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Oh I do love a good buffet!

One thing Davis does have is a mighty fine Indian buffet. And sushi buffet, but that's for another post. Yesterday was turning out to be a lovely day, and I went and met up with Alex and Cat to partake in the deliciousness of Kathmandu Kitchen all you can eat lunch buffet. It was delicious.

 

Though, I must say, Indian food is incredibly delicious, but it really doesn't photograph well, does it? But oh, that naan! The korma! The fried chicken thing! So wonderful. And pigging out at a buffet with friends? Even better!

I thought this was really cute

Thanks to Naomi over at The Rockstar Diaries for this one. I decided to read all her archives one day and stumbled upon this...it's so cute!

Also found these too.

I love the old school Disney and these are so great. I've been listening all morning.

P.S. Tonight I'm heading over to my friend Jenny's for a Royal Wedding viewing party! expect some pictures this weekend! And, yay wedding!

I was made for dancing

This weekend was a pretty good one. There was good food, good company, dancing, and some cuddles with a really cute kitten.

After my hair dying adventure on Friday, Saturday was spent with family for Easter. There was way too much good food. Seriously, the people in my family can cook! I also got to participate in an Easter egg hunt for all us 'big' kids (ages 21+), where instead of our eggs being filled with candy, they were filled with lotto tickets. Sadly, I did not win anything. But it was still a lot of fun. My mom also gave me a pretty sweet Easter basket with a gift card to Trader Joe's! Ya'll know how much I love me some Trader Joe's. It was put to good use yesterday when I seriously stocked up on groceries. 

One of the best things that happened at the Easter party was my Uncle Scott gave me these amazing old vinyl albums.

 We had been chatting about vinyl for a little while and he brought out his collection, then let me pick two. I was so incredibly shocked and surprised and grateful. I really love vinyl and I have a tiny collection that I'm working on making larger. Adding these two was just wonderful. Especially because I love, love, love both of them. Rumours is one of my all time favorite albums that I can listen to over and over and My Fair Lady is a musical I grew up watching and love. Thank you soooo much Scott!

Saturday night was the night for dancing with Miranda. And boy oh boy did I have a fabulous time.

We went to Social in downtown Sacramento and danced out little behinds off. I even had to change shoes because me feet kind of started to hurt. But it was wonderful and the DJ was AMAZING. And my ears were definitely still ringing for a long time after we left. And my legs were sore all day yesterday. But it was so worth it.

Although I could do without the creepers at the club. I don't know about you, but I go to nightclubs to dance, not meet people because it is way too loud and I really have no desire to find someone at a nightclub. Cause that's silly. Also, I hate hate hate it when a guy comes up behind me and tries to dance with me. I'm not into bumping and grinding. It's boring. So if I stop dancing and walk away, it means I do not want to dance with you. Get it? There were some fun guys that would just come up and dance next to me and Miranda, and that was totally cool. They didn't try anything and were obviously just there to have some fun.

Anyway.

In other news, my blog is up to 1,000 views! Exciting, right? I'm currently unhappy with the look and design of the blog, so I'm researching blog designers to see about fixing it and making it way cuter. I appreciate any tips, tricks, or advice you might have, too! Email me at clay.elaine@gmail.com.

Also, I really like comments, so if you like what you read or have questions or criticism, please comment on the blog. It's sad because I have so few and I want to hear what everybody thinks!

Linky Links

I wanted to share some of the blogs and such that I am constantly reading and getting all kinds of inspiration from. Since I'm such a newbie to this, these people give me ideas or just entertain me in so many wonderful ways. Hope you like them too!

The Rockstar Diaries
Nat the Fat Rat
Bleubird Vintage
Betches Love This Site
Cupcakes and Cashmere
Sally Jane Vintage
Tartlette
Design*Sponge

Happy Monday folks! Hope you all had a wonderful Easter!

So this happened today.

Today, I was standing in the card aisle at the Target, minding my own business, when the haircare aisle (which is right close by) starting calling to me. What was I to do? So I wandering on over there and stood for a moment. Then I realized that it was time to dye my hair. I bought some hair dye, came home and stared at the little green box sitting on the bathroom counter. And then I did it.

I case you were wondering, this is the color that my hair was:

I haven't dyed it since September, and I think this is the closest it has been to natural in a very long time. Maybe a little darker/redder, but still pretty natural.

This is me now:

Yeah. It's burgundy. And I kind of love it. I know they say you're supposed to go lighter in the spring and summer, but I decided forget they! I will go darker!! And more purple!

