May the DFMO Odds Be Ever in My Favor (Hitting the 2k12 Wedding Circut)

Last week I was on the televisions and Nielson Ratings told me millions of people saw me say something stupid about how tall people are best for mating with other tall people.

Inner dialogue as I watched myself on TV: "You said something stupid. Now just smile. Not like that, you're scaring me. Why are you so weird?"

Though on air for less than four minutes and, pretty awkward for all of those four minutes, you better believe I seized the opportunity to weave an elaborate web of “I’m too famous for this” jokes into my life. Regardless of my creepy smile.

My Boss: “Mina can you please help Cole carry the craft service food upstairs?”

Me: “No, television superstars don’t do groceries.”

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Mom: “Your father just got out of surgery. You need to call him and ask him how he feels.”

Me: “Have his people call my people.”

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Trader Joe’s Cashier: “That will be five dollars ma’am.”

Me: “Whatever happen to FREE SWAG?!”

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Bettis: “We need to take another picture. Your eyes weren’t open.”

Me: “I’m too famous to open my own eyes.”

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These jokes didn’t go over so well. Anyone who heard me just kinda looked at me quizzically, as if they were trying to figure out if I was serious or not. And I am seriously offended by this, you guys.

The truth of the matter is I didn’t move to Hollywood to be on camera and I never aspired to do so. I was a nervous wreck leading up to the taping and I genuinely worried that I would poop my pants before going on stage or even when on stage. Uncontrollable and in public.

Why? Well if you know me you know I have a certain penchance for speaking rather bluntly. This is not some blaise “I do what I want and I say what I want” attitude.

I have no filter.

It just comes out.

Brain to mouth, minus the thinking “is this is okay to say?” part.

So the idea that hundreds of thousands if not MILLIONS of people might watch me speak scares the shit out of me.

BUT thank miracle-baby-Jesus for the kind producers who realized I needed heavy editing. I actually DID end up talking about a former employer but they cut that part and I live another day in Hollywood.

Miracle Baby Jesus blesses us with his talent.

Still, the whole idea of television fame (even just four minutes of television fame) is a strange one and I have mixed emotions about the whole experience.

That’s why I am grateful I had the opportunity to get away from Hollywood and the Hollywood/Wonderland mindset for the weekend…

A dear friend of mine who I lived with for a bit during college got married in the middle of nowhere Alabama.

This friend is BEAUTIFUL. She is one of those girls that you want to hate because she is so freaking gorgeous and cool but you can’t because she also just happens to be nice and is actually a good friend.

AND OF COURSE she just happened to be getting married to the dude version of herself. As in he is also gorgeous and has it all going on.

I don't think they want to be on my blag so I blacked out their faces but just imagine two incredibly beautiful sets of blue eyes getting lost in one another.

Fast forward real quick to the wedding. The preacher talked about how the couple will take a lot of pictures over the course of their lifetime chronicling their love story and all of those pictures will look like they belong in a catalog. So beautiful. So effortless.

Before the wedding I also made note of their catalog good looks and became incredibly jealous. So of course, I think to myself, how do I find a catalog husband?

You catalog man are beautiful. Maybe even too beautiful.

But THEN I think to myself, wait I can’t have a catalog husband!! He can’t be more attractive than me, duh, and I am no catalog wife. So I need a husband that is like half-way to a catalog husband. One that you would see in the Penny Saver Coupon section of the Sunday newspaper.

Because Miranda Kerr I am not.

Enter my next great idea. My bride friend/former roommate’s future husband is a catalog husband so maybe he has some relatives that have half or maybe even a quarter of his good looks!

So when I RSVP I should DEFINITELY also mention that she can totally feel free to set me up with said good looking relatives, right?! Besides I’m riding solo to this wedding so a dancing partner would be nice.

I title the RSVP email ‘Queen Wilhelmina of Humble Hollywood RSVPs’ and begin…

Yes, I am bringing my ass all the way to Alabamuuuur. Wouldn’t miss it for the world, fairy cat. Will be toting one XXXXXXX as well as one XXXXXX with me. West Coast frands whhhhaaaat up.

