Just another day...

OMG. It happened again.

I decided to go to work a little bit earlier today. I woke up, did my usual morning routines (ie. check instagram), showered, did my make-up, sat in my closet pondering life for a minute or two, got dressed in a smart sweater dress and burgundy leggings with gunmetal accessories, fixed my hair and was ready even before my ride was! Of course it took a little longer than usual to get to work (traffic is always worse earlier than later). So when I finally arrived, to make up a few seconds of time I quickly walked into the building and saw the elevator was there and people were getting on. I quickened my pace to catch the elevator and... promptly TRIPPED on the rug in front of it.

After that, everything happened in slow mo. I think I could literally see my boot get caught on the piece of rug that wasn’t flush with the floor, and my arms flailing out to catch my fall…the yelp that escaped from my mouth, the inevitable look of "WTF just happened?" on my face (again) and of course the looks of shock and pity on the faces of the FULL ELEVATOR OF PEOPLE.

Yep.

To make matters worse, my leg was already a little sore from all the leaping I did at the gym the night before. (Yes, I said leaping. It’s for Sh’Bam. Yes, I said Sh’Bam. It's this dance class similar to Zumba but less latin and more leaping.) Anyways, I picked myself up as gracefully as I could (not particularly easy as you can imagine) and limped my way into the elevator. There were a few “Are you alrights?” and of course I answered “Yeah. Just in pain. Thanks.” 

PS. Thanks everyone for rushing to help me up. (Note: No one rushed to help me up).

Just another day in my totally fab life. Welcome.

I'll think of a title later...

I know. I'm doing it again. Neglecting this little blog, that I so love to write! Honestly, there is just not enough time in the day and I'm truly the biggest procrastinator in the world. My sister even told all my wedding guests this tidbit about me during her speech at my wedding. Of course she did it in a little rhyme which made it cute but didn't make it any less true. I do EVERYTHING at the last possible minute. I don't even know what I do before that last possible minute! I just know that I do anything else I possibly can, BEFORE I have to do the thing that needs to be done. And it's not even just boring stuff that I procrastinate about doing! I mean sure, everyone always wants to put off doing something like cleaning the house or a boring task at work, but doesn't everyone rush to do something they like doing? Take writing this blog for example, I love writing it - it's like a form of therapy, where I can tell you about the fabulous (read: embarrassing, funny, dumb, exciting, interesting, fantastic, etc.) things that happen in my life. But even though I love it and have many stories to tell you, I can never get to it. 

Sometimes I'm not even doing anything and think to myself "This would be a perfect time to blog!" 

So I pull out my laptop, log in, ponder a witty title, decide to use a word I'm unsure the meaning of, Google said word, see something else in the list that comes up that distracts me, google THAT instead and before you know it, I have 5 windows open looking at other people's blogs, getting jaleux of the clothes they're wearing in their blogs, wishing I had a professional photographer that followed me around taking pics of MY outfits for my blog, google outfits I would wear in my blog, check my credit card balances, decide I can't afford to buy said outfits for my blog, go to my closet and sit on the floor, looking at what I have to work with, decide to organize my closet, take everything OUT of my closet, begin the re-organization, get called down to eat dinner,  watch some PVR'd show during dinner, move to the couch to finish the show after dinner, decide to watch 2 more episodes of said show, fall asleep on the couch,  wake up at 1:00am, stumble up to my room, trip on the clothes I took out of my closet, throw everything back into my closet, decide I will organize it tomorrow, wash my face, brush my teeth and go to bed. Yeah. Procrastination. 

PS. This post was gonna be how I decided to have a pop-up sale at work. Guess I will have to write about it next time...

Gone with the Wind!

Doesn’t it just seem like yesterday we were sitting on the steps, tanning on our lunch breaks enjoying the summer sun and now suddenly we’re all huddled into our jackets trying to walk through gale force winds while the turning leaves whip us in the face? What the heck? Whatever happened to lovely, sunny autumn days where you’re walking through the park with the leaves on the trees all yellows, oranges and browns and everything is picturesque while you parade around wearing lovely suede boots, a stylish fall coat and a smart little hat? Where is the “Fall” of my daydreams? Clearly not here. It went from hot sunny days to dreary, windy days, with no hint of the lovely transition I’ve envisioned in my mind for all my lovely September outfits. The weather report, as usual is a big fat lie. For example, yesterday the weather report stated it would be a beautiful 19 degrees. As we went for our usual 10:32 am coffee run, freezing our butts off, we begged to differ. Mother Nature, definitely does whatever the hell she wants. You would think being a woman she would understand that these “winds gusting to 50” don’t work with my hair and drizzling rain is the enemy of suede boots no matter how much protector you spray on it. Then again I suppose I don’t do too much parading outside anyways. I’m more of a “cab to curb” girl. (Where cab = the bus). The weather is never what it looks like on tv or the magazines, except maybe in places like New York or Paris. Ah, New York in the fall…or Paris in the springtime…sounds like something out of a movie.

