Wow and I though Spanish was confusing with conjugations…for holna (to be) there are nine different circumstances that it’s conjugated in it the present tense, but only four individual conjugations. . .at first I was like huh O_o

Example of the fun: (transliterated of course)

I ~ main hun

you (intimate) ~ tu hai

you (familiar) ~ tum ho

you (formal) ~ ap hain

that, he, she, it ~ yah hai

those, he, she, it ~ vah hai

these, they ~ ye hain

those ~ ve hain

we ~ ham hain

It kind of makes sense, but at first glance, it was like. . .exsqueeze me? I may have bitten off more than I can chew, but oh well we’ll see. Will likely have a new update soonish maybe >.> provided my brain doesn’t short circuit/asplode/just go poof

Well I’ve gotten my first surprise in this language, the script is much easier to understand than I thought it would be. Another bonus is that the language is phonetic, that increases the number of letters, and there are special connectors for the written aspects of it, but if you think of it kind of like cursive it’s not that hard to grasp the concept of. It’s been a little interesting trying to get a pronunciation guide for it that helps me, but Jason has a friend that’s Nepalese that might be able to help me sorting everything out.

In completely unrelated news (only in this blog because I’m too lazy to write another one) I have two new bands that are awesome beyond belief Linkin Park and Coldplay If you can check them out on youtube, some of the videos are a little bit of out of the box thinking, but the music is awesome.

Until next time.

Namasté.

For those of you who don’t speak Hindi, which is most people who would be reading this, Namasté is a greeting and salutation that is used to also express respect for the person you are addressing. Yes there is a reason I’m sharing this little nugget of information, because of some work on a story that I’m doing I’ve found it necessary to transliterate some phrases and words into English. As a result I’ve discovered that the language has a very interesting appeal to me and I’ve begun trying to teach myself (key word trying). As of right now I’m working on how to speak the language and write it’s transliterations rather than writing in the traditional script though I hope at some point I’ll learn how to do that as well. I’ll try to keep you all updated on any interesting little grammatical points or oddities I find.

Until then, apna khayal rakhna - take care

Namasté

Ok, if you don’t care about makeup you might want to skip this blog.  You have been warned.

For people who have known me for almost any amount of time know that I have a hard time finding makeup that looks good with my skin tone, especially foundation.  I’ve tried the typical budget brands hoping to find something that’s suitable (or at least passable) and even tried higher end brands like Sephora.  Everything just had too much yellow in it for my complexion.  There’s a Riteaid across the street from me and they have a cosmetics guaranty, and there was a bogo for covergirl so I figured I really had nothing to loose.  I got the Trublend mineral powder foundation in Ivory (among other things) and was very happily surprised.  I was skeptical of it being a powder, but it’s lovely.  It’s so easy to customize how much you want where and you don’t see it!

The second product that I’m very happy with is the CG outlast double lipshine.  It’s a two step color/gloss so it takes a little extra tim, but it’s worth it.  It goes on very nicely and boy does it have staying power!  I put it on and not five minutes later took a drink not even thinking about it.  Lo and behold, no color on the glass.  I press my lips together a lot so I have to touch up the gloss now and then, but the color stays and stays and stays.  

You wanted it so you’ll get it. The married life/wedding blog.

The wedding was a bit spontaneous. We’d planned to go and get the license, but were looking for someone to do the ceremony. Fortunately they had someone there on hand to do the ceremony, so rather than look for someone else that was probably going to change an arm and a leg we decided to do it there. It was a beautiful day, the sun was shining and it wasn’t horribly muggy (very rare for Portsmouth) Because it was so nice rather than doing it in a hall inside there was a small unmanned lighthouse by the shore that we had the pleasure of using. The ‘marriage celebrate’ as they’re referred to in VA was a pleasant tiny woman who was about 4-6 inches shorter than me even in heels. The ceremony itself was short, sweet and to the point. Not a story book wedding, but fitting. We do plan on getting people together when we move pack to Oregon and including everyone in some kind of ceremony that everyone can enjoy (not sure what it’ll be yet, any thoughts are welcome)

Aside from the obvious *coughcough* things that come with marriage does life change? Surprisingly yes, yes it does. I’ll have to admit I wasn’t expecting much of a change because me and Jason have known each other for so long, but getting married has changed things. In my opinion for the better. Though it wasn’t something that I noticed until after the fact living in the same apartment with someone your in a relationship with and not being intimate is really stressful. So thankfully that’s one stress gone because in life who needs extra stress? Aside from that I’ve taken on more of the financial aspect of things, but some of that is unrelated to being married, it just happened to coincide.

It’s also much easier to pick Jason up from work, not to mention that the day doesn’t have to start at four in the morning, now it can start at four thirty

One of the more interesting experiences I’ve had is having to think of what my last name is before I sign something. It can be a little embarrassing, but oh well ^^;

Joking aside the biggest difference has been something that I wish I didn’t have to deal with in the first place. Being not only white, but a redhead to boot in a black community gets me the lovely experience of being hit on quite a bit. Before getting married mentioning my fiancé wasn’t much of a deterrent, now I can say either my husband or that I’m married (respective to the situation) people tend to leave me alone. Not the best aspect of marriage, but it’s definitely a big bonus.

So there you have it, the marriage/wedding blog.

First of all thank you to the advice I got even if things didn’t go quite as expected… 

Well it hath been cut. there was a bit of miscommunication between me and the hair stylist so it ended up not quite what I was wanting…Anyway I’ll get a pic up hopefully soon depending on file sizes and all of that good stuff, I do feel like I lost about 10 pounds off of my head though, very good considering how humid the weather has been lately. It has been a learning experience though, next time I want my hair cut, I think I’ll be doing it myself with the help of a second mirror.

Oh and no I wasn’t on something when I took the pic, I just look really goofy for some reason, then again self pics aren’t my best thing -_-

Well here I am, and that’s about all I can say in general. The last few days, weeks, I don’t know how long really have been grating on my nerves. The funny thing is that it’s nothing in particular that’s bothering me. If it were that might not be so bad, but no, no one thing has been getting me goat lately, but now I open my eyes and the entire flock is gone. When did all of this happen? I have no idea to be quite honest. The entire episode has left me a bit jaded though. I find myself asking what’s the point anymore? Is there a point? Depression I can understand, but it’s more than that. I feel like I’m at the end of my rope, and rather than a blissful red hot fury that I expected to find, I find questions, questions without answers. That being the case. Does anyone have some rose tinted glasses I could borrow for a while, I’ve misplaced mine.