Featuring a New Segment of: Dear Krapfen Wichser,

Dear Krapfen Wichser,

Why are some married couples so insensitive? I am in my thirties and I don’t believe in marriage; however, every time I attend weddings random married couples feel the need to ask, “So when are you two going to get married?” Which causes awkwardness for my beau. I, on the other hand, become offended, because I don’t believe in marriage – it doesn’t define me. I don’t think it is the appropriate question to ask at wedding, ever.

Also, I have a friend who is married, but she does not have children, nor is she planning on having children. However, married couples at weddings ask her when they are going to have children, as if having children suddenly makes them all superior. Don’t they know not everyone wants children, or maybe they can’t have children and the don’t want to discuss something so personal with them?

We just never know how to respond or what we should say to put them in their place…

Sincerely, Anti-Married Couples at Weddings

Dear Anti-Married Couples at Weddings,

I understand your pain. That is why I came up with some foolproof comebacks that you should try out the next time these insensitive couples ask that silly question at weddings.

“So, when are you two going to get married?”
- Your response? “So, when are you two getting a divorce? I read the divorce rate is super-duper high in our generation!”

“So, when are you two going to get married?”
- Your response? “Oh, we’re not going to get married until we’re 80 and sleeping in separate beds. By then, there wouldn’t be a point in getting a divorce!”

“So, when are you two going to get married?”
- Your response? “Wait, is this your first marriage or second?”
- Theirs? “First… why?”
- Yours? “GOOD LUCK!”
(If it is their second marriage, repeat number 2 response.)

As for your friend, I’ve also devised some responses to her situation as well:

“So, when are you two going to have children?”
- Her response? “When you shut the hell up.”

“So, when are you two going to have children?”
- Her response? “I just don’t want ugly children, like yours”

“So, when are you going to have children?”
- Her response? “Your children are the reason why I believe in abortion.”

“So, when are you going to have children?”
- Her response? “Right now. We’re going to do it right now. On this dinner table.”

It’s not mean, per se, but seeing that these married people with/without children feel the need to bring these types of topics up at weddings (of all places), seems pretty insensitive. So there you have it!

Sincerely,

Krapfen Wichser

Filed under: Dear Krapfen Wichser, Humor

Oh, How I Love Thee…New Things In YoVille!

Yesterday afternoon when I logged onto YoVille, I noticed one of my crewmembers “raced” me. Well, I couldn’t figure this one out, because I was too busy trying to get money instead of exploring the small town of YoVille. Until… A buddy told me about YoVille’s Speedway!

At YoVille Speedway you can race your friends, practice, or bet on your friends! It’s another fun way to gamble your money if you prefer not to dump it all at the casino.

How cute…

There are also new items up for sale! I love new items! I think some of it can nice little fillers in people’s YoVille homes. However, first I need to show the new Fashion items, as it looks like YoVille is gearing up for St. Paddy’s day. P.S. I already about the St. Paddy’s outfit – and as a bonus, some lucky female player will receive my extra St. Paddy’s outfit.

How bad do you want the outfit? Leave a comment to let me know and I’ll choose the person with the best desperation (LOL)

And at the Furniture Store there are many new items.

On the contest front: Thanks for all the submissions! You will receive an email from me soon!

Filed under: YoVille, YoVille Contests

Just Another Day In The Office

Toni was M.I.A. from her cubicle most of the day. She came by her desk to check on her messages, “Oh….My…God! Toni! Your phone…has been ringing!” Sara said.

Toni said, “What…?”

“You know. Ringing off the hook??” I commented.

“Yeah! Yeah! Ringing off the hook!!” Sara injected.

“Really? How come no one left a message??” Toni rhetorically stated. “Did you hear my phone ring?” She asked me and I shook my head. Toni then quizzically looked at Sara…

“Um, yeah! It was ringing a lot! It rang once!” We laughed at her and she continued with, “Ringing once is a lot!”

Filed under: Office

Vegas, Baby! Vegas!