Anyways…

NYFW (New York Fashion Week) just ended and LFW (London) has begun. I love seeing the street style photos of the attendees. How I wish to one day be part of that, attending the shows, all the while putting on a show of my own as I dash from one show to the next with a little Celine bag here, with a little Prada shoe over there and a dash of Valentino thrown in for good measure. Ah…to be part of that is my dream. Maybe one day…

For now, I will have to be content parading from work to Tim Horton’s during our coffee runs hoping that one day a street style photographer will capture my image as I dodge traffic and those pesky leaves that keep blowing into my face.


is it still smizing if your eyes are closed?

 Also thanks to my girlfriends (Melis and Mar) who agreed to go along with my cockamamie ideas of a "windy photoshoot".



Insta-interesting!

Hi friends! Are you still out there? I know I know, I abandoned you all, with no explanation and no excuses. I took an extended leave to clear my mind and refresh my creative juices! (Read: I got lazy) So, if you’re still interested, I’m here to tell you more about the adventures in My Totally Fab Life. It’s been busy and a lot of total fabulousness has happened…I don’t even know where to begin! So...let me start with my latest obsession...

Well...like most of the world, I’ve discovered Instagram, which I think makes everyone an instant artist, street style photographer, food stylist, etc… Even mundane, everyday things turn into art with the help of the photo filters and a knack for good angles! I’ve never taken so many pics of food and desserts! This is the beauty of Instagram – the showing off sharing of what you’re doing, eating, wearing. Giving other a chance to “like” and “comment”. It’s kind of like Facebook, without all the status updates and Farmville requests. You can even follow your favorite celebrity and get a glimpse into the fun things they’re up to.

As most of my friends know I don’t DO Facebook. It honestly stressed me out. I had gotten into it when it first started, before everyone really used it. Suddenly it blew up and everyone and their dog was telling you what they were doing, posting pics of everything and collecting as many “friends” as possible. Well the thing that stressed me out the most was the whole Friend request thing. I would obsess over why this person didn’t ask me to be their friend and if I asked them, if they would “accept” me as a friend, etc…It got to the point where I couldn’t do anything without checking my friend list, and obsessing about the time it took for someone to accept a request. I was so paralyzed with the fear of being rejected! Then there were times where I myself did not want to accept a request, and then felt the guilt of not immediately accepting a request. It would sit there everyday taunting me until finally I’d give up and give in. Then I’d be all annoyed about the updates I’d be receiving. One day, I got so stressed that I decided right then and there to disable my account (it even asked why I was disabling and gave me a list of reasons I could tick off. I ticked off “Too much social drama”) Once I did that, a flood of relief washed over me and I felt so free! No one needed to know I was doing laundry! No one needed to know that I liked Jem & The Holograms!(but to be fair, who DIDN’T like Jem & The Holograms? Seriously.) No one could reject my (Facebook) friendship! It was one of my best life decisions. Except of course for the fact that all my friends were and are still on it and I inevitably always hear the line “It was on Facebook! Oh, you’re not on Facebook” (then the requisite eyeroll). Another thing? Unfortunately, my husband still has his account. The only good thing is that if I need a facebook fix, I’ll creep on his peeps (well actually “our” peeps – since he ‘s friends with most of the same people I was friends with!) I was obsessed with privacy (probably be the direct opposite of what facebook stands for) that I changed his privacy settings to the highest privacy setting short of closing the account. Of course, he didn’t actually know this until one day, when he saw his junior high school friends at the grocery store and they were all excited and reminiscing. They asked him if he was on facebook and he said, “Yeah, I’m on there! Just look for me!” They were like “Dude, we’ve been looking for you forever and we can’t find you on there ANYWHERE.” He was like “that’s weird”. So he told me about it and finally I had to fess up and say “Uh..yeah. That is because your privacy is on the highest setting”. (I liked to think of myself as his “administrator”). Anyways, shortly after that, he took control of his account. Now I’ll sometimes check it out, but for the most part, I try to stay off just because I start to get stressed out again. My friends have been trying to convince me to get back on, but I’m still holding out.

