Clothing Overload and Catching up

Hola! Its been forever since I blogged, so this is probably going to be a long one!

My most recent project has been putting my entire closet online, so I can plan my outfits, like clueless. I know, as Ashley said, "Wow you must have a lot of free time..." haha. But I have a ton of clothes, and I don't really know what I have, and my life has been changing from student to professional, so I really need to take stock and edit. I used to live in jeans, and now its kind of like an even when I put them on!

So I signed up for this website, http://www.mycloset.com/. Its free. All you do is sign up and you get a virtual "closet" where you can upload your clothes. It looks like this:

There are preassigned categories like "pants," "shirts," "suits," "sweaters," where you can organize your stuff. then you can plan an outfit and put them all together like this:

So that's pretty cool. then you can get other people who have an account to comment on outfits you are planning, and they can suggest other jewlery or shoes or whatever. I really like that! BUUUUUT...this has taken me months! I have too much stuff!! seriously! I need Tim Gunn to come to my house and help me get rid of shit! I still havent even posted my sweaters. I originally signed up because I thought I would stop randomly shopping for stuff if I knew what I had and could actually use it to its best advantage. UHHHH yeah...haven't stopped shopping...AND I feel bad about myself because I don't know how to wear my scarves. (I'm pretty sure that sentence would never come out of a man's mouth!)

Enough about clothes...

Things have been going pretty well at work. My firm has decided to send me to the Richmond office in January, and right now I am working out of that office once per week. Its really small, but I think I will like it. I LOOOVE my office there because it has floor to ceiling windows and we are on the 6th floor and there are a bunch of hawks that fly by all the time. Sometimes they hit the windows. Thats's not so cool. lol

Brett and I are house shopping in Richmond, hopefully to close sometime in January. I AM SO EXCITED I Can bARELY CONTAIN MYSELF! So excited to have a back porch and a yard and a dog and a garden! Its also pretty exciting to be somewhere for more than one year. I'm already planning the housewarming party. And the spring croquet and sangria party. And the first christmas party. etc. :-D

Brett and I have decided to do Thanksgiving in WV and Christmas in Vermont. So for any of you parkersburg people, I think we should go bowling for old times sake!

Ok, that's enough for now. I love you all. Please write back and let me know how things are going for you!

xoxo

c

Sweet

I just finished reading Candy Girl, written by the author of the movie Juno--Diablo Cody. Anyway, if you have ever been curious about the life of a stripper, and wanted to hear it from an unbiased, un-morally-superior person, this is it.
It's kind of like Juno came to life and wrote it in her sarcastic and illuminating voice! In the beginning, the Author meets a guy (who she ends up marrying) on the internet and moves from Chicago to Minnesota to be with him. She also ends up quitting her job at an ad agency to become a stripper. Just for the hell of it. and she writes it down, including all of the gory details and hilarious characters. Highly recommended, but not for those with weak stomachs...

Most melodramatic chocolate EVER

This is from Veronica's gmail away message, and it was amusing enough that I wanted to share. :-) I love reading the cheesy descriptions of wine on the back of the bottle, and the descriptions of the clothes in catalogues like Coldwater Creek--I TOTALLY WISH I HAD THAT JOB and want to know how you get it! Also fabulous are the descriptions of cheeses on a cheese tasting menu ("This cheese is reminiscent of a windy spring morning on the moors of England--slightly earthy with a quality of just-ripened barley and lavender." WHAT?) I like this post so much because it shows what those little blurbs could be if people REALLY TRIED, just a little harder!

**NOTE--I have made toffee before, with my own bare hands, so draw your own conclusions!**

SELECTIONS FROM H.P. LOVECRAFT'S BRIEF TENURE AS A WHITMAN'S SAMPLER COPYWRITER.
BY LUKE BURNS
from www.mcsweeneys.net

White Chocolate Truffle
What black arts could have stripped this chocolate of its natural hue? The horror of the unearthly, corpselike pallor of this truffle's complexion is only offset by its fiendish deliciousness.
Nut Cluster Crunch
This eerie candy will test the sanity of all but those who possess the strongest of constitutions. Strange congeries of almonds, walnuts, and pistachios dance hypnotically within, promising to reveal their eldritch secrets to anyone foolish enough to take a bite of these ancient nut clusters!
Coconut Creme Swirl
They say that the Coconut Creme Swirl sleeps. But if the dread Coconut Creme Swirl slumbers, surely it must also dream. It is certain that while it dozes the Coconut Creme Swirl is absorbed by terrifying visions of exacting its creamy tropical vengeance upon mankind! Consume the Coconut Creme Swirl before it awakens to consume you!
Dark Chocolate Fudge
Dark! All-encompassing, eternal darkness! Human eyes cannot penetrate the stygian blackness of this unholy confection!
Peanut Butter Cup
In 1856, a fisherman from a tiny hamlet on the New England coast made a terrible pact with serpentine beasts from beneath the sea, that he might create the most delicious sweet seen upon the Earth since the days of the great Elder Race. Thus was forged the satanic pact between peanut butter and chocolate that resulted in the mutant offspring you see before you!
Chocolate Cherry Cordial
You must not think me mad when I tell you what I found below the thin shell of chocolate used to disguise this bonbon's true face. Yes! Hidden beneath its rich exterior is a hideously moist cherry cordial! What deranged architect could have engineered this non-Euclidean aberration? I dare not speculate.
Caramel Chew
There is a dimension ruled by a blind caramel God-King who sits on a vast, cyclopean milk-chocolate throne while his mindless, gooey followers dance to the piping of crazed flutes. It is said that there are gateways in our world that lead to this caramel hell-planet. The delectable Caramel Chew may be one such portal.
Toffee Nugget
Few men dare ask the question "What is toffee, exactly?" All those who have investigated this substance are now either dead or insane.

I think I have my life back...

So the last two days I have had to observe criminal trials in Yorktown and Gloucester that are related to civil litigation our firm has. I had an internship as a prosecutor in chesterfield when i was in law school, and i really enjoyed it. But i was kind of afraid I was bad at it because my mentor there didn't give me the best reviews--he said that I seemed kind of distracted or something (which was true because it was my last semester of law school and I was trying to get a lot of stuff finished up). But after watching the prosecutors, i really think it would enjoy it and could do it well.

this weekend was really odd because brett and I didnt have any wedding stuff to do. We went to the beach and I took a bubble bath and we slept in and went grocery shopping. I kind of didnt know what to dowith myself and felt sort of uneasy the whole time...la malaise existentielle. It was a very odd feeling to have free time and not know what to do with it!

We rented "21", which i REALLY didn't like because i was scared the whole time that they were going to get caught card counting and get beat up by the pit bosses. But I FINALLY did get to see Get Smart, which brought back all of the warm and fuzzy Nick at Nite memories of my childhood. How I long for a shoephone!

My new haircut

Ahhhhh the freedom...


Just FYI, I took these pictures of myself for mom!

Videos of Brett and I on our honeymoon zip line canopy tour in Monteverde, Costa Rica

These videos are posted on youtube, and they are about 15 seconds each. SOOOO MUUUUCH FUNNNN!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7vWhtj1ssk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34YOUpRRWaM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ril27ozWA8g

P.S. Lari, we totally had this idea first when we were in the 6th grade and tried to tie all the trees in my yard together!

The World is Just Awesome

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at_f98qOGY0

:-D

Thanks Alex


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