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The General gets a new T-Shirt

Published on April 5, 2008 by Corinna Carlson | 0 Comments

'Sock Battle' Threadless T-Shirt Series

Just over a month ago now Jack Smynde sent me a link to Threadless it was a very specific link to a ‘sock battle’ t-shirt. I HAD TO HAVE IT!!!!!! I also ordered one for Adam he is wearing his RIGHT NOW as well. I’m trying to talk him into wearing them out to a party like say next weekend just once at the same time, one time NERD ALERT, but I think it would be adorable and then NEVER AGAIN!

The shirts took a while to arrive but it was worth the wait. I LOVE IT. The moment I laid eyes on it I thought TROGDOR MEETS THE SOCK MONKEY MAY HE BURNINATE HIM! [respectfully] And the fact that the sock Trogdoresque puppet is NOT ONLY spitting fire but that the monkey is shooting back at him with SEWING NEEDLES. GENIUS.

This Threadless online t-shirt site could very well end up being the last place I ever by a t-shirt from. Granted we did order two more t-shirts recently from T-Shirthell but it was really hard to choose given the content of them but we finally found two awesome ones, and we thank sister uno for them.

Here is a medley of shots of me in the t-shirt because I needed to take one for the Threadless website and well who the hell wouldn’t want to show off a t-shirt this cool?

'Sock Battle' Threadless T-Shirt Series

'Sock Battle' Threadless T-Shirt Series

'Sock Battle' Threadless T-Shirt Series

All about the Natural

Published on March 6, 2008 by Corinna Carlson | 0 Comments

Somewhere back in 2005 Adam asked me what my natural hair colour was.

Blonde. I was pretty sure he’d seen some of my baby photos and photos taken throughout my twenties, we’d been together no less than two years when he asked and if memory serves it was on our September 30th 2005 anniversary that we got engaged. I know it is terrible I don’t remember the exact date but I remember how he proposed so I think that’s good enough.

Anyway point being he was bothered. He did not like my hair. The colour was choppy, bad highlights or lowlights or whatever and although I was a natural blonde you really couldn’t tell. He asked me nicely if I would be willing to grow it out. My hair was half way down my back at this point and I somehow I had myself convinced I could do it in under a year and that I’d have it all ready for the wedding.

Now I don’t want a post about my silly hair to be long but there is a reason I’m mentioning it.

I cut it as short as I could handle it, had it coloured to match my roots and waited. I found out real quick that having it coloured to match my roots was a waste of time and money so I only tried to match it once. My hair grows incredibly fast but not fast enough when you are getting married. There has been ZERO colour put in it in any way shape or form since that realization.

When we got married on August 26th 2006 it looked like this,

One Month Today!

It is now 2008 and I am STILL growing in my natural colour, so much for it taking a year, my stylist ventures a guess it’ll take one more cut. But for the last year every time I get my hair cut I don’t just get lovely people telling me it looks wonderful they always add in ‘you changed your hair colour again’. And then I say you wanna know a secret? It’s my natural colour. I love it and not just because it gets a lot of compliments.

So for the record this is my natural hair colour in all of its glory. It is dirty blonde, red, and brown with some black as night strands thrown in for good measure. It makes sense to me actually to stick to my natural hair colour seeing as other than mascara you’ll *almost* never see me with makeup on.

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Favourite Top Fives – RIGHT NOW

Published on January 8, 2008 by Corinna Carlson | 0 Comments

I change my mind a lot so it is plainly impossible for me to pick permanent top fives or the limited things I would take If I were stranded on a deserted island all by myself with only five books and a solar powered MP3 player [gasp] that only held 100 songs.

DVDs

  1. The Queen
  2. Knocked Up
  3. The Red Violin
  4. Blades of Glory
  5. Pretty Woman

Pieces of Clothing

  1. Ninja socks [photos to follow]
  2. Lounge Fly Hoodie
  3. Pirate/Scull slippers
  4. Penguin AE boy shorts [American Eagle finally changed the crotch so there is no more insta-toe]
  5. Neko Caset-shirt [no really?]

