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christmas/birthday wish list

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:28:22 -0600

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Please take note: I like this shirt, but I am more interested in the long, super soft hoodie version of this shirt. For some unknown reason it is nowhere to be found on the VS website which is bullocks since I wanted to link you to its adorableness. I almost gifted this to myself last night while at the Domain with Darlene, but I resolved to wait till after the holidays because I should not be buying myself lofty presents.

There is also a v-neck orange short-sleeve tee with the Longhorn logo on it across the chest that I’m rather fond of. To be completely honest, I really love most of the Pink Collegiate line for UT minus the all black stuff. If I’m going to rep UT on the daily—which I do with my tattoo and car—then it has to be orange. Period the end. I like white, too, but I’m one of those people where I tend to spill shit only on white articles of clothing so I’m a little weary of buying white stuff which is a shame bc white is oh so perdy.

To summarize: orange UT stuff from Pink at Victoria’s Secret is a good go-to WIN gift. And for the record, allllllllllll my underwear is from VS. They’ve kind of had a monopoly on my family since my mom bought us our first AA bras. Trufax. I’m addicted and unashamed of said addiction. It’s just too cute and pretty and lacey to ignore.

HOOK ‘EM HORNS!

elizablr: lookatholly:kari-shma: (via chotda) I just about...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:21:14 -0600

elizablr:

lookatholly:kari-shma: (via chotda)

I just about pissed myself when I saw this.

Dear Santa,

I know my roommate said we can’t have a puppy…but if we got these pups for Christmas, I’m pretty sure she wouldn’t send them away.

Love,

Liz

Um, there are no words! I would snuggle the shit out of every. single. one. Oh and puppy kisses are my favourite thing in the world (next to baby toes) so this is just a whole couch full of amazingness…

Wallet missing again...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:17:50 -0600

mabtv3:

I’m trying not to freak out, because I’m 99% positive I can envision it sitting on my kitchen counter - but part of me is like really?! What is wrong with you these days? Car accidents, losing wallet - get it together!

I’d lose my head if it wasn’t attached to my body…so I feel your pain! I’ll cross my fingers (and toes, and eyes) that you find it at home!

This, tumblr friends, is the BEST BOYFRIEND EVER! I was...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:56:00 -0600

This, tumblr friends, is the BEST BOYFRIEND EVER!

I was scheduled to take the greyhound bus to Houston tonight as I’m done with work and am spending the holidays with my lovely boyfriend.

However, I’m really bad at packing lightly for my trips to visit him because I never know what we’re going to do, so I always have to be prepared. (We mostly veg and watch mmmmovies but you never know).

So I was faced with the prospect of dragging two roly-poly suitcases, a backpack, my laptop and a handbag on the public transport bus to get to campus to catch the greyhound death-trap/skeeve-ball bus.

Instead, my darling boyfriend has offered to drive up to come fetch me, spend the night and then we’ll head back to his place early tomorrow morning!

The BEST indeed!

(Plus, he is handsome! wohoo!)

phillyfilly: Dinner-and-a-movie date night on Sunday. Can’t...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:54:32 -0600

phillyfilly:

Dinner-and-a-movie date night on Sunday. Can’t WAIT to see this.

Not sure when we’re going, but I have a feeling I am going to cry. Big elephant tears coupled with sobbing. Not only do I remember this (I was about 10) but I’m always especially homesick this time of year. I hope everyone goes to see it!!!

I will never complain about My Boy’s cat (Kodi) being...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:31:18 -0600

I will never complain about My Boy’s cat (Kodi) being psycho…ever…again.

Terrifying, especially on full screen!

ADORABLE #2

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:24:09 -0600

ADORABLE #2

iseeellis:katiecoyle:tylercoates: ADORABLE # 1

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:23:29 -0600

iseeellis:katiecoyle:tylercoates:

ADORABLE # 1

hesnotinterested: (via itsbritneybitch) Ohemgee, the days when...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:12:01 -0600

hesnotinterested:

(via itsbritneybitch)

Ohemgee, the days when Jamie Lynn wasn’t a teen parent. Who would’ve thought, roughly 5 years later, she’d be popping out Maddie.

