The Girl Cave

I recently saw a picture of some girly beautiful wallpaper and thought, that would never be allowed in our household (the hubs would veto it right away). But then started to think- boys get their own 'man caves' why can't we have our 'girl caves'?!

What I'd feature in my Girl Cave...

1. Gift Wrapping Section- obviously.2. Scrapbooking area: because in the girl cave I'd have the patience to actually mark down any experiences instead of throwing them all via digi pics onto Flickr and Facebook!3. Totally setting myself back 50 years, but I'd LOVE to put a laundry room section in my girl cave. Ironing is the most relaxing thing ever. And being slightly OCD, I heart crisp clean clothes.4. I'd like the hot pink couches from RHWONY for Rocco and Lexie to hang out on (Rocco would be allowed in cos he's a mama's boy anyways)5. Speaking of.. I'd have one TV that loops RHW all day long. And on one of the other TV's, HGTV looping all day with no commercials, and you had the option to press a button for each show and it'd go straight to the 'reveal!'

6. Bookshelves, but instead of books, it would be all magazines in Mint Condition, because all of the books I'd need are on the Kindle or iPad.
7. Docking station - because I am only happy when all of my gadgets are at 100%.
8. A full mannequin so I could put together my outfits before going out.

9. A giant wall to showcase all of my shoes and bags.
10. Full time security to leave all of my jewelry out on display.

11. A Makeup Vanity table set up exactly like a MAC Store
12. A Mani Pedi Station so I wouldn't have to drive somewhere to get my nails did... the colors might be a little more JQ Loungeish though

12. And lastly, a Ping Pong Table - although its a Woman Cave, one must have ping pong.

What would you have in YOUR girl cave?

Pay No Attention to the Man in the Fannypak!

Scene: walking the dogs after work.

Hubs: Look at my new technique when I walk both dogs in the morning.

[sidenote: yes, i'm WAY too busy getting ready for work, and most importantly.. getting ready to watch the Today Show for 35 minutes]

And then he does this with her leash.

JQ: but where do you fit the water bottle and the discman... while holding 4 lb weights on each arm? while gabbin' with your best girlfriend about the finds you just picked up at The Christmas Tree Shop..

I'll spare you what Rocco thought about his new technique.

But we did pick it up. Cos we are great dog owners.

Adventures in Online Sample Sales

Hubs: Hello?

JQ: Hey! Grabbed tickets to OAR for August!!! I haven't seen them in forever.. plus it was no ticket service fee day. double score!

Hubs: Sweet, lets pick out some Birkenstocks before we go!

JQ: Why.. did my Ruelala Package come yet????!

[totally ordered a pair off Ruelala last week due to a random click of the mouse after remembering how comfy the pair I rocked back in 7th grade was.]

Hubs: Wait.. what?

[yeah, he still thinks i'm joking]

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Later on that evening...

Reading email out loud from ruelala with the MacBook while watching House Hunters.

JQ: 'We are sorry to have to tell you that the merchandise listed below has become unavailable... OH NO! Not my Tory Bombe Burch tote?!?!?!! Ohhhhh YAY, its NOT that.. it was the Missoni tank top. Hmmmmm.. i had forgot about that one. Hey at least my card isn't getting charged for it.

Hubs: Why, how much was it?

JQ: (thinking- well its not getting charged to my card so why not just tell him) $149

Hubs: For a tank top?

And as smart and lovely as he is, he drops it and goes back to reading espn.com.....

--email me if you'd like a ruelala invite. just in time for the gucci sale that starts 11am on Thursday. oooolala!--

Winna winna chicken dinna

So Random.org got all Hollywood and started charging to generate drawings, but the numbers generator was free, so the 8th commenter won. Congrats The Northerner! Let me know the best place to send your goodie!

