Ed Westwick, I still love you!

I lied here. Look at this article and you will see this:

OMG. He is my Salivation. I take back any doubts that I had, I still love Ed dirty Westwick with the disgusting feather tattoo. But really, is he wearing jeans to a wedding?

Thanks usmagazine.com for being trashy and beautiful enough to post this pic.

New Day, New Diet

...Just in time for the holidays! I've decided to embark on a tiny diet that involves working out and eat less. No fads for this girl. Being healthy is hard..but easy at the same time. Easy, because logically to lose weight all you have to do is eat less, move more. Sim-PLE. I've been on this bandwagon a few times now and it's always successful.

For a while though, instead of riding on the bandwagon, I've been dragged by my feet by that damn cart. I've got a leg up and I've got calories drastically to diet levels while doing cardio for 60 to 90 mins a day plus weight training. My goal is to lose 3 lbs a week. Mostly this involves being obsessed with food, yet NOT consuming it. HARD. It's only been two days and already I've had crazy cravings. Who eats Pringles anymore?

Today, I literally had to quell my urges to put on pants, get in my car, and buy a can of Pringles from the grocery store. UGH, it was only sheer laziness that stopped me from burning all that gas and put more fat on this ass. The problem with dieting is the mental thing. Quell the mind and your body will thrive.

Wish me success!

PS Pringles are 10 cal/Pringle!! AHHH. and yet, my body hungers for this processed potato product. It's not even considered a potato chip........ UGH. Time to research more chip replacements! Here's my luck so far...and here too!

(5/365) Daily Life Continued

Sorry I've not posted REAL posts... I'll most likely post a real one immediately after posting my daily photos. This is the metro stop I frequent the most. LOVE the red line. LOVE it.

(4/365) What I deal with on the daily

Remember my closet from Atlanta? Well, mine in DC is just as hard to deal with. I have to clean my room about.. once a day, if not, then I live in a sty for a week until I get around to it on Sundays.

(3/365) Oh, hello.

I think he's supposed to be either a piece of toast or tofu. He holds my cell phone sometimes! RAWR SO CUTE.

Blair is cheating on Chuck Bass with Robin Thicke!!!

Who is admittedly... pretty hot.
In case you didn't know, Robin Thicke is the son of our favorite Growing Pains father, Alan Thicke. He's a huge R&B star and.. BTW, I'm not talking about Blair but Leighton Meester. She's collaborated with Thicke on her first new single, which is a paltry display of her singing abilities but a pretty great display of her hotness! Robin Thicke kind of looks like Brad Pitt in this video too!

Click here to see it!

Inquiring minds want to know: Are Bert and Ernie gay?

But we'll never know because journalists are politely advised against asking, according to BBC. This year represents the 40th Anniversary of Sesame Street, a show that I wasn't completely obsessed with as a child. With that being said, even I wanted a Tickle me, Elmo. Remember THAT craze?

It always creeped me out that there were people operating the puppets that were Sesame Street. The puppets didn't creep me out, it was just the lack of recognition that these were puppets - that we weren't allowed to see the puppeteers. Are kids supposed to believe that Sesame Street is full of living furry beings? WHOA. Way unrealistic.

The BBC also mentions that people are told to remember that Elmo is supposed to be a 3 year old and to talk to him accordingly. I would like to meet the guy that is the man behind Elmo, his laugh is AWESOME here.



Obvi, Ricky Gervais has given no regard to the fact that Elmo's age here. "Do you know what necrophilia is?" Either that or this is the way that he talks to children. I love Ricky Gervais.

(2/365) Story of my LIFE

I am addicted to caffeine. Truly.

Project 365 (1/365, Friday Nov 6, 2009)

I've decided to participate in Project 365, which is a popular trend that's been done on Flickr by about... everyone, apparently. The premise of the project is to take a photo every day and be able to see the progression of your life - for a year. So, to prevent myself from cheating... I'm going to post photos - with the subject being the day number out of 365, daily. Yay for seeing what I see.

They say that you should take a picture of yourself at least once a month. Day 1 it is! 

I'm taking advantage of my good hair day and post a pic of a friend and I at ChurchKey, which I thought was called Latchkey because what is ChurchKey? ChurchKey is a trendy bar located in Dupont.

Remember, Remember! The fifth of November!

this mask is creeeeeeepy. and used in V for Vendetta...

You've been looking forward to this day all year. It's Guy Fawkes day! Hanged, drawn, and quartered, Guy got the full treatment for trying to kill King James I by blowing up the Parliament while he was inside.

We used to be a Commonwealth of Britain, so we should probably participate in a little burning Guy Fawkes in effigy, no?

