Jabberwocky

Faster than a cheetah, more powerful than... another cheetah.

The term Jabberwocky may seem familiar to you if you've been a fan of America's Best Dance Crew, as one of the crews had a twisted form of the name. After some research, the term Jabberwocky originated with Lewis Carroll, who mentioned it in his Through the Looking Glass. Essentially the term means nonsense and this video is greatly defines the word.

From Better of Ted on ABC, which I hope doesn't get canceled:

Drake: Breast I Ever Had

If you haven't been living under a rock this summer, then you have definitely heard Drake's song, Best I Ever Had.

What you probably haven't seen is the video. Yesterday, while surfing youtube with a friend, she showed me the video of Best I Ever Had, it's more like.. the MOST AWESOME GLORIFICATION OF HUGE NATURAL BREASTS I HAVE EVER SEEN.



Whoa. Those thangs hit you in the face, literally. AND, for the sake of all that is holy, please go to 4'06" ...................Here's a taste:

Drake: When you're out there, and they put that D on you, TAKE THAT D. Take that D like the champions you are.


OMG. I couldn't stop laughing. This is truly hilarious. If you don't have sound in the office, just promise me you'll go back home and watch it at some point. OMG.

........'You all know good and well what we can do in two minutes." BAHAHAHAHAHA!

Midnight Blogging.. mmmmm

I haven't blogged in a while because I've been settling into DC. I've been lazy in finishing unpacking my things and putting things in the places that should be. Surprisingly, my closet here is not so packed. Probably because I've only managed to somehow bring 1/3 of my clothes.

I have a lot of family in town and I've been busy con familia. I still have yet to get to a gym, which I will try to milk week long trial memberships until I am employed, nor have I gotten a library card = HOW WILL I GET MY FILL OF ROMANCE NOVELS?

Somehow, I need to drop my T-mobile plan and pick up a Verizon one. This, too, will probably need to happen post-job, because only Verizon has service in the metro. This is crucial as sometimes I spent up to 120 mins in the metro a day, which could be otherwise filled with very productive texting.

Things that are better in DC/MD/VA (a running list): 1. Taiwanese food. Bob's 66, I'm talking to you, dreaming about you, and tomorrow, I will have you again. YUM.

Things currently on my bed

a camera
8 pairs of sunglasses
2 pairs of eyeglasses
$640 in cash
a copy of my resume
2 mp3 players
4 books of checks
biking shorts
a purse
Hello Kitty stuff
50 unburned CDs
another purse
a copy of Microsoft Office
linen paper
all the makeup I own
a bra
a pair of shorts
4 planners
2 lists of things that I have to pack
my phone
a gym clip
a light bulb
an empty Starbucks bag


Now, do I somehow sort them into some sort coherent categories... or do I just more or less dump them into a small suitcase and shove it into my car? Guess! P.S. I'm driving up to DC in the morning. Who can Happy Hour with me on Thursday?

Michael Jackson's hair into Diamonds?

A diamond company in Chicago, Lifegem, has obtained bits of Michael Jackson's crispy hair from 1984 and is planning on turning it into carbon crystals which later can be polished into diamonds. Sound incredible? OR ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING?

This same company has reduced another famous person's hair into diamonds previously. That man being Beethoven. I feel like they have had a strange choice in people - what about someone living? What about Liz Taylor?

Click here for the article from NYdailynews.

Here's a quote from the website of LifeGem:

"Your LifeGem memorial will offer comfort and support when and where you need it, and provide a lasting memory that endures just as a diamond does. Forever."

I would post a picture, but this entire thing just creeps me out. A LOT.

Awesomely Bad Ad

Tell me you don't want to play this game. I dare you.

THINGS I NEED TO BOYCOTT

1. Shopping: I've already looked at the Fall collections of H&M, BR, Gap, and Anthro - and I have nothing there that I need/can afford... so it's best if I don't step into the store. I will not let Free Shipping or 20% off a $50 purchase woo me into buying things I do not need. Although, I do need a pair of boots because I don't have one, but I also need to slim my calves down because they are too powerful right now.

2. Eating at Chain Restaurants: I've already tasted what I like there and it's bad for me. I am incapable of ordering new things; I'm too much of a creature of habit. (Cheesecake Factory - I'm talking to you.)

3. Eating things that are not absolutely delicious: OK- icecream sandwich that is low cal and a treat, Not OK - ramen noodles and anything that is a heavy starch that is not immediately followed by exercising OR subpar desserts.

