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Mom mail

This is probably what my mom thinks, too.

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When you don’t post something to your blog for a few days I get worried but then when you write some of the things you do i am really worried Love you anyways.Mom

Modern Materialist

Awesome readers, I've moved! Well, sort of. I'll still be popping by here now and then, but I'm doing most of my product/shopping related blogging at a new site called Modern Materialist over on Nerve.com. I'll be posting about the same sort of stuff I post about here, with lots of regular features like a Quick Tip of the Day, Best of Etsy and Sales of the Week. We'll even have contests and interviews and what not, plus we'll be updating about a million times a day, so check it out, leave comments and say 'hello,' and come back often!  xoxo, Wendy

Scanner

I'm sure Awesome is providing more than enough gift ideas for you this season, but just in case you need some more, Nerve's Scanner has a pretty awesome gift guide going, including some more ideas from yours truly. Plus, Scanner is a cool blog and if you haven't been reading it already, now you have a good excuse to go check it out. You can read all about how Rick Saloman's Ex is commenting on Rick's marriage to Pam Anderson!

Believe the Hype

Since bloggers pretty much always know what they're talking about--well, some of them, anyway--you should listen up! A friend of mine just sent me a link to The Hype Machine--a site that "follows the music blog discussion." If a post in one of the followed music blog contains an MP3, it ends up on Hype and then on Hype Radio, which is Internet radio consisting solely of faboo songs recently mentioned in music blogs.

An awesome way to discover new music. And avoid tasks like laundry, bathing, and leaving the house.

Passive Aggressive Notes

I suppose if I were to leave a note like one you might find on passaggressivenotes.com, it'd go a little something like this:

Dear CATS,

I KNOW you are CATS and therefore don't have opposable THUMBS or WHATEVER, BUT I would be very GRATEFUL if you'd at least TRY to clean up around the apartment while I'm at WORK all day earning a LIVING so that you guys can EAT and have TOYS and TREATS and sometimes CATNIP! ALSO!! Would it kill you to empty you litter box once in awhile? Or AT LEAST cover stuff up in there a little more! ALSO! I liked my couch
a lot more before it had your CLAWS in it. JUST SAYING.

Hugs and Kisses,
Ma

via Nothing But Bonfires

Designer's Homes: Sneak Peek

I love to see into other people's homes if for no other reason than to make myself feel bad about how much better everyone else seems to be living. And I feel particularly down on myself when glimpsing the stylish homes of creative designers whose innovative ideas always put to shame my meager attempt at creating a "watermelon kitchen" in my own apartment (don't ask). Oh fine, there are black tiles on my white walls above my sink see, which look a little like seeds, so I painted my walls green and raspberry red to make it all look like the inside of a watermelon, except the raspberry red turned our more like hot pink, so I painted over it with a periwinkle color and left the pink only behind the stove and fridge because it looked kind of good there. And then I hung up my collection of coffee mugs along the molding in the middle of the walls to separate the top green half from the bottom periwinkle half. Ahem, I told you not to ask.

Anyway! Designers always have cool homes and I love to look at them, which is why I'm adoring Design Sponge's new Sneak Peek page: a collection of photos from some fabulous designers, some whom have even been featured right here on Awesome.

Tickle Fancy

Hey, is your shopping craving, your need to know what's awesome and cool and a must-have today  and everyday, not suffiently quenched when you come here? How could this be? Have you not seen this? Or this? Maybe you missed this?

Oh fine, you shopaholic--go ahead, check out another weblog we like--Tickle Fancy-- for your shopping needs. Yes, you'll find a bunch of cool things there...just don't forget who loves you, baby.

Ultimate People Watching

  catherine 
  Originally uploaded by Mai Le.

My awesome and fashionable friend Mai has launched Fashioni.st, a website all about street fashion. If you're the people-watching-commentating type, head on over for a daily fix of fashion stalking up the streets of San Francisco.

It's a mesmerizing look at what people are wearing, making from old clothes, how they're combining vintage looks with modern pieces, and oh yeah, it reminds me that I need to get out of Old Navy.

I could seriously click through these photos for hours! Why can't I look like this? OF COURSE her name is Kiki. OF COURSE!

Grey's the New Black

Not only is Grey's Anatomy one of the most entertaining shows on network tv right now, with the hottest cast ever dramatizing quirky, complicated characters and story lines, it has the best music to boot.

Every week, you can check out the Music Guide on the show's website for the titles and names of the artists featured on the most recent episode, which is just a really great way to broaden your horizon and discover new talent.

I also LOVE the writers blog, Grey Matter, which is updated by a different writer of the show each week and provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse into how the characters and their stories are constructed.  My favorite part, though, is when, inevitably, these writers with arguably one of the most enviable gigs among former English majors, admit to insecurity, and neurotic, self-defeating behavior. You mean even successful people are big messes?  Oh! Maybe there's hope for me, yet!

At Least You Can Laugh About It

Anyone who has an online presence at all -- a blog, dating profile, myspace account, etc., etc., has no doubt gotten his or her fair share of strange and hilarious emails from prospective suitors or random oddballs.  I could write a book on some that I've received (hmmmm...).  Or start a separate blog about it.  Except!  Someone else already did!  "'I Liked Your Profile' is a forum for online daters to share with the public their "Best Of" emails or IM's from their online dating inboxes."

Go check it out, have a good laugh, and then remove all your online profiles immediately.  Unless, you know, guys who can't spell "you" without skipping the essentail 'y' and 'o' is your kind of thing.  So Hott!