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These are a few of my favorite things (this week)

1. Happiness is only a Hair flip away! I watched Cris Crocker’s (of leave Britney Alone viral video fame) documentary Me at the Zoo last weekend and it was actually pretty good. I didn’t know if it would be interesting since I only knew Cris Crocker from the Britney video but it was actually really interesting. I learned a lot about youtube, like that certain people with a lot of hits on their videos get invited by Google to basically get paid for their videos. For some videos, the video poster gets paid some amount every time someone clicks on those ads that pop up over their video. Anyway he has an interesting life and you kind of understand why he was so impassioned about Britney Spears. You also get to see a lot of his videos. This one is my favorite:

2. 10 things that Make Jonathan Adler Happy. As it’s 4th of July week nothing is on TV. So I randomly recorded this 10 things that make me Happy show on Bravo. The first part of the show is about Kyle Richards’ favorite things, which was kind of boring, but the second is Jonathan Adler and his list is really cool. My favorite thing of his was this random burlap George Washington bust he and his husband picked up at an antique store. It’s so cool and super weird. Anyway if you can you should totally watch it for the burlap George, gratuitous dog shots and the adorable couple that is Simon Doonan and Jonathan Adler.

3. Olympic Trials. I would say the Olympics but they haven’t started yet, but they’ll definitely be on another list. The few times I get super patriotic are on the 4th of July and during international competitive sports. I’m not really sure why I’m so into the Olympics, but I am. Last week I watched some of the swimming trials and of course the gymnastics trials. Gymnastics is my favorite sport at the summer olympics and one I watch if it’s on TV on non-olympic years as well. This year I’m super excited by the diversity on the USA’s olympic gymnastics teams. John Orozco, Gabby Douglas, Danelle Layva and Kyla Ross are all representing this year. This isn’t to say I wouldn’t be excited if both teams were all white, it’s just nice to see more diversity on our teams!


2012 US Gymnastics Olympic Team (Source)

4. Megan Draper’s Style. I know Mad Men ended last month, but I never got around to doing and end of season post so this will have to suffice. This season we got to actually learn more about Megan and we also got to see her awesome style. Megan’s style is very mod and very cool. Anyway here are a few of my favorite Megan outfits:

* All images via Pinterest, Google and AMC

5. 90’s R&B. I watched VH1’s 40 greatest R&B songs of the 90’s countdown ( you can see the list here) a few days ago and now I’ve been having a serious craving for nothing but 90’s R&B. I’m in the middle of making a playlist on itunes and downloading some of the songs. Here are a few of my favorites:

Memorable Olympic Moments, so far

Sorry for the continued blog absence, I’ve been super busy and not wearing anything interesting. So since I have nothing else to blog about, I figured I’d share the most memorable moments on the other thing that I’ve been doing instead of blogging, watching the Olympics. So here’s a round up of the most memorable moments of 2012 London Olympics (in my opinion) so far. (warning most of these are pretty team-USA centric)

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1. Opening Ceremony. London 2012 had the incredibly difficult task of following the Beijing opening ceremony, probably one of the best in recent history. Honestly the opening ceremony was just OK for me. Though I was happy to see a multiracial family, during the British music segment, that doesn’t happen as often as you’d think. I was kind of hoping for a spice girl cameo during the music part but got over the lack of spice girl-ness when they showed Amy Winehouse. The Queen/ James bond video was pretty sweet too.

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2. Jordyn Wieber doesn’t make all-around. My heart broke for Jordyn when a few points kept her from even being able to compete for all-around gold. I suppose that’s the olympics but they should really re-think that rule since the 4th best gymnast (in the qualifying) and reining world champion isn’t able to compete because she’s on a strong team and made some minor mistakes. phooey. No images because it’s just too sad to show again.

3. U.S. Men disappoint. I had high hopes for the U.S. men’s team and could barely watch as mistake after mistake slowly crushed their Olympic medal dreams. Hopefully some of the members of this relatively young team will be able to comeback in 2016, but it’s just heartbreaking to watch. I was almost glad they stopped showing them after the vault as it was just so painful. Though I still think we should have seen the rest of their events. Way to cheer on the home team, NBC.

4. Ryan Lochte’s grill. I mean really Lochte? really? 2004 called they want their trend back. Also this article pretty much sums up all my feelings on Lochte.

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5. Mckayla Maroney’s jaw-dropping vault.

literally jaw dropping

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6. US women’s Gymnastics team gold medal. nuff said.

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7. Aliya Mustafina’s eye makeup. Is it heavy? maybe. But I have to admit I kind of love it. Not too sure about the glitter hair though.

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8. Gabby Douglas Wins GOLD and is the first African American woman to win the all-around!!!!! whoot!

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9. Phelps wins 22nd medal, ends swimming career.

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10. Very formal track and field officials. If you ever watch the track and field events all the officials on the field are always in grey dress pants and blazers. Every time I see them I think they should also be wearing top hats and manacles. They just look so out of place compared to all the athletes in their colorful uniforms, I suppose that’s the point.

11. Interesting track intros. The Jamaicans also win gold in intro creativity.