4. Facebook: Every time I log on, I realize that I should be doing something else, like actually seeing my friends. Let's face it, emailing people is still a ton more personal since sending real letters is way too expensive in this economy. (I will do anything not to pay postage.)

Addendum: 5. Sentimentality: I need to stop keeping things on the off chance that they'll be useful, i.e. shopping bags, or I think they are a waste, lotion older than 2 years. START USING THE TRASHCAN RELIGIOUSLY.

P.S. I have totally stopped going to Perezhilton.com and I feel way amazing about it. Cheers to being less trashy.

Girl you know it's True, Emma Watson, I unhealthily love you!

Emma Watson is officially my girl crush. When I see her, I see all the untapped potential that I should have had an epic child movie star who naturally goes to an Ivy-League school for Uni and has an awesome British accent on top of everything else.

These are from Russian Vogue via imnotobsessed.com -[ I AM. ]

Job Inquiry

Dear Sir or Madam of companies with jobs posted online,

Please take down your job postings when you have stopped taking applications, narrowed down your search, or already hired somebody for the position [a month ago!] This way, I will not spend hours writing a new cover letter, downloading Adobe Acrobat to separate pages from a large .pdf file into a smaller one, re-writing that cover letter, devoting my hopes and time into a job that HAS ALREADY BEEN FILLED.

But hey, what do I know? Because obviously, someone is being employed to post those jobs online, while silly me, spends hours each day just trying to find a job. An open one, preferably, not applying to jobs that have recently been filled.

I. am. so. frustrated. This has only happened to me 5x in the past 14 days, that I know of.

Veni Vidi Vici

From the store to the dance floor: I came, I saw, I conquered!

Girl don't play!

Real looking dead things freak me out

A recent trip to the Museum of Natural History exposed me to wild animals all around the world. What I couldn't understand was, were they stuffed a la taxidermy style or merely replicated? Should I know this already? Is this a strange question to wonder instead of basking in the intrigue of seeing so many animals in one place? I have to admit. It does help that they weren't alive, better for the picture taking. The kind scientists that arranged the animals were brilliant enough to place them in action poses, to make it almost seem as though this Natural History trip was one to the Zoo.

Night at the Museum anyone? I still have yet to see the 2, I bet it's good!

Butterfly Envy

On a recent trip to the Smithsonian's Natural Museum of History, I paid money to go to the butterfly exhibit. There, I was an object of covet and adoration, more so than I ever have in my life.

It happened quite casually, actually. I walked in alone, with a small party of people, there were perhaps no more than 15 of us. The majority of the party was little girls. I walked in, camera in hand, ready to capture some butterflies. I would post them on facebook, but I haven't decided yet if anyone cares to see butterflies landing on leaves. Instead, I'll upload a choice few here, so you have no choice.

But - back to the story, I walked in, and almost immediately a butterfly lands in my hair. It latches on and decides to stay the entire duration of my time in the butterfly exhibit. I was first informed by a staring girl, who looked at my hair as she spoke to me. "You have a butterfly in your hair!" she said while touching her own. "Do I have one in mine?" she asked her nanny hopefully.

my friendly butterfly

Her nanny and friend shook their head no, while the girl moved away. Two minutes later, another girl walked up to me and grabbed my arm. She was also excited about the fact that there was a butterfly in my hair. Over the period of 20 mins, the same 5 or 6 girls came up to me to update me on the status of my friend. Whenever the butterflies would fly over them, they would stand very still, hoping that they would receive the same treatment.


The long and short of this story is that it's nice to be coveted by such guileless youth. They don't try to hide behind some distorted artifice!

Kim Jong's house of Ill!

Thanks to modern technology, one can learn about the world without actually having going there. Now, if you were curious, you can see the most private world of one of the world's greatest leaders in possession of women's sunglasses. According to new satellite photos, the residence of Kim Jong Il may include a sweet water slide.

Even world leaders need time to cool off.

You have to look very closely. The swirl = some Il fun!

Thank you, BBC.

The Grammar Slammer

I have to say, Stuff White People Like is right. #99 is totally my jam.

"When asking someone about their biggest annoyances in life, you might expect responses like “hunger,” “being poor,” or “getting shot.” If you ask a white person, the most common response will likely be “people who use ‘their’ when they mean ‘there.’ Maybe comma splices, I’m not sure but it’s definitely one of the two...

...Though they reserve the harshest judgment for professional, do not assume that white people will cast a blind eye to your grammar mistakes in email and official documents. They will judge you and make a general assessment about your intelligence after the first infraction."

