Faking It

A few repeats from last month. Effing Ed Sheeran made it on the list again. That song is just so damn good. What are you listening to these days? I take requests! Tell It To My Heart by Taylor Dayne* Let's Get Started by Dylan Gardner Thinking Out Loud by effing Ed Sheeran** Your Heart is as Black as Night by Melody Gardot Style by Taylor Swift Love Me Like You Do by Ellie Goulding Don't Hold Your Breath by Nicole Scherzinger You Don't Own Me by Leslie Gore Always in My Head by Coldplay Rollercoaster by Bleachers Geronimo by Sheppard Ugly Heart by G.R.L. Do or Die by Thirty Seconds to Mars Sugar by Maroon 5 * As previously discussed , I love this song and listen to it frequently. **Also previously discussed , my disdain for Ed Sheeran and how much I effing love this song.

I'm terrified of sharks, which is a real thing to be afraid of. However, in my case, it's probably unwarranted, and by probably I mean, it's completely unwarranted. I wish I knew how and when it started; I feel like it was one of two things. Either going to see educational IMAX movies  or trying to watch Jaws when I was 13. I'd never seen a shark in real life until we went to Sea World and I was forced to walk through that horrible shark tunnel that they have which is enough to scare the crap out of anyone. Seriously? Whose idea was that? Because I also saw Free Willy  so I know how thin your glass is Sea World. But I've never been out in the ocean and had a near miss with a shark. I've never even seen one from the deck of a boat. I don't live near any bodies of water. I've lived my entire life, more or less, in the center of two different countries. And yet. Not only do I have a fear of sharks, I have a totally irrational fear of sharks. Confessio...

I love lipstick. I love bright bold colors and experimenting with looks even though I'm sure I break all the beauty "rules" with the neon orange and the purples but nothing I do to my face now will ever beat the fact that I wore two different shades of blue lipstick in Junior High. A metallic light blue and a dark goth midnight blue. Everyday I wore one or the other. I think I got away with it because my Mom either thought it was for play or because at that time I was also head-to-toe covered in glitter and she knew there was no hope for me. But you know what? Rules were meant to be broken (usually by someone else because I'm a good girl, except ) when it comes to makeup. Anyway. Let me paint you a picture of a night out with lipstick. As the title says, a before and after. Before: I'm wearing red lipstick. It's taken forever because you cannot let it touch any other part of your face because it will stain. I've outlined my lips, I've filled t...

I am very aware of what my body looks like and I'm perfectly fine with me. It comes from being an incredibly overconfident child who grew into an adult who just doesn't care if anyone else likes it. But there is one thing I hate about my body. Confession: I have a tooth with a "defect" and I hate it. It's not even a thing. I've never even seen it! But every time I go to the Dentist they look at it and freak out like it's a new strange alien thing that no one's ever seen before! The way it's been described to me is that I have a tooth with it's own tooth. The way it feels is like how the bottom of your canine (cuspid--the pointy one) feels except on the side of one of my molars. It always goes down the same way: Tech notices horrible mangled tooth. Tech pokes at it with scrapey dental tool. Tech: Does that hurt? Me: No. Tech scrapes at it with scrapey dental tool. Me: Well now it hurts. Tech: Let me get the Doctor. Me: Don...

I've been 29 for about 24 hours now which makes me an expert. So this is one of those educational posts, because you should learn from my experiences thus far. In all seriousness, I had the most amazing birthday so if that's an indication of the year to come, I am so ready for this. So what have I learned in my tenure as a 29 year old? Well... ... I know that I still love birthdays! I remember some older friends of mine (they were turning 37 and 50 that year) telling me that one day I would care about aging, that I'd worry about how my face looked and that age would matter and I'd dread my birthdays like them. So far not true. And I still feel sorry they feel that way. I LOVE my birthday. I know (now) that there's just no age or reality where I won't spill food on myself. I had bits of my birthday supper hanging from my hair which I can only assume is super attractive. You would think that after feeding myself for approximately 28 years I'd have the ...

I have a lot of passions. There are so many things that I love and will love until I die. Most people think it's just shoes, but that's because I literally wear that passion. I'm not as loud about things I love as some people, so let's change that on this lovely Confession Tuesday. When I was a kid I loved Disney. To this day I LOVE Disney but I have a very vivid memory of watching a Disney special, Mickey's Happy Valentine Special (I also love all things Valentine's Day) on my birthday. The special was split up into segments and used a lot of popular songs of the time behind the clips of different Disney shows or movies. They used "The Power of Love" by Huey Lewis and the News which automatically made it the most romantic movie in history. But then "Tell It To My Heart" by Taylor Dayne came on. Confession of 3-year-old me: This is the most beautiful song I have ever heard. And it was my favorite song as a kid. I have lots of embarras...

The Walking Dead is back tomorrow!!! Like everyone else in the free world, I love The Walking Dead. Normally, I'm a huge chicken and I don't really like to watch scary things (because they scare me). But for some reason in October I get really into the spirit of things aka I love Halloween! All the pumpkins and candy, witches, the leaves falling off the trees. The world is basically covered in cobwebs and I get way ballsier than any of the other months. In 2010 I was overly confident that October and was like, yeah I can watch that zombie show  so I set my DVR and never looked back. Because it's the friggin' best. It's the good kind of scary because you can imagine the world where this would happen because we see it mirrored in real life sometimes ( hello bath salts ). And it's easy to see how Norman Reedus would definitely be running around in a layered sleeveless outfit (leather vest on top of tank top--not every guy can pull that off). A post-apocalyp...

Parenthood ended last week .  I DVRed the finale and watched it the next day. I had to! It was on for 6 seasons and now it's over. I thought they did a great job with the last one, but I don't really know for sure because I never watched any of the other episodes. Confession: I watch the series finales of shows I've never bothered to watch. My sister watched  Parenthood  from start to finish and she told me about it whenever I would ask questions based on the previews I saw during the week. And I asked her a lot of questions. The previews were compelling. Not compelling enough to get me to sit down and watch the show, but then again, I didn't have to because I basically made her tell me the entire plot. I accidentally watched one episode--I left the t.v. on while I was studying, but that and the finale are the only episodes I've seen. I'm not sure why I do this. Because I do watch some shows from start to finish and I usually get a serious emotional atta...