For those of you who have never seen the TV show ‘Pushing Daisies’, I highly recommend renting season one right now. It’s funny and Clever, and the best part is the girl named Chuck, or her fashion rather… Chuck’s fashion is a mix between 40’s, 50’s and 60’s fashion mixed with a little bit of today. It honest to goodness makes me want to break out my sewing machine and go to town trying to duplicate Chuck’s Wardrobe. Check it Out.
Like I said… I love Chuck’s style with her Dresses, Shoes, Cardigans, Accessories. Very Jackie-O meets Grace Kelly meets Audrey Hepburn. Love it!
I think the best part of NOT having an internet ban is that fact that when I have down time at work I can do crazy things like Facebook stalk, Blog, Internet surf… I’m a big fan of all of those.
As I was doing all of my extra curricular work activities it suddenly came to me… What the crap am I going to be for Halloween?? Usually I have my idea by now and usually have started working on it by now. Last year I was Merryweather from Sleeping Beauty so I need to figure out what I should be this year. I haven’t done a Top-5 in a while so here it is… Erin’s Top-5 Halloween Costume Hall of Fame…
1. Mary Catherine Gallagher – SNL
2. Ferrah Fawcett – Charlie’s Angles
3. Weird Al Yankovic – I put cross dressing to the test…
4. Merryweather – Blue Fairy from Sleeping Beauty
5. Princess Toadstool – Nintendo (I made my dress out of duct tape)
Now for my costume ideas now, I only have about a month to get everything ready…
1. Old Greg
2. Beetlejuice
3. Marilyn Monroe
4. Jeannie – I dream of Jeannie
5. Wonder Woman
Any who, that’s what I’ve come up with so far… If anyone has any good ideas let me know.
I’ve decided that for today’s post I’d send a little blog love out to my friends and family.
So, if you’re bored and need a good read, tap into a few of my favorites…
First I’ll start with my friend Sam - Pretty much I think everyone should vote for my friend Sam for President.
Is your cable broken? Have no fear and pop on over to Kristina’s blog for an update on exhibitionism at it’s best.
Have you ever had a professor give you hard time? Make sure next time it happens, that you battle it Steve’s way
Trying to beat the heat? Try Scurfing! The Mac Attack is pretty good at it.
Be sure to check out my friend Meg, who has recently been found battling face wash.
Have you ever been frustrated with the opposite gender? I know my friend Nate has, and if given the oppurtunity, would like to light various types of girls on fire… if it weren’t illegal
Were you one of the people who wasn’t a fan of the olympics? I know Old Man Kartchner sure wasn’t! Check out an awesome rant about it…
Are you up for some good old fashion satire? Check out Ian
Last but not least there’s Jon. Have you ever been in the process of switching cell phone providers?? I know I am and I can’t wait until I can give them the boot.
Are you as fed up with our government as Jeff is? Go check out an interesting rant…
For everyone else. Sorry if I missed you. If I did, please feel free to let me know and I’ll be sure to add you.
Just about every person on the planet has them… or at one time had one. You know, the people you keep as marriage back ups so you don’t end up alone decrepit spinster people?
When I was about 21 I had this friend named Tyler who was several months older then me. Since we both lived in Provo and enjoyed each other’s company we decided that it would be ok to make each other the other ones back up should the ‘right’ people not appear… Anyway, we were 21 and it usually never comes about anyway because one if not both of you are usually engaged and/or married by the time said age arrives (or at least dating someone). So we made the ‘if we’re not married by the age of 27, we’ll marry each other’…. Oh the irony.
I’m going to be perfectly honest right now, I figured I’d be married by now, so setting the age limit to 27 didn’t seem that outlandish due to the fact that in my mind I was completely safe… in high insight I probably should have made the age 32 or something like that instead of 27, so imagine my surprise when out of nowhere the reminder came to me about my friend Tyler’s 27th birthday last Friday…. Oh boy!
That was a very awkward realization that Tyler was now 27 and that I will be next year… Not only that but neither one of us is engaged or married or even dating anyone else for that matter…. I don’t think I’ve heard of that EVER happening… especially in Utah. It’s crazy to be able to claim something like that. ‘Hey, remember when we were 21 and reasonably certain that the both of us would be married to other people by now? Ha ha, we were wrong and are now both as single as single can be…. How about we up the age limit to 35’? ‘35? Yeah that sounds good’. Disaster averted, pooch un-screwed.
