WHO GIVES A SHIT: Do You Like Your Name?

Aren't names weird?

Your name is like this gigantic thing that sort of defines you, and leaves people with an immediate impression of you (good or bad), and you have it forever and ever. And yet you have NOTHING to do with choosing it.

And holy shit, you can't pick a more subjective topic than name choices. I may love a name that you hate and vice versa. The name Preston, for instance, makes me absolutely murder-y...for really no reason whatsoever.

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WHO GIVES A SHIT: Red Mascara?

I can't decide if I really dig this, or if I think this chick looks like Satan's daughter with bleeding eyeballs.

"With many of the spring season's beauty looks going sans mascara, MAC makeup artist Javier Romero went full force ahead for Katie Gallagher's SS'12 presentation, giving lashes a dramatic boost with bright red mascara, a little red eyeliner, and matching cherry lips to boot."

You?

(via Refinery29)

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Who Gives A Shit: Nail Polish In Weird Colors?

I watch Gossip Girl and Pretty Little Liars, have read every Twilight book, and I'll even admit to thinking Justin Bieber is *kinda* cute, but for some reason, I gotta draw the line at weird nail polish colors.

And by "weird" I pretty much mean anything that's not some sort of variation of red, pink, coral. Like blue, green, yellow. OMGZ, and if you're using one of those colors AND you have sparkles in it!? I just can't.

For some reason, I am just far...and I mean F-A-R too old for that shit.

Just me? Are you guys down with the bizarro colored nail polish?

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Who Gives A Shit: Snooping

Let me set the scene: you're at your friends house for dinner. At some point during the night, you slip away to the bathroom. As you're standing at the sink washing your hands post pee, you catch your reflection in the mirror of the medicine cabinet. THE MEDICINE CABINET!? WTF IS IN THAT THING???

So do you look?

Be honest.

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Who Gives A Shit: Do Your Friends Have Good Taste?

Gawd, I hope none of my friends are reading this, but here goes anyway: I have exactly two friends with apartments that are beautifully designed, well-thought out, interesting, full of gorgeous things that induce jealous rages deep down in my soul: Nicole from Sketch42 Blog and The Brinsons from House of Brinson.

That's it.

Now this isn't to say that the rest of my friends have shitty aparments with shitty style (though some def do), but more that they don't really have *any* style at all. Aside from those two, there is honestly no one else whose space is at all interesting or provacative to me.

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[WHO GIVES A SHIT?] What Do You Splurge On?

I'm def very much in the hi/low camp when it comes to decorating (mixing nicer pieces with less expensive pieces), though aren't we all? I mean, unless you're super, duper, mega, rich (in which case, HELLO! Let's be besties and take trips to the Amalfi Coast together!) then you probs do the same thing in your place.

I mean, I've got shit from ABC Carpet AND Ikea. Tarjay completes me, but also I love my Frette robe like it's a family member.

So, if you're not a bazillionaire, what do you think is worth splurging on in your home?

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[WHO GIVES A SHIT] Decorating For Fall?

Uhm, wtf is all this "decorating for Fall" shit all about!? You're lucky that my apt is decorated at ALL.

I mean, do you ppl seriously change the decor of your home based on the season?? I mean SERIOUSLY?

Look, despite the fact that I'm a Jew, I get the whole Christmas thing. I think xmas trees are fun, and I can see throwing up a wreath or two to get into the xmas spirit in December. But I sure as fuck don't need to learn how to string a garland of leaves over the lighting fixture in my living room or uncover 101 neat things to do with colorful gourds.

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[Who Gives A Shit] Ceiling Medallions?

When we moved into our apt we had the entire place skimcoated...in case you don't know what that means, it basically involves millions of dollars (ok, mebbe not millions, but shit was still HELLA expensive) which you spend in order to get some "expert" to add an extra 1/8 of an inch to the plaster of our walls by smoothing it all out. Why did we need to do this? Cause our apartment building was constructed in 1918 and so for the past 92 years, people have been glopping coat after coat of paint onto our walls and it looked like a big fat shit sandwich.

Alllllsooo, there was a fan in our living room. And duh, I hate the living shit out of fans. Yes I know they serve a purpose and yes I know that they make some fairly decent ones these days, but whatevs: I have a no fan policy in our home. However, our new lighting fixture had not arrived by the time they were done skimcoating. So even though they removed the fan, there is a hole there that is now too big and our lighting fixture doesn't *quite* cover it. SOOOO, in an effort to avoid replastering that shit, I've decided we need a ceiling medallion.

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