Every year I spend Christmas Eve and Christmas, between food, family and presents, marathoning Christmas movies and specials. Since I’m in a marathon-y mood I figured I’d do a list of some of my favorite Holiday TV specials.

1.  How the Grinch  Stole Christmas

 How can you not love the Grinch? The green outsider who hated the whos and their infernal Christmas jubilation, steals every inch of commercial christmas only to learn ” what if christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store?” The grinch is required christmas tv special watching in my opinion, if nothing else for the animation and the the sort of  60’s cool whoville. One day I will have all grinch inspired christmas decor and it will be awesome.

2. The Year without a Santa Claus:

 Ok so this may or may not be considered a classic to some, but it’s definitely one to me. Santa’s sick and doesn’t feel like anyone cares about Christmas, all he wants to do is stay in bed a feel better. So Mrs. Claus sends two elves and Vixen down to Southtown USA to drum up some christmas spirit. Basically the mayor of southtown  says if they can get it to snow in south town for one day they’ll give Santa a holiday. The problem? the Miser brothers heat miser who controls the south and snow miser who controls the north are bitter rivals and neither will budge until their mother, mother nature, makes them compromise. The best part of the special is  the miser brothers, whose catchy theme songs are infectious. I’m also pretty sure heat miser is from the Jersey, as he has Pauly D’s hairstyle. Anyway if you’ve never seen this special WATCH IT, it’s ridiculous but fun and it’s on ABC family at least once a week.

3. A Charlie Brown Christmas: 

I mean do I even have to explain why? Groovy tunes, sweet dance moves and a break down of  the meaning of christmas by a kid who still shleps a blankie around. How can you not watch this special?

4.  Rudolph the Red nosed Reindeer:

 The classic of all classics. Rudolf is the rednosed outcast that just wants to fit in. Oh those cruel reindeer games!  Apparently it does get better, but only if it’s super foggy one Christmas and your malady can save the day. Santa is kind of a jerk in this holiday classic about the little reindeer with a shiny red nose who just wants to fit in. There’s a good lesson here in that everyone who hates on Rudolph eventually has to eat their words and realize they’re wrong, guilt the great equalizer. Anyway the real gem of this special is the killer animation and the lovely retro feel it evokes every time you watch it. 

5. Frosty the Snowman:

Magic hat makes snowman come to life, snowman is fun, yay snowman!, Snowman slowly dying, send snowman to north pole so he doesn’t die. MERRY CHRISTMAS KIDS! Frosty is fun nostalgia and can remind you of those lovely years of yore when those mountains of snow meant snow days and snowmen and not shoveling and a shitty commute.

6. Rugrats christmas and Chanukah special:

 My favorite Rugrats episodes have always been their Jewish holiday specials . They don’t really show these on TV anymore but you can watch them on netflix, which I did a week ago during Chanukah, because I seriously love that special. The Chanukah special follows Tommie through his first Chanukah as he and the gang learn about Chanukah and its different traditions. The main plot is that the babies think the meanie of Chanukah is out to get grandpa Boris, the two men are old rivals, and they decide the only way to get the meanie of Chanukah off grandpa Boris’ back is to put him down for a nap. It’s adorable, trust me. The Christmas special follows the gang as they go up north to  a cabin for Christmas. The Christmas special is also good and definitely worth a watch.

7. Hey Arnold Christmas Special:

Can you tell I was really into nickelodeon as a child? This special is also on netflix. Aronlds family and their boarders do a secret Santa and Arnold get the relatively mysterious Mr.  Hyunh. After a conversation with Mr. Hyunh Arnold finds out all he really wants for christmas is to be reunited with his long lost daughter. Arnold tries to reunite Mr. Hyunh with his daughter, doing the last minute Christmas shopping of a government employee that can help him. When Arnold can’t get the must have item of the season, Nancy Spumoni snow boots, Helga gives up her own boots as a way to give Arnold a special Christmas gift. daww.

8. South Park Christmas Special.

There are a bunch of South Park Christmas specials but my favorite one is the musical one. Mr. Hankey is a close second but sometimes christmas poo just  grosses you out. There’s also just something about santa and jesus competing in a karaoke sing off that I’ve always found clever and hilarious.  The special is very south park, so don’t take it too seriously, but it’s hilarious nonetheless and one of my faves. Most south Park episodes are on netflix so i’m assuming you can consume all of them to your hearts content that way. 

*All images via google

Sorry I fail at being bipartisan today

No outfit post today, but I’m rocking my I voted sticker!