As a person with knee issues due to years of field hockey, running and general “being bad to my legs”, the first thing I noticed about BritBrit is her swollen knee. I have been there…and it sucks.

iseeellis: erikawithac, thedailywhat. [via.] BoyfriendScott and...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:33:56 -0600

iseeellis:

erikawithac, thedailywhat. [via.]

BoyfriendScott and I are getting sushi over break. I’ve never had it before, so I’ve been looking up tips to make sure I don’t do anything terrible/offensive. I’m excited!

For future reference…..

allthingsalishan: Bub- I know I said I wanted you to make me a...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:20:45 -0600

allthingsalishan:

Bub-

I know I said I wanted you to make me a cake for my ~~princess day~~ birthday but now I want you to make these. They are real cute and just what the birthday girl ~~wants~~ needs.

Love you a lot.

thekingdomblog:mochafrap:ireybear:karenkim:(via breatheslow)

C IS FOR COOKIE!

ps. Someday when I have kids, I will be showing them CLASSIC Sesame Street, where Cookie Monster was still allowed to actually EAT cookies.

The eyes of Texas are upon him

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:14:41 -0600

apeasnpickleslife:

Why I love him…

Rick Reilly [ARCHIVE] ESPN The Magazine Oct 14, 2009

You can call quarterback Colt McCoy “Pistola,” which is what his Latino fans call the University of Texas Heisman Trophy candidate.

He likes “Pistola,” possibly because he owns a pistola — a 9-millimeter handgun — plus .270 and .223 Winchester rifles. Sometimes, he’ll take one of them into a tree stand, where he’ll also have his laptop, so he can watch DVDs of opponents. Misses a lot of deer that way.

But don’t call him Daniel, which is his actual first name, which he hates, which is why his offensive linemen call him Daniel constantly. They also like to torture him by pretending to punch him in the man region before pulling up inches short. If McCoy flinches, they get to slug him hard twice in the shoulder, then “wipe” off these slugs, which means taking one of their meaty hands and wiping it down McCoy’s face, in his eyes, up his nostrils and into his mouth.

“The game never ends,” McCoy laments. “It goes on all the time. Even in the huddle. I’ll be trying to call a play, and one of these guys is sticking their big ol’ fingers up my nose. I get no respect.”

That’s a lie, of course. Nearly everybody in football respects the dead-eye arm and humble makeup of McCoy, who needs only six more wins to break the FBS wins record. It won’t be easy, though, with Oklahoma coming up Saturday in Dallas, not to mention Texas A&M, Kansas and Oklahoma State lurking.

“Nothing about being the starting QB at Texas is easy,” McCoy says. “It wasn’t easy replacing what some people think is the greatest college QB ever [Vince Young]. I’d lay awake at night before I started, couldn’t sleep. ‘How am I gonna do this?’”

But Pistola has found a way. He’s lost only seven games in four years and has led the ‘09 Longhorns to a 5-0 record and the No. 3 national ranking in this week’s Associated Press poll. He’s desperate to win the national title this time. He came within one Michael Crabtree catch of having a shot at it a year ago, a catch “I will see forever,” he says.

Of course, even if he pulls it off, it won’t be enough for some. Critics call him a Tim Tebow wannabe. Lord, that burns him up. “People say, ‘Ah, McCoy went on a [Christian] mission just ‘cause Tebow did.’ Look, I’m my own man. My family has been going on these mission trips for years. I did my trip the same time he did. It’s just — I mean — come on!”

It’s safe to say McCoy and Tebow did not hit it off at the ‘08 Heisman ceremony, where Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford won the trophy. “Me and Sam are buddies,” McCoy says. “We keep in touch all the time.”

