Round Up: Lovely Liquid Lights!!!

Over the last few months I have seen these sparkly light fixtures popping up all over the place. These liquid like lamps would really work well on a desk, bed side table or reading nook.

I love how curvy and round most of them are and I'm also really digging how versatile they can be. They're shinny and sparkly (which I totally love) and with a white or bright colored shade would go nicely with a more feminine look, but with the black shades they are also kind of industrial and metal like would make a great addition to a dark, cave of a bedroom (as to not alienate our man friends too much).


Grammercy Mercury Glass Table Lamp

Silver Gourds by Barbara Cosgrove

Satin Silver Touch

Haley Table Lamp

Calypso Mercury Glass Lamp

Unfortunately this lovely slender thing of beauty, was the only one in my price range, for $19.90 ad JC Penny's , and is also the ONLY one that's discontinued!

#6 Spend the night in 5 different states (1/5).

This past weekend was out of this world fantastic!!! It had all of the components of an over all, stellar occasion, food, friends, and Florida State!

On Friday evening we had a Mexican feast at our friends Matt and Ashleys house in Hollywood.

Matt found this beauty in their back yard while we we're looking for some veggies to cool with dinner.



There was some serious Florida love in the house, of the 10 people taking part in the taco fiesta, 8 of us were from the Mother Land.

I was planning on crossing off part 1 of #6. Spend the night in 5 different states, but due to the massive amout of partying we had to cram in that evening, sleeping got pushed to the next night.




Saturday morning Mr. J made a perfect breakfast!! Home style potato's, scrambled eggs and copious amounts of bacon and mimosas were EXACTLY was was needed after a rager with the LA family.





After a bit of recovery time, we decided to all head up the coast to make our way toward the car show.

But first, there was some serious beaching that needed to be done, so we managed to squeeze in an impromptu stop at a BEAUTIFUL cove, just past Malibu.





This is was we spent Saturday afternoon gazing at. It was glorious!!! As you can see, not a cloud in the sky, it was breezy and about 75-80 all day long, a really nice treat compared to the inferno that we are used to living in.






J. was in and out of the water all day but I was to much of a baby to get into those icy waves!!





We headed up to Buelton after a few hours of beaching it. It was a lot of fun up there as well.
I didn't get any pictures, but the weather was just as gorgeous and the company was great too.

All and all the weekend was a great success!!!!!



J. and I at the top of the trail down to the beach.

#51 Save all pictures, then delete myspace.

Breaking up with Myspace has been one of the most irritating and exhausting things I've had to deal with in the past few weeks.

Once upon a time, I signed up for a Myspace account using my xxxxx@fsu.edu, e-mail address (provided to me by one of the finest institutions of higher learning, Florida State University, when I was a freshman in 2004). I've casually used it, mainly to supplement my FaceBook creeping, for the past 6 years. I recently decided to delete the account since it's become more of a liability than an asset in the "grown up"/ job searching world.


This I soon realized would be no easy task.






I started by just following the directions and trying to delete the account.


After being bombarded with, what seemed like 500 different ways to ask the same question, "Are you SURE you want to delete the account?", I found out that a message would be send to the e-mail address I used to originally start the account and I would need to send a response....................................the account that was closed by FSU 2 semesters after graduation.


No problem, I'll just change the e-mail address on the account, and have the message sent to my new address.

YEAH FREAKIN' RIGHT!!!!

I put in all the new contact info, press enter..........and................."A message will be sent to your original address, please respond and the contact address will be changed (not Myspaces words- just me regurgitating it, but you get the jyst of it)". Thus bringing me back to our original problem............IT'S GONE!!! THE ADDRESS NO LONGER EXISTS!!! WHY IS IT SO HARD?!?!? I JUST WANT MYSPACE OUT OF MY LIFE SO I CAN CHECK OFF #51. Save all pictures, then delete myspace.!!!