I tried Twitter, but I don’t think I’m very good at it, and I find it hard to keep up with all the tweeting from who I’m following. Plus I have all these people from foreign countries whose names I can’t pronounce, or even read, who follow my tweets and I think its just because they want me to follow them back. (Is it possible to have spam followers?) Plus the thing I liked best from celebrity tweets were the twit pics. So the natural progression for me would obviously be Instagram. At first I was weary, but then found that I actually enjoyed looking at other peoples pictures. And they weren’t albums of stuff…just pics here and there. Great for my (self-diagnosed) attention deficit disorder.

Anyways, Instagram. So I’ve been enjoying it and I love seeing the things my friends and family post. Also, there are so many interesting people out there who post some really great pics and you can even follow most of them . Where else can you see what someone like say, Jessica Alba, is eating for dinner? Or who’s wearing what (in almost real time) at New York Fashion Week!? It’s almost like I’m attending the shows myself! It’s pretty amazing. #TotesAmaze (P’Trique is my new obsesh!)

So yes, I think I will stay on this Instagram train for awhile…until of course it starts to stress me out, in which case I will get off and look for some brand new less stressful mode to social network.

PS. I really hope to continue to blog regularly! If I stop again and you notice, bug me!!! I promise I have like 4 or 5 blogs that I've started but haven't finished!  

Daylight come and me wanna go home....

So you may recall a few posts ago I went on a tiny rant about bananas.

I know they are the best fruit because they're so good for you, etc, etc... and honestly, I don't mind it in small amounts like in a banana split for example or banana bread (as long as I didn't see what the bananas looked like BEFORE going into the bread) or in banana Jeanne cake. I love banana Jeanne cake (but I think it's mostly for the shortbread cookie on the bottom). I have even been known to eat a banana once in a blue moon, if it's totally perfectly yellow and firm. An optimal condition banana. However, that only comes once in a LONG while. I don't think I've eaten a banana since the 90's. Or at least the early 2000's.

Anyways, as I said before, despite me eating an occasional banana, I really can't stand the smell or sight of them and I especially can't stand the sound it makes, squishing around in the mouth. Bleh...

Which brings me to today. Or yesterday rather.

Never tell anyone how you feel about bananas...

Sometimes the cutting edge of fashion is too sharp.

I forgot to tell you guys! Last week, I bought the most amazing dress. Seriously. It is amazeballs. It’s totally Issey Miyake-esque, totally avant garde and totally unique. It’s silky yet structured and it could be worn a number of different ways. The feature I loved the most was that it had a part that looked like it could be a hood, or worn as a hood, but when it was down, it wasn’t a hood, it was just some good draping. I just feel so “on the cutting edge of fashion” when I put it on…There are so many ways to wear it!

check out my "concentrating on taking a picture" face

This Saturday, I went out for lunch to Asia City for the $5.00 lunch special with my sister and nephew. While we were eating lunch my parents came in to take advantage of the lunch special as well (the special was ending at 2:00pm and they made it there with 3 minutes to spare! LOL) They had just come from the mall and my mom was excited to tell us what she bought. (FYI, there is no question where we get our love of shopping from!) They had just booked a cruise and of course she had to go out and buy something to wear for it. She was particularly excited about an outfit she bought from BCBG. She kept saying “It’s SOOOO nice!! I’m going to wear it on my cruise! The color is perfect! The style is so different!” So we were excited to see what she got. My dad brought it in and as I unzipped the garment bag, and caught a glimpse of the color...I knew.

My mom bought the same freaking dress as me.

My sister and my dad couldn’t stop laughing. My dad was all “now you and your mom have a uniform!” OMG.

I guess I really am my mother’s daughter.

Pinteresting...very pinteresting

So anyways, as I stated in my previous post, I’m completely and utterly obsessed with Pinterest. So much so, that I went through the trouble of setting up an actual Twitter account, just so I could log into it!

Since I signed up for Twitter anyways, I figured I would follow random people like: the Biebs, Cory Monteith, Ashton Kutcher, Ellen DeGeneres, Jimmy Fallon and my friend Mar. I was so excited and proud when I sent out my first tweet: “Hello Twitterverse, I’ve arrived! Be excited!” then I waited…

Nothing happened. There was no "Welcome to Twitter Lisette!" from Ashton or anyone. Obviously he was busy. So I asked my friend what was up with the Twitter snobbiness?!

