30/07/2013
Well, today has been a very... rocky day! Although spoiler alert, it ends with a happy ending :)
1. Ball dress drama
First off I would like to begin by saying that I am not proud of myself today for the way I'd been acting over this whole ball dress situation. If you've been reading my blog, or if you've been in proximity of me today, you'd have at some point heard me complaining about my ball dress. From chemistry class when we were discussing ball, to my free period, to tonight on twitter, I have been a non-stop negativity truck. The worst thing is that it's SO PETTY!! Honestly, balls don't matter, they really don't. And I know this. I know my complaints over a dress is just so ridiculously insignificant that it's laughable. In all honesty, the whole concept of balls and proms is so superficial and so meaningless! It's all built on this idea which puts on so much pressure on students, especially girls, to live up to this idea of looking good in a stunning dress + accessories, with a hot ball date, perfect make up and intricate hair. Do you think it's worth spending so much money on one 4-hour experience, even though it's one of those experiences that many people feel obligated to have?
Sorry, I digress, going back to what happened today: yes I was complaining a lot about the dress. Throughout the day I began to feel shittier and shittier about it. After school, my mum and I went to St Lukes to exchange my sweatpants at cotton on (AGAIN!!! i KNOW! We spent about half an hour debating the colours and ended up choosing an electric blue, which is the same as Sueyeon's pair hahaha) and afterwards my mum dragged me along to look at stores, and we ended up in blueberry and I tried on a ball dress just to see, and it wasn't very nice and made me look painfully flatchested (which I am, but hey the least I can do is hide the fact!). Then we went to forever new where we were looking at shoes, and then on the changing room rack, I saw a long black maxi dress and was like HMMM I'LL TRY IT ON! And then.... I fell in love with it.... SIGH. But alas, I already had a frumpy lilac dress waiting at home for me, and how could I be unfaithful to it? I've never been a cheater, never been one to go off and get a bit on the side! But seriously, I already had a dress so I don't know what I was doing torturing myself by trying on another dress that I really liked. I begged my mum to let me buy it so I could wear it instead of my lilac dress, and she was like guuurl you have a dress watchu doing?!?! And so with a heavy heart, I put it back on the rack and exited the shop in an even more sombre mood than before.
Sat in the car in the carpark with mum for about half an hour and there were pigeons canoodling in front of us, on the roof of the building,and it was the most adorable thing ever!!! I THINK I STARTED TO SERIOUSLY SHIP THEM?!?! I SHIPPED PIGEONS WTF IS WRONG WITH ME. I don't know if you've ever seen pigeons kissing/mating/idk but they touch heads together and then they just swing their heads down and up down and up together!!! IT'S SO CUTE!!!!!!!!! And one of the pigeons was feeding the other one and after a while he kept doing the "peacocking" thing where he spread/stretched his wings!!! And then the girl pigeon did it as well and I was like lol wait don't males only do that oHMYGOD WHAT IF THEY'RE GAY PIGEONS OH YOU PRECIOUS CREATURES, BE FREE WITH YOUR SEXUALITY!!!!! which my mum found very entertaining hahaha. But after half an hour they finally flew away together which made me really sad because I felt that we had built a connection and they just left me without even a goodbye or a nod of recognition!! And I want to know the ending to their little romance!!! I bet they flew away to do the dirty in a private bush somewhere, those kinky voyeuristic motherfuckers!
Okay, well during all this pigeon watching (we were safely contained in the car and they were pretty far away so I wasn't afraid of them like I usually am) I was also having mini bursts of hormonal upset over the whole ball dress situation and had a pathetic little cry in the St Lukes carpark hahahaha. But okay, seriously, the dress I currently have was $154, then shipping was $20, and the tailor was $50, so the dress was $224. Then the shoes were $40, so everything altogether was $264. The dress in Forever New was $120 and the cute shoes there were $140, so that outfit would have been $260 WHAT IS GOING ON HOW DID I SPEND MORE BUT GET SHITTIER STUFF?!?!? I will say, however, that this has been a FANTASTIC learning experience. Do not google "cheap ball dresses" and expect to come up with good website results. And don't be so lazy that you do not actually try on any dresses in shops, instead venturing for the dress that you like online just because it's the best out of all the shitty ones you find off cheapdressesnz.com or whatever. For future reference.
Oh it gets worse and more mopey btw. So I came home and after bugging my brother and mum complaining about how shit my dress was, my brother said he'd buy it for me as my birthday present if I could sell my current dress. So I was like, sweet, I'll put the dress on and take photos of it and sell it on Ball Essentials walk in wardrobe on facebook! So I took photos... and my god it was horrible. It made me so depressed. All photos in that dress are horrendous. I don't even want to talk about it. I had to actually photoshop my frumpiness away in the photos for fucks sake. I mean, a huge part of a ball is taking photos, and if your ball dress looks disastrous in photos, then, really, what's the point.
UGH ok it all sounds really pathetic and I know it sounds pathetic but it's been conditioned into me that your ball is supposed to be this one magical night where everyone looks great and glamorous and I BLAME SOCIETY (can I blame society?). I mean, there are people dying and I am here whining over a frumpy dress like the world's ending.
After a more-than-one-hour-long phone call to Sueyeon that started off with me ranting to her about ball dress stuff and hearing myself and realising how dumb I sounded, (and ended with me facebook stalking all her guy friends) I went down to do my lunch and my mum was like "yo I'll buy you the black dress, and you can just take your time trying to sell your other one" and I was like "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
So yeah, she's going to go get it tomorrow while I'm at school because I have choir until 6:30 and we're worried if we wait to long, they'll sell out of it (there was only one in my size left). I LOVE HER OMG I FEEL LIKE I DEFINITELY DON'T DESERVE IT ESPECIALLY WITH MY TERRIBLE ATTITUDE TOWARDS IT ALL BUT OMG I'M SO HAPPY!?!? This may be premature because there is still the possibility of her going tomorrow and it being all sold out! To which my mum says would be a sign from a higher power that it just wasn't meant to be. I do have to make a sacrifice and not do swimming lessons this term (they're $170) but that's okay, I can still swim in the pool, just without the lessons. Won't count for CAS though, hahahha.
2. My second point of happiness was the pigeon cannoodling situation which I already described up there^. IT WARMED MY SAD LITTLE HEART OKAY. They're my OTP <3
3. Human interaction???
I enjoyed bugging my brother today since I was in a really weird mood and I started crying (jokingly but with real tears) at the prospect of him and his girlfriend breaking up hahahaha. AND I ALWAYS LIKE CALLING SUEYEON!!! Didn't get any homework done though because of it hahaha. SHE CALLED HER BROTHER A DICK AND I NEARLY SCREAMED BECAUSE SHE NEVER SWEARS BUT SHE SAYS IT'S NOT A SWEAR WORD BUT DICK IS DEFINITELY A CRUDE CUSS DONT U AGREE?!?!?! Also omg she's so strange when she's with her cat I love it, she gets all cutesy baby-voice-ish with him all the whilst repeating cheerfully/nonchalantly how he's going to die soon because he's so old?!?!?!?! SOUNDS RATHER "NOBORU-SKINNING-THE-CAT" TO ME....
4. EXTRA HAPPINESS: I GOT 29/30 FOR MY IOP FOR ENGLISH!!!! OH MYGODDDDDDDDDDDD SO STOKED!!!!!!!!! One point off for presentation which is fair enough!! This is half of what will be 15% of my overall english grade so I'm really glad I did well in it!