Grammar. It's not a big deal; I hardly ever talk about it, nor did I know what an Oxford comma was until I wikipedia'd it and realized that it truly was a problem that I had considered before.

My own brand of slamming on grammatical errors comes in the form of apostrophes and spelling mistakes that should have been corrected ages ago. These mistakes are usually revealed casually, while g-chatting or from say.... album titles on Facebook.

For all intents and purposes, when one is posting photos online, please be aware that it could be acceptable to call them pics or pix but pic's, a bright flashing red light goes off in my brain. What is pic is? What is the possessive of pic?

I don't mean to judge, but subconsciously the level of respek (yeah respeK) that one previously might have had was just dropped slightly when I discovered such a glaring misprint. Stuff White People Like was totally right, I didn't mean to, but I did judge and make an assessment of intelligence based on this one error. Oops! I promise to reform my ways if you promise to think before you place your apostrophes please!

Occasionally, I see someone spell weird - wierd, but I assume that it's simply because they're typing in a hurry and simply typed too quickly and was too lazy to correct their error. Just seeing the wierd misspelled irks me. Eeck! I prefer to believe in carelessness than to even consider that someone who is beyond the age of 20 misspells weird.

Other than apostrophes and common misspellings, other basic peeves include:
their, they're and there,
affect vs. effect,
making plurals out of things that don't have plurals in a non-ironic way (sheeps),
slightly strange abbreviations of words that don't make logical sense that force me to think about what you're typing for more than a split second (frds),

[Did you just think about that one for a second? Yeah. See.]


and last but not least, people who spell grammar, grammer.

Boo.

Fashion Miss

I don't know about you, but I generally shop at the same stores based on their rotating cycles of style. You know.. for a few seasons, Gap or J. Crew might be off, so I don't buy their stuff, but eventually I do return. I have always been a fan of H&M but today, when I was browsing through their TOP 5 trends on their website, I was told these things:

UH, what? Shoulder focus? As in pads? Did you know that I used to confuse pads for the breasts for shoulder pads? Actually, I must have thought that everything was a shoulder pad, because they were so prominent in the 80s, that I still have nightmares about wearing them. Do I have prominent shoulders? Prominent enough that the only thing that I should want to pad, is my boobs.

I zoomed in on this screen shot. It is bad when I cannot distinguish between a dress and a shirt, and that the shirt may or may not have super shiny/ pointy spacesuit inspired look. Looks like I will have to pass on browsing at H&M for the next month. Consider yourself warned.

BTW, on a more positive note, H&M is going to carry a line of shoes designed by Jimmy Choo later this fall. I will definitely participate in that action. (All images captured from www.hm.com)

Apparently some people really can sleep less

According to this article in the NYTIMES, a gene was discovered that unlocks why some people only need 6 hours of sleep while the majority of people need 8 to 8.5 hours of sleep. They say that people who do normally sleep less do so with the help of alarm clocks and stimulants like caffeine, and what I think... crack.

The gene mutation is rare. Out of 70 families tested, only 1 was found to have the gene. The scientists hypothesize that this gene probably covers less than 5% of the population. If you line this up with the rich moguls and owners of conglomerates around the world, I think this probably makes sense. People who have found success really do have more hours in the day to work with!

As I recall from Diddy's recent show on looking for an assistant, he would often say, in reference to those weaker, in need of sleep - "What rhymes with tired? FIRED." Wise words, indeed.

Needless to say, I will not be working for the D- the I- the D- the D - the Y......

The Korean dude from the Hangover

Ken Jeong is his name.

He was actually a practicing physician before he starred in the Hangover, Role Models, and Knocked Up. He's kind of AWESOME.

My favorite part is him talking about his parts. When he shakes his head, his face shakes too. We love your ding dong!

GG Teaser!!

So I don't remember what blog I first saw this on, but perhaps I've seen this teaser about 25 times. I thought I'd share it with you if you haven't seen it already.




I love Blair's expression at the very end. "You're crazy." She nods.

Eminem: Mariah (according to her) as Me: Anthropologie

Get it?

Hint: Mariah's new single.

Anyway - if buying this is wrong, I don't want to be right!

Tell me you don't love this Grecian Gardens dress! PS. In case you haven't noticed, I have obsessive tendencies. I've already called and placed this dress on hold, the second I try this on, it might as well be mine.

Why, Georgia, Why (I love you)?

I will miss the following things about Georgia:

the ease of access to Chick-fil-a.obvi i took this image from the chickfila website, drool.