Remember, remember the fifth of November,

The gunpowder treason and plot,

I know of no reason

Why the gunpowder treason

Should ever be forgot.

Of all the plots in English history to remember, we remember the Gunpowder Plot of 1605?

The Notable City of Cincinnasti

No, I did not mis-type. This summer, I went to Cincinnati for a wedding. Truly, I hadn't considered going until about 1 week prior, but having gone, I can tell you that I learned a few things. There is a scenic bridge. The city is quaint and walkable. Kroger, Macy's, Inc., and Proctor and Gamble are all HQ'd here and it's a true American original. With that being said, I mostly enjoyed their Skyline Chili, which almost tastes Asian but was actually started by a Greek man. I would have to say, there were two most interesting things I discovered throughout my city walk through Cincin:

this: (it's a bench)


and these: I call these my fountain boys:


(Frederic)
and
(Dieter)


Yep, these two statues at Fountain Square are perhaps Grecian inspired boys with slithering serpents emerging from their loins. With water flowing steadily out. No bigs. The most hilarious part of this fountain is that it looks relatively new. WHAT city council saw this sketch and didn't see 5 men just rocking out with their cocks out in bronze form? WHAT council saw this and voted YES, they want this created for perpetuity?

LOVE it. Cincinnasti, indeed.

Look for Less! Update!

I bought the damn lipstick and it is cute. Damnit.

Glee vs. Life in 1999

What's more ridiculous? A white guy singing the Thong Song while a wide eyed redhead stares in an 80s wedding dress? Keep in mind... he's wearing a collared shirt, and he says, dumps like a truck truck truck, while playing hide and go seek.



...or a black guy singing about thongs while wearing a white body suit, white hair, with day glow thongs EVERYWHERE in the background. Girls with lush booties shake their junk while he and his horde of white body suit dancers stir things up on the beach. The closest thing you're getting to a wedding dress is at 1:48 - dear lord. 1999! I'm not too proud to say that when Sisqo was at his peak, I asked my father to take me to the CD store where I purchases legitimately his album. I wanted to Unleash the Dragon (ALBUM STILL AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE!!).

Look for Less!

Love the look for less. Anyone who does not admit to loving the look for less is lying.

Note to self: buy this.

For more beauty blog info: go to here. Thanks, Bellasugar.

I mean, it's not like I don't have like.. 12 different lip glosses and stuff that I don't use already. Maybe, don't buy this, but I'll keep this posted in case I ever want to buy it. ARGH. Welcome to my world of frustrations.

Jeggings = Jeans + Leggings = I'm never wearing pants again.

the Cut, of NYmag, was the first to write about jeggings. Then, after first rejecting the thought of them...... I reconsidered and then.. perhaps bought 3 pairs.

They are skinny jeans without the numb calves! They are jeans without the guilt of not being able to breathe after a long boozy night! They're soft, and you can easily pass out in them!

Currently, they are sold anywhere from Nordstroms to Forever 21 and they look like this:

Christmas come early

Have you been man-joying life lately? If you are a follower of my blogging, you might recall a certain post that I blogged about on Ermenegildo Zegna men being 100x hotter than Facconable man. Don't get me wrong though, he is still man-credible.

Anyway, now that Halloween is over, all the stores will be selling their Christmas wares in total disregard to Thanksgiving, a reputable holiday in itself. I don't know when this started happening but every year I balk at the injustice. Despite this, I thought that I, too, would give you a lick of what Christmas must taste like.

Zegna has posted their Fall/Winter 2009 Campaign. Here you go. All photos taken from here.

Hottie on the left. He is my winter man-date.

...the beginning of a mantastic voyage...

why online? why so fine? i want to take advantage o f him.

rushing home to see moi?

seriously, is this Versailles?

yum - e.


the mantropolitan? it's a stretch, i know

Happy 35th Birthday Hello Kitty!

HUMAN HELLO KITTIES? PANDA HELLO KITTIES?

Dear Hello Kitty,

I do not remember a time where I did not love you. In your honor, I have decided to show my friends some awesome photos from the Sanrio.com website. More specifically, I took them from here.

Apparently, there's a museum exhibit of Hello Kitty things in LA going on from now until Nov. 15. I wish I was there. I would go to LA for this reason alone, I still might. Have a peek and enjoy as I have.

This is the Hello Kitty apartment exhibit; I want to go to here.

The desk of Hello Kitty champions. The things I could accomplish at this desk.

I would eat only HK food if it were enough nourishment!

A sweet HK bouquet, I mean... seriously, I would fucking love this bouquet. I would marry the man who gave me this bouquet.

Yummy sushi kitties!

Cooking with Kitty!

The bedroom where there is magic and no magic can happen. Hello Kitty and sex? HA.

