Pinkie Larue

I’m sure you’ve all heard of the website Txts Frm Lst Nght. It’s a collection of embarassing texts. I love the tagline of the site-Remember that text you shouldn’t have sent last night? We do.

Haha! I bought the app a couple of weeks ago and when I’m bored or need cheering up, it comes in handy! Here are a few, that had me in stitches!

(270) Not only did I hold your hair bak as you puked, I french braided it. I am such a great friend.

(314): no ping pong balls so we’re playing beer pong with an ornament. you can’t tell me that’s not festive.

(717): I like how my family gatherings are basically an ugly sweater party just with better beer and wine…

(210): masturbating is 5million times harder to finish knowing grandma is in the guestroom downstairs. just so you know.

(210): I’m bringing in a picture of a stranger on facebook to get my haircut. I have reached a new level of creepy.

(505): i purposely bought her a small sweater. My way of saying, you’ve gotten fat.

(916): Don’t bite the hand that gives you multiple orgasms

(919): so I was just driving high and I stopped to let a pinecone cross the road because I thought it was a hedgehog.

(612): What started out as a threesome has become me sitting here watching them have sex… Can I get a ride home?

And some from my very own city!

(901): guy in the car over is getting some terrible road head. he just gave me a thumbs down when he noticed i was watching.

(901): i wonder what thom yorke’s orgasms sound like (devynn actually asked me if that was my text…hehe)

(901): Woke up to a denim duvet cover this morning… why r guys so tacky?

The Swede sent me this picture taken when Oprah/The Obamas were in Copenhagen. He sent it because he swears I was there. He thinks the girl that he (badly) circled looks just like me. Thoughts?

Unless you live under a rock, then you know about Kanye’s west douche-baggery that went on at the VMA’s this week. I didn’t even watch the VMAs. Hell, I don’t even have MTV, but within minutes of Kanye’s outburst happening, I had heard all about it. In case you somehow missed it, here’s the clip

I agree with everyone else that this was a complete douchebag move on Kanye’s part. However, something good has come out of this…the Kanye meme’s! I have been dying of laughter at the Kanye meme’s that have taken over the internet. Here’s one of my favorites (via kanyegate – these memes are going to get realllllly old really fast so go LOL while you can)

(I dunno about best vampires, but True Blood definitely has the hottest. Hello?! ERIC NORTHMAN!)
Kanye memes!

I had my first day at work today. Well, sorta. Today was inservice day. The other teachers and I decorated the rooms, made bulletin boards, and had team meetings with the director. School starts on Monday and I’ll have a class of 18 kids. Everyone keeps asking me if I’m nervous, and I’m not! It’s something I’m really comfortable doing, so I’m perfectly fine with it.

I’m on a mission to fight my insomnia. If you follow me on twitter, you know that I’ve been having trouble sleeping for a while now. You probably notice me awake at weird hours, going to bed when you’re waking up for work, and then only sleeping for 3 hours. It’s crazy and I have no idea what the cause is. It’s not caffeine, stress or, loud neighbors. Its just some random phase I guess. I’ve always been able to function on little sleep, but not for such a long period of time. I took a couple of Tylenol Sleepy Time yesterday and it did what it was supposed to do. It put me to sleep, but I was wide awake a few hours later. Maybe I’ll pop 3 next time? Maybe my sleep schedule will fall into a normal rhythm now that I’m empolyed? One can only hope…

In other news!

A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine suggested that I download Plants Vs Zombies from Popcap games. I was a little hesitant at first. A game about plants fighting zombies?! Why on earth would I be interested in that? But I try to give everything a chance (besides music…), so I downloaded it. I didn’t get around to playing it until this week, and oh am I glad that I did! Plants vs. Zombies is awesome and yes, very addicting. I spent so many hours playing within the last 2 days. It’s a tower defense game where you try to keep the zombies out of your house by planting plants with different offensive and defensive abilities in your yard. Some of the plants shoot peas, some throw watermelons, and some are used for defense, like the WALL-nut. (which I’m adding a picture of because he and his friend “tall-nut” have the most hilarious facial expressions) As the levels progress, not only do more zombies attempt to get in your house by way of your yard AND your roof, but they get more kick ass abilities to aid them in destroying your plants. You’ll be trying to destroy zombies on dolphins, Michael Jackson “thriller” inspired zombies,pole vaulting zombies and the ones that give me the most trouble, Gargantuan zombies with a baby on his back that he throws into the yard to devour the plants. It’s 2 in one! Not fair, not fair! No worries though. I am a supreme zombie killer and I definitely beat the game yesterday. I was rewarded with a trophy, some mini games (!!!), and the best reward ever-a music video featuring the plants and zombies. Check it out! I should warn you, the song is so catchy.

