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- Outlet shopping! While most of the shops at outlet malls really aren’t at what you would think outlet prices should be… I did manage to score a pair of grey satin lo-top chucks for $15 and a $300 BCBG dress for $40!
- I loved this post from fellow Richmond lady blogger Terra. Her excitement over animals is something I can relate to and she really is dear.
- This was made fun of on the mogg blogg but I have always been envious of pets who can curl up on a big pillow and fall fast asleep in decadent comfort. (by Tom Kühne)
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- When a company quits making (or a store quits carrying) your favorite product. How many times has this happened to you when you found a perfect shade of lipstick? It’s happened to me at least 4 times. There’s also been a perfect scent of body lotion, a perfume, a foundation, an eyeshadow, a leave-in moisturizer, a scent of deodorant, a mascara, socks, an amazing wrinkle relaxing moisturizer… I could go on. So you go on a wild goose chase. You hit every store you know that carried it hoping to find the last stash. You scour the internet and stock up. Then you have this stockpile of perfect lipstick and you’re all “gosh, I’m never going to use all of this” so, you get generous and share with your girlfriends and when you get down to your last tube of perfect nude pink lipstick that managed to stay on all day without feeling dry, you start to rue the day your were so generous with your friends because they didn’t really appreciate it for how wonderful and perfect it was. Well not this time bitches! I’m stocking up on my Olay In-shower Body Lotion and you can forget about getting a bottle in your b-day bag!
- I have a weird habit of exposing myself to things that irritate me. It goes in spells. One example is a now-ended obsession with watching Rachael Ray so that I could make snarky comments and shake my fist at the tv. Another was actually listening to any song by Kings of Leon on the radio so I could gag at how repulsive I find the singer’s voice. I’ve also had a little problem (which only is possible through the powers of the internet) of following blogs of people I can’t stand. It’s fun to “tisk tisk you suck”, or if it’s someone I know in real life and really don’t like… even better, “tisk tisk you stupid lying twat, man do I have have some dirt on you.” (Before you get worried, it’s no one I openly follow or communicate with. I’m not two-faced.) It’s something I’m seriously working on. Seriously. I’m trying. But while I try to quit this dirty little habit, I’ll enjoy Godammit, I’m Mad’s delightful rants.
I haven’t been bookmarking many awesome things this week except for LOL cats so here’s an attept at a + & - post. Let’s just start with an LOL cat and get it over with.
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- After three years and one horrifying attempt to give my cat Nibbles a bath, I finally got a grip on the back of her neck and gave her a real soaping (after clipping her claws). It was about 4 minutes of human-like screams and anguish and I recorded the whole hilarious thing! Only, the file is too big to share it with anyone, anywhere and I don’t know what to do about that.
- I had a $9 credit at Sephora.com so I got a big thing of grapefruit body lotion (I can’t eat it anymore because of the Lipitor so, I’ll smell like it), picked out my 3 free samples, then they gave me a deluxe 3-piece sample of face treatments, then they let me pick my free b-day gift of 3 mini lip glosses. In the end, I paid $4. Hell yes.
- This is the perfect combination of my father’s and my style. Love this walnut console table by Gareth Neal.
- As much as I was annoyed by having to switch to Sprint and getting a new phone and all the mess that comes with that, I’m really loving my Blackberry 8530. It’s so much better than my old phone!
- Meeting an awesome lady who has gone through some of the same caregiving mess as I have and understands, giving a kid my SLR film camera that I don’t use anymore so he can develop his passion for photography, overhearing a lady say she was ugly and setting her straight, collecting clothes for couple’s new foster kid who came to their home with nothing – these have been little life-affirming moments of the past week that have made my heart smile.
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- Foursquare. I don’t get it. I don’t mean to offend because I know a lot of people who are waaaay into it but honestly, I am tethered to the interwebs enough as it is, I simply can’t imagine telling the world every place I go. I also don’t give a rat’s ass if you went to get coffee or groceries. I also think it may be a wee bit dangerous. There are a lot of stalker freaks out there and well, when you let everyone know where you are and when you left your home unattended… that just seems to be opening up a potential shitstorm for your life.
- I want these pants sooooo much but I am not paying $168 for them. Anyone know of something similar for less? I really like the slender leg.
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- Guilty pleasure TV. I’ve become obsessed with watching in horror and judgement, those who live in abject filth. It justifies my OCD like you wouldn’t believe! Hoarders can be intense and the stubborn/sick families have little time to receive help from eggshell walking “professionals”. I think the help they receive infuriates me even more. Clean House is way more entertaining and a bit silly. The people are blatantly told they live like pigs (aren’t always on the psychologically ill level), and in the long run, have little say in the improvements made to their hovel. Trish Suhr is my favorite of the cleaning team. She’s the organizing specialist and damn, I wish I had her job.