Yes, they have them in DC, but the chicken just doesn't taste like it has as much fat and awesomeness to it. I will miss that mean Italian man that has a Chick-fil-a on 78 who is obvi from New York and not happy that he wakes up at 6.30 to open his very successful store. How do I know it is successful? I'm there.

sweet baby yummy.

really awesome sales: horribly amazing cheap sales with lots of inventory on winter and fall clothing because it stays so hot in Atlanta for a long time and people in the south don't like wearing clothes that cover their bodies...

Quiktrip. I love their "cappuccino". which is in reality, like.. super sweet creamy fatty sugar beverage with a splash of coffee that might have come from a mix and sweet mix that is.

graduating from UGA and having people be jealous of your education because of UGA's sweet football team, sorry, DC only has Georgetown, GW, American, Catholic, UDC....

people who ask me if I can speak English. You, ol' Lutheran minister, you.

cheaper cost of living. including - cheap(Er) gas, not by much.

most all my friends from college and the greater Atlanta area. Meghan, Megan, Heather, Heather, Lindsey, Whitney, Molly, Danny, Clancy, Alison, Alison, Lauren, and CaryBeth, Casey, Allie...... - SHOUT OUTz.

being not the fattest person in one place. damn DC and their love of fitness. (this will hopefully lead to the end of my food addiction.)

stores that are open 24 hours. Actually I don't know if I will miss Wal-mart or Kroger, but it's nice to know that they're open in case I get really bored and just want to browse and look at nice new shiny things.

being able to wear bright pastel colors in public without having a lot of people stare at you.

the Gwinnett County Public Library System - I still owe you 10.60$ in overdue book fines which I will be paying off shortly but you have served me brilliantly.

My Littlest Pony

Images courtesy of dailymail.co.uk

I can barely type in complete sentences, because I can't think in complete thoughts right now. This. baby pony of a pony is so cute, I just want to give it a hug/cradle it in my arms!!

My littlest pony! It looks not real and super sassy!

It fits in the car!

Miniature horse that happened to be a dwarf. It is hardly bigger than a cat! OMG.

OMG. I'm in love! For full details go HERE.

Sick Love

I love this dress. Damn you, Paris Hilton. I hate myself for loving this dress. I couldn't imagine wearing this dress, but it's incredible. This is the only time Paris Hilton will ever be in my blog. ...unless she wears more Hello Kitty stuff.

FLIP Burger Boutique, a Critique

This is an almost exact post that I posted on yelp.com but you never know where your post will end up on that thing, so I thought I would post it on my blog. I will add more, since you've taken the time to read this.

I had pretty high expectations for Flip, especially after reading all the reviews posted! So many 5 stars! After a conversation with a few friends raving about the place (they said to absolutely try the Nutella milkshake), I lured another one of my friends to go with me, skipping out on a closer Vortex.

The menu was posted online, which was convenient, and from the looks of it, divine. We showed up early at about 11:30 on a Monday and it was not busy at all. The location was not hard to find, although for a second, I was confused on whether or not, I was in carrepairs-ville. Beware, parking is limited.

THE FOOD: I ordered a chorizo burger, and my friend ordered the sirloin. I also ordered the fried pickles and the fries. I won't quote the whole menu, but the choices seem awesome. NOTE: the special is not ANY burger, fries, and a shake for 12, it's the FLIP burger - which, why would you drive all the way to Howell Mill for a run of the mill burger at a specialty gourmet burger store, I just wouldn't understand. Here's how they looked. Drool at your own will.

Warning: Images appear better than they taste. Obvi, you can tell these are food art, but please remember art does not dictate taste.


PRO: I loved the smokey mayo with the fries.
The sauce that went with the chorizo seemed to have a bit of sriracha, which is always a winner.
The portions were JUST right, not too big, not too small. (They were on the small side and STILL, I couldn't finish.) The milkshake was yummy.

In this photo, this milkshake was split in half and looks incredible. I credit this entirely to my food photography and not to its actual taste. Pictured, it looks like a 10, in reality, it was a 5.5. I've had better, waaaaaaaaay better.

CON: The milkshake was yums but it did not taste AT ALL like Nutella. I'm sorry, I eat Nutella with my bananas very often and I know what Nutella tastes like. Where was the hazelnut flavoring? There was no remote essence of Nutella in this milkshake, it wasn't even busy. This was a chocolate milkshake that cost 7 bux. Good but not great enough for the 7 i spent, especially because it did not deliver on the goods.
There was too much heavy spicing on the bread and butter pickles and the ranch was runny - and watered down tasting. I place a lot of judgment on a place based on its ranch, and this ranch was not something to call home about, or come back to.
The chorizo burger was too heavy, as in, it was oily, yet I wasn't sure if it was cooked all the way through, there were cheese SHAVINGs on my burger that amounted to nothing but extra calories and my poached egg was so runny, that it might have ruined my burger all together. Half an hour after lunch, I felt a bit sick to my stomach - not pleasant.
My fries were a little cold, but delicious. Unfortunately, they were not the best fries that I've had
My friend's sirloin burger was not good all the way through for a medium burger, but overall - MEH.