Now onto something ridiculous i saw online while browsing through overstock.com. If I was a little kid (or a grownup chilling out on her porch with a glass of Chardonnay) I would totally freak out if this was in my backyard. Meet the most hardcore beach chair. ever. I just like looking at it. I feel like it's going to start talking to me, or give me a hug! Or drive me to go get a Blue Raspberry Slush Puppy like Herbie the Love Bug.

only $1,700!! I feel like that Hat is resting on the leg because the owner of said hat is stuck in the chair.

Overstock do layaway?

Swine & Dine..

Dear Local Newscasters,

I'd like to say thank you, for making me freak out all day on Sunday thinking I had the Swine Flu. 'Since Flu's are not in season, if you have these symptoms, you should get checked for the Swine Flu immediately' was the quote that did it.

As mentioned in my last post (last week) I'm not feeling well. I haven't been able to taste or smell anything since Thursday. Well that continued into this past beautiful weekend, ruining all plans for enjoying the warm weather and prompting me to finally see a doctor today.

Thoughts on the way over to the Doctor's office...

• When was the last time i was in Mexico???
  
• I can't be the first person in Massachusetts to get the Swine Flu, that'd be absolutely insane.
  
• This was NOT how I was going to be featured on the Today Show and be interviewed by Matt Lauer

20 minutes later after meeting with the Nurse Practitioner, it was settled. I have a Sinus Infection. Antibiotics for 10 days and I'm golden.

I chuckled 'Phew, I'm glad it wasn't the swine flu' and her eyes lit up and she said 'Do you know how many calls I've gotten today from patients who think they have it? Most with no symptoms whatsoever!!'

I think these newscasts just opened up Pandora's Box.

On the plus side, this no tasting thing has jumpstarted my diet getting ready for bathing suit season. But yeah, everything else about a Sinus Infection completely blows.. no pun intended.

Stains the Dog meet your match

Thank you my beloved D-Listed for posting about Stains the Dog. He was a featured pooch on Animal Planet's 'Its Me or The Dog' and thanks to Joel McHales interns on The Soup- he was showcased to the world last Friday night.

The owner didn't want him eating any of the food in the kitchen, so the host lady tried to hypnotize him so he wouldn't eat any cupcakes. How hilarious is his face in a trance? Now all I picture is me waking up in the middle of the night with Rocco and Lexie standing next to my bed staring at me like that!! click here to watch the clip. It almost reminds me of this pic of Rocco last year after I made some fabulous chocolate peanut butter cup cookies.

i heart the soup. and dogs. and laughing uncontrollably. and dogs who have raging sweet tooths!

'stains' image courtesy of dlisted. rocco image courtesy of his mama bear.

Sexpresso could be my new favorite word!

Boston.com made my day when I saw the following headline on their front page 'A Shot of Sexpresso in Maine' where they talk about the growing trend of Coffee Shops trying to stand out from the place next store by bringing the sex 'wow' type factor into the daily grind (ha! i did it again right there)

Boston.com- In Greater Seattle, the self-appointed mecca of coffee culture in America -- and home to the unfortunately ubiquitous Starbucks -- there has been a battle of bikinied baristas raging. The area has seen the arrival of the likes of Cowgirls Espresso, a pioneer in the niche with 16 shops in Washington (photos at right and below), Java Girls (now with 14 locations in 11 states), and The Sweet Spot Cafe in the past couple years. In neighboring Oregon come reports of Bikini Coffee Company (with three stores in the state and a half dozen others in various locales on the drawing board) and in Vegas, Sexxpresso (which does Starbucks’ Short, Tall, Grande and Vente system one better by offering cup sizes in A, B, and DD). Above image from article as well.

The marketing plan at Sexxpresso in Vegas. image source

I had never even heard of there coffee shops, since most of them seem to be on the west coast. But the ladies at my local coffee shop don't have to wear just bras at work to be awesome. Considering they know my 'usual' (ice coffee with milk and two splendas) right there... that makes me love them unconditionally.

But grabbing a Double D cup of sexxpresso in Vegas does sound like the perfect thing to do after a crazy night of partying. Granted I'd give my husband the evil eye if he ordered a DD too. Speaking of which, not one to comment about my blog ever, he did randomly bring up the Kim Kardashian picture from the last post. He DOES read my blog for the articles of course

'Put your clipboards away!'

