guys, long time, no me, so here are some icons. I'm a simple icon maker. I really don't want to put so much stuff on top of a picture and call it an icon, so I do more focus on color, contrast, and crop. I do some styling with the photo, but that is it. Have a Happy Holidays! TEASERS: ( Light It Up ) post comment

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