Okay, so apparently, people don’t see your tweets unless they’re actually FOLLOWING you. So this whole “twitterverse” that I was tweeting…was really only my friend Mar, who could not stop laughing at me! (I'm sure she's still laughing...) Here I thought I was tweeting to the Biebs, Cory, Ashton, Ellen and Jimmy (yes, we’re on a first name basis) and the rest of the world. Duh. I’m SOOO not cut out for social networking.

However, what I AM cut out for is following hella easy recipes on Pinterest! Well…kind of cut out. I actually never follow recipes to the letter and kind of make up my own. I mean, I’ll read it to get the gist of it and then just do and add whatever the hell I want. The end result is usually pretty good! If I have to, I will substitute ingredients on the list for stuff I have in my pantry. No need to go out and buy an ingredient if you already have something similar in your pantry!

For example…let me tell you about my famous Shmoo cupcakes! One of my friends gave me her recipe, which I followed…but I changed some things. Let me tell you about it…

The basic ingredients for the Shmoo cupcakes are: butter pecan cake, whipped cream and caramel sauce.

So I followed her recipe for the actual cupcakes with some additions of my own (like skor bar added to the batter. Mmmm!). For the whipped topping I just used Cool Whip. For the caramel sauce I needed: brown sugar, butter and cream. I checked my pantry and I did not have any of those things…however, I did have: white sugar, margarine and milk. I was sure that would work. So I started to make it…

I couldn’t understand why the margarine and sugar mixture was not turning brown…so I turned up the heat. It still didn’t look right, but I thought I’d dip my finger in to taste it. First of all, hot melted sugar is fricken HOT. I burned my finger. So I screamed “OW!” But then for some inexplicable reason I touched my finger to my lip (I guess I thought if I could taste it, it wouldn’t be as bad. Don't ask.) Anyways, I touched my scalded finger (with the hot, melted sugar) to my lip and promptly screamed even louder “OW!” This time my husband came running (he ignored my first scream) and was like “What the hell?!” I was like “I burned my finger and now my lip!! OW!” I immediately ran my finger under some cold water (it blistered) then doused my lips with cold water…which began to blister as well. I went to the computer to Google “lip burns” and found that Blistex would apparently soothe it. So I sent my husband out to buy the Blistex. Did I mention this was 11:00 at night? He bought the Blistex for me… and also wisely bought a bottle of caramel sauce. So see? Instead of wasting time making caramel sauce, I just now keep a bottle of it in my fridge. True Story.

Anyways…as I mentioned in my previous post, I want to tell you about some of the recipes I tried on Pinterest.

Well, you already know about the cheesecake stuffed strawberries (the dipping in chocolate was my own addition). This week I tried:

1) Pizza Crescent Roll-ups. This was relatively easy and really yummy. It’s actually a no-brainer. Pepperoni and shredded mozza cheese inside a Pillsbury Crescent Roll with marinara sauce (from a jar) to dip it in. Delicioso. I will definitely do it again maybe next time with bacon and cheddar cheese?

2) Mini Kiss/Hug Pies. These are made with ready-made pie crust and Hershey’s Kisses & Hugs. My friend Mar tried the recipe first and brought it for us at work. They were very good. So I thought I’d try it too because it was so easy. Mine were very…pie crust-y. They were good, but you definitely need a big glass of milk to wash it down, and the chocolate didn’t really melt for some reason. Next time, I think I will try puff pastry and another kind of chocolate. I guess I won’t be able to call them “Kiss pies” though. Anyways, it wasn’t too bad, and it was still “ta da!”

3) Stuffed Zucchini: This was a yummy recipe that I actually only saw a picture of and made up the stuffing on my own. Ground beef, onions, garlic, red peppers, zucchini and the rest of the marinara sauce from the jar (that I used for the pizza crescent roll-ups) topped with shredded cheese. This was very easy and delicious! Although hollowed out zucchini doesn’t actually hold too much filling. So after I took the pic, I just put sauce all over the zucchini, topped it with more cheese and mic’d it to melt the cheese. Easy.

I have bookmarked a bunch more recipes which I’m hoping to try whenever I get a chance…some examples? Nutella Cheesecake, Pink Lemonade Cake and S’mores Bars…Pinterest is definitely NOT helping my diet. However, they also put in some good exercise plans to combat this as well! LOL. I plan to try those out one day too…at this rate, it will have to be soon!

Have a great weekend everyone! If you have a chance, check it out, try out some recipes and tell me whether they worked or whether they were fails. Happy pinning!