Halloween Ideas... for 2010

I was incredibly frustrated at my lack of creativity and ability to summon up a clever and relevant idea for Halloween. My favorite of last year was Sarah Palin and her neighbor Russia. This year, after a lot of facebook stalking and forehead hitting, I realized that my costume as the timeless devil, was classic but extremely lackluster and boring. Next year, I will consider being

1) stereotypically French: beret, mustache, red scarf
2) Kai-lan from Ni hao, Kailan
3) goth chic
4) cute things turned adult, bumble bee, lady bug.. etc.
5) pop rocks and Coke - only if I'm a half of a powerful combination
6) blackmail - get it? wear black and stick some letters on your bod = black mail, and along these lines, I could also be a serial killer - best illustrated by... a cereal killing....

Britney's 3, Trashy and... Muscular?

I can't help but always fall in love with the music of Britney Spears. The music is the epitome of pop, the genius of the producers that guarantee her continued existence. Take a break from your pretentious hipster ideas and emotions. Stop denying yourself the pleasure. It's popular for a reason, it appeals to your inner trash. Her tunes are always catchy and in this video, all I can seem to stare at is her HUGE MUSCLES. Obvi, girl is working out with Madonna's ol' trainer that doesn't know how to control those muscles before they cross the line from lean to machine. Seriously, her back ripples. Still, I have to admit, I've heard this song a few more than 10 times already. Eeks! I do enjoy the bit where she's hanging on the pole with the white body suit with sunglasses. How fun!

My only complaint is in the beginning, where I can't tell when the video has begun and her commercial stops. Media integration is a bitch.

Oh, and if you watch the commercials before and after this post, you can see Britney's fragrances and her new greatest hits album.... even though she just came out with a greatest hits album about... 3 years ago? Sweet, sweet B :)

Recommended viewing quality? FULL SCREEN, OF COURSE.

Honey, I'm home!

I have to thank my friend Katie for this one.

Remember Dinosaurs? I can't believe I didn't remember this TV show until she said to me, Dinosaurs? Then, I immediately knew what she was talking about. Not only that, but I remember devoting HOURS to this show as un bebe.



P.S. I'm in Atlanta for the weekend!!! Yay, I've already gone back to my public library, and had a coffee from QT... oh. and I've worn pastels and bright colors in public to no one's disapproval. I have missed you GA! Of course, these things are in reference to: this post. Who knows? Maybe I'll go to Walmart in the middle of the night to visit the man who hits other people's kids too!

Laws! China Edition

Thank you NYtimes for your revealing article on ridiculous laws in China. Click for more.

Here's another tasty morsel from the article, in case you don't feel up to reading the article that I'm suggested :

"...Until being overruled by higher-ups in 2005, for instance, officials of a village in Chongqing Province forced unmarried women to pass a chastity test before receiving compensation for farmland appropriated by the government. They argued that only virgins deserved compensation." - Admit it! You're hooked.

In honor of Autumn

Helen, GA, Nov. 2008

The weather is brisk, the sun shines and the leaves are changing. There are sounds of dogs barking distantly as the autumn breeze swirls its leaves around you. At night, the smell of burning firewood permeates the air as the cold nips and flushes my cheeks. Every year I fall in love with autumn. In its honor, I take photos of the changes in foliage here in MD. I'm also including some beautiful leaves that I've seen in the past.

Helen, GA, Nov 2008

Potomac, MD Oct 25 2009

Potomac, MD, October 2009

Potomac, MD 2009

Washington, DC - October 2009

I am a human salt lick.

Two days later, I've just awaken and my mouth is dry like the desert that misses the rain. I still can't put contacts in my eyes and don't ask me how I know but I'm excreting salt at a high rate as well.

Oh, mistakes were made and here's how it began.

It was this past Friday that I went to my friend Katie's immediately post-work. 6:30 and hungry, we were not eating dinner until all of her friends had arrived and had some drinks. As usual, I only craved savory things, so while we were getting ready, Katie pulled out a small tub of roasted almonds covered in sea salt. By no means were these almonds absolutely amazingly delicious. Banish from your mind the idea that these bad boys were roasted then covered in sugar and then salted. They were plain, clean, and flavored with sea salt. Bar food, Katie called it. They're good for you, really. Throughout a 2.5 hour period, Katie and I proceeded to kill the half tub, while deep into conversations with new friends. UGH, this was a bad idea, but at this point in the night, I had already lost volume control and the thin barrier that usually stops me from saying silly things. Of course, I'd lost the ability to stop shoving things into my mouth as well.

