I’ve always wondered about some of your blog name meanings so now is the time to dish!

Why is your blog called what it is called? Your name, favorite color, imaginary friend, a word you like, favorite food, the crackhead down the street?

Whatever it is, I want to know.

My blog was started on a whim (as are all the awesome ones!) and I wasn’t sure what I wanted to call it. I like the word LOVELY and ran with it so there you have it.

Oh! How Lovely!

Your turn.

Some of you know I use to recap Project Runway weekly. Well this season rolled around and I wasn’t really interested in recaps. I’m definitely still watching though! Inspired by a conversation with Alexa earlier today, I thought maybe since we are five episodes in, I’d post a few thoughts on some of the designers and the outfits that have stuck out in my head.

So honestly, this far the designers come to mind first are Leanne, Kenley, Keith, Suede, Blaine, Terri, Koto and Stella. My favorites are Leanne and Korto. Least favorites are….care to take a guess? Blayne-licious and Keith.

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I have an awesome giveaway for all you laptop owners over at my shopping blog. Laptop decals!

Go check it out!

Oh How Lovely Shops

Lately, I really haven’t felt like writing much. I guess it is kind of obvious, I haven’t been posting as often as I use to. There is more pictures, more plugs for my other blog and other stuff. I’ve been commenting less, clicking “mark all as read” a little more often.

It seems blog world has slowed down a bit. I remember I would be at 300+ entries in my reader a day. Maybe now that summer is coming to a close everyone will be back to their computers instead of lazing in the sun and rushing off to some fantastic location or another.

I think I need(ed) a little break. Not to say I’m going to stop blogging. I don’t think I could do that ever.

But there isn’t “quality content” up all the time. There isn’t much WRITING. I’m all about the fluff every now and then. I’m all about the silly articles, celebrity gossip, more puppy pictures than you can handle because you just might explode from cute if you see Edie’s big ears again. I don’t need to be moving people to tears, thought provoking and bring the hilarity every word I write.

I’m not going to force it.

Because that is not me and that isn’t what this blog is about.

Most people can tell when people try to hard.

I still love blogging and will continue to do so. Not all of us need to be A+ writing superstars and I probably will never be. That’s not why I started this thing, it’s all just in fun.

So it is what is. Take it or leave. Love or hate it. Blah, blah, blah.

Fluff and all.

ETA: I too love the fluff or I wouldn’t be posting it!

No hot tranny mess mama to be’s here. Christian is developing a line that will debut Spring of 09 for Moody Mamas.

Guess what it’s called.

Go on.

FIERCE

Yeah, you read that right.

I’m taking a math class this semester and my instructor is insane. She can’t ever remember what she just finished saying. We got handed a stack of paper, half of the stuff doesn’t relate to our class. We have a ton of extra projects we must do for credit.

Projects in math.

First, we have a presentation. Then GROUP projects, not working together on math problems but PROJECTS. We must write journals every day to turn in. Homework is optional though! We don’t get credit for that. We get points for doing Sodoku though!

I’m not good at math at all so I guess this is good. I turn in a bunch of bullshit and get credit. It will more than likely boost my grade some.

My favorite project is a group presentation where we have to write a song, poem or rap about something we covered in a chapter.

ON MATH.

That’s right I’ll be rapping about integers and rhyming about square roots.

Fuck Lil Wayne.

Jamie Lovely: The Album

It drops Fall of 08.

Be on the lookout.

The most recent etsy adore feature and giveaway is up at my other blog!

Oh! How Lovely! Shops

Go check it out and win a great print or card.

Also, subscribe to that feed while you’re at it so you don’t miss any other fun giveaways!

P.S. You know Jenn at Free and Flawed? Well she is having some blog issues and her feed changed. I know you adore her as much as I do and don’t want to miss any tiny bit of what she has to say so make sure you subscribe to her new feed!

DO IT.

Free and Flawed’s new feed.

