Eric Damon

I couldn't find a picture of him, but even if you have never heard the name before, I bet you will WISH you were him. Who is Eric Damon? The legend, the MYTH? Eric Damon, my sweet readers, is the one and only costume designer for Gossip Girl. I would quit my Whole Foods job to work with/for him.

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Life

So my fam is super Catholic and we have this saying that goes something like (sounds way better in Italian...) "Jesus might scare you a little bit, but he'll never leave you hangin'". That's the like, slang translation. Haha. Anyway, I feel like that saying has been oh-so-true for me the last month or so. And I feel awful saying that, because I know I am so much more fortunate than so many people...but I still feel the saying applies to me. Wow, that sentence is CRAP. I'm not changing it, though.
I am really excited about my Whole Foods job. I thought someone would post about the radicalness of the song I chose to go along with the Whole Foods logo, but maybe I'm just the only one that likes that song. When I thought of putting that song up, I listened to it three times and just laughed...Ammon thinks I'm such a doofus. But I was so excited and so proud of myself for getting that damn job that everything seemed funny at that moment. I have to go to Whole Foods tomorrow to do paperwork and I cannot WAIT! I am even going to be getting a pair of CROCS (you read right...CROCS!) to keep me company during my hours upon ours of standing up. I havent decided on the color yet, we'll see. The Vogue reader in me says black, though.
Thanks to Ann, Lacy, Brett, Tara, Ammon, Boomer, Petunia and my lovely parents for listening to me whine about getting a job. OH and btw, Tucker offered me a FULL TIME position. What the fuck.
OH and I'd like to give a special shout out to Annie, who I have heard occasionaly reads my blog. Lacy loves you, Annie, so you are automatically radical in my book. Oh and I love that one cake you made...awesome.
I'll post tomorrow to let everybody know how awesome of a time I had filling out papers at my new job! WOOHOO!

where do YOU work?

*OMG* day

Get ready, cause this will prob be my best post ever. all the rest will just be average after this. Kind of like when Kevin Spacey did American Beauty.
So, I went to J. Crew today to chat with my friend and after, I was going into "that one store I work at" to return a shirt that looked FUG on me. So I sat and chatted with Lindsay (love that girl) and then made my way to "that one store". I got there and my manager goes, "you realize your shift starts on 5 minutes, right?" OOOOOOH my goodness. Did I get my sched via email? No. Did someone call me? No. I was told I'd get my schedule TOMORROW. Thank you Jesus, for having me go in and exchange that awful shirt. So I get changed in the back (I had bought a sweater and some adorable flats at Gap earlier, so I was totally on the ball), and off to the floor I went. I started out pretty shy, for the first 30 minutes I felt stupid even asking people how they were doing. That obviously all changed when a storm of people from some scam thing (like Xango and shit like that) came in. I guess there is a convention this weekend. I got proposed in marriage, my hand kissed twice and all of this was in only 15 minutes. I feel like fuckin' Miss America today. Total babe. Some total weirdos came in to the store too, it was so weird. And people leave all this shit in the dressing room, like no one will ever have to go in there and fold all their damn shirts and sweaters. UGH. But I had a REALLY good time. I was the only girl with 6, yes SIX gay guys and I could not have laughed more during those 5 hours. One of the guys (I'm not writ ting his name down for obvious reasons but I will tell it to you later, because it is an AWFUL name)kept checking himself out in the mirror the entire night. He kind of has that emo-spikey looking deal and he would like, do this little hip pop to the side and fix his hair. And he was SO moody...he rolled his eyes at me at least twice when I asked him questions. SHEESH! The other guy called me his LAMB (!!!) the entire night...either that, or "Flavia, my love". I need to have more people call me Lamb. Maybe I should change my blog to "The Lamb Blog". He would look at certain things before we put them away and was like, "LOOK THIS IS AWFUL MESS! THIS WOULDN'T EVEN LOOK GOOD ON KATE MOSS." He is a model for the one store I work at, so he is like, WOAH good looking. He told me a lot of stuff about his boyfriend. I wanted to ask him if anal sex really hurts as bad as I think it does, but I didn't dare. He would have totally been fine with answering though, he is cool like that. Then, my gay manager (not Tucker) got into a fight with the emo hair guy and emo hair started CRYING. I'm not even kidding. When I realized what had gone on, my mouth was open and I had rested all the items I was supposed to put back on the table. Oops. It's like a car wreck though, it's human to look at certain things. This lady came in with her daughter to look at black dresses and I almost started crying. They were so cute and really reminded of my mom and I, back in the ole days. OH and there were so many raunchy people that came in! JEEZ guys, you're SHOPPING! Turn that damn frown upside down. Haha and this really handsome older black guy liked a shirt that was kind of similar to one that was on sale, and he asked me if I could give him the sale price on the shirt that wasn't on sale because the fabric is kind of the same. Nice try, dude. And like I have any control over that, anyway.
Man, what a fun day. Time went by really fast and although my feet are sore and tired, I loved getting asked what my opinion on outfits were. And people totally listened, like I was Anna Wintour or something (she's the editor of Vogue, btw). And guys asked my opinion, too. About shirts, ties, pants...wow. I felt awesome.
Maybe my post isn't that awesome, I guess you had to be there to get the full effect of my one and only work day. I quit tomorrow. Our schedules came out and today is the only day I work all week. Yeah. Lord knows how these people pay their bills working only 5 hours a week.

