One for the Besties

What I'm listening to: Arctic Monkeys
What I'm doing: Watching Castle, eating a half pound Reese's peanut butter cup (I'm not kidding...'MERICUH), sitting in the semi darkness in my living room.
Currently bugging me? Cute couples. I have been single for three years. 
Inspiration for this post: Well DUH my bestie. We've been best friends for 12 years, and she has been with a really great boyfriend for....well not long. But they are really great together and he wants me to help him set up a special day so he can give her a promise ring. I really like this kid.


Alrighty. So I am going to add this to my list of a million unfinished tasks lately. Just getting ready for my next semester in Spain, making all my appointments (doctor, dentist, car repair, IT NEVER ENDS), being an adult!!!! Ew. This sucks. BUT, I have my best friend by my side who, unfortunately, is beginning to realize that I am leaving her for three months soon.

I have been trying to make her feel better lately about me leaving. We are going to FaceTime nonstop, and text and all that junk, but I'm also making her a series of letters that say "Open when you're feeling..." fill in the blank. I finished the first a couple days ago for when she is feeling sad. She's obsessed with giraffes so I put some giraffe stickers, and wrote a 2 page letter, and it was my goal to write one a day but hey. You win some, you lose some.

She's doing the same for me, and we have more failed attempts at journals shared between us and stuff than I can count, so if she can at least have this I will be happy. I feel better knowing she has her boyfriend while I'm gone too. His name is Steven Paradise, not even kidding, and he is really great for her. I have indulged in less than wholesome activities with him (not sexually or anything, but not saintly) and my friend together, and he asked me to help him for a WHOLE DAY to set up this promise ring thing. I don't know what he has planned, but he is so whipped it's adorable.

So! In the spirit of lovey, mushy, gooey feelings. Some things you can do to stay closer to friends while you live far away (like I already do), don't get to see them often, or are moving/studying abroad/ being grounded/whatever.

1. Obviously I'm a pretty big fan of the letter thing, since I'm using my time to do those. Plus they're pretty fun, and I can't wait to get mine from her!!! Makes me feel like she's with me :)
2. Send ridiculous pictures back and forth. I love snapchat because the faces aren't forever out there, but Dillie doesn't have snapchat, so I'm fine with her having those pictures.
3. When you do get together, make it big! have a movie night and eat that whole half pound Reese's cup! be ridiculous! Oh and take as many pictures as possible.
4. Just take as many pictures as you can when you're together! If I miss her, I have great pictures to look back on anytime. 
5. Don't be worried about seeming annoying. Just text them; Tell them something endearing! "Hey I miss you! Movie sesh next week? I'll bring the Ben&Jerry's :)" It's hard for us to get coordinated anymore with our work schedules, mostly harder on my side, so show that you're putting in effort to be part of their life. 

Alright. Get out there and go show some love to your besties too. i only have this one, but keep 'em all in mind. MWAH! Besos <3

Holy Crap, Sorry.

My last post was in November and it is now the end of December....sorry about that.
Currently listening to: the sound of my dad watching golf in the front room.
Multitasking: cooking breakfast for dinner (just letting the oven preheat) and being kind of ADD today, so that might change.
What have I done today?: I did like a fourth of a workout on my new bosu ball. Took my vitamins. Crushed like half a tub of cookie dough by myself. Took a rinse off shower. Watched an episode of Dexter
Current obsession: my knees. Surprise, another knee injury, but I'm just putting off surgery as long as I can at this point. I done messed them up the other day. But hey, A) Workman's comp, and B) my first day off in forever.
Where I'm blogging from: sitting precariously on the edge of my bed.

So I figured I would delve into some of my other interests with this post. Hopefully on the road to enlightenment of what the heck I should do with my life. So, on today's roster: Anatomy.

I love the human figure so much, it's a little strange. Just the movement of someone's body, and the workings underneath are so intricate and delicate yet entirely durable and strong I find it captivating. I know really well all of the bones, and much less so the muscles, tendons, ligaments, and such but from my anatomy books, they're beautifully connected.