       So if you’re a US citizen today is the day to VOTE! So far I haven’t gotten too political on this blog, but it is my blog and I am a strong believer is many a political cause. As this is a fashion blog there probably won’t be a lot of political posts, but today is an important day and as a fairly political person I had to do a little political post. Personally I am a democrat and fervent Obama supporter and will definitely be voting Obama today. I’d urge you to do the same, especially if you’re a woman, but more importantly think about what’s important to you and vote for whomever aligns with those issues. Also, if you’re in MN I’d also urge you to VOTE NO on the marriage amendment and voter restriction. Let’s not limit anyone’s right to marriage or put unnecessary, expensive, and unknown provisions on who can vote.

If you don’t know where to vote find out HERE.

And if you’re an unregistered voter in Minnesota you can still Vote today, here’s how:

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*all images above were found via google.com

As mentioned before after my initial post I was just too busy/unmotivated to post  a picture to this dear old blog everyday. So I’m gonna do a weekly round up until the end of the month. Since it’s my first roundup I decided to add the first photo that I already posted. So here’s week one of the June Photo-A-Day challenge:

1. Morning

Oliver in the morning

2. Empty

This is an old 50’s cart we got at an Estate Sale a long time ago that my mom is sick of so it’s movie up to my room as a temporary pyrex display shelf.

3. On Your Plate

Ravioli

4.  Close Up

Close up of my “Z” shaped birthmark

5. Sign.

Very blurry picture of the Greyhound Bus station sign near my mom’s work. I suck at taking non blurry photos with the night setting on my camera. The light thing above it is the top of Target HQ.

6. Hat.

My Panama Ecuadorian Hat. Panama hats are actually from Ecuador. I got this hat in Cuenca, Ecuador  during my semester abroad there a couple years ago. At some point I will wear this in an Outfit post, I’m not much of a hat person.

7. Drink

Pink lemonade in a pink cup

8. Six O’clock

watching a little of the Swedish version of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest.

9. Your View Today

my backyard

10. Best Bit of Your Weekend

enjoying the nice weather outside

Image via Google Images

  

I just wanted to do a quick post and mourn the tragedy that happened yesterday in Norway and the death of Amy Winehouse today. I know the enormity of Norway is no where near that of Amy Winehouse, whose battle with drugs has been pretty well documented. But, Amy was my favorite singer and today was the only day I’ve ever cried at a celebrities death. No I didn’t know Amy but i loved her music, talent and style. So here’s my little in mourning post for both those lost in Norway and my girl Amy Winehouse, may you all rest in peace.

Norwegian Flag. Image via google.

Amy Winehouse. Image via google

I recently discovered Nasty Gal  while searching for Jeffrey Campbell shoes and am completely enamored with a couple of their dresses. My favorites are the Sunday Wrap Dress in coral and the Draped Across dress. I love a bright color and these dresses, apart from being totally lust worthy, would be great for implementing my favorite summer trend, color blocking. Unfortunately my funds are at an all time low and I can’t afford either dress. But, when things turn around financially you can bet your bottom dollar I’ll be purchasing something nasty.

Starting a blog I feel like the first post should be some all encompassing this-is-what-the-blog-will-be manifesto type post. The problem? I’m not really sure where I want this blog to go or what it’ll evolve into. I was inspired to start a blog almost two years ago when I stumbled upon the world of fashion/fatshion blogs and decided “hey I could do that!”. But I know I wouldn’t be able to maintain a blog on fashion alone. This blog will be a chaotic mix of fashion, home decor, thrift and vintage finds, beauty stuff (mostly hair related) and other assorted randomness posted on the Internet for all the world to see. I’m excited to see how this blog will evolve and change along this little journey and hope you’ll stick around for the ride!

That said I still have a little splainin’ to do. I assume you may be wondering about the name of this here blog, well I’ll explain.  After months and months of trying to figure out a good blog name (that was also available through blogger) I was reminded of a random truth or dare choice that was in an extended truth or dare game I used to play at many a sleepover in 5th Grade. Instead of just truth or dare four more categories were added so it ended up being “Truth, dare, double dare, promise to repeat, black cat lies or love.” I never really understood the point of extended truth or dare but it was fun to say so I stuck with it. No one ever really picked anything beyond “promise to repeat” and I don’t think anyone really knew what “Black cat lies” meant or what you were supposed to do if anyone picked it. Anyway I thought “black cat lies” was kind of a fun name for a blog, and it was still available on blogger, so I ran with it. So welcome to Black Cat Lies! Finally, since I don’t want my first post to be text only here are some random/slightly creepy photos I took of a black cat bubble bath container my mom bought a couple years ago. I figured I might be able to work the cat into the blog, but since I haven’t completely figured out how to do that you’ll just have to enjoy these snippets.