YAY

Ann, thanks for tagging me. I love being tagged. And when you wrote "ditto" on the comments, it reminded me of when Whoopy Goldberg Says "Uh uh huh DITTO?! ugh uh ugh " on Ghost when Patrick Swayze tells her to tell Demi that he loves her too on that one scene...I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. For your birthday, have Ammon do it for you. I doubt he will, but he does THE BEST impersonation of that scene EVER. Oscar-worthy.

1. Did you date someone from your school? No, we were all best friends.

2. What kind of car did you drive? BMW X5

3. What was the most embarrassing moment of HS? Going places after school in my uniform...my mom LOVED inviting me to go grocery shopping as soon as we got home, and I have no idea why but I was too lazy to change my clothes.

4. Were you a party animal? Mmmm at times...I was a total party animal during my high school summers in Europe and in Brazil. people don't know how to party in Utah, sorry.

5. Were you considered a flirt? Maybe? I'm not sure...

6. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir? CHOIR! We sang at Disneyland and went to competitions every year. We kicked ass.

7. Were you a nerd? Yes and no...I was a nerd compared to my public high school friends, but I was considered pretty normal at my school. People at Meridian would compete to see who would get the best grades, and I like a little friendly competition.

8. Were you on any varsity teams? Soccer and Volleyball.

9. Did you get suspended/expelled? No...but I came pretty close a few times.

10. Can you still sing the fight song? No fight songs...bummer.

11. Who were your favorite teachers? Mr. Neil and Mrs. Ballard.

12. Where did you sit during lunch? We didn't have a lunch room, so we couldn't eat there. We went out every day.

13. School mascot? Mongoose!

14. Did you go to homecoming, and with who? Uh...I went to every dance but I can't remember with who! There was never much asking, we just all went together. That's what happens when your graduating class has 13 people in it.

15. If you could go back and do it again, would you? Actually, I would. I loved having no responsibilities.

16. What do you remember most about graduation? I almost didn't graduate, I flunked English. I was really sick of school and didn't like my English teacher, so I got A's in everything and flunked English. Awesome.

17. Where did you go senior skip day? We didn't have that. But when I did skip school, I would go to the movies. Ah, always the Film nerd.

18. Were you in any clubs? Chess Club and Equestrian Team every summer in Brazil.

19. Have you gained some weight since then? I'm an emotional eater, so I gain and lose like 10lbs all the time. I don't remember how much I weighed then, but when I ordered my white dress from Bloomingdale's it was a size 4.

20. Who was your prom date? The only date I remember for Prom was this guy named Justin Tittlefitz (nicknamed "Fiddletits" by everybody, obvs) who was this amazing genius and I always had a great time with. I only beat him at chess once, and I never let him forget it. I miss him! Last I heard he was a total druggie.

21. Are you planning on going to your 10 year reunion? I still see everyone that matters (Scott, Ryan, Jake and Gerard) so prob not.

22. Looking back, what advice would you give yourself? Have more fun, don't worry about your friends so much and read things other than Vogue.

friends

i love friends. we should all have friends. especially friends like i have. i loved tonight. way more than i should have, maybe. lacy and ann are amazing in every way. i am so glad i suckered ammon into marrying me so i could not only get a green card and good health insurance from the U, but also hang out with all his awesome bookstore friends. yesss.