Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Purrrfect Posings

If you look to the right side toolbar, you'll have seen that I have on my blogroll the Sartorialist, one man's celebration of fashion, where-ever he sees it - mostly NYC, Milan, and Paris.

That's located at http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/.

Well, friends, let me introduce to you the Catorialist. It is exactly as it sounds. Pictures of cats. Beautiful cats. Cats in Milan, Paris, NYC.

Take a peek here at http://thecatorialist.blogspot.com/.

Cats make me itch just looking at them. No it's not I can haz cheezburger, this is just pictures of regal kitties posing in their natural form. I wish I had thought of this!

Limited Blogging from now until February 15

My dearest readers, it's been a while since I've felt like I've been able to soundly compose something simple and not completely frivilous... frivalous...FRIVOLOUS. Now, there will be even less of an opportunity to do so as I am currently typing from my baby netbook at 5 am in the morning. I am not be able to access the amount of images that I normally do on my everyday computer, so most of this will be typing and dare I say - unedited photos. That's right, no straightening, brightening, coloring, or saturating. No teeth whitening, liquifying, cropping. Just good ol' fashioned, 2004-style photos.. and dare I say it, words and thoughts.

I've been quite lax in expressing myself creatively through words. I decorate cupcakes once a week and it exhausts me completely. I didn't read a single book for 3 weeks, which very nearly drove me crazy. It's amazing what a short flight of fantasy will do for my soul. Not to mention the fact that what I need is not a short flight, but in fact a long one, to somewhere warm. Unusually long cold fronts have been sweeping the South, making my 5 am wakeups everyday utterly hellish, and in other news damaging the orange crop in Florida. Now, I find myself about to embark on an adventure in training where I hang out in Baltimore, in its coldest season for nearly three weeks. Training from 8-5 then playtime? Thank God for having friends all over the world, including Baltimore.

I can no longer take the misuse of trite phrases at work!!! I welcome this break from the office. How does one person manage to misuse the most common of phrases? What am I talking about? The use of phrases like "hard and fast," but the opposite of what it actually means. I wanted to tie this to grammar, but there's no relationship. It's just a flagrant abuse of the English language and I can't even begin to correct it.

Raging at 6 am? Wouldn't you be if you were awake? In the place of photos, know that I am :(

Sunday, January 24, 2010

(77/365) Sup

Last January, my friends and I started a supper club where we invite each other over, cook a meal, and everyone brings booze. This is it, a year later.



This photo is probably one of the most awesome because of my friend's dog. Please focus your attention on the bottom right. Yes, that's his tongue and his paws going straight for my icecream sandwich. That's why my mouth is open and I look like a goofball and everyone else is smiling beautifully.

(76/365) Welcome to Miami!




This picture is clearly a case of me being too lazy to scan something that I would like to show you. This is me in Miami when I was a few years younger. This was the first time I saw flamingos and I remember it was really hot that day.

Blog vs. Hulu

I love to blog, but sitting down and creating ideas is hard! I've been giving my love to Conan O'Brien and watching way too much television on top of that!



I watch way way way too much television now. I have to quit it cold turkey I think because these are the shows that I watch sometimes to all the time on Hulu.

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Arrested Development (despite the fact that I've seen them all already), Cougartown, Modern Family (Amazing!), How I Met Your Mother (on Fancast.com), 24, Fringe, 30 Rock, Community, The Office, White Collar, Burn Notice, Castle, Psych, Dollhouse, Better off Ted.

I'm ashamed!

Anyway, GO TEAM COCO. See you in 9 months, Conan.

RAWRRRRGH!!!!!

I do this, I don't know about you but, do you ever ... specifically put something somewhere, JUST SO you will remember at a later date? You pat yourself on the back and think "GOOD JOB, I WILL DEFINITELY REMEMBER WHERE THIS IS LATER WHEN I NEED IT."

Then... two months down the road, you're in a bind, you need that thing, you snap - where is the most logical place this thing could be... you know exactly where it is. You go to look and it's not there. WHERE is that special place? Does this only happen to me?

STUPID STUPID STUPID!