I love little snippets of facts like this:

• You can actually die from a broken heart. It's called Stress Cardomyopathy. 
• Hypopituarism is a disease that does not allow a person to feel love.
• Prosopagnosia is a psychological (but likely also neural) condition of not being able to recognize people's faces, even loved ones, and friends.
• Genghis Khan slept with so many women that about 1 in every 200 people today are related to him. 
•  Our skin communicates with our livers (as a recent study from the University of Southern Denmark discovered), which could help explain how skin diseases can affect the rest of the body.
• You can actually be allergic to water.
• The average human body contains enough bones to make an entire human skeleton (okay, sorry I was joking about that one).

But either way, anatomy and small facts that may not be expected, or the seemingly random processes of the bones fascinate me. Mozart displays higher spatial-temporal processing and frontal cortex activity. Mozart works as a better stimulant than Adderal. And oh my goodness the studies that are out there! I wrote an English composition paper on a neurological study of the differences in brain matter between bilingual and monolingual brains and it was so interesting, and so challenging that I had to explain parts of it to my teacher.

The pattern of your heart beat changes to mimic the type of music you are listening to.

Seeing an image on tumblr of an x-ray of two people kissing and someone saying "it's beautiful because you can't tell if it's a man and woman, woman and woman, man and man, interracial, age, or anything. It is objectively romantic". And I can say but the mandible is more pronounced, and the supraorbital ridge is also larger, plus the shape of the cheek bones and everything together I can deduce race, age, gender. So the objectivity is not the beauty to me, but the scientific candor of juxtaposing bones, tissue, and matter to make something uniquely beautiful and human.



Gold's ratio is a ratio of the facial structures to define beauty. Define beauty. There is science, and biology, and chemistry, but math can demonstrate what we find beautiful in a sea of organic shapes.

To me, anatomy is a poetry of figures, and movement, and functions. Even when it is macabre, it is human. Feeling. Being.

I feel deep for the night, and fulfilled. :) MWAH! Besos <3

Makeup vs. No Makeup Debate

If you have ever seen me in person you would know that I never leave my house with NO makeup. I am 18, and for the past 6 years or so, I haven't left my house even once without at least mascara, or more recently foundation. 

I have some friends who have never really worn makeup, they are drop dead gorgeous without it. But then there's me: I was antsy to get to wear makeup by middle school when everyone else started wearing it, but I never wore too much anyway. I started and stayed with just brown eyeliner on my top lash, about a third from the outside corner of my eye on my lower lash line, and mascara. That was good enough for me!

This year though, geez this year. I found the magic that is eyeshadow. And good foundation. And contouring. Help. 

I don't use full coverage of almost anything, except my concealer, but honestly I don't have bad skin. I wear foundation everyday yet I don't have crazy acne scars, or bad blemishes now (except a few Mount Pimples, and my entire face when I start my period), and I don't get horrible under eye circles or anything. I just full-heartedly believe I am about half as pretty without makes as I am with. That's sad, my friends. I don't like it.

So. This is me, today, without makeup. I wouldn't dare leave my house like this, but when I'm just around my house with no one coming over, I feel like enough.

Also, I don't do my hair when I'm home. Sorry, not sorry. So, as you can hopefully see with this webcam photo. I'm average. My hair isn't naturally blonde, but dark brown. Now it's ombred so I don't have to dye it anymore, but I used to have the underside of my hair pink and we had to bleach that away. (another story, for another time). My skin is clear right now, and I've been using skin tone correctors for less than a month, so that's kind of showing. HOWEVER, my eyelashes are blonde. They are decently long, but you can't tell. I dislike that. 

I have a red dot smack in the middle of my nose that has been there for years. It isn't a blemish, doesn't stand up, just sits there like it pays rent. I have a couple other spots on my face that are eternally red from picking at pimples. I have freckles that go across my nose and cheeks. 