- I can milk a trial size for days, and I especially love the ones that come with a Sephora order. I always skip on the perfumes and go for skin treatments. My recent favorite is Per-fekt Eye Perfection Gel. It feels like cashmere around your eyes and just makes you look… better. Subtly and wonderfully better. At $45 for .3 oz, I’m agonizing over getting the full size. Then, there’s the Fusion beauty line. I was an addict to LipFusion Lip Plump for a while. The stuff is amazing and really works. Instead of just irritating your lips to plump them with a burning sensation, this contains micro marine collagen that is tiny enough to be absorbed by the skin and plumps with surrounding moisture. Well, I just tried LiftFusion Face Lift and it’s insanely good for tiny fine laugh lines. $140 for 1.7oz. Whoa.
- “It’s on like a prawn who yawns at dawn.”
- Cereal. I go through phases of not being able to get enough, could eat it at every meal, can I bathe in it? The type varies every time, rotating between Frosted Mini Wheats, Reeses Puffs, Cocoa Puffs, Apple Jacks, and currently Cocoa Pebbles.
- The Shiba Inu puppy cam is back up with new puppies! They were just born on January 16! Wait until they start jumping and playing!
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- After more than 3 months of only eating 30 grams of fat a day, my doctor had my cholesterol checked again. Son of a bitch! My numbers got higher!!! I lost almost 10 pounds for god’s sake! I barely ate any cheese! I did eat some delicious hot wings though. They’re my vice and damnit my doctor said I could indulge more than I had been! So, yeah… I get to start Lipitor this week. I’m 30 years old for crying out loud. Thanks mom and dad. While your genes have blessed me with exceptional looks and smarts, your high cholesterol can suck it!
- The redundancy of social media. I seriously had to sit for about an hour and assess who to follow and how, because things were getting out of control. Why be fan of something on Facebook and follow their Twitter if their updates only consist of new blog notifications, when I already subscribe on my Google Reader? I also don’t like my reader getting clogged with post-happy fools. Over 10 posts a day? I just don’t have the time.
- Martinis and the glasses they come in. I will make numerous blind judgements about pretension when I see someone drinking one.
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- When I was a kid, my mom let me build a terrarium in this gigantic round glass vase she had. It had tiny plastic deer, soft moss, mini trees, everything! We had to set it on the floor one day and I accidentally kicked it, and was ruined for terrariums ever since. I don’t think I could do anything too terrible to this tiny gem!
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- I didn’t think the chrome look for nails was truly possible. Having tried every silver polish making the claim and being sorely disasppointed, Wendy B shared an out-of-the-box approach to getting cybertastic nails! The directory on the site will let you know who in your area provides the service. I’m definitely hitting up one of the Richmond locations soon!
This lace effect is killing me as well!
- Back in the day, I used to want to be covered in tattoos. I had big serious painful gorgeous plans. Then… I changed my mind. Imagine that. I still managed to get two. One is an Olivia pin up girl on my stomach in flesh tones which is finally fading away after 12 years. The coloring I wanted was so light that no one could make it stick. It would heal and when it peeled, the ink came right out with it. So yeah, over 8 hours of pain for nothing. I couldn’t take it anymore and went to the renowned but expensive Timothy Hoyer (when he was still in RVA and had Alive Gallery). He made it happen in no time. The other tattoo is peonies at the top of my back (done by one of my best friends Scott at True Tattoo). I have been wanting to add a slew of exotic flowers and ivy to my back with a bit curling down my shoulders and up my neck but I vacillate between being ready to make the appointment or totally bailing and making an appointment for laser removal. That’s no way to be when you’re about to permanently mark yourself. Either way… the point of this whole revealing rant was to show you this neat thing I found. It’s some application that will add ivy to your pictures. I haven’t tried it yet but here you go. If only tattoos were that easy.
one day maybe
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Oh! I love me some
CERN and they just started the Large Hadron Collider, had some first collisions and Earth didn’t explode!
Here are some pics right before they got to banging those atoms! Oh, and I really want a print of particle tracks for my wall. Geek! Anyone know where I could get that done?
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She’s been blogging for 3 years but I just discovered
Kristopher Dukes and I think I’ve found my personal style idol/hero. She hates patterned clothing, loves nude heels, loves simple elegant clothing and sticks with what works, is a product fiend, appreciates well designed luxury, wreaks of sex, called satin elastic ankle pants a year ago, and she is unapologetically superficial in a brutally honest (and sometimes offensive) way. Obviously she has a much larger well-earned income than myself but it’s fun to live vicariously through others sometimes and it’s nice to read down to earth, quick-witted critiques on so many glamorous things I would love to have. Her post format is great – a particular thing broken down into what she already has, what she would rather have, and what she hates. Love it.
