Oh, how I wish my troubles would just skate away...

While shopping today, I stumbled into, of all places, a sporting good store. Now, dear reader, I have little to no athletic ability and I'm hardly seen wearing sweatpants or sneakers, so this fete of my mine was quite out of character. While stumbling around, I came to a clearance table, where among the deeply discounted footballs, baseball cards, and athletic gear (FYI: If you need to by a gift for a brother, father, grandfather, or any other significant male in your life and are running low on cash, mosy on over to Modells) I saw a pair of white roller skates with pink wheels, similar to the ones above. They were so retro cute and my size, but best of all, they only had a price tag of $20 (while looking for the picture above, I learned a pair of run of the mill white and pink roller skates can cost like $180!) Sadly, dear reader, I did not have $20 or a use for pink roller skates. I begged my mom, but she said "Yes, they're cute, but you will never rollerskate and they'll just collect dust if you try to "display" them in your room."

Unfortunately, she's right and even though I have dreams of being one of those women that glide around Central Park and rollerskate while looking so cool and effortless, I guarantee I'd twist my ankle after riding around for five minutes. So, buyer of cute white rollerskates with pink wheels, take care of them, please. But then again, maybe if I search my couch for change I could afford them...

I'm so American that I wear my patriotism on my skirt...

What isn't there to love about the Fourth of July? Hot dogs, fireworks, and patriotic outfits. Actually, I'll admit, I've seen some outfits that just basically made a mockery of our country in an attempt of patriotism (um, sequin oversized Uncle Sam hats, anyone?).Here is my fourth of July ensemble for tomorrow (modeled by the lovely _______, whom I'm still waiting for you, dear reader, to give a name!). The recently purchased skirt that I just keep gushing over is from Forever 21 and the tank is from Target. I'm considering keeping it simple and wearing a plain white tank instead of the ruffle one and pairing it with metallic gold sandals. I think this of a much chicer way to show off my patriotism rather than the Old Navy flag tees of my childhood,no? (Would anyone else buy them every July when they were little, or is that just me?)Should we pair it with this bag, or would that be too close to entering sequin Uncle Sam hat territory? Too much red?

3 bottles of nailpolish and 9 1/2 nails.

Clockwise from top,long stem roses, shorty pants, and bahama mama. All by Essie.

Today, my mom and I ventured to Ulta after recieving a flyer in the mail that boasted about an amazing once in a lifetime sale and included a $3.50 coupon. How could I resist(besides, I can be entertained for hours just swatching eyeshadow on my hand, seriously)? Essie and OPI nailpolishes were all buy 2 get 1 one free.Being the cheapskate that I am, I opted for Essie because it's an entire $1.50 cheaper than OPI. It took me a while to choose, but I narrowed it down to the three pictured above. I was a little nervous to jump on the yellow nailpolish bandwagon with shorty pants and still can't decide if it looks cool and lemony on or just like I have a nail fungus problem. Speaking of nail problems, I'm currently sporting 9 1/2 nails, yes, you read that correctly. We don't want to get into details, dear reader, but we'll just say we had a mishap while shaving our legs a few days ago.Anyways, everyone rush to you local Ulta because they have some amazing deals.

P.S. The background of the picture above is from the back cover of a vintage My Fair Lady film book that I scored for $4 at a thrift shop.

Name The Mannequin!

This is my lovely mannequin,_____. ______ has been a part of my life every since I stumbled upon her in a thrift shop at the age of 9 or 10. ______ has an excellent figure, wondeful style, and she fits in everywhere. Now, ______, will be serving as a model for Quirky & Company until I get over my severe case of being camera shy. The only problem is _______ has no name (I know, it's sad, I've always just referred to her as "the mannequin"). Dear readers, pick a name for _____ and I will choose one in a few days. Good luck!

Dear Brownies, please be delicious. Signed, Gabby.

We finally made those amazing looking chocolate cherry brownies (I know, it's been a whole entire 2 days! What took me so long?) and well, the result was not as spectacular as we would have hoped. They tasted absolutely delicious, but half of them wouldn't even come out of the pan and the rest were falling apart.They didn't have that amazing moistness like the ones from the original recipe. I think this is partially due to the fact that the recipe had metric measurements which I converted using possibly unreliable internet calculators. Perhaps if I used cupcake liners they would have held together, but I just can't do that as I hold cupcakes very dear to my heart and sort of feel like making a brownie in a cupcake holder is kind of sacrilegious.(hmm, actually now that I think about it, a brownie cupcake would be amazing. Future experiment? Definitely).My mom thought they were fabulous (her words, not mine), my dad will basically eat anything and think it's good, and my sister kept sneaking tastes whenever she passed through the kitchen. Overall, not bad, but I should eliminate recipes with metric measurements. If I didn't have such a passion for licking the mixing spoon covered in batter, I just might use the cheaper and easier path of buying brownies.Just maybe.

Peeves, Part Uno

Do you ever just get really annoyed by the littlest things? Well,if you don't, you either are the reincarnation of a saint or you have a supernatural amount of patience. I have neither of these things and I've decided to share my biggest pet peeves in a series I like to call, well, peeves.

-Bluetooth( not even sure if thats the correct spelling)
Seriously, take a step back and look at your life if it requires you to constantly wear a cell phone headpiece in your ear. Moreover, the reason I really hate Bluetooth are situations like this one at the grocery store last week:

Lady with obnoxious designer bag and Bluetooth (note: it was on her left ear, I was standing to her right. We are the only people in the aisle): Hmmm...what do you think is better? The vanilla honey granola or the cinnamon raisin?

Me: Well, I've never tried either before so I couldn't tell you, sorry.

Lady (doesn't even realize I spoke to her): Yea, but I can't decide because I know Maddie really like cinnamon raisin and Hunter likes the vanilla honey. Oh, whatever, I'll just get both. So anyways, how was your blind date with whats his name?(She walks away).

At this moment I realize she is wearing that darn Bluetooth in her ear.

-When there are crumbs in the stick of butter.
So, you know when someone's scraping butter on your toast and the crumbs go on the knife,take some more with it, and then don't bother to scrap off the crumbs on the stick of butter? It drives me insane! If I wanted your onion bagel crumbs on my poppyseed bagel, I would have ate an everything bagel!

So those are my peeves for today.What about you, dear reader, what bothers you?

Splitter Splatter

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