At work we were sitting around chatting it up about going to Vegas and plotting how we should all meet up in Vegas in June…

Shannon said, “If I go to Vegas, then my brother wants to come, too, so I wouldn’t need to pay for the room. BUT…I don’t want a roommate, because I might want to get a little busy and a little wild!” she giggled.

Sara and I laughed at her over-shared comment and, “Don’t they have signs you can put up?” Sara asked.

“Better yet, just put a sock on the door knob.” I suggested.

“Put a sock on the door knob!!!” Shannon laughed.

“Why not a shoe instead??” Sara said.

Shannon laughed and said, “I should just put a bra on there!”

“Just put your underwear on there, so…you know that no one will touch it or dare go in!” I said.

After some more laughter, Shannon said, “Oh, yeah! That’s true!!!” Sara laughed and held a look of disgust on her face and I cried from laughing too hard.

“Make sure they’re granny panties.” I added.

“And they have to be the ones that goes up to here!!” Shannon said as she pointed up to her  sternum.

Ah, yes, it’s just another day at work.

Filed under: Office

In Another Episode of, “Much Ado About Office”

Sara and I were talking about MTV’s reality show The City, and I had mentioned that I really like The City’s theme song…

“Yeah, I do too!! It makes me want to dance!” Sara does her version of the Robot Dance.

“It makes me want to strut down the catwalk!!!!” I joked.

Sara laughed and replied, “Well, get those heels out!!”

Come on… tell me it doesn’t want to make you strut down a catwalk?

Filed under: Office

A Tribute to Women Everywhere

As some of you may (or may not) have known, but March 8th was International Women’s Day. As a tribute, my web friend Web-Betty dedicated her post to International Women’s Day: Check it out, she mentions me on there (MissCaughtUp)…somewhere. While I’d like to dedicate this blog to all the great women in my life (my Mom, Web-Betty, MysticFirefly, Scarlet, Toni, Sara, and Shannon), I thought I’d do something a little different.

I recently received the 70th Anniversary Glamour magazine and I thought that I should share the wonderful salute to 12 Iconic Women in hopes to inspire women that yes, “We Can Do It!” (read more in April’s issue of Glamour):

Lindsay Lohan as Madonna

America Ferrera as Dolores Huerta

Alexis Bledel portraying the famous “Rosie the Riveter” WWII-era poster (you can see the iconic poster on Web-Betty’s Blog)

Hayden Panettiere as Amelia Earhart

Camilla Belle as Mary Tyler Moore

Chanel Iman as Althea Gibson

Odette Yustman, Spencer Grammer, and Rumer Willis as the Women of Woodstock

My favorite picture: Paula Patton as Billie Holiday

Emma Roberts as Audrey Hepburn

Elisha Cuthbert as Brandi Chastain

My very personal favorite: Emma Stone as Carrie Bradshaw

Alicia Keys as our First Lady, Michelle Obama

Our First Lady...

Pictures taken from ABC NEWS

Filed under: Tribute to Women

YoVille Interior Design Contest

Items Needed or Provided -
* One room (i.e. Living Room, Kitchen, Bedroom, etc.)
* One gift that I assign to you.
* Your Creative Brain

TERMS & CONDITIONS
1. Have fun!

2. You must email me at mcu.yoville@gmail.com with the subject: “YoVille Interior Design Contest” (otherwise, your email will be discarded) and download the “Official YoVille I.D. Contest Form“, complete it and sent to me by March 12, 2009 23:59 PST to qualify. One entry per person.

3. Contest will officially start March 15, 2009 (when I wake up in the morning PST *LOL*), in which you will receive your YoVille gift. You will have to send a Thank You note to me to confirm that you have received your gift. If you state that you did not receive your gift, your entry will be disqualified, unless proven otherwise.

