Apologetic Crumbs

Inkblot must apologize for two things:
1. She is sorry she has been so unattentive to the blog as of late. She knows it drives you crazy when you pop up the blog for a quick look and there is NOTHING NEW! That's no fun. She is hoping that once she gets back up to school (around the 24th or so) she will be able to post every day again like she used to.
2. She is also sorry in advance for today's post. She knows she has done 5,000 So You Think You Can Dance posts in the past few weeks, but she can hardly resist letting you know her opinions about the dancers.

Anyway, tonight Inkblot is torn. Completely and horribly torn. Half of her is simply ecstatic over Pasha's leaving the show. Though he did extremely well for a ballroom dancer, he couldn't really compare to the others on the show. The other half of Inkblot is just devestated that Lauren has left. Inkblot wanted Lauren to win. She was the best of the girls, clearly. It's just so sad to see someone so talented not be given a reward for it. Of course, the connections and publicity she has gotten through her time on the show are surely plenty of reward. But it is always nice to be acknowledged as the best when you are. Although, choosing between she and Neil would be a pretty tough decision. It could go either way. Maybe Neil will get it. He deserves the reward as well. And Inkblot really thinks Danny deserves it too. She just thinks Neil moves a little smoother than Danny and his solos are a heck of a lot better, which means he is a better choreographer.
Inkblot just doesn't want Sabra or Lacey to win. Neither is good enough and they are both worse than Danny and Neil. Actually, combine the talent of Sabra with the talent of Lacey and you will still not have as much talent as Neil or Danny has alone. They are excellent dancers, but they don't have the extra something that makes them practically perfect in every way.
Well, Inkblot is going to get this post up and worry about all the links, pictures, details later. Happy Monday!

Wade's Jazz Routine - Night of the Dancing Flame

Lauren Gottleib and Neil Haskell with a "jazz" (really more modern) routine choreographed by Wade Robson. It's really quite excellent.

Wrap-able Crumbs

Wrapables.com has an awesome new Back to School section! Inkblot loves the coat rack (left) that doubles as a jewelry organizer. It would look so cute up next to the door.

The mustard-colored tote (right) looks like it could actually fit the two textbooks, one notebook, and a folder that Inkblot needs for English class. And she could stuff her wallet, keys, and mp3 player in there too!

Inkblot also likes the Wake Up! mug (below), though she doesn't drink coffee. She always needs something to remind her to just get the day started already!

Inkblot just adores the whole section. It is divided into separate parts like the bag section, the sleep section, the bath section, and the study section among others. Even the office supplies are cute, like the staple remover (below).

All these adorable things are at fairly reasonable prices too! Inkblot thinks she can afford to buy herself a little present (the adorable bookends she found!) for her dorm room this year! How fun! Be sure to check out Wrapables for chic back to school stuff as well as the rest of their site for awesome gifts and homewares!! Much love,

Inkblot

Another Robert Crumb

Inkblot thinks its time to share another of Robert's adventures with you... Robert is currently learning to be more interesting in his adventures. Inkblot thinks he is going inside the house sometime soon... but she will definitely make him wash off first! Well, here is his latest excitement!

Inkblot found Robert trying to steal her mother's parking spot!! Aah! It is clearly labeled Mom Parking Only. And Robert is most definitely not a mom. He just kind of sidled up slowly to the empty space and then sat right in the middle of it. Inkblot yelled at him before she thought to take a picture, and she couldn't very well go back on her scolding, so she took a posed picture of Robert with the Mom Parking Only sign. It was a compromise. Inkblot thinks Robert still understands the point: no stealing other people's parking spots! haha. Oh Robert... will your adventures never cease to make us chuckle (or at least wonder about Inkblot's incredibly odd personality)?

Much love,

Inkblot

Blogging Crumbs

Inkblot has been looking over Cookie Crumbs and its fairly dismal readership (not that she doesn't LOVE those of you who do read!!) and has decided that she will be going back and making some of the old posts a little more awesome. Inkblot thinks that there are a lot of links she should add in and a few of the posts deserve some more photos. If you have any spiffy ideas, let Inkblot know. In the meantime, here is another of Inkblot's obsessions: 43 Things. The idea behind the site, as Inkblot sees it, is that everyone should have 43 things they want to do before they die. This site allows you to make your own list of things (whether you have 1, 43, or 443) as well as make goals for yourself, chat with others who have the same goals and things, ask whether something is worth it (do you really want to go skydiving? Is a road trip a definitive rite of passage?), and explore others' progress. It's a delightful little site that doesn't end up taking your life like Babble or Facebook can. Check it out! Much love,
Inkblot

