December 13, 2008
“ Betty: Buying stuff on sale…that’s not exactly saving money.
Amanda: Isn’t it?

Ugly Betty

That’s how I feel right now.  I’m running low on funds after all my application fees, but this is the first Saturday without class I’ve had in a loooong time, so I’m going shopping!  It’s really just for the benefit of the economy.  I’m actually being patriotic.

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carlovely:

rilo kiley - the frug
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The Current Top Date Ideas:

fishy:

onemoretimewithfeeling:

  1. Go on a search for as many good climbing trees as possible, climb as high as you both can in all of them, compile photo evidence
  2. Go to a major chain bookstore, and leave notes to future readers in copies of your favorite books
  3. Have her dress up as a ghost and you dress uup us Pacman. Walk around downtown holding hands, and whenever anyone sees you two, pretend to be embarrassed, and run off screaming “wocka wocka wocka.”
  4. Create photo evidence suggesting that you went on an adventure that didn’t really happen
  5. Dress up as superherous and stop at least one petty crime “ie. jaywalking, littering….”
  6. Build forts out of furniture and blankets, and wage war with paper airplanes.
  7. Try and visit as many people as you can in one night, and turn as many things inside their apartment upside down as you can, without them noticing.
  8. Go to the airport, get the cheapest, soonest departing flight to anywhere when you show up, and stay there for a weekend.
  9. Write a piece of fiction together. Outside at a cafe. Ask strangers when you get stuck.
  10. Dress to the nines, pretend to be married, and test drive very expensive vehicles at an auto dealership. (Done this, it’s hilarious.)
  11. Do the lamest tourist thing in your area that you have both secretly wanted to do forever. Have an unabashed good time!
  12. In the middle of the night, drive to the beach, so you arrive just as the sun is rising. Have a breakfast picnic, then fall asleep together. Bring a sun umbrella.
  13. Drive somewhere unknown and have dinner in a city you’ve never been to. With fake names.
  14. Go to a minor league baseball game under the stars. Tell each other stories about how bad you are at athletics. Randomly cheer for both teams. Eat lots of Cracker Jack.
  15. Go around the city with sidewalk chalk and draw hearts with equations inside on random things
  16. Walk around a city and perform short silent plays in front of security cameras
  17. With camera and pair of boots, make photolog of a day in the life of the invisible man.
  18. Walk around the city all night and find a place to eat breakfast at dawn
  19. Go to a restraunt and convince the cook to create something completely new for you.
  20. Rent a movie you’ve never seen before. Set on mute and improvise dialogue.
I apologize if this has been posted before. I think it might be my new goal to try all of these things within the next five years (or less).

#3 is my favorite.  Definitely laugh-out-loud worthy.

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fishy:

joshawesome:

lindsaydinkins:

Jason Mraz - ‘Absolutely Zero’

I’m sorry for wasting your time.

Who am I to say this situation isn’t great
when it’s my job to make the most of it?
Of course, I didn’t know that it would happen to me.
Not that easy.

Hey,
What’s that you say?
You’re not blaming me for anything;
well, that’s great but I don’t break that easy.
Does it fade away?

So that’s why I’m,
I’m apologizing now.
For telling you I thought we could make it;
I just don’t get enough that we’ve both changed.

do I really have to explain this reblog?

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In Minnesota, How Many Fingers Am I Holding Up - And What Does The Recount Say?

inothernews:

What if the 2000 presidential election had hinged not on a diverse, messy, weird and slightly creepy hick state like Florida but on the most organized, practical and cordial one in the Union: Minnesota? What if, instead of going to court after court over hanging chads and butterfly ballots and whether a recount should happen, election officials had just calmly looked at each ballot and tried to figure out what the voter wanted?

That’s exactly what’s going on in Minnesota, where 2.9 million voters left Senator Norm Coleman just 215 votes ahead of Saturday Night Live star Al Franken. Since then, both sides have politely allowed a legally required hand recount to take place, one with very clearly specified rules and no scheduled end date. But the recount ended on Dec. 5, just as Minnesota’s secretary of state said it would, and the result didn’t differ much from the initial count. “We didn’t have to do a lot of overtime,” says Cindy Reichert, the elections director of Minneapolis. “We did do some evenings. But we’re very organized.”

(Joel Stein: Franken Vs. Coleman - Still Counting via Time.com)

It’s about time ‘sota got some credit for being the great state that it is.  Also, I like this part of the article:

“If it had been Minnesota instead of Florida in 2000, this is what we would have found out: Voters are idiots. You make a clear, statewide ballot with neat little ovals to fill in? Some voters will put in check marks and X’s. They’ll fill out two ovals. They’ll mark one candidate’s oval in ink, try to erase that mark and then put their initials next to their correction, even though there’s a law on the books forbidding voters to sign their ballots, to prevent voter bribing. They’ll scrawl something about taxes in that oval, or about lizard people. You spend enough time trying to figure out the intentions of some voters, and you’ll learn their real intention is to be put into special care.”

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saintnate: skysignal: by Scott Council Guys: wise up. This is how a man should dress. Jeans that fit properly, a good shirt, and shoes that don’t take anything away from the outfit. He speaks the truth.

saintnate:

skysignal:

by Scott Council

Guys: wise up. This is how a man should dress. Jeans that fit properly, a good shirt, and shoes that don’t take anything away from the outfit.

He speaks the truth.

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inothernews:

I love this dude.  Fucking love him.

notthatkindagay:chickensdontclap:

Hugh Laurie: the British accent vs the American (via Dronoman)

Ellen interviewing Hugh Laurie and singing about apple-bottom-jeans.  Life doesn’t get much better.

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“ We definitely don’t have those in England.
Hugh Laurie, upon being told that the definition of the American slang “badonkadonk” meant “an extremely curvaceous female behind”, from here. English ladies’ll make him rue the day he said that, I’m certain.
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December 12, 2008

fishy:

inothernews:

For Meg and all my Tumblr friends.

SCRUBS AUTO REBLOG.

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Roomie video chat session!  (With Friday smiles, of course).

Roomie video chat session!  (With Friday smiles, of course).

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