March 31, 2009

HAPPY BIRTHDAY D!!

Posted by Miss Jaime at Tuesday, March 31, 2009 3 comments


HAPPY BIRTHDAY DANA!

Meet Dana.
She's one of the best friends this girl could ever have.
She's hilarious ("It looks like the weight I lost in my ass went to her face!" Hands down, the best D-ism ever).
She's got great taste in pretty much everything.
She's sweet, creative, smart, thoughtful, gorgeous and about a thousand other complimentary adjectives.s
She understands the importance of good food, music, movies, books and friends.

For the most part, I find girls to be lousy friends. They're catty, dramatic and ridiculous. D completely changed that and I am so lucky to have her in my life.

Have a fabulous birthday, darling! Here's to hoping you get everything you could ever wish for and that this will be your best year yet.

Love you! xx

March 28, 2009

Tumbling and Tweeting

Posted by Miss Jaime at Saturday, March 28, 2009 2 comments
Quick consensus question:

Who's Tweeting (Twittering? Twitting?)?

Who's Tumbling (Tumblring?)?

Have we established that I have entirely too much and not enough time on my hands? Right then. Good.

New Year's Resolutions: An Update

Posted by Miss Jaime at Saturday, March 28, 2009 2 comments
It's been a few months since I made my New Year's Resolutions, so I figured an update was in order:

Write more -- Fail. I haven't really written anything of note since the new year started...but I did revise the opening of my novel. For the six billionth time. Since 2002. Yeah.

Be a better writer -- Fail Squared. Trust me. I re-read the opening.

Read more -- I've been pretty good about this one, actually. In the past two months, I have read the following:

Then We Came To The End by Joshua Ferris
Love All The People by Bill Hicks
The United States of Arugula by David Kamp
The Summer of Naked Swim Parties
by Jessica Anya Blau
It's Not News, It's Fark: How Mass Media Tries To Pass Off Crap As News by Drew Curtis
Climbing The Mango Trees
by Madhur Jaffrey

Next on the list, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and the Damned. I'm excited. Fitzgerald takes me a while to sink into, but once I do it's incredibly rewarding.

Send Thank You Cards -- They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Mine will be paved with unsent Thank You cards.

Take more pictures -- I've been taking more snapshots which satiates me for now, but I definitely want to start taking better pictures and fiddling around with the settings on my camera.

Add To My Flickr Favorites -- I've been pretty good about this and have discovered some pretty great pictures.


Photo by Slidercleo.

This is probably my new favorite because it makes me think of this:



Eat healthier -- Pshaw. Not as long as macaroni and cheese exists in this world.

Eat better -- I had the world's best veggie burger at National Mechanics' when my sister was in town and I'm seeing Dana in May, so I'm sure the prospect of Middle Eastern cuisine is in my very near future.

Spend regular quality time at the gym -- It hasn't really been regular but last time I was there, I lifted 40lbs. For a girl who teeters around the 100lbs mark, this isn't too bad.

See the family in Florida -- I'm working on it.

See the Smithsonian in D.C. -- I'm also working on this.

Purchase cute and sassy costume jewelry and band tees -- No on the band tees but yes on the cute and sassy jewelry. Dan got me the Octopus necklace for my birthday:



but insists that it looks like HP Lovecraft's Cthulu.



I disagree.

Pick up the guitar again -- Another fail. Maybe this summer. I've always preferred playing outside.

Floss regularly -- Bi-weekly (and by bi-weekly, I mean whenever I can be arsed to). Does that count?

Make more mix CDs -- This one is a technical fail solely because the CD-ROM drive in my computer gave me the finger and decided to stop working. However, I have been making more playlists for my iPod. I have a collection of pop-punk entitled, 'Young, Dumb and Full of....' because I am a classy, classy dame.

Remember to remember -- I'm working on it.

March 15, 2009

Quick Question

Posted by Miss Jaime at Sunday, March 15, 2009 2 comments

If you had a $25 gift certificate to Barnes & Noble (Thanks, Karen and Marc!) -- what would you buy?

I need some good recommendations.

March 10, 2009

You're the birthday, boy or girl!

Posted by Miss Jaime at Tuesday, March 10, 2009 2 comments
Twenty-six

It's the atomic number of iron and John Terry's number for Chelsea. It's also the age I'll be turning tomorrow.

I'm a little freaked. Just a little. After all, 26 is officially closer to 30 than it is to 20. And the idea of 30 conjures up all sorts of terrifying notions of real adulthood as opposed to the faffing about you do in your 20s where you pretend to be an adult.

I'm not ready to be an adult. You know what I did last night? I ate two slices of leftover pizza for dinner (Amore's in West Chester -- so delicious!) and watched Batman: The Animated Series (Barring the Nolan films, it's my favorite adaptation of the character). I mean, I may as well be a seven-year-old.

I'm excited, though. Twenty-six is a brand new page to scribble all over. So, I'm blatantly ripping off one of my favorite bloggers (the fabulous Andrea of Caffeinate Me. If you're not already reading her blog, hop to it. Seriously. Go ahead. I'll wait right here).

Dear Soon-To-Be-Twenty-Six Jaime:

Happy Birthday!

Twenty Six is going to be great. How do I know this? I don't, but I said Twenty Five was going to be great and that worked out pretty well, didn't it?

This is the part where I'm supposed to give you some great piece of advice that will carry you through the year but the truth is -- I don't have any.

You're going to work a lot but you're also going to laugh a lot. You're going to eat great meals and some truly terrible ones. You're going to cry and do that thing where you clench your jaw and breathe very quickly through your nose. You're going to kiss Dan and that'll make everything all better. You're going to spend time with the people that you love and you're going to give dogs bellyrubs.

Basically, you're going to live. Some days will be fantastically amazing and others will suck beyond the telling of it. BUT, every day will be yours and will be an opportunity for you to do something. Learn a new word. Read a Wikipedia entry you wouldn't normally have clicked on. Order something new (all the while keeping in mind the wasabi-tangerine ice cream fiasco of 2004. What the eff, Coldstone?!).

Basically, do what you've been doing and you'll be just fine, kiddo. It's gotten you this far and let's face it, you are one lucky bastard.

Anyway, have a fabulous birthday. Don't forget -- print out directions to the airport (don't forget the exit), stock up on Thank You cards (Target has some super cute ones) and take pictures at dinner.

Have a great one!

Love:

Me xx


March 2, 2009

Funny Men in Flesh-Toned Pudge Suits

Posted by Miss Jaime at Monday, March 02, 2009 5 comments


These dames ain't got nothing on these guys:



And sidebar -- damn, Paul Rudd! Like a bag of hammers....
 

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