And you and Tebow?

“Uh, no.”

Not that everybody’s crazy about young Daniel, either.

“Daniel Colt McCoy!” a man screamed one 4 a.m. outside his rented house. “It’s over! Get outside, Daniel Colt McCoy! It’s over!”

It was over — the police came and got him within five minutes — but it spooked McCoy enough to move into the back house of a friend of the family with wide receiver Jordan Shipley. It’s so tiny, they share one bedroom. It’s not the perfect crib for a guy who has a girlfriend hotter than shrimp vindaloo, Rachel Glandorf.

“But we [Shipley and I] only have, like, four more months to go,” he says.

And said girlfriend is not all that tickled, either, when she returns from a restaurant bathroom to find five or six girls sitting with her boyfriend, getting their pictures taken.

“And then they ask her to take the picture!” McCoy says, sighing.

Works both ways, though. “The cops pulled him over three times last month alone, and he never once had to show ID,” Shipley says. He also got only warnings, according to the wide receiver. Must be nice.

Still, Pistola likes friends and family to call him “Johnny” in public instead of the C-word, which alerts burnt-orange-blooded locals that the guy in the pulled-low baseball cap and the huge sunglasses is their football god.

Actually works, too. On a commercial flight to Phoenix one year, a couple sitting near him was agog at the size of some of his linemen, who were referring to McCoy as “Johnny.”

“Are y’all football players?” the wife said.

Yes, they were. So they signed some things.

Then they turned to Shipley. “Are you, too?”

Yes. Signed.

Then to McCoy: “And what do you do, Johnny?” they asked. “Are you in the band?”

His teammates nearly suffocated trying to keep from laughing. Even worse when the couple got out of the Jetway to find 100 people waiting for the band guy’s autograph.

Kid plays a hellacious tuba.

He’s very quiet, goes about his business, and keeps to himself most of the time. Whenever I see him at work, he’s polite and friendly, but you can see the amount of pressure he has to deal with. Either way, I’m proud to work for Texas Football and play a very small part in keeping some of “Johnny’s” teammates on the field. (He needs zero help academically. Very few QB’s do)

mascarah: Ella Fitzgerald - White Christmas Too soon? Ah...

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:17:00 -0600

mascarah:

Ella Fitzgerald - White Christmas

Too soon? Ah well…it’s carols & cookies in my apartment.

I hate going to shops this time of year, so I have thus far managed to avoid the maniacal Christmas tunes that play 24/7! Hence why I’m not sick of Holiday songs just yet and this is one of my favourites :)

Texas Football Coach Mack BrownJUST GOT A TWO MILLION DOLLAR...

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:05:53 -0600

Texas Football Coach Mack Brown

JUST GOT A TWO MILLION DOLLAR RAISE.

His salary will be $5 MILLION DOLLARS.

Oh, and if my boys manage to beat ‘Bama, then he gets a $500,000 raise.

I cannot even FATHOM that kind of money…..

"I can’t see you without feeling heartbroken."

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:58:59 -0600

“I can’t see you without feeling heartbroken.”

- Emma, Glee (via shiningstar)

Tonight.

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:24:00 -0600

felldowntherabbithole:

What wonderful fans we have. Thank you, thank you, from the bottom of my heart. Up until now, I had been striving diligently in my pursuit to become a working actor, and now that that has become a reality, I want to pinch myself each and every day. Deep into my core, I knew that dedication would pay off (although some days took extra effort to remind myself), but couldn’t have imagined a year like this! What a reward this has been. I feel privileged to be a part of this show. And without our fans, we wouldn’t have the luxury of coming back to work, and again say, “Yes, I am a working actor.” It feels so good. Tonight’s episode is a combination of overwhelming emotions on the screen and off. I remember our last day, and feeling at peace. I knew that if we didn’t return, we would still have thirteen charmed episodes, and that nobody could take away the joy that I felt while making them. Blood, sweat and tears. It’s all there in this one show. We love it so. We love it so.

