Interviews and makeup

Came back from an internship interview today! It was for the company that I thought I was rejected after the phone interview, so yay! FINALLY. The interview went well. I have no idea if "this interview is just a formality" means I got the internship or what. I'm just excited that it went well.

Makeup for the interview. I figured that since the company is considered a tech company, I could get away with not wearing a suit. I wore black flats (borrowed from my sister... they're so cute I am considering buying my own pair that looks similar), black knee length pencil skirt, white collared shirt, and a tan argyle sweater. Hair in a low bun, and minimal eye makeup (as in, highlight powder under brows). I just have on some tinted moisturizer, blush, tinted lip balm, and filled in my brows.

To be honest, I'm not crazy about wearing eye makeup to interviews, especially as a monolidder. Unless I'm working retail, most of the time I'm not wearing much eye makeup... if at all. My glasses do all the work! I spend lots of time picking out interesting frames, since I wear them daily. Since I favor bold frames, I find that wearing the typical slightly smoked eye competes with the frames a little bit and ends up not looking clean cut. 

Which brings me to another point: I'm not really a huge fan of wearing a smokey eye to an interview, even if that is standard and it looks really pretty for monolids. There's nothing wrong with it, it's just not for me because I personally just feel uncomfortable with it. Most of the time I'm not satisfied with how it turned out, and if I twiddle with it too much... all of the sudden it looks too much. It just brings too much unnecessary stress to the interview preparation, so I don't bother. Anyways, I don't think it's detrimental to have simple, clean makeup and wear simple, clean, professional clothing to interviews, unless you're interviewing in a field that's heavily involved with makeup. 

Anyways, my dog is at the vet today for her checkup and she pooped EVERYWHERE because she KNEW she was going to the vet. I always thought that it was funny that Garfield and Odie hated going to the vet, but I never thought that it was based on anything real.

Molly! Can't wait to see you! 

Bah backlogged

I have some posts that I have been working on, with tons of pictures. But there are a lot of pictures that I have to go upload and comment on! 

A few things are going on in my life at the moment. This summer, I am proactively trying to make it exciting and keep myself from being bored. I'm setting up loads of projects for myself, and generally keeping myself busy and somewhat productive, although I'm spending too much time watching TV. I'm trying to figure out a hobby for myself, not only to keep me occupied, but also to try to rediscover myself. One of the things that I lost in my long term relationship is who I am as a person, and what I like to do. I used to have tons of hobbies and skills, and they sort of... disappeared as I got older. Reading, going to conventions, cosplay, drawing, hanging out with friends even. I've definitely lost touch with my friends and while I love hanging out with my boyfriend, I don't think it's healthy to only hang out with the boyfriend. I've been reaching out to my buddies and trying to keep in touch and hang out, something that I found hard to do in high school, and even harder to do now. 

At least I'm trying, and being able to talk and connect with people I've known for years and haven't gotten a chance to form a meaningful relationship is great! It's always nice to have people to hang out with, anyways.

With all the fun I have been having, my eating habits have gone to shit. I went to Vegas, pigged out. I went to a wedding, and of course I pigged out. I've pigged out pretty much any occasion I could, and then I wondered why my clothes were getting uncomfortable. You people still in your teens... rejoice that you can eat whatever you want without worries! When you get to my age, you have to actually OMG start paying attention to what you eat because you're less active, old, more stressed, got a slower metabolism, and you're probably still eating like you did in college or high school and snorfing down whatever crosses your path. Oh, to be young again... I was 115 pounds in high school, and while I haven't gained a huge amount of weight, I'm now 121 pounds and I would like to be back where I was in high school, preferably less. Since the modern world gives us technology that lets us be frivolous, of course I downloaded an app to track my food and my calories. Not that I am very good at keeping track consistently in the first place...

Not bad for the first day, right? I'm trying to stick to a few rules: no eating after 7PM, reduced candy and sweets, eat the bulk of calories at lunch, eat breakfast, and make an effort to stretch every day because I am definitely starting to feel like rubber that has been in the sun for too long. 

I'm setting my goals at an ambitious 102 pounds, but really I would be happy at 105 or so. I'm not crazy about my calorie budget, but keep in mind that I am short, so 1500 really is maintenance calories for me. 

The face of the day! I'm getting obsessed with using taupe eyeshadow to create an easy daytime smokey eye! It looks really effortless and pretty, and a refreshing alternative to using brown. Since my hair and skin are cool toned, I feel like taupe looks more harmonious on me than brown at the moment. This was the first time my sister said that she was drawn to my eyes and that they really stood out. Impressive, because I am not shy with the black eyeshadow, lashes, and the black eyeliner! 

Also memorable: At the beginning of the year, I decided that I would support my boyfriend with his no fast food ban. I firmly broke that today and ate Jack in the Box and it was probably one of the most delicious things I had. And so cheap! My brother got the $4.99 All American combo, and I think that is probably not only one of the best deals EVER, but pretty darn delicious. I know people scoff at American fast food. I personally have friends who pride themselves in never eating McDonalds and never even setting FOOT in the restaurants... but I guess I'm just like the masses contributing to the fast food empire. And it doesn't hurt to eat such things once in a while. Just avoid the chicken nuggets. I don't understand the point of processed chicken when fried chicken is already heavenly.

