These days with the job-blues and the mean reds, the year 2007 has not been the year of me. Mostly due to the fact that I am not the most happiest camper with my job and I have no direction in my life. However, thanks to youtube, my eyes are opened…
“My life dreams are to drop out of school, to be on girls gone wild, and to have my baby!”
When I was in high school, I used to wear a different body and body work or victoria secret body splash like every week. At one point I brought every single body splash thing I owned to a school trip and people were amazed at the sheer collection of the bottles. Unfortunately, it wasn’t until much later that I learned that you should test out different scents with your skin to make sure everything works out. I guess it’s a good thing that stuff smells uniformly on everyone.
Alas, that is why Stella McCartney’s Stella will never work out for me. I love the scent, but I just can’t get it to work with me. I once made Sofie smell it in a mad dash of hope that she would approve (she is usually pretty pro-things for me) and she was like “oh…no…just…it doesn’t…no.” Someone suggested the body lotion which I happily bought. It smelled like ‘Stella’ and it smelled great. The thing is every time I use it, I can see the lotion go down and down…since I am not a lotto winner, I use the lotion sparingly, like on special occasions and even then just trace amounts are applied. One time, Chester applied some and aside from my screams of pain, he smelled very pretty. I did joke that some larry the cable guy type was going to come up to him and be like “You smell purrty, boy!” Sadly, I never had to defend Chester’s honor and he never touched the lotion ever again.
Anyway, Stella McCartney introduced Stella Sheer. The clouds parted for I could wear the scent and have it smell nice. I’m pretty sure I did a jig in the aisle of Sephora. The problem is that was two years ago so now I’m in search of a more summery scent to wear. The nice thing about buying body splash is the fact that it’s pretty cheap. Perfume — not so much. So I don’t have much of a perfume collection because I have become picky about what I like and don’t like and I spend all my money before I can get to the perfume counter.
That might change with Marc Jacobs Splash - Orange. I was a little wary at first since MJ and I haven’t had the best luck with each other, but I think I freaking love it. I kept smelling my wrist at work and probably freaked a coworker or a customer out. It’s cool though because it smells that good.
There is a Ted Leo/RX contest over at threadless that makes me want to learn how to draw, be creative, and learn how to use a graphic design program thingy. Can I learn four years of graphic stuff in one week? Hmmm…
Damn the fact that there is no artistic bone in my body! It prevents me from winning this contest!!
DCist wrote a lovely piece on Professor Liviu Librescu. I can’t stop thinking about this man’s courage and his sacrifice.
I remembered the password to this thing, right as I am about to go on a money-diet. It will match my food diet, so let us hope I can lose some lbs and save some money.
There should be no surprise that I am horrible at saving money. If I was great at it, I’d be carrying one of these around:
Or in Rome.
However, with the Met opening up their Greek and Roman galleries, I’m envisioning a trip out to NYC mid-June. Let’s say around the 14-18 ish. Wearing really cute summer clothes.
(I will be there like shareware)
I am halfway in love with this J.Crew cardigan.
I would probably never wear it, but I am a sucker for argyle.
Oh well. Let the dual-diets begin. I shall live vicariously through this blog thing and maybe I’ll actually be in NYC in two months. (Hah)
Looks like someone had an extra $1050 lying around because I went to make sure the eluxury link worked and the purse is gone from the page! Sob! Lucky girl.
There is a muttering going on, predicting that high-waisted pants are coming back in…
I’ve seen a ton of high-waisted jeans in the mags and to that I say, “NAY! NAY! You will pry my low rise jeans from my cold dead hands.”
Sure the low rises could create a lot of problems, espicially with the muffin thing, but if you found the perfect kind of rise (not too low on me), you could totally work it. It looks like I’m going to have to stock up on low-rise jeans…
Dear Friends and Family,
Sorry, I won’t be giving you a christmas gift this year. It seems as if I have spent all of my money at threadless. So you know, my bad.
Cheers!
Alright, I haven’t really spent any money at threadless (yet), but I’ve been looking at shirts for days and I’m pretty sure the IT people are all “JUST GET A SHIRT ALREADY”, but you know decisions need to be made.
So much for my “buy more work appropriate clothes” resolution. Work won’t mind me walking around with this on. I am so on it that as soon as I come home from work tomorrow and actually figure out what my real bank balance is…I will be buying t-shirts. Lots of t-shirts for…the 23 degree weather. Woo!
I was at target and they had 2 t-stands (or just 1 stand with 4 arms) with Antiks and cordoroy Joe’s Jeans (socialite). The price points were a bit cheaper, but the Antiks were too over-embellished for my tastes and I’m married to Joe’s Provocateur fit. I looked at target.com, but they didn’t have any of that on their website. I would think I was dreaming (or at last finally met madness), if I hadn’t examined the denim for a good six minutes or so.
( I saw this on Amalah’s Wednesday Advice Smackdown who got it from Project Rungay)
Fabulous is damn right. Like the icon of fabulousness, right here people.
A side note: It took me a few seconds remembering how to spell fabulous. I kept thinking of Fabalous and the way he rapped “F-A-B-A-L-O-U-S” and ever since then I had to double-check my spelling any time I wrote fabulous.
I digress. I don’t watch Project Runway until they start running the marathons because I like to watch things in one or two sittings and because I am either closing at work that night or I don’t remember to watch it. So it took me a few minutes to realize that this person is on Project Runway. Now I guess I have to beg Nick to let me put PR on his ti-faux just to see her.
I adore this picture. It sums up perfectly, what my ideal style is. The outfit itself, is not for me, but her whole attitude, hair, outfit, and accessories is elegant, pulled together, refined, and very ‘Old Hollywood’. Plus I love her luggage. I would totally sell one of my kidneys for her set. And I’ll even throw in a cousin or two to sweeten the deal. Just don’t take Skippy, he has asthma. (GG rulez!)
Sadly, for all my clothes-talking, I am really just a jeans and t-shirt girl. I’m half kid and half creature trying to become more like the picture above. I bought a long sleeved black thermal with a cartoon character printed all over it, last month. I couldn’t help it, my love for Gir knows no t-shirt bounds, but I think I should not buy cartoon character t-shirts anymore. Or any t-shirts that are worn by 12 year old girls trying to be a little out there by shopping at Hot Topic. And yes, I totally bought that shirt at Hot Topic.
Here is a picture of a measuring cup:
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