Haircuts and Unexpected Dancing Crumbs

So Inkblot got her hair cut yesterday. She went in thinking she would just tell her stylist (of around six years and her entire adult life) that she wanted something different. Her normal cut just wasn't awesome enough. I mean, you watch enough episodes of What Not to Wear and you start to wish you could have Nicorojo (or however you spell that bizarre name) do your hair too!! Not to mention Stacy and Clinton helping you shop... though Inkblot would totally pass on Carmindy's awful makeup. Honestly, the eyes are just horrid 90% of the time. Anyway... Inkblot, of course, lost most of her courage when Danielle asked her "So how much are we cutting off today?". And since Inkblot hadn't actually thought through what she might like instead of her regular cut, she just blurted out something about sticky-outy pieces and frizz. Danielle told her to let the layers grow out and then went to cutting. In addition, Danielle usually does this gorgeous curly thing since Inkblot never does anything to her hair (really... she doesn't even own a blow dryer or any hair products. just a brush and some bobby pins and hair elastics for dance). But this time, Danielle seemed to be channeling Inkblot's mother and gave Inkblot some sort of puffy wavy short hair. Not exactly what Inkblot was going for... She was thinking more rocker-sexy razored edges... Maybe she should bring in some pictures next time.
In other news, Inkblot is totally happy with tonight's So You Think You Can Dance results. Lately, she hasn't agreed a lick with the judges. Surprising since she usually says exactly what Nigel says before he says it. But Nigel likes Sabra and Dominic, and apparently so do the other judges... or so they are forced to pretend... Well Inkblot likes Lauren and Neil. Second place? Danny and Lacey. Those are far and above the top four. So who did Inkblot hope would go home tonight? Sara and Dominic. Who did Inkblot think would go home tonight? Danny and Lacey. And who did she think once the bottom four had been called out? Lauren and Neil (insert extremely sad face here... those are her top two!!). And who went? Sara and Dominic!!!! Woo hoo!! Inkblot was crazy happy about that. And last night, Inkblot liked most of the dances the judges didn't like and hated most of the dances the judges loved. She really liked Mia's choreography on the piece about her father, but she thought they actually didn't do a fabulous job with it. Neil looked really uncomfortable the whole time... he wasn't really playing the confident dad role like Inkblot thought he should. But on the topic of Mia... Inkblot is so so happy that she is nominated for an Emmy for the piece from last season that Travis and Heidi did with the park bench. The choreography in that one was phenomenal and Travis (of course) is phenomenal in everything he does and this was practically the only piece that Inkblot liked Heidi in the entire season. It was just spectacular. And now we can add the Wade Robson piece with the butterfly and flower that Hok and Jaimie did to the list of AMAZING dances. And Inkblot thoroughly enjoyed that weird one that Sara and Jesus (hardly remember him!) did with the kind of hobo-ish costumes. She was wearing a hat. Can't even remember who choreographed it... sad, it was in the top twenty show. But that piece was pretty good as well. There are quite a few that Inkblot is in love with. Time to collect the various videos on YouTube and possibly post them up here for the world to fall in love with. Well, that's all for now! Much love,
Inkblot

A Lack of Crumbs

So, it's 12:40 last night and Inkblot is on the couch watching Mad About You (the episode where Mabel is allergic to Murry) and she's all relaxed and ready for bed as soon as the show ends when suddenly the TV goes black and then the screen goes all fuzzy. (Snow!) Inkblot waits, hoping it will turn back on. When it doesn't, she flips to another channel to find something else to watch, but... NOTHING is on the correct channel!! Inkblot is flipping through all her favorites (TLC, HGTV, Food Network, even Disney!) but none of them are there!! Where did all her shows go?! Finally, after deciding to go through each channel starting at 2, she finds the TV Guide channel!! Success! She waits for it to scroll to Mad About You, then presses the corresponding numbers, then nothing. The screen is black. Then fuzzy. (Snow!) Inkblot was incredibly frusterated. Apparently, the cable company decided to switch the channels all around at 12:40 at night. Not 12:30 mind you, not 1:00, not even 12:45!! 12:40. What an interesting time... was 12:20 taken? How about 12:50? And Inkblot read nothing about it in the newspaper, there is no list of the new channels floating around anywhere in the paper or on the internet. Inkblot would just like to remind everyone of some of the simple rules of life... round numbers (like 12:00 or August 1st instead of July 31st), a little notice on things (a short blurb in the only local newspaper we have), and a bit of readily available information (a posting of the channels in the paper and on the internet as well as the correct channels listed on the TV Guide channel). Now was that really all that hard? Much love,
Inkblot