However, NOT bringing a plus one. I am single. That being said, feel free to introduce me to your soon to be husbands’ male relatives. Im pretty positive anyone with his bloodline is guaranteed to be at least a quarter or even half as good looking as him…therefore, I willingly volunteer myself. You’re welcome.

He can expect a slightly liquored up version of myself…and probably a DFMO

...on the dance floor?

Otherwise, I promise to behaves myself at the wedding.

Loyally,
Wilhelminacat

………

I think its pretty clear from this letter that all I want is genuine and meaningful relationship not without the unspoken passion and deep seeded love of a match similar to Pacey and Joey’s of Dawson Creek fame (pre-Scientology alien abduction of Katie Holmes).

OH THE SEXUAL TENSION!

Yeah right. I’m in it for the DFMO. I’d be willing to go tribute to tribute for hottest potential catalog husband.

Only problem? The email was sent to a shared email account. Meaning some generic RSVP account and not my friend’s email address. I didn’t realize that until about 5 seconds after pressing send…of course.

Enter nervous breakdown. Within those five seconds I had already convinced myself that the email would be read by my friend’s wedding planners and or relatives and or future husband and or even his (potentially) hot relatives to whom I mentioned in the email. Per usual my imagination runs rampant and I immediately think of all these people sitting around a table talking about uninviting the slut.

What Golden Girls don't DFMO?

Enter shitting my pants again.

Again.

All because I don’t think before I speak and apparently not before I email either.

I was so worried that whoever got the email wouldn’t get my sense of humor (not unlike those who didn’t get my fame jokes).

So NOW post-television experience but pre-slut of the wedding experience I’m not feeling to good about life.

Enter best frands. Because what are friends for, ya’ll?

Getting airplane drunk together, right?!

I was just being a nervous nancy for nothing.

I hope you guys have the kind of friends that I do. These are girls who lead busy lives like mine and we can sometimes accidentally go a few weeks without really talking-talking (on the phone or in person but, don’t worry, we are real good about liking one anothers’ fbook posts) then when we do finally get together its like we were never apart. Love them.

What Should We Call Me had this one right.
"That moment when you haven't seen your best friend in forever."

Once with said best friends they did a few things for/with me:

1. Refused to put up with my celebrity (read: brought me back down to Earth, told me my jokes weren’t funny)

2. Told me I wasn’t a slut and that our friend getting married would understand the email joke.

3. Made me forget all about dancing with or potentially DFMOing with any dude because we had bags of fun with each other.

4. Got away from the real world with me (if you can even call Hollywood the ‘real world’) and just relaxed…

But not quite Snooki style. We sat on a porch, drank wine and then fell asleep watching/singing-a-long to Miracle Baby Jesus's 'Never Say Never' film.

All in all we had a great time celebrating our friend’s marriage and forgetting about our first world white girl problems for the weekend.

First of many weddings. Can’t wait for more with my gurlfrands.

And maybe I’ll manage to get at least one DFMO in there…

Now its back to my first world white girl problems. Namely the fact that my spring wardrobe does not work in this chilly weather.

Warm up, LA. Stat.

W

One Last Quick Bout of Bitchiness on Botches

I don’t know what I did to deserve this but I just want to thank whatever god of bitchiness decided to rain down on me today…

My new obsession with GIFs, combined with botches, combined with Coachellz.

Mind. Blown.

A dancing Coachella botch GIF. YOU CAN'T WRITE THIS STUFF.

Super cute...right?

I’d also like to thank my sister who originally found and sent this article to me. She doesn’t have a betchy blog for you to read but just trust me, she is a certified betch– lives in NYC, loves the house music, works too much, wants to build an empire, knows whats hot, is hot, and her primary food group is air.

My sister and fellow her betches. Blacked-out betches because I don't want to drag them and their identities into this rabbit hole of a mess that is my blag.

ALSO I am pretty sure she and her friends were betches before betches ever decided to love this site.

They summer in the Hamptons. They pull off the whole "bun directly on top of head" look really well. You get the picture.

