Victory!!! And it only took 9 weeks and 6 cumulative hours at the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Aves-vous Saks?
Ahhh, the holiday season has arrived.
I've made my cranberry-pear relish
and have also watched Love Actually, White Christmas, and The Thin Man.
And the other day, my Saks Holiday Catalogue arrived! [insert holiday choir singing "Hallelujah!"] I don't know if I mentioned this previously, but I have an addiction to word games: Scrabble, Boggle, Catch-phrase, cross-word puzzles, mensa quizzes -- if it's a word game, I have an internal mandate to master it. Those of you who know me also know that my mom and I lovingly refer to Saks Fifth Avenue as "the mother ship", so I think that sort of explains the extent of my shopping addiction. Thus, you can imagine my elation when I received my Saks Holiday Catalogue and found ONE HUNDRED SIX word game brain teasers sprinkled throughout. The sheer genius of this marketing concept is still awe-inspiring to me. The genius lies in the fact that, presented not only with pages of bedazzled holiday goods but with a challenge to your intelligence, you feel compelled to number a piece of paper from 1-106, start on the first page, and not stop until you're finished. When you get to the end, you inevitably have left 20 or 30 answers blank and must go back through over and over until you've completed each and every brain teaser. I actually had to put the quiz away for a day and come back and finish it, combing through the pages of Juicy Couture tchochkies (pink underwear in a pink candy cane, pink heart shaped USB port key chain, pink mini digital camera, pink gumball machine, pink...); swarovski-encrusted perfume bottles from Bond No. 9, a swath of neon (?!) from Ralph Lauren, Toy Watch, Marc Jacobs, and Prada; and jewel encrusted blouses, bangles, jeans, i-pod ear buds, -- even bedazzled zip drives. After combing the magazine 4 or 5 times to finish the quiz, I checked my answers against the key and happily found that I scored 89/106. The funny part is that I was so intent upon the quiz that I really don't remember much about the clothes, which means I'll have to go through the catalogue again...
PS. You know what else is genius? You can make your own church sign! http://churchsigngenerator.com/
I've made my cranberry-pear relish
and have also watched Love Actually, White Christmas, and The Thin Man.
And the other day, my Saks Holiday Catalogue arrived! [insert holiday choir singing "Hallelujah!"] I don't know if I mentioned this previously, but I have an addiction to word games: Scrabble, Boggle, Catch-phrase, cross-word puzzles, mensa quizzes -- if it's a word game, I have an internal mandate to master it. Those of you who know me also know that my mom and I lovingly refer to Saks Fifth Avenue as "the mother ship", so I think that sort of explains the extent of my shopping addiction. Thus, you can imagine my elation when I received my Saks Holiday Catalogue and found ONE HUNDRED SIX word game brain teasers sprinkled throughout. The sheer genius of this marketing concept is still awe-inspiring to me. The genius lies in the fact that, presented not only with pages of bedazzled holiday goods but with a challenge to your intelligence, you feel compelled to number a piece of paper from 1-106, start on the first page, and not stop until you're finished. When you get to the end, you inevitably have left 20 or 30 answers blank and must go back through over and over until you've completed each and every brain teaser. I actually had to put the quiz away for a day and come back and finish it, combing through the pages of Juicy Couture tchochkies (pink underwear in a pink candy cane, pink heart shaped USB port key chain, pink mini digital camera, pink gumball machine, pink...); swarovski-encrusted perfume bottles from Bond No. 9, a swath of neon (?!) from Ralph Lauren, Toy Watch, Marc Jacobs, and Prada; and jewel encrusted blouses, bangles, jeans, i-pod ear buds, -- even bedazzled zip drives. After combing the magazine 4 or 5 times to finish the quiz, I checked my answers against the key and happily found that I scored 89/106. The funny part is that I was so intent upon the quiz that I really don't remember much about the clothes, which means I'll have to go through the catalogue again...
PS. You know what else is genius? You can make your own church sign! http://churchsigngenerator.com/
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