When my plane was delayed in Jiuzhaigeo China, as well as now where my Service Center took away my DVD player (when I am recovering from surgery!) I have relied on Kimberly Snyder's book The Beauty Detox Solution.  You can check out her blog here . It's worth looking at, it's much better than my blog. Plus she is so pretty and smart.

I haven't been eating so good these "recovering" days; a lot of malt shakes a lot of guacamole. My body feels gross.

Anyways, I think I am going to try to follow her detox. It's hard because I don't have a juicer one of the most basic essentials. There is a lot of her ideas which just arn't accessible in China, such as using unpasteurized miso paste in your salad (substitute kimchi), gluten-free crackers and grapeseed oil. Hell, it's even hard to find avocados in Carrefour.  But there are many things that I can do! I already don't eat dairy for the most part, so cutting that out isn't a big deal. And I could always eat more vegetables! 

This is the recipe for her "morning smoothie" which is an ideal breakfast.

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups water
1 head organic romaine lettuce, chopped
3-4 stalks organic celery
1/2 head of a large bunch or 3/4 of a small bunch of spinach
1 organic apple, cored and chopped
1 organic pear, cored and chopped
1 organic banana
Juice of 1/2 fresh organic lemon

optional:
1/3 bunch organic cilantro (stems okay)
1/3 bunch organic parsley (stems okay)

This is a lot of food when you think about it. Like a lot of bulk.  But it's blended!

After having been inactive for the last eon, it has been a blast going through the spam and sometimes completely random comments.

Here are my favorites: (No particular order).

1) How to be confident in yourself?

2) I'm pregnant!

3) What a great man today was born? Need toast!

4) Всем привет.
Вы желаете сменить работу?
Тогда взгляните на эти вакансии!

5) I love Justin Bieber!

6) I know three words! ... maybe four?!

7) how to determine the sex of child?

- Joachim

Today I had two of my wisdom-teeth taken out, they were growing into my other teeth. Because I had only two operated on, I didn't get full anesthesia, just local. So I was awake during the whole procedure and watched everything going on. Luckily I am not squeamish, the whole operation didn't hurt much. But it hurts like hell now.

The whole thing started out with taking pain-killers, then the dentist took a really sharp needle like thing and put it in my mouth. I thought he was already cutting open my gums, but he was just numbing my tongue and mouth. Then he cut open the gums, and used a drill and a slicer to cut my teeth into quarters. Apparently, my tooth was really embedded into my bone, so this was less invasive. It was okay, I had my giant Dr. Dres ( i have the "pro") version, so I listened to lots of music. Everything from the Presets to Unkle. I think I had on Gorillaz when he actually pulled out my teeth...to much information. Anyways...

When the first tooth came out I sat up and wanted to see it, but they made me sit back down. All I ended up seeing was swabs covered in blood. In the end, I got to see my shattered wisdom teeth. They were brown, from all the medication I had to take during a very long sick spell junior year. Gross max.

I also couldn't feel my tongue/lips/mouth. So when I sat up, I was biting my lip! The dentist looked at me and goes "oh don't bite your lip" and as if I am two helps me look normal. The assistants and I laughed and laughed. I also couldn't drink water. I couldn't figure out how to open my mouth or use my tongue or swallow. That was pretty funny too.

Now I am in lots of pain in my bed. I can't do anything for the next few days. I am really bloated.


I look uglier. And odd...

-Chrissy

I LOVE Elyse Sewell. I not only read her blog and cyber-stalk her but have watched ANTM cycle 1 maybe ten times since March. It is the only legit season, the rest are so stupid and corny.  Since coming back to China, I typically put an episode on each night in bed to fall asleep watching. Tonight happened to be episode 5 "The Girl Who Everyone Thinks is Killing Herself" which is the most difficult episode to watch.

The other girls attack Elyse for her "eating disorder", a subplot in the show. The accusations feel like they have no factual grouding, and I sympathize for Elyse. While she is thin, her body seems to naturally fit her frame, no bones show through and her arms are round and soft. If they were unnaturally thin, wouldn't they look taunt and boney? She states she loves her body and doesn't wish to change it, get skinnier or fatter and admits she doesn't eat a lot. Naturally, she has a small frame, so her stomach is smaller. If she stated that "cake is my favorite food and I love to eat everyday" then that would be a bit more suspicions but it seems like seems to just not eat a lot.  There are so many campaigns about how "curvy is the new black", and some people are born curvy blah blah. Some people are naturally thin too, you CAN be skinny without having an eating disorder. My dad was 90 lbs as a 15 year old boy.

Robin attempts again to alienate Elyse yet again, like the good Christian she is, going on and on in a group meeting about how she is comfortable with "the body God gave her". Wasn't she crying 3 episodes ago about her body and seems to always cover up her hips?  This is what bothers me, when other people make go out of their way to make the person with the "eating disorder" feel uncomfortable.

