Well hello Monday. Where did you come from?

My blog posting, like every other productive aspect of my life has fallen to the wayside lately. See I didn't have internet for a year which made posting very difficult. So when I got it again this past September I had high expectations for being a productive member of the online community yet again. But then Netflix Instant View happened and Hulu and well...yeah.

But apparently reruns of The Office are not a way to spend a life - or so some believe. So I'm back.

But not just here. I have plans to do things IRL as well. Just because TV is better than real life is no reason to turn my back on the real world, is it? Well, is it? I guess we'll find out. So I've got some plans. Goals, if you will. Some bigger - more long term. Some that maybe someone might not want me getting into on here. So we'll stick to the general and more attainable. So every week I'm going to make some goals for myself and post them here so that when I get home from work and Jim and Pam want to hang out I'll have a reason to pass. So here's this week's:

1. renew flickr account
2. print/purchase pics to be framed for living room wall
3. tailor/photo 5 of my to be etsy'd vintage items pile
4. begin christmas card process - list/addresses and find/purchase/design cards
5. bake enough so as not to waste any of the icing made last weekend
6. garden state fort date
7. fill out kitten adoption application

And, if I am successful in completing my tasks I will reward myself with a thrift store/record store excursion on Saturday. Yay. Oh, and in the future these will be posted on Sundays.

Oh, and I'm gonna post more here, too. That's gonna be like a constant unspoken goal each week. And here's my first little posting treat:



I am absolutely loving the color palate of Etsy's current home page. Want it all!!

I can't believe I forgot...

Rather than say I forgot, I'm going to say that I was waiting to save the best for last. So here, a week late, the best dance sequence in a movie.







Try to argue otherwise. I dare you.

It's sing along time, yo.

Today's topic? Karaoke songs, baby! Which is totally right up my alley thanks to Japas 27 and their party rooms. Cuz after enough all-you-can-drink wine and sake, I can do in the privacy of a room full of my friends what I could never do (no matter the amount of alcohol) in a public arena. Yay for karaoke. Below are my go-to karaoke picks. The key is to pick songs that everyone else in your group can't help but sing along with. This way you're not singing alone (gasp!).



No karaoke session is complete with out at least one Billy Joel and one NKOTB song. My faves are Piano Man and Cover Girl, although it's hard to sing as high as little Joey Mac. Hangin' Tough or Step By Step are usually a safer bet.



Santeria - Sublime




Basketcase - Green Day




I Want You to Want Me - Cheap Trick




All-time best karaoke ever? I present to you: my friend Ben.



**Please don't pissed friend. I'm just giving the public what they want.

It's about treehouses!!

So today's Music Week Blog Party is Guilty Pleasures. The problem is, I don't feel guilty for liking any of these. They are so totally rad in every way. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.



For some reason YouTube is not letting me embed any of these. Click the links for some awesomeness. I promise you will not be disappointed.



C'est La Vie- B*Witched



Bring it all back - S Club 7



Mmmbop - Hanson



Tonight - New Kids on the Block



Lucky - Britney Spears



Come on Over - Christina Aguilera



With You - Jessica Simpson



Status Quo - High School Musical

[I almost posted this with yesterday's post, but I definitely think it's more fitting here.]






**I'm hoping at least one of the two people who understand the title of this post are reading this. ken, friend, are you out there?

A little late to the party

I've been trying to bust out of my blogging rut for a while. Today I stumbled upon Magchunk, Sweetie Pie Pumpkin Noodle, and You Are My Fave's Blog Music Party Week and figured that's just what I needed to get back to blogging regularly again. I've missed two days but will get to Monday's and Tuesday's topics eventually. In addition to being just the motivation I need to blog again, it's also an awesome way to stumble upon more really nifty blogs by checking out who else is in on the party. So enjoy my selections and then check out the rest of the party people. Oh and if you have a blog, come join the party!

Today's Blog Music Party topic is favorite songs from/used in movies. I went a little crazy. There's lots. Hope you enjoy! Comment if you disagree with any of my obviously awesome choices or think I forgot anything.

Invisible Circus "Hot Rod Lincoln"
I was briefly obsessed with this movie. This scene was one of my favorite.


A Lot Like Love "If you leave me now"
This move is totally underrated. I kind of hate Ashton Kutcher but he is so likable in this. And Amanda Peet is just awesome in everything she does.



Dirty Dancing "Time of My Life"
Upon recent viewing I'm absolutely loving the scenes with Baby's parents. First of all, RIP Jerry Orbach, he was an amazing actor. Second, I love when he jumps out of his seat after Johnny jumps off the stage. Hilarious! Thirdly, it is so very rad that Emily Gilmore was Baby's mom. Lady got moves. Lastly, when Johnny sings along and wrinkles up his nose as he dances with Baby (approx 4:12) = love.


Reality Bites "My Sharona"
Makes me want to chop off my hair. I can't watch this movie. Totally brilliant.



Almost Famous "Tiny Dancer"
Of course.


Breakfast at Tiffany's "Moon River"
Of course.


Garden State "New Slang"This was amazing once so it makes the list. Plus, Natalie Portman = love.


