Cleo v2.0 Contest Winner(s)

And the winning names are...

• Olive
• Lilo
• Kit Kat

I am going to give these names to my dear friend and she is going to choose from these three. Since there was kind of a tie with the second name, (two people listed it) I am going to give a runner up prize to be fair.

So the winners are Trina and Kim. You guys had what it took to name a cat. Fame and Fortune will follow you wherever you go in life, and maybe some nameless cats as well.

Please email or text me what prize you would each like to have mailed, and include the address you would like to have it mailed to.

Cleo v2.o Contest Update

I've gotten some pretty good responses so far for the Cat, and now I just have to hurry and pick a name that I like because I'm starting to enjoy calling her "kitty"...

I will be compiling a list of the names I like from what people suggested by Thursday, so if you haven't thought of a name yet you had better get one posted by then!

xo boochie

p.s. alyssa - i was in delta zeta. please for the love of god don't join a social sorority - they cost so much money. join an academic one, much cheaper and more beneficial to your resume.

I got a new Cleo v2.0 contest!

So my friends and I found this abandoned kitty cat about six weeks ago prowling around their house, and finally this past Monday (my monday off!) I took her into the Humane Society to get her checked for worms and vaccinated so my darling friend could keep her. It's strange because she's almost in every way exactly like Cleo, so much so that when I went home I had to make sure Cleo was still kicking it around my apartment instead of wandering random neighborhoods. 

The poor creature was so malnourished and underweight, but it was so strange since she is declawed on all four paws - something that costs a fair amount of money for an animal that is just going to be abandoned eventually. Anyways, the vet said that this happens alot. Someone gets a pet, goes through the process of getting spayed/neutered, declawed, vaccinated - but for some reason or another figures that it doesn't want to pay to feed the animal anymore and just lets it loose in some suburban neighborhood. To me that doesn't make any sense since all the bills totaled up from spaying and declawing the animal are more than a whole years worth of feeding it. Why make the "investment" if you're just going to abandon it when the hard part is over with? Anyways, I digress.

So there's this cat, and I have the task of having to name it. Mind you, I have never named anything in my life. Any animal I have ever owned has always come to me with a name (almost like getting a new room mate but without the sex addiction and bad habit of stealing your clothes) and the only thing in my life that I think I have ever named was Beary, my teddy bear, which did not take much creativity to do.

So, I need help naming this animal - It's a girl which is kind of hard since I had some pretty good boy names lined up and didn't think of girl names at all. I can't think of anything that isn't something you'd name a human or too cutesy (i hate cutesy) - so please help!

Leave suggestions in the comment section. So that people don't leave sarcastic names like "stupid" or "roadkill" (both very nice but inappropriate) I'm going to make this into a contest.

The person that comes up with the name I like most will get to choose ONE of the following prizes:

1. Thymes Lavender Travel Kit (Includes body wash, shampoo & conditioner, bath salts, body lotion) - lavender scent
2. Desktop hanging photo frame, silver and glass (very cool)
3. 1 bottle of MAC nail polish in Noir
4. Sushi gift set (includes sushi mat, chopsticks, 2 laquer or ceramic sushi stands, cookbook)
5. Stationary set/Thank you card set (don't worry, i have nice ones for you

**EDIT** Okay - so that all these prizes don't sound like they're from you-know-where, I 'm going to make one of the prizes (in honor of cousins alyssa and allie):

6. One pair of Havianas Flip Flops (can see them here)

  i pick if theyre either the bobbi brown, laura mercier, or trish mcevoy one though.

I will personally pay for postage and mail the item to you all nice and wrapped up special. If I end up USING the name you provide you can choose TWO things from the list. WHAT AN AWESOME INCENTIVE!!!! I might even throw in a bonus prize if you guys can come up with it in the next week. Contest ends when the cat gets a name.

Think Kittys!

Blog vows

Sooooo it has come to my attention that the following equation holds true for blogs:

daily updates + interesting subjects x good pictures = more people reading my blog

So, kindof like Cousin Pammy, I am going to do a post on my blog every day for as long as I can, and will try as hard as I can to make it sort of interesting.

Feel free to leave comments on my posts suggesting things I should talk about or gear towards - fashion? my life? things i have to complain about? my utter refusal to capitalize the beginning of sentences? The more comments that are posted to my site, the more I will be encouraged to talk about stuff you would like to read about when you are bored. I might also start a Facebook Page, but let's not get ahead of ourselves here.

That being said, the two people who DO read my blog - will you kindly leave links in the comments section to the following that I never knew existed and don't know how to find:

• Cousin Patrick's Blog (am extremely interested in my most mysterious cousin's musings and life in general)
  
• Your facebook page (if you have one) so I can stalk you to be my friend when I make my own.
• Links to your own blog so I can put it on my blogroll...I am very interested in you, you see:)

Let's put a smile on that face...