So here's to my purply hair!
Do you like? Thoughts please!

Frustration with a capital F

Yesterday was just a frustrating day. Like, nothing seemed to go as smoothly as planned and I just could not shake my awful, sad, frustrated, angry mood no matter what I did.

Work was just....awful. Horrible. Stressful. I've been a nanny for a long time and I have had some incredibly wonderful kids that I grew to love, even when they had their bad days with tantrums and such. But most of the time they were pleasures to be around and take care of. But not this time. I have never in my nearly eight years as a babysitter/nanny had a child who is so disrespectful, rude, and snotty. Yesterday was just incredibly bad. And I cried after bedtime because I was just so frustrated, which never happens. The last time work made me cry was 2005. I can't wait for this job to be over in five weeks. Sometimes I feel like counting down the days, but that might make it feel longer? Or something? I don't know.

Then there's my whole apartment situation. I need someone to take over my room from June until September and so far, no one is biting. I've been posting ads for a couple of weeks now and have been receiving nothing but spam emails in response. Seriously people, take my room! $500 per month (June will be prorated!), own bathroom, no deposit, gym, pool, what more could you ask for? Someone please take my room!

All I know right now is that I am so done. I am so ready to leave Davis and not come back for a long, long, long time. I don't even care that I'll be living in my dad's house (he's pretty cool), in a tiny bedroom that doesn't have a real closet. Because: I won't be paying rent, I'll be working a job (hopefully) that pays more, I'll have my friends, my family, San Francisco, and the ocean. I've complained about Marin in the past, but it still is home. I've lived there since I was eleven years old and even though it's kind of expensive and has bad traffic, it's home.

On the plus side, a couple of things made yesterday a smidge better: I officially started packing up my stuff. More will be done tomorrow, and I'm really excited. Also, I cleaned out my closet, which felt really good and ended up getting rid of a lot of stuff. Watch out friends, Mallory has lots of goodies for you to pick through! Then yesterday, when I got home from my awful day of work, this was waiting for me. I can't wait to read it!

So maybe things will get easier in these last few weeks in Davis. I hope. I try to "see the light at the end of the tunnel" whenever I get really frustrated, try to breath and realize that this will be over soon. And when that doesn't work, I go get a chocolate croissant and pretend I'm in Paris, which is only eight (!) months away.

Well sometimes we're just silly

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Oh weekend. How I love you. Especially when you come with lots of sunshine and good times with some pretty awesome people.

Friday night I had a little movie night with Sasha. We watched Morning Glory, which was a really, really cute movie, I have to say.  And it confirmed my love if Rachel McAdams. She's awesome.

Saturday Sasha and I took her cute little Maltese, Bella, out for a stroll around downtown San Anselmo. It was an incredibly gorgeous day and Bella was very popular, seeing as she's pretty much the most adorable dog ever.

 Pretty cute, am I right or am I right?

We enjoyed the pretty day, shopped a little at this really great consignment store, where Sasha got this gorgeous yellow and brown dress and I got the polka dot skirt I've been looking for. So you know I enjoyed myself.

Saturday night I went over to Jenny's awesome new apartment. Seriously dudes, I am envious of her apartments. It's like all grown up and stuff. When did we start becoming grown ups? Weird.

Anyhoo, we had some dinner and danced around to Britney Spears and got very silly. Pictures were taken. I'll let them speak for themselves. Yeah...

Wiley!

 

  

Shots?

Not very lady like, Jenny!

Jenny and her boyfriend Matt, being cute

 

As you can see, things get silly real quick around here...and somehow Jessica ended up cutting both Amy's (pictured) and Jenny's hair. Random, I know. We laughed a lot, talked about the most randomest of random things, stayed up too late, and giggled quite a bit. Oh and danced, of course. I might even have some very funny pictures of some people dancing...hee hee. But it was a good night, I believe.

Sunday I was such a lazy bum, it was kind of ridiculous. But you know, sometimes that happens. But my very wonderful daddy go me this gorgeous antique perfume bottle:

I love it. Birds, you know. 

Oh and are you watching Game of Thrones? Because you really should be. It's, like, all kinds of awesome. 

Today I'm back in Davis and not very happy about it, as usual. I'm just really ready to not live here anymore. Like I said before, every time I go home, it gets harder to come back here. The only thing I have here is my job, which I don't even like very much. So today I'm a little out of sorts and frustrated, but trying not to let it get to me. But it's hard today. Hmph. Maybe a snuggle with the kitten and a cupcake would make me feel better. Yes. That sounds perfect.