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summer craze. [ denver, shopping ]
Yes. I am back in the homeland. Not China, Denver. China is the motherland. Denver is the homeland. And I am back. Tuesday into Wednesday was a horrible time, let me tell you. First, David saved my life and came over to get my stuff (after Grace decided to go home early without so much as giving me a heads up, thanks so much bitch. Have a nice life in Ithaca, hope you die early) on Tuesday at around 1, I had dinner with Kelly at 6, came back and packed my clothes and had a tug-of-war for the next twelve hours as I debated what to throw out and what to keep and if my luggage was going to go over the 50 lbs. limit, and the packing, was ENDLESS. Things kept popping up out of nowhere even as I stuffed them into suitcases, and I still ended up forgetting my TI-83+ and 4GB flash drive in my desk drawer. I just KNEW I was going to forget them, and I did. Also I had to leave my teddy bear behind, but when I emailed my RA to please please rescue my calculator and flash drive, she asked if I also wanted my teddy bear back. I love her. Even though I'm paying for the postage :P. Anyway, I finished packing (mostly) at around 1 AM, which is when I started studying for my final, and then I showered and kept myself awake with One Tree Hill on my bare mattress in a sweatshirt till 7. I went down for breakfast, had my last awesome made-to-order omelette ever, then went to my final, which was ridiculously easy, hoorah. Came back, watched Fringe, and then packed some MORE and threw out even MORE stuff until my cab driver got here at 3:30, which is when I finally bade SU and sophomore year goodbye/good riddance. The plane ride sucked. I was so ridiculously tired from not having slept at all, and I was also feeling very extremely sweaty and gross, so basically it was "hold-out until I finally get home and RELAX". Slept fitfully, ordered coffee and still slept through it. At one point the girl next to me had her unconscious head accidentally on my shoulder but I was so tired I really didn't care. Missed my layover in Chicago by literally 2 minutes because of the rainy weather. But actually I think that was better, because the next flight to Denver was in 2 hours and so I made my way to the food court, ordered some cheap Chinese food at Manchu Wok that was delicious because I was so hungry (best Szechuan Chicken & Lo Mien ever), went online via Boingo, and then headed - finally! - home again. Landed in Denver at 10:40 PM, was picked up by dad and mom and QQ, and the rest is history. I. LOVE. DENVER. I. LOVE. HOME. HOME. <3 --- My toes are green. (Those aren't a picture of my toes. Is that weird? That I have a picture of somebody else's toes... haha. O_O) My fingernails are [ chipped ] rocker black and my toenails are a sparkly shade of [ neat ] lime green. Total oxymoron :d but what else is new? I rarely paint my nails - call it the pianist habit in me, as we aren't supposed to paint our fingernails for a better aesthetic and some lie about the polish weighing down our fingers - and I own a total of maybe 2.7 bottles of polish, so this is a really rare occurance. But whenever I come home from school for break, I always paint my fingernails black now. This time, my toes decided to follow suit. I think I was admiring my toes too much with my fingers because sparkly gold has rubbed off on my middle black fingernail and won't come off. For some reason it reminded me of once, when I was maybe 6, at my piano teacher's house for my lesson. My mom had painted my nails a pinky-red, and Mr. Shaak flipped out and demanded I take it off before we began. The way he reacted was kind of scary, and being a little Asian girl who liked her nails pretty, I was on the brink of tears as I sat down with the nail polish remover and the sharp smell from the bottle to take off my pinky-red. Another girl, Darcy, who had her lesson before mine, patted me on the back and told me that they'd all been there. "I had my nails black with gold and silver sparkly swirls once, and he got sooo mad at me," she said. I impulse-shopped on Thursday. The plan was to stop off at Old Navy and get myself those 2 for $5 flip flops to replace some of the shoes I had to throw out to save luggage space, and then go to Walmart and replenish my facial and body washes and contact solutions because of the same reason. But of course shopping always bites me in the ass and I came out with more than that. A 100% cotton, completely comfortable as in I-could-sleep-in-this-and-rub-my-face-in-this-all-day dark grey v-neck t-shirt, $10 (!). Metallic pewter sandals, $19.50. Yellow suede moccasins, $11.99 (SALE! I heart cheap shoez). I'd been looking for yellow moccasins for forever, and even though these were preppier than I would've liked, with a bow and string-ties in place of the bright Native American beading and the fringe, I loooooveeee them. I also debated buying a thin patent white belt and some other shoes, but I decided not to because I can probably get them in China. However, I was wearing sneakers when I went in, and since taking the shoes off and putting them on again is a complete bitch, I guestimated my shoe size and picked size 7 for the sandal and size 8 for the close-toed moccasins. I have such a hard time with shoes because I swear my feet are shrinking: when I was in 8th grade, I could barely fit into a size 8 1/2. Sophomore year I fit back into a size 8. Two years ago I became 7 1/2. And now I'm in between that and a 7, usually. For open-toed shoes I wear a 7, close-toed I'm usually a 7 1/2. But the moccasins didn't have half-sizes, so I went with a size 8 to be safe and didn't try them on. Once I got home, I realized I had about two fingers-width too much in the moccasins. So I went back to the store again today before church (and before I stopped off at Schlotzsky's for my usual bbq chicken & jalapeno pizza :B) and exchanged for a size 7, which fit perfectly (go figure. Pretty soon I'm gonna be wearing my mama's size at 6). In line for the cash