Starting off the Day

So lately I have been sending off my resumes to assorted companies in order to obtain an accounting internship. Before then, I was applying to other jobs unrelated to accounting, but I got the feeling from my last interview that they thought it was odd that I'm so close to graduating but I'm trying to find work in other fields. I figured from that that it might be easier to actually you know, get something related to my field!

What I didn't expect was for one of the companies to call me the next morning. It's kind of horrible to wake up to a phone interview that I never expected. I'm not sure if I even sounded like a decent human being to the person interviewing me. In fact, I'm sure I made loads of "AURUGHARRRGHUGHBURP" noises that the person tried to interpret. I really couldn't get my brain together to make a cohesive sentence. I'm actually surprised that I'm supposed to get an in person interview, but they never sent me an email so I called in and left a message. I'm sure that is their way of telling me that they want to reject me though...

Nothing like some sweet green bean bun from Paris Baguette!

Eating it while watching Spirited Away is much better! Miyazaki films are awesome because the characters develop and grow so beautifully. It's very subtle, and that's what makes it awesome. You don't get people getting sudden realizations and then instantly becoming better people that way. The characters make mistakes, and sometimes they learn from it and sometimes they don't. 

If you thought "ewwwww green bean" the insides are actually very sweet and delicious! It's like custard? Maybe more firm. Nothing like adzuki (sweet red bean). The texture is more fine. 

Picture of my hair. I should mention that I don't like burgundy hair on myself, but this happened because I dyed dark brown over pink. If you want a long lasting burgundy and don't want to damage your hair (especially if you have dark hair already), then get some Special Effects Atomic Pink dye and go happy on your head. Atomic Pink is hell to get out, and I have a feeling that the purple dye I used had Atomic Pink as the base. I'm definitely planning on stripping the brown out later down the line to go back to blonde. 

My room has been getting more sunlight because my brother and my dad finally cut down extra branches, but they haven't been putting away the clippings. As a result, my room gets sunlight but the ground retains the shade, and the neighbor's cat has been sleeping next to my window and making my dog mad. I think the cat gets a kick out of pissing off my dog. 

My boyfriend sold his car today. Goodbye car, hello to me being the ride again. Makes me sad to see it go. 

Pride 2012

So I went up to SF on Sunday with the intent to dance my butt off and partake of the Pride festivities.

Instead, what happened was that we spent a lot of time looking for alcohol and bathroom, and as a result didn't really get to hang out at pride. In fact, we ended up spending most of the time at our friend's restaurant (he's a bartender) and drinking.

My drink! A refreshing PBR, but it was $5 at the liquor store! The line was ridiculously long because we bought it at a store that was on the corner of where Pride was happening. It was so busy in there that most of the cashiers were cash only, and they pretty much priced everything however they felt like it. But, it was very refreshing and definitely hit the spot.

I was drinking it from the can in a straw. I know now why people don't drink beer with straws. This is what will happen. Foam! Gross!

At first, Alex did his typical smile. I'm trying to coach him out of doing that, so I told him not to do that pose and he ended up with this, which is sadly enough better. He said that he looked up articles on how to be more photogenic, and while his tips are interesting and may be valid (clench eyebrows together, clench back molars, number of teeth allowed showing while smiling), I still think that knowing how to look natural on camera may be best. 

Top shelf alcohol! All these drinks are on a floating glass shelf suspended above the bar area. 

Mr. Bartender is the guy in the black... tank top? I don't know what to call it. He made us a few drinks. Unfortunately, I am decidedly not a whiskey drinker. I can drink it, but sometimes it's too much of a smokey taste for me. Bleh. 

We did eat a lot that day too, but I'm trying to break the habit of taking pictures of the food I'm eating. I guess I don't like being that Asian person who keeps taking pictures of their food... but who am I kidding. Let me show you an example here...

Click on the picture to get to the link for the blog... yes, that is me and the boyfriend. I don't know if I should feel self conscious or not. Hide me!

You know, for someone who went up to SF to go partake of the Pride parade, I have no idea why I didn't take any pictures of that, but instead took pictures while we were hanging out at the restaurant. 

Two bartenders and my boyfriend. Yea, let's just end that day on this note. 

Today though, I got to hang out with one of my girlfriends! We've been friends since grade school! We didn't get to hang out for a long time, just had lunch. I feel like as I get older, there is less and less time for friends because everyone's schedules don't match up, so I was really glad we got to hang out!

We went to a restaurant that I went to when I was just out of high school. It now operates under a different name, but I remembered that their calzones and their hot sandwiches were really good. Plus, she was hellbent on getting a mimosa (and she even got a beermosa) so...

 Our food. I know I didn't want to be "that Asian" but I was trying to get a picture of my friend taking a picture of the food and I was too late. At least you get to see what I eat. Her calamari was the saddest plate I had ever seen. $10 for such a pathetic amount of calamari. What a downer. Also, I ordered extra mayo on the side and I never saw it. Sadness! But my food was really good. I felt like the food was the same, and their extra slow service was also the same.

And the obligatory post of myself! I realize that in my last picture I have purple hair. If you know me from other blogs, you'll see that I had blonde hair, then purple, and now I'm at dark brown/burgundy because I'm waiting for the purple dye to fade out so I can strip the color and go back to my glorious blonde again. But really, the dark brown isn't bad.

Altogether, it has been a really fun past couple of days!