Filed under: a few of my favorite things, celebrity worship, obscure pop culture references, party star, perfectly impossible | Tags: always feel like somebody's watching me, birthday, britney spears, fun times, halloween costume, lady gaga, scary carrie
i have a problem with Halloween: it only falls once a year.
and it’s in 10 days.
now i don’t know about you, but i LOVE dressing up, and i try to go balls to the wall for every event*. my birthday party had a heaven and hell theme just so i’d have an excuse to wear a feather boa, halo and false eyelashes (which i threw across the bar at the end of the night in a fit of excitement, but that’s beside the point).
so, basically, my problem is that i can’t narrow my choices down to one costume. i know, i know, it’s on a weekend this year, so technically, i can have two costumes. however, you might remember that i’m poor and costumes are not cheap.
i’m also extremely competitive, and i’m constantly trying to one-up myself in the halloween arena. i want something creative and somewhat original, which is why my lady gaga costume is out the window. (seriously, do you know how many hits i get on this blog for “lady gaga costume?” there are going to be some outraegous ladies out there this year…)
so here i am, anxiously counting down the days (like i do every october), and realizing i have too many ideas, but nothing that excites me like the carrie costume:
scary carrie, 2008
or the britney costume:
pregnant britney, 2006
i’ve got a lot of fake blood left over from last year, and i’m leaning toward freddy krueger just to scare the crap out of my friends the whole night. but i also wouldn’t mind using my snuggie (crazy cat lady slash wizard?), carrying my booze in a starbucks’ cup (olsen twin?) or creating an outfit from scratch (the geico money?).
sigh. i hate you, Halloween. almost as much as i love you.
*to the lovely couple: thank you for an awesome party!** i would’ve dressed up, but i didn’t want to steal your thunder. so i wore sassy red shoes and stole jp’s beer instead.
**to everyone else in attendance: lovely to meet you, but i’m far too lazy to link to all 50 of you. you were all fabulous, and i’m looking forward to future weddings, birthdays and celebrations
Filed under: a few of my favorite things, celebrity worship, obscure pop culture references | Tags: california knows how to party, chelsea lately, conan o'brien, fall fall go away, vacation mode, veronica mars
yeah, yeah, i hate october. wah, wah, wah.
but this year, i’ve been counting down the days because tomorrow… I’M GOING TO CALIFORNIA!!
hello, sunshine, celebrities* and cool ocean breeze. mommy’s missed you.
*i’ll be in the audience for both chelsea lately and the tonight show with conan o’brien. and!!! kristen bell, my very favorite, will be a guest on conan one of the days i have tickets (Oct. 6, Maxie – watch it…)!!! it’s 50-50 whether i’ll be able to attend that day, but since i’m kind of a psycho celeb stalker**, i at least know she’ll be in town while i’m there…
**and by stalker, i mean, I’m not. please don’t get a restraining order. (because i know kristen and her agent totally read this.)
Filed under: celebrity worship, my melody, party star | Tags: concert, crazy couture, halloween, lady gaga, mtv movie awards, true blood
you should know by now that i’m a teenage girl at heart.
therefore, it should be no surprise to you that i’m going to the lady gaga concert tonight and i’m SUPER STOKED!!!
now, let me just be a snooty music fan for a minute and point out that i’ve liked lady gaga since before it was cool to like lady gaga. i liked her when she had dark hair and the castlemonkey thought she was hot. i actually have vintage gaga in heavy rotation on my ipod, and i’ve been considering a gaga halloween costume since march (mostly because i don’t like wearing pants, but that’s beside the point).
but it wasn’t until her mtv movie awards performance that i got really excited to see her — she’s crazy and she’s nuts and it’s going to be fabulous show.
now watch her do the dirty dirty with hottie vampire eric and be excited with me:
Filed under: celebrity worship, my melody, party star | Tags: dance dance revolution, drink, drink drank drunkity drunk drunk, i heart britney spears, i'm a teenage girl at heart, teenybopper for life
booze, circus tricks, midgets and glitter — the girl knows how to win over a crowd.(although the alcohol consumption may have been self-inflicted.)
i’m not ashamed to say i am and always have been a die-hard britney spears fan, and i’m DEFINITELY not too proud to say i was at her show on Tuesday night (but no, I didn’t hear her say “Merry Christmas” — i was too busy singing/screaming/dancing along.). it was a raging good time and if you ever get a chance to see her perform — DO IT. you will not be disappointed. unless you’re there purely to hear live vocals — but let’s be honest. no one goes to a b. spears show to hear her pretty voice.
and no, the girl in that picture is not me — but i’d be lying if i said i didn’t plot to steal her awesomeness.
Filed under: a few of my favorite things, celebrity worship, fear and loathing, perfectly impossible | Tags: chuck bass rocks my world, Gossip Girl, it's no one tree hill, tv fanatic, tv shows, twilight is the new gossip girl
… but am i the only one who’s pretty much over Gossip Girl?
don’t get me wrong — i’ll still watch it. but something is definitely off.
