Outfit for August 18

Hat - Target
T-shirt - Target
Skirt - walmart from forever ago
Shoes - Not Rated

It is impossible for me to do anything outside without the dog trailing me.

These shoes? Pretty awesome. If I were five years old, I would have picked these same shoes. So at 23, I'm doing something I would have wanted to do at 5. Not too shabby, if you have low enough expectations.

Outfit for July 29 + August 3

It's been a super busy couple of weeks. I lost the cord for my camera but still took photos.

Hat - target
Fairy shirt
Jeans
Belt - target
Sandals- thrifted

My father got married and I helped my stepmother move into our house.

Hells yeah, it's 250 feet of bubble wrap! Every single foot was used. If you can't tell, my stepmother has a lot of breakable thing, like china plates and glass statues.

Headband - Claire's
Dress - Old Navy
Belt - taken from another dress
Golden sandals

The Internet is Awesome: English Russia

St. Basil - National Geographic

Many people waste their lives away while browsing the internet. Wikipedia drawls you into a spiral of endless knowledge. Livejournal showcases the best train wrecks. Something Awful is always funny to me. And 4chan/encyclopedia dramatica, well, you want to look away but you just can't.

The best place to waste your lunch break? English Russia.

Being an American born during the cold war, my knowledge of Russia was fairly limited. Thanks to this (rather engrishy) website, I learn more about modern day life in Russian life than anyone needs to know. English Russia shows you that in a country so large, there's always something interesting happening.

Tanya Grotter

Did you know that there is a Russian Harry Potter knock off? Look at the cover! Harry Potter never rode a motorcycle with a mechanical owl. I can't read Russian but I know for a fact that Tanya Grotter is a far superior book because of that cover alone.

Dior's cruel trick

One article shows a sad photo shoot from Dior. Models were dressed up and paraded around Moscow in the finest western clothes. The Russian women stop and stare in awe of dresses that is very much in contrast their own.

Russian Anime Lovers

They have anime conventions and cosplay in Russia too. Most of it is just as bizarre and bad as its western counterpart.


Other great articles:
The History of Russian Fashion Models
Russian Folklore Spirits
The AK-47
Soccer fans on a snowy day (nsfw)

All photo credit goes to National Geographic and English Russia.

Pokemon Wedge Platforms

I would wear these shoes but only if they were Mew themed.


Mew is the only Pokemon I remember because he is pretty cute.

Corgi Tuesday, August 18

The internet is full of crap but you stumble across homemade gems such as the following short film about an attention loving corgi called "Hot Toffee".



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New Week; New Wallpaper - 8-17-09

Halfway into August. School is starting up. Say goodbye to summer with one last popsicle.

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My own photograph blurred and turned into wallpaper. Maybe it's vain. Oh well.

Aquatic tables and school folders

My grandparents used to have a condominium in Florida. They flew down there for five months of the year, enjoying the balmy winter while the Midwest battled lake effect snow and Ugg boots. They used to go to Florida but stopped when my grandmother saw one cockroach after many many years of staying in a tropical climate. Their solution? Spend the winter in Texas. Now they remain up north during the winter, having chosen to be snowed in rather than ever see the kind of cockroaches that thrive in the south.

Their Floridian condo was as dull as can be expected. Everything was beige colored except for some salmon pink wallpaper that occurs only in Florida.

Why bring up an old condo I visited as a child on winter breaks? Ten years too late, I found the perfect table for their beige besieged apartment. I found a table that is so unique that it needs the blandest of colors to be paired with; it's a table that can only be paired with chairs that do not remotely match.

this thing is a bazillion dollars

YES. It's a glass table with a surfacing sea turtle. I'm not a fan of glass topped tables but I'm even more hesitant about a glass top table with an embedded statue. Not only would I be terrified of breaking the turtle's face, I'd feel terrible for setting down a casserole on his face during dinner time.


A manta ray table might be an interesting gift but it would be in bad taste to send it to Steve Irwin's family.


Not gonna lie. I would like to have a manatee coffee table, with or without the oddly place flower vase. I wouldn't buy it (especially not at $3200 + $300 for shipping) but if I saw it on the side of the road, I would stuff it in the car's backseat and take back to my imaginary bachorlette pad.


I am certain I had a similar picture on school supplies when I was in elementary school. Nothings screams 90s for me like a Christian Riese Lassen psychedelic waterscape on a folder.


Speaking of Mr. Lassen, it turns out he has made an aquatic theme table too.

I have relatives who would buy this

I like the mantra ray a lot better.


Sources:
John Didier Designs Custome Furniture
Christian Riese Lassen

Connections

While browsing Gilt for things I don't need and can't possibly buy, I looked at a sale of Melissa/Vivienne Westwood shoes. They were surprising affordable, with prices that ran from $30 to about $75. Curiously these summer shoes were made of rubber.

Rubber shoes? That sounds a bit uncomfortable if you have sweaty feet but alright, I said aloud to the dog.

Then I saw this.

You have to be shitting me.

Pink, shiny, and rubbery plastic. It's the same color and material they make dildos out of. This shoe probably came from a company that was also processing fake penises. And that made me think of...


'On the dresser, there's a dildo made of the same soft pink plastic as a million Barbie dolls, and for a moment, Tyler can picture millions of baby dolls and Barbie dolls and dildos injection molded and coming off the same assembly line in Taiwan.

Marla looks at Tyler looking at her dildo, and she rolls her eyes and says, "Don't be afraid. It's not a threat to you."'

-Fight Club by Chuck Palhniuk
Chapter 6

Corgi Tuesday, August 11

These aren't my Blazer. He's terrified of water. He hates so much as getting his feet damp. That's why he'll pee on the pavement rather than go in wet grass unless my dad yells at him.



Across other youtube clips, there's people saying corgis can't swim. "Look at their bodies! They aren't made for swimming!" Bull. They are like floating logs with little tiny flippers to steer the way. They can't swim fast but they float pretty well.

BONUS: Super Mario music.