I know a lot of you aren’t “gamers”, but that’s what is so cool about this game. It appeals to anyone. My mom even played it (she didn’t get very far)! So, go to www.popcap.com and download the free (for 60 minutes) demo-which is available for mac too!

Have you ever accidentally got drunk? I’m infamous for it when it comes to Buffalo Wild Wing’s beers. I went to BWW with Jeremy today and had 2 Blue Moons. My forgetfulness about how big the beers are, paired with my (newly) lowered tolerance caused me to be DRUNK very quickly. I passed out for 3 hours as soon as I got home which is why I’m wide awake at 2 am.

I changed my blog layout! What do you think about it? I love it! The little apple in the upper left hand corner sold me. He’s so cute! I found the theme from the wordpress site. It’s by Billion Studio. They have quite a few cool and free layouts so if you’re looking for a change, check them out.

While clicking links on a craft blog that I read, I found the cutest blog ever-Color Me Katie. I absolutely love it. It’s filled with the cutest photographs of she and her boyfriend, arts/craft/decorating ideas, and her amazing art work. I spent an hour or two catching up on all of her posts last night. My favorite post, documents (in photos) Katie showing her neighborhood some love. She cut hearts out of pink tape and stuck them around her hood! I found it really lovely! I posted a few pictures here, but you should check out the other pictures and read her original post found here.

Toothpaste for the win. The toothpaste worked and magically make my pimple disappear! One side affect was that it also kind of irritated it just a bit and now there’s a scab. Not to worry, I have a cure for that too. Cocoa butter! it works miracles on scars. Trust me, as an accident prone person, I know.

Hello Wednesday! I love having Wednesdays as my off day. It breaks up the week and is such a godsend after my long Tuesday. Even though I’ve been in the house all day, my day has been pretty eventful. I woke up (at 11am! yay sleep ins) and walked to the kitchen in undies/bra to get some cornflakes and what did I spy? A MAN! An unidentified man in my kitchen! WTF!? I stared. He stared. I said “hi” and ran… without my cornflakes :( I went into my room and put on clothes and went back to ask him who the heck he was. He explained that he was the repairman for our heat! I didn’t even know it was broken, but this explains why I’ve been chilly for the past few nights. After the repair man incident, I replied to 14 emails, played some Warcraft-healed Culling of Stratholme in Heroic mode and yes….oh yes, we did get the timed. Because I am an amazing healer. Unfortunately I didn’t get the drake. DARN MY LUCK! Oh well. After WoW, I ate lunch and put a facemask on. And now I’m making a checklist of things I HAVE to do today! I am much more productive when I get to cross things off of a list. So, things I need to do are- clean my room which means hang up my clothes, unpack from my trip, and make a pile of clothes that I want to throw out. Im moving back to the states mid May and have about double what I initially came here with! that is more of a week long task than a today task. And make a calendar/budget for trips I want to take during my last few months here. HELLOOOO?! PARIS!

Living in such an expat friendly city is awesome. One thing I both love and hate is the abundance of expats! Don’t get me wrong! I love the Netherlands and the Dutch, but there’s something so familiar and lovely about hanging out with Americans. It feels cozy and homelike and I don’t think I could not have survived my time abroad without that feeling. The crappy thing about the abundance is that expats usually aren’t permanent. :( It feels just as I am getting close and connecting with someone, it’s time to say goodbye. I just said goodbye last month to my friend’s Manon and Devynn who were HUGE parts of my life here. And in a couple of days I will say goodbye to Emily. I haven’t known her as long as the other two, but her leaving the Netherlands will definitely have it’s effect on me. After saying goodbye to our connecting bond, Devynn, we were each other’s buddies. Meeting up for lunches, dinners, bitching about work, surprisingly not much partying, but good times nonetheless. *sigh* I’m going to miss her tons. Tomorrow we’re going to hit up some museums and maybe if she’s feeling up to it, go out tomorrow night.

I wanted to add cute pictures of us at the end of the blog, but we don’t have any! Only pics from drunk Thanksgiving. So, enjoy!

I’ve been wanting to write this post about the new updates in WoW, but I’m alwayd distracted by…WoW and haven’t been able to start it. Thank goodness for Tuesdays! Any WoW-er knows what I mean when I say that. Tuesdays are the days Blizzard takes down our precious servers to do maintenence and updates to the game. Hopefully they’re busy fixing all the problems that have been caused by Patch 3.0.2! Which is what I’m about to yap about.

Two weeks ago Blizzard launched Patch 3.0.2 which was a preparation patch. The updates and changes made during that patch are preparing us for Wrath of the Lich King, the expansion, that drops on November 13th (goodbye social life)! They made a lot of changes!

