Her Musings: College Christmas List

With black Friday closed it is time for a girl to focus on more important things, like what she is going to ask Santa Claus to bring her from the North Pole. Sadly the days of crashing old Chris Kringle's lap and begging for a choo choo train or a deluxe Barbie sports car are long gone. As college girls on a strict ramen noodle budget we usually find ourselves asking for what we need instead of what we want. But that doesn't have to be the case necessarily. This is my personal Christmas list and it has a lot of good trendy ideas for 2012 that combine everything a college girl wants and what is practical.

Fashion
Red Pants: They are very hot this season.

Express Zelda Jeans

Nude pumps: Great for work and going out

Steve Madden Unityy Pump

Make-up Bag: Mine is gross and too small and I think this is adorable

Nordstrom's

Clipless Curling Iron: I have very hard hair to curl with its natural wave. I have heard these things are amazing for getting natural looking curl. I am just afraid I will burn myself a lot.

Sedu Revolution Clipless Curling Iron

Bare Essentials Make-up: I love it. I need more. It's really a great product for people who don't like the feeling of cover-up. The only thing I will say is it is VERY messy. I have a stained counter to prove so.

Bare Essentials Make-up Kit

Fitness

Lululemon Sports Bra: My mom bought me one at a sale and I fell in love with it, most comfortable bra ever.

50 Rep Bra

Running Watch: All the bloggers I read wear the watches. Since I can lose track of my distance a lot, I really want one to know exactly how far I am going.

Garmin Forerunner

Food

New Blender: With all of my delicious smoothie making, my blender is getting a bit tired. And this is blender is named after a ninja, so it has to be awesome!

NinjaKitchen Pro Blender

Career

Vera Bradley Planner: Its hard as a college girl to keep everything in check. I love the Vera Bradley planner, it's a great way to keep everything organized.

Vera Bradley 2012 Agenda

So now I can do is hopefully stay on the nice list and leave out some delicious cookies and hope that Ol' Saint Nick is feeling generous to this college senior.

Her Musings: Ode to Jenna Marbles

I have a girl crush. I don't get them often, so when I do--it's a big deal.Youtube and Facebook shares have been blowing up everywhere about a video blogger named Jenna Mourney, aka "Jenna Marbles."

Jenna posts weekly comical videos just about her observations about society. She became a sensation with two famous videos "How to Trick People into Thinking you are Good Looking" and "How to Avoid Talking to People you Don't Want to Talk to". Here they are, if you have no seen them, because the rest of the post won't make any sense if you don't know what I am talking about.

Mourey is a college grad from who recently moved from Boston to L.A.  She posts a new video every Wednesday. And by Thursday you see at least 5 statuses or posts of people sharing her new hilarious video commentary. Mourey's videos are raw, entertaining, crude and very witty. Each of her videos gets well over a million views. So why do I love her?
Jenna Marbles is everything I love and was starting to believe did not exist in women nowadays. In entertainment girls seem to fall into two categories; the Ellens and the Kims

Ellen Degeneres is one of the greatest women in the world. She is smart, talented and overall hilarious. However no one praises her for her looks. Although looks are really not that important and Ellen is a beautiful woman. Then there are the Kims, who in my opinion is not only not talented but really she has a completely dull personality. Society separates role models into these categories, Funny friend and Bimbo beauty.


For me, Jenna Marbles breaks that mold. She takes what is great from both worlds. She does part time modeling and is ridiculously hot but she is sarcastic and sharp. She not only graduated from college but she has a Master's Degree ( which she parodies in one of her videos). She shows that girls don't need to choose from caring about looks to caring about being funny.
Girls are always typecasting each other. We assume that if a girl is gorgeous, she can't have a good personality. There are so many comments out there that Jenna Marbles is the perfect woman because she is hot and funny. So I say Halleluiah! Why can't we all be that? I am not saying that all little girls should want to grow up to be like Jenna Marbles because she is not age appropriate. But I think college freshman should take note: PERSONALITIES ARE SEXY! To score your macho frat boy you don't need to be a type. You can slap on that bandage dress and tell a funny joke all the same time. You look in the mirror and say "dang, I am one hott mama" while also knowing that you are freakin' hilarious.
So thank you Jenna, for being sexy yet sassy. And in your own words, "Keep ho-ing you ho'"

