Shopping ban FOR REAL!

Okay, so I've seriously ignored my shopping ban that I set for myself a month ago. This may have been caused by the fact that my parents agreed to pay one quarter of tuition (their first ever, and the cheapest, btw,) but I also blame it on my weak shopping will power.

My expenses for the rest of the year (minus two upcoming vacations) will be Netflix, food, books, toiletries, family/Darryl gifts, and tuition. No clothes or accessories!

I have reached a low point, especially after buying the RM purse I mentioned a few days ago.... -_-

I never shopped this much in HS or as an undergrad. I swear it's due to all of my downtime. I can never be a housewife, or at least not a housewife who isn't taking care of kids all day.

This will be my last shopping post until I need a winter coat (One of the few things I don't have.)

Always Yelp it...

I almost made a rookie mistake by not Yelping before I went to a restaurant!!

So, I trusted that the Glendale Katsuya would be good due to the hype around it and the number of Katsuyas that have been built, but NO, it had horrible reviews. If I were only going for the ambiance and "hot waitresses" I would still go, but nope, I enjoy food, thank you very much. Now I'm not sure where Darryl and I are going...

At least he really enjoyed Koraku in J-Town as a midnight meal! ...Who wouldn't?

Rain, rain, go away!

Due to the horrible weather that rained down upon us today, Darryl couldn't visit me when we had planned and we missed our reservations at Katsuya. There are obviously worse things going on in the world than not seeing each other for our anniversary dinner, but I was looking forward to it. Thankfully DineLA is still going on tomorrow, so we're going to try and go then.

On to other news... The kids were still extremely rude and misbehaved today. I am so patient with them, and I try to humor their demands, but seriously, kids these days need to get a fucking beatdown from their parents. Sorry if that wasn't what you expected, but they could blow up their own house and their parents would give them a kiss on the cheek. If I were rude to a teacher and my parents were told about it, they would probably grab me by the ear, make me cry, and make me apologize profusely to my teacher. Granted, I never did such a thing, but these kids' parents KNOW what their kids have done in my class (i.e. write in their notebook that they want me dead) and they stop by every day. They haven't even looked me in the eye.

Also, the kids couldn't even stay quiet for 5 minutes. How hard is it to sit in your chair and find something to do quietly? I even told them that if it was hard to stay quiet while awake, they should put their heads down and try to nap. Their reward for staying "quiet" (a few made weird noises and whispered) was to play Hangman with me since it's the only thing they enjoy doing, but of course, they said that the word I picked was, "Stupid," and that, "That game sucked!" when it was over. I tried something easy because they always lose, and since they were actually able to get it, they say it was stupid.... fucking kids.

Rebecca Minkoff Nikki in Mint

How gorgeous is this? If only I had money to waste.

Thankfully I think it's a very impractical color; it's a little too young for me... but it's such a great replica of the Tiffany blue! I might want Tiffany Blue to be one of my wedding colors, but that will probably change by the time I actually get married haha.

Vamp

I figure I would rather be called vampy than goth with my dark nail polish (my mom said it looks like I have blood on my nails...) so that's what I'm calling this look.

I haven't painted my nails a dark color since... ever? I decided to be brave since I was already at CVS buying things, and I wanted to look a little dressier for my celebration dinners coming up. Dark nails just look chic-er than bare nails :)

This one was cheap (<$4) and had a pretty name so I bit the bullet and bought it. I've never heard of Milani so I'm figuring it's some off-brand, but the name of the polish is 'Bella Berry.' Possibly referring to Twilight, and possibly referring to 'beautiful' in Italian? I'm guessing the latter haha. I think we've been inundated with Twilight enough... My brother said Chanel made a nail polish similar to mine and called it 'Vamp' in honor of Twilight. Anyway, here are my horribly messy results and my freakishly long fingers: