Me? Fashionable? Why thank you!

I remember when I was younger. I was a middle schooler down in Miami when my mom let me pick out the pair of shoes I wanted, all on my own. Her advice was simple. "Get what you like."

Now I was about 12 at the time. At that age when my light up Sailor Moon LA Gears were no longer cool so if I wanted to be the talk of the town, or at least the talk of my homeroom class, I needed a major style upgrade. Something that said "watch out world, I'm not a little elementary school girl anymore!"

I remember going to Ross with my mom and looking through what seemed to be an endless section of shoes, I was a little overwhelmed. After years of having my mom choose clothes and shoes and just wearing what she gave me, this task seemed daunting. All I could think was "I am not a little kid anymore! I want the opposite of my LA Gears." Thinking color was synonymous with child-like, I opted for the blandest shoes of the bunch, a pair of plain white sneakers.

I wish I could say that I loved those shoes so much and I customized them and made them my own -- but that's not what happened. I think I wore them two or three times before I admitted defeat and went back to letting my mom get what she wanted for me.

I did try again over the years and i trusted myself a little more, although it took me a while before I started to trust outlandish color pallets.

I had years when I only wore jeans, years when I was interested in nothing but sneakers, years when I only painted my toes jet black and years when I thought rolling my flare jeans into capris was better than buying jeans that were already cut to capri length.

We'll just put it this way, It took me a while to really find my style.

Thankfully, I think I'm finally making some head way.

The common myth seems to be that skinny girls get all the breaks when it comes to shopping because everything just magically fits. Not True!

Where things are too tight and too small on you, they are ridiculously big on me, fitting like a burlap sack, and cleavage? What's that?

Us skinny girls have our struggles too!

I think in the last two years Ive really learned to find clothes that look good on my body type. (Thank God!)

I know you want some pictures! So let me stop talking and show you what I wore today.

Dress Ross Stores $8.99

Belt Wet Seal $9.99

Earrings Somewhere in NY (Gift :))

I wanna be a billionaire so friggin' bad.. but only if I'm doing what I love

So I've been thinking and I realize that I have no interest in working for someone else for the rest of my life. At this point all the work I do for other people is for the sole purpose of learning the business and doing things for myself later.

I've been talking to my best friend over at http://takcurligurl.blogspot.com/ and these conversations have really started to inspire me.

I don't know exactly how this will happen or what exactly I will be doing as I'm working for myself but the desire is there. It's not that I have a problem with authority or I have issues with being told what to do, and I know it would take quite a bit of work to make it happen. I just want to be able to create something, nurture it and watch it grow into some great.

I'm not ready for babies, and chia pets are lame so I figured I'd start a business lol

But seriously though!

Dear Chris Brown,

Chris Brown leaving Good Morning America- shirtless. Bad move.

 Picture Courtesy of TMZ

Dear Chris Brown,

I am writing this letter with deep concern for your career, and since your public relations team is obviously failing, I think it's beyond time for you to make some changes, or quit singing.

I'm not exactly sure what the problem is. Either your PR team is not doing what you pay them to do, or you are not listening!

Step one: Fire who ever you have doing that job and hire someone that is either better at the job or someone you fear enough to listen to.

Step two: Create a new plan, because clearly the one you have is NOT working.

I've been working as an unpaid intern all semester so working for free means nothing to me at this point. I just want to help you out. Here some advice.

You have to understand one thing. YOU ARE NOT THE VICTIM HERE. If you want to talk to the press, you have to know that they will ask you about Rihanna. That's what fans are curious about and instead of throwing chairs through windows and looking like the crazy, hostile and angry person everyone thinks you are, here's how things should have gone:

(Reporter asks about Rihanna)

Your sample response: "It was an unfortunate situation. I'm really sorry to Rihanna and my fans and I hope everyone can forgive me for what I did." Talk about how your past effected you (abusive dad etc.). But dont go on forever. That would make you seem insincere. Talk about all the anger management classes and therapy you have been doing (and actually do it) because you know how horrible what you did was. Talk about how you never want to let your anger get to that point again. Say how happy you are for Rihanna's success. Congratulate her and apologize again.

When this all happened two years ago, people, even women, where on your side then you went crazy begging for fans, flipping out because you weren't instantly forgiven.

Saying that you have gotten past it, and that you dont want to talk about the past does not make us sympathize with you. You have to understand that time stands still in the land of fame and fortune. No one seems to age until one day they are old and problems ignored are problems remembered. Talk about Rihanna until we're tired of you apologizing. And not just in interviews, but on facebook, twitter, myspace (so the five people still on myspace can know too). Bring it up so much that we don't even want to talk about it anymore.

We don't know what happened that night and even if Rihanna had a gun to your head and you had to beat her up or die.. you will never be the victim in this. Stop looking for sympathy. You will never get it. Own up, say you're sorry, repeat it and mean it. Let us like you, please.


And I just have one more piece of advice, hire me, because I clearly have a better plan than your PR people.

Yours,
Desiree

PS. As far as the comparison to Charlie Sheen: That's like one murderer getting upset that another murderer got off. It's as simple as this: Shit Happens. That doesn't make what you did ok. Didn't you mother ever tell you life isn't fair?

10 Things I Hate About You

So I was just thinking about the movie, 10 Thing I hate About You, (you know the one with Julia Styles and Heath Ledger) and it made me think about this guy that plagues my mind when ever things get too quiet. Every now and then I forget why we're not together anymore and I must remind myself why we had no choice but to part ways.. SPOILER ALERT: this doesn't end like the movie where the thing she hates the most is that she doesn't hate him at all.. nope.. I definitely don't want this guy lol

This is simply therapeutic.. most of these are superficial and are by no means his worst traits and he definitely had some good ones too.. but this is about the not-so-good stuff lol

Here's why we could never work...

10. He was a dog person and I'm TERRIFIED of dogs. All dog of all shapes, sizes and breeds. I don't get used to them and while I may learn to tolerate them eventually it will never grow to like. He would want a dog eventually and I would have no part of it. It could never work.

9. He mixed up "to" and "too" in every text message. EVERY SINGLE TIME! I mean come on! Did he not notice that I used them correctly. Did he think I was using them wrong? It could never work.

8. He liked the movie Couple's Retreat.. I HATE that movie! It could never work.

7. He was a Taurus.. I don't really follow astrology much but I read up on our match and our demise was predicted.. Even the stars knew, it could never work.

6. He worked with me.. doesn't anymore (Thank God) Mixing business with pleasure is never a good idea.

5. He was an accounting major.. Boring.. No offense to the accountants out there but who dreams of working in a cubicle for the rest of their lives?

4. Spontaneous was NOT his middle name.. he had to know exactly what movie we were seeing before we left the house, what restaurant we were going to, what the weather would be like, what time things started, what time things ended... every single detail! and that is just for the few times I could actually get him to leave the house.. I'm not much of a planner.. I like to play things by ear.. It could never work.

3. He had his ears pierced and if my hands were cold, I couldn't touch him until they warmed up.. I put these together because they are both a turn off for the same reason.. they're both pretty gay.. and I am always cold and so are my hands.. It could never work.

2. He was afraid of random animals like lions and bears and sharks on Animal Planet as if he'd ever run into them in Tallahassee.. come on..

1. He didn't bring me any medicine when I was sick and he smoked.. IT COULD NEVER WORK!

So I cheated and squeezed 12 into this list of 10 but you get the point.. ;)

-Desi

The Hair

I like it, although I'd like it more if it took less time and hurt less lol..

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