LOLs

Voldemort strikes again!

Craftiness - Book Page Wreath

Look what I made this weekend!

It's an upcycled book page wreath! Super easy, and super cheap! You can just take any old paperback book you have lying around (or if you can't bear to tear one of your own up, then you can buy a trashy romance novel at the 99 Cent Store), and buy a floral foam form of a wreath - also at the 99 Cent Store - and get to (hot) glueing!

This particular wreath form was not round all the way around, it had four sides. At first I was a little worried that it would make it too boxy, but it turned out fine! It cost me less than $2, too, so I like that.

I used about 3/4 of one 300 page book...I glued pages around the form first, so that the annoying green foam wouldn't flake anymore and you couldn't see if through the paper. In total, I spent about 3 hours on this project during a House Hunters International marathon.

Happy crafting!

I. WANT.

All together now. "Awwwwwww."

I want a goldendoodle!

Master Cleanse?

So, tomorrow is my birthday. And I plan on eating a lot of champagne cake and having some major drinks. Woooo!

However, for the last week I've been considering doing a Master Cleanse to jump start the new diet I'm (hopefully) going to be starting and sticking to for the next several months before law school. For those who aren't aware, a MC is where you drink this concoction of lemon juice, maple syrup, cayenne pepper and water, and nothing else, for several days (anywhere from 10 to 40, apparently). It was designed and published in 1964, but made popular by Beyonce, who said that was how she lost so much weight so quickly for her role in Dreamgirls.

The problem is, to me it feels like anorexia. Of course you're going to lose a pound a day -- you're not eating anything! But, if I look at it as a 10 day fast (I love food way too much to do a full 40 days), I think it's doable. And then I can do a week or two week raw food diet to totally clean out the junk in my system before I start gung-ho on my new healthy lifestyle.

My healthy lifestyle will involve a one-month bootcamp with my sister that I purchased a while back (before I became a victim of the economy), and I think I should do the fast and then get back to real food before I do the bootcamp, because no way will I be able to exercise if my only energy is coming from maple syrup.

Has anyone tried this Master Cleanse with good results? I've seen a lot of videos with positive results on youtube, so I figure it can't hurt to try.

Tiger Mom Says

Tiger Mom was on Colbert this week...HILARIOUS. Mad props to my sister for DVRing for me so I could watch that segment.

Ohhhhh, iPhone

I'm such a GLEEk

I love Glee.

I know it's clichéd, and would be more appropriate for a tweeny-bopper than a twenty-something (former) professional, but I just can't help myself. I love it!

I have all of the soundtracks and CDs and singles, I've watched every single episode at least twice, my sister owns the DVDs and I've pretty much shanghaied them, I have a little "I love Finn" tattoo on my butt cheek, and I took a day off work and traveled two hours to go see them film the season 1 finale in LA.

And while, for the most part, I really think the original songs are much better than the Glee versions (you will never top Steve Perry himself singing "Don't Stop Believing") I have to say that the mashup of "Thriller" and "Heads will Roll" (by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs) on the episode after the superbowl was PHENOMENAL.

Love.

LOLs

Voldemort is my new favorite person to follow on twitter. HILARIOUS.

Victim of the Economy = Life in Upheaval

Well, as you can probably tell by the title of this post, a little over a month ago I became a "victim of the economy" -- as in, I was laid off from my job.

It came completely out of the blue and I was totally shocked, as were a majority of the people I worked with (including most of my superiors). I definitely shed some massive tears when I got home that night.

But, I'm not the kind of girl to take things like that lying down. After a few days of (gloriously) sleeping in until noon, I started looking for more employment. Which, unfortunately, made me feel like even MORE of a victim of the economy.

There is seriously NOTHING out there! It's all "self-start your own business" or "we need traveling magazine subscription sellers." Um, no thanks, I watch 20/20, I know what happens in those sorts of situations. Plus, when I do find something serious, no one wants to hire me - I'll be leaving in July or August for law school, my salary history is higher than a lot of entry-level jobs, and I've got a college degree and 2 years work experience in a variety of fields which, apparently, makes me TOO qualified for several lower-level positions that I SWEAR I'd take (at least until July -- or something better came along).

So, for now, I'm working part-time at the KCBA, where my mom is the executive director (ahhh, nepotism at its finest) and I'm able to at least get some stuff done for the organization. Unfortunately (again - I'm using that word a lot these days), this situation is a VERY temporary one, and I know the work will run out in about three weeks, so from there on down the line I'm going to be seriously looking for work.

I've worked in an office now for two years, so another 9 to 6 position isn't necessarily the thing I'm looking for. I've got my whole life to deal with those hours. I'm thinking waiting tables or bartending might be some quick cash for the next five or six months.

Ugh. I hate being unemployed.

On the up side, my parents got a new cable subscription. We weren't allowed to have more than 20 channels (and only 12 we'd actually care to watch) while I was growing up, because my parents felt it was a distraction that we didn't need. Now that everyone has flown the coop (and two of us have returned to the nest) my parents relented. 3 flat screen HD tvs, two DVRs, and 1200 channels later, I've discovered new heights of laziness.

It's AMAZING.