Let me tell you it’s a good thing the two of us were on the same page on that one or that conversation would have been really awkward… It’s nice to know I’ll have the option of being married at 35. Sweet. Take that Provo!!
I went to my mail box the other day, and upon its opening I found a letter from ‘Provo City’. Great, this could be a plethora of things due to the fact that the logo is the same for many different business associated with ‘Provo City’. It could pertain to the utilities company that squeezes every dime it can out of the poor college students. It could possibly be my long lost ‘Food Handlers Permit’ that never actually made it to my place of residence about 3 years ago. You know what… I bet it is a letter stating that I’ve become a runner up in the ‘Provo VIP’ for giving back to my community… and yes, sarcasm absolutely counts….
Tragically, as I opened the letter from Provo City it bestowed something I thought I had dreamt due to the fact that it was first thing in the morning and I haven’t been pulled over in years. The Letter read something like;
Dear Miss Jarvis,
We are writing to let you know that a warrant for your arrest has been issued for failure to appear in court…. Blah blah blah, unimportant crap….
At this point I’m like ‘failure to appear where now?’ That wasn’t even 3 weeks ago and you’re issuing a warrant for my arrest?! Yeah, you better issue a warrant for that crazy Erin girl after 2 and a half weeks… she might be a real threat to society. Oh dear. Two and a half weeks… Don’t they usually wait like 2 months before issuing a warrant? I know I’m quite the dangerous specimen, so, PEOPLE…If you need any spare change, you better find your local bounty hunter to haul my non-ticket paying butt into court or jail… which reminds me, Gary the transvestite still hasn’t paid up for that one game night of Texas Hold ‘Em. Note to self…
Instead of writing a politically charged Blog post, I’m going to give you guys a treat that has been haunting (yes haunting) my mind for almost three months now. It’s from the British Comedy ‘The Mighty Boosh’. Hilarious. Sorry if it offends anyone. It’s British comedy… With that said, don’t be surprised if you’re quoting it nonstop for weeks after you watch this clip… Enjoy!
So in the middle of working and picking 7 pizzas up for 15 very hungry men, I’ve decided to harness my chi and do a little blogging therapy.
My roommate Katy and I made dinner for a bunch of our friends that have either stored us, or our crap over the last few weeks. The best thing about the dinner was the fact that there was turkey… oh turkey with your high levels of Tryptophan that send me into a turkey coma resulting in a turkey hangover that made it almost impossible to wake up this morning. I love it! Of course I’m wearing the same thing I wore yesterday which I’m sure has some eyebrows raised but if they saw the way I collapsed on my bed, they would just laugh and hopefully stop judging.
At least when I was knocked out by the large amount of Tryptophan running through my system, I was too tired to try and spoon my roommate again… that was awkward :/ I was dreaming about snuggling with a very attractive guy the other night and since I share a bed with my friend Katy while we’re both homeless, I was very surprised to wake up to my self becoming the big spoon. Luckily I woke up and started retracting in a rather mortified manner as Katy in a very grumbled voice uttered something like ‘geroff me’. AAAAh! It’s a good thing we are as good of friends as we are because at least we could laugh about it later that day after the weirdness left.
I think it’s time to get snuggle action or something. If not for my sake, then for Katy’s so she doesn’t wake to being the small spoon anymore. Goo. Awk.Ward!
Happy Friday to all! Today is what I like to refer to as ‘Butt Rock’ Friday. ‘Butt Rock’ Friday is when I annoy my fellow co-workers with my Butt Rock playlist on my iTunes. My wonderful playlist consists of Def Leopard, Motley Crue, Warrant, KISS, White Snake, Twisted Sister, AC/DC, Eddie Money, Bon Jovi, Van Halen and Poison. Pretty much the best line-up of sweet melodic melodies you can find…. until we start talking about the Classic Rock genre of course…
I don’t understand why Butt Rock had to die… There they were, talking about drugs, sex and rock n roll and then bands like nirvana had to come around and talk about ‘real’ issues. Don’t get me wrong, I like Nirvana like the next person but I like avoiding reality sometimes which is why I like my 80’s hair bands.
