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| i don't get it |
[Friday
December 4,2009 10:53 pm ] |
there seem to be some girls that the majority of this community just adores. there are a few, however, that i just can't stand and don't see the appeal of. i'm sure you'll mostly disagree because, duh, that's the whole point of this post, right? but that's what makes this fun.
( my choices )
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[Friday
December 4,2009 4:09 am ] |
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Grrrrrr. It's nearly 4am and I am still awake. The pain in my legs is so bad that it's keeping me awake. I've already done phases 1-3 for my sleep. I'm out of phases (and ideas)!!!
Phase one: Muscle relaxers along with all other nighttime drugs. Usually does the trick.
Phase two: Sleeping pill. Works when phase doesn't to the job.
Phase three: BOOZE!
I'm gonna go get some more etrog schnapps, because that's the only stuff we have in our house.
Stupid pain messing up my life.
Tonight sleep and I, along with our buddies drugs and booze will declare a minor battle against pain. WE WILL WIN !
(I'm watching the War is the H-Word from Futurama)
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| Nicole and Ashley in a hotel ... on Facebook |
[Thursday
December 3,2009 11:12 pm ] |
I was hoping someone else would post these since I don't usually make the posts, I just comment on them :/ Anyway, let's hope I do this right.
I'm friends with Nicole (c.13) on Facebook (NOT Ashley), but I saw the other day that Ashley (c.13) posted photos of them two hanging out in some hotel, and I wanted to share them, mainly because it fascinated me/made me laugh at how obvious it is that Nicole is a natural model and Ashley ... well, isn't. Here's the link: http://www.facebook.com/#/album.php?aid=2066692&id=46301224
But in case that doesn't work, here are some pictures:
( Insert clever text here )
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| Al-amira hijab sewing patterns? |
[Thursday
December 3,2009 8:58 pm ] |
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Yep, the icon's basically my face at this point.
I've exhausted my Google-Fu, so now I'm asking you all: does anyone have any sewing patterns for making an al-amira hijab set? I've found patterns for everything, it seems, but an al-amira hijab.
So . . . Any definite links? Personal patterns? any help'd be awesome, and thank you in advance. ^_^
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[Thursday
December 3,2009 9:38 pm ] |
Allright, Sarah Palin is charging 16 dollars a pop to get a picture taken with her during the book tour.
I'm offering $50 to anyone who will wear a t-shirt that says "LEVI LOVER".
When she objects, go nuts on her.
"I'm Jewish, you stupid bitch. It's my wife's maiden name!"
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| Best and Worst Runway Shows Out of all the Seasons |
[Thursday
December 3,2009 5:42 pm ] |
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Okay, I don't know if anyone has already asked this question, but I ask it anyways:
In your opinion which season had the best runway finale show and which one had the worst.
In my opinion the best runway show is a toss up between season 2 and season 4. Season 2 because I think Mercedes and Yoanna had fierce runway walks and they looked absolutely gorgeous. Season 4 was great because the water runway was really cool to look at. (I remember at the time it aired, I happened to live in an apartment complex that had a shallow pool area and I would replicate that runway show ALL THE TIME *shm*)
The worst runway show in my opinion was the boring season ten show. It had nothing special and the two final model were terrible walkers (yes i love anya, but we all know she did not bring it that night!)
I was really curious what everyone else thought....best and worst? Please answer!
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| ANTM models in other TV shows |
[Thursday
December 3,2009 7:58 pm ] |
I know there were a lot of sightings of ANTM girls in famous TV shows. The ones I remember:
- Saleisha (C10) @ Ugly Betty [S01E03] (girl on the elevator)
- Nigel Barker @ Ugly Betty [S03E24] (himself)
- April Wilkner (C2) @ Lipstick Jungle [S02E06] (half-dressed model at Victoria's show)
- Tyra Banks @ Gossip Girl [S03E04] (as actress Ursula Nyquist)
- Caride English (C7) @ Gossip Girl [S01E06] (Bart Bass’s model girlfriend)
- Ann Markely (now Annalaina Marks) (C3) @ Gossip Girl [S02E03] (one of Chuck Bass’s many lady loves)
Do you know any more? It would be nice to have a list of all the ANTM appearances we can remember :)
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| Rav Soloveitchik quote |
[Thursday
December 3,2009 7:54 pm ] |
The religious experience, however, is beyond granting man a hedonic status or spiritual complacency. To the contrary, the religious experience is fraught with pitfalls and continual challenge. G-d, if man finds Him, does not relieve the G-d-seeker of his imperatives, but imposes new ones. Religion enriches life, gives it depth and multidimensional visons, but does not always grant man the comfort and complacency that nearly always spell superficiality and shallow-mindedness. The homo-religiosus is wanting in mental balance and harmony to a greater degree than the mundane type. His mind seethes with antinomies and anthetic problems and questions that will never find their solution. - Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Sacred & Profane; Hazedek [1945]; Gesher vol. 3, no. 1 [1966] reprinted in Shiurei HaRav pp. 4-6
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[Thursday
December 3,2009 7:00 pm ] |
Maybe a silly question, but how do you handle skirts on windy days?
