Doughnuts and Tampons

I look down at my phone to check the time and see that I missed a call from a 302 number. Since there was no message, I figured I would just let it be, the area code is from Delaware and I couldn't think of anyone I know from that state. People call the wrong person all the time, nbd, I totally did that the other day and hung up on the person who picked up because I panicked when I realized my mistake.

An hour later I notice my phone going off, and again it is that same 302 number. I figure I better pick it up and just let this person know I do not know them. To my surprise it was a recording from Bank of America. The company was concerned that my credit card may have been compromised. Recent charges indicated that the account might have been hacked. To determine if there was fraudulent activity I had to confirm that the last three charges were in fact purchases I authorized.

My mind began to race as the data loaded on the phone. I was preparing to hear about big screen tvs, internet porn, designer splurges, something along these lines. I was ready to hear my credit card was maxed out and I was about to have a major headache. Nope.

What were these crazy three charges?

1. My bar tab from Phoenix Landing
2. A doughnut from DD
3. A small purchase at a locally owned drug store in the Southend (tampons)

They were all legit and all by me. I would love to know what algorithm is used at BoA to determine fraud. What is wrong with alcohol, doughnuts, and tampons being purchased in a 12 hour period of time?? I guess we will never know.

I heart me some Koli Bear.

The Biggest Loser Finale has come and gone. The contestants look amazing, I get so excited knowing that they have changed their lives in such a positive way.

The show opened with the audience learning who was voted into the final three, Koli or Darris. I liked both men and refused to pay 99 cents to vote. Fortunately, there were Americans who were willing to cough up that dollar and Darris was given the opportunity to make top three and compete against Ashley and Michael. Koli had to settle for competing for the at home prize.

While I agree, these episodes are long, I really love all the transformations especially with the hologram comparisons with with final three. It is a little disheartening to see that some contestants were not able to make as much progress as I would hope, but hey, any weight loss is good weight loss for these individuals. Hopefully, they can continue with this path and continue to get healthier.

The pink team looked amazing, both mother and daughter. They are both my new favorites. Love them both and will keep these women in mind as I continue to try the follow through with my running program and ab workouts (well I hope to start the ab work outs soon).

Congrats to Mike the $250,000 winner and Koli that at home winner of $100,000! I hope Koli starts to feel a little better as the week progresses. It looked like his pride was seriously wounded when he wasn't voted into the top three. I think he looks phenomenal and while I understand how people may have felt he was cocky, I think he was just excited for the challenge.

I am woman. Hear me whirrrrrrrrl

A few weeks ago I went to IKEA and bought a cart for my tiny kitchen. My neighbor bought the same one and said it was the hardest thing to put together. Being the overwhelmed and under-motivated individual that I recently became I opted to allow for mine to stay in its box...until today.

I quickly understood why the cart was considered so difficult. You have to screw all the pieces together. The first few spins - easy peasy, then BAM the freaking thing wouldn't move. I tried so hard to get the stupid hardware into the wood. After a blister formed on my thumb, I decided to think of a Plan B.

Electric Drill.

Perfect plan, just needed to acquire one. I figure why not hop over to SEARS in the CambridgeSide Galleria real fast. All I would need was something small , nothing to fancy, but with enough power to help finish the job.

When I got to the store, holding bags from J-Crew and H&M - can't go to the mall without checking out sales -and I tried to find the power tool myself. A few of the men who worked in the power tool section saw me walking around and asked if I needed help. I gave in and said, sure, might as well get this over fast. I just remembered that I had another belated birthday gift to find.

Major pet peeve about being an independent female shopping in "man stores", is the way the employees tend to treat me. I may not be completely sure of what I need at times, but honestly, don't look at me like I am completely helpless. Instead of just pointing me in the right direction the guy came over and read me the information off the placards that were next to the drills themselves. I could have done that myself.

