It's almost New Year's, guys, and you know what that means! We're all going to go soft and nostalgic and remember the best and worst moments of 2011.
Well, screw the worst. Today I'm going to bring to you the best dress and the best pair of heels of 2011. Drumroll, please.
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Monday, December 26, 2011
The Holidays: Gifts, Relatives, All Of That Crap
Oh, yeah. Christmas happened, people, and because I'm me, Christmas happened with a bang. Seriously. The relatives we were supposed to be celebrating at? Yeah, their vacation house BURNED DOWN. They flew down there on a pretty much last-nanosecond flight and came back exactly one day before Christmas. And therefore couldn't prepare anything.
Then, standard oh-shit-I-have-to-deal-with-that-one-relative-I-can't-really-stand stuff, which actually wasn't that bad this year. Of course it wasn't good, but I'll take what I can get, thank you very much.
Also, there's a list of some of the awesome things I got this year, all highly awesome. Some books, a wallet, a purse - it all sounds bland, but wait for it. Wait for it.
Then, standard oh-shit-I-have-to-deal-with-that-one-relative-I-can't-really-stand stuff, which actually wasn't that bad this year. Of course it wasn't good, but I'll take what I can get, thank you very much.
Also, there's a list of some of the awesome things I got this year, all highly awesome. Some books, a wallet, a purse - it all sounds bland, but wait for it. Wait for it.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Another Ad Got Pulled For Being Too Fake
And this time, it's with Taylor Swift! (Side note: am I the only one who was getting really sick of all that little-miss-perfect-Taylor-Swift stuff?)
So, let's look back at all the (recent) ads that have gotten pulled for being JUST TOO PHOTOSHOPPED.
So, let's look back at all the (recent) ads that have gotten pulled for being JUST TOO PHOTOSHOPPED.
Monday, December 19, 2011
DIY Ring Made Using Christmas Baubles, Wire
Hey guys! So I got a little crafty this weekend, and made myself a ring using exactly two things ... green craft wire and a Christmas bauble! (Yes, this all happened while I was attempting to decorate).
Anyway, here are pictures of the supplies. I used the green wire (which doesn't have to be green, of course) to make the actual ring, and the bauble for the "jewel".
Now, this is the interesting part. I didn't actually use the bauble, more the hook-attachment thing. Look at the picture of the red bauble down there. You see the big, round, red bauble, you see some tree branches.
You also see that golden thing on top of the bauble, which is there to connect the hook to the bauble.
That's the "jewel". One of my hook/bauble connectors had broken off from the bauble AND somehow lost the hook, too. And then I made the major discover that you could bend that connecter piece, because it's made of a really bend-able metal. Anyway, you know how it's shaped kind of like fat pipe without a bottom? Okay. So I took the "sides" of it and bended them up, thereby flattening the bauble-hook connecter into a pretty awesome shape.
So far, so good. So much for the jewel. Now let's move the ring made of wire. I got myself about 3 inches worth of wire. Then I took one end, and starting there, wrapped it around my finger, bending it so it fit somewhat decently. When the wire met the end again, there was (obviously) some left, which I then bent outwards. The entire situation looked kind of like a Q.
Okay. Now please understand that the flattened "jewel" had a hole in the middle where the missing hook was supposed to me. I proceeded to thread the sticking-out wire end through that hole, and then I pushed the jewel down so it was basically there where I wanted it to be in the end.
Note: you have to take the wire-thing OFF for this.
Then, I just took the wire that was sticking out of the connecter piece and bent it outwards (to the side of the "jewel"), where I then bent it back under the jewel, back to the wire ring, creating a loop around the "jewel". Then I wrapped the loosed wire end around the ring, making sure to bend it outwards so it didn't end up stabbing my finger when I wore my newly-created ring.
Here are some pictures that I think will make you understand and also totally like this ring:
This is how the ring looks on my hand.
Cool, huh?
And this is a close-up, where you can see the wire loop. In this picture, the wire is still green so you can see it better. I've actually painted the wire silver using nail polish in the meantime. A smart idea would be to start with a wire of the same color as your bauble-attachment-thing. Is there actually an official name for that? I guess I'll never know.
Anyway, here are pictures of the supplies. I used the green wire (which doesn't have to be green, of course) to make the actual ring, and the bauble for the "jewel".
Now, this is the interesting part. I didn't actually use the bauble, more the hook-attachment thing. Look at the picture of the red bauble down there. You see the big, round, red bauble, you see some tree branches.
