RANDOM. IT’S GOING TO BE A LONG NIGHT.

June 8, 2008 at 10:53 pm | Filed under ditz drivel, the helga manual

1. Up until February, for the past…oh, six years, all I needed to do to have a cigarette was to take a few steps away from my bed or out of my room. Now, I travel a minimum of half an hour just to get my nicotine fix.

This isn’t very funny.

2. I notice that whenever people tell me how hot or sexy or gorgeous I am, my initial reaction is to bleat at them (and no, it’s not false modesty nor am I being coy).

I should stop with the bleating, really, and just learn to shut up (like a good woman) and say “thank you”. I mean, it’s not like there’s anything more to me than that. It’s not like I have anything else going on for me. I’m not intellectually brilliant or anything.

Heh.

3. I’ve been in Katipunan since Friday, “working”, needing to complete several designs and templates and sites before Tuesday noon. Tuesday noon! I am stressed and nervous and I feel like I’m about to disintegrate because I really want this. I miss my cat and my boyfriend.

I wanna get my baby a cat tree.

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ON READING AND DISTRACTIONS.

June 6, 2008 at 2:22 am | Filed under camwhorage, ditz drivel, pop culture and such, the helga manual

It dawned on me today that I haven’t been reading much lately. In fact and to be exact, I haven’t read a single book AT ALL since I moved in with my folks last March. Instead of beating myself up over this absolutely unforgivable disservice to my brain or coming up with a handful of excuses as to why I’ve devolved into some airhead who thinks Mitch Albom’s The Five Five People You Meet In Heaven is the apex of literature (for the record: I don’t), I decided to just grab Catherine Liu’s Oriental Girls Desire Romance (which I began reading months ago), curl up in bed, and devote the next couple of hours to reading.

Uh-oh. No coffee. More importantly, no cigarettes. It may seem silly to you— and this is the part of me I’d love to see led out behind the barn one night and shot— but I’ve been conditioned to only be able to work properly when I have a constant supply of caffeine and nicotine coursing through my, uh, veins (alcohol helps a whole lot, too, sometimes). Sure, reading non-fiction doesn’t really count as “work”, especially when there is no book review to be written afterwards; but reading requires brain activity and some level of reflection and rumination. Basically, what I’m trying to say is that I am even more stupid without my socially-accepted drugs.

Book in hand, I left my room and plopped down on the couch beside my mom. That proved to not be the brightest of ideas because as soon as I sat down and folded my legs beneath me, Pinoy Big Brother Teens came on and my mom told me to go online and vote for this dude.

My face, it went like this: -_-

Things that kept me from getting any actual reading done:

1. Kat DeLuna’s Whine Up video.

2. Pinoy Big Brother Teens and how the more I try to wrap my head around it, the more hopeless the general Filipino public seems to me.

3. Finding a place. Here’s the deal: I live ridiculously far from the city and three months of _this_ is really all I can take. The plan is for my older brother and I to get a place together near his school. I gave my mom our options: a 2-bedroom unit in Cubao, Anonas, Sikatuna Village, or Katipunan/Loyola Heights (I really really want to move back to my comfort zone).

Currently, I am going through the ads on Buy and Sell Philippines and Sulit.Com.Ph and while this isn’t exactly torture (I actually like e-hunting for apartments), I am quite the frustrated kitty. Is it truly possible to not be able to google a place/address? More importantly, do I really want to live in a street, area, or building that cannot be found on Wikimaps?

Sad kitty eats Oreo cookie now:

If by any chance you’re from North Carolina (huhlolz. But at least that’s on Wikimaps *grumble*), check out NC health insurance.

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TWO-THREE.

May 31, 2008 at 2:30 am | Filed under ditz drivel

(I have deadlines, I’m sorry!)

Helloes, it’s my birthday and I’m in a good mood. Nevermind that Lover has left for the weekend, nevermind that my tummy is still reeling from last night’s beers, and nevermind that I’m fat because I attacked a pan of brownies as soon as I got home last night. Good Mood Helga, that’s me! =)

This morning will be spent watching The Hills season 3. Somebody get me a birthday cupcake and I’m all set.

And! O hai, check out air tools.

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WELL, PEACHY WOULD APPRECIATE THESE.

May 29, 2008 at 6:46 pm | Filed under ditz drivel

Out of boredom the other night, I decided to freshen up my e-retardery knowledge by heading over to Uncyclopedia and Encyclopedia Dramatica. Unfortunately, no thanks to my curiosity, I got LulzWiki-ed.

I am once again a bored kitty today, seeing that Lover won’t be up for another three or four hours. Instead of going to those two sites for my lulz, I opted instead to look at pet beds.

That one would be the Kitty Cocoon.

And that would be the Kitty Snuggle Sack which is perfect for cats that love to jump in and out of bags (material is irrelevant, heh). Peachy would surely love this, seeing how she tends to go in and out of plastic bags and has taken a liking to sleeping in the basket where we keep them in.

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NATIONAL FINALS RODEO.

May 28, 2008 at 11:47 am | Filed under ditz drivel

Amongst the many things I would like to do in my life, seeing a rodeo is one of them. It’s not that I’m a fan of cowboys or playing (lulz) with bulls; I just think that rodeos are awesome things and it’s a must that I witness one live. I was chatting with Lover about this today, specifically about the annual National Finals Rodeo, and I wasn’t surprised at all when he told me that he was able to watch the event a couple of years ago.

The NFR (also known as the “super bowl of rodeo”) is a ten-day event (happening the first week of December) organized by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association held each year at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The NFR has seven events with eight world champions crowned in each, at its end: bareback riding, steer wrestling, team roping, saddle bronc riding, tie-down roping, bull riding, and barrel racing (the only event exclusive to women!).

A large sum of money is awarded each year to the World All-Around Rodeo Champion Cowboy and due to it’s popularity, tickets tend to get sold out easily and quickly. For those of you who have the means (because you’re not stuck in some Third World country like I am) to see the event this December, book your Wrangler National Finals Rodeo tickets now.

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