Red fish, blue fish. Or gold fish. Or betta. Perhaps even neon tetras?
I seriously need these to hold up the growing collection of GRE study guides and how-to-get-into-grad-school books I've been collecting lately.
And aren't fish supposed to be good luck or something? I could use some of that.
Yesterday Emily and I were discussing our plans to create our own line of alcoholic juice boxes - just in time for summer! - and we figured out there are a few key points that are essential to creating a modern product:
So here you go, modern stuff white people like whores of the universe, of which I just very may be one. Your dinnerware is now presentable to your friends from San Francisco.
I woke up this morning expecting spring to be sprung but instead I found 3 inches of snow outside. WTF, planet earth!?
So I'm going to just browse spring like clothes, like this adorbs top, and just pretend all is right with the world.
Look past the blinding pink cover of Nina Willdorf's City Chic: The Modern Girl's Guide to Living Large on Less. It's deceptive, because what's inside is actually not chick lit but really good advice on how to live fabulously in these tough economic times.
Topics run the gamut from decorating a swank pad to downloading the perfect party mix on the cheap. Make your beauty products multitask, whip up a scrumptious feast, get a deal on a gym membership and more.
I wish I'd had this book when I was 22.
Yes. Finally.
Things that have been on my to-do list that probably won't get done:
So I have to admin that I am not the bargain shopper people think I am, I haven't even been to a TJ Maxx or Marshalls in my life. I can easily spend $200 in a day on things I have no recollection of. (This, I do weekly.)
But this little clutch here may just turn me around. I thought $38 was a steal, but when it rang up it was ACTUALLY ONLY NINETEEN DOLLARS! And it comes in hot pink! And yes I bought both! And yes I have no idea what I did with my other $160 dollars!
What! That's right - Awesome now comes to you in tiny bite size pieces, 140 characters in length. Why? Because we get emails all. Day. Long. Pointing us to new, awesome stuff, and stopping everything to login to Typepad, navigate their weirdo new layout and post page, figure out something witty to say and publish it with a picture without pixelating it too terribly is annoying. Because Twittering is easier. Because this way we can cover more awesome things more quickly, with less words. Because I work 73 hours on the average week - do you know how many hours that is because once I counted them, and it's awesome because I basically shower in my big Scrooge McDuck bathtub full of gold coins everyday but really, what are those gold coins worth if I can't even BLOG anymore because I am so tired, so annoyed with the idea of it all? OMG I need a corndog, which incidentally, we Twittered.
So, I really didn't know anything about this Von Iva band until I volunteered to interview their lead singer for one of my other gigs.
Then I got their CDs in the mail and holy shit, I'm in love!
Part rock, part punk, part disco and all amazing. Seriously, I haven't taken them out of my CD player since I got them.
I've always wanted to blend my own wine.
OK, that's a lie. What I've actually always wanted to do is stomp around in a giant tub full of grapes, like on I Love Lucy.
I guess I can settle for blending, though. Do you think it counts if you just blend the wines in your stomach?
9SpotMonk has the most delectable letterpress goods I've ever seen. Stationery, thank you cards, notebooks, even gentleman's notes. Gentleman's notes! Who even knew there was such a thing?
Last night my friend told me it was going to snow like balls today. I'm not sure what that means, but I was pretty excited about it anyway.
Then I woke up to a mere dusting of powder on the ground. What a disappointment.
But if I'd had these boots to prance around in the .037 inches of snow, everything would've been just perfect anyway.
There's no getting around it; bars of soap are slimy, icky messes after you use them, oh, three times. But liquid soap always looks so clinical and uncute in its label-plastered plastic pumps.
Solution: decant it into this double-chambered dispenser. You can put hand lotion in the smaller section or just another color of soap for a cool contrast effect. Ooh, or dish soap in one section and hand soap in the other!
It's clearly the coolest way to get clean.
So, Brandie and I know each other through I don't know how, something online somehow, and Brandie knows Jeffrey from way back when online, and Jeffrey knows Jason from online and Jason knows me who also knows Brandie and, come to think of it, maybe that's how I know Brandie?
Anyway, through Brandie or Jason I met Jeffrey who posted a photo of a pillow that I went crazy for, then Googled in any detail I could think of, then I found it. Online.