Celebrities always say that "oh being called anorexic is just as painful as being called fat". I have been called both, and can tell you that it's false. BUT being talked about having an eating disorder can be just as obnoxious.  When I was ill two years ago,  I lost a lot of weight.  Everyone from teachers, to PTSA members it seemed gossiped about my weight, and their callus tones and attitudes drove me over the edge.  When I had told my friend I had eaten a cinnamon roll, she even replied "you throw it up yet" in front of my whole class. It was so petty and dumb, and I quickly got defensive of their "concern". I mean seriously? Would you ask a morbidly obese person why they are fat to their face? Would you attempt to monitor what they ate in public? No.

I emphasize with Elyse.

I just checked the statistics for visitor viewers...and oddly enough a lot of people are still reading this blog (??) so I might as well up date.

I'm in Shanghai, I'm taking a 12 week course at JiaoTong university. Fun stuff, there is only one other person in my classroom at the moment. And the books don't really match the one's at UW so hopefully it all goes okay. And lunch comes from the local gas station.  Fingers-crossed.

I think I get done around 2-3, so I want to get a job and do a lot of hot yoga/kick-boxing.

Joachim leave's for Europe tomorrow!

Yay - summer!

Chrissy

Not an "artsy" picture. I remember thinking "Oh my god, what a lonely airport - where is the apatosaurus like in Abu Dhabi"


Stuff that make traveling worthwhile.

I am in Chicago today for personal reasons.
But I leave at 7 am tomorrow.
And then less than a day later I am going to be in Shanghai !

-Chrissy

Obsessed with Anabela Belikova. She is my epitome of beauty. Also her shoes here are fierce (I am watching ANTM season 1 at the moment). ELYSE! PAGANS! best.






This looks oddly similar to my room in Shanghai (all orange and vintage Indian) only I don't have random girls all awkward on my bed.





My final I am now taking a day early because I leave tomorrow directly to Chicago for a day.
And then I come back to Seattle for a day.
And then after less than a day I leave for Shanghai.
And then after two days I leave for Singapore.
And then after four days I leave for Shanghai.
And then after two days I leave for Seattle.
Oh.My.God.

But I wouldn't have it any other way. (:

Pictures are from here, here, here, here & here


I want to watch the Virgin Suicides again...
-Chrissy

Tomorrow I have double FINALS. In my hardest classes, math and Chinese.
Not even midterms, the real deal.
And sadly, I didn't even have a dead week to prepare the best. But whatever.
I am going to go in like Charlie Sheen and bi-win.
And if not, I am seriously contemplating becoming a butterfly farmer.
Even if I would have to live in Costa Rica and I don't know Spanish...
and would be payed around 2 dollars a month, butterflies are pretty.
Unless they are on clothing and then they are tacky.

But really, to have a green house filled with butterflies, like the one at Blenheim, would be perfect.

I really am serious.

...

Oh. And Kate Moss showing up to the LV runway, after her 2004 retirement from walking was the highlight of my week.
She's a national treasure, and doesn't care either way. And a badass.

-Chrissy

This is overdue.

Oh Oscars. I loved you once, when I was young.
The dresses were so good, the people so clean and the entertainment was...well...entertaining.

But this year, you were a mess.
James Franco was stoned...Anne Hathaway was cracked out (so hyper!)...
no jokes worked and there were no surprises.

However, all could have been saved if there had been one decently dressed person. Someone chic and excremental. But to be honest, I saw a better dressed and more diversified group of people at my high school prom.

First - Memories of Good Oscars Past:

Best of last year.






Victoria Beckham is cool enough to not walk the red carpet, but show up looking like that to an after party.
Idol.


Met Ball. Not Oscars...but I loved the dress in Sofia Coppola's Miss Dior Cherie commercial.
The new Natalie Portman one is awful.


This is my favorite Oscar dress of all time.  It's perfect. She's perfect.

Oscars - the worst:


This looks like someone took rolls of Bounty and glued on seashells they found on the beach. Like a 1st grade craft project. And the shoes?


Is boring and looks cheap. Like something from Lane Bryant or Kohl's.


This looks like some of the old golf/tennis outfits I see the women wear back in Indiana. She looks so soccer mom, and the pony tail isn't helping.


I don't understand the dollie pasties, and the lace looks like something you would see in a retirement home.


And another arts and crafts project. Halle looks like an albino leopard that covered themselves in glue and jumped into glitter and tissue paper.

The ONLY good bits -

Chic. It's sort of repulsive, but at least it's chic.


So cute and age appropriate. Best.

And because I love her more than anything -
How to look good, Natalia Vodianova style:




Best.


-Chrissy















 

I swear she loves me!


In two weeks I will be on a flight to go back to Shanghai.
Then off to Singapore.
Then back to Shanghai.
All in a week!
I am so happy to go home.

But first exams...

-Chrissy