Be it faux-hawks, dancing, or the city of Florence, the cast members of "Jersey Shore" love to declare everything their "best thing". Here are some of MY Best Things.
Credit goes to roomie Jina for alerting me to this, my new official favorite book (though I haven't read it yet): I Could Pee On This: And Other Poems By Cats An excerpt:
Dudes. I'm getting fucking OLD. I was at a dinner the other night with a 19 year-old and three 22 year-olds. I wanted to cry. I've been having back issues. Like pains and tightness. IN MY BACK. That is something old people have! Tomorrow I turn 29. As mentioned previously, I've been fortunate to have traveled quite a bit and have had many incredible experiences (jumped off a cliff and swam with sharks in Palau, surfed and sailed in Australia, saw the Mayan ruins in Mexico, hiked the Great Wall in China, floated in the Dead Sea in Israel, etc.). But for some reason THIRTY seems like a deadline by which I need to make a lot of check-marks on the grand ol' bucket list. So I've decided to make a list of 30 things I need to do before I turn 30 in order to feel ready for my next decade. Some of these are general goals I've had for a long time, some are things I feel I need to leave behind in 20's, and some are things I feel will prepare me for my 30's: 1. Eat at Providence 2. Book a trip to Africa 3. Leave current job / start a new job 4. Drink the champagne in the fridge that I've been saving for a "special" celebratory occasion 5. Run - actually RUN - in a race (even just a 5K) 6. Use the cooking class gift certificate my boss bought me for my LAST birthday 7. Get some sort of waterproof casing for either my iPhone or my Rebel so that I can document it when I... 8. Swim with whale sharks 9. Re-read The Great Gatsby, and read 3 other classics for the first time 10. Attend a beer fest 11. Try snowboarding or skiing for real 12. Test-drive the Tesla 13. Develop a proper regimen for taking good care of my skin (e.g. using face cream - ick) 14. Go a whole month without eating any meat whatsoever 15. Buy a pair of Louboutins or a designer bag 16. Watch at least 10 more of AFI's top 100 (I've seen 32 from the 2007 list) 17. Help an animal give birth OR be present during a surgery 18. Create something (e.g. a full script, short story, painting, etc.) 19. Learn how to make the perfect dirty martini (yum) 20. Go through all the junk in my room at my parents' house (and get rid of most of it) 21. Shoot a gun (at a target range) 22. Buy a new, carefully-chosen bicycle 23. Have a meeting with a financial analyst 24. Keep a plant alive for more than 2 weeks - preferably lavender 25. Go back to Best Friends 26. Try absinthe (the real kind) 27. Assemble an earthquake kit 28. Plan a reunion / vacation with my besties from college (this may already be in the works). 29. Answer the phone "Buddy the Elf, what's your favorite color?" 30. Forgive. Anything I missed?
In cast you were not aware, the Shiba Inu Puppy Cam is back. My boss has been out of town this week, and while I have actually been pretty productive, every spare moment has been spent watching these adorable furballs. Good thing they sleep a lot or else I wouldn't have gotten anything done. Here's the link, but I should warn you: PUPPY WATCHING IS HIGHLY ADDICTIVE - CLICK AT YOUR OWN RISK!
I imagine I've now lost most of my readers to the Puppy Cam. I don't blame them. But for those of you still reading this blog post, you shall be rewarded with a somewhat random, but hopefully highly delightful, collection of videos, pictures, and posts of the heartwarming and/or adorable and/or funny and/or beautiful and/or sexy varieties (trust me, just read on - and open the links in new tabs/windows so you can check 'em all out).
Let us begin with heartwarming and adorable, shall we?
First up: humans. Shocking, I know, but I dare you not to smile and/or tear up a little over these two collections:
The following is a random selection of awesome things I've seen across the internet recently. Enjoy.
The animals have been busy gettin' busy over at the LA Zoo. Prepare for cuteness overload:
See the rest of the images and a little video here.
For my fellow tribe members, especially those of age to go on Birthright, Pilgrimage, actual Jew Camp, or the equivalent, I'm sure you can relate.
