Friday I'm in Love!

Summergirl

I've got a new shoe crush and it's taken hold of me.  Evidently, Rihanna and I have the same taste in Louboutins.  The one pair I own, she owned first (damn her!).  And now, she's bested me again, cause she has the Christian Louboutin Misfit 150s!  Thus begins my Friday I'm in Love post with

1. These Loubs:

other things I love about this photo: Vogue, Rihanna, Annie Leibovitz

OMFG

Believe it or not, I think I like them best in the creamy khaki color.  They're perfectly dramatic in black, but maybe a little too goth for me.  But the lighter color?  HOLY MOTHER.  I've fallen hard.  They're only $1500, so I only need to take 862 more babysitting jobs to get my paws on them!

2. Snooki's book being on the New York Times best seller list.

Don't believe me?  Click here.  

Did I just order this book from amazon?  Why yes, yes I did.  What can I say, I love to read. ;)

(What I'm not in love with: that I have $80K of student loans and an MFA in Creative Writing and yet Snooki's book is on the best seller list).

3. FREE SNOOKI

That moments after Snooki was hauled off by the cops and taken to the slammer, JWOWW was sporting one of these:

In case you've forgotten some of Snooki's finer moments, here's a little reminder:

4. Jude + Tim Riggins

Jude is nobody's fool, and damn straight he's paying homage to the fact that Tim Riggins has been released from jail and is back in Dillon, Texas!  Let's just say my Wednesday nights have gotten a little brighter (uh--hotter) now that Timmy's back on Friday Night Lights.  

welcome home, baby.  

tell me, what kinds of things did you miss while you were in prison?

Hope the rest of you have had a lovely week and have fun weekend plans.  I finally have a day off on Sunday (!!!) so let's just say the world is my oyster.  Happy weekend!

I'm throwin on my Louboutins . . .

Today, I'm redirecting you to Micaela's blog, as she's having a SHOE DATE! Check out all the pics of their shoes her readers sent in. Can you guess which ones are mine before you read the captions? :)

Here's my current shoe-crush. No big deal that the price tag is $895, right?

Tell me about your favorite pair of shoes.

Mum's the Word

You know that expression originated with Shakespeare? I guess that's not actually even remotely surprising. It's supposed to refer to the sound that comes out when you try to speak with closed lips (mmmmmm). I hate to admit it, but I kind of love etymology.

So why mum's the word? Cause I saw Sex and the City 2 last night. Oh my goodness gracious alive, it was good! I won't say anything revealing . . . just that not even the nightgowns disappoint. Be ready for some serious glamour. Especially the gold glitter Louboutins in the opening scene (my heart dropped a little when I saw them). Without spoiling anything, here are some things you can look forward to:

*some magnificent gowns, shoes, accessories, and nightgowns (seriously, the nightgowns: whoa!)

*a few amazing and hilarious cameos

*some hottttttness

*SJP's stunning, wavy, slightly darker hair

*2.5 hours of Carrie & co!

Here's the camp ground outside the theater for those of us with advance screening tickets (even with ticket in hand, I got there an hour and a half early):

I went with five girlfriends and we had such a great time . . . anticipating it, quivering with excitement at the opening credits, gasping in awe throughout the movie, and squealing happily afterwards. Get ready, girls! You're in for some fun.

XOXO!

Valentine's Day, oh and GET A BLOG!

Seriously, I don't get what's not to love about this holiday. A whole day devoted to love (the way I see it: lovers, family love, friend love, lovin', all of it!), endless chocolate and cupcakes, cute little conversation hearts (my favorite one this year said "What's Up"--haha), and lots of pink and red. Fun! Every year my girlfriends and I get together and do girly things and play games and eat cupcakes and laugh and drink pink cocktails. This year we started at Sho Chiku Bai tasting room & sake museum in Berkeley, but were a little unimpressed with its hushed & still ambience and our long-ass wait to get a spot at the bar (plus, I was standing in 4 inch heels), so we quickly retreated to my house, where we came home to this:

part of my spread

pink funfetti valentine cupcakes!

awwww . . .

Valentines for my girls

We immediately commenced the vodka & sparkling blood orange concoctions of V-Day 2010, topped off by a few bottles of wine, which rendered me stumbly and hazy and not attentive to photographing. Thus, the only picture from later in the evening is:

casual & low-key Jenna in my Louboutins!

Amazing. Everything went swimmingly until I decided to break out my cell phone, with which I did some serious damage . . . but we'll just stick to the good parts of the night. :)

Some of the girls went home late, Anna slept over, and then I dragged Anna to Rudy's Can't Fail Cafe, one of my favorite local brunch spots. Nothing like a decadent breakfast and some Peet's coffee the morning after a debauched night of liquor and sugar. All in all it was a great weekend, and yet another memorable celebration of Cupid's adorable and mischievous holiday.

Not to mention we had Monday off school for President's Day, which was MUCH appreciated, needless to say.

Regarding the Get a Blog! imperative in the title of this post: I was talking to my dear cousin Jennifer tonight about blogs, and she was saying that she'd like to have one, but she just doesn't know what she'd write about, that she's just not that funny, etc. . . and I had to call her on her nonsense-talk. I LOVE reading my friends' blogs, and I want all y'all to get them! I totally understand the sort of self-conscious thought pattern of "I'm not important enough to chronicle the minutiae of my life--no one's gonna want to read this!," but it's just not true. We all read each other's facebook status updates and sometimes unremarkable emails with verve and zest. I guess it's just a voyeuristic human instinct, to some degree . . . in any case, if you have a blog that I don't know about, tell me about it! And if you don't, consider getting one! They're so fun to read. :)

Happy Tuesday!