whoah make me over.

i am dying laughing over this right now. check this out on instyle's website. i came across an ad for it when i was skimming through instyle -- trying to figure out how i want to wear my hair to the wedding saturday...

upload a photo of yourself, and enjoy! this cracks me up.

[[click on the image to enlarge it for better viewing and more laughs!]]

well guess i should go pack now. mo-mo and i are headed to the airport in t minus 3.5 hours!!

**p.s. i called my mom and told her to come look at this posting... this is how our convo went...

mom: okay which one
me: the one I JUST posted. the first one on it.
mom: okay what do i do?
me:click on the image.
mom: which image?
me: the ONLY image on the posting.
me: you are going to die laughing. it is so funny.
mom: (after she has clicked to enlarge the photo) why would i think this is funny? i dont know any of these people...

HAHHAHAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAAAA. oh mom. good thing im coming home this weekend, i know lindsey wont share a bottle of wine with you, but i will... i mean, y ou wont HAVE TO drink the whole thing by yourself like you did tonight... bahahahaaa

GRO's new album - OUT OF MY HANDS on itunes!

remember when i wrote about the band green river ordinance here?

Well - their new album with capital/virgin records was just released! OUT OF MY HANDS -- check it out on itunes, and purchase it! it's only $7.99 -- which is a complete steal for a set of music that is awesome and amazing and i just know you'll love it.

check out the boys site here --- greenriverordinance.com ENJOY!!!

photo-a-day...

hey yall. i updated my photo-a-day project and added captions to them all -- well some of the links aren't working and i keep trying to fix them... they aren't quite there yet. I will fix them eventually, but i have spent too much time on this for the week! another time... yea and still working on being able to scroll through the big images. i'll let yall know when i get it to work.

happy tuesday everyone.

make my logo bigger

jena shared this with me today -- i think it is hilarious.

also, i just read on thedieline.com that tropicana is going back to its original packaging design! whooooooweee. kinda cool that this major corporation is valuing the feedback of its consumers. look at that. pretty cool.

alright. i am kind of boring right now. whatev. just trying to get through this week -- and be ultra productive to get caught up/get ahead so that this weekend while i am home i can just rest and playyyy and have no worries about assignments.

SIX DAYS TILL JENNA AND TIMMYS WEDDING!!

boys on FB. mini bottles of wine. and packaging.

to check out the 20 male poses of facebook click here. it is pretty funny and pretty accurate. makes me think of LOTS of different guys here and there and what their facebook profile pictures say of them. i think it would be pretty humorous to see the female version. :D

as for me, i am in for the night. hanging with my melina. drinking some wine. and working out my logos for packaging. i am creating a brand identity for wine... and needless to say, after class today i was quite frustrated. so here is me putting some effort and trying to work this out. i will maybe eventually post my final labels. or maybe i should get that website of mine updated... i think that sounds better.

well. back to work. hope yall are having a great friday.

[[one week till san antonio! 8 days till jenna and timmys wedding!! oh i cannot wait!!]

give that thief a wedgie!

oh. my. word.

this is hilarious.

i just caught air of this while watching chelsea lately. i think it is very funny and of course wanted to pass it on.

xo
low

p.s. anyone else out there twitter? follow me!

lela rose!

a link to style.com where you can see the whole collection -- professional photographers = MUCH BETTER THAN MINE so check those out. yea these are a few that i took. but they're mostly blurry and not so great. but im sharing them anyhow. :)

also, i saw brad (rachel zoe's assistant) in pax this morning before the show! i didnt think anything of it until mo had mentioned something about rachel zoe at dinner tonight and it clicked and i remembered i had seen him when i was getting coffee. ah. i knew those glasses and that bow-tie looked familiar! very neat.

i found this pic on the internet, it's a lot better and close up. look how pretty they look in lela! p.s. thats's my friend kathleen in the background on the left!

[[kellie pickler(american idol), allison brie (madmen), jennifer love hewitt, and brittany snow (john tucker must die, hairspray).]]

super sunday

it is an absolutely gorgeous day and it has been filled with all sorts of delight. it's fashion week in new york city and this morning i met my friends at the tents at bryant park for the lela rose fashion show. we checked in, and received our 'standing room only' cards and waited in line. when we got into the salon, it was exciting to find out that we were going to be able to get a seat (and of course a goodie bag :). the music playlist was AWESOME. i am obsessed with the opening song that began with whistling birds, and the upbeat song 'we just want to have a good time tonight. we just want to have a good time allll the time!! i love the fuschia and purples. they were magical and wonderful. i also absolutely loved the gorgeous dresses (the gold was fantastic!) that the show ended with.