Comically, my sister was worried about me moving out here and becoming ‘too LA’. But like seriously, have some faith, sisterbetch. I’m pretty sure I just coined a very mean term for the kind of El Lay gurlz that we all love to hate. You need not worry.

(Botches need worry)

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THIS TIME I PROMISE I really am getting off of this soap box soon. I was just REALLY scarred from my Taco Bell car adventure and had to just let this happen. Almost positive its out of my system. So now my devoted readership (Mom, Dad and Maybe Emily…?) can look forward to me moving on.

W

How I Became a Driving Hazard to Greater Los Angeles

Well while I am at it I might as well continue being a huge bitch…

(Not a betch nor a botch, mind you)

But first let me just begin this episode by apologizing for temporarily turning off my brain last week. I really should have put two and two together.

Coachella. Botches.

I mean you guuuuuysssss. This was such an missed opportunity.

"I handpicked the squad, I delivered an idiot-proof routine... Now, Platter... nationals, hello?"
Big Red would be so pissed at me. Coachella is the platter that delivered me the breeding ground of botches...and I let it slip through my fingers.

I should have just held off on my botches diatribe and waited until after the botch fest that is Coachella.

Really, Paris?

So much material there. Dare I say, too much material there? Its just too easy. Too easy, in fact, that I don’t even think I am going to even go all the way there.

And really I don’t need to go all the way there. So many people are going there. (P.S. Read the internets)

For example, GoFugYourself has put together this lovely Coachella Roundup that I HIGHLY recommend for your lol-ing purposes.

"Because you can NEVER have enough sunglasses."

Second, its pretty imperative for you to check out this mostly Vanessa Hudgens focused #coachellaproblems hilarity.

Josh Hutcherson. I'm disappointed. TO SAY THE LEAST.

So you see?! I really don’t need to contribute my bitchiness to the Coachella hating pool. Its OBVIOUSLY already pretty established.

I will, however, take this opportunity to say if you were confused at all about my last post and exactly what a botch is…look no futher than Cochellz. Botches live for Coachella.

Also, this is a pretty accurate portrayal of the California botch-type. SNL OBVIOUSLY must have read my blog last week and based a skit off of it. SNL Californians

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Now moving on. Back to me and my problems.

Also back to more of this. Mona Mina or Mina Lisa? I can't decide.

And boy do I have a serious problem. A SERIOUS problem, ya’ll.

I have a deep seeded and intense fear. Actually, its not just a fear. Its a phucking phobia.

If you know me well, and I’m pretty sure the entirety of my readership consists of my immediate family (Sorry again about the cussing, Mom) therefore you all know me well…

You know I’m scared to death of snakes. TA DEATH, YA’LL.

Like so scared that I can’t even post a photo of that most satanic of species here.

Won't post a picture of a snake but I will post THIS. Me as a baby as a bear.

Like so scared that I WILL stop speaking to you if you even think about playing a “practical joke” on me involving an s-word.

No but really.

Like so scared that I legitimately faint and/or have a huge anxiety attack if I am ever so unfortunate as to run across one.

Goat fainting. Random, I know, but I am avoiding any and all google searches involving snakes while simultaneously trying to find pictures of situations that involve snakes without actually having snakes in the photo.

And, yes, I was so unfortunate as to run across many growing up in South Louisiana. I have to say its probably one of the most inconvenient fears to have growing up in South Louisiana.

Filmed about thirty minutes from where I grew up, ya'lls. Serious swamp animals hanging out around those parts.

BUT in a big city like Los Angeles I thought I’d be able to steer clear of the things-that-must-not-be-named. Right?

Wrong.

Nothing too big though. Just little run ins.

Like one day at my retail job, as I was slumming it in the cashmere trenches folding some chambray popovers at the cash register, a customer who is actually somewhat of a famous blogger casually threw a snake skin belt on the counter right into my hands.

I freaked out a little bit. She was not understanding at all. And it’s not even like I had a full on meltdown. I just kinda sorta jumped/yelped for a hot minute.