We proceeded to dinner at this Medit restaurant where I proceeded to eat pita bread and pizza. No bigs right? Well apparently I had the foresight to place a piece of pita in my clutch, so when I woke up the next morning - I could get another taste. I discovered that the pita bread was definitely extremely salty, but that the pizza was made from the same dough. More sodium consumption!

Following din, we ended the night with extremely silly dancing where I was definitely suffering from an intense case of dry mouth. My mouth was so parched. It felt like a wind storm had gone through and blown away any moisture that could form. My body hated me. I couldn't make out if I wanted to. Ew, dry mouth make out sesh :( Yeahhhhh right.

Rawr - so if those salty clues weren't enough? On the cab ride home, I could not swallow, I was miserable and I had the dryest mouth in my non-hungover life... and no way to get water. I was in the cab for 15 mins and the entire way home, all I could do was stare longingly at the bottle of water that my cabbie had in his cup holder. That would have been a new low.

I consume about 5 glasses of water, followed by 7 glasses of water the following day. This is day two and my joints are swollen, my eyes cannot hold contacts and frankly I'm afraid to put anything salty in my mouth. This is my version of hell. As the ultimate lover of salt, I've come to realize that I can never consume salty delights in this carefree manner again. I'm moisturizing from the outside as my salt ingestion dries my skin out from the inside :(

Okay, enough whining, I must go drink 3 more liters of water. Needless to say, no one will be taking pictures of my bloat until I can de-bloat in about... 72 hours. xxx

PS I just licked my lips, they are salty and I have not been sucking on a salt lick lolli all night... RAWR!

To the man who was honking outside my window before 10 am on a Sunday morning,

I would strangle you with my bare hands, if it were not so impolite. Have you no consideration for the hardships that others may be going through? Just because you are impatient, do you have to cause others pain? AH!

Everytime I look at my blog, I get hungry

Basically, after staring at my blog for a while, I've decided that I need to start something new in my life. Shall I start an etsy and sell my mustaches? (eccentriciqi.etsy.com - obvi, I've already created it...) I still need to join a gym... but ... there's still a certain je ne sais pas missing. I've decided that I need to make new cupcakes because I am inspired constantly every time I look at my blog.

Now that I work for 1st and 2nd graders, I have a ready audience to eat my art. I wanted to make some Halloween cupcakes - perhaps some pumpkin cupcakes? But then after some thought, I decided that I didn't want the kids not to eat something because they had never tasted something before, so I decided to go to a fun favi = Halloween funfetti! After a short trip to the grocery store, I realized that I needed to downgrade that Halloween funfetti to a regular funfetti... let's hope nothing else drops! Will keep you updated.

Speaking of Etsy, have you heard of Regretsy? It's the blog that makes fun of weird finds on Etsy, with a tagline, "Handmade? It looks like you made it with your feet."

Sample object:


and what Regretsy had to say about this post:


http://www.regretsy.com/ . Hilarious.

Cute stuff I saw online!

OMGEE! Just surfing on fredflare.com and behold this!



Another view? Of course you want one!

Just casually making a pancake.... in my mini panda skillet!

Go to www.fredflare.com.

Beyonce or Shakira?

I was studying abroad when this song was first released. That's my excuse for not showing this to more people, earlier. It is out of this world amazing. Not for the lyrics, but instead because some director got to live out all of his fantasies in one video. Fast forward this vid to 2:20 and you will see what I'm talking about. When in your life have you ever been put in a situation where you can't tell the difference between Beyonce and Shakira? The trick to distinguish the two, as I've read on the message boards, is that Beyonce wears a gold chain. Prepare to be astounded!



Oh, to be able to contort and gyrate me body like that....

What makes a Leica camera so amazing?

Can you guess the price of this camera? If you know, then tell me why it's worth so much.

Friday: Funday

It's Friday, the weather is dreary in the DC area and I'm having a hard enough time not slipping on a wet surface today. I haven't even left for work, or gotten dressed for work.... sooo I'm still holding my breath.

Since it's Friday, I'm posting a small video treat, one that I like watching. If you like Joel McHale from E!'s the Soup, then you might like this tasty little clip.




Now that you've seen the video, doesn't it make you kind of want crump? Or at least my answer to crumping...wiggling around like you're having a seizure?

Picture of Taylor Swift... or.......

Take a look at this awesome pic of Taylor Swift + girl... and.. a little man on right - that man being Daniel Craig with a raging mustache. Reason No. 948057408347 I love Daniel Craig. Rock out with your Stache out, sir.

This:


being the first and only reason you would need to love Daniel Craig. RAWR.

Just when I thought I couldn't get any sicker

I saw this.

http://stachepassions.com/

MY GOD. It is real and glorious. My GOD. I have no words.

Just go there.

You cannot help but be drawn to these men, admit it.