The title of this post is why a bunch of Needham High School (my alma mater) students were banned from attending the next Varsity Hockey game this week. Really, NHS Faculty? Really?

an excerpt from boston.com...

Needham High School principal Paul Richards told parents yesterday that students will not be allowed to attend the boys' varsity hockey game against Framingham today because of rowdiness by spectators at a game over the weekend.

In the latest crackdown on bad behavior at area school sports events, Richards said in an e-mail that Needham fans at Saturday's game against Wellesley yelled chants and heckled representatives from the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association who were there to observe fans because of an earlier incident.

"Needham's student section chanted, 'Wellesley . . . Wellesley . . . you s -k' several times," Richards said in an e-mail to parents. "In addition, they chanted, 'Put your clipboards away,' to the MIAA reps who were there to observe our fan behavior."

Let's just say there's always been a rivalry between Needham and Wellesley (both towns about 20 minutes outside of Boston). In fact, its the nation's oldest public high school rivalry, look it up, its on google. Think of it as Needham representing the almighty Red Sox and Wellesley as the evil Yankee empire. For JQ Loungers, its just like the rivalry between Bayside and Valley! Beat ba beat ba ba ba beat go Bayside

I just can't get over how silly this is. I understand they must think that cheering on your sports team (who's leading Division 1 currently) is the gateway to drugs and online gambling.... but the only thing that irks me is what the Wellesley kids used to yell at us during all of our sporting events (including the infamous powderpuff girls catfight football game the day before Thanksgiving). "Hey Needham.. you're poor!" is the one that stands out the most. Which then Erica, a JQ Lounge Correspondant chimed in 'No.. I think it was more along the lines of "We have more money than you". I couldn't even make this up.

Am I the only one who thinks the ban is redonkulous?! Shouldn't people be focusing on the tougher things in life??

Put your clipboards away! Yeah, that's what she said.

I don't want to go to Public School!

Alright people, enough drama for the day, let's get back to the good stuff. I'm a little upset that it's taken me until AFTER i canceled HBO (until next summer) to find out a pure gem is available at said channel.

Summer Heights High is pure ridiculous and yummy. I still don't even understand what exactly it is, because a friend just showed me snippets off of Youtube. Basically from my understanding, its an Australian guy who plays all of the "stereotypical highschool characters" at a public school. While Mr. G is my fill for Tobias Funke from Arrested Development, my favorite character ever is Ja'Mie (pronounced ja-may). She is the most obnoxious chicklit of the bunch, but is so hilarious, I can't stop watching the Youtube videos and cracking up. Also quoting some amazing stuff she spits out.

Give the clips a shot. But keep in mind, I believe its more for the type who likes "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" and "Arrested Development".

Ja'Mie wants a formal at her new public school. Watch the 'Assembly' and tell me you wouldn't go to that formal to hang out with the Emos and Povo's (her word for poor people)

Mr. G the Drama Teacher, showing a typical lesson in Drama Class (check out Drama Drills next if you want more Mr. G)

Ja'Mie asking her mom to come pick her up from school cos she got in a fight with a friend.

Team Ja'Mie!

I believe...

• that makeup NEVER expires (except for mascara, cos c'mon people... its mascara)
• that I did lose weight, and its not because this articles talks about companies changing their size labels to make women feel fabulous (which is pure genius and keeps me in denial)
• that someday Lexie will stop eating our coffee table. I can't punish my little rescue dog! She just looks at me with the happiest little face all the time. I will post pics of said coffee table soon.
  
• that Brad Pitt and Jennifer do still talk, and it drives Angie bonkers
  
• that its A-okay to not have NYE plans at the moment
• that... HOT DANG... B-Spears has been through hell and back and is looking gorgeous! How do they make her skin appear so clear though? Can I hire said photoshop'er to work on some of my facebook pix?
• in canceling HBO until next summer
• that I will totally be able to run the 5K this Sunday, even though I haven't run 3.2 miles since April '07, and my training has only consisted of a 2 mile jaunt on the tredmill
  
• at some point, I will be on The Today Show and we'll all get together and laugh on the couch while going to commercial. Me, ML, MV, AR and AC!