Where is my Memory Stick Adapter?

(75/365) Castles in the sky



I painted this in third grade with watercolors and markers. That was in 1992. It is in hanging in my living room today - can't you tell that I'm an only child?

(74/365) Death by chocolate

Chocolate cake with chocolate chips with chocolate fudge icing.



I made this!

(73/365) Fake books at the bookstore



Bookstore with fake books? You would think that Barnes and Noble should display real books right? Is this irony?

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Sean Connery Surprise

Guess who was on the back cover of my Economist last week?



Eighty and still a dream boat. Now, on an island too!

I don't know why but I feel like Sean Connery is all sexy. Even now.



...that combination of masculinity, good looks and that timbre in his voice! Sean Connery the reason I have good name associations and good feelings about men named Sean. I'll never stop raving about how much I love this man. Except I just did, because I'm exhausted and I'm not actually talking to anyone right now. Just pretending I'm raving wildly about how I love Sean Connery and you're wrinkling your nose about how old he is and I'm convinced that he's still sexy. Maybe you mention that he's old and wrinkling and I respond that I'd still hit it.

Pat Dilemma

So there's a Pat in my office. You know what a Pat is right? Well, actually my HR coordinator's name is Pat and that was a point of contention when I was hired, because I didn't know how to address him/her in emails. Fortunately, she turned out to be clearly a woman.

This other Pat, a Pat being a person of ambiguous sex, could have been a woman with really butch cut hair and a masculine taste in clothing or a man with slightly feminine features and breasts. At my office where I know no one, either one is possible. Alas, I've not been in much contact with this Pat but still one always wonders about those Pats.

For example, as a lot of older ladies get older, their sex becomes more and more ambiguous, come the growth of facial hairs.

THE POINT OF THIS POST IS THAT today, I discovered the identity of a Pat! It's sad when you need to see an exit from the restroom to find out his/her sex, but I do now know that the Pat in question is a Patricia. I thought I would share that with you.


I want to show you someone who qualifies as a Pat in my mind, but I don't think I can without being cruel. So here's Pat Sajak, a definitive Pat, specifically Patrick.

Monday, January 18, 2010

(72/365) Mini-poupees?

I found these at Michael's. Apparently you can dress them up on the wedding cake and then ice around them. They are creepy and naked. I never want to see these on a cake. Ever.


(71/365) KT TV

Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater puts the Hell in Hello, it's so hard to watch such a simple show for some reason. This is my trying..



Hello Kitty is pretty cute here though. I will give her that. 

(70/365) Extreme green

I like all the green by my bedside table.
I love this watch.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

(69/365) Lining up my ducks

Are they ducks or chickadee dee dees?


The Woman and the Honey Mask

I haven't applied a face mask in years. There were many reasons that contributed to this factor:

1. Expensive
2. Lazy
3. Dislike the feeling of goo on my face, cold goo.
4. Haven't really needed to

Well, imagine my surprise when I found a mask online via bellasugar.com that defied many of the reasons that I haven't. After realizing recently that the skin on my face looked dull - I suspect the constant florescent lighting, but that's absolutely an unfounded theory, I found on bellasugar.com a mask that's both cheap, convenient, easy, and just uncomfortable enough to know that it's working! I
t consists of one tbsp honey, one tsp cinnamon, and one tsp of nutmeg. That's it. Mix and apply for 30 mins.


 Pre-Mix: Yummy honey!

AND


Post-Mix: It smells amazing and tastes just as good!


Feel like new.

There are slightly more words that Bellasugar has said, but that's essentially it.

Did I like the goo on my face this time around? No. But do I like that my face looks brighter and smooth! Absolutement! There was a slight redness that has faded - it's been 2 hours since I applied the mask.
Let's not lie. I look amaaaaaazing.

(I've been debating whether or not to post this photo, but.. I think I will just post half of my face. No reason.)

I couldn't decide which half to past actually, but I'll let your grasp of spatial perception and symmetry fill in the rest.
Don't you love the possibility that I look even more messed up on my right side than what I've revealed on my left?
When I think of face masks, I always think of facial mud masks, the ones that like... Robin Williams put on in Mrs. Doubtfire. Now you see, they can also be brown and made straight from food.

