Girl With 3 EEEs

So today I'm in the supermarket that is packed at all hours of the day. I have a basket full of stuff, compared to people all around me that have carts of stuff. So I get behind this old man (old enough to be my dad, who he strangely reminded me of), who's behind 2 other carts. He waits until he is next to load his stuff on the conveyor belt, and he asks me a question. I took my headphones off and asked him to repeat his question. He was asking if I wanted to go in front of him. I wasn't in any rush so it really didn't matter to me, so I told him no. He pressed me again about it, to make sure of my decision. I told him again, no, its fine, just go ahead.
Then he asks me if I'm from England.
Huh?
I told him no, I'm not. Then he says, "Oh, I thought you didn't understand me, that's why I asked."
How does that even make logical sense? British people understand English because that's their language. If we're both speaking English, how is it that I don't understand your language? So...??? I'm also thinking maybe he thought I didn't get what he was saying or what he meant, but it wasn't like I was asking which train I should take to get to the statue of liberty.
I didn't correct him because I don't like making chit chat, and also I don't like making people feel stupid for no reason - that's just mean.

Posted by Never The Girl Next Door at 6:58 PM Comments

Grab a big spoon, like a tablespoon (not the measuring kind, but the bigger spoon in your silverware set). Use the spoon to scoop out a very large spoonful of smooth peanut butter. Then, using the same spoon, scoop out some chocolate haagen-daz (not really caring if that's spelled right) ice cream. Proceed to eat the ice cream as normal.

What you'll find happening is as you put the ice cream in you mouth, you'll also be taking some peanut butter. The peanut butter won't be as gooey, and it'll be like you're eating the ultimate Reese's peanut butter cup, but way better. Especially better while standing over the sink with the carton of ice cream.

Now that I think about it, you can probably go the Reese's route, since they do sell the Reese's peanut butter. I'm thinking you can make your own chocolate ice cream using Hershey's chocolate.

Oh.
That sounds soooooo good.

Did anyone see that episode on the Food Network where they made Reese's PB cups from scratch? I don't remember the show, but it was at lease 7 years ago. Yeah, I know, but I've been intrigued by it ever since. It was a little time consuming, since you had to freeze some things and cut some cupcake paper cups. But I have nothing but time on my hands.

If anyone knows how to make a Snickers clone, send me a message.

Posted by Never The Girl Next Door at 11:56 PM Comments

New video up on my Youtube page: Too Dolly facechart eyes look, from the Hello Kitty Mac collection, of course.

Posted by Never The Girl Next Door at 11:33 AM Comments

I'm not a fan of anything mint, unless its in a well-made mojito. I don't chew mint gum, I don't like altoids or certs. I stay away from Halls cough drops because it has that menthol that tastes like mint. You picking up what I'm putting down?
It's one of my favorite times of the year: Girl Scout cookie time. FYI, my favorites are shortbread and the chocolate covered peanut butter cookie. I may branch out to something lemon flavored, if the mood hits. Never coconut. Anyway, I did not invest in cookies this year, but thankfully, someone(s) has been casually putting out some cookies in the "cafeteria" area of my job. Yesterday, I sampled the cookie that has the caramel drizzled on it, and I think a peanut butter cookie. Today, however, someone put out Thin Mints. From what I hear, this is the holy grail of GS cookies. I have absolutely avoided them because they are still mints, regardless of how much chocolatey goodness you enrobe them in. And, yeah, they are quite thin. Anyhoo, because it is basically a chocolate covered cookie, left out in the open, I tried one.
Oh.
That is a decent cookie.
It would have been better if it the mint was 86ed, but the mint isn't overpowering like one of those Andes mints they leave on your pillow at hotels. And its so crispy and wafery in your mouth. So I grabbed 3 more and left the room to come blog about it. Just try it if you haven't. Try half of one, like all the skinny girls who just *can't* eat a whole cookie/donut/bagel/(insert baked good or dessert here).

Posted by Never The Girl Next Door at 11:10 AM Comments

Alrighty. I actually finished watching the last movie on Tuesday, 2/10, so that's why the date doesn't exactly encompass a whole weekend.

We Own The Night
I actually wanted to see this in the theater, because I love Eva Mendes. True to form, she is hot in this movie, and her eye makeup in the club scenes were nice. I didn't realize this movie was supposed to be based in the 80s; if I would have known, I wouldn't have wanted to see it as badly as I did. Joaquin Phoenix was pretty believable as a club owner, black sheep character. However, there is this stunt later on where he has to jump out of a window, and he basically lands belly first on a chain link fence and bounces off. OWWWW!!!! I had to rewind to look at that again. Props to the stuntman. OK: Marky Mark never ages; has anyone realized that? He plays yet another cop, and his look has never changed. Um, this movie wasn't exciting.