It is insanely windy today and I was doing Marilyn Monroe impressions all day trying not to flash people. Thank goodness for leggings!
I am seriously considering sewing small weights into the hems of a few of my skirts, but that seems a tad much. Any less drastic ideas?
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| Chicagoland area Jews.... |
[Thursday
December 3,2009 3:49 pm ] |
There are currently several bone marrow drives going around in the Chicagoland for GIFT OF LIFE, a bone marrow registry that focuses on Jewish registers.
Donating DNA to go in a bone marrow registry is easy and painless. It is a swab on the inside of your cheek.
It is very important - because they are currently looking for a match for a 26-year-old woman who will not make it many more weeks without a match. You can read more about her story here:
http://www.juf.org/news/local.aspx?id=51320&source=home
On that website is also a list of drives that are going on this week and this weekend.
Please consider doing this if you would be comfortable donating if you are a match. If you would not be comfortable with that. . . . don't put yourself in the registry. (70% of donations are just done with an I.V. blood donation - they do something with the blood to get plasma. These days they don't have to actually get the marrow that often.)
You also do NOT have to be Jewish, or Jewish-by-Birth to be in registry. I am a convert, and am in the registry. However, it is more statistically likely that someone with a similar background to the person in question will be a match - which is why they do these "background-targeted" drives. (However, they sometimes also do cross-check them with other banks.)
Remember what the Talmud says about saving one life! Thanks, guys.
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| Bad Moderator - but you know - these things happen |
[Thursday
December 3,2009 3:51 pm ] |
Again, I spent many months not checking the member list for new members. So now I have. And I gave a bunch of you posting access.
So please post.
Of course, in my defense, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) archgirl06 is also a moderator. Oh sure, she got married and thinks that the whole newlywed thing excuses her, but we can totally blame her. No really. We can. :)
Anyone else want to moderate? Co-moderate, of course. I really can't think of anyone that I know well enough to trust as a moderator (or whom I know too well to be a moderator) who would also want to do it but if you want to volunteer, let me know.
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[Thursday
December 3,2009 2:32 pm ] |
I've been having a crisis of faith for a while now.
The more I go to Shul and am surrounded by Torah believing, Black Hat Jews, the further I feel from any real connection with the divine.
I feel connected to my fellow Jews. I feel connected to my culture. I feel a growing connection to Halacha.
What I don't feel is their surety. These are people that believe that G-d takes an active moment-by-moment role in their lives. "Look at the nice day Hashem has given us."
I just don't see the universe that way.
Don't get me wrong. I don't think it's random. In fact, the way I see it, a supernatural being that stands outside the concept of linear time didn't create a universe that starts at one point in time and flows to the final point, He created a universe that exists as an extant body stretching from beginning to end simultaneously. The problem is that a) that creates a universe without free will, which Judaism isn't big on (The deist and Atheist cosmology are also devoid o free will if you think about it) b) I can't perceive that actions and intentions of G-d in the day to day operations of the Cosmos. I have no empirical stimuli that there is a supernatural being making quantum and macro adjustments to my life and the lives of those around me.
The big problem is that I don't feel this connection and I DESPERATELY want to. I desperately want to know that all this happens for a reason. I want to feel the metaphysical certainty felt by my fellow daveners that there is a G-d and there will be a Moshiach that will set things straight.
I've read Tehillim. I've read Pirkei Avos. I'm bending over backwards to try to get my hands on a Shas (in total or book by book, whichever pot comes to boil first) and try to find a Talmud class I can attend in my area. I'm aching believe that there is a reason for all of this, but I was raised secular.
