My Cyber Baby

My husband and I have a baby. Her name is Chansey Tangela. Meet her.

Click here to see Christina and Brian's virtual baby.

Exhibit A

So good.

Check out this World Beard and Moustache Championship

SO GOOD OR NO GOOD?!

b.t.dubs: "There are just 554 days until the next World Beard and Moustache Championships."

Ohh, well lookie at what I've just StumbledUpon...

I caved and joined the millions of other ADD-prone internet addicts and signed up for StumbleUpon. I don't know if recommending it to anyone is a good idea or not. It's so addictive - this is just like when I let my roommate convince me to sign up for Twitter last year.

Is StumbleUpon just a phase? Only time will tell, but one thing is for certain - today alone, I've wasted too many hours on it (2?? 6?? 8?!).

BUT I'VE FOUND SO MANY COOL THINGS THAT I WOULD NOT HAVE FOUND OTHERWISE!!!

cherry cherry boom boom

Feelin' nostalgic

"Simply can’t tolerate the little chicken cutlets I get in my armpits whenever I wear my new corset"

So don't start watching Glee unless you don't have an addictive personality.
Because it's addictive. And you will not stop watching it.

I mean, just listen to this version of Gold Digger. And this mashup of Halo/Walking on Sunshine.

Plus, everyone on the show is mostly really attractive.

totally crushin'

New Halloween Costume Idea?

evacuate the dancefloor - i'm comin' in!

NEW GAGA

Perez never disappoints.

And neither does Gaga.
Speaking of which, she's making an appearance in Gossip Girl?

WONDERFUL!

can't wait...

...for this

...and in a parallel universe, it's me you can't resist

...

british-glam-electro-dancepop.

it's my new obsession.
ch-ch-check it.

Frankmusik:
Gotta Boyfriend
Confusion Girl
Better Off As Two



New Young Pony Club:
Get Dancey
Ice Cream
The Get Go



Little Boots:
Stuck On Repeat
Meddle
Remedy



La Roux:
Bulletproof
Tigerlily
As If By Magic



Mika:
We Are Golden
Blame It On The Girls
Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)



Van She (okay, they're australian, but we'll ignore that for now):
Kelly
Strangers
Changes



We Smoke Fags:
Eastenders
I Love You
Passion for Fashion





So, yeah - I know none of them are new by any stretch, but they're amazing nonetheless.
And now you wanna dance.

You. Me. Dance Party Now.

hey baby, why don't you come out tonight?

i can't seem to get motivated enough to go to the gym unless i make a totally bitchin' playlist

and i can't make a totally bitchin' playlist if i don't own half of what i want to put on it

but i can't download any music because my school will yell at me

so i guess i'm not going to the gym

omfgROFLlmaoJK!
actually...maybe i won't.

the only reason i wanna go is 'cuz i gotta paper to write.
and i don't wanna write the paper!



i wish this paper was about kennedy!

<(heartthrob)3

xangaXXlivejournal

Does anyone really need anyone else ever?
Can't people just get by by being the most selfish person they can and get everything they want?


And is "love" really that "humbling"?

(edit: thomas hobbes is the biggest debbie-downer ever)

It's always better when it's SWEATER WEATHER

September 22, 2009 marked the beginning of Fall. Fall/Autumn is my favorite season. It evokes a certain sense of...PERFECTION.


And since I will be in beautiful New England, I should take advantage of that, right? Mhm.

I don't know exactly what I got planned or anything, but apple/pumpkin picking is definitely a must. As is going to Salem. And Plymouth? Well, whatever I decide to do, it should be nice.

I would be happy sitting along the Esplanade with a HUGE BUCKET o' Pumpkin Ale! ALL FOR MYSELF!

So speaking of pumpkin ale, HALLOWEEN'S COMING UP!

My costume this year: Lady Gaga.
Yeah, I know, "...you and everyone else!" I don't care! It will be perfect!


Look at this vision of beauty and try to say anything different.

That's all. I got Russians to read about!

I Am Pitchfork Media

I have a test in an hour and a half which means I will give you a list of 10 songs to listen to and...that's it.

