6 item wardrobe challenge.

The 6 item wardrobe challenge.
http://sixitemsorless.com/the-experiment/

If you could only wear 6 items for 1 month (coats, accessories, gym clothes, underwear and shoes exempt) what would they be.

1. Black leggings (I have 4 pairs, having multiples of the same thing doesn't count)
2. Black apron dress
3. Black cardigan
4. Black skinny smart trousers
5. Purple t shirt(I have three of these)
6. Purple cardigan

This is going to be a really dull month in black and purple! I'd look like a bruise! At least tights, shoes, scarves and accessories would jazz it up! But tbh, that's pretty much my wardrobe now, the black dress has been leading my wardrobe collection since 2007... meh, if it aint broke...

flowcart

overthinking it have come up with this amusing flowchart...

a joke ah found

I was having sex the other day, banging away, when suddenly I stopped mid-thrust and stood really still.

"What are you doing?"

"Something I learnt from online porn. It's called 'buffering'."

how do you know if you're a grown up? part 1

i've been feeling pretty grown up lately.

i've got a job. i've been working full time for about a year now, as well as part time but that's been going on forever. i have about the same amount of stuff, but it is better stuff. superior stuff. i go to bed at a reasonable hour and wake up at a totally unreasonable hour. i have a morning routine and mostly a packed lunch.

when i get home from work i make sure i look after my pigs and try and do some cleaning and general organising of life before i play flash mpgs and read comics and feminist blogs.

then i get on with some wedding planning, and feel bad about the stuff i should be doing and not contacting the people i miss or doing the work i should do, and then head to bed at a reasonable hour. i get more done after i get back from work than i used to do in a full 24 hour cycle as an underemployed person.

there are many many things at the moment and forever that are crazy uncertain and prone to massive and scary change. but there are many things that are *good* right now.

however, i admit: sometimes i envy the stuff other people have. lately it has occurred to me to buy such things. so i did.

earlier in the year i used my newfound cash to upgrade my bedroom from floral dull blue from the 70s to sleek black white and red. the makeover is mostly from wilkos and we can take it wherever we go next. but it was an interesting process of not just putting up with something, but using some money to make the situation better.

after this project, i started on my wardrobe, which was tattered and primanian, and solved this problem with substantial investment in H&M.

I then started on my face: i got some foundation from maybelleine or whatever it calls itself, it is like a mousse. it cost about £6, which is at least 3 times more than i've ever spent on a foundation. surprisingly, i found it to be a worthwhile investment and wondered if such a purchase automatically put me forward to some new level of maturity, the 'luxury products on your face' stage of life. i also now have got some moisturiser and for the first time (shockingly) some make up remover.

then i went for the feet: i got some cheap flats from dorothy perkins, because a) now that i have a job i can go for £12 on shoes instead of £4, and b) i have learned my lesson the hard way about £4 flats from primani.

then i've sat and wondered if i have just 'consumed' a new era of lifestyle. perhaps this is just the beginning. i can't remember if i feel better than when i started, but i reckon i at least *look* like i feel better...

people are hilarious

I hate to nit - pick over spelling, but i can't help but laugh at the spelling mistakes made by people nit picking other people's spelling...

Re: Is good spelling an important attribute of effective social workers?

"To me, being a more mature person I tend to think of poor spelling and grammar as indicating a lack of intelligenge (just being honest here!) but if it is not to do with intelligence might it be to do with the ability to notice detail. Surely that is an important skill in social work. I am concerned that the person who is to make complex decisions for my elderly relative has not noticed that you're is not the same as your."

"Good grief, is your college actively seeking dyslexics? About 10 per cent of the UK population have dyslexia with only about 4 per cent being severely affected. Does social work have a disproportionate number or are some people lazy and thick but call themeslves dyslexic so that they can get away with it?

Are there courses or technologies that can help people improve their skills?

I'm with the snobs on this one, poor spelling is embarrasing and gets on my nerves."

"I will not apologiise for making assumptions about the writer from the way reports are written, thisd is what everybody else that reads them will do. As an example if someone puts a lot of latin phrases into a report you could assume that they had classical education, or that they are a bit of a poser, but that would still be an assumption. Do we not need to analyse why whenever the issue of badly written reports is raised in social wokwrk forums we end up discussing dyslexia?"