So overall, not bad right? For me, wrong. When I wear makeup I am ten times more confident, and I don't know why. But lately I have been wearing a bare minimum of makeup to see what happens. You know what happened? My skin looks better without makeup!! 

Jordan, how did you do that? Well, anon, let me tell you. 

I started using some skin care products that I really didn't give much thought to before. For one, I wash my face at least every night, and without fail take off my makeup every night. 

Here we have Simple Foaming Cleanser which I use first. Then L'Oreal Paris Youth Code Serum/Corrector, which, no matter what your skin care regimen is, should be used before moisturizer. Third, Simple Replenishing Rich Moisturizer, and last but not least the Neutrogena makeup remover cleansing towelettes. I use these towelettes first to get off makeup if I am wearing a lot of makeup, but the foaming cleanser gets off makeup really well too. I also use these alone if I am really tired, I am a college student and just last week I was up until 5 in the morning doing homework. But these towelettes are really great because they don't require rinsing afterwards.  

After that? I use Yes to Carrots Nourishing and Repairing Night Cream, and I'm done for the night! Super moisturizing, and go to bed with a clean face. 

In the morning I also use Yes to Grapefruit Correct and Repair even skin tone moisturizer, which has SPF 15. (Before makeup or primer) Bonus! These Yes to: products can only be found at target or online, but they are so great, and all of these products are affordable.

Is that trippy to see me taking a picture of products for a blog post, WITH THE BLOG POST?! Well for me, looking at this on my computer, not gonna lie. Looks like inception. 

Most important for your skin is to try not to touch it (it is delicate, and susceptible to dermal tearing), wear your freaking sunscreen (!!!), and treat it well. Cleanse and moisturize it with whatever works for you, but these products are made to be gentle and for the most part, organic/natural!! 

So feel better about your skin. Just treat it better and after a while of taking care of it, and wearing less makeup, I hope you'll see the difference too. Happy Blogging!

MWAH! Besos <3

 

Feedback? Please, for the love of god, tell me! I have no idea what I am doing here.

So...This Is Me.

Alrighty. This will be my first (and hopefully not my only) blog post, so I figured... you might want to know me. Hell I don't know you, maybe you don't care about me.

I'm sorry, where are my manners? My name is Jordan Petty.

At the moment:
I am listening to: Mozart's Sonatas (it helps me think, okay?)
I am wearing : A charity "I <3 Boobs" shirt, tie dye pj shorts, hair in a pony tail, and NO makeup.
I am blogging from: My bedroom I freshly cleaned for the first time in months, on my little foldable chair and table.
Current Favorite Color: (Not likely to change, by the way) Blue!!  Like aqua blue.
Inspiration for this Post: Pinterest. What else do I do with my free time?

So I started yet another blog. Pretty sure this is my third attempt at a blog? Maybe? But this time I actually plan to maybe keep up with this, but for the most part this blog will not be too different from my others. I may not get a huge following because this isn't Tumblr, and this isn't all about One Direction or anything, but just things that interest me. And that is random as all Hell so I apologize.

One of my greatest inspirations for doing this again is that I have a huge range of interests and that is what has made it surprisingly difficult to choose a college major, look at future careers to choose said majors, and really pursue anything that would benefit my future. I love human anatomy, I am an artist, I love classic literature, I enjoy almost any kind of music (yes rap, country, reggae, pop, screamo, you name it), my family has a dogsledding business with 108 dogs, and we have 3 house dogs at home.

So, if you can find this blog in the hay stack that is the internet full of blogs, tell me: what do you want to see from a blog you would follow? I would love to give and receive feedback, but so far I am thinking that at the beginning of all my posts I will do an "At the Moment" section to start.

Thanks!!

P.S. Be warned: I am pretty average. Average high school student, great college student now, live at home, white, middle class family. I am just me, and like it that way, but what's more interesting about me, to me, is what I have going on in my head.
I will absolutely take post requests. <3
MWAH!! <3 Besos!