1. Alphabeat - The Spell
This video is the bee's knees! I didn't think this Scandinavian pop outfit could get any better after Fascination and 10,000 Nights. I guess I was wrong?

2. Mayer Hawthorne - Just Ain't Gonna Work Out
He's white! And dreamy!



3. Sohodolls - Bang Bang Bang Bang
I love this for sentimental reasons. Also listen to their song Prince Harry! And their song Stripper was featured in Gossip Girl!!

4. Little Boots - Stuck on Repeat
Her songs are always catchy! And she's reminiscent of Madonna - I don't know if that's a good thing or not?

5. Razorlight - Burberry Blue Eyes
It's just nice!

6. Julian Casablancas - 11th Dimension
Remember that guy from The Strokes? Well, this is him. This song is as catchy as H1N1 and all I want to do is drunkenly dance to it all night long!

7. Mika - We Are Golden
Mika is the gayest, most flamboyant, most AMAZING human being on this planet and this album doesn't say otherwise. It's nice and you should watch the video. If you don't like him, then just watch it for the shoes!...?



8. Starlight Mints - Popsickle
Garage-band-tweepop. Video with puppets. Sophomore year. :)

9. Voxtrot - Berlin, Without Return
New Voxtrot! More mellow than poppy Start of Something, but it's nice anyway.

10. Flunk - Cigarette Burns
Simply black&white. Simply amazing! Sounds like a successful blend of Camera Obscura and Rilo Kiley. That's definitely a good thing!

OK! BYE!

This ain't no love song

So last night I was talking to my friend, Hope. She was the one I hung out with in London and went to gay parades and met rockstars with. My grammar is atrocious right now, but if I spend a couple more weeks with FreeRice, that will be a thing of the past.

Anyway, Hope and I were talking about how much we miss London and we should just go back and get a flat together. d'AW! So, I googled "songs about london" and got this. I scrolled down and saw lots of Pulp (which is always good IMO). One of the songs is called Bar Italia!!! I THINK...uh...SOMETHING REALLY FUNNY HAPPENED THERE! And Jarvis Cocker is singing about it!

Watch the video and ignore the fantastical, mythical, RPing creatures - those are irrelevant.


He's a beautiful man and my ideal mate.

Wastin' time, wastin' bandwidth

Hm.
Frozen Milk Chocolate Reese's Peanut Butter Cups taste like peanut butter ice cream.

Interesting...

(Also interesting - the best/only mnemonic device that one should ever need: SPA = Socrates, Plato, Aristotle.

It's also in chronological order.)

Soviet. Colossus.

I need to buy ink for my printer because my school has shut down all of the computer labs that we used to have. That makes no sense considering the fact that there are over 15,000 undergrads here.

Anyway, I've been reading all day. I'm tired of tomorrow already. I'm exhausted! It's 2:21 in the AM, but I have class at 1 tomorrow. Nobody cares.

So, on a sidenote, I've discovered those fun little game applications on Facebook. Remember Bumper Sticker? Well, it has been replaced with FarmVille and Restaurant City! There ain't no stoppin' me now!


S'like the Sims only for Facebook and obviously not as great. And right now it's not loading.

I put some Reese's cups in the freezer. I did that with the intention of eating them soon, but now I don't want them anymore. So they wil freeze. I'm putting them in the fridge, hoping this game will load, and then going to sleep.

AND OMG I HAVE SO MANY MOVIES TO WATCH ON NETFLIX IT'S OVERWHELMING!

he'll wear your favorite color just so he can match your eyes

today, i asked a coworker this question: "how do you know when you're in love?"

her response: "well, i suppose it's when when you can't stop thinking about them and when you wanna be with them all the time - even when you're doing something really boring and ordinary. you just want them to be there with you."

and now all i can think of is "how do you know?" from enchanted.



"well does he take you out dancing just so he can hold you close? dedicate a song with words meant just for you?"