New post coming. I start classes today so I’m sure I’ll just have oodles to write about once I get back!

Remember all that stuff I wrote about before this?

Go do it

(I emailed Penelope to see if everything was okay since she deleted her blog suddenly. She asked if she could write a guest post to explain. Here it is.)

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Allow me to take a moment to introduce myself to some of you that don’t know me. My name is Penelope. I used to have a blog called The Rivers of Addiction Flow, however on Tuesday morning I deleted it.

It wasn’t something I wanted to do or that I was happy to do, but in the moment it needed to be done. A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about how I had just moved to Chicago to be with my boyfriend, WB, but that there was someone back where I moved here from that I had feelings for and that I was struggling to decide what I was going to do.

This past weekend when I went to Indianapolis to visit my sick grandfather, I also made a trip back down to Bloomington (where I used to live) to see my cousin. While I was there I saw this boy and I ended up making a mistake and making out with him.

When I returned to Chicago, WB and I had got into a fight on Monday night about how we want two different things out of life and that we have issues in our relationship. He asked me that night point blank and the next morning if there was someone else and I lied to him and said no. I realize I shouldn’t have lied about it, but I couldn’t find the words to explain that yes I had moved up here to be with him and yes I had feelings for someone else. I felt horrible about the whole thing and I still do.

So when I left for work on Tuesday morning, WB got onto my laptop and found my blog. He read the post and text me that he knew what was going on and that I lied to him. When I arrived at work the first thing I did was delete my blog so he couldn’t read anymore of my now not-so-private thoughts.

When I signed the lease with him, I didn’t have feelings for anyone else. Just him. I just wanted to be with him. But life happens and life can be shitty. I realize it’s not the most convenient time to have these feelings, but I have them. You can’t change the way you feel, life doesn’t work that way.

At this point, I am not sure if WB and I are going to be able to get through this. My feelings for this other person are really a secondary issue because WB and I want two different things.Even if we can get past the my feelings/cheating, I want to move back to Louisville. So I have to ask myself what the point of staying and trying one more time to make it work when in a year we are going to want two different things? I have been trying to make things work for a long time. I have cried, begged and pleaded

I feel like I have spent the past three years of our relationship catering to him and making sure his needs are met. And in the mean time I haven’t been meeting my need and making myself happy. I never wanted to move to Chicago, and WB knew that. But he moved here anyway and as a result I felt like to make the relationship work and give it a real fighting chance that I needed to move up here. I gave up my whole life (close proximity to my friends and family, my job, my comfort) to be with him and all he can see are these other feelings and how I could do that to him.

I know two wrongs don’t make a right, but I will continue to feel that the moral high ground he is standing on is very shaky. It’s like the golden rule or something: you shouldn’t throw stones when you live in a glass house and what goes around comes around.

I thought that my feelings for this person would change when I got to Chicago. I thought that I just had those feelings because I was scared to move to Chicago and that I would get up here and be with WB, that things would be fine. But they aren’t fine and they haven’t been fine for a while. I can’t pretend that I am happy living my life for someone else and always making sure that they are happy. It’s not a fun or healthy way to live my life.

Sadly all my writing is gone. Lost in the vast space of the Internet somewhere. I do plan on starting a new blog again, but it is going to take some time.

It’s so long for a while, but not farewell.

No, you sicko. It’s an ice cream parlor!

I’ve passed this place a million times on my WP excursions and that Coming Soon sign has always been in the window. Well by the end of the week, it should be open. Yeah, the name is pretty suggestive but they make ice cream! You choose what kind of dairy and toppings and they make it in a mixer right there for you. With liquid nitrogen!

Ice cream.

LIQUID NITROGEN.

ICE CREAM!

I will personally be checking this place and reporting back because hi! Have you heard? Ice cream made with liquid nitrogen!

If that isn’t cool (gimmicky or not), I don’t know what is.

(sorry, dirty minded people. only ice cream here)

source.