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- I looked at my Google Reader the other day and was wondering why the heck I was subscribing to blogs that I couldn’t relate to in any way whatsoever. I’m not going to name names but my life isn’t sparkly and full of rainbows and unicorns. I don’t wear hot pink, nor do I have a constant positive spin on life. I also don’t like wondering where the hell a 25 year-old is getting all that damned mysterious money to waste on total crap. All that being said… I do like a good voyeuristic romp once in a while so I will probably revisit these blogs every blue moon. I just don’t want to see them or the tweets every day. Because I’m going to vomit.
- My hair is taking forever to grow out from my scene boy cut. It’s finally past my shoulders but it’s all sorts of crazy layers and then I gave up on the blunt bangs and they’re growing out at well. So how to you begin to take care of split ends when it’s a mess? I guess I’m going to have to get out the tiny scissors.
I wish
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- long romantic walks through my neighborhood
- I love this cheap ornament idea. While you could get a whole box of silver balls for what it would take to make a few of these thumbtack ornaments, they ARE homemade and a few in a cute box would make a neat sentimental gift. My mom and I used to sit at the kitchen table and make ornaments in a similar way, using straight pins, sequins and beads. They were a bit more glitsy and you had lots of color and pattern options.
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Being on a doctor ordered low fat diet, I was really excited about this
huge post on beans. So very helpful!
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- rat snuggles
- dropping my phone in the toilet and it still works!
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A lot of things seem to be really popular right now and I am not impressed.
- Tea towels. These are little thin woven cotton towels with decorative motifs. They don’t absorb a thing!
- Giant bulky headphones.
- Expensive jewelry and hair accessories made out of things I could get for $2 at the craft store.
- Teapot cozies. Seriously?
- Twilight. Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson creep me the hell out.
- Friends’ parents on Facebook. They have straight ruined it for me. I barely get on there anymore.
- Furniture made from garbage. 1. 2.
- That bedspread made to look like cardboard boxes. Yuck!
- Perpetual calendars are a pain in the ass.
- Why are Legos so expensive!?
- Moleskines… when you could get a small notebook for $1
- Lomo cameras. I’ve had almost all of them and maybe got 2 good pics out of each roll of film. Total crapshoot.
- Pantone.
- Foursquare. I don’t need the world knowing everything I do and aren’t our online identities self indulgent enough?
- Mustache kitsch.
- Ponchos.
- Drop crotch pants.
- Cleaning products that require the endless purchase of refills when the original tool was an inexpensive one-time buy and worked just fine.
- Criticizing Obama feels like a criminal offense these days.
Natalie Dee
Just kidding! It has been nice to take a bit of a break from the interwebs for a few days but seriously, thank god Christmas is over with! My family is very small, strange, irritating and irritable. I didn’t even see the children in the family this year, I barely talked to anyone, and I still have a lot of catching up to do. I was extremely lucky and received some thoughtful beautiful gifts… my favorite being the Nixon watch the boy gave me. I can’t believe it actually fits on my toddler-sized wrists! I will have slightly larger biceps on my right arm though, as this thing is all stainless and pretty heavy. I love it and the fact that he knows my tastes so well. He also got me the shredded Helvetica A tee from Threadless. I LOVE this shirt! From my family, there was the thoughtless but always appreciated cash, a bunch of pajamas and comfy tops that I picked out myself, a pink umbrella, Daniel Egnéus for H&M artist collaboration tee (can’t find a pic of the design but it’s weird as hell!), boots I was given early, and two sweaters. I also received the super sized Philosophy Hope in a Jar – the best moisturizer ever. (Seriously, I will never use anything else unless I can find that damned French Cosmense Ex-tense 3D they quit selling in the U.S. It was like Botox in a jar. God knows what was in that stuff. It was like a magic I never knew existed.)
x-mas gifts 2008 by mymilkglassheart
Now, I will go ahead and get on with a short + & – post.
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- kindred spirits in random strangers who give you permission to take care of yourself when you couldn’t grant it on your own
- This Alexander McQueen Fairy-tale dress is delightful! And it’s now 1/2 off $4,000!
- Richmond, VA didn’t get a flake of the insane snow that plagued so many, and it was 72 degrees outside today!
- So funny! poor stupid Cosmo…
- Love this German news ad.
- I have always felt that sea otters rarely get the recognition they deserve for their ability to use tools in opening clams and whatnot. Well now, Magpies can recognize themselves in a mirror!