[/ cheesy post]

i'm too much in love

i was supposed to go to PRIDE today and i didn't. now i have to wait until NEXT YEAR!

last night was SUCH a good night. hope and i ended up watching "go ask alice" (william shatner was in it and was as butch as possible), complete with two bottles or really bad rose wine. so when we ran out of wine we wanted to go out and get more because, well, why not?

anyway, everywhere was pretty much CLOSED and stopped selling alcohol. so SOMEHOW we ended up in soho (hedonism and debauchery galore, HEEEYYYY!) and met a group of the cutest twinks you will ever meet in your life. they invited us up to drink and sing karaoke with them. after that we ended up at some TERRIBLE bar where hope accidentally broke a wine glass.

and then we ended up meeting this guy:

his name was toni and he was the finnish guitar player of the band sohodolls.
he was actually really cool and i'm hoping that we'll become the best of friends and he will have mad connections to people like russell brand (swoooon!) and lily allen.

ok, maybe i'll go to pride anyway. i'm sure everything is going to be going on in soho tonight.
i'm pretty sure this is why london is better than most other places.

i really wish i had photographic documentation - perhaps tonight?

omg now all i want to do is dress up ridiculously and listen to the pet shops boys all night long - nvrmind my stereotypes.

i'm dorian gray. (what?!)

hello world

i disappeared from the internet for about a month.

i've been busy working, socializing, and falling in love with a boy - that leaves me little time to do anything.

this boy is pretty much amazing, but i won't say much more because i hate people who do that.

c'mon chemicals!

Kriss and Alex are here and I'm stomping around in my kitchen listening to hipster music! (Matt and Kim, Totally Michael, Pulp, Alphabeat.......and LADY GAGA).

We made brownie cupcakes with chocolate frosting and they are so good! Pictures to follow later maybe. If i remember/care enough.

Also, quote of the day (no this is not going to be a regular thing): "it's only rape if it's rainman dustin hoffman, but if it's the graduate dustin hoffman, you're just like, 'oh, absolutely!'"

waterwaterwater is so nice right now. My mouth is so dryyyy! (that's what she said jokes not allowed). there are so many (parentheses) in this post.

(i love parentheses. they're so useful for adding thoughts that are completely relevant, but don't really fit anywhere.)

I haven't posted a picture in a while. Like 2 posts. hm...sit on this:

Go ahead and try not to fall in love!! It's pretty hard, i know!

Oh, so speaking of Matt and Kim, they are coming to London on Monday! And we are seeing them! Oh, hipster boy paradise! swoon!

I'm also using a lot of !exclamations! Maybe i'm really excited? Probably.

It's probably the excess of hipster music taking over my house right now. I wish I had a soundtrack that followed me around wherever I went that fit whatever mood I'm feeling at the time. I think everyone secretly (or not so secretly) wishes they had one. I'm also pretty sure that when people listen to their mp3 player of choice while walking down the street, they pretend their life is a movie and that is their soundtrack.

Jens lekman! just came up on shuffle and I'm still in love with him. omg i have to pee so bad why am i not doing that??

"i took my sister down to the ocean, but the ocean made me feel stupid"

^^ oh, jens. another picture:

ok, i think this post is done. we are going to a park soon. after we nap and i pee.

hello - no title for this post

Here are the pictures from the weekend. I wish I had a new cameraaaa! A digital SLR would be real nice. Nikon too. But that isn't gonna happen. 

Anywho, here is my new hobby. I'm going to be adding to this album later. And it's not actually a new hobby. It's just that I finally acted on it. I don't actually know what sparked the interest for taking pictures of these little guys, but I think I've been obsessed with them since I was like...8. I can't even say, "but, like, not in a weird way!" Because it is, admittedly, pretty weird. 

Ok, so since I made that "THESE ARE ALL THE BOOKS I'M GOING TO READ!" post, I've read one more chapter of M&M. At that rate, I will never finish! I NEED INSPIRATION! 

I heard Mr. Obama is a pretty good motivational speaker and whatnot.  Maybe if I gave him a call, he could convince me to fly through that book. 

Swedish music is mostly weird.

summer book list!