When he asked me what I was looking for and I explained I was hoping for a small drill like the one my friend owned which was powered by a battery pack. He replied, "Where did she get it?" and I said "I wasn't sure where HE got it". I don't know why it irritated me, but honestly, why assume that my friend was female? If I said I wanted something smaller that super huge, plugs into the wall variety that my friend has, would he have used "he" instead? Ugh. I just hate being looked at as helpless, or cute that I am trying to do this kind of stuff on my own.

In the end, I got what I wanted and was able to finish the cart when I got home. Interestingly enough I ended up using a screw driver to tighten the screws, as I have no skill at using power tools and couldn't get thing to screw past the original point of no return. At least I now have a drill if there is ever an event that calls for one.

Best Female Commercial Ever

Studying for the GMATs is exhausting. I have given up happy hours and going out with friends after work. Basically I want to avoid headaches the morning after and would like to increase my chances of a decent night's sleep. But to be perfectly honest, I have no attention span when it comes to studying and require either small breaks every half hour, or longer breaks every hour. The longest time I have gone sitting and studying for this test is when I take a practice test for 3 hours straight.

What do I do during these study breaks? I watch trashy tv. I tend to fast-foward through commercials, but this one makes me laugh every time I see it. I don't know if I really think the commercial is funny, or if I think it is funny because when I first saw it, I happened to be menstruating. (tmi, sorry)




I am happy to see a commercial about women's menstruation that doesn't glorify this monthly nuisance. Maybe some day our culture will become comfortable enough with the woman's body to allow for "vagina" to be said in the ad!

Bringing Sultry Back

In talking with a friend of mine, we got to talking about classy lingerie and how it seems to be a thing of the past. When watching older movies, women are seen primping in front of the vanity mirror while wearing beautiful night gowns and robes. They are covered head to toe in fabric (some of it sheer) and even without body parts hanging out for all to see the women oooze sexuality with their personalities and carriage.




Victoria's Secret may have a few pieces that are seductive. But overall, the teddies are pretty tacky and made of, well, cheap lace. I am not saying that a garment made entirely out of lace is always tacky and/or trashy, but when it is made in a neon color, it gets harder to defend. (truth be told, I own this particular style in sea green) The point of this small rant is simply that the masses are being sold to make women look slutty rather than sultry.

At least this is what I have been thinking until I saw a slip hanging in Anthropologie. I want it. I want it badly. Since I have been living on my own I have enjoyed walking around in whatever I do, or do not, feel like wearing. Lately, I have been on the look out for slips like this one because they are just so soft, comfortable, and cute. It gets too hot for sweatpants in the summer and I want a good alternative as I like to keep the windows open and would rather not put on a show for the neighbors.

Attention all possible sugar daddies: This $78 slip would be a great gift.

All for Bedazzling

But I don't think I can behind vajazzling.



I don't care that this woman claims that she can't feel anything after the styling is finished, I can't imagine gems glued to my pelvic area is something that would go unnoticed. If anything I feel they would get caught on my clothing, which would be irritating. Don't get me wrong, I am all for trimming and maintenance but this isn't a trend I can get behind.

The only pricing I can find online says you can get the crystals (with a wax thrown in) for $112. There is a discount at Strippers Waxing Salon & Boutique in Washington, D.C. for $50 during spa week. (Please, let us review the name of the salon and then evaluate who this trend is aimed at...)

Yeah this has been talked about since Jennifer Love Hewitt mentioned it on Lopez Tonight in January, but I couldn't let this go without a quick mention. Let's end with a quote from the Gawker:

Gross. People who vajazzle should have their vaginas taken away...They can have them back when they are ready

Awards for being Female?

Jezebel posted a column about sexism and the Academy Awards. People, who ever they are, have begun discussing that if Kathryn Bigelow wins for Hurt Locker will she have won for merit or because she was a woman.

Honestly, people.

These are the types of discussions that simply annoy me. Why do people always need to ask if a person won an award because of their race, gender, sexuality, etc? Furthermore, if James Cameron wins, I find it doubtful that people will ask if he gets to take the gold statue home because the voters just didn't want to give it to Kathryn.

Is Red that Gross?

