If the Shoe Fits, Buy It! Anne Klein floral shoe

This post goes out to Jersey Girl in San Diego, who knows how to rock these shoes. The floral pattern is not overwhelming, and colorful design makes these surprisingly versatile... these Anne Klein Christa pumps are the perfect spring-to-summer choice!

Feed Me Now! Orange

An homage to my favorite orange foods:

Apricots

Butternut Squash

Carrots

Cheddar cheese

Cheetos

Orange Sherbet

Peaches

Yams

Throwback - The Oregon Trail

Ma has dysentery.
Pa has cholera.
Sister has measles.
Brother has a snakebite.

Wasn't this game fun?!


Seriously, though, I know you remember the Oregon Trail! This classic computer game from the mid-1980s was a staple in the classroom. It was designed to be a fun way to learn history, but it was really just fun on its own!

One of the best days of the month was the Friday that my class got to play Oregon Trail in the school computer lab. One of the best parts of the game was buying bullets so that you could go hunting for buffalo, deer, or rabbits. Fording rivers was also exciting.

You can still play the Oregon Trail online at Virtual Apple!

WTF? Hidden litter box

Now, I want you to sit back, relax, close your eyes, and dream. Dream a very special dream for me... a dream of a perfect utopia where your cat can defecate inside a faux potted plant, thus disguising his natural bodily functions with the ultimate in stylish discretion. Your guests will never know you have a cat, unless of course they still retain their innate senses of vision or smell.


You can purchase this tragically chic little item for only $129.95 at SkyMall. If you still aren't quite sold, please note that April from Kenosha, WI gave this product 5/5 stars and it boasts a "Tuscany handfinish."

Take Your Pick! Real Housewives

Do not even sit there and try to tell me that you don't watch the Real Housewives series on Bravo. I am not convinced. I know women and men who can't get enough of those crazy ladies, and I suspect that you are one of them.

I am curious, however, as to which "housewives" are your favorite. Please indulge me by taking this week's poll:

Which are your favorite Real Housewives?
	Orange County
	New York City
	Atlanta
	New Jersey
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The Real Housewives of Orange County: The plastic ones.

The Real Housewives of New York City: The snobby ones.

The Real Housewives of Atlanta: The delusional ones.

The Real Housewives of New Jersey: The "connected" ones.

Which city do you think Bravo should hit up for our next batch of Real Housewives? I think Dallas would be awesome. The ladies can spray Aqua Net into each other's eyes during a big-haired catfight.

Words!

Hooray, words!

I have favorite words... does anyone else, or is this bizarre? I also have a list of words that I loathe.


Words I Adore:

• Glorious - possessing or deserving glory, marked by great beauty and splendor. "Blanche purchased the Manolos, and they were glorious."


• Sasquatch - a hairy human-like creature between 6 and 15 feet tall, reported to exist in the northwestern United States and western Canada. "Sandy better break out the epilator - she's starting to look like a sasquatch."


• Heinous - hatefully or shockingly evil. "That fool is wearing a seriously heinous pair of Crocs."


• Aardvark - a large burrowing nocturnal mammal with a long snout and extensible tongue. "Aaron, Bobby, Chuck, Dave. Learning to alphabetize is easy until you throw an aardvark in the mix... what if Aaron rolls in with an aardvark?"


• Thrice - three times or three-fold. "Miami is nice, so I'll say it thrice... Miami, Miami."


• Merkin - a pubic toupee. "After an awkward encounter with her aesthetician, Margo was forced to wear a merkin to her photo shoot for Hirsute Hussies magazine."


• Foxy - cunningly shrewd, physically attractive. "Hey, foxy lady. Do you believe in love at first sight, or should I walk by again?"


• Tool - a person, typically male, who says or does things that cause you to give them a 'what-are-you-even-doing-here' look. "You banned my cat from the Petco grooming center just because that tool needed a few sets of stitches?"


• Badonkadonk - a large posterior. "It takes seriously hard work to maintain a badonkadonk like this. I am forced to eat many, many burritos."


• Plethora - excess, superfluity. "There are a plethora of reasons why the food pyramid should include Peeps."

Words I Despise:

• Tchotchke - a knick-knack or trinket. "My great-grandma died, and all I got was this lame-ass Hummel tchotchke?"


• Clog - an encumbrance, or a shoe, sandal, or overshoe having a thick typically wooden sole. "The leprechauns performed a clog dance-off to demonstrate their virility."


• Retarded - The modern usage of this word does not deserve a definition or an example sentence.


• Wart - a horny projection on the skin usually of the extremities. "Warts are gross. That's it."


• Stink-eye - a look of contempt or disdain. "That lady gave me the stink-eye when I knocked her over and trampled her on my way to the sale racks."


• Viscous - having the property of resistance to flow in a fluid or semifluid. "The mucus was viscous, like a slow-moving flow of germ-ridden lava."


• Fubar - an acronym for f*ed up beyond all recognition. "After her third trip to the plastic surgeon, Paula's face was totally fubar."


• Giblets - the edible viscera of a fowl. "Roasted giblets are a delicacy in parts of rural hell. I mean Tennessee. Rural Tennessee."


• Vulva - the external parts of the female genital organs. "I know it rhymes with vulva, but Jerry was so wrong when he thought my name was Mulva."


• Stalagmite - a deposit of calcium carbonate like an inverted icicle, formed on a cave's floor by the drip of calcareous water. "The negligent caver fell on a stalagmite and impaled himself; it was hilarious - you totally should have been there!"

Retail Therapy - West Elm wood grain rug

I love this rug from West Elm... I think it would add an awesome 'natural' element to an otherwise sleek, modern room.

UPDATE:

Okay, yeah, I may have purchased this rug after I posted this. I got the 8'x10' espresso version for my living room, and it was almost half price! Heck yes!