Every­one does one last bit of shop­ping before a big spend­ing freeze, right?  Well, since we are sav­ing up for some­thing big in August, we have to put a spend­ing freeze on every­thing except for bills. Every­thing has to go into savings.

That’s gonna be hard for me because I typ­i­cally never have to save more then 2–3 pay peri­ods for any­thing. Oh, well. Time to be an adult. 

As a result, I got a few things on my last avail­able week­end down in LA. Mostly col­lectibles, but I got some make up/bath stuff too since I won’t have the money to make another trip down there for another 6 months at least.

Actu­ally, the 3D case, I bought a cou­ple of weeks back. The front sticker/protector was what I pur­chased today. It’s actu­ally sit­ting on top of one of those ZaGG (or what­ever) pro­tec­tors, so I actu­ally have two skins on my iphone.  Mostly, this is because I’m para­noid about my screen get­ting cracked or scratched. Thank­fully, it hasn’t affected the sen­si­tiv­ity of my screen, so I can carry on like a weirdo.

Mobile phone/card case because Richard says I lose my phone too often. “You lose it in your hand.” He even thinks that I’d lose it in the case while it’s sit­ting around my neck.

Phone stand! I wanted to buy a cra­dle, but when I saw this thing, I jumped for it.

You can see how grossly large my san-x col­lec­tion is get­ting in the back­ground. 

Found a Swim­mer bambi headband/earmuff at Q-Pop! Amaz­ing find, con­sid­er­ing that these have been sold out for like 5 months.

My largest pur­chase of the day. Lit­er­ally and finan­cially.   A giant kori­lakkuma pul­low. It takes up nearly the whole width of my bed. I’m not really sure if I want to take it out of the pack­ag­ing because I’d hate for it to get schmutzy. Maybe I’ll just pull a granny move and keep the plas­tic on the pil­low. 

I’m not really into post­ing pri­vate blog posts because if it was really that sen­si­tive, you prob­a­bly should put it some­place besides a pub­lic blog.

These past weeks have been absolutely atro­cious and I feel like I’m gonna die from the men­tal exhaustion.

Some amaz­ing news, I was hired by CVS Phar­macy as a tech­ni­cian. Even though it’s not much more than Clark’s as far as pay goes, the hours will be full time which is some­thing I could really use right now. I was able to quit Clark’s as my bills are up to date, and won’t be need­ing money until April or so. (They haven’t given me a sched­ule yet because they’re wait­ing on drug test results. Which are drug free, cause drugs are bad, mmkay.)

Some bad news: Richard’s appen­dix burst.  He was rushed to the ER by fam­ily for excru­ci­at­ing bloat and abdom­i­nal pain, and in the mid­dle of surgery it rup­tured. Thank­fully, it was under the eye of the sur­geon that it did, because a rup­tured appen­dix is actu­ally quite fatal. They had the sur­gi­cal trauma team called up for him and every­thing. It was bad tim­ing and now my poor baby is at home with a drainage tube on his gut and has only just begun eat­ing solids. (This is after nearly a week and a half of no appetite)

We’re keep­ing an eye on him, but he’s also on some heavy duty antibi­otics and antibac­te­ri­als (Metron­ida­zole and Ciprofloxapin) to keep infec­tions like peri­toni­tis from set­ting in. That was a huge issue with the rup­ture because of all the con­t­a­m­i­nants and such com­ing into con­tact with the rest of the lower abdom­i­nal cav­ity. Yeck. In all cases though, he’s far­ing well, and is even walk­ing around now.

I com­pletely lost track of time in Jan­u­ary and now it’s Feb­ru­ary!

Here’s some shots from Jan. to help catch up!

Wear­ing one of the new dresses I bought last month. Can’t even remem­ber where I am.

About to go out to din­ner with Richard. Wear­ing Lotta deer because I don’t wear it enough. For a dream dress, I sure don’t wear it as much as I thought I would. 

Found these heels in a box while clean­ing out my closet. They’re a lit­tle more “orange-y” red than Rose toi­lette but they give the coord such a casual princess feel!

Make up that day. I was in a weird mood I guess.

This photo is from yes­ter­day, how­ever, I’m gonna use it to show you that I’ve dyed my hair. :D

Richard’s aun­tie really thinks that the light auburn col­ors make me “more approach­able and cud­dly” to quote.  I’ve got­ten noth­ing but pos­i­tive feed­back since she sug­gested I do this color. I was pretty dis­ap­pointed how it turned out when I first dyed it because I felt like maybe it was going too light. But then when I look at it more, I just see this really inter­est­ing depth of color when its styled.

Picked up some new studs. It was a mix-match set from Claire’s to replace the studs I lost last month.

I got tired of my iphone ear­buds. I bought some Solo Beats because the sound is like hear­ing the uni­verse explode if the explo­sion were caused by rain­bows and amaze­ment. Yeah, I’m not sure how to explain how awe­some they are. They’re just that awe­some.