Filed under: a few of my favorite things, celebrity worship | Tags: chuck bass rocks my world, even my cat loves gossip girl, evil vampires are cooler than vegetarian vampires, i'm an artiste, microsoft paint, teenybopper for life, twilight is the new gossip girl, vampires and werewolves and bears oh my!
as i’ve found that the best way to increase blog traffic is to mention twilight, edward cullen and life-sized cut outs of chuck bass, i decided to grace you all with another example of my developing artistic ability:
Filed under: a few of my favorite things, celebrity worship, obscure pop culture references | Tags: chuck bass rocks my world, evil vampires are cooler than vegetarian vampires, teenybopper for life, twilight is the new gossip girl, vampires and werewolves and bears oh my!
about three things i’m absolutely positive:
1. edward cullen is a vampire…who looks exactly like chuck bass.
2. the part i enjoyed most about ‘twilight’ is that it took place in the pacific northwest…complete with washington state license plates that always leave me feeling strangely nostalgic for home.
3. even though i didn’t really like the book, didn’t really like the movie, and they killed off my favorite character (ooops…spoiler?), i’m still somewhat obsessed with the movie and can’t wait to see what they do with the sequel… but mostly so i can mock it.
Filed under: a few of my favorite things, bestest friends, celebrity worship, family first, fear and loathing, geek chic, obscure pop culture references, party star, sporty spice, work and play | Tags: beach, blackberry, bootcamp, boxing, bridesmaid, chuck klosterman, dad, dreams, dress, facebook, fast food, gym, office space, phobia, raccoons, ridiculous, sauna, summer, vacation, weight, wine, workout
i’m in the office on a saturday, and it’s not the worst thing in the world (although visions of bill lumberg are dancing in my head). in fact, i finally have time for some bloggy TLC.
i worked out five times this week. it’s become less of a chore and more of a way to unwind. (i think i’m addicted to my gym’s sauna.) with that said, i’m not losing any weight after nine solid weeks of quitting chik fil a and co. this wouldn’t be such a bad thing (i’m only a lil round), but i have to squeeze into an already-too-snug bridesmaid dress in less than a month. said dress is 3,000 miles away from me, so I don’t exactly have time to get it altered before the big day. (is it sad that i’m this stressed about a big day that’s not even *my* big day? the bride thinks it’s pretty sad…)
anyway, long story short, i’m not giving up on this workout kick no matter what kind of bad news mr. scale wants to throw my way. i feel better, right? (insert eye roll here.)
i did have to give up my dreams of becoming a championship boxer, though. after my free class (which was awesome), i would’ve had to purchase a membership to continue. unfortunately for my wallet, a membership costs $75/month with a minimum 12-month commitment — excluding the additional costs for equipment. sigh. guess i’ll have to stick to less conventional means of drunkenly wrestling with my friends (yes, plural. sorry, wools — you’re no longer the last person i beat up).
non-related somewhat noteworthy topics:
last weekend, i went to the beach. next weekend, i’m going to the beach. next year, i think i’ll move to the beach. in the meantime, i’m looking past the scattered thunderstorms to a summer filled with enjoying this.
i got a crackberry. picture me mobile blogging.
i heart chuck klosterman. i just started “IV: a decade of curious people and dangerous minds,” which begins with an essay about britney circa 2003 — how could i not heart him? seriously, though, his books are hilarious. (yes, i’m the creepy girl laughing out loud while she reads in public.) do yourself a favor and go buy “killing yourself to live” right this instant.
i just found out my dad reads my blog. (hi, daddy!) this is still nowhere near as bad as when he and my mom joined facebook. or as bad as the last family vacation we all took together, but that’s an entirely different story that i’ll probably never tell.
my phobia of raccoons has become ridiculously exploited. i guess this is what i get for having ridiculous phobias.
speaking of ridiculous, i’ve been ridiculously boring in my weeks of silence, and i think that’s all the updates i’ve got for ya. i’ve even toned down my drinking in the wake of my bridesmaid bootcamp activities, so the embarrassing stories that i usually don’t publicly write about are pretty much nil. (seriously, pithy — that bucket o wine was a myth.)
Filed under: a few of my favorite things, bestest friends, celebrity worship | Tags: adventure, canada, conan o'brien, holiday weekend, memorial day, road trip, toronto, travel
i’m off to toronto for the next three days! although the 9-hour drive (one way!) makes my already overactive boredom sensors flare up up, i’m looking forward to seeing something new. since moving east, i’ve made a genuine effort to travel around the area and explore. in addition to the thrill i get from mini-adventures like this, it keeps the skin-crawliness to a minimum.
so anyway, i’m off on a road trip to canada with the boys who love to love and hate me. as you can see, we may kill each other within minutes… i haven’t been that far north since the dollar’s value dropped, so i’m thinkin’ we won’t be doing too much shopping. (to be completely honest, judgmental and stereotypical, though, their fashion senses aren’t exactly what you’d expect and i’m ok with not .) in fact, i’m not really sure what we’ll be doing, other than looking for landmarks i recognize from conan o’brien’s toronto stint.
hope everyone else has a fun, relaxing weekend planned!