Her Musings: PSA about PDA

Every day millions of college students are infected with one of the most sickening and contagious diseases: new relationship infatuation. The disease can be contracted at anytime, targeting single people looking for a relationship. The first stage of the disease starts out minor: a handhold or perhaps small public kiss on the cheek. If untreated by common decency the more advance stages of the new relationship infatuation include, full fledge make outs on the sidewalk and other public domains, nauseating baby talk, and inappropriate groping. If you start experiencing these symptoms you can be treated. Take a daily dose of reality of how obnoxious you are and quarantine yourself in your room. Second hand PDA can be very uncomfortable for innocent bystanders. So for the safety and health of those around you, try and contain yourself.

 

Now this is not some kind of single-girl mission to spit on all the happy couples out there. I swear I do not come home after a day of watching couples walking down campus hand-and-hand and cry to love actually while eating chunky munky with a ladle. I actually enjoy being single right now. I am very swamped with school and finding a job and I don't have time for man hunting. Of course if god drops a wonderful guy into my lap I wont shoo him away. But active man trapping is not on the agenda right now.

However, I do admit that  being in a relationship for 2 1/2 years and then being thrown into the collegiate single life does make me a bit more sensitive to couples. And what I have noticed, some couple don't get the concept of... YOU ARE IN PUBLIC. I was walking home in the middle of the day and there was a couple sitting on the bench outside my dorm doing some very involved petting. The girl was even sitting on her boyfriend's lap. The entire time I was in a relationship I felt that I was very aware of the people around me. I was a firm believer in laced hands as we walked and a quick kiss goodbye. Maybe it's my own personal thing but it's not even about caring about other people. I just feel my relationship is no one else's business. I don't maybe this is just my future cat lady talking, but I just don't get it. If you wouldn't do it on the sofa in front of your great-grandma, why would you do it in front innocent bystanders on the street?

Her Musings: Hall _HO_ween

Happy Halloween! Well official Halloween, for college students Halloween is the Friday and Saturday before, regardless of what the calendar says. I would like to start this post with a little poem I wrote last week in the student union:

Tis the Thursday before all Hallow's Eve and all through the streets. 

The conversations don't surround neither tricks nor treats

All the girls are buzzing and dying to know

What's the best way to dress like a ho'?

There are heels to find and fishnets to buy 

Because you can't be a cat without a skirt that's thigh high

The stores a cleared of red lace and pleather

Because it's much less skanky if you all do it together!

Let's be honest, I don't think I ever lose respect more for my age and gender than on Halloween. I mean is it one of my favorite holidays? DUH! But every year I feel like girls in college are pushing the envelope and in a secret contest of who can show the most skin. Let be honest, Mean Girls said it all!

 

"I'm a mouse, DUH"

I just almost don't know how it even got to this point. I was in Target with my friend Natalie on Friday and there were ADORABLE costumes in the front. And I made the comment " It's sad how the costumes for girls never get any bigger as we grow up." Don't believe me?

Cute Snow White VS  Skanky Snow White

         


    Cute Little Girl Cat VS Sexy Kitten









And it is not just the level of sluttiness in today's costumes that perplex me, it's the ridiculousness of what we choose to make sexy. In writing this post I looked up costumes on some websites and low and behold what I found:

Sexy Hulk Hogan: Now, I know boy everywhere have fond memories of wrestling and legendary Hulk Hogan. But when they were crowded around the TV fantasizing about being a pro wrestler... they were NOT fantasizing about one day banging the wrestler.

Sexy Tigger: Tigger was my favorite cartoon growing up, this picture made me mourn my childhood in one sweep.

Sexy Panda: Pandas are the most adorable things in the world and should not be made sexy. End of story.