After I PROFUSELY apologized and attempted to explain, she said, “You know its not real right?”

YOU JUST DON’T GET IT, YOU BOTCH. NO SHIT ITS NOT REAL. BUT WHEN YOU JUST THROW A SNAKE SHAPED ITEM COVERED IN SNAKE SKIN AT ME WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?!

Although I rapidly fired back with sarcasm and eye rolling in my head, in reality I had to be nice to the customer and not give her attitude. Customer service. Whatever.

I apologized again and just said, “I’m really really scared of them.” Her response? “Weird.”

THANKS FOR THE COMFORTING WORDS.

See if I read your blog anymore. And seriously, your blog… Watercolored Drink Tags for champagne flutes? Meringues in the shape of mushrooms? Refurbing vintage saucers into bobby pin holders? WHO HAS TIME FOR THIS?!

Yeah, I might be a little bitter but she could have been a little bit less of a robot and more of an understanding human being.

Good luck learning how to love, ya Robot!

But like I said, aside from little runs ins with things like snake-skin belts in the cashmere trenches I have been able to largely avoid my worst enemy/greatest fear.

UNTIL THE LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION HAD TO GO AND BE HUGE INSENSITIVE A-HOLES.

Picture this…

It’s the middle of the day. I’m driving down Hollywood Boulevard from the studios where I work to a restaurant to pick up my boss’s lunch. The windows are rolled down, I got my Ray Bans on, Florence (Mother Earth) is turned up and I’m feeling pretty good about life in general.

I’m stopped at a red light and am just taking in the general ambiance of Hollywood Boulevard, namely a homeless dude on the street corner shouting at me to repent and a sexually ambiguous high heeled he/she werkin’ the other corner. Fabulous, right?

A large Los Angeles Public Transportation bus pulls up next to me.

Excuse me, a large snake, no, a MONSTER sized version of my worst nightmare, pulls up next to me.

Not just a regular sized advertisement like the purple one pictured above. This massive photo covered the ENTIRE side of the bus.

Hyperventilating ensues.

I’m talking freaking Jafar from Aladdin style snake with its beady eyes and head taking up the entirety of my passenger window.

Remember the part at the end when he turns into a massive snake? Yeah, not fun when I was six years old and still not fun now.

I would love to know the name of the GENIUS that decided the best way to advertise the new Los Angeles zoo snake exhibit would be to throw GIGANTIC images of snakes on the sides of GIGANTIC buses and have them drive all over LA.

ARE. YOU. FOCKING. KIDDING. ME.

Jokes on me, guys.

I advise you to stay off the roads. Not because of the snake-buses but because I am required to go on errands for work and therefore am required to drive and I’m pretty convinced that at some point I will run across one of these buses again…while driving. When I faint at the wheel and subsequently crash my car I fully intend on suing whoever approved that AWESOME bus advertising.

I’m also going to need help from a higher power while driving…

Kudos advertising man! You DEFINITELY got my attention.

And now I live in fear of buses,

W

PS Yeah you are going to have to bear with me. I’m now going through a GIF phase. But really, who isn’t?

Betches vs. Botches and the Invention of ‘Dioria’

Last night I entertained another gentleman and I got paid for it.

Sick of my references to prostitution? Yes, I am aware that I have alluded to or flat out mentioned the sport of whoring oneself out in the past three posts and you guys are probably starting to worry about me and why I find this so amusing. Sorry, I think its just a phase. And I’ll try to come up with some new material.

I was going to attempt cleverness by Face In Hole-ing myself over that of a prostitutes (again). So I Google searched 'prostitute.' I HIGHLY recommend no one follow in my footsteps. A dismembered torso WILL appear as one of the top results. So as to remember that there is joy and happiness and love in the world, I have provided you with this Face In Hole masterpiece. Me as a baby as a bunny.

I also think using this picture for every single Face In Hole is a phase. Bear with me.

Now let’s climb out of the tangent adventure my mind just wandered through and get back to the point…

Last night I entertained a gentleman and I got paid for it. He was 6 months old and this form of entertainment is conventionally called “babysitting.”