This photo collection, from one of my all-time favorite fashion blogs, gofugyourself.com, contains:
a) One of my all-time favorite dresses EVER (it's modern, but looks like Downton Abbey! It would be gorgeous in any color! It's so slimming and sexy, yet looks super comfortable!)
b) Prince Harry riding a white horse
c) Prince Harry being cute with a baby
d) Prince Harry kissing a dog
*SWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON*
I really want to know what mischievous/delightful thing Amy Pohler was doing right before this photo was taken:
I share the same birthday as....
***** DRUM-ROLL PLEASE*****
Jason Morgan of "General Hospital"?? BORING.
I was really hoping for Arya Stark, but I would've taken anything from HARRY POTTER, "Full House", or any single-named character such as Snoopy, Alf, or Superman. Which fictional character shares your birthday?
To get slightly political for a second, there are a lot of people I would like to send this open letter to. Thankfully nobody I know personally, or at least none that I speak to regularly, but certain people who choose to make their extremist political opinions public. And maybe the state of Arizona.
While we're on the topic of America (not really the best segue for what's coming, but whatevs), get ready to have your MIND BLOWN.
But let's end on a positive note, shall we? No pun intended there - you'll get what I mean when you watch this this lovely video:
If only LA had live classical music aboard our public transportation. Or just useful public transportation.
And that's it folks, you have now reached the end of the internet.
jk, jk.
OR AM I?
Either way I'm flying to Cleveland tonight to celebrate Passover with my family. I'm super looking forward to seeing everyone....... and getting my hair cut WOOOOHOOO (yeah, that's right). Meanwhile, many of you will celebrating Easter on Sunday.
Here are some of the other things the two holidays have in common:
Hiding/Finding Things (the Afikomen / eggs)
A Feast/Large Meal with Family (OK, that's just about every holiday)
Eggs (eating (LOTS of them) / painting/hiding them)
Spring/Rebirth Themes
Personal Suffering (Lent / The Fast of the First Born)
Which reminds me - I am a First Born so technically I shouldn't be eating tomorrow. But it's my only chance to get Dunkin' Donuts before actual Passover starts!!! What's a girl (who lives in a city without Dunkin') to do?!?!
in case you're wondering, those are filled with cheesecake
Whichever holiday you're celebrating, I hope it's lovely!
So I'm about to go buy my lottery ticket. Someecards sums up pretty much all my feelings on the matter:
except that...
(JUST KIDDING. mostly.)
The only one missing is "I'd pay 500 million dollars not to hear one more time what my odds are of winning 500 million dollars".
An on a COMPLETELY unrelated note...
So here's something crazy - I'm a little embarrassed to even admit this but here I go - tomorrow, March 31st, is the anniversary of my joining Facebook... EIGHT YEARS AGO. I was still at BU finishing up my junior year, it was called "The Facebook", there was no "wall", "newsfeed" or "timeline", and the population consisted of students at approximately 15 universities: Harvard (obviously), the rest of the Ivy's, Stanford, MIT, Tufts, BU, and a few other Boston-area schools. If you've seen THE SOCIAL NETWORK you know the rest of the story. It kind of boggles my mind how much our world has changed since then.
Just a random thought for a Friday afternoon.
And finally, and not related to any of the above, I give you 75 Hoodie-Wearers Who Are Up To No Good. SO so hard to pick a fave - I had to go with the fantastic early-90s reference:
Well guess what kids - THE DAY HAS FINALLY ARRIVED.
Starting tonight at midnight the teens, tweens, and "young" adults (I'm in the latter grouping, no judgement please) will be flooding the local theaters to catch their favorite dystopian heroes fight to the death. I will not be attending a midnight screening - some of us have to work tomorrow - but I HAVE had my tickets for weeks to a showing tomorrow evening.
I'm obviously not the only one who's excited. The internet has EXPLODED in recent weeks with HUNGER GAMES related consumables, sketches/spoofs, memes, etc. In anticipation of the big event I've collected all the best for your enjoyment (be sure to click the links for videos where indicated) (also big thanks to roomie Jina who sent me a bunch of these - we may or may not be dressing up tomorrow night):
