Top Five Fridays: GT's Video Playlist

1. Flashing Lights, Kanye West
   
   I first saw this video on a gossip blog site and I immediately fell in love. I have to say the ending is just so brilliant, FREAKING BRILLIANT, that it bums be out that I did not think of it first.

   
   

2. Stronger, Britney Spears
   
   Okay, please tell me what female on the planet did not look at this video and not want to be Miss Brit? It is just so darn good, she looks so freaking fierce, and for a girl who never says that word, um hello.
   
   Granted things have gone a bit downhill since then, but still, she makes good music (and I don't care what anyone says her new CD is so good).

   
   

3. I Want You, Common
   
   I sawr this video last night and I have to say sooo very good. The beat is just awesome and the video, um hello, so brilliant. I mean who hasn't really taken part in a bit of toxic relationship yet not really let go?
   
   Then again, I kinda like those obsessive physco videos (hence the #1) not because I am that kinda girl but because I think we all have the potential to be completely obsessive self destructive psychos we just keep it all in check.
   
   Sidebar: So did I make fun of Nala for putting a Common song on her MySpace page? Yes, yes I did but let me explain. I thought he was like a foolio rapper like these kids with the Jacob the Jeweler blinged out grills on, but I was mistaken so I will own up to that. Go Common.

   
   

4. She Bangs, Ricky Martin
   
   There is not a single hotter video than this one, I am sorry there just isn't. The one scene with all kinds of boys and girls grabbing on Ricky Martin makes me sizzle.

   
   

5. Before he Cheats, Carrie Underwood
   
   Please see #1 and 3...enough said right?
   

Three Truths and a Lie

1. I once flew to the alleged Area 51 in a private plane with the curtains drawn. Once there I proceeded to touch (and take a picture of me touching) a way awesome plane that we were specifically instructed not to come near, touch or take pictures of and then flew home a few hours later again with the curtains drawn.
   
   
2. At a strip club in Vegas, I rang up close to a $400 lap dancing bill from an heavily make-uped yet pretty stripper that my fiancé promptly paid off for me once he returned from getting me a cocktail. Oops.
   
   
3. When I was in 19, I auditioned to be a San Jose Saber Kitten. I made it to the last round but was told that while my dancing abilities were awesome my boobs were too small to make the final cut. This pretty much directly contributed to my obsession with getting implants.
   
   
4. My friends and I were almost car jacked by a bunch of holligans one night in San Francisco after being out on the town. One of the holligans tried to smashed my car window with a bat while the other attempted to open the side door to get in, but thanks to Nala’s savvy driving (and the fact that she was the only one sober) we were able to get out of there with ourselves and my car unscathed.

20 Things I Do Do

Again giving credit to Valley Girl and D.

1. Men in perfectly tailored suits
2. Jesus*
3. Man push-ups**
4. Channel the Olsen Twins for my fashion inspiration***
5. Procrastinate
6. Prescription drugs****
7. Smoke socially*****
8. Wear sun block
9. Gold
10. California wines
11. Tasting menus with wine pairings
12. Fur
13. Flat shoes and orthopedic inserts******
14. Stress out and worry in general
15. Pop rock worthy of 13-year-old emo girls
16. Hot dogs
17. Recycle
18. Bad reality TV
19. Walk
20. Infomericals

* Disclaimer: “Jesus freaks” who use God to judge other people, and thus make laws against them, need not apply. You listening Huckabee?!?!
** And general working out, but it sounds so cool when you just call it out by the man pushups.
*** This may be worthy of another blog post but suffice it to say that I have been known to wander around more often than not with messy hair and dressed like a homeless person yet sporting hideously expensive handbags, sunglasses and shoes. Granted, I even make designer clothes look homeless, but whatever.
**** Hey if they are prescribed they are not illegal and as such bring them on
***** This is perhaps one of my favorite pastimes and if I were not deathly afraid of prematurely aging myself I would do it more frequently. This is also why i wear loads of sunblock and avoid the sun even though I wish I could always be tan.
****** Try having as many feet issues as I do and run around all day in Le Bou Bous. Not going to happen…well not going to happen too often anyway…often enough though since I do heart my shoes.

Introducing Top Five Fridays

Top Five Things to do When You Can’t Sleep

In the movie High Fidelity, the main character goes around spouting off top five lists of everything from music to lovers. So I thought to myself, hey why not take this approach myself and create a Top Five Fridays loosely based on this movie. So without further ado here is the first Top Five based on my night last night, enjoy.

1. Watch really bad TV. VH1 and Bravo are good sources to watch countless reality reruns of shows you probably have already watched countless of times. Infomercials also provide a good source of entertainment value, particularly fitness infomercials that promise miraculous weight loss in 10 days or your money back. I mean hello, if you don’t lose 10lbs in 10 days you get your money back…brilliant!
   
2. Think about your financial situation nonstop and determine the next steps to create an awesomely awesome nest egg in the next 10 years. Plan includes keeping track of recent spending and eliminating the obvious frivolous recent shopping that includes over priced shoes and random infomercial purchases of fitness products. Extra bonus points for firing up the laptop that takes 15 minutes to boot up to create a financial plan on excel with a fancy timeline on PowerPoint.
   
3. Do pushups. Keep a tally of how many boy pushups you can do vs. girl pushups because nothing really relaxes more than getting your heart pumping by doing physical exercise…sweet. Need some extra relaxation? Try doing hundreds and roll ups for kicks.
   
4. Change the already changed sheets on your bed because you need the extra thread count, regardless of the thread-count you have, in order to sleep better Sleeping on 300 (ewe, but I guess not everyone’s skin is as sensitive as mine so no judgment)? Maybe switch to 500. Sleeping on 500? Maybe go crazy and go to a 1,000 count (yay!). Also, not all cotton is made the same so really feel free to experiment with your closet full of expensive sheets, I know I do.
   
5. Once your done with steps 1-4 crawl into your freshly made bed and turn off the lights. Then immediately start thinking about natural disasters and how you might die from them. My personal favorite are earthquakes, nothing screams sleepy time like imagining a pile of wrecked metal as you gasp for air underneath it. Note to self: certain people may not appreciate a “omg I think I might die in an earthquake tonight” phone call in the middle of the night. If you do decide to make a call make sure it is to someone who has your same sick morbid sense of humor.

20 Things I Don't Do

Ha ha, that is right people. I miraculously found my user name (I had forgotten it besides the obvious nature of it) and I can now blog again. Yay, champagne is falling from the heavens I know.

Well for lack of better content and creativity I will rip of the idea of Valley Girl and D and create my own 20 Things I Don’t Do list. I have to say this is very hard for me since there are not many things I will not do.

1. Curry
2. Fuggs Uggs
3. Men in ill-fitting suits*
4. Abba
5. Peta
6. Chevy's
7. Tequila
8. Angelina Jolie and Jessica Alba (tied)
9. Call/email people back
10. Extreme Democrats**
11. Extreme Republicans
12. Extreme anything***
13. Illegal drugs of any kind
14. Vegans
15. Raw foodists
16. Tarragon
17. Movies made before 1980
18. People who cry at the gym because they “can’t”
19. The word “can’t”****
20. Fanny packs*****

* Even a target suit will look great if it is tailored
** These, I find, are the worst offenders because under the guise of being "liberal" they try to bully you into thinking the way they do and if you don't you are "closed minded". I mean isn't that act in itself totally closed minded?
*** With the exception of extreme sports
**** In reference to one’s ability to acomplish something, not in the “dude, I can’t make it tonight” which is totes cool and actually my #3 overused expression
***** Okay maybe that’s a lie