Beau Date Friday

Chris Pine on the cover of Out Magazine.

You are the cutest in your red white and blue jacket.  Love it.

Hiccups

Shitty days at work always lead me to want to walk (this is NYC) as quickly as possible away from my work establishment and eat ice cream.  I don't exercise- I angrily speed walk home from work.  This can't be healthy.  However I do end up championing about five avenues and 40 blocks so I guess that compensates for the ice cream part of this habit.  
Yesterday I happened to feel a little lardy in my dress because I had just washed it and it shrunk up (that's what I'm telling myself); so when I stopped by my neighborhood grocer speeding home I decided I should go for the more "healthier" ice cream.  This little treasure popped into my eye line-

Delicious.  Delicious.  I tore the box open and ate one on the rest of the walk and also enjoyed the fact it also happened to match my nails and dress (wamp wamp, really).  And of course when I got home while trying to decide whether I actually wanted to make dinner or not (hell no) I ate another one.  Figures.   

HOW AWESOME IS THIS.....

The Xanax for Gay Summer Weddings commercial from SNL.  I can't figure out how to put the actual video here, but it's on Hulu.  And it's freakin hilarious.  I am making a wedding cake for a gay summer wedding in July.  In New York City.  And I expect nothing less.  Doves man.  Doves.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/491727

Don't Knock It Till You Try It Tuesdays: Young Adult Books Edition

This shall be the first of many posts about how much I love Young Adult novels.  I've had friends give me the really-you-are-25-stare when I mention a great YA book I read recently.  It happens.  Just because a book is labeled Young Adult doesn't mean it's not well written, that it might have a story that applies to you or may be of interest to you and this could be a nice break from all of those high brow books you always read (ahem).  Just because it's an "adult" book doesn't mean the name Nora Roberts makes you a well read literary genius.  Get off your pedestal.

So.  Here are some recent ones I've read and loved.

1) The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare (The Clockwork Angel, The Clockwork Prince and The Clockwork Princess)

Unfortunately the thing about YA novels is, all of the cover art is consistently bad.  Download and read them on a Kindle like me.   

CC is also the author of The Moral Instruments series, the first book City of Bones is being made into a movie.

The Infernal Devices is the same deal with Shadowhunters, BUT in Victorian London (historical fiction nerd alert).  It is the basic love triangle set up in books like Twilight and The Hunger Games (I am assuming you all have read those or at least watched the movies so they aren't on this list.  Although just putting it out there, Twilight was ruined for me with those hell for my eyes movies).  I really like the ending of the series by the way (again awful in Twilight), in this rare case, the books only get better.

2) Cinder by Marissa Meyer

  

I just finished this one a couple of days ago.  I wasn't too convinced it was for me when I first read the blurbs on Amazon, but the book kept coming up in my recommended reading on GoodReads so I gave it a shot.  It is Cinderella with cyborgs, plague and a futuristic Beijing OH MY!  Think it's going to be predictable because you know the story already?  It may surprise you.

3)The Elite by Kiera Cass

So I accidentally read this without knowing it was the sequel to "The Selection".  I can't vouch for the first book, but the second one was excellent.  You don't need to read the first one to enjoy the second one, I didn't even realize I was reading the second one in a series until I did an Amazon search on it.  Whoops.  Think Hunger Games but the girl is being roped into The Bachelorette version and is not entirely sure she wants to marry the future king.  And yes there is a Gale character for you all rooting for him in the second movie.    

Unsure about my less than adequate blurbs?  Read the first couple chapters on Amazon.  That's what it's there for!

Music Monday (Embarrassing Edition)

So I'm one of those people that is constantly on the hunt for my perfect song of the moment.  And when I find it, I ruin it.  I play that poor little jam on repeat every day, every hour, until I can't stand the thought of it any longer.  I have playlists of music that will never do anything for me again because they have reached their max play out.  
My dad does it too.  Maybe ruining music for yourself is genetic or something.

This week is Embarrassing Edition because it happens to be a will.i.am song (he's not embarrassing, his haircut is awesome) but it happens to feature Justin Bieber (cringe).  Biebs is catchy, I'll admit, but he's the worst.  Not musically, but name anything else and he's pretty awful- pants, relationships, he has a kid?, instagram, rants, etc.  When I first heard this song on Pandora I was like oh this is awesome and when I went to go listen to it again on Spotify and it said featuring Justin Biebs in little letters at the bottom my mouth dropped open and I immediately turned it off in shock.  Except that no one was home.  So I turned it on again.  Also this music video.  Again.  will.i.am cool.  Biebs.  Get back in your cube. 

ALSO.  How awesome is Miguel.  I don't know much about him yet, but he is smooth (style, music, you name it).  As an iced chai latte.  As Baileys.  Or silk.  Or whatever.  But how embarrassing is this video.  How old are you Mariah?  You are married.  You have children.  Get out from behind that car in that dumb outfit.  Stop robbing cradles.  Get out of here.  

So.  I like a Justin Biebs song and a song that has a music video of Mariah Carey showin off her toosh in some creepy barn to Miguel in a car.  UGH.