4 posts tagged “tokidoki”
i was tagged by Lauren last week to list five things my neighborhood doesn't know about me, so here i go. (sorry i'm just now getting around to it, sweets! as you know, i'm a master procrastinator .. haha.) some who know me personally might already know a few of these facts. but to those who don't, this will hopefully give you some insight into who i am.
1. i've had surgery seven times. woo hoo for me! i went through my whole life not breaking a bone or having surgery of any kind until two weeks before my fifteenth birthday. that's when upon coming home from the river (with my neighbors and friends), the car i was in was intentionally run off the road. i was ejected from the passengers side of the car and broke my neck and left ring finger resulting in surgery #1: spinal surgery. not too long afterward i had surgery #2: tracheal tube inserted into my neck and a central line put into my chest. i was on a respirator at this point and my nose had become so raw from having breathing (and feeding) tubes down it, that a tracheal tube was necessary. i also was on tons of medication, so the main line was pretty essential as well. a few months later i had surgery #3: spinal decompression. the most painful surgery to recover from. i never felt so much physical pain in my entire life. i was on a morphine drip for about a week. that surgery was in hopes of regaining wrist and hand movement. it didn't work. upon arriving home from my 9 month stay in the hospital and rehab, i went back in for surgery #4: decubitus ulcer flap. being new to my injury, i didn't quite grasp the notion that when you're wheelchair bound and unable to shift your own weight, pressure releases are vital to preventing skin breakdowns. an ulcer formed badly to the point it required surgery. post surgery i was bedridden for a month straight. a month in bed without sitting up once. fun times. a few years later following months of chronic bladder infections, i had surgery #5: bladder stone removal. it was an out-patient surgery, so it wasn't too bad. fast forward to about five years ago ... i went in for the all too common surgery #6: wisdom teeth removal. i waited way too long to have them removed resulting in my face bruising up like crazy (i look like i got beat up) afterward. i could barely move my jaw for about a week or so. pretty painful recovery. last but not least, we come to surgery #7: eye surgery. a huge stye formed underneath my top right eyelid and had to have it removed. gross, i know.
2. i have a weird thing about food textures.
3. i tend to have seinfeld-like fixations. if you're familiar with seinfeld, you know jerry fixates on the weirdest, most minute things about people. i (unintentionally) do the same thing. mainly about a person's mouth. if i'm talking with someone who moves their mouth weirdly when talking, has any kind of tick, or talks with a lisp .. i fixate on it and can't seem to concentrate on anything else. in my head, questions of why and how will swirl around my head during the conversation. it's wrong and completely ridiculous, but there you go.
4. my first kiss was with a boy i didn't know. at one point in junior high, the "hang out" was at knott's berry farm in anaheim. seeing that my best friend and i lived in long beach we didn't exactly live close , but we always managed to somehow talk our parents into taking us. if you went after 6:00 p.m. (i believe), you got in for half price. our goal wasn't to go on as many rides as possible, it was to hang out at cloud 9 (the "alternative/new wave" dance club) and check out the hot local guys. one night we finally met and talked with these two local boys we had our eyes on for some time and ended up spending the whole night with them going on rides, etc. for some reason i felt so special (which i obviously wasn't as we never met up again and only talked on the phone a few times after), but at that age you're all about fitting in. toward the end of the night, all four of us found a quiet spot behind one of the stores and talked for awhile. i was sitting on a wooden fence and that's when brian leaned in and kissed me. i remember being so nervous, too. thankfully he was an amazing kisser, ha.
5. i've been frisked by a cop. in ninth grade during my "rebellious" period of drinking and smoking pot, i started hanging out with an older so-called "tough" crowd. back at that time, most of all the neighborhood skater boys turned "thug" and i somehow found that attractive. it makes me ill to think about now, but you're stupid at that age. anyway, one day after school a girlfriend and i were at one of the hang out houses when it got raided by the police. apparently, gunshots were reported in the neighborhood and the boys were suspected. we were all thrown up against the side of the house, frisked, and my friend and i basically got scolded by the officers saying we were much too good to hang out with such people. it was funny and scary at the same time.
i tag the following 5 people: maz, Teese, squeakymonkey, kara, j0nah.