register, the girls in front of me were getting really excited about these soaps, so I looked at the vendor beside the register, and OMG, so many soaps and body things and fragrances for 50% off. They were in such neat packaging with these designs and after picking some up and smelling them, I decided I loved them. So of course I bought some. Cute little things like these thrifty soaps make my day. I think it's the "I wanna grow up and own my own awesome house!" person in me XD. They smell so delicious (I got Ruby Guava and White Grapefruit) and they're so cute. I think I might go back and buy some more tomorrow, I also liked Lavender Mint and the Island Lime one. They were 2 for $2.50! Totally worth it. I also got my mother's day present for my mom: the Ruby Guava Scented Oil Diffuser. She'll love it, I know it. She loves smelling nice and working in environments that smell nice. I really think that I'm the type of person that when I own my own place, will get totally excited about cute dishes, and shelf knick-knacks, and throw pillows. I found a couple of pictures a while back from apartmenttherapy.com (yes, I go there to look at awesome apartments sometimes) and I basically want this space: Isn't it cute!? It's in Oregon. Yep, I'm one of those people. :] Anyways, I also wanted ice cream and our house had none, and the original plan [ again ] was to buy a big bucket of Dreyer's or something that would last a while, but Dreyer's has nothing on Ben & Jerry's. I ended up getting my two favorite ice cream flavors in the universe. Bless that Ben and Jerry for coming up with the caramel core in Karamel Sutra. I think most of it is gone, while the actual ice cream is still there, LOL. Also, cherries and chocolate in cherry-tinted vanilla ice cream? ALL teh smexiez. I'm gonna miss this in China, but then again, they have stuff like frozen dan ta and soft-serve fresh strawberry sundaes so I think I'll be okay. But when I got home with my Cherry Garcia, my parents did the whole "You're going to get fat" argument so to make it a little healthier and throw in some of my fruit serving for the day, I sliced up some banana and tossed in a few leftover blueberries, raspberries, and boysenberries we had while rooting around in the fridge and spent way too long making & perfecting and pic-ing this thing: The angle is weird so I don't know if you can tell, but that's a bowl, not a plate. Ice cream is supremely difficult to eat off a plate, esp a glass one. Haha. I was going to post some surveys and some "Things you didn't know about Summer" random facts on here, but I think I'll save that for next time. Summer (and I mean the season, not talking to myself in the third person), I'm so glad you're finally here. The real fun has yet to kick in because my friends aren't home yet (except Daren, who is back from Boulder tomorrow maybe!), but I can feel the season soaking into my skin already. And see, the posts about absolutely nothing at all (which is how I'm spending my days!) are already starting. I'm so ready to be sunkissed (and NOT sunburnt!). I'm gonna pull out that summer playlist. China countdown: 26 days. x summer mood ; content music ; xie xie ai - garden sister obsession ; old navy soaps crave ; medium-rare steak location ; DENVER COLORADO!!! -> my yellow room <3 Labels: fashion, life, pix, shopping On Saturday, May 09, 2009 at 4:08:00 AM |
the girl.
I'm Meichen Yu. I'm Summer Yu. I'm Chen. I'm Winter.I'm a 20 year old Chinese (fan)girl from Denver, Colorado, who goes to New York for university. I'm a broadcast journalism major hoping to work in Taiwan as a variety show host after graduation. I love my family of 100+. I've played piano since I was 5 (had it beat into me, more like) and guitar, I charcoal and sketch, and I write fiction. I Photoshop too much. I keep up with fashion, use shopping as cardio, love experimenting with makeup, and go dancing a lot. I am attached to my iPod, love and breathe music, and own too many faded concert tshirts. I dress eclectically; I have polos, suspenders, bright dresses, African print, and Converse lace-up boots in my closet. I'm a walking oxymoron. I can be chill and laid-back and go-with-the-flow and I can also be very passionate and headstrong. I'm girly but emotionally I'm a bit like a man. I'm rather blunt and oblivious and incredibly insensitive. I have a low man-voice and I use it to tell it like it is. I'm a huuuuge EPL (English Premiere League) fan and World Cup fanatic. I can't understand why America is the only country who doesn't see soccer (FOOTBALL) for the beautiful game it is. It's pretty much the only sport I keep up with. Also, I'm a huuuge Asian celebrity fangirl. Fahrenheit, in particular Jiro and Aaron, are my weak spot, though Big Bang ranks as a close second by sheer force of talent. I love Donglun slash. (I also love Reno/Cloud slash.) Often times when I'm walking around listening to my iPod I will daydream a whole music video (with me in them most of the time) in my head as a song plays. Other times I will imagine whole Taiwanese Dramas and cast all the characters. I believe my whole life thus far can be accurately summed up by The Googoo Doll's Dizzy Up the Girl album, hence the blog title. I also hope my future life (with Jiro) will be able to be summed up by Cheer Chen's discography. I eat too much, sleep erratically and usually during the day, party hard, and work my ass off. I have a short attention span and am pretty good at wasting time. Sometimes I get worried that nobody understands my strange self but most of the time I'm not concerned with working too hard at making friends because if it's meant to be, it will stick. I dream big and believe my life will follow as such. If you box your possibilities into a small space, your life will only be mediocre. God gave us dreams and the means to make them come true; use them. I love my good and fearful God. I'm excited to see where life takes me. I'm excited to be alive. :). I'm terrible at summing myself up in these things. |
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