December 2007
41 posts
Eat Pray Love
I just finished the book Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (which I have been quoting recently).
Gilbert’s book is a personal story about her life and spiritual journey to overcome misery. After realizing she’s stuck living a life that she doesn’t want to live, she gets a divorce and travels for an entire year to Italy, India and Indonesia (4 months in each place).
I...
“We gallop through our lives like circus performers balancing on two speeding...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat Pray Love
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The Dark Side of Pisces
I flipped though an interesting book of zodiac signs while in the mall in Tampa.
I am a Pisces and this is my dark side:
“A slippery, manipulative, unreliable reality-dodger with delusions of adequacy and self-destruction.”
Reasons I love going home:
1. My parents have 14 movie channels!! (9 HBOs and 5 Cinemax…I stay up all night watching these)
2. My mom can whip up excellent dinners without any effort.
3. Since I’m away at college and my parents miss me, they are more likely to spoil me when I come home (this comes in handy during Christmas).
4. My horses are in the back yard, and I get to see them everyday.
5. The...
Merry Christmas
Well, Christmas was good to me this year. My mom cooked a fabulous prime rib dinner, we had a beautiful tree and I got a the one thing that I asked for…a Canon Rebel XTi camera :)
Lots of practice with Taylor’s camera has made figuring out this one a lot easier for me. In honor of my new camera, I will start my first project 365 (picture a day) on Jan. 1. Hopefully this will help me...
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“If I love you, you can have everything. You can have my time, my devotion, my...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat Pray Love
Lost: Missing Pieces
Ugh Safari just crashed before I saved my blog post. Here we go again…
Lost is probably my favorite TV show (no, I’m not one of those obsessive fans that hangs out in the rumor-filled message boards and websites), but I have seen every episode, so that counts for something.
I just found out that ABC is posting thirteen 2-3minute long clips of “never-before-seen”...
“Weekly data for the first three weeks of the season indicate an especially happy...”
– Adage.com: Hot for the Holiday: GPS Sales up 488%
American Apparel Now Has Organics in Color!
Eight awesome colors: Cinder, Galaxy, Ultraviolet (pictured), Pomegranate, Dijon, Natural, White and Black.
Since I am becoming one of those organic freaks, I’m eager to see their organic line expand.
Now if they would only make them in a smaller size; the unisex shirts fit me in xxs :(
Check ‘em out!
Tattoo Santa Christmas E-Cards →
If you put the tat on his lower back, you’ll see his crack! Thanks Tay Tay
Tacky Christmas Yards Blog →
Try to Photograph Superman →
Beware of Mall Parking Lots
I survived exam week and arrived at my parent’s house in Boca Raton, Fl tonight. I have been procrastinating Christmas shopping as usual, which really sucks this year, because the Boca mall appears to be dangerous!
“Police are investigating the suspicious deaths of a 47-year-old mother and her 8-year-old daughter found dead inside a car parked outside a Sears store at Town Center...
“Want to know how long the line is outside your favorite club on a busy Saturday...”
– A Social Net You Can Bring Out to the Bar: Adage.com
Finals Week Update
I did not go to sleep last night. I took my history final this morning at 7:30 a.m., wrote essays for 2 hours and still didn’t have enough time to finish (which pisses me off because I knew everything and probably got a crap grade because I ran out of time). Now I am utterly miserable and want to go to sleep, but can’t because I have an exam at 8 p.m., and I have to study until then...
My finals are sucking the life out of me and fucking up my sleep schedule. 2 more days
“Yo mamma’s so fat, she has a real horse on her polo shirt.”
– Larry the cable guy’s christmas special
Did I miss something?
I saw No Country for Old Men last night expecting it to be one of the best movies of the year (if rottentomatoes gives it a 96%, that’s pretty damn good), and I was pretty disappointed. I usually like slow movies as long the plot is meaningful, but I saw no point in this movie. It wasn’t enjoyable because you just sit there all tense the whole time thinking something is about to jump...
“The birth rate among teenagers 15 to 19 in the United States rose 3 percent in...”
– Teenage Birth Rate Rises for First Time Since ’91: New York TImes
Clickgreener - Shop Normally But Also Save The...
ClickGreener is an online shopping portal that makes all your online shopping greener. By shopping at the normal places you’d shop (Like Amazon, Apple, Buy.com, etc) if you start at Clickgreener and visit the store that way, they will donate 51% of the referral credit on each order to their environmental non-profit partners. Try it next time you’re shopping online. Clickgreener.com ...
Plastic Bag Rehab
Did you know… A person uses about 16 plastic bags per week Americans throw away 100 billion plastic bags every year 500 billion - 1 trillion plastic bags are used annually worldwide These mountains of plastic can last…. 1,000 years! So if you haven’t already, I suggest you hop on the anti-plastic bag bandwagon and start bringing your own, non-plastic bags to the grocery store. ...
“Do we cut maternal health? AIDS? Malaria? Do we cut refugees? The only thing...”
– Senator Patrick L. Leah, U.S. Agency’s Slow Pace Endangers Foreign Aid - New York Times
“I wish I had a bra for my stomach.”
– themicruz
Best Kids Show Ever
I guess I’m a little out of the loop when it comes to Nick Jr.’s T.V. shows because I have only recently discovered the coolest kids show on the planet, “Yo Gabba Gabba!” The interesting thing is that the show has captured a bigger audience online than on T.V. “Either kids have gotten really web-savvy (quite likely) or adults are starting to spend more time watching...
McD's Newest Ad Platform: Report Cards →
I guess it’s good that McDonald’s is rewarding students with a happy meal if they earn good grades, but advertising on elementary school report cards?? I give them credit for being creative, but this might be crossing the line.
Fendi spent an estimated $10 million to put on an...
“…Fendi managed to coax 500 people from around the globe—including Kate Bosworth, Zhang Ziyi and the bling dynasty that is Hong Kong society—to schlep to Beijing, drive 90 minutes out of town and climb the steep, grooved steps to see an elaborated version of the spring 2008 collection that had been shown in Milan only three weeks earlier.”
(via Wmagazine.com)
“Facebook made changes to its ad system this week after users and political...”
– Facebook Tempers Beacon Ad Features
Oh no, I have ringxiety!
Alliant International University discovered that 67% of people in the age range of 18-26 that frequently use cell phones suffer from ringxiety, a psychological problem in which you think your cell phone is ringing or vibrating when in actuality it’s not.
Dr. Jitender Nagpal explains, ”Frequent mobile users are always anxious. They are on tenterhooks, waiting for the phone to ring, trying to...
Lawmakers Set Deal on Raising Fuel Efficiency →