After about an hour of messing around on their site (which is more time than I've spent on there in the last 3 years) I had a mini freak out, and had to regroup. The following e-mail was sent to the IT department at FSU:

Hi there,

My name is Kylie M______, I was a student at Florida State from 2004-2008 and my FSUID was XXXXX@fsu.edu.

I understand that the e-mail address associated with my user ID was closed after my graduation. I am currently trying to delete a myspace account that was created using the closed address, apparently it is going to be imposable to delete the account with out access to the previously mentioned FSUID.

Is there any way I could have access to the address, or something so that I may delete the myspace account?

Thank you,

Kylie M________

I got an auto response from the help desk pretty much telling me that if I'm not a student or faculty or if my problem does not directly relate to financial aid I will have to wait until September 15th for my request to be addressed.

Yesterday I deleted one by one, every picture(after I saved them all) , comment, blog, and friend, I changed all the info to blank, I changed the name to "0", and put up a beautiful new picture, and I am now considering #51 accomplished.

New Myspace Profile Pic.

I chose a zombie picture, because that's what I'm considering the account, not quite completely alive but apparently not dead either.

CALIFORNIA knows how to party...............

This weekend J. and I are headed out of the desert for a trip to sunny California!!





We're spending tonight in Hollywood with some of my all time favorite people.




The lovely Ashley B. and Mr. Matt are recent transplants from Tallahassee to LA. They're part of the Proud Pit bull Parent Pack.

Baby Dog Dexter

SISTERS!!!!!!

Ashley S., Catherine, and I are Alpha Chi Omega sisters. They moved to LA when we moved to Las Vegas, and it has been AWESOME having such good friend so close.

Is it bad that all of my favorite people in LA are from FSU?!

After a Florida Filled Friday, we are headed out to the Volkswagen show in Buelton. Where Buelton is, I have no idea. But I have heard that they put on a damn good Dub show.


J.'s current ride.


Former projects.

The only thing that could make this weekend better, would be if Miss Kalen was joining us!

Beach Dreamin'......

This week (apparently) marks a mile stone for Gulf Coast.

After more than 100 days of oil spilling into our beautiful Gulf of Mexico and washing up on to our pristine sugar white beaches, the "Static Kill" has finally stopped the flow.

The one thing I miss more than any thing about living in Florida (other than my amazing family and friends) is the beach. And then, all tied for close second are raw oysters, Diesel Fuels, fresh gulf shrimp, Bushwacker Fest (which happens to be going on this weekend), mullet tosses, Bands on the Beach, Blue Angle weekend, white sand.............................................................

Here's just a peak of what we have waiting for us back home

There's there are few things better in this world than wasting an entire weekend sitting on that soft white sand, and staring at the beautiful blue water. Throw in a few BushWachers and a dozen raw oysters and one might even mistake it for heaven.

# 12. Try 100 different beers (2/100)

This past weekend at a friends birthday party, and with the help of my friend Steve who offered up this lovely bottle of Biere Darbyste, I took one more step towards completing #12 on the list.

The beer is called Biere Darbyste and it's my by the Brasserie de Blaugis brewery in Belgium.

I couldn't really find much info about the beer or the brewery, and looks like the site is under construction.

My friends Ashley (L), Steve (M) and I (R), participating in the beer tasting.

Steve, I told you that you'd make it on here!!

And the lovely Miss Alyssa modeling the bottle.

50 Great Voices.

Starting this past January on NPR , every Monday Morning Edition, is featuring 1 of their 50 Great Voices.

As any one who knows me personally is well aware of, I am NOT in any way, shape, or form a Monday (or a morning) person, but this feature has become my favorite part of the Monday morning commute to work.

This morning, it was Biggie Smalls turn.

Mr. Smalls has long been on the top of most lists when it comes to respect and recognition of the hip hop greats, but it was great to hear him make it on to this list too.

Some of my other favorites from the past few months.

Janis Joplin
The Queen of Rock

Iggy Pop

The Voice as Weapon

Dennis Brown

The Crown Prince of Reggae

The Many Voices of Lauryn Hill