tiffany stars for my ears

after rocking itty bitty ruby studs that i got from my trip to thailand for over a decade now, i decided to finally upgrade my earlobes to something white and sparkly...my new tiffany diamond studs! woot!

they give just the right amount of sparkle and is pretty as heck when they peek through my hair. and since i don't like to change my earrings at all, these will be great earrings to rock 24/7 and will go well with any outfit, anytime, anywhere.

they will also be perfect for my wedding <3. yay, finally got my own set of sparkly stars to add to my jewelry collection.

totally tiffany

obviously if i'm back, i'm bringing a pretty blue box with me. woot.

my internal convo

i know i've taken a long hiatus from this bagtastic blog (about 3 months and some change), but in light of all that has happened in this world and the utterly SUCK-ASS economy, i've had a constant convo within the inner space of my skull whether it's appropriate to blog about material needs and wants when i should be focused on more substantial things that don't involve leather, and handles, or diamonds. the world is suffering and the economy is tough. i know. i get it. so i refocused....instead of designer talks and leather wants:

• i focused on my wedding instead.

• i focused on my dogs.

• i focused on my family and all the people connected to it.

• i focused on my job.

• i focused on getting fat which now leads to unfocusing on this part stat so i can fit into my mutherfuckin' wedding dress (fml).
  

so in no particular order these were the topics that i spent my free time on....until just recently when i clicked on my beloved bagnatic blog just to check up on it and realized how utterly desolate it looked. :'( i saw cobwebs and a thick layer of dust had settled in peoples. after rereading some of my old posts, i had an EPIPHANY.

after almost four years of superficial rants and wants, the lack of current posts on bagnatic made me realize that i'm neglecting an extremely important part of my identity...my blogger one. it is NOT just a superficial blog (but of course it obviously is to a certain degree), but it really was my escapist trick, one that allowed me to decompress from life's stresses while working on my engrish as well. it is also a living, breathing platform that documented various facets of my life that i felt comfortable enough to share, and one that does not involve shoving some tasty morsel in my mouth since i got that one covered too :0 this IS how i REBOOT myself as i shouted to myself. you go on vacation to decompress...i blog about stuff that i like.

so yes, i am mutherfuckin' back bitches (that is said with love). i still see a trail of people wandering through my site on a daily basis and for that i am thankful for cuz no word in my mind is really written unless it is read. oh yeah that felt good. *sigh*

it feels good to be back.

droid vs. iphone

when i got my android by htc, it was a conscious choice to stay with verizon. even though my whole family are at&t users due to the iphone, i COULD NOT and WOULD NOT transfer over to them when my last phone spazzed out. at&t has terrible customer service and seriously, the numerous dropped calls i've received from my fiancee has been enough of a deterrent. besides, the iphone will SUPPOSEDLY be released to verizon in 2011. i can always get the iphone then...if it ever happens.

but seriously, the iphone is far superior than my droid. the camera is better and the apps are incredible. the droid market must make leaps and bounds to catch up with all that. look at the sad picture i sent to my sister before she flung some back at me.

my droid picture with picsay app.

sister's pics with iphone and tuzkiSnap app.

hands down the iphone is far superior, in many respects...camera and apps being a few of them. if the iphone comes to verizon, i will be alllllllllll over it.

christmas 2010

good morning and merry christmas everybody!! from my phone to your blog retrieving unit :)

hello kitty for the kiddy in me

when the sanrio small gift pop up tour rolled into town (i love sanrio and their super long names for everything. i'm surprised they didn't call it, "the sanrio really cute small gifts shopping galore pop up tour) i knew i had to attend. i mean, i was a hell0 kitty fan from way back when and who wouldn't want to visit some nostalgia while it's in town? i for sure didn't want to miss it.

so i convinced my fiancee that he HAD to attend the cutest pop up shop in the world with me and off we trekked to santa monica for the last day of the tour. once you enter the space, three words immediately came to mind: hello kitty clusterfuck. can you spot the sea of heads at the bottom of this picture? good lord it was dense with humans...and er, cats.

