I recently decided to start doing reviews, because a) I have an opinion about almost everything and b) blogging is a great platform for sharing opinions! Also, my friends and fellow bloggess friends are also quite verbose as well. This weekend my friend, Olivia, got to do a review/shopping spree at LOFT. I’m quite jealous! She needs your opinion on which outfit is your fav. As if, speaking your mind isn’t enough of a motivation – there’s a possibility at $200 in it for you.
Update: Apparently I set this to autopost on Jan 5, 2008 — oops. Next week will be on Monday actually 
Over the holidays I spent a few days at my grandmother’s house. She lives in a small town in no-where-ville Texas with absolutely no cell phone/internet/connection to the outside world. My days were spent eating and hanging out with the family, watching movies, ya know the typical holiday stuff. I also happen to be nocturnal, I have tried all sorts of remedies but for some odd reason if I don’t make it to sleep before 11pm them I’m up until 3ish. So to entertain me while everyone slept I read Good Housekeeping and several other magazines. I came across an interesting article (I should have written it down to link to it oops) about 30 ways to improve your life.
I started writing some of the ideas down thinking they would be fun blog topics, then I came up with a fantabulous idea (if I do say so myself). Today marks the first of a year long weekly series of fun things to do to make your Mondays UnMundane. Although I hate the saying "the case of the Mondays" – they do happen to many people.
So each Monday I will post the assignment to make for an UnMundane Monday. Each week’s assignment is inspired by current holiday’s or inspiration from my life – I have actually already planned out all of the weeks for 2009 – go me! My plan also will be to have already done the "assignment" so that I can post about my experience with it so I’ll probably be one week ahead.
UnMundane Monday #1: Schedule A Grown Up Slumber Party
Inspiration: In September of 2007 one of my college roomates got married in a small town and as her bridesmaids we all stayed in a hotel together. This had been the first time that me and my former roomates had all spent the weekend together since we lived together in college. We actually lived in a 4 bedroom 4 bath place. So from that weekend we started a tradition – every 6 weeks or so we have a slumber party at alternating houses. Logistical question – yes a few of the girls are married and no we don’t kick the husbands out of their homes, they usually entertain themselves while the girls go to dinner and whatnot.
Recommendations:
- Use some online event coordinating website to make it easy for everyone. I personally love evite.
- Plan ahead for what you will be doing for the evening/morning – we generally do dinner & movie and then breakfast.
- Air mattresses make for great impromptu sleeping arrangements.
- Remember to take pictures
Stories from my slumber party which just took place this weekend. As I went back to write this I realized I had posted most of this on twitter in the form of pictures
- One of our friends just had a new baby so we started the evening with a quick joint shopping trip to buy some baby gifts so we could mail off a joint package – we set a price limit before hand. We were in an out in no time.
- Celebrity friend: my friend is currently a graphic designer at JC Penney and a new line of T-Shirts had just come out that she designed so we had to go by the mall and see them. Well & take pictures!
- Next stop was dinner – sushi [pic] is our reoccurring theme
- From there we headed back to the house where we started our gift exchange. We all had such busy schedules during December we decided to hold off our holiday gift exchange until January. A fun twist we added to our gift exchange was we had a $5 limit per person. So, needless to say we got to get creative – some gifts homemade others in bargain bins & from dollar store. We had so much fun with this we decided we may carry this over into birthday and other gifting occasions.
- There was also cookie baking – one of the gifts I gave was a package of Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix
- Last stop for the evening was a movie we rented. We originally planned on seeing The Women together in the theater during our last slumber party but plans changed so we ended up watching it at the house this time. I must say I wasn’t really a fan of the movie. Should have checked out it’s 13% rating before hand.
- In the morning the hostess & her husband made us pancakes!
I decided I’m rejoining the flickr world so you can see all the pictures from the evening – here.
So when will be your first (or perhaps next if this is already a tradition) grown up slumber party?
I learned a new word today … gastrosexual:
They say that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach but it seems the dining tables have turned as increasing numbers of men are taking up cooking in a bid to seduce women.
Dubbed ‘Gastrosexuals‘ this new generation of men consider cooking more a hobby than a household chore and use their kitchen prowess to impress friends and prospective partners. -Mail Online via yumsugar
While, I’m not so into the sound of the word gastrosexual I am certainly into guys who can cook. This girl likes to eat! Is master chef on your list of ideal mate?
This is from Cosmo magazine.
What do you guys think? I fit into that age group and I have never known anyone to be in love with more than one person at a time.
My life has been a complete and utter roller coaster the last week (maybe two) so I decided my advice for this Thursday is to myself … have some fun! Life is not as serious as you make it! There you go that’s my advice. And in keeping with my advice I decided I’d share with my lovely freaders my love of t-shirts. I don’t love just any ‘ol tshirt though. I have a love and appreciation (oh course) for designery graphicy t-shirts.
So I was very excited when I heard about a fun resource for t-shirt artistry. I’m sure everyone knows of Threadless. If you don’t you’re missing out. And today I’d like to introduce you to … dun duh duh Pop Culture Tees.
Featuring new designs from the hottest retailers and indie artists, tips ‘n tricks, and interviews from industry experts, Pop Culture Tees delves into the world of creative t-shirt design.
I have a hard time deciding but I think I’ll say this has been my favorite so far.
or perhaps this one
or maybe this (if it came in another color – perhaps pink!)
The moral of the story is go check them out!
PS – Olivia you’d like this one.
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