spoiled chinese girl

I don’t do resolutions, never really have, never really want to.

But I do have some goals for the next 365-ish days.  Mostly broad and generalized, some more personal and not-really-for-the-public, and some just… why the hell not, right?

Things I’m certain I’m going to do:

Dec 31st-Jan 1st, Party like it’s on sale for $19.99
What can I say, I <3 Badur’s NYE parties, I’m even willing to (sort of) get dressed up for them!

In April (Easter Weekend), go to Dallas Suscon 2010.
I’ve already got accommodations and car rentals figured out thanks to Mister, so it’s just my flight and the funds I need to really work on, which shouldn’t be too difficult.

By around May/June-ish, pay off the car.
My parents technically paid for the car for me last May/June-ish, they took money out of their line of credit to pay for the car in cash, and I paid back about 65% of it within a week or so.  The other 35% plus interest has been split up over the year so by this time it should be 100% mine. Then I can start saving for other big ticket items (mostly… a house.)

Around November, go visit family in Hong Kong.
Not really sure how that will work out, but I want at least a week-ish (almost two if I can swing it) to go to Hong Kong, and maybe China.  I haven’t been to Hong Kong since grade 7 when I was 12, so it’s a bit over-due for a visit, especially with the not-so-good health of my grandfather on my mom’s side.

Throughout the year, Blog more.
After the last post it seems that I don’t really blog much, especially since signing up for Twitter. Which makes the last post more difficult to write, and generally makes me forget about what I have accomplished within the year.

Things I really really really want to do/stick to:

Going to the gym more.  Is that even surprising? Isn’t that on everyone’s list? Although I seem to have a better goal at the same time, and that’s to get camera guy going to the gym as well.  And I seem to do well with projects.  He’s my project. Which may include me having gym memberships at two different gyms, but we’ll figure it all out.

Going out more (but not spending a lot of money doing it.)  I think this is mostly going to be photography adventures with camera guy.  He wants to work on his photography, as do I, and in order to do that we need to get off our butts & go out & shoot!  Need to find some awesome locations, or figure out how to make ordinary locations awesome.

Be more upfront with how I want things to be.  I’ve gotten pretty tired of people… for lack of better term… using me, physically, mentally, financially, so this is my first attempt at having it end here.  If someone pisses me off, I tell them straight away they’re pissing me off.  If I think someone’s trying to rip me off, I’ll tell them they’re being assholes and to stay the hell away from my wallet.  Those are the only two examples I can think of.

Become more financially independent.  Guitar Hero Boy is supposed to help me with this.  Apparently I’ve got all the “Saving money” bits down, now it’s just the “investing wisely” bits I need help with.  What’s fun is the fact that I really like talking about this kind of stuff.  He really likes talking about this stuff.  And I think he’s all sorts of happy that I don’t do the eyes-glaze-over thing when he starts going on and on about it.

Things that would be ideal but… I’m already not sure it’s really going to happen.

Getting tattooed.  I’ve run out of real estate that I can tattoo that my mom won’t find out about.  And I’m still living at home, I want to respect her wishes in that I not get tattooed (which… I guess I already broke) but visible work will likely have to wait til after I get my own place and move out.

Win the lottery.  This would include purchasing lottery tickets… which I generally don’t do.  I do sometimes because it’s fun to dream when there’s a super duper big pot but most of the time? Meh, I’ve got better things to spend my $3.00 on.

The one thing I noticed while writing this post is… I probably need to blog more, to remember more of the year. I feel like I accomplished much more than what is listed here, but this is all I have really to reference.

• Learned to drive stick (Thanks Brandon!)
• Sold/Returned Mark the Mazda3 (Aww… my first car)
• Broke up with Colin (well, he dumped me over MSN)
• Suspending in Dallas Texas for Texas Suscon (Been telling myself I’d go to the next Texas Suscon for over 5 years)
• Bought Freddy the HondaFit (My first car that’s manual transmission)
• Moved away from iam.bmezine.com dependancy (Moved everything to www.spoiledchinesegirl.com)
• Participated in my first flesh suspension performance (As an extra only… no performing for me yet)
• Attended Nuit Blanche by myself (And after two years of disapointments due to the people I went with… going solo is the only way to go now)
• Expand my circle of friends to include non-BME’ers (Which is a bit weird… you plain-skins… you’re alright.)
• Has my first real “It’s Complicated” (Never thought I’d use the “it’s not you, it’s me” line… but really. I can’t believe I can be this complicated!)

So… what’s up for next year? Not sure yet. Tune in tomorrow?

Oh, and I signed up for formspring.me because I thought it’d be a cool thing to add.  Check the side-bar to ask me any question you want and I’ll do my best to give you an answer! (Please refrain from asking about advanced calculus or fractals… you probably won’t get any answer that will make sense at that point!)

BLARG!

As if the neck injury last Thursday wasn’t bad enough.  Suddenly Saturday morning, my right helix piercing started acting up, to where by the end of the day was doing it’s horribly red, swollen, and throbbing to heart-beat type of owwie.