4. Design a room based on the gift that I assign to you – this is your only inspiration.

5. YOU MUST use the assigned gift IN the room of where you plan to redecorate for this contest.

6. You can reuse any items that you already own or purchase new items to redecorate.

7. You MUST use your own creativity.

8. You cannot duplicate – plagerize – other YoVille player’s design concept, regardless if you use a different floor pattern or wallpaper. The design has to come organically, from your own creative aesthetic. I cannot stress enough – the item that is assigned to you is the only item that is supposed to inspire you.

9. You cannot use illegal resources to meet your means: i.e. Any version of WPE software or any illegal hacker’s software. The use of this will disqualify the contestant(s).

10. The use of duplicate/multiple YoVille accounts will also disqualify the contestant(s).

11. Contest ends: March 20, 2009, 18:59 PST. At this time I will go and take screen shots of your room and send them to a panel of non-YoVille judges.

12. There will be 5 winners and 5 runner-ups. The winners will receive an email on March 25, 2009 by 22:59 PST.

13. Grand Prize winner will receive the fun and rare Gumball Machine (Value: $25YoCash)

14. Second Prize winner will receive 1000 YoCoins.

15. Three Third Prize winners will receive 500 YoCoins.

16. All winners, including the five runner-ups, will be featured in this blog.

GOOD LUCK!!

Filed under: YoVille Contests

Why YoVille? – And a new item.

Many of you who have logged in this morning have realized that there is a new item at the Gift and Flower shop.

At 5000 YoCoins a pop seems awfully steep for a lackluster item. I was able to play with it for 5 seconds, only to realize that it isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, so far. It has potential to be a great item as soon as they add more “options” during editing. Alas, it could just be that I only had 5 seconds to play with it.

Moving on…

At first, playing YoVille was just a means to kill time, until it became a shopaholic-crazed addiction. Most of the point of YoVille is to make money, buy stuff, fill your house, add friends, climb up the working ladder, and make more money. That’s just the basics of YoVille.

There’s more to YoVille than meets the eye. Visiting people’s places, rating them, gifting, and other socially friendly activities – and depending on your objective, you make YoVille what you want.

The first night I came to YoVille, I met Scarlet. She showed me the ropes and taught me how to max. Throughout my newbie phase, Scarlet would visit my apartment and leave me messages and this was how we communicated for a short period of time, and then she sent me a gift. It was such a generous gesture from a stranger in YoVille land. Of course, gifting anymore is meaningless, since some of us are trying to obtain the highest YoVille badge (yes, this includes me. I now have the highest YoVille badge for gifting LOL).

At one point, I decided to visit Scarlet when she was online. From then on our relationship blossomed. We became two inseparables causing havoc in the little town of YoVille. Well, there are others in our YoVille girls-gone-bad group (Erika – fun a vivacious woman and Nurse Nikki – sarcastic, witty-to-boot, and Scarlet’s real life best friend), but it has been mostly Scarlet and me.

The more I got to know her, the more I discovered what an admirable woman she is. She’s caring, endearing, funny, giving, patient, and optimistic. Scarlet lightens my day when I’ve had a bad one.

Thus, I feel a little lost when she’s not in YoVille. I have no need to build up my house or make money at the moment. I have been experimenting with the whiteboards, but that isn’t enough for me to play on YoVille; so I’ll log off and work on something else.

And so she has become one of the major, major reasons why… I YoVille late into the evening.

Sometimes we find great people in the strangest of places.

Left to Right: Me, Kaj, and Scarlet in my hot tub. LOL

Filed under: YoVille

“Want to See My Rocket?” ;-)

It’s not what you think, but it certain is a good icebreaker – so long as the person you’re breaking ice with doesn’t decide to slap you.

The new items in YoVille consist of a Rocket and a Golden Piggy. See for yourself.

The Rocket gyrates whenever a person touches it or comes into the room. Needless to say, this collectable item opens up for a lot of… humorous conversations.

Next…

I’ve been playing with my newly purchased Wacom Intuos3.

I’ve never used a drawing tablet before, so it feels strange to draw or navigate with it. However, I did use it to create my first drawing on my YoVille Whiteboard.