The best Dark Knight Review that's ever going to be out there

"A watch doesn't really go with this outfit, daddy"

So this is what I'm hoping to emulate, for fall 2008 (Proenza Schouler RTW Fall '08):

I'm so loving the detail of the colorful tights. I am def investing in colored and textured tights this year. Gives the outfit a little kick, no?

The combination of jewel tones here is so yummy. I love the pop of color with the shoes.
I have so many black dresses, I love that this is a way to update them and make them more interesante.

Now, if only I had the legs to go with this outfit.

What I do at work

I get a lot of family members/adults/randoms that constantly ask me what it is that I do at work? For some reason people think I work at a store, or in retail. It's been about six years since I've worked retail, people. I work at a graphics design studio, and I do shit like shoot photos and draw up ads and logos for events, help the senior graphics designers with editing and whatever else. Oh yes, and I graduated from a University and I wasn't a cheerleader in high school (according to some people who have known me my whole life). The most that I do for retail is help out with licensing and buying for my boss's wife's store:

I'd like you to meet my single friend...

So, now that I'm officially OFFICIALLY single ("official" meaning "if I had the choice between peeling all of my skin off and having to talk to that lump of misery that was my boyfriend of three years, I'll start peeling) all of my friends have decided that I am the "perfect candidate" for their boyfriend's/fiancee's/husband's/dog's REEAAALLY CUTE and NICE friend that I have to meet - so what am I doing friday?

Now, not that I don't appreciate everyone's concern over what must be my broken heart over a miserably failed relationship - but I do ask that some people consider their real motivators in slapping me together with their single friend. Namely, is it because we are "single"? Is that the only deciding common factor that I have with your super-cute friend? Because if it is, then we might run into some problems. Case in point:

My very well-meaning friend and her fiancee decided last Thursday that the time was ripe to introduce me to their single friend whose assets include being nice, employed, and single. Probably the most generic assets known to us single people everywhere, but usually those are enough to get you in the door so who am I to be picky? 

I show up to the bar that was the established meeting place for the four of us, and right away I got an overload of a first impression. Tattoos everywhere, check. Smokes, check. Rogue eyeball, check. You get the idea. 

Since I am the nicest person that I know when it comes to giving people chance after chance, I spent the whole night chatting my tattooed singleton up. My impression of him pretty much didn't change - he definitely was nice, and yes he drove a nice car and has a good job, but still - my compatibility-o-meter wasn't screaming for more. 

His, on the other hand, was. He started to do that thing where he would laugh and touch my leg with his colorful, tattooed hand. He would get up and place his hand on my waist as he passed me even though there was tons of space for him to navigate past my chair. He kept squeezing my knee. But I get it, I have nice knees. When we went to go say goodbye he nestled me into a full body hug that lasted about 4 seconds too long, and made a noise like this "mmmmmmmmmmmm....:):):)"

Oh god. I confronted my dear friend afterwards and she couldn't stop laughing, as if this was all just for her amusement to begin with. Apparently, my smoking tattoo date has been a little too single for a little too long, and therefore might come off as a little overeager - "a little too willing to fall in love", as she put it, but isn't he nice? Oh yes, fantastic! Sign me up for some l-o-v-e!

So here are just a few, simple guidelines that I ask people adhere to when they think of me and then think of their single guy friend and decide to smash us together like plastic Barbie and Ken dolls:

1. Please keep in mind that I don't smoke cigarettes, I never have and I never will. This probably means that I won't be able to kiss someone who is a chronic cigarette smoker. Think about all those people in other countries that eat ants and crickets and think it's the shit - I'm sure in their world critters taste great, but it's just something that people in my world will never get used to no matter how many times they try it.
2. My mother might be one of the most accepting people I know, but she still has no notion of what "hardcore" is. Chances are if you walk into her house with tattoo sleeves, she will stare, and rightly so.
3. Two single people do not a perfect match make. You might wonder why I agree to be set up then. It is because I have this thing where I hate to disappoint my friends when they get excited over something. Far be it for me to kill your giggly optimism, but I will work on saying "no" - please work on knowing my tastes.

And for you nice guys out there that do end up deciding that I'm not a complete bitch and I would be rather nice company to dinner or a movie, just one thing: Please don't touch me. I've known you for 47 minutes and it kind of works like museum rules: As much as you'd like to touch the nice looking things, you are prohibited until you get exclusive authorization.

I'm Kan, the Louis Vuitton Don

When rap superstars and fashion superstars collide:

Lol.