The very interesting thing about the 80’s bands is that their hair may have been huge and long, but they could with out a doubt beat the crap out of some of the band members nowadays like Pete Wentz, Justin Timberlake, just about any Backstreet Boy, the Jonas Brothers… ooh ooh Hanson… Oh my gosh! That would be amazing to watch.
Looking at most of the bands of today or ‘Boy Bands’ (the above mentioned) as I like to call them, I have to sigh at how young, slim and overly girly they look… and then I think back to my hair bands or ‘Man Bands’ if you will and just shake my head and sigh. They never wore shirts onstage (so we know they were ripped), even if they wore makeup, they didn’t look girly. ‘Man Bands’ could undoubtedly beat the crap out of the ‘Boy Band’ members of recent years as well as today. I can see it now… White Snake Vs Hanson or Bon Jovi Vs N’sync… How about Motley Crue Vs The Jonas Brothers… Those would be worthy of front row seats at the MGM Grand!
Life as a transient is a lot more exciting than I would have originally anticipated. First off, last night was the first night in almost two weeks that I didn’t sleep on a couch or something else equally uncomfortable. Don’t get me wrong, I love waking up to the sound of the door opening and shutting constantly and drawers being opened and shut in very passive aggressive ways. I also love going commando during church because my stuff is in about 3 different places and who knows where my underwear ended up. Awesome! Nothing says ‘pure and innocent’ like not wearing underwear during church services…..
I always thought living the ‘transient’ lifestyle would be exciting as well as thrilling to no end, not knowing where you’re going to be at any given moment but after having been that way for only a week and a half I am CRAVING stability!
Now completely off the subject…It’s been one of those weekends that have me using my blog as cheap therapy. The whole ‘getting it out’ process so I don’t find myself in a certain predicament that would necessitate me needing help disposing of bodies.
After living in my apartment for 4.5 years, I became close with my land lady who incidentally is one of the coolest women ever. After I moved out I told her that I would do a few chores for her and help her out a bit. She’s awesome so I didn’t have a problem. Here’s the 411 on BYU student housing. NEVER own real estate in Provo!!!
When you own an apartment or a house you have to deal with the stuck up princess/princes that find every little nit picky thing wrong with things. Heaven forbid you move into a place that has been cleaned but not inhabited for a few weeks so you find a tiny layer of dust! Oh no! What are you to do? It’s so hard finding a random rag and running it over the surface…. No, you can’t do that! It’s too hard, let’s call the manager and complain for hours about it. DEAR HEAVEN ON EARTH AND ALL THAT IS HOLY!!!
Heaven forbid a 40 year old apartment might have some stains and quirks but is completely habitable due to the fact that it has been practically sprayed down with bleach consistently for the last 4.5 years because I lived there and happen to be a massive germ-a-phobe.
I’m sorry that brand new furniture and carpet were being placed in the apartment but aren’t quite to your liking, and I’m so very sorry that I was the person who had to clean up after 3 other roommates while running errands for my land lady, working 50 hour weeks, moving MY stuff all over creation until I could get a storage unit, while having apartment after apartment fall through leaving me frustrated and homeless… my bad! I’ll try to do better next time. You just let me know if I can do anything to pamper your sorry self, here my number it is 1-800- bite-me! Call anytime. My secretary’s name is Helen Waite (hell and wait)… so if you go there that would be great!
A really cool thing happened to me the other day. I managed to get a hold of a movie that hasn’t come out yet. Very cool…and always a good thing.
The movie is called ‘Take’ and stars Minnie Driver and Jeremy Renner. The best thing about independent movies is that you never know what you’re going to get. I LOVED this movie. I am not the biggest Minnie Driver fan, but she did a phenomenal job.
The movie starts out with a day in the life of Ana (Minnie Driver) and Saul (Jeremy Renner). At first you are wondering what’s going on until it becomes apparent that a tragedy has happened and what you are getting is the back info to that particular day. What you don’t know, is what happened or to whom, so it has you guessing until closer to the end of the movie.
After working in a movie theatre for the total of about 4 years, I have seen a lot of movies. Never have I seen one with such a powerful message of forgiveness, and I doubt I will ever again. It’s not a light hearted film but it is an excellent one, and you would be cheating yourself if you don’t see it at least once.
I’m putting the trailer in my post so everyone can watch and see… and be intrigued. Enjoy!