Sexy CHEWBACCA: Yes, that is a slutty CHEWBACCA costume. How the hell do you make that sexy? If you have a thing for nerds and know they love Star Wars, then go as slave Princess Leia. Chewy is not hot. And will never be hot no matter how many times your guy has seen Return of the Jedi.

Now I don't want to be a hipocrite. I too have worn costumes that were tighter than the average outfit. But I keep it to a point that if I ran into my 80 year old christian Grandma, she wouldn't throw holy water on me and then proceed to go into cardiac arrest.

I don't mind sexy costumes, because hey, if you can rock it more power to you. I just like CREATIVE sexy costumes or costumes that you made. And to put my money where my mouth is, this was my "sexy" costume.

Yes I was beloved 90's toy Bop It and second night I was a ninja turtle with some of my sorority sisters.

My costumes were cute and flattering but they were homemade and creative. And I got TONS of compliments, especially on Bop It. And the best part is that when THIS STORM HIT...

...I was warm--well not warm but I was definitely not as cold as the sexy bunnies in fishnets and heels I saw walk by.

So things to take away:

-REALLY Think about what your costume says about you
-Don't kill your Grandma
-Is being 'hott' really worth frostbite?
-DON'T ever ask to see your future daughter's halloween pictures in College. Because most likely you won't want to know.

Happy HALLOWEEN everyone!

Her Musings: Gym Biddies

Yesterday I went into the ladies' locker room at the school gym. When I walked in I saw a girl standing in jeans and heels in front of the mirror putting on eye liner and doing her hair. Since tons of girls go from gym to class, I really didn't think anything of it.

After I put on my over-sized $3 Hanes Men's V-neck  T-shirt and shorts (sexy right?) I went to walk out of the locker room. To my shock the same girl was standing there, but she had changed INTO her workout clothes,(short-shorts, tank top and a push-up bra). I had thought she was coming from working out, not going to work out. She check herself out in the mirror one more time.

"Do I look pretty?"

While out in the gym I stretched and then search for an empty treadmill--none could be found. When I walked into the upstairs cardio section I saw the same girl from the locker room. She was on a treadmill WALKING with no incline and reading a magazine. I settled for the elliptical next to her hoping she was just warming up. She spent a full 30-minutes walking on the treadmill at a pace my grandmother in her motorized scooter could beat, while I left the gym to go study without completing my run.

Unfortunately, "gym biddies" are a common occurrence at a student gym. They come to the gym in their cute shorts and skank tank tops (oops Freudian slip typo?) hop on a machine and barely break a sweat. I don't get it. Who are they trying to impress? Are they waiting for their close up? I am pretty sure Mr. Deville is not working his glutes on the elliptical. Guys? They aren't looking to pick up girls at the gym. Gym time is their man time, a time meant for brotein and getting jacked. The only thing on guys' minds are biceps and power bars. If you want to impress boys, go to a frat party like every other college girl and get off my stinkin' machine.

"I don't know if you heard, but I did over a hundred"

And the gym biddie has a male counter point. Watching guys lift weights can be one of the most entertaining spectacles on campus. My favorite one to watch from my machine is Mr. 5 second of crazy intensity. He sits in front of a weight in his ripped muscle -T and backwards hat and psychs himself up for a good five to ten minutes. He inhales deeply in and out and stretches. After he is fully pumped up and he breathes intensely, lifts the weight, does five reps, puts it back down and moves on. Each set takes about 10 minutes, giving the muscles time to relax and rendering the exercise way less effective.Rinse and repeat for about 45 minutes to reach full obnoxious level before he high-fives his fellow bro-nameth and leaves.

When I go to the gym, it's my break, from caring about what I look like and whose around me. I take off all my make-up, throw on a man's t-shirt, and jump on a machine until I sweat my stress out. And I don't glisten, I SWEAT, and you know what? it feel awesome. And if I can't do that because little Miss Cindy Barely-Walks is taking up machine, I am going to get cranky. 

So I vote that campus gyms everywhere pass a rule: " If you're going to burn less than 100 calories an hour, just go home."