Great work? Snow Problem!

My brother, the teacher, is quite the crafty bastard. Emailed me this pic with the subject line: took me like 2 hours. I thought "snow problem" was pure gold..

Quite fitting since we're supposed to get some snow tonite. Lexie has never seen snow before (being a rescue dog from Puerto Rico). I've got her paw mittens all ready.

If I can't whore out my brothers skiing penguins on the blog, then where can I?!

When is Kim's CD coming out?!

Sure this is probably a filler post because NaBloPoMo can't end soon enough. But I don't think I'll ever grow tired of the Atlanta Housewives! I hope they do 5 more seasons! Forget CoTo in Cali! Maybe MTV will pick up a series on Kim's making of her new cd, once she gets out of Country Bootcamp.

Here's some footage of Kim singing Kareoke! It totally makes my day, and I hope it does the same to you..

Also, D-Listed has some more scrumptious Kim-ness for you.

• Playboy? Like that was a surprise..
• Kim on R U Hot? Spoiler Alert, she was NOT. But I do think she looks totally younger than 29 in the clip.
• Here are the rest of fun Hotlanta housewive stories.
  

Someday I will look back and laugh at this

Until then, I'll cringe when I think about how I ruined $100 worth of J. Crew in the dryer. Note: when it says Dry Clean Only, don't even try to Tumble Dry it with No Air or else it will shrink into the size that a duck could wear!

At least the hubs got a good laugh out of it.

Anyone have a 3 year old who'd like some cableneck sweaters?!

The Hills According to Awesomeness

Oh. Man. I'm finally going to start watching The Hills again, but only its "The Hills According to Me", the new satire on MTV calling The Hills out on every. single. thing. that happens on the show.

A few favorites:

• Jelly Jim, the fishtank worker, has been brought on as a new character.
• Everytime it shows Justin Bobby- they just do a voiceover of quiet mumbling, which never gets old.
• The first scene with Lo cuts to a mannequin everytime she speaks.
• When Heidi & Spencer talk about going to Colorado- it shows a guy with a bleach blond wig saying "I don't know Spencer... we're not even being paid to go to that event"

Check it out!!!! I giggled the whole way through.

Dumb Silly Things, Volume 2

Sitting at my desk. See an email from Domino Magazine. Ooo! I just ordered it last week, what's up Domino? Hmmm, would I like to pay my bill now and get 1 whole extra year for just $6.00 more?!? Would I! Here, let me just click on the link and give you my credit card number and you'll take care of that right away. Sure thing.

Click on submit, brings me to a rather odd account page. The original email showed Domino's website with all of the different features on it. But this page is now white and shows all of my information so it must be legit. Hmmm what was the email address again? Domino@tpm1.com? Wait... WHAT??!?!?!

2 seconds later I call up Domino. Hey Domino, would you have sent me an email to pay for my bill from Domino@yadayadayad.com? No? Awesome. I just got Credit Card frauded. NO I DO NOT WANT TO PAY MY BILL, I'D LIKE TO SEE HOW MUCH MONEY THIS SCAM COMPANY PRETENDING TO BE YOU JUST STOLE FROM ME FIRST. Then i'll come back and pay a real legitimate bill. Okay thanks. You too. Byebye.

Hi Bank of America. I'm an idiot. About 2 minutes ago I blatently entered my credit card information to a company pretending to be Domino Magazine. No action on my checkings account yet? Sweet! Okay, sure you can cancel the number. 5 days til a new card? No prob, as long as those bastards didn't take a penny from me. Thanks BOA! No.. YOU rock!

JQ Loungers. Don't be a goober like me and ever click on an email to pay for anything. Always go to the original site and click on "pay bill". Or- just don't ever actually pay for anything! Con artists can't get you if you don't pay! Pure genius..