Good luck and I encourage you to do the same. The serving sizes suggested actually probably allow for 2 to 3 masks. Use every 3 or so days, apparently. Therefore, I'll do so on Wednesday.

On New York: Always a visitor, never a resident.

Every so often I go to New York, sometimes I post on it, other times I don't. This time, it was a rather pointed quick trip, but I feel like a trip up north hasn't been so welcome.
I think it has to do with how NYC is many things that Atlanta is not. In NYC, I will never have to drive. The M60 was so clean this time! (Money saver tip: If you're thinking about going on a quick trip to NYC, fly into La Guardia, take the M60 into Manhattan, have $2.25 prepared in change for the bus and save a lot of money! I spend freely on transportation based on convenience otherwise, but usually I will allot the appropriate amount of time for the M60).

This blog could otherwise be called, 12 hours in NYC with Christine.

Start: 10am. My friend and I debated on whether it was better to be a resident or a constant visitor of NYC. I think there's a good balance and argument for each. As a constant visitor, I enjoy the public transportation, because I'm hardly ever in a rush. I like to eat at fashionable places and I'm willing to travel cross town for them.


This is Momofuku Noodle Bar, which is cheaper and therefore yummier than Momofuku Ssam Bar in the East Village. I always eat as though I'm eating for an occasion. Here, I ordered an outrageous amount of food and almost succeeded in eating allllll of it.


First, as I was waiting for my friend, the hostess convinced me to get a large Soju Apple Cider from the slushie machine. It was a specialty! It was delicious...and it was $10. *gasp* Splurge #1 in NYC. Then came the flight of tamales, one kimchi, one sichuan sausage, and one jalapeno and cheese.


 The best things come in threes.



Sichuan sausage with veggies.

and finally, the namesake, the Momofuku Noodle Ramen!





Was it worth the $16? Probably not. Was it better than Setagaya Ramen down the street which has a similar bowl for like..$12? Yes. Plus, you have to add in the added utility of being able to eat those tamales and the drunken light feeling I have from the Soju Apple Cider slush. Totally worth it! The egg was perfectly poached, the pork fatty, soo fatty. The broth had a thick consistency that showed that David Chang obviously told he young chefs running the kitchen to brew those pork bones for hours.

Immediately after gorging myself past the point of no-return, I decide to stuff myself with the Blueberries and Cream cookie from Momofuku Milk Bar.


Oink! NOM NOM NOM

Afterwards, a jaunt up to the UES and Museum Row lands me in front of the Guggenheim to catch the Kandinsky exhibit in its last weekend. See the difference between the tourist and the visitor arises again here. It takes 40 mins via public transportation to get from the LES to the UES. I can't think of any New Yorker that would normally do this ever. Forty minutes? Yeah right! I have a hard enough time to have friends visit me in the UWS from the West Village, a 10 minute cab ride. TEN minutes, forget about FORTY. Everyday, I drive 25 mins to work. In DC, I traveled via metro an hour just to get to work. On the metro, you just sit. It's not even like you're driving. Okay. I stop ranting now.



 The lines were a bit insane, since it was the last weekend of Kandinsky. I loved the exhibit, but obviously I didn't take any photos worth showing compared to the actual works. Inside was a zoo, and the architecture itself of the Guggenheim was based on the works of Kandinsky, so the whole scene was a bit meta. At the conclusion of the exhibit, my friend and I decided that in order to be an acclaimed genius, you must be ridiculously removed from life and kind of an arrogant asshole. READ: Frank Lloyd Wright, Wasily Kandinsky. Who paints Compositions based on music, if you've got a wife, kids, and like to play outside? Frank Lloyd Wright = evil man, especially because you know he had a secret second floor plan to include a waterslide at the top of the Solomon R. Gugg. Just for kicks. Then ripped it in two. I hate that the Gugg ain't free. $18 bux, my ass.


The top! How satisfying a slide would that be? Like a tasty dessert at the end of the exhibit where you can review all the works, once more, whilst rolling on water.... Oh the pleausre that could have been.