Not fun.

Started popping pills (Advil mostly) to try & reduce swelling… and reduce the throbbyness Saturday night.

Tried to not sleep on said ear Saturday….

Sunday it was generally just red & swollen, not so much with the throbbing.  But should I happen to hit it (like me being pouty & putting my head on someone’s shoulder) OWWWW.  I’m sure the people standing around Dundas Square were both amused and confused by my antics.  What was kind of fun though, was the cold air made the piercing feel good.  The res of me was freezing cold, but my ear was a very comfortable temperature.  Not sure how good that is overall though…

Finally remembered that I have a gigantic tube of sea salt at home.  Ran home to fill a bowl with salt & hot water (yes, tap water, not distilled, whatever it’s the same thing to me.)  Laying around on my bed with my ear in a bowl of water on top of a towel… man I haven’t done that in a long time.

I don’t miss it.

Will continue for the next few days.  Hoping to pick up some PunkMedics Simple care Spray soon as well because I don’t have ear bowls at work or in the car. And while I realize that I can get away with one bottle, I’ll probably be lazy, and buy three.  One for at work, one for at home and one in the car.

This needs to go away.  My neck doesn’t allow me to hold the phone on my left ear.  And an angry piercing won’t let me hold the phone on my right ear.

Did I mention I’m on the phone a lot at work?

Dude’s from Texas. Moved to Toronto less than a year ago & apparently wants to hang out & meet people & see the sights. I’ve never really done the tourist-traps of Toronto so I offered if he was interested. I made the boo-boo of never realizing I didn’t tell him what my name was… until the day we were supposed to meet when I finally texted him. I giggled at the idea of him not knowing my name when we met face to face… but he told me he’d have canceled if I didn’t let him in on the secret.

Somehow he picked Bowling as a “first date” scenario. I don’t bowl, and thought it was odd to pick it… but bowling it was. It was Saturday of the Thanksgiving weekend, he had to work the morning and I’d meet him in the afternoon. Finally during my first text message to him to check up on plans, I let him in on the big secret that was my name. Flurry of text messages later, he ended up not being able to leave work until well into the early evening, and desperately needed a drink. So we scrapped the bowling for dinner at the pub & get-to-know-you conversation.

Did the get-to-know-you at the pub, then in my car, yapping away & stuff. Was fun. Spent a few minutes wrestling in the middle of his street as well. Both of us felt like meeting up again for a lazy Sunday of movies so it was off to go home for me to meet up again the next day.

Sunday he told me to bring movies, I brought Futurama. He <3’s futurama. (Didn’t actually know this so that was a plus) so we watched Futurama, drank, talked, wrestled (it’s a guy thing… and I often act like one of the guys, it’s fun!) & both passed out & fell asleep during a movie.

It was fun. I was quite swoony over his computer geekery, his musical geekery, his interest in tattoos & piercings, his Texan accent (*MAJOR SWOON*) and the fact he could, and did drive my car. (I drive manual transmission) Sadly I haven’t seen him, and barely heard from him since. *shrug*

On Wednesday I booked myself for a massage at the RMT school at the west end of Toronto (ICT Kikkawa http://www.ictschools.com/) because it’s awesome that I can get an hour long massage for far less than normal. (I got their sale card for 6 sessions at $140.00, I think their regular single session price is still only like $35.00)

I digress. I end up with this guy who’s super friendly… and really cute. (But no flirting is allowed, which, while I understand… *le sigh*)  We’re able to chat it up, he’s nice & casual about everything which I adore (also makes me comfortable since he’s not all nervous & stuff about doing this) and basically tells me I have no problems, I’m just sore from sitting at a desk all day ( I’m happy there’s no major issues.)

I suggest deep tissue, he mentioned something about stretching or breaking down the fashia surrounding the muscles in my arms, & pecs to help loosen everything up. (It was a lotion-less type of procedure)  Risks? Bruising and painful discomfort. My reply? “I bruise easily but have a high pain thresh-hold, so go nuts.”

It was cool. I didn’t really feel it was horribly painful, I giggled at times (but that seems to be an auto-response to things that are normally painful) and we were randomly chatting about different topics. Then the poor guy got grilled by one of the instructors for what felt like forever and listening to him go on about all these random things that didn’t really apply… and we stopped chatting afterward because I figured that’s the reason instructor dude came in.

The massage was awesome. And I was bruised immediately after the procedure (technically during.) The pics below were taken last night, so a little over 24 hours after. They’re HAWT. I <3 bruises (from willful consenting activities only of course) but I’m completely embarrassed by the lack of tone/definition in my arms. I didn’t even bother flexing because that’d make me feel even worse.

And I always prided myself in my triceps… back to the 100 push ups regimen I guess!

And I booked myself in on November 18th as well.  I’m thinking December 3rd I’m going to try for a double, see how that works out. (Oi, it’s my Birthday present to myself… two days early!)

My left arm

My right arm