*edit*
i'm breaking the rules and adding a 6th person: dedodododedadada.
ever since tokidoki's release of mozzarella, it's taken everything in me to not buy her. i decided to cut back on vinyl collecting and focus my collecting on a few specific artists only in order to curb impulsive spending habits. however, it will not do. i must buy mozzarella and her moofia clan! how can anyone resist the moofia mini-figures series!? these are too cute for words! they'll be sold blind box (>.<) hopefully before christmas. i read somewhere they'll be released "winter of '06." i must have them all!!
isn't it weird how one link leads to another and before you know it, you 've stumble upon something you weren't searching for but is of interest? that's what happened with this adorable tokidoki video. i was on a message board looking at plush and clicked a few links and somehow ended up on simone legno's myspace page where this video was posted. there certainly are tons of creative people out there. it must've taken hours to make this tiny video. i don't think i'd have the patience for stop-motion video. the process seems painfully tedious.
i woke up this morning to find the weather had done a complete 180 from the previous day. it was actually cold and rainy and what i like to refer to as perfect "pride & prejudice" weather. there's nothing i like more than to watch my favorite movie (the A&E BBC version not the inferior hollywood one) with my mom while curled up in a down comforter. and that was exactly what we did today. we spent a good six hours transported into a past era filled with pin curls, beautiful dresses, horse carriages and where wealth and breeding determined who you married. it's interesting to compare social behavior back then and how things have changed dramatically, while some things remain the same. the story sucks me in every time and makes me long for a simpler time. though "simpler" might be a bit misleading (women had virtually no rights and people (in general) had to work a lot harder not having modern technology), people seemed to spend more time interacting with each other and actually taking time to enjoy life. whereas now, everyone is too busy to stop and take a breath. it's really an incredible movie that i never want to end. i always end up complaining afterward about how jane austen should have made a sequel. we want/need to know how the bennett sisters adapted to living the privileged life and whether they had children, etc.!
i'm sort of in an emotional funk right now. though i have a million thoughts racing in my head (from loneliness to politics to religion), i can't seem to vent about any of it. like usual, i choose to keep it bottled up inside until i reach my breaking point - which is never a fun experience. sometimes the best (or more comfortable) way to deal with things is to not deal with them until you're ready to.
i know that isn't true, i just have no desire to talk about things at present.
as a distraction (which isn't really serving as much of one unfortunately), i've been looking at (what else?) art (in various forms) and i'm really looking forward to tokidoki's moofia characters. i find it difficult to resist mozzarella, a gun-weilding tokidoki cow. the fact that i've managed to resist purchasing his cactus friends is a miracle in itself as i had my eye on
i'm also in love with dum dummies. kirby announced their arrival over a week ago and it's taken everything in me to not purchase a few. little buggers are a bit pricey, but i may be receiving a few after all if a trade goes well. i'm hoping for a white + pink one. damn blind boxes!
i'm thinking of raffling off the baseman print i can't seem to sell. i was initially a bit turned off by this method of selling toys. perhaps it was the unwarranted prices (in my opinion) people were setting their pieces at. i've since had a (self-serving) change of heart. not only does the seller receive their asking price, but people have a chance at winning something they otherwise most likely wouldn't be able to afford for a fraction of the cost. i'm thinking this might be a good route to take. anything to avoid ebay. i'm too lazy for that.
in family news, kristin was signed to an agency this past week! we are all so proud of her. with hard work, determination and God's guidance, she moved to new york and is making her dreams come true. she did about ten shows for fashion week (last week) making a nice chunk of change and will soon be making her way to milan and paris to work the shows there. it's really incredible to think how much she has achieved in such a short time. only two years in new york and she's already making a name for herself!