Spun
Another movie about the life of a bunch of drug addicts, but suprisingly, this wasn't a drama (until the complete end). John Leguizamo (I really don't feel like looking up the correct spelling of that) is always believable as a druggie. Britney Murphy is extremely believable - in one scene, she had on these crazy cut daisy duke shorts on (with ruffles) and I commend her for having to suck it up and wear silly shit like that for a movie. Mena Suvari's teeth were outta control - if you ever need anything to deter you from using drugs, just look at her teeth. Jason Schwartzman (is that spelled right?) kept picking his cuticles and it bothered me (it bother's me now). Also: how the hell did he afford gas to drive back and forth for a few days and spend money on drugs, but not go to work?? Obviously, I'm doing something wrong with my finances. Why is Mickey Rourke famous-ish?

Happy Endings
Really cute movie. Lisa Kudrow is beginning to look old. You gotta LOVE Bobby Cannavale - if he doesn't have an Oscar or Tony or Emmy or something by now, well, he should (I haven't checked my stats, so maybe he does). He is too funny sometimes. The father of Rory from The Gilmore Girls will always be hot in my book. Maggie Gyllenhaal's (yeah, I checked that spelling) breasts always looks funny to me under shirts, and it was a little odd seeing her with really short hair. The movie had pretty happy endings, which was unexpected to me for some reason. But on that point, Lisa Kudrow's Happy Ending relationship was unbelievable to me; like, guys like that wouldn't end up with girls like her, typically. And I also liked the captions/brief descriptions they had posted to the left or right of the screen at different points of the movie.

Moving G
I had to save this one for last. This is the most low budget film I've ever seen. The main character is a G addict (its like liquid Roofies or some shit like that). You take G by the cap-full, and usually 2 will have you on cloud 910 or something silly like that. Throughout the movie, I think he took about 10 or more cap-fulls. Good lord, you should be dead, man! Oh, did I mention he was a male stripper? In Texas? And he's a little stout? All of his friends are strippers where he works. He's supposed to be helping one of them move, but I swear if you put this timeframe together, it took them more than 5 hours to move. It was all over the place, and hit up the top 3 races/stereotypes for a (very small) laugh (blacks, Jews, gays). I don't know - it was just long and low budget and went for the corny jokes.

Posted by Never The Girl Next Door at 3:56 PM Comments

I'm thinking about going to Woodbury Commons (WC) outlet mall. I've been there before, but at the time I wanted some Coach stuff and a certain pair of all white Pumas (both stores sucked and stocked nothing). All that was good was the bench we sat on when we were resting, since that was the best feeling in the world.

Late December, I joined Hertz's pilot program called Connect by Hertz. It's like Zip Car, but they also throw in a free GPS. They are waiving the $50 yearly fee for this year for me to try it out, which I did when I went shopping for my New Year's outfit. Can I just say that driving a Prius is so cool? Anyway, I got an email that through the month of February, I can get $5/hr rentals or $50/day rentals. Sold, American.

So, where can I go with this cheap car? Search for a CCO, of course (Cosmetic Company Outlet, where, if you haven't heard, they have cheap, discontinued makeup, like Mac). They have a CCO at WC. I really want a Heatherette compact so I can switch out my regular face powder into it, so I don't carry around a plain black case. However, since I know WC sucks with the rest of the stores, I don't know where else to go while I'm there. I absolutely can't stand a clothing store that is disorganized (think Century 21/Marshall's) because I am too lazy to search. Plus, I'm pear-shaped and shopping is tough for me. Oh, what to do? I'll figure it out. Actually, I should do my taxes this week and then I'll have money later this month to actually do some shopping. Thank goodness I'm not in California, where I read that they might be holding back state tax refunds because they are running low on funds. I still love the idea of living in CA, but that sucks balls.

Posted by Never The Girl Next Door at 1:25 PM Comments

Hmmm...since I've been driving people to this site, I guess I need to update it with something. How about I update with an update?

Receiving Netflix is a routine, but blogging about it hasn't become routine, and I apologize for that. As you can tell with the last few posts, I forgot about it then had to double up. Then I did that for 3 weeks in a row, and I'm like, ah fuck it. Then the holidays were over and had to sorta go back to the grind of work. Then the inauguration happened and then this week's Hello Kitty preview event that I obsessed over since October, and now here we are. I haven't been sick or on vacation or anything. I just got lazy, then I forgot I even have this page. I forget things very easily sometimes.

About Hello Kitty: I love her. She's too cute. So when I saw some YouTube vid teasing that she was coming in February to MAC cosmetics, I really couldn't shut up about it. I signed up for Specktra.net to keep up on the latest; I scoured Google for it; I kept updating my facebook page with links to the products while counting down to the date. Then about 3 weeks before the 2/12 release date, I thought to ask my local Mac store if there was a preview event (I went to one for the Red She Said collection, in which the line sucked to me) and I got myself and +1 on the list. Success!!! I loved the event, and if I could take all the store decorations with me, I would have. So now that my blog for the event got up on Specktra's site, its lead to me having some exposure and now my YouTube videos can have some exposure. Next up: take over the world!!! Or not. Hey, you wanna see some pictures? ---> Click Here To See My Photobucket Album of the Hello Kitty Event!!!

Tomorrow is supposed to be 57 degrees and I can't wait. That is on the forfront of my mind, so I just had to put it out there.

Posted by Never The Girl Next Door at 12:26 PM Comments