What I ate. I mean, it was a great presentation.

SERVICE: friendly, and amazingly all the waitstaff that I could see was incredibly good looking - I don't know if this helps anyone, but just putting it out there! There was hipster music playing in the background and most of the staff looked like they were out of the the Urban Outfitters, American Apparel crowd. CON: I did seem them drinking like Chick-fil-a cups before it got busy. I guess this shit it too rich for them, bitch.

Overall: For a $20 burger experience, I did not flip out for Flip. Good while I had it, but will not be returning.

PS. For people that don't live in ATL, this is Richard Blais's burger joint, he was on Top Chef.

Things I see in my car that I like

I saw this at a red light off of Jimmy Carter when I was driving to meet a friend for lunch. I saw it, did a double take, then fumbled in my huge purse for my camera. What the FUCK is this sign?


It might be awesome, except for the fact that my grandmother lives less than a mile from where this sign is posted. IS THIS FOR REAL?


Ok, what constitutes a high grade gun? and who buys high grade guns from JC BLVD? If you ever drive this way, feel free to investigate for me!

Get Organized with Christine!

I know right, is this some sort of sick, ironic joke? Every time I try to actually become a clean, baggage free - simple, streamlined person, I just end up feeling like a filthier pig that I did before. I think the key to cleanliness has to do with confidence. You have to be confident in your disorganization. Hey, if you can find it, then what's the issue?

Here are my attempts to organize as different types of my life.

Here, I will continue my last post and upload and pdf some of my pages from the cool journals that I own. They're interesting to have - I recommend printing some of these out!

For pdf, click this.

For pdf, click this.

I admit that I do have about a billion more of these scanned, but I'm afraid of revealing how neurotic I am about these things. I don't actually use them, but I'm not sure what compels me to purchase them.

Journals of broken dreams... and calendars, planners, notebooks

There's nothing I love more than opening up a new, crisp book in pristine condition with its bright white pages, straight, unblemished lines, and most of all its untapped potential. What will I fill the pages with? Dreams to come? Goals? The possibilities truly are endless.

It's just the follow through that sucks.

I have journals. Journals with linen pages. Hello Kitty journals, small journals, big journals, covered velvet journals, bound ones, those on rings, ones with colored pages, travel journals.

Then there's planners and calendars. Currently, I have 3 Muji ones that I use, the monthly, weekly and daily. - Monthy and daily I got in NYC Muji, the weekly which America doesn't carry - in Hong Kong. Other than that, I have a goal planner, then three other planners where I can record my sleep habits, my exercise habits, and then my goals. Every so often, I go online to Google Calendar, update it, then sync it with all my friends who haphazardly update theirs as well. It makes me feel nice to know what people are doing.

The problem with journals and notebooks for me is this: ideally, I would like to classify each notebook for a specific purpose. So I have tons of small books, one for forming plans to travel, one for traveling - recording my accounts of traveling, one for notations on specific places to go while traveling... You can buy these at a book store and they give you smart sections and illustrations and pictures of traveling to make you feel clever, and I have. I have all these books and inevitably I bring 2 notebooks, neither of them have much of anything but some contact phone numbers in it. Those hardcover linen books are too heavy to carry around and too beautiful to use casually.

I have journals spanning 10 years, where I've started something, outlining my hopes and dreams, only to come back to it a decade later and realize that most of it is unrealized.... and that the people that I hung out with are now married.

So then I have these travel notes, combined with plans and phone numbers all combined into one, that when looking back on them, serve no real purpose. What do I do with these book though? Despite the fact that it's already served its purposed, it still has over 60 pages remaining. I keep it. This, then feeds into my packratting quality and what I'm left with is a ton of random notebooks that are pulled out at most, twice a year.

With the addition of the internet, I'm deeming these books a lost cause!

PS I'm attaching some pages of my journals, in case you want to try and get organized!

Click here for the pdf.

From Drop Box

Click here for the pdf. Sorry it's upside down. This will help you manage your costs.

Click here for the pdf.

All right, I admit it, I'm tired of posting these, I'll do it at a later time. Enjoy!