Girl Pockets

I find them to be the most useless things ever. The pockets of girls’ pants are practically nonexistent, and in most cases are just that. For example, I have a pair of jeans that I’d bought and didn’t check the pockets. Lo and behold, when I came home, I found that the front pockets were fake. They had gone through the trouble of making these pants look like they had real pockets but were just sewn on as decoration. At least the back pockets were real.

My other problem about girls’ pant pockets is that if they happen to have pockets, they are not functional. Either they are too small to fit anything or so tight that you 1) cannot fit anything or 2) if you happen to miraculously fit something in there, you look all bulky. Even the slimmest of phones can make your butt or thigh chunky and unappealing.

Yeah. We have purses and bags. But what about those days when you just don’t want to worry about carrying absolutely everything with you? Or like me, just want to have the convenience of storing something to be easily accessed in my front pocket?

What happened to the functioning pants of the 90′s?

Cracked

My poor iPod Touch!

I’ve ruined it just now. Well, about a half hour ago when I got out of biology lab. I was fumbling with my lab equipment and it slipped out of my pocket and fell to the ground… glass side down.

Now it looks as though I’ve got a spider web on the upper left corner of my screen. Why couldn’t it have fallen the other way?

Oh well… I’ll live. at least the digitizer still works wonderfully.

I am definitely looking for a replacement screen though. I use this thing on a daily basis and would rather fix it now before something harms the digitizer.

Oh sigh…

Cleaning the Camelbak

My trusty old Camelbak was in need of a serious cleaning.  Usually I only carry water in it, but recently, I’ve been taking Emergen-C (It flavors my water for about the same price as those drink-to-go mixes, but without all of the weird additives, and the possibility of getting my “vitamins” is a plus.  I’m not sure if I quite believe their claims.  It just tastes good, in my opinion.  I really like the lemon-lime one. ) and well… let’s just say I haven’t been looking after my Camelbak very well.

When I carried water, I’d just rinse it out every night when I came home from school and filled it again the next morning.  About twice a week, it gets a good wash.  But I never really had to worry too much about the straw and bite valve.  I’ll still disassemble the whole thing and wash it, but I just didn’t pay too much attention to it.  This time, however, because I had accidentally left the Emergen-C over the weekend (I don’t take the Camelbak out on weekends), it had developed some nasty stuffs around.

To clean it, I used a pipe cleaner for the straw and connector.  Worked like a charm.  All of the gookies came out.  It was a nasty sight.  For the bite valve, I used an interdental brush from Dentek.  Works perfectly for all of the nooks and crannies of the bite valve and the little rubbery thing in the lid.  For good measure, I threw in a denture tablet, shook it up, and let it sit a few minutes before rinsing it out.

Good as new!  3 years strong, and I’m looking at a few more years service from this lil guy.  It’ll be a while before it needs to be replaced.  I wonder what people do to theirs that they sell replacement parts and whatnot.  I wouldn’t mind owning the plastic insulated one though. 

Wow… my sentences are unusually short tonight.  xD

Tuna Helper

This is good stuff to have every now and again.  It’s been a while since I’d last had a Tuna Helper.  But I was surprised at how little pasta was in that box.  The package probably only had about the same amount as 2 of those Kraft Mac n’ Cheeses singles.

Being the “frugal” person that I am, I added another box of pasta that I had in the pantry.  Just regular ol’ pasta from Target.

I followed the directions of the Tuna Helper exactly as written and just added extra uncooked pasta to the mix.  I’m glad I did too, as there was A LOT of sauce left over.  There was still A LOT left over after adding that box of pasta as well.  The sauce is very rich too.  So you’re not losing out on any flavor.

More food for my monies! 

In total, I spent about $1.00 for the Tuna Helper, $0.80 for the box of Target pasta, and a few cents here and there for the milk, tuna, and butter that goes into making it.  Sweet deal. 

Now I just wish I had a store around here that doubles or triples coupons.  That would have made it even better!

Joe Le

Joe, you will be forever missed.  Thank you for everything you’ve done for everybody and anybody that you’ve touched during your 21 years of life.  I’d first met you back in 6th grade when you’d first moved to SoCal.  All throughout middle school, you were my lunch time buddy.  Then in high school, we had French together for a few years.  We graduated together at WHS, class of 2008.  Onwards to college, we headed out to sister schools.  Surprisingly, just last week, I’d found out that we were transferring to the same state university.  Thanks for everything.