Obsessed with Telling Time

On this Chanel J12 White Ceramic Watch.

Santa baby, please?

Actually, there is a funny story to this watch. I first noticed it on a stripper...er dancer...on a Southwest flight from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. This girl had the finest Louis Vuitton luggage and killer jewelry but was so obviously a dancer. How do I know this? You just know. Especially on the LAX to LAS route. She probably only works Saturdays and makes enough money for the month. How do I get that job? Nevertheless, she was wearing this watch and I instantly coveted it. I considered entering her profession but hubby won't allow it. So it's up to him to buy me the watch.

I kid, I kid! Although, if he did buy it for me that would be nice.

What Is This? A Satin Suspender Corset Vest

It's no secret that I love Forever 21--copyright infringement suits be damned. But what the heck is this? Apparently, it's a vest. A satin suspender corset vest. Hahah. LOL. Suspender corset vest. Satin! This kills me....

Seen in the bathroom at the dentist's office

so i went to the dentist today. nevermind about my gingivitis. as i went to the ladies room, i saw this little note above the toilet paper.

i was NOT sitting down for longer than 8 minutes but it was nice of whoever put this up there to let me know that if i didn't move for 8 minutes then the lights would go out.

Saddest Commercial

Can be found here. Summary for those too lazy to click: It features Sarah McLachlin's sad sad song "Angel" and animals waiting/needing to be rescued from abuse and neglect. The whole purpose is to get you to be an "Angel" to animals in need. But it made me wanna cry. Wait, I did cry.

Fawning over Britney

My favorite picture of Britney ever. This was the most memorable performance of her life and mine too.

Most of us love to bash Britney. It's really hard not to. I wouldn't last 24-hours without saying or even thinking something negative about Britney. Needless to say, I'm obsessed with news about her. I need to know what she's doing all the time. And the great thing is Britney lets me know what she's doing at all times!!

The girl loves attention and whenever she leaves the house she wants peeps to know. Like for instance, I already know she hit up Forever21 today and that her house in Malibu is not in any danger from those scary fires.

X17 Online is one of those creepy stalkerazzi agencies that follow celebs everywhere they go and get in their faces but they do this within the legal limits because every pappo photographer knows the law to a T particularly when it comes to human rights and private property.

So X17 Online loves to make crude comments about young starlets (as does TMZ.com) and the blog posts always have some double entendre. For instance: "Stavros Gets in Paris' Area" which is a story about Paris Hilton and on-off boyfriend Stavros at the Area nightclub.

Anyways, X17 has some deal with Britney and every post about her is sooo flattering. And then they put up pictures of Kevin and say bad things about him. I'm sure Kevin deserves some of that but he is definitely not taking his kids out for paparazzi photo shoots.

So this is the latest they have to say about Britney who recently got her lips plumped up with collagen or Restalyne or whatever peeps be using these days:

Britney Spears may be partial to indulging in some sweet treats - but she's still conscientious about running off those calories! Yesterday, following some coffee and a quick change into some hot pink short-shorts, we caught the pop princess bolting through a mall into a Cold Stone Creamery. It all looked delicious - and it probably felt awesome against her recently-augmented lips, too!

"Probably felt awesome against her recently-augmented lips"?? My god, that is just really stretching it. I wonder how much X17 is making off these sicky sweet posts on Britney?

Are Libraries Quiet Any More?

Today I had to venture out of my cave to do some work. I was not happy about leaving my cave but when the cleaning lady comes it's best I get out of her way. (Sonia rocks by the way.)

Anyways, Santa Monica has a pretty good city WiFi network and I went to put that to good use at the brand new spanking library on 7th Street. I used to love libraries as a little kid but once I started high school, hanging out at the library on a Saturday afternoon was just not cool. Then by the time I was in college, we had the internet so I pretty much stopped going to the library altogether.

But I wanted to give this one a try because I was craving a quiet workspace (the espresso machines in Starbucks are too loud) and a free internet connection.

Sadly, my time at the SMPL was not good.

First, the building has a subterranean parking garage. This is good because you can always get a space there whereas the meters on the streets are limited. But it's bad because you have to PAY for parking. At the FREE public library. Grrr. It's .50 cents for a half-hour and a $10 maximum. Grrr.

Whatever, I tried to keep things positive as I stepped into the library. It's a great space, architecturally and functionally. Plus it has a little coffee cafe and outdoor patio.

So I sat down at one of the workspaces and found the cushioned chairs comfortable and was amped about the plentiful outlets. But no sooner than I had gotten all settled in did I realize this wasn't going to be the peaceful workspace I desired.

Since I'm wiped out and tired to organize my thoughts most effectively, I'm just gonna give you some quick observations/complaints about the place.

Observation #1: Nobody remembers that a library is supposed to be quiet.

A senior citizen answered his phone and began yapping away. Leading my desk mate and I to exchange glances and scoff. I asked, "Isn't this a quiet section". He said, "Apparently not." Another girl also hollered to her friend on the other side of the room. I shushed her. Yeah, I'm that person. Also some kids in a "study group" were at the table behind me. But they were chattering more than studying. Since I was a giggly study group gal myself I decided not to shush these kids.

Observation #2: The DVD/VHS rentals should be closer to check-out and not near the "quiet" workspaces.

I love that the SMPL offers movie rentals. But they need a better location for them. It was 12:30pm and a swarm of people were over at the DVD/VHS rental stacks. And they were talking to each other about what to get. But what's worse is that all the movies are in these plastic cases that make noise everytime you pick them up and put them back on the shelf. God, I wish I had a tape recorder. It was loud. I did my best to capture the swarm above.

My deskmate and I stared at these people searching for movies with utter contempt. We did this from time to time. We would work on our computers for five minutes, then when the picking up and putting back of plastic cases got loud again, we would look over and stare.

Note: A lot of old people have DVD players. I thought they used VHS and even thought that was a stretch for them.

Observation #3: A lot of people in Santa Monica rent movies from the library. We'd hate to see this place on a Friday afternoon.

So that's my experience at the library. I would give the place another chance. Maybe Monday is just a busy day for the place. But I was annoyed that the internet connection was not strong enough for IM and I cannot live/communicate without IM.

Sitting Up in My Room

I confess, this is my third attempt at a blog here on Blogger. I had two that I wrote on for a bit, then stopped for a long time, then got embarrassed these blogs were hanging out cyberspace woefully outdated so I just deleted them.

What's unfortunate is that I had a cool name for the second one and I couldn't get it back for this third blog. So I guess I better keep this one fresh and updated.

Meanwhile my dog Tank is a blog superstar.

Not that I sell myself short here in the blogosphere. I'm the Senior Editor over HotelChatter and an Editor-at-Large for Jaunted--both of these travel blogs/publications belong to the SFO Media Company. And let's face it, they rock.

But there are so many other things I want to discuss and write about that don't involve travel and while I can stretch this pretty far on Jaunted, which combines pop culture and travel, no one over there wants to hear my thoughts on things like how much I miss New Jersey or how Apple is just trying to suck up all my money. Then again, not sure you want to hear that either.