it was also, as always, wonderful to see my little melina out their workin and doin her thing. she works so hard at her job and its so great to see the show and to see all of her (and of course all of the awesome crew at lela rose) hardwork pay off. thanks for the chance to see a beautiful show mo mo! i loved it.

after the show we headed to the upper west side for brunch at calle ocho (again) and loved it. im glad rachel was there with me bc she accompanied me on all four of my trips to the sangria bar (thanks rach :) ). after brunch we all went and scoped out this great flea market. annie and i discovered THE COOLEST hand made rings. they were huge and fabulous and made of woven wire. yea i had no money, but i got the guys card and plan on getting in touch with him in the future!

it was time to go when we discovered that nate and chinae had found a nestling spot laying on the large beautiful rugs that a vendor was selling.... check out time.

now im home. relaxing. trying to be productive until church starts. welp that is in like an hour and a half... so i guess it will be more relaxing, and less working. oh well.

cheers to a beautiful sunday

p.s. i will upload pics when i get em uploaded from the cam...

life is goood good good

it's 51 degrees in new york city this evening.
and
i just went outside barefoot and without a jacket

ooooh oooh im a happy girl.
i hope this weather lasts...

also. i cooked a whole chicken tonight. all by myself.
i felt very cool and all domesticated and stuff.
okay i know it's 'domestic' but i was drawing from 'just friends'.
[[one of the funniest parts of the movie
--shout out to my tcu girls on this one]]



ah cracks me up every time. okay maybe you had to be there. whatevs.

i've conquered hump day anddddd
everybody's workin for the weeeeeeeknd!!!

All truth is one.
In this light, may science and religion endeavor together for the steady evolution of Mankind:
From darkness to light,
From narrowness to broadmindedness,
From prejudice to tolerance,
It is the voice of life that calls us
To come and learn.
- Anonymous


[[i recommend going to my playlist and placing it on pause while you listen to this fabulous man speak]]

my boyfriend told me about a video clip he watched in class today where a man named clifford stoll spoke. he told me to check it out, and said that i didnt have to watch the whole thing - just to look up the video clip and see what this guy was all about. well. i can say i watched the whole entire thing. this man is absoultely fascinating! and entertaing for sure. he has the most brilliant mind and i love the way he hops and skips about the stage the same way his words and thoughts are rattled off. you can practically see this man's creativity bursting from his pores. i thought it was way cool and thought i would post this video for you all to check out. maybe i would have paid more attention in 8th grade science if i had this guy as my teacher! :D

p.s. i updated my photo-a-day. it's lookin better, layout wise. i still need to add the captions and find a better way to scroll through them. my mom commented that the slideshow version was easier for her bc she could just watch them and not have to click through... sorry mom... you're going to have to face your technology fears and just brace yourself through my new setup :) love you! {oh thats to my mom. and to whoever may be reading this - sure why not.}

xoxo people.

oh, hey also!

check out the link to my 'photo-a-day' project. it's over on the left in the side column. i will be updating it as soon as i can... it took me long enough to get it in the stage that it is in right now! but, i am much more pleased with it than that slideshow crap (sorry! okay, sorry im not sorry.) blogger set me up with.

alright. im off. its 55 degrees in new york city praise jesus. mo and i are heading out to the chelsea flea market and to walk around and enjoy this gorgeous day.

cheers.

do you know why that little boy did those things? Because he likes you.

mo and i exit the 1 train at 42nd street [[thats times square area for all of you. bright lights. packed sidewalks. and people walking slow as turtles]] and make our way to the regal movie theatre. you may ask WHY ON EARTH we would choose this theatre to meet at... well it's the most central location for all the girls that were attending. so we dealt with it.

the movie theatre experience in new york is way different than any other movie theatre experience i have ever had. you buy tickets on the first level [we bought ours on fandango so we printed them out on the first level] head up two escalators and then give the man your ticket. he then instructs you to go to the left (but the theatre is to the right!!) and wait in the long line of people that have gotten there before you (ohhh. i get it now). when it's 'time' the line is allowed to head towards the theatre. [[up two more escalators to theatre 12]]. as we approach the theatre 12, we see there is two entrances (everyone is going in on the right side) hilary shouts to us -- lets try the left side! mo, hilary and i proceed to RUN (yes run) to the left side entrance. we make it inside and discover this plan was brilliant bc the left side of the theatre is mostly empty and the people are slowly filtering their way across from the right side. we find two rows, throw off our coats and purses, throw them onto the seats as we frantically count out 16 (yes 16...which i knew um, 8 of) seats for the total of girls we have coming. whoooo. what a crazy rush. it was literally a mad dash for seats! we then had to tell people over and over that the seats were saved (duh, our coats are strewn across them and our purses are placed strategically on the row).

