No Halloween party for "Melrose Place"

After a few years of Annual Halloween Parties at the Melrose Place apt complex.... alas they are no more.

So Happy Halloween to All, sans Crazy Party

no bad karaoke singers

don't ask

no one being thrown in the pool

always loved that so many dressed up!

Guess what we are....

taking pictures before eveyone was completely trashed

At least no one needs to clean up the morning after this year.....

Why is this a Trend? Headband Installment

In this WITAT? Installment (two"Trend" blogs counts as an ongoing installment doesn't it?) the topic is Headbands. While I know this is not a new trend it's continuing to be devastatingly ugly when worn across the forehead rather than in the hair towards the top of the head.

Here are the Do's and DON'Ts of this trend the way I see it:

DON'T: Don't quit the most popular tween show on TV and basically fade off into oblivion except when you show up with some ugly headband on your head...

DO: Paris looks pretty nice with this headband on even though she looks a bit stressed out (she was on he way to court in this pic)

DON'T: Though I love Aubrey (from Making The Band) for being a crazy Hot Mess this is clearly a DON'T look (& what's with her face in this pic?)

DO: Loving this Rockabilly girl with this headband/scarf look

In conclusion. Please avoid the ugly headband look across the forehead. Unless you have just had a concussion you shouldn't have anything wrapped across your forehead.

Take a look at this padded velvet headrest that this Olsen twin (whichever twin it is) is wearing to keep from having a concussion when she falls over from her bobble headed-ness. WAY DON'T!!

Instead please follow in example set by the girls on Gossip Girl.

Don't their Do headbands look great?

Here’s hoping your inbox is empty…

Don’t get me wrong informing your partners of any SDT concerns is extremely important. And if somehow I had a partner that didn’t have the balls to tell me himself, besides killing him, I’d want to be told... BUT I’m not sure that I want to get one of these emails…

Here's the email to use for the guy you really though was hot that night:

& this one is for the dude you picked up at the bar on your random conquest:
inSPOT has locations all over the US, including San Francisco and San Diego

From the inSPOT website:
In San Francisco, there's an easy way to tell your sex partners you have an STD. Send them a free inSPOT e-card, ANONYMOUSLY or from your email address

PSA: However you need to tell your partner(s) that you have an STD you should

Better yet use protection &/or get tested with your exclusive partner before engaging in unprotected sex

Swirl, Tap & Buff

I am a big fan of Bare Minerals makeup. Slowly family and friends have been changing over to this line of makeup. Sure, I gush about it but they end up liking it on their own for the very same reasons I do…too bad I don’t get a commission.
Anyhoo, Davina has wanted to give the makeup a try so this weekend we headed to the Mecca of makeup: Sephora at the Stanford Shopping Center. The moment we walked in we were cheerily greeted by a dark haired pixie-ish young man. He was about 5 foot 3 maybe, he was sporting dark purple eye shadow and practically trilled when we asked for assistance with the makeup. I wish I could remember his name… maybe it was Tad or something like that ??

Pixie Boy (which is how I’ll forever remember him) ended up getting authorization to help Davina with the makeup. At one point a coworker came over, possibly to check that he was doing as he was told and was doing it right. Well, this new staff person was almost as over the top as Pixie Boy – I swear he was donning a black with white polka dots ribbon in his crew cut hair. The Gay quota at that moment was off the Richter-Charts.

While Pixie Boy continued through the process of 'makeup layering' or something with Davina, some song started up in the background ~ if you know me, even a smidgen, you know I’m constantly moving to music. Pixie Boy caught some kind of chest lift out of the corner of his eye and he just gushed “Ohhs & Ahhhs!”. Davina told him that I was a belly dancer and the gushing persisted so I did some kind of brief impromptu mini performance and I got such a glee-full response from him, it was so sweet. Gotta love an appreciative audience!

At the end, while Pixie Boy was explaining to Davina that the makeup starter set she was getting included an instructional DVD she asked him if it was a mini him? He replied “it’s a forty year old with boobs version of me”.

If we could have taken him with us I think we definitely would have!

TV Catch Up

So this week due to 'Life' I wasn't able to sit and watch and enjoy my Wednesday Evening TV-Crack. Also Known As: "Reality Competition Overkill"

Tonight I've been able to catch up on ANTM & Project Runway ~ nice way to end the week!

SPOILER ALERT: If you haven't watched these eps yet avert your eyes now!

ANTM

This week's show gave the girls some very valuable time with Tyra. Some excelled from the lesson and some just missed the point.

Lauren Brie has some awkward time in her lesson with Tyra

Marjorie worked it during the photo shoot!

Joslyn also stepped up in this photo

Sadly, my pre-show pick Lauren Brie is now gone....

They called this picture of Lauren Brie a falling mannequin

Project Runway

So anyone watching this show and with access to the Internet may already know that 6 of the Project Runway designers actually showed collections at Bryant Park (as the 'don't give away the winners' since the show's not done yet move).