Right now, I am reading The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. And so begins the summer reading lists that I barely finish/start. Okay, hopefully, this year will be different. Here is my list:

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf - Edward Albee (I read the first act and have yet to finish to rest of the play)

Geek Love - Katherine Dunn

Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs - Chuck Klosterman

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys - Chris Fuhrman

Choke, Fight Club, Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk

Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald

An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser

House of Leaves - Mark Z Danielewski

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Jane Austen, Seth Grahame

The Sun Also Rises, A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway

High Fidelity, Fever Pitch - Nick Hornby

Daisy Miller - Henry James

A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man - James Joyce (to start off joyce)

I'm sure there are more, but that's it for now.

summa luvin' had me a blassst

Ok, plans to go to Haworth fell through, but we did something else instead.  Drove to Windsor/Bath/Stonehedge. Will post pictures later.

Summer is definitely here. I can tell by the excessive amount of sweat and pit stains left on my t-shirts. Meaning...? Time to go to Topshop and get new clothes! Right now I am so into shorts. Unfortunado, I have long, twiggy legs so I just look like a streetwalker when I wear them. So now I'm trying to find the perfect blend of cute, but not trashy. But also, long enough so neither of my buttcheeks is hanging out to also experience the summer months. Doo doo da doo am on the website right now. Just saw some disgusting neon pink hotpants for 15pounds. I think acid bleached shorts/pants/everything is in right now. That might fall under the trashy category. 

Oh! These old lady shorts are nice because they look like a skirt without the hassle of worrying about showing your underwear to EVERYONE when you step outside of the train station. Those skirts that stick to your legs are nice though. But again, trashy category? We will see. 

OMG! THIS! Ideal.

I got mad sunburn yesterday/today. And now I just look like this:

Hopefully I won't look sickly/ghastly anymore. 

Ohhh, summersummersummersummer!

"It's not your birthday anymore"

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOZ!

ping pang

I just searched for zombies and vampires on Flickr. No, don't ask me why. Anywho, I don't understand the fascination with the Twilight series. Seriously? It's only because of this guy right here: 

And while I'll be the first to admit that, yes, he is pretty attractive, I am so over the R-Patz phase.

I think I seem to prefer the pasty, dirty, perma-inebriated Robert Pattinson to the suave, "dazzling," immortally vampiric Edward Cullen anyway. But either way, he's got such good bone structure omg! However, his taste in women is questionable. Who likes that K-Stew anyway?

Ok, so anyway monday is a bank holiday here in the LDN which = three day weekend. And meine mutter is taking off tuesday as well so here we are with a FOUR day weekend. Alright, so to take full advantage of this mini-holiday, we are driving to Haworth, Yorkshire. Yes, that Yorkshire.  And the very same Haworth where them Bronte sisters were born.  

Apparently it's gonna rain this weekend. That is either going to make this trip ideal or really shitty. I'm gonna go make some tea and play The Sims.

Nadia Oh, Oh?

Okay I have another new song obsession. Nadia Oh's Got Your Number. I really can't stop listening to this. I...put it on repeat last night. How many times? I don't actually know. The video is perfectly Miami trashy and reminiscent of the glitter and butterfly clip phase of the early 2000's.  And as if that description didn't want to make you go out and buy the entire album, to make it more enticing, the song was on Gossip Girl. 

Last.fm recommendations are simply the best!

update!

This addiction has gotten so bad, I have resorted to looking at HGTV's website to get interior decorating ideas and have also started to troll Sims 2 message boards in search of new ideas and plot lines I can use to "spice up" my sims' lives.

I need to start working again.

BABY FALL

For lunch today, I wanted Mac & Cheese, but realized there wasn't enough butter! I was about to give up and make a PB&Nutella sandwich, but turned around and saw a banana on the counter that started getting all black and wrinkly with old age. I was about to eat that instead, but saw a buncha pasta in our pasta canister. I was still in the mood for pasta/noodle/etc since I couldn't eat my mac&cheese, but this banana was looking pretty good too. It was at that perfect stage of sweetness - when the skin is a nice, bright yellow, but there are also little brown bits all over.

Anywho, I was conflicted because of my two cravings so in the end I just decided to make a banana sauce for the pasta. SUCCESS! It was delicious and I got the best of both worlds! 