Yes…DA from GLEE (Quinn) has a tumblr!

hesnotinterested: Life goal: find a cat that looks like this...

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:38:12 -0600

hesnotinterested:

Life goal: find a cat that looks like this and that also has a knack for sword fighting.

I AM PUSS! IN! BOOTS! Ahhhh!

Confession

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:16:00 -0600

meredithnyc:

joyengel:

I believe federal funds should be spent on abortion. Lots of federal funds.

I believe federal funds should be spent on comprehensive sex education. And, yes, I believe that this education should start as early as elementary school.

I also believe federal funds should be used to cover contraception. The type of contraception I use cost me over $400. That is unacceptable.

I’d also like to see ~~millions~~ billions of federal dollars spent on helping victims of domestic violence and increasing and improving after-school programs.

Ok unfortunately, once again, my comments have been misconstrued because I hit submit instead of preview because I’ve been holed up in a tiny room at work for 9 hours conducting intensive 1-on-1 tutoring sessions to try and salvage several people’s semesters so I’m TIRED and now everyone things I’m a major cow yadda yadda yadda (sorry about run-on sentence).

What I had to say (before edits) is reblogged several times but I’m removing it from my page because I’m done.

So from now on I’m just going to stay away from any remotely controversial topics and just post photos of cute puppies. I’m sorry if I offended anyone, it truly was not my intention.

Michigan State football players charged with assault, battery || Lansing State Journal

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:09:00 -0600

Michigan State football players charged with assault, battery || Lansing State Journal:

carolynsfebruary:

Seven current Michigan State football players and two former players have been charged with conspiracy to commit an assault and battery and assault and battery in connection with their involvement at an alleged on-campus altercation. The former players are Roderick Jenrette and Glenn Winston. The seven players are Frederick Smith, Bryan Cunningham, Jamiihr Williams, Mark Dell, Ashton Leggett, J’Michael Deane and Christopher Rucker. Winston and Jenrette were dismissed from the team. The other players have been suspended from the team and will remain off the team indefinitely - including through the team’s bowl game. Jenrette faces an additional two counts of assault and battery. Winston and Leggett face one additional count of assault and battery, each. Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III announced today that while the investigation is ongoing that charges have been issued.

J’Mike is my best friend’s ex. Dramaaaaa.

Here at The University of Texas at Austin, our players screw up by choosing to drive with a lil buzz going. At least we don’t gang up and conspire to/actually beat the hell outta people. For a coach to go so far as to dismissed two players from the team is a BIG deal!!!

Either way, student-athletes in general should appreciate what they have - it’s a huge privilege to be a student-athlete at schools in the US and not enough of them realise it. I for one took full advantage of the benefits I was privvy to as a field hockey player, even when I saw little-to-no game time in 3 years due to the coaches that recruited me having been fired and their replacement being a psychopath.

caseyculture: Obsessed. I’ve been using the Dyson Airblade for...

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:40:00 -0600

caseyculture:

Obsessed.

I’ve been using the Dyson Airblade for the past week and I’m totally hooked. This gadget is the fastest hand dryer on the market and extremely eco-friendly. Obviously wasteful paper towels aren’t in the mix, but it also uses up to 80% less energy than warm air hand dryers.

400mph sheets of air literally scrape soaking wet hands dry in just 12 seconds.

Am I just easy to impress or do you agree that this is really cool?

The first time I used this, I made my boyfriend come into the women’s loo to check it out (there was one in the men’s loo but he hadn’t seen it).

It’s so powerful that it makes the skin on your hands go all weird…I don’t know how to describe it other than to say your hands look the same as your face would look during skydiving.

Now all we need is for all bathrooms to be designed with doors that swing OUT as you exit, so as to not have to touch that disgusting door handle right when you’ve washed your hands. LOGIC…no?