That's the "jewel". One of my hook/bauble connectors had broken off from the bauble AND somehow lost the hook, too. And then I made the major discover that you could bend that connecter piece, because it's made of a really bend-able metal. Anyway, you know how it's shaped kind of like fat pipe without a bottom? Okay. So I took the "sides" of it and bended them up, thereby flattening the bauble-hook connecter into a pretty awesome shape.
So far, so good. So much for the jewel. Now let's move the ring made of wire. I got myself about 3 inches worth of wire. Then I took one end, and starting there, wrapped it around my finger, bending it so it fit somewhat decently. When the wire met the end again, there was (obviously) some left, which I then bent outwards. The entire situation looked kind of like a Q.
Okay. Now please understand that the flattened "jewel" had a hole in the middle where the missing hook was supposed to me. I proceeded to thread the sticking-out wire end through that hole, and then I pushed the jewel down so it was basically there where I wanted it to be in the end.
Note: you have to take the wire-thing OFF for this.
Then, I just took the wire that was sticking out of the connecter piece and bent it outwards (to the side of the "jewel"), where I then bent it back under the jewel, back to the wire ring, creating a loop around the "jewel". Then I wrapped the loosed wire end around the ring, making sure to bend it outwards so it didn't end up stabbing my finger when I wore my newly-created ring.
Here are some pictures that I think will make you understand and also totally like this ring:
This is how the ring looks on my hand.
Cool, huh?
And this is a close-up, where you can see the wire loop. In this picture, the wire is still green so you can see it better. I've actually painted the wire silver using nail polish in the meantime. A smart idea would be to start with a wire of the same color as your bauble-attachment-thing. Is there actually an official name for that? I guess I'll never know.
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Songs I Love: Flo Rida, Nelly Furtado, Jay Sean
Hey guys! To make up for all the times I've taken forever to post one of my Songs I Love posts, I've brought you another one right away. We've got All Good Things (Come to an End) by Nelly Furtado, Down by Jay Sean and R.O.O.T.S. by Flo Rida. Rock it
Dear Best Friends' Girlfriend: Why I Don't Like You
I found this little gem online today. (Ergo, not mine). Here, a brave and daring young gentleman shows his best friend's girlfriend exactly WHY he hates her. In the form of a PowerPoint presentation, which is pure awesomeness.
Also, there are graphs.
Also, there are graphs.
Friday, December 16, 2011
Songs I Love: Jason Derulo Special
If you thought that in this special Jason Derulo post you'd hear about some of his new songs, you're wrong. Because I love, and I'll repeat that, love the unpopular ones from his old album. Here are three:
1. Blind
Sweet, with a piano background. Here it is, people:
2. What If
3. Strobelight
This one isn't on any album and Itunes doesn 't have it (I think), but that doesn't change the fact that it's awesome!
1. Blind
Sweet, with a piano background. Here it is, people:
2. What If
3. Strobelight
This one isn't on any album and Itunes doesn 't have it (I think), but that doesn't change the fact that it's awesome!
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Rebecca Black: Person of Interest
Rebecca Black has a new song, guys!
And now for the real news: it's not even that bad. The lyrics are a little awkward and partially repetitive, but I swear, her voice is okay. Check out the music video below and make up your own mind.
And now for the real news: it's not even that bad. The lyrics are a little awkward and partially repetitive, but I swear, her voice is okay. Check out the music video below and make up your own mind.
Friday, December 2, 2011
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy I
Most of you will know of this Google trick:
Enter "what is the answer to life, the universe, and everything" as a search word, and the calculator pops up and informs you that the answer to this is 42. Obviously.
That's from a book. Not that Google spits out that answer, but that the answer is 42. The book is insanely famous, and 4 books come after it. Technically 5, but the fifth was written by Eoin Colfer, the Artemis Fowl author, and so I actually don't really count that book as a part of The Series. (Yes, I just capitalized that so it would seem important and meaningful and also because it was fun). We're talking about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, who is very much dead.
Here's a picture of him that I think makes him look like a very friendly person indeed:
Now you can better imagine him, and I can go on. If you feel that my writing style is somewhat strange today, it's because I've started reading The Guide, as I will now start calling it, and it (The Guide) is capitalized because it is still a title, albeit a shortened one, and I do not feel like using italics every time I write The Guide, damn it!
Do forgive me for my rant.
God, I can't believe I just wrote that. It sounds so weird. "Do forgive me". That's something a British person would say.
No offense to the British, of course.
Anyway. Let's focus. Stay on track. Not discuss British accents.
I'm telling you about The Guide because I myself am reading The Guide. Well, not directly The Guide, okay, yes, I'm reading The Guide, but ... okay. Let's simplify this. I am reading The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which is merely a big book with many, waifer-thin (I'm talking Bible page thin) pages - 815 numbered ones, if you really must know.