i saw a lot. some funny. some cute. but honestly, i kinda wanted to bolt out as soon as possible. i mean, wouldn't you if you found yourself in forced body contact with complete strangers? some were hairy too, might i add. *shudders* this ain't a rock concert peeps.

anyways, the event was geared towards hello kitty fans and children...though the line blurred sometimes when i saw some of the get-ups there. wooooweeeee. i saw a sanrio ferris wheel, too. i made sure to capture my most favorite sanrio characters ever, kerokerokeroppi and my melody (the little twin stars were on the other side). in fact, i must make a teensy weensy confession right now. my favorite was never hello kitty. i thought that white cat was just way too played out. did you have a favorite?

folks taking nostalgia to another level perhaps? i definitely saw A LOT of older peeps (like in their late 20's and 30's mind you) in some rather creative get-ups. but what-evs, everybody was there to enjoy themselves. these folks here are playing dress-up.

then we mosied through the art gallary portion and i saw a few interesting pieces inspired by the white kitty with the big head. i think there was a definite trend in portraying hello kitty with more grit and less innocence. hello gritty perhaps?

this one was pretty cool. i didn't know schools of fish were hello kitty fans as well. nice.

this one is made out of a million jelly beans. not sure about its relevance to sanrio though. am i missing something?

after walking rather briskly around the small space, we picked up some eats at a food truck before we headed out. there was no need for us to wait in the insanely loooooong line to get into the shopping portion of the pop-up. seriously, age and patience is inversely related for me. besides, i used up all my patience at work and have none left over for loooooooong lines.

i would love to say we sped off in this ride (seriously, only hello kitty cars will shoot out rainbows! look at the bottom right of the photo), but we didn't. all in all, it was an interesting day full of furballs and things that were really pink. i have a feeling these pop-up tours will come around again even though this one in particular was to celebrate their 50th anniversary. it was positively a money maker for all that were involved. i'm glad hello kitty is rich. she needs a lot of money to supply herself with a lifetime of red bows for her left ear.

thank you for my fat ass

thanksgiving. we all know it's about family and a celebration of relationships, whether they be functional or dysfunctional (hopefully more functional than not). but the underlying goal of thanksgiving is to also turn you into a big fat turkey. seriously.

and if you look at the larger picture, from thanksgiving till christmas, it will be a month long of gorging, of eating till you're stuffed, and of wearing loose clothing to grow your fat belly as you make your rounds in the eating circuit, double fisting turkey and pumpkin pie. oh dear lord, it is a time to excercise restraint peoples! a time to say, "no more," rather than "yes, please." a time to look at your own thigh, rather than the turkey's thigh! one word of advice: put the mutherfuckin' slice of honey baked ham down, ya hear?!

did you excercise restraint this thanksgiving? did you? let me turn this question on myself, DID I? NOPE. CRAP. haha, i am a walking anomaly of conflicting messages...yes, no, maybe, ok! dang.

thanksgiving this year was spent with my fiance's clan, a boisterous group of folks that spilled out of the little house that it was held at. since i helped out with some of the prep work, i did not get the opportunity to snap a ton of pictures, but let me just say, asian gatherings always mean over the top, way too much food and a whole lot for you to take home.

there was a turkey getting fried. this huge tin pot was where it was entombed in. a greasy dead-bath of sorts.

here's my fiance, mixing a huge vat of mash potatoes. yes, it may look like he's getting ready for the salvation army, but in fact, this vat of mashies will feed all of us...all 40+ of us, bejeebus.

and one of the best thanksgiving items of them all, a WHOLE ROASTED PIG! it had the crispiest skin ever. this oinker was polished off in seconds. SECONDS.

so i'm THANKFUL. THANKFUL for all the usual things, fiance, family, friends, dawgs, my job, and writing blogs that actually have folks that read them...and i'm absolutely THANKFUL that i never have to worry about being hungry and that eating well, eating to the point of obesity, can be a possibility if i choose to...er, not that i would...just sayin'.

i will forgo stepping on the scale till new year's eve so i can then make my typical new year's resolution: i will lose weight.

till then, i am stuffing my face! holla.