adventures

i've been getting out a bit more lately. friday night i went to see a movie at an indie theater and that was pretty fun. i don't feel like talking about the movie itself, but it was good to get out of the house at least. also everyone who works at the theater is really nice. i also discovered that i have a hard time sitting through a movie. at home i rarely watch a whole movie in one sitting, i watch it in 20-30 minute chunks, sometimes longer depending on the movie. also at home i can play solitaire or candy crush or something while i watch the movie so i don't feel so antsy. anyway in the theater even though i was enjoying myself i kept wishing there'd be an intermission or something. it makes me hesitant to go there again but i might do it anyway since it's a relatively cheap thing i can do alone on a weekend.

today i went shopping. i went to the mall and bought more glittery eyeliner. i really like glittery eye makeup but it's hard for me to find the perfect one. i have one that i like, which is kind of a gold thing with little bits of glitter. i bought two others a while ago but they're meant to function as loose eyeshadow so it's hard for me to apply them and even harder to get them to stay on for long. plus they both look so dark and intense and i don't go for that. i occasionally wear them if i'm going out at night, but that's it.
anyway today i bought another eyeliner like the one i already own and love, and a sort of eyeliner crayon thing. i bought one of these from sephora a while back and i loved it so much but the crayon part broke off and it's useless. it's very sad. but now i have another, so i'm happy.

i also went grocery shopping, and i bought some coconut oil that i want to try on my skin and hair. i got it from trader joe's and it's a bit weird. it's all a solid thing in the jar, which i didn't expect. also, i always hear people gushing about how they love coconut oil because it smells so good, but i don't think it does. i was expecting a coconut smell but it's more like something i might use for baking. it's not bad but it's not especially pleasant either. it works well though so i don't care. i put a little on my face and some on my hands, and my hands are definitely very soft now, although when i used to take culinary classes in high school and we baked huge amounts of cookies or whatever and used a ton of shortening, my hands would be super soft after that too, so it's possible that slathering margarine or lard or butter or basically any other cooking fat all over my body would have the same effect. i do like it though.

i had to go to earthfare for my granola (sad news: they don't sell my favorite kind in bulk anymore so i had to buy it in a box) and while i was there i went to the cafe thing where they sell food and drinks and stuff you can eat in the dining area in the store, and i asked the lady behind the counter if she could make me a smoothie that has vegetables in it but doesn't taste like vegetables. she told me spinach is good, and spinach and banana go well together. i ended up with a smoothie consisting of spinach, bananas, strawberries, apple juice, and spirulina, which i wiki'd in the car and kind of regret. it's a type of algae, and i'm not sure i would have put it in my mouth if i'd known that. but it's such a nice word, i mean, it's something i'd name my child if i had one. i thought it was going to be a pretty flower or something.
the smoothie was very green when the lady handed it to me and she said, "okay, i know it looks scary, but i promise it's good." and it was! it was very nice. the spinach added a slightly bitter aftertaste but i found it extremely tolerable. i had more of a problem with the banana, honestly. i love banana flavored things but actual bananas are not great. i feel like they take over everything and not in a good way. i didn't even taste the apple juice.
i think i'll get another smoothie soon. i own a blender too, so my plan is to try a lot of smoothies at different places and figure out which ones do and don't taste like vegetables, so i can make the ones that don't at home myself. i wish there was a review site that catered to people like me who have the palate of a spoiled 4 year old. i do want to eat things that are good for me but most of them taste like garbage. panera has a smoothie now that has kale in it and i was looking for reviews on it earlier but all i found were healthy bloggers saying it was good and nutritious. that's fine, but if you're a healthy blogger i assume you willingly eat vegetables on a regular basis, so your approval is meaningless to me. i don't have high hopes for the kale thing anyway because kale is supposed to be really bitter and panera smoothies are bland as hell to begin with. i think it's because they use so much yogurt? i'm not sure. i want to try the kale thing one day, though.

next sunday there's supposed to be a bisexual social coffee thing at a coffee shop downtown and i think i might go. i think it'd be good for me to meet some new people. maybe they will be nice. there's also a bisexual support group, which i was hesitant about until i saw that they specifically invite pansexuals to join too, that i want to try to go to. i'm just looking for lots of new things to do. i checked craigslist and saw someone advertising a group to pick wild mushrooms. that sounds like something i would like even though i don't like mushrooms, because it combines low-key hiking/nature walking and collecting things. however, the rest of the ad says only "Seeking others to pick and identify edible mushrooms in the midlands." that doesn't sound legit. it sounds kind of murdery. i checked meetup.com too but i didn't find anything i was really into. i did learn that there exists a thing called hashing, which is when you join a club to drink beer and go running. i hate everything about that but maybe i should give it a try anyway. i'm giving lots of things a try. it's exciting.