I Write Like

This is fun-tastically nerdy. (Thanks, A!)

At "I Write Like," you enter any writing sample of your choosing (of your own) into their "statistical analysis tool, which analyzes your word choice and writing style and compares them with those of famous writers."

(screen shot - don't try this out here - go to the actual link)

I tried this with a few different writing samples of differing styles and from different periods in my recent life (over the past few years), and it gave me three different matches for which famous writers I most write like. I apparently write or have written like: Dan Brown (really?), Margaret Mitchell, and David Foster Wallace (!). I wonder if I picked a favorite blog post as a sample who that would match me with...

Try it. Who do you write like? Who do you *wish* you wrote like?

Party!

Do not mistake this for any sort of product endorsement. I know nothing of this (or any) car, really. That said, these freaking hamsters in the Kia Soul commercials are the best thing ever, and the new 2012 ad rules. It's awesomeness in a (boob) tube, if you ask me! Seriously - if you're having a bad, or even a not-great, day, this is about to turn that frown upside down, and also it might force you to get up and dance in your cube or office (or living room, if that's where you are... in which case, I'm mad at you.). Whee!

2012 Kia Soul Hamster Commercial [HD] from HS on Vimeo.

Happy Weekend!

I used to be Team Ron (well, Team Rupert Grint) all the way...

(I still am and always will be a Ron Weasley gal, if we're talking books)

...but I'm pretty sure I've switched over to Team Neville:

(photos via gofugyourself)


Harry, er, Happy Weekend to you!

Bar Cart Vintage Style

I want this bar cart for my dining room. Or something similar for cheaper (this one's around $200). If we had this hanging out in our house, we could move onto hosting swingin' 60s-style parties, right?!

Random Updates

I know you've been dying to know if I bought those sunglasses and if I figured out what to do about the friendship bracelet trend while my wrist heals and before it's taken over the world again and I'm not ahead of the curve but behind it! Good news: I have updates on both. (let that breath out!)

I did buy those sunglasses this week, after I got a few virtual kicks in the pants regarding their cost (you'll recall they were just $10). However, they didn't work. Adorable they were, but too wide for my head they were, too. Sigh. Big one. I was very disappointed. So I went back to Nordstrom today to return them, and instead found another great replacement! Whee! Check out my rad cheap shades:

(they kind of make me feel a little Max Headroom-y)

(ooh la la!)

(i'm hot 'cause i'm fly.)

So that's solved.

And as for friendship bracelets, I have succeeded in jumping on that trend/mindless diversion/trip-down-memory-lane train in spite of my silly injury! And not only do I remember how to make friendship bracelets, but I remember how to make the fun fancy ones! AND they're the greatest fun in the world!

(this is the early stages of my first attempt from earlier this week)

While playing with these this week, I recalled that at age 12 or so, I made myself a board to make my bracelets on. It helps to keep your strings in order, keeps your bracelet taught while you're making it, and gives you easy storage if you need to pause mid-bracelet so your strings don't get tangled:

Just take any good sized piece of thin cardboard (I recall I used to cut mine out of shoe boxes), and using scissors, make a short cut in the middle of the board at the top. Hook your knot at the top of your bracelet through the cut, and secure with scotch tape behind the board. Make similar short cuts along the bottom of the board, evenly spaced, for the number of threads in your bracelet. Easy, right?! Seriously, it's way better than your big toe, I promise.

Everyone can expect a bracelet soon. This is a perfect replacement for my excessive TV schedule that's now on summer vacation.

(Aren't you so glad to hear how I've solved these two major issues?)

Stuff That Looks Like Other Stuff and Makes Me Smile

These are silly and/or lovely, and I like 'em!

(I don't smoke, but a good hostess doesn't openly judge her friends and makes all comfortable - Urban)

(also Urban)

(this is pretty, and I might get it.)

(seriously, I don't know why but I think these are amazing!)

(I don't really need a kitchen timer, but whoooo doesn't think this is adorable?! ha... see what I did there?)

Guess I'm into Urban Outfitters today...