October 2009
15 posts
I didn’t know when I put up my bird feeder that only the World’s Dumpiest Birds were gonna show up. Where are the cardinals???
The future!
i decided to join twitter last night because I’ve been watching a lot of 30 Rock lately and hearing Jack Donaghy say “synergy” over and over made me want to get some synergy for this here blog, whatever that means! So twitter it is! Follow us @mylifeissoawk because mylifeissoawkward has too many letters!
posted by Caroline
PS - please follow us because we want to look...
Unemployment tips!
Monique :i totally got 36 bucks out of bank of america for COMPLAINING
Always call your billing companies and say you are sad and unemployed with no light on the horizion and you heard that the competing company is offering a super deal!
They’ll always give you a break!
Note: This does not work in Turkey. I tried.
Thoughts
Here are two names that I used to like A LOT when I was little and now I don’t care for them at all.
1. Crystal
2. Pamela
posted by caroline
He has no hands, come ON guys this is obviously...
The most awkward charitable event of my lifetime (ok I was born two months after) has got to be Hands Across America. Now, a brief intro from wiki:
Hands Across America was a benefit event and publicity campaign staged on Sunday May 25, 1986 in which approximately seven million people held hands in a human chain for fifteen minutes along a path across the continental United States....
FML vs MLISA PART TWO!
Listen up tweens: last week I accidentally started a controversy the likes of which MLISA has never seen before. My crime? Letting everyone know how the FML website was an inadvertent rip-off of the old incarnation of this here website. Now, three of you seventh graders (or whoever the hell reads this website) have left nasty little comments on the post. Here they are!
Name
Too bad for you that...
I ate a fake diamond.
As everyone knows (i am very famous), I work for a jeweler. Last week, she put me in charge of transporting this custom ring with a big cubic zirconia set in it. The cz was temporarily holding the place of a diamond. This seemed like an easy enough job! While wearing the ring, I took home some Thai food to eat for lunch. About an hour later I realized the cubic zirconia was missing while I was...
Who will save our souls?
Caroline: you are my blessed jewel
Monique: remember jewel!
that was my first cd
Caroline: mine was Brandy
the one that had “the boy is mine”
And thus began my life-long love for r&b music.
(not)
Thin as Fuck
I’m lazily reposting part of an AMAZING blog post on The Awl making fun of the letters to the editor that are printed in women’s magazines. The writer, who is my friend’s friend (omg it’s like I’m famous!) posts real letters and then writes her own fake satire ones.
Diet Dilemmas Solved
I am appalled by “Wellness Diaries” [Fall Makeover 2009]. The diets are...