it was hilarious. never have i ever RAN to a theatre, nor saved seats so quickly and desperately. but anyways - the movie was great. totally a movie you want to see with your girlfriends (girlfriends, do not drag your poor boyfriends to this movie...) and laugh as you relate to each and every character... whether it be because of something you have done in the past, or because one of the characters is exactly like a friend of yours. i liked that it was a chick flick, but not like teeny bopper high school style. though it could be enjoyed by the younger crowd, it was aimed towards the older college- and post college crowd (check. thats us).

after the movie we headed to rachels apt to hang. kathleen thought it would be great to get a dvd, and as we walked into this one movie store, she said that if they have 'girls just want to have fun' she wiill totally buy it. well it turns out this movie store just may have had titles called 'girls just want to have fun' but they were NOT in the section that we were willing to sift through. ew. we left quickly and found success at blockbuster (ahhh. excellent.)

rachels apartment is so adorable. we all cozied up in the living room and laughed through 'girls just want to have fun' and relived those classic 80s details.

it was a fullout complete girls night. and it was just what i needed. besides my ticket itself (um yes that is $12.50 in new york city people) i spent only $4 last night. (two $2.00 one way fares on the MTA paid in full with quarters, nickels and dimes. oh my gosh i just admitted that. WHATEVER. i like to make use of my coins!)

“I had this guy leave me a voice mail at work, so I called him at home, and then he emailed me to my BlackBerry, and so I texted to his cell, and now you just have to go around checking all these different portals just to get rejected by seven different technologies. It’s exhausting.”
--drew barrymore in he's just not that into you.

eighteen degrees.

i am freezing cold. holy cow. seriously very cold. i need to learn to layer better bc i was absolutely freezing today on my walk home. i am so glad tomorrow is friday. this week has been long. last night i went to the new york city ballet with serena, a girl who is in the same graphic design program as me. she had been telling me about this student discount you can get on tickets and i thought it sounded like a great idea. yesterday when we found out our night class was cancelled she invited me to go with her. it was really cool. we got orchestra seats -- and they were only $12. it began with Stravinksy Violin Concerto, then La Valse, and then it ended with West Side Story Suite. It all was awesome and so beautiful. hopefully i will get to take advantage of this student discount a few more times before the season ends!

yes yes yes here we go.

so i am super stoked that the plans for the annual trip are in motion.... and pretty close to being completed! the follow group (plus parker and kimber) will be heading to destin, florida for memorial day for the TCU reunion trip!!
thanks to reza, and his awesome coordinating we will be staying here for the weekend of may 22nd to may 25th. the place has 8 rooms and sleeps 18... and has 8 bathrooms... so no having to share a bathroom with any of the males. excellent news. i can't wait for all the girls to be back together. its pretty much my favorite time of year (up there with the regulator christmas party and my H.S. loves).

the trip first started as a girls reunion weekend when we headed to miami for labor day of 2007 --- our first official reunion trip!last year we settled on memorial day weekend and stayed at allisons beach house in padre. the boys decided to come along for the reunion and stayed at a hotel down the road. i love this tradition that we are beginning. the girls make it a point to bring little gifts for each other. in miami i made us koozies [[you can see them in the above photo]] for padre hales brought us these great bird heads.

and here are the cactus shot glasses from kirby being put to good use before a night out.

well i am super excited for this trip... especially since it is the weekend after my graduation it will be like a celebration weekend! also, with the weather in nyc blustery and snowy today THIS definitely gives me something to look forward to :D

p.s. the chain emails between all eighteen are definitely humorous... slightly inappropriate for public viewing, and may need t eventually be made into some sort of quote book. sara bear kicked it off with the first email at 11:37 am.. and with an email just in from brett ((8:05pm)) we have come to a grand total of 74 emails. oh you people are silly and make me smile.

absolutely in love

this was SUCH a wonderful weekend. i will elaborate more and post more photos when i have a little more energy. just wanted to post this photo... i absolutely fell in love with this dog today. and i am well aware that i for one, cannot afford her right now, and two, do not have the space or time that this puppy deserves. ahhh. i never should have picked her up. well. someday. someday i will have my own little baby puppy.

im going to sleep. this weekend has been delightful. God is amazing. life is great. peace and love.