I would show a picture, but it didn't look that good so nevermind. The only thing that ruined it for me was that while eating, I was watching Jon and Kate Plus Eight (Aaden, I love you). Aside from Kate's perennial, overbearing bitching, the producers thought it would be nice to show Kate's stomach POST-sextuplets and PRE-lipo. 

Feel free to go and vomit now. Granted, after 8 kids, one's stomach isn't exactly deific. Kate Gosselin was Octomom before Nadya Suleman for sure.

Speaking of Babies, watch this and try not to cry when Jarvis Cocker looks at you. Because I might've let a tear fall around 0:34. Jokes? Maybe. While you're at it, listen to Chairlift's cover of the same song. Bad quality, awesome song. And while we're STILL on the subject of Pulp and Jarvis Cocker, didja know that he was the lead singer of the Weird Sisters in the 4th Harry Potter movie?! Well, proof. Oh, dear - I think I'm in love!

In the meantime, go occupy yourself with these mediocre games on barbie.com. Be sure to turn off the sound though because otherwise you're just going to kill yourself.

b.t.dubs: My Sims addiction is not getting any better (or worse) and I think I'm going to break down and get the Pets expansion pack. I also need to start looking into external hard-drives because I have too much music on my computer and it's laggy, thus rendering my Simming experience less enjoyable than it could be.

I know how much she hurts you, but you've been clean 6 years.

Geez louise. This is my third post today and overall!

Okay, new song obsession: Laura Marling - London Town

EVERYBODY GO AND DOWNLOAD IT IMMEDIATELY. so gooood!

Laura Marling, for youse guyz who don't know her, is one of those indie folk sirens. She hails from the UK and is barely 19. Reminiscent of Regina Spektor, she sings about the usual themes - love, lust, heartbreak, etc., but with her "smoky vocals," the lyrics are smart, simple and unsurprisingly relatable. 

Anyway, new general obsession as of 45 minutes ago: That button on top of all these blogs that says "next blog." It's the equivalent of Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" button. After you download Miss Marling, go click that button a buncha times and see whatcha get!

I found:

- The coolest mom next to mine and Dorothy's Sophia Patrillo.

- This french recipe food somethingorother with pretty pictures.

- Some lady from Manchester who makes things behind the pseudonym, emily pickle

- I'm not actually sure what this one is about, but I like it because it's full of culture and travel. It might be from the POV of a cat.

Oh! My mom just made me a chai tea latte cappuccino (??) so I must drink it and think about cuddling up with Russell Brand while I watch Ponderland. (swoon!)

Better Than Methamphetamine?

I'm making another post because it seemed wrong to give up any more information other than introductory remarks on the first one. 

So for the past week or so, I've just been playing The Sims. NON-STOP. I think I played it for a good 12 hours straight yesterday. That may or may not be an exaggeration. And then I woke up and played some more! 

On the official webpage, there is a special section called "LOLsims." Similar to the well-known LOLcats, these "LOLsims" consist of "funny" pictures from the game, complete with captions.

To say that I thoroughly enjoyed these, would contribute to the fact that I might have an addiction. 

(taken from dictionary.com:)

ad⋅dic⋅tion

 

[uh-dik-shuhn]

–noun

the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, as narcotics, to such an extent that its cessation causes severe trauma. UH-OH!

This is the first day of my life

No it's not. 

This is my first post. I only made this blog because this girl loves me and said she would read my blog if I made one. Okay, well obviously that isn't her; it's her (she calls herself Danielle) Modern Bohemian Fashion and Lifestyle blog. I'm a fan. I should make a facebook page for it and become a fan.

All of this is rather irrelevant right now actually. Oh, I hate making blogs because the first post is always, "Hi, I'm Christina. I live in Boston and my shoe size is 7.5. My hobbies include...yada yada yada."

I think I'm supposed to have some sort of idea as to what I want this thang to cover. I guess it will cover nothing in particular, but rather whatever I feel like writing about.

Ha! So you guys will be stuck with my weird streams-of-consciousness and random musings. Enjoy?