*Everyone has to respec their characters. Blizzard refunded the talent points. Now you have 51 points and new spells!
* I get no love from Blizz! Priests weren’t really nerfed, but they took away my night elf priest class racial! No more starshards! :(
*Locks got some cool updates including a new talents(affliction spec)
*And sorry. No news on other classes. I don’t read other classes updates, since I don’t play them. I do know the huntards got some new training ability because they’ve been training new pets! New annoying pets! The core hounds from Molten Core specifically. I wouldn’t mind these pets if they didn’t shake my entire screen when they walked by. arghh. Annoying. Blizzard, please fix it?
*Dungeons and raids from Karazhan to Sunwell have been nerfed! Every boss has had their health points lowered and do less spell damage. Thanks for making Kara even easier! As if we needed that. Now you can 5 man some bosses there that previously required an entire 10 man raid.
*There’s a new profession! Inscription! With this new profession Inscribers will be able to create glyphs for players that augment the cooldown, damage, or mechanics of spells. My priest has two and my warlock will get hers as soon as i research which is the best for her. I won’t be taking up this new professions as my lock still needs to level herbalism. (it’s at 27!)
*My favorite addition to the game is The Barber Shop! I’ve been looking forward to this addition for a looooong time as Ayda’s hair was not that cute. Barber shop is a barber shop in game that allows you to change your character’s hair style, hair color, facial hair, piercings, etc. I’ve been having fun with it! Too bad it’s costly. About 12g a visit.

I changed Apricot’s hair from long and dark, to short and reddish. I hated it and switched it about an hour later. To something a little longer and curlier than before, but still dark.
*My least favorite addition to the game is achievements! Gah! these things will be the end of me. Achievements are different goals for characters to meet. You get achievement points for each achievement completed. They range from exploring lands, completing dungeons, to /love-ing 98593829 animals scattered all across the world, to hugging someone’s corpse after they have died. I have to admit they are fun to do, but also annoying because I’ll never have as many achievements as my friends who are REALLY into getting them. Some achievements also reward you with titles. Apricot’s title is now Apricot Jenkins! hahaha, Because she completed the achievement of killing 50 whelps in the Upper Blackrock Spire’s rookery, the same place where Leeroy and his guild wiped in the video, under 15 seconds. Just for the LOLZ, here’s the Leeroy Video

still funny
*Eww! Blizz made items have +spell power instead of either +healing or +spell damage. Which isn’t such a bad thing, since I only have to carry one set of gear around on my healer. But it really sucked to have to disenchant some of my epics. OUCH!

better get used to it. I will probably be doing lots of disenchanting come November 13th!

ha! did I really just write my longest blog ever…on WoW!?

*hides in corner*

That’s how long I went without playing Warcraft. That’s right folks! I’m back. :/ That wasn’t long at all. I “relapsed” because I was bored and I wanted to play. Hahaha, nothing wrong with that! right….right?!

I am still not playing my mains(apricot, ayda). I’ve created a new character on a *gasp*pvp server! And I’m playing a horde toon. It’s not my first horde, but the first one I am trying to stick with all the way to 70.

I’ve had a good week full of good news and the upcoming weekend should be fun as well! Per is coming for a visit! Yay! He was just here last month, but I missed him and am soooo excited about him being here again. So, what good news did I receive? Only that two of my favorite people will be in Europe within weeks! My friend Jim will be flying into Prague at the end of the month for work related stuff. I requested 2 days off so I can join him there. Can’t wait. Especially, since I stood him up last time he was here. Sorry JIM! >.< When I get back ,Jeremy and Nick will be visiting Amsterdam! Jeremy of course has been here tons of time and even brought me along on a trip(which is when I fell ion love with this city!). Nick is a noob. But that’s the beautiful part. Exploring and seeing things new for the first time. You can only have that feeling once.

The fun doesn’t stop there folks. That weekend I’ll be off to Denmark/Sweden to see Per and Someone Still Loves You Boris Yelstin. Haven’t heard of them? They’re indie pop and constantly played on my itunes. Check them out and let me know what you think!

www.myspace.com/boris

I have been warcraft free for 12 days. That’s right folks. I did actually quit cold turkey. I know in my last post I said I was going to play the Euro version, but I didn’t. Surprisingly enough I am taking it well. No shakes yet. My one complaint is now I have far too much free time. (wait…what? who complains about that?) I don’t even know what to do with it. I’ve been on a movie watching rampage. I watched “Bangkok Dangerous” a few nights ago with Aaron(via skype…bwahaha lame) and it was terrible. I just “acquired” Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Thumbsucker. Hoping one of the two will be good. I’ve only heard terrible things about Thumbsucker. BUT I’m giving it a chance. Suggest some movies. K? THNX!

Oh! back to WoW. The date of the expansion has been released! November 14th. I will be back for the expansion. I want to hit level 80 before all of my friends :)