I am now officialy a school project.
Posted by Bake & Destroy on January 31st, 2008. Filed under: free stuff, interviews, media, zombies.It’s a dream come true. Now I just need to be a guest speaker in some one’s class and I will have fulfilled the majority of my nerdy fantasies. A fellow journalism student Chrissy Mahlmeister interviewed me for a class she took over J-term. It was about blogging, I don’t know exactly what the class was called. Anyway, Chrissy and I are both huge What Not to Wear fans so as an ode to Stacy and Clinton I did all the typical WNTW poses and spins, and even a pretty sweet “laying on a bench with a cupcake” move. Everything was shot at school, which is why there is so much orange. But now those of you who have never heard me talk can revel in my sweet, crabby voice. Oh! Also, a really awesome reader named Baylor sent me a .pdf file of The Joy of Cooking Humans .pdf today so I’m going to post that back in that entry as well as in this one. (Obviously, click the title to download it.) Don’t feel the need to point out how unflattering my trapeze top/tight pants combo was. I realize that now and I will never wear it again.
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January 31st, 2008 at 3:21 am
i don’t think that sounds like you at all, but you look cute!
January 31st, 2008 at 1:28 pm
That was cute (in a totally non-dorky way of course). For some reason I expected you to sound like my sister-in-law because she kind of looks like you (I was wrong heh).
Also, I wanted to let you know you fuckin’ rock. I’m married to a wonderful man that just happens to work in a field where appearances are very important, so after dating a while, I took my 3/4″ plugs out of my ear and retired some of my piercings.
You show, however, that you can still be a kickass mother and wife and productive member of society and look the way you want to look. So after something like 3 and a half years, I put my septum ring back in and decided to say screw it. So maybe I can be happy and not feel like I have to look a certain way because that’s what everyone expects me to look like.
Oh-AND-it was really weird learning that you were the Natalie in that sXe Seventeen article…I read it all those years ago, and here I am, religiously reading your blog.
Annnnd sorry about the 12 foot long comment.
January 31st, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Thank you so much, that was the sweetest comment ever! Congrats on being able to go back looking the way you want to, I still worry about the knuckle tattoos sometimes but I think it’s getting less and less taboo anyway. I emailed Seventeen not too long ago to see if they knew the whereabouts of anyone else in that issue and I just got a weird form letter back like, “We’re so glad you enjoyed this issue, your comments are valuable to us.”
January 31st, 2008 at 4:39 pm
The wave at the end was hilarious
February 1st, 2008 at 9:35 am
you = the hotness.
we need to hang out. i am serious.
February 1st, 2008 at 10:00 pm
I like the trapeze top/tight pants combo. I would certainly wear that myself. I love yoou’re blog by the way. I’m a mum with a 5month old boy and lots of tattoos. I also try to bake a lot as well (try being the operative word there). All the way from Australia. Good to see we are littered all over the world.
February 1st, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Well thanks! I felt like it did something weird to my boobs, but that might be nitpicking. ha ha.