Archive for January 2009
Why Not? Wear What You Want.
Posted by: J on: January 31, 2009
Along with chai tea lattes, makeover shows (like What Not to Wear) are a guilty pleasure of mine. These shows take women and men (mostly women) who’s personal style is underdeveloped, usually as a result of underlying insecurities; over the course of an hour they very neatly help the participants to throw away their insecurities [...]
Conflict Resolution
Posted by: J on: January 30, 2009
I’ve been having a fairly stressful few days, so I decided to channel my stress into a post. Here are three things I should have practiced this week in terms of conflict resolution…
1) Never assume the other person knows how you are feeling. Many disagreements start due to poor communication; if someone does something to [...]
Mirror, Mirror…
Posted by: J on: January 28, 2009
I remember coming home in tears, hating myself over the fact that I’d been made fun of on the bus in middle school for my hairy legs. I remember wearing jeans even in the summer because my “thunder thighs” embarrassed me more than I was willing to expose. I remember purposely buying tight tank tops [...]
Radical Radiance: Ty Pennington
Posted by: J on: January 27, 2009
Ty Pennington is a carpenter who really came into in the media spotlight as a team-member on the show Trading Spaces where he aided teams in building the furniture they needed to re-do the room of their nighbor/friend/family member etc.
Following his popularity from this show he was chosen as the host of Extreme Makeover: Home [...]
Missed the Mark
Posted by: J on: January 26, 2009
True Beauty is a new ABC show that attempts to show the meaning of inner beauty by judging ten stereotypically physically beautiful people on both their physical attractiveness and their inner beauty. In order to assess the competitor’s inner beauty the judges of this show set them up in “hidden camera” situations to see how [...]
Sunday Five
Posted by: J on: January 25, 2009
I’m on my way to a birthday dinner for my grandpa so the links this week are going to be short and sweet, but don’t worry they’re still good. After last week’s post of serious action-related links this week is going to take a slightly different, slightly less serious topic… namely, things to make you [...]
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