Books I read last year that I think about still

  1. The Road, Cormac McCarthy
  2. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
  3. A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah
  4. Eleanor Rigby, Douglas Coupland
  5. 1984, George Orwell

Shows

  1. CSI, Las Vegas
  2. Ellen Degeneres
  3. Gossip Girl
  4. Desperate Housewives [although I suddenly feel over this one after how terrible Sunday's episode was]
  5. American Gladiators

PS2 Games

  1. Guitar Hero III
  2. Guitar Hero III
  3. Guitar Hero III
  4. Guitar Hero II
  5. Guitar Hero

Thankful for

  1. Adam
  2. my parents
  3. baby Steps with my in-laws
  4. Gus
  5. my job

Songs

  1. Black Helicopter, Matthew Good
  2. No One, Alicia Keys
  3. Hex, Neko Case
  4. Queen B, Puscifer
  5. So Not Over, Big Sugar

Movies I want to see

  1. Into the Wild
  2. Elizabeth – The Golden Age
  3. Juno
  4. Atonement
  5. The Kite Runner

Peeves

  1. putting too much sugar in my coffee
  2. forgetting reusable bags when we go out
  3. renting not one but three bad movies
  4. the last Dirt Devil, Broom Vac at London Drugs is this terrible yellow color that I WILL NOT BUY!
  5. double danglers

Things I want

  1. memory stick
  2. Dirt Devil, Broom Vac
  3. laptop
  4. golf girl pin up left upper arm tattoo
  5. new sheets from store on 4th.

Stuff I love

  1. CHI Silk Infusion
  2. my life
  3. The Time Traveler’s Wife, so far
  4. when it is not windy
  5. five starring songs on expert level

What not to wear or do shopping in Vancouver

Published on December 13, 2007 by Corinna Carlson | 13 Comments

WHAT NOT TO WEAR Yes, I went out wearing the outfit in the photo, and that outfit is just ONE exhibit in relation to my pleas and WHY I keep asking/telling you folks that someone, Keira, Jennifer, anyone, must for the love of fashion nominate me for ‘What Not to Wear’ and fast I could show up at your place wearing this at ANY TIME!!!!

You’ve all been warned.

No matter how long I live here I can not dress for the weather, no matter how hard I try I am either too hot or too cold.

Let me first tell you what I have on my person and that it was plus one or more degrees when I went out and pissing rain.

  • Brown knit, ‘Sneaky Brim Toque’
  • Not done hair
  • Glasses
  • Pink wool, Banana Republic coat
  • White mittens
  • An umbrella with ALMOST broken open button
  • Long sleeve cotton shirt
  • 100% wool sweater (with fleece lined neck)
  • Jeans
  • Wigwam socks
  • Wellies
  • A bag

Can you say over heat much? Today was ridiculous, I felt like I weighed a million pounds, not good for any day let alone the first day I leave my house to also test my back out. I had to wear my Banana Republic coat and not my Helly Hansen snowboard jacket [even though SKIING IS WHERE IT IS AT!!!!!] because my jacket is BRIGHT orange and would have looked worse than I already did in my coat and wellies, I think.

I needed some panties because I have lost what I fondly refer to as my newlywed comfort weight and am back in a size small panty, I needed a shirt for a Christmas party Saturday night – I found one – which led to needing a new bra which I got in a 34B and not a 32C yet I have lost weight. You tell me. Christmas or not my outfit will have pink.

By the time I got to Payless to look for winter boots for our trip up North I was dripping in sweat and had remembered three times over that I had forgotten my RE-USE-ABLE BAGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When this happened to Adam he walked home from the grocery store with the groceries in his arms, hands and pockets to teach himself a lesson. I think my outfit was lesson enough and you can’t walk around other stores with panties hanging out of your pockets.

Even though I got boots at Payless I MAY end up taking them back they were seventy something dollars after taxes at PAYLESS?? The more I think about it the more wrong it seems.

Today is a perfect example of WHY I let Adam dress me. From now on when people ask me WHY or look at me funny when I say my husband dresses me [as long as he is home!] they will be referred to this post.

AND on the walk home it started to rain hardish and the umbrella with ALMOST broken open button, BROKE and would not open and my fingers got extremely sore and red and cold. I tossed it because it was poking my anger spot.