p.s. these are my new glasses. no more scratches. not more broken frame. new and improved. okay thanks byeeee

[[this just in --photo update -- friends in at belvedere castle yesterday after brunch]]

i am my own genius bar.

i could be a mac genius. no really. i could work in the apple store.

ha. yea right. i wish! i am just saying that i was having major problems with my MBP (thats macbook pro for you... which i learned on the tons of troubleshooting sites i visited this evening). i really was getting frustrated. i used mo's laptop, went to the site for the apple store on w14th, and scheduled an appt for saturday. at 8pm. which is their next available appt. geeze. busy much huh? so after booking my appt i searched for help via the world wide web. i learned how to start my laptop in safe mode... and then made sure EVERYTHING on my laptop was backed up to my hard drive... then proceeded to fiddle around.

then. VIOLA! i did it! i don't know how. well i know what i did, but i dont know technically how it worked.... but guess what. i am up and running! i can cancel my appt and not worry about it. look at me being all self-sufficient and stuff.

p.s. as for the weather today in nyc.... i sure do miss the 210 & the f-dub on days like this... you SO KNOW that they would have called a snow day and cancelled class. sigh.

achooooouesday.

long day. great dinner - my roommate is wonderful and cooks for me. good wine. more work to get done. its never ending and all just beginning. but i wouldnt want it any other way.

did i mention at all yet that i have been doing the 'project 365' challenge? several months ago mo told me that her friend holli started a challenge where she takes a photo a day. I have heard of this before, but have never committed to doing it. some days its difficult. some days its super easy and i have more than one photo i want to choose from. i thought about writing this bc i realllly like the photo i took for today and want to put it up like stat.

anyhow. i am working on getting those up. not sure yet if i want to devote a blog to it? or if i want to host them on flickr? hmmm.

right here. right now.

today was the first day of my internship. and to sum it up - i did a lot of LEARNING. it was great doing something that was completely new to me. i am basically learning the nuts and bolts of building a website. there were challenges, easy parts, and things that i had to take my time to understand... but it was all great in its own way. all in all i am looking forward to this experience and all that i will be able to take away from it. not to mention, i LOVE working with jena. she is awesome. she is a strong woman, has an outgoing personality and is absolutely honest. she makes me laugh and i look forward to working with her and learning all i can from her. {{here is the link to the companys site!}}

i re-arranged my room. its such a small space, how would i do that? oh. i did. i dont know if im happy with it. but it is what it is for now. i still have crap everywhere. and am lacking in the decorating and organizing department. but whatev. im doin what i can with what i have.

i opened up my 'stickies' application on my comp - its been forever since i have... and i stumbled across this quote that i wanted to share ---

"I'm not sitting somewhere dwelling on the past or obsessing about the future... I don't want to be anywhere other than where I am right now."

-Jennifer Aniston

i think it's perfect. i think its a beautiful way to look at life. it sums up how i feel and where i stand right now. im tired of people worrying about how things will be in their future -- relationships, jobs, life in general. i also think its silly to keep hanging onto the past. you can't change the past. you can only learn from it, and grow from it. and as for the future -- just live your life now!! work hard, love fully, laugh loudly and make the best of what you have now.

im happy. and blessed. and know that i'm right where i need to be.

i think i once found this quote on miss jenna cox's facebook (hey, at least im honest)... so she totally gets credit for it :D

say it loud.

[[ for the record... we lost this game. BIG FAT BUMMER.]]

GO SPURS GO!
[[beat the lakers]]

omg friday at last

oh it's friday!

it is true!

i've made it through the first week back! well with exception to my packaging class that is in two hours. im excited for today. after class i am going to meet with a lady to discuss an internship this semester. she seems really cool and i am excited to meet her [[more on the internship later when it is finalized]] after that i will jet on over to meet tuten, alex, sean and his wife jenny (friends from pratt) and maybe brandon? maybe odge? (and whoever else joins in) for drinks. a way to kick off the weekend and celebrate completing the first week.

later tonight i am going to artbattles which i am really excited about. it is an art show, but not your average art show. at art battles, the artists compete against eachother. they have a set amount of time to complete a piece and then the winner (i think?) is auctioned off. something like that. anyhow. i think it is totally cool and will be a blast. it's something like i've never been to before! hopefully we can take pics there - bc if so i will definitely have to, and then will post them.

happy friday to all -- hope everyone has survived through the week, and has a spectacular weekend! oh and its 35 in nyc... with a high of 48 for the day! whooooohoooo! that is enough to slap a big smile on my face.