Watching some TV before my kickball game and saw an advert for maxi pads. I have to ask, why is the liquid always blue? Last I checked, nothing that comes out of my body, comes out blue. It is just colored water. Would it really be that terrible for the color to be red? Would anyone really think it was blood and not colored water? I just find it a little weird. This all kind of goes along with the whole women's bodies aren't media friendly concept. (You know what I'm talking about, penises are funny - vaginas are just taboo).

Well, the blue liquid is just something to think about.

The EYES have it

On Friday, my friend and I did some shopping in NYC. Sephoras are all over the place and so we hopped in, as I was still in major need of a new eyeliner and one of y'all said it was a good place to find some. Needless to say, the women there are amazing. I was wandering around with no idea of what to look for and eventually was able to catch the eye of one of the employees. She immediately took me around the store showing me her favorite products for not only stay put waterproof eyeliner but also a number of other products that my make-up shoe box desperately needed. Here is the run down of what was purchased this weekend:

Urban Decay's 24/7 Glide-on Eye Pencil - ZERO. This was by far the best of the eye liners I tested. Before consulting the expert, I had drawn a number of lines on my hand testing out other brands. She showed me this one as I asked for a really dark shade and again I drew on myself. It looked amazing. When I went to clean off my hand with the make-up remover they have out for customers all the other lines wiped off easily. The Urban Decay line stayed put for a while longer. I did already use this pencil Saturday night, and it really was so much better than what I have been using.



Dior's Diorshow Black Out Waterproof Mascara They have a whole display that compares mascara lines. There are even little graphics which help you understand which will lengthen, curl, volumize or something else that I can't remember. The cut-out was still a bit much for me to comprehend so I asked my expert her opinion. I explained that since I wear contacts I needed something that didn't flake. She said that any good waterproof mascara should never flake. I also said I wanted the product to volumize my lashes as the stuff I currently had just lengthened and that wasn't helping with the overall look I was aiming for. She pointed me to Dior. I was a little gun-shy about going for this one as it is DIOR, but thought I should just go for it. Again, used it Saturday night. AMAZING. I am in love with this product.


eye BRIGHT by benefit This product is an eye brightener. It helps combat dark circles under your eyes. I have never really attempted to deal with the fact that my poor sleeping habits do affect my appearance. There are times that I attempt to use concealer, but that really doesn't do much. This pink stick will neutralize the color! (I also learned that if you suffer from a more red tone, green will neutralize that. Make up is really fascinating at times). I haven't used the product in real life yet, beyond when the expert attacked my face with it. But it did appear to work its magic.

I did come away with a few other boring things. Concealer stick, brush cleaner and pencil sharpener but those items don't seem to warrent their own little paragraphs. I will note that the casher that I had was super nice. At the swag thing I went to a month or so ago, I had signed up for Sephora's rewards card. Apparently, my information was entered correctly because she couldn't look me. I had to refill out the form. When the woman and I finished chatting and what not, she threw in a free lip gloss. I made sure to compliment her on her rings - they were fabulous.

Nuvo Ring is for Size 2 Only

While watching the Biggest Loser and I started to think about how America, in general, hates fat people. A guy I was seeing a few months ago actually told me that as a child his mother told him being fat was the worst thing, ever. Because of this he is extremely anti-fat. He was also a bit of an idiot.

But really, larger people are not on tv - except if there needs to be a sassy/funny man. Great example of this is the Nuvo Ring commercia (which was playing during one of the commercial breaks). You know the "monday-tuesday-wednesday-thursday-friday-saturday-sunday-again" commercial. There are 28 ladies swimming together in a circle and not one of them is larger than a size 2. All of them look fantastic. There are no blemishes. I'm relatively certain that over-weight, blemish filled women also have sex and would need the pill. Let them be in the commercial!!!

I dunno...every so often I get on a kick like this, you know, have real women on tv, in magazines, etc. But eventually fashion week or something comes along and I go back to staring at the models in the pretty dresses and simply don't care that they are under nurished and need a doughnut.