Pinterest ahhhhhh!

So I've hopped on the Meme bandwaggon...



How to be completely (un)productive during the holidays...

When it comes to the holidays, it's just too easy to find time that's better spent being completely unproductive.

And what are the most productive ways to be unproductive?

1.  http://www.happyplace.com/  They have a fantastic array of lists that will keep you entertained for HOURS.  Also part of this website is http://www.someecards.com/, equally time-wasting and fantastic.

Some of my favorites come from "10 more of the most enjoyably cantankerous notes ever posted in the workplace."

2.  http://www.pinterest.com/  This virtual pin board has a potentially endless number of 'pins' and it's completely addictive.  Seriously, like crack, or chocolate.
It's a fantastic way to be unproductive, while everyone else does the unproductivity for you.

My favorite is going to the humor category.  I have literally wasted DAYS at work on Pinterest.

3.  Blog about being unproductive.  Unfortunately, there is a lot of time to be spent researching ways to be unproductive (like sorting through Pinterest and Happyplace.com and finding many, many, many amusing things), so it's kind of a catch 22.

Alternately, you can just READ blogs about being unproductive.  Or you could read blogs about other people that are actually being productive.  Either way, you still aren't getting anything done and that equals success, my friends!

Well Done!

Fucksia, it's the new pink.

My best friend is getting married in March so we've been doing the standard shopping for bridal gowns,  bridesmaid dresses, yellow calla lillies... no white and pink tiger lillies (except they're not actually called tiger lillies, they're Persian lillies)... no back to yellow calla lillies... BLAH! 

Somehow she came across this online discount dress retailer, so I was browsing their bridesmaid dresses.  Anything to get out of spending $200 on a dress I will wear once.  Really, it doesn't matter when any bride says "we'll do this dress so you can wear it again," you're not going to wear it again.  It's a bridesmaid dress! 

She wants the dresses to be grey.  GREY!! Not light grey so you can get away with silver.  Dark ass gun metal grey.  Very difficult to find cute dresses in grey, but whatever. I'll get a cocktail dress so I can ACTUALLY wear it again. Ha Ha!

Whilst perusing the colors, looking for this shade of grey that apparently doesn't exist in the bridesmaid world, I come across this lovely organza fabric shade of pink, only they've aptly named it "Fucksia". SURELY this is a typo.  As it turns out, they also offer satin dresses in "Fucksia".  As well as chiffon, taffeta, and even "silk-like-satin." 

I wonder if I can convince her to change her color from thunderstorm-on-my-wedding-day grey to fucksia pink...

In retrospect, this should have been a big giant red flag.  Because she bought her damn wedding dress from them.  And it was wrong in so many ways.

Lesson: Don't buy things from websites that make up their own colors using colorful language.  Unless you just want to have a vulgar colored dress.  In which case I suggest Cunter green.  They don't have that one, but they should.  I might buy it.