(Yes, and to the left is a message I left to remind me and my friends that, “We are awesome.”)

(Here is the 1st attempt of Art on my YoVille Whiteboard.)

It’s not great, but it was my first time. I plan on improving my dexterity and creating more art soon.

And another thing…

To my Facebook crew friends on YoVille: Did you know that when leave your crew a message the first time you log in of the day that you’ll receive double the amount of coins than kissing, dancing, joking, or fighting?

There you have it…

Filed under: YoVille

Fashion Therapy Advice

I was reading Harper’s Bazaar the other day and came across an interview with Karl Lagerfeld. He is one of my favorite fashion designers and an aspiration to many people. Why shouldn’t he anyways? At the age of 70 Karl Lagerfeld is still kicking ass! Considering that he designs for Chanel, Fendi, and his own brand: Karl Lagerfeld. Talk about a workaholic…

So here are three great advices (with my opinions in between) from the interview that I would like to share to all of my readers from the Harper’s Bazaar interview:

Harper’s Bazaar Q: The recession is keeping me up at night. My husband tells me I have o cut back on spending, but I’m anxious about shopping on a budget. Can I still look chic while buying cheap?

Karl Lagerfeld: The most imortant thing is to sleep well. Try to have sweet dreams and no recession nightmares. You have to find out if your husband is telling you to spend less during the crisis as an excuse. Never use the word cheap. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is a good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest  thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans-it’s up to you.

Don’t use expensive clothes as a screen for your personal doubts. Be proud of yourself and not only because you wear expneisve designer clothes. They are great, but lots of people are happy without them. Don’t play the victim: It’s too easy. You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combintations of what you already own. Play with it. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.

(I agree with Karl Lagerfeld. I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, I don’t believe in expensive clothing. I do believe in expensive shoes – mainly because of comfort and the quality. Fashion is ever changing, so why would anyone want to purchase expensive clothing unless you know that piece will become a classic for the next 20+ years?)

Harper’s Bazaar Q: My head is in the clouds. I am constatntly distracted thinking about my next purchase: a new tuxedo jacket, a ruffled blouse, a strand of peals. Am I a shopaholic? What should I be buying, anyway?

Karl Lagerfeld: First, look at the tuxedo you already own. The same goes for the ruffled blouse and the strand of pearls. They all look the same anyway, and they can wait because they’re not new. Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping. That’s a little childish. Going from shop to shop is, perhaps, today considered a form of cultural anxiety. There are more consructive and intelligent ways to spend your time.

(Bravo! I am constantly thinking about something that I don’t have in my closet. When I go shopping, nowadays, I usually have a mindset of what I know I’m looking for. For the longest time I wanted a colorful maxi dress and searched all over online to find the perfect maxi dress. I think I obsessed about it for two weeks until I finally bought one. Or if I’m trying to complete an overall outfit with a shirt, sweater, belt, or pants. Always have a goal when shopping.)

Harper’s Bazaar Q: I would love to sport a pair of extra-high sandals to a party, but will I be albe to walk in them after a couple of drinks? Some of the models on the runways couldn’t stay on their feet!

Karl Lagerfeld: Please, your question is childish. Don’t drink when you wear stilettos. I can’t advise you to get drunk at home to find out if you would be able to walk in them at a party. Plus, you aren’t on the runway. Life should not be a fashion show. Only the girls in the shows have to wear unfinished prototypes. What you see later in the shops are safe-or safer. Naomi Campbell became a showstopper when she fell in her Vivienne Westwood platforms during a show. You don’t have to go that high. If you’re short, you can look out of proportion. Very high heels actually look better on tall girls, but men hate to walk around with giants who make them feel like midgets.

(This last question I just shared, well, I just thought his answer was awesome and hilarious! I guess we don’t always have to be tall.)

Taken from Harper’s Bazaar: Spring Fashion Issue, March 2009, pg 388.

Filed under: Random Fashion Snaps