Last week's ep was so awkward and without a final three, heck there wasn't even a final 1 or 2 heading to Bryant Park... they all kinda sucked and needed to 'Make it work' and come back in two months with a wedding dress that is representative of their collection. And from that dress the judges will decide which 3 designers would be competing at Bryant Park.

I was rooting for Kenley to make it to Bryant Park all along (I personally love her style) so when she made it through each episode I envisioned her showing her collection. And though I know she was one of the 6 who showed their collection I got confirmation that she is in fact one of the 3 that competed!

LOVE Kenley's wedding dress!

This is Jerells All-over-the-place Wedding Dress

Now, I'm just waiting for next weeks Bryan Park show! Can't wait to see Kenley and Leanne's collection. Here is a quick preview:

Well, this TV-Junkie has a few more hours of TV to catch up on.... I better go.

SF Museum Alert

King Tut to make triumphal return to S.F.

The San Francisco Fine Arts Museums announced today that the touring exhibit "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" will open at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in Golden Gate Park June 27, 2009, for a nine-month stay, through March 28, 2010.

Yes the King Tut exhibit was exhibited in SF at the De Young thirty years ago. I remember going to that exhibit, I was 10 and I was thoroughly amazed and enamored. So of course I'll be going there again! Add the King Tut exhibit along with the anticipated Yves Saint Laurent exhibit coming and I might just need to become a member again!

Here is some of the article in the SF newspaper:

The Tut "Golden Age" exhibit, a joint venture of National Geographic, Arts and Exhibitions International and AEG Exhibitions, in cooperation with the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, premiered in Los Angeles in 2005. It went on to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Chicago, Philadelphia and London. The show opened over the weekend in Dallas, where it will remain until moving to San Francisco.

Attendance has been strong along the way, accompanied by some grumbling about ticket prices and other issues. When "Golden Age" opened in Los Angeles in 2005, tickets were $30. "I'm not sure there's much difference between Tutankhamun and Celine Dion," presenter Tim Leiweke told USA Today at the time. Protesters in Philadelphia demonstrated on at least three occasions about the show's promotional images of Tut, which, they claimed, altered his skin color and African features to appear more like those of an Arab or Caucasian.

More than twice as large as the 55-object "Treasures of Tutankhamun" from the 1970s, this show seeks to place Tut in a richer historical and social context. "As fantastic and spectacular as the '79 show was," said Renée Dreyfus, curator in charge of ancient art and interpretation for the Fine Arts Museums, "you didn't have a clear idea of where Tut fit in time and how he got to be where he was, even though he died at such a tender age. There was much less of an educational thrust. It was more about the splendor and beauty of the objects." She called the first Tut exhibit "the mother of all blockbusters."

Buchanan said he hopes to attract new audiences and new members to the de Young with "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs." Sustained interest in the reborn California Academy of Sciences figures to attract more people and potential patrons to the Golden Gate museum complex while Tut is in town.

Okay, my work here is done.... lunch is over

For a couple months now I've been off and on sick and I finally realized/decided it was time to make a doctor appointment. So in the hopes of making an Urgent Care apt on Friday afternoon I got on the phone with an advice nurse. I was asked questions about my symptoms, what I'm experiences, etc.

In the process of explaining how I'm feeling somehow things got convoluted as I was explaining the congestion and heaviness in my chest the nurse started asking me odd questions about chest pain. Was I experiencing any pain in my jaw, my arms, or back?

She continues to ask me a bunch of other stuff but then all of a sudden she asked " Have you taken any cocaine or amphetamines in the last 6 hours?" Um, what?!! My brain stops and takes in the question I was just asked.... ummm, I have a cold not a coke problem.... how crazy is that?!?

After the nurse on the phone scheduled my appointment I put the whole odd conversation out of my mind.... until I ended up at the actual appointment and there was an EKG machine in the room. Seriously, there it was! Not that I knew at first, since I'd never had an EKG before, but when the nurse told me she needed to run the test I realized that this was the end result of my phone conversation with the advice nurse.

It was so surreal as she puts all these electrodes on me and I felt like I was observing the process in an out-of-body kind of way. Well, I've now had my first EKG and I guess I can add it on to the list of other medical stuff I've experienced.

Going forward I think I have to be more conservative with the way that I answer chest pain/discomfort questions over the phone with an advice nurse.

Halloween the PETA way....

This is so weird but I just had to share it with you all....


PETA has this website where you can have dress up fun with the Trollsen Twin of your choice. Take your pick and you can "see how ugly you can make your twin!" (I can't make that line up it's really there....) Not that the Olsen Twins aren't already a wreck in the every day to day but this tops it all off. You can choose all kinds of dead fur clothes: Electrocuted Ermine Evening Dress, Baby Bearskin Bloomers, Wounded Wolf Wrap, Gassed Guinea Pig Gloves or a Bludgeoned Bunny Beret....

Here's my creation ~ isn't it beautiful?!?

Okay kiddies go play with some dress up doll time......