We watched Downton Abbey, I explained the drama behind the Lady Mary/Cousin Matthew relationship, we both suspected underlying love currents between Hughes and Carson and then he pooped himself.

All around good time.

It's okay, the gentleman baby I babysat last night didn't believe me either when I told him I'm Lady Mary's on set stand in/body double.

So the next thing I am about to say is going to be pretty gross, maybe even more gross then talking about a dismembered prostitute torso…

I was so busy working a ten hour day THEN babysattin’ for three more hours that I totally forgot to eat. So when leaving my babysitting employers’ home at 11:00PM, I went to the closest open food establishment I could find…

Taco. Bell.

I don't feel so good.

OBVIOUSLY, it was probably the worst decision I made all week (so far) to go to Taco Bell.

Let me paint you a picture…

I pull into the T-Bell parking lot with the intention of ordering from the ‘healthy and fresh’ menu. I pull out of the T-Bell parking lot with a Dorito Nacho Cheese taco AS WELL AS A Cheesy Gordita Crunch in hand.

Stop lying to yourself. You know you're curious too.

I drive to a dark and secluded corner of a CVS parking lot assured that there are PLENTY of spots real close to the front door so SURELY no one will pull up next to me/witness my taco indiscretions.

One time Britney Spears got caught eating Taco Bell in her car. So I know better.

I enjoy the Dorito taco in privacy and by enjoy I mean I’m convinced I’m facing certain death as soon as the first morsel of that chemically enhanced cardboard hits my stomach.

DON'T FRET COOL RANCH COMING SOON: The big news about the premiere of the Cool Ranch taco was leaked when someone snagged a picture of these taco assembly directions. SUMMER 2K12, YA'LL.

Five seconds later and still alive, I move on to some more familiar territory– the Cheesy Gordita Crunch.

The greatest gift chemical scientists ever gave us.

So swept up in the magic of Taco Bell, I fail to notice the black Mercedes two door convertible that has pulled into the spot next to me…or the two blonde bitches who just got out of said Mercedes and who are now gaping at me.

Yes, GAPING, at the fat girl in her own little Taco Bell heaven.

Praying to the T-Bell Gods, not okay?

NO.

I throw my car into reverse and haul ass out of that parking lot in a flurry of embarrassment. Eternal “lettuce”, plastic “cheese” product and Purina dog food disguised as T-Bell meat go flying.

Needless to say my car DOES NOT smell like roses right now.

I’m sure the black Mercedes bitches stopped gaping long enough to laugh at me but I’m too embarrassed to even check the rear view mirror.

J'adore being laughed at...

After the frenzy I re-asses the situation…

Why do I have taco flavored edible byproduct all over my beautiful employee discounted clothing (see cashmere trenches references in previous posts)?

And why do I care what those skinny Mercedes driving bitches think? After all, they were the ones wearing sunglasses at night. IN FACT not only were they wearing sunglasses at night but in general they were soooooo ELLLLLL LAY.

Did I mention I really like your matching fedoras? Oh wait.

Vomit…and not just because of the Taco Bell.

These girls. Oh, these girls.

Nope.

But then I thought about it more and I realized as annoying these girls were I COULD have some fun with this…

Familiar at all with the “betch”? Well if you are not, betches basically own the culture movement of young, good looking, well dressed, smart, hardworking and slightly ridiculous females speaking their minds, setting trends and making you feel insecure while doing it. They congregate mostly on the East Coast with New York being their Mecca.

For more funformation visit the always entertaining, Betches Love This Site. It’s where betches “take a break from thinking about themselves long enough to write it down.” And FOR THAT, I OBVIOUSLY have mad respect for them.

Sometimes scary. Always entertaining.

These sunglasses wearing, Mercedes driving, LA girls? Not so much.

These are the kind of El Lay girls that you love to hate. Compliment them on how skinny and tan they are. and they’ll claim they were born that way. Ask them about their favorite music and they’ll spout out Urban Outfitter’s current playlist. Try to find out