It contains all 5 of the original, real, Douglas Adams books that follow each other. Their names are not important right now. It also contains an introduction by a certain Neil Gaiman, who I've never heard of, but it said in the book that he is (was?) the (quote): bestselling author of novels like American Gods and Neverwhere (end of quote). There was also some other stuff about graphic novels and a history of Douglas Adams and The Guide, which is probably why he (Gaiman) was chosen to do the introduction. The first title sounded damn familiar to me (the one with the Gods). I'm not looking it up on Wikipedia, though. I've got The Pact firmly in place, thank you. (If you don't know, what The Pact is, check out the Buffy posts I did a while back. The Pact has nothing to do with The Guide. Now relax.)
*Hint: please be aware that in this post, I'm not discussing the book's actual contents with you. I'll do that in later posts. Notice how there is an "I" in this post's title, meaning that the next post in this series will be of the same name but with a "II". Roman numerals, you know?*
So back to our 815 numbered pages, 144 of which belong to the The Guide, I presume, because it says here that the next story starts on page 145, and certainly the publishers would have the decency to start a new book on a new page. I'm currently on Bible-thin page 113, which means I don't have too much left to go. I'd tell you how many pages I still have to read to finish The Guide (which is a reference to the Hitchhikers's Guide, not the Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide, please be aware of that). But I have a headache and therefore don't want to do math in my head, and finding an online calculator seems like too much effort to me at the moment.
To make this post more visual (it's been a lot of text and one picture of Douglas Adams up to now), I've included a picture of the cover of The Ultimate Guide, which is not to be confused with The Guide, like I've said before. This is what it looks like: (not my picture, found it online)
There it is, my paperback clunker that bends easily because of it's 815 numbered, extemely thin pages. I'll get back to you on it's contents one of these days.
Enter "what is the answer to life, the universe, and everything" as a search word, and the calculator pops up and informs you that the answer to this is 42. Obviously.
That's from a book. Not that Google spits out that answer, but that the answer is 42. The book is insanely famous, and 4 books come after it. Technically 5, but the fifth was written by Eoin Colfer, the Artemis Fowl author, and so I actually don't really count that book as a part of The Series. (Yes, I just capitalized that so it would seem important and meaningful and also because it was fun). We're talking about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, who is very much dead.
Here's a picture of him that I think makes him look like a very friendly person indeed:
Do forgive me for my rant.
God, I can't believe I just wrote that. It sounds so weird. "Do forgive me". That's something a British person would say.
No offense to the British, of course.
Anyway. Let's focus. Stay on track. Not discuss British accents.
I'm telling you about The Guide because I myself am reading The Guide. Well, not directly The Guide, okay, yes, I'm reading The Guide, but ... okay. Let's simplify this. I am reading The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which is merely a big book with many, waifer-thin (I'm talking Bible page thin) pages - 815 numbered ones, if you really must know.
It contains all 5 of the original, real, Douglas Adams books that follow each other. Their names are not important right now. It also contains an introduction by a certain Neil Gaiman, who I've never heard of, but it said in the book that he is (was?) the (quote): bestselling author of novels like American Gods and Neverwhere (end of quote). There was also some other stuff about graphic novels and a history of Douglas Adams and The Guide, which is probably why he (Gaiman) was chosen to do the introduction. The first title sounded damn familiar to me (the one with the Gods). I'm not looking it up on Wikipedia, though. I've got The Pact firmly in place, thank you. (If you don't know, what The Pact is, check out the Buffy posts I did a while back. The Pact has nothing to do with The Guide. Now relax.)
*Hint: please be aware that in this post, I'm not discussing the book's actual contents with you. I'll do that in later posts. Notice how there is an "I" in this post's title, meaning that the next post in this series will be of the same name but with a "II". Roman numerals, you know?*
So back to our 815 numbered pages, 144 of which belong to the The Guide, I presume, because it says here that the next story starts on page 145, and certainly the publishers would have the decency to start a new book on a new page. I'm currently on Bible-thin page 113, which means I don't have too much left to go. I'd tell you how many pages I still have to read to finish The Guide (which is a reference to the Hitchhikers's Guide, not the Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide, please be aware of that). But I have a headache and therefore don't want to do math in my head, and finding an online calculator seems like too much effort to me at the moment.
To make this post more visual (it's been a lot of text and one picture of Douglas Adams up to now), I've included a picture of the cover of The Ultimate Guide, which is not to be confused with The Guide, like I've said before. This is what it looks like: (not my picture, found it online)
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