Lolz...

a post about a roast i love the most.

i made a roast yesterday, for the first time in ages, and the first time since we moved. it was a chicken and i am told it was nice (this isn't an 'i am told i am cute and hugable' type thing, i didn't eat any myself u c) it was yummy, and (gross) my hands still smell of the 3 garlic bulbs that were peeled and added to various bits of roastyness. since making the roast, the leftovers are now becoming a seris of roast-themed meals, like roast sandwiches, roasty toasies, um, roast potato for breakfast and now, roast veg couscous made with chicken stock.. i feel like that stupid hugh guy with the chicken thing, trying to make as many meals as poss out of one roast dinner... stay tuned for potential updates lol

lolz

A psychiatrist was conducting a group therapy session with four young mothers and their small children. "You all have obsessions," he observed.

To the first mother he said, "You are obsessed with eating. You even named your daughter Candy."

He turned to the second mom. "Your obsession is money. Again, it manifests itself in your child's name, Penny."

He turned to the third mom. "Your obsession is alcohol and your child's name is Brandy."

At this point, the fourth mother got up, took her little boy by the hand and whispered, "Come on, Dick, let's go home."

dear E.S.

when you get *really good* at photoshopping, you can remove hips, muscles in peoples legs, other offensive shapes etc, and add more boobies and fake tan to pics of people:

congratulations!

to my sister, piend, for being absolutely wonderful (and getting excellent gcse results)

to my mel, for turning 24, and to mel, for also turning 24

i have such wonderful ladies in my life to be proud of :-)

/cheese

movie test...

found this at http://smartlikeme.wordpress.com/

The Bechdel Test:

To pass it your movie must have the following:

1) there are at least two named female characters, who

2) talk to each other about

3) something other than a man.

So simple, and yet as you go through all your favorite movies (and most of your favorite TV shows, though there’s a little more variety in TV), you find very few movies pass this test.

I watched anchorman last night, and yeh ok.. it's anchorman.

It *nearly* passed the test when Veronica Corningstone is out with 'Helen', a character who i think has 2 speaking lines in the film, and Helen tells Veronica that Ron will read anything that is put on the teleprompter, ANYTHING.

So it passes the '2 named female characters' just about..

Having a conversation... just about, the scene is about 30 seconds long

About something other than a man FAIL

Maybe anchorman is too easy. Other recent films, Mamma Mia and Juno. both directed by women though... um... does that make a difference?

gotta have faith

spot the difference

at risk of being seen as obsessed and or militant...

... i bring you...

tips for workplace survival, as swiped from Jezebel:

"Don't try to seem important. The other person's prime concern is his own importance. Your charm rating rises in proportion to your ability to lift his feelings of importance. Give him a good opinion of your heart and he'll automatically have a high opinion of your mind." (pg. 271) "

"Allow the employer to lead the interview conversation as much as possible. Girls who talk too much, are too self-assertive, or who force their personality into the interview too strongly usually are ushered out rather fast." (pg. 289)

"Not only the big brass and the board of directors are concerned about employees making a good impression, but your own particular boss is also mighty interested. Your good grooming is evidence that he knows how to pick a smart girl—that he's a pretty clever fellow. (pg.137)"

"During your menstrual period it is more important than ever to guard your daintiness." (pg. 139)"

flagrant

Function:

adjective

Etymology:

Latin flagrant-, flagrans, present participle of flagrare to burn

Date:

1513

1archaic : fiery hot : burning2: conspicuously offensive <flagrant errors>; especially : so obviously inconsistent with what is right or proper as to appear to be a flouting of law or morality <flagrant violations of human rights>

— fla·grant·ly adverb

synonyms flagrant, glaring, gross, rank mean conspicuously bad or objectionable. flagrant applies usually to offenses or errors so bad that they can neither escape notice nor be condoned <flagrant abuse of the office of president>. glaring implies painful or damaging obtrusiveness of something that is conspicuously wrong, faulty, or improper <glaring errors>. gross implies the exceeding of reasonable or excusable limits <gross carelessness>. rank applies to what is openly and extremely objectionable and utterly condemned <rank heresy>.