I don't understand the people I've seen on video lining up to get a bracha and a dollar from the late Chabad Rebbe. I don't understand using the term "Hashem" and talking about him like he's our friend that makes the weather nice or does nice things for us. In fact, talking about Him in that fashion almost seems un-Jewish. It almost puts him in a body so he can hang out with us and that seems, to me at least, to be the beliefs of another religion we all know so well.
I don't know. The fact is I may never really be able to call myself an Orthodox Jew. I may always be mired in a middle ground between a very academic understanding of Scripture and a truly religious one.
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| Sawyouatsinai |
[Thursday
December 3,2009 3:28 pm ] |
So I figured it was time to start dating again. I hate dating but various forces in my life are pushing me to date (see my livejournal for some details) not the least of which being that I'm not getting any younger and I'd like to meet my grandchildren before I have a hip replacement.
Two observations - nowadays, I just friend women on facebook if I want to ask them out. Which is kind of lame since they can say no so much more easily. But I've been finding that many of them are 22 which is good for them but dating women who were being born when I was in high school - eh. I know that I'm immature and that I'm basically a saner, less jumpy version of the basic template from age 23 on but still - that's a bit young. It's happened a couple of times too.
But I was finally induced to sign up for sawyouatsinai because out of the blue they picked a rather gorgeous redhead for me. So I signed up to say that I'm interested.
And she said that she isn't interested.
Damn. I even edited my profile to remove all the hostility to the very fact that I'm on a damn online dating Web site that asks way too many superficial questions.
And now the matchmakers are throwing their refuse at me. Some are pretty attractive but for the most part these feel like those girls with the friends who tell them how pretty and attractive they are and any man would want them - all the while the friends are hanging out with the girls because they make them look good in comparison.
Yeah, I know about the ugly friend convention. Hell, Gemara even mentions it in Yoma 6 as an example of the depravity of the First Temple (women would walk heel-to-toe in order to make men stare at them and tall women would stand next to really short women in order to look even taller - and don't even get gemara started on high heels and those Sex & the City episodes - ok kidding on that last part. Typical midrashic methodology of redefining a phrase as meaning soemthing much much less dangerous than you might think but then raising the seemingly inocuous to the level of the sin that you thought they were talking about in the first place. As in sure, they weren't having orgies with barnyard animals, but they had sexy walks and that's just as bad. Miriam's sin of lashon hara is the quintessential example in expanding the definition of lashon hara).
But then again, I think I am also the difficult one to find any matches for. I am not so deluded as to think that most frum women are just dying to date professional writers who write term papers for a living and spend time as guest panelists at Science Fiction conventions. So I suppose they have to try. Or maybe I should use a different picture than that high school reunion picture with the cheap suit and the weird goatee (and NO. I do NOT look like Tom Green so stop saying it).
Of course, what puzzles me is the fact that even though I learned the hard way not to accept shidduchim from friends (at least not without a thorough interrogation over WHY they think this woman might work for me - especially since the last one was my friend Anna trying to RE-set me up with Suicide Girl and me trying very diplomatically to explain that Suicide Girl was the worst date of my life and that pushes that breakup date with Nanda where I was crying snot out of the running. Oh wait. Maybe the worst date was with Anne in which a year of expectations and infatuation was crushed in one very awkward evening - never figure out which one is which - but Suicide Girl beats them both. Imagine those Cymbalta commercials that go "Depression Hurts!" and imagine being stuck with that for an hour. That was the date.) but I'm paying a group of yentas to set me up.
Oh well. Love is stupid. But searching for Love - even dumber.
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| Fo? |
[Wednesday
December 2,2009 9:18 pm ] |
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I was browsing through the magazine "Natural Health" in my doctor's office, and there was a multi-page spread on tips to keep healthy and alert 24 hours a day. It included several photos of a girl, whom I'm pretty sure is Fo from Cycle 12.
Here is the best link I could find online to one of the pics.
Thoughts?
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| i used polyvore! |
[Wednesday
December 2,2009 6:51 pm ] |
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i used polyvore (and joined the modest_style group there.
This is roughly what i wore yesterday. i had the tank top underneath my turtleneck, because if i raised my arms, my stomach, showed. and i used the scarf as a headcovering.
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