10 Things I Hate About You "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" This is sad now.


The Breakfast Club "We are not alone" Less for the song, more for the dancing.


Ferris Bueller's Day Off "Twist and Shout"Just pure awesomeness.


Rent "Seasons of Love"I can't lie. I used to be a Rent-head and I seriously shed a tear when I first saw this opening scene in the theater.


Empire Records "If You Want Blood" Honorable mentions: "Sugar High," "Say No More Mon Amour," closing scene dancing on the roof to "This is the Day," AJ and Corey making out to "'Til I Hear it From You"




Pippi Longstocking "Theme"Memories.


Elizabethtown - various songs This is from the scene after Orlando Bloom gets his "very special map" and listens to the mix tapes Kirsten Dunst has made. The below clip is a part of this scene. It's also dubbed over. It's all kind of hilarious.


Newsies "King of New York" Awesome. Also, Christian Bale = yum


I couldn't find clips for these but they should be included Say Anything "In Your Eyes" - iconic boombox scene; Igby Goes Down "The Weight" - with visual of Igby on the airplane at end of movie; Love Actually "Both Sides Now" - when Emma Thompson's character listens it to it after finding out Sirius Snape gave the necklace to some other chick. that scene gets me every time.

On a semi-related note, in trying to find clips on YouTube I stumbled upon my absolute favorite childhood movie "Wrinkles in Need of Cuddles." The entire movie is on YouTube. Below is the first third of the movie. I didn't include it with the above list because I couldn't pick one song out of all of this awesomeness. Seriously.

Spring is in the air...

Or at least on your desktop...







In honor of the first day this spring where it's actually felt like spring, I present to you ten awesome spring themed desktop wallpapers created by the brilliant artists over at The Kindred.


Head on over there to springify your desktop immediately. I'm on a serious button kick so here's the desktop I chose to rock this spring:

Gentleman? More like Gentledouche.

The Foggy Monocle is entertaining in an 'I'm so glad I met my friend Ben and no longer have to waste my time dealing with these kinds of douchtastic tools' sort of way. If you look past the fact that all of the conversations posted are real and the folks chatting actually exist, the conversations are occasionally amusing. Sad, but amusing.



There is, however, something particularly awesome about the posting below. Part of its awesomeness is the reminder that the majority of these frat boy cum investment banker dimwits are now unemployed. Mostly it's because I know exactly where this is all going down. Do my A-towners recognize the locale?



Pulled from here:



ShackledGman: how you feelin today?
ChevysChevalier: extremely bad
ShackledGman: me too…i just want more sleep
ChevysChevalier: my brain may be dead
ShackledGman: woops
ChevysChevalier: so much drinking …
ShackledGman: i rested yesterday
ChevysChevalier: I was going to
ChevysChevalier: but Swenson* and I were swapping out my car battery and decided to stop at Chevy’s, of all places, at like noon for some god forsaken reason
ChevysChevalier: Swenson* had never had a Pacifico
ShackledGman: i take it he liked it?
ChevysChevalier: so he tries one and, of course, deems it delicious
ChevysChevalier: and, given that we are both unemployed, we have 8 each
ChevysChevalier: until the Russian barmaid cuts us off because you are not allowed to have more than 8 drinks a person at a Chevy’s
ShackledGman: thats lame
ChevysChevalier: I can’t decide what is more depressing — that I learned what the cutoff limit is at Chevy’s, or that I wasn’t even remotely drunk after 8 beers
ChevysChevalier: So at this point Swenson* is all into the Pacifico
ShackledGman: it is delish!
ChevysChevalier: and we grab a 12 pack from teeter
ChevysChevalier: then we go back and put my battery back in
ChevysChevalier: by the time we stumbled through that, it is like 7pm and we are hungry
ChevysChevalier: so we decide we are gonna get $5 footlongs from Subway
ShackledGman: (I’ll now be singing that song all afternoon)
ChevysChevalier: but, on the way there, we see Jay’s and decide that it is a way better option because they have food, drinks and we can smoke indoors
ChevysChevalier: we were absolutely swilling pitchers and Wild Turkey shots and Swenson* was eyeballing some yuppie dudes
ShackledGman: uh oh, he make an ass out of himself?
ChevysChevalier: he was like, “I hate those yuppie fucks!”
ChevysChevalier: I had to remind him that they were dressed exactly as we would have been when we had jobs, which made him hate them even more for likely having jobs
ChevysChevalier: those guys were also with like 4 chicks the likes of which Jay’s had never seen
ChevysChevalier: thus further exacerbating Swenson’s* hatred
ShackledGman: they just had to rub the old, “we have jobs and make sex” in your face, didn’t they?
ChevysChevalier: Swenson* finally freaked out because one of the yuppies was “ice grilling” him — a term that I think he made up on the spot just so he could get in a fight — and we had to leave.
ChevysChevalier: A proud day for us and our families.
ChevysChevalier: also, we looked like homeless people by that time (circa midnight/1am-ish)
ShackledGman: Amazing. yall were a vision i’m sure
ChevysChevalier: if I had a job I would have had to call out today
ShackledGman: lucky for you, you do not have that problem