By the time I honored my affair with Kandinsky to the best of my ability, I was starving for Japanese retail shopping, no pictures were taken as I was savoring and purchasing the shit out of Muji and Uniqlo in Soho. Transport time: 40 mins. Next, after an hour in the cold, I remained surprisingly healthy. After a quick call to my aunt in DC, (man, where is my smart phone?), we found the restaurant, Stand, and I ate these things.


The famous, toasted marshmallow almond milkshake? Something like that. It was tasty.

 
Two fried pickles and a mushroom swiss burger. Can't go wrong!

End: 10pm in New York on a Saturday. LAME, but I got in a cab and headed straight to bed. I had an early day the next day!

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Newlyweds, don't start a blog!

Every time I post something online, it's pretty much NOT practical. Nothing I say here has any fundamental importance. Daily life is a factor but it really is usually not the topic - that is, if you discount my daily pictures, which I no longer post everyday, but do still maintain taking everyday... :)

Hm.

I've come across a lot of blogs of late that are both practical and dry as bones. What makes someone think that they can write a blog? It took me a year to finally sign up, and it was only because American Idol was going to be two hours and I needed something to do. OH, and I was UNEMPLOYED. Now that I have a job, I can't imagine starting a completely new endeavor and thinking that maintaining it was possible. How full is the graveyard of blogs that have begun and left to rot in cyber-dust? This job now is practically killing my blog life, I don't think that I've done a great article in quite some time. But back to the topic at hand. Should you start a blog? When in doubt, no.

A surprising number of newlyweds that are contacts of mine seem to have started blogs. Notice I did not say friends. My friends know that it's not a good idea. Do you remember Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson? Do you think that sharing every moment of your new married life is going to be awesome and retarded as that show? They had the help of MTV editors and Jessica Simpson's DDs.

To all the newlyweds thinking that it's a good idea to start a blog - NEWSFLASH: it's not. Your idea = not creative, not new, and best of all, not something anyone cares about. You love each other? You just got married? I don't care. Wait a few a years, then... start a secret blog behind your husband's back called, The Pre-Divorce Chronicle on Reasons Why I'm not Happy.

I would add that to my favorites in a heartbeat. I want drama, fights, and pictures of broken objects and lipstick stains that you've accumulated and are posting for the divorce lawyer that you're slowly saving your money up for in a separate individual account that you've just created.

But now, where you're unpacking your wedding presents and you think it's so sweet that your husband does the dishes? I don't care. I'm 23. I'm single and I'm not thinking about how amazing my life would be with a husband that washes my dishes. VOM. That's what a fucking dishwasher is for.


Thursday, January 14, 2010

Wat, son? Emma for People Tree

This obsession is not healthy.



 

It's not Russian Vogue or Burberry, but it's still an ad campaign. Emma's new line with People Tree looks a little like Benetton meets nature. 

Cheese head!

Speaking of Hello Kitty, I screenshot this image a few days ago and I love it. I love mac n cheese and I love Hello Kitty, whoever thought to combine the two = GENIUS. So, if this is your image, I'm sorry I've completely forgot where I got this from - but I am posting it because I enjoy it. We should be friends.


Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater

I was clicking through Hulu and I just happened to glance down in the right and OMFG.

Hulu now has Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater in their collections that they've acquired. This one is from 1987 and gloriously toned down to be fit for the eyes of children.It's fairy tales that have been Kittified.

I need to stop using the big font, but I can't. I'm so excited. I remember being young, standing inside Purrfect Place (my local Sanrio store) and seeing these VHS tapes playing. Coveting them, but being unsure about that damn mouth. Now I don't have to be sure, I can watch the blasphemy that is this mouth for free! :



Thanks Hulu.com. I took this image as a screenshot!

It's quite sick, I can't believe I devoted close to 30 mins to watching this child's cartoon, but I think it's quality programming compared to that of the Bachelor, which I also committed two 40 mins episodes to last night. Yikes. If I can't be crazy at work, I like to see others become uninhibitedly nuts. I'm throwing my hat in the ring and I'm going to devote 30 mins to this show everyday for the next 13 days. I need to see everything.


