I want candy

(Girl Scout Cookie flavored lip balms via Shine from Yahoo)

Since we're on a Girl Scout cookie high...

And I quote my co-worker Jennifer, "Sticks to your lips instead of your hips!"

“If you don’t like what’s being said, change the conversation.”

I don't know about you, but there's something alluring about the 1960s. The style, the decor, the drinking, the gender roles...if I could, I'd throw on a structured dress and go back in time to live in this era for a day. Hell, it can feel like a Mad Men episode (minus the drinking as of late) around the office some days.

AMC just released five new teaser trailers for Season 5 which premieres in just over a month on March 25. I'll drink to that.

take me down like I'm a domino...

THIS! I am so excited for Domino Quick Fixes, a Domino special edition that will hit newsstands nationwide on April 17th. Ever since Domino stopped publishing, I've had a void that I have not been able to fill (sorry, Pinterest - I do love you though). I remember stopping into Borders (another RIP) and snagging the first issue of Domino back in 2005, and I was smitten ever since. I still have all of my copies in magazine files - untouched. No rips, no dogears...just perfect copies of pure genius. Domino's tagline was "the guide to living with style," and I've been trying to follow suit ever since!

Anyone have Deborah Needleman's book, Domino: The Book of Decorating? It's been on my Amazon Wishlist forever, but I haven't pulled the trigger. I think I just may have to push "order" very soon!

I like to move it, move it.

I came across a new favorte quote:

super bass

I love the Super Bowl...a mix of sports, media, and entertainment. Most of our day looked like this:

(Lucy being beyond lazy -- too much pizza. oh, that was me.)

While the Pats and the Giants are not one of my 'teams' (don't you like how it sounds like I actually have a team? ha!), the Super Bowl is all about the munchies, the commercials and the idea that everyone in the country is tuned into the same broadcast. Sports (and eating) bring people together in a way that is hard to top.

I came across these crazy stats from yesterday's Super Bowl on Ad Age.

1. Bluefin Labs has so far tracked more than 12.2 million social-media comments during and after Super Bowl XLVI, primarily on Twitter and Facebook. That's a 578% increase over the total Bluefin tracked last year (1.8 million).

2. Twitter, via its official @twitter account, said the final three minutes of the Super Bowl helped push total tweet volume up to an average of 10,000 tweets per second.

3. We have a new social-TV high-water mark. "Last night's Super Bowl is the biggest social-TV event we've ever recorded -- by a wide margin," Bluefin's Tom Thai tells me. "It surpassed the previous record of 3.1 million social-media comments, held by the MTV Video Music Awards last August."

4. Madonna's halftime show alone generated more than 862,000 social-media comments; by comparison, Bluefin recorded 966,000 social-media comments for the 2011 Academy Awards. "If the halftime show were its own standalone televised event," Thai said, "it would rank fourth in terms of all-time social-TV events for entertainment. It would trail only the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards, the 2011 American Music Awards and the 2011 Academy Awards."

5. Bluefin Labs tracked more than 985,000 social-media comments specifically related to just Super Bowl commercials -- topping the total for the entire telecast of the 2011 Academy Awards.

Did you miss any of the commericals while you were grabbing another bag of tortilla chips? Mashable has posted all 54 commercials.  Oh yeah, and a 30-second spot sold for $3.5 million. Ca-ching.

walk on the wild side.

What a week! The boyfriend was in New York on business all week (so jealous). And I stayed home with the pups watching way too much Bravo for my own good.  All week I was imagining him wandering the city and checking out all of my favorite places. Even though it's been 5 (can you believe it?!) years since I've lived there, it still odd-ly feels a bit like home. I loved that he'd text me, "What Subway should I take to Greenwich Village?" I'm hoping that we can head to the Big Apple later this fall. There's something so exciting about feeling like a small part of such a large city.

Check out my New York board on Pinterest. Sigh, I miss that place! If only we could all live in adorable brownstones with high-paying jobs and had a dog walker...then we'd totally move.

(via Kate Spade tumblr)



I've always been a fan of wandering the aisles of bookstores and collecting books to line my bookshelf but never could stay on top of my reading. Lately, I just can't stop. You might remember last new years when I read Kelly Cutrone's first book in less than 24 hours. Well, this year is no different. I got her second book, Normal Gets You Nowhere, for Christmas and could not put it down. I love her honest voice and sage advice for women.

Here's a line of up books I've finished and some that are parked on my nightstand, and I can't wait to flip open:

 


What's on your bookshelf? Anything good I should add to my Amazon wishlist?