- I really want to bury my face in this leather dress from Ksubi at Oak, and take a deep breath.
- LOVE a wedge… and yes, I have bitched about the insane platform stilettos but I could seriously play basketball in these Guiseppe Zanotti wedges. To each his own… I love a damn wedge!
- This dining table and chairs called The Monolith, is by German designer Gioia Meller Marcovicz. Anything this streamlined and space saving and dust avoiding is the epitome of design perfection to me. All stainless design means future maintenance is virtually nil, and the chair seats fold upward underneath when all tucked away.
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- I am plowing through wasabi peas like you wouldn’t believe.
- I’m going to hell.
- Something just isn’t right about the all-black Vans Sk8-his I ordered. The rubber is maybe a 1/10″ higher than it used to be and I know that sounds anal as hell but it’s all I can see when I look at them and it throws the entire shoe off. I have to return them. Crap. The same thing happened when Converse started making their Chucks in China years ago. They don’t fit me right anymore and I’m now in between sizes so I’m stuck with 2 pairs of 16 year old Chucks I’ve had since middle school that fit perfectly but I can’t buy any new ones now. I don’t know what happened (if anything) to Vans manufacturing but something is seriously off with the ones I bought and this is devastating.
- My locally owned video stores have closed! Yeah, I have Netflix but sometimes you just want a stack of 8 videos to get you through a long weekend and Blockbuster sucks so hard (and so do thier exclusive videos which I tried to give a shot).
- I gave everyone a lot of imported chocolate and for some reason, I have none and I want some NOW!
- I had to get a refill on my insomnia meds again. I hate needing a pill to sleep.
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- Polyvore is rad.
- Japanese scientists are rad.
- This goth/punk Barbie is hilarious! (I used to want hair like that!)
- I have written over 100 posts on this blog since September 19th!
- LD Tuttle makes some ideal shoes that are tickling my fancy! I think this set is the perfect shoe wardrobe for a lifetime! Seriously, what more could you want? I would trade my entire Imelda Marcos shoe collection in for these 4 pair. (Well, I wouldn’t give up the Vans.)
LD Tuttle by mymilkglassheart
- When I do decide to spawn, I want to give birth here.
- PsyBlog has another positive and helpful article on gratitude and its beneficial effects on your mood, in just 2 minutes! Nothing is too small to be thankful for. I am so grateful for so many things right now!
- This song by Sigur Ros sums up the intensity in my heart right now… and they did not sell out! ;)
- I am loving my holiday break! I have two more classes next semester and I will (finally) be a college graduate. This has been a long time coming and I’m proud of myself for being so persistent and sticking with it (and doing really goddamn well) in spite of all the stressful distractions in my life. I am going to sincerely miss school though. It has always been a source of joy in my life.
- Tiramisu gelato is the devil.
- The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack is pretty much the best cartoon ever! “I’m just exercising my huggin’ muscles!”
- I am completely in love.
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- Do I need to tell you how incredibly creepy leggings are with shorter tops? These are not trousers. They are leggings… which are essentially tights without feet and they have no business being regarded as pants. They are a layering tool. If your pants are not equipped with a fly, cover your damn crotch.
- A low-carb diet is better for you than a low-fat diet. I’m in so much trouble. (via Discover)
- Fashion is wasted on Richmond. The best it gets is a Hipster Runoff-esque sprinkling throughout the city. (I have no idea who’s shopping at Saks.) I asked the boy what he thought of me possibly shredding a pair of cheap skinnies like the Margielas everyone is doing right now. Consensus = I would look like I was ready to go to a Motorhead concert. I couldn’t help but agree… that trend’s bubble is going to burst in 3…2…1…
- Why do I insist on drinking strawberry energy drinks when I’m tucked in bed at 3am, so then I get zero sleep? Because they are delicious!
- Christmas is 8 days away and I feel totally unmotivated.
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- PsyBlog talks about the balance between goals and tasks when working on a large project.
- being introduced to hyeonmi nokcha tea, I really can’t get enough of it!
- I just discovered this webcomic and it’s adorable! We The Robots:
- A 20 year-old model made to look 6 different ages, originally from Paris VOGUE, Nov 2008.
- Photographer Richard Renaldi’s project Touching Strangers – where strangers… touch. Beautiful. (via Conscientious)
- A mile of Cold War-era underground tunnels in London are for sale… seriously, what a fun place to play this could be! (I’m having fantasies about V‘s secret lair. Sigh.)
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- Before it’s all said and done… we need this medal for either being strong or as a reminder to… from etsy shop Wildcatters.