Hello Kitty and the Wizard of Paws, in this episode HK plays Hello Dorothy.



Walking through the dark forest... it is scary! Instead of flying monkeys, they are flying dogs!



Encore! This image would have been cuter if HK had no mouth...

There's another episode following the Wizard of Paws, but it was Tuxedo Sam as the main character and an adaptation of Pinocchio, which was cute but, I was tired of screen shooting. Anyway, enjoy it as I'm doing.... or don't but love me, love Hello Kitty.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

(68/365) Muji Multicolor

This is the third day I've used this at work. It may be my best co-worker. 5-in-1 pen! Old school pen with modern design!


(67/365) Unique Uniqlo

Pretty color pashmina! It's a sweet mint green which I bought at Uniqlo, the Japanese Gap. It's home on my accessories wall.



(66/365) Zaya Clams Monday


How does something that looks so shiny and delish actually taste so bad? MEhhhh. Don't order these at Zaya!

(65/365) Hell-GA - AT-Hell

Nothing beats sitting at La Guardia airport, hoping that you'll get on an earlier flight so that you can make it home earlier, so that you can make it to work the next day without being exhausted.



Back to school.. back to school... and by school, I mean the workplace.

Better off Ted-tastic!

They just aired a PG episode on cursing, which can now be found on Hulu and ABC

BUT HERE ARE THE OUTTAKES. These are some of the most creative names I've ever seen filmed in a workplace environment. Too bad I can't use these at work!




Top Doozies:

..."Don't listen to these sister fucking hilbillies..."

...."But then Mark called her a fingerbanging chicken diddler."

"I can help you, you sweaty thong in hooker's money crack."

"I need your help, walking cock cozie.
What's the problem, Frosty the snow-whore?"

I hope this show doesn't get cancelled!

(64/365) No photos please!

Saturday afternoon at the Guggenheim. I caught the last weekend of the Kandinsky exhibit and so did these other people!


(63/365) Runts

These are the runts of my baking litter that I set out as bite size treats for Friday morning breakfast.


(62/365) Devil's Food

If this is wrong, being right must look like shit.





I baked this and these for work on Thursday night. Cold weather is perfect for baking!



These too. I've been trying out my icing tips. 

Monday, January 11, 2010

I love shoes but hate to wear them

Dear girls at work who wear beautiful shoes with heels,

I am jealous of the way you look but I love the flats that I own 5 pairs of in the same style.
I own, from the left, shoe 1, shoe 3.



Then,

shoe 3 in this row.

NEVER ENOUGH! Four pairs are sitting in my closet, cozy, warm and so new! Really. I can't say enough good things about this one style of shoe. No support, but cute. The best part of this shoe is the easy access on and off. I love slipping them off under my training table.

xo Target, my love.

On the Road

This morning, while wearing the wrong glasses in my car on my drive to work, I spied what I thought to be a Bentley driving in front of me. Could it be? It was dark, as I was in my car by 6:45am, but I was excited. Something elemental, I think it's my inner Robin Leech, LOVES Bentleys. Mmm!

Anyway, I make a note of it in my pre-caffeinated mind to look it up, which I do - and here is what I saw.

I saw, wings flanking a circle with letters. There was a Genesis written on some place on the car so naturally, I typed in Genesis Bentley into my G-search. Guess what! If you see these cars on the road, they will look like this:




I am horrified.

Michael Cera on Jersey Shore, on Conan O'Brian, Dancing

Michael Cera learned dance moves from Pauly D, which he taught to Conan.




I almost blacked out from too much pleasure. Too much. So many long limbs!

Note to self: This is post 2 on Jersey Shore.

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Emmama Love

Emma's back for more Burberry ads! I took these images from Burberry.com!




 
 
 
Emma is beautiful but has the guy in the photos with her started creeping you out yet? One of them is her brother. But which... MORE PHOTOS








 
 
 After glancing at all the photos, I'd have to say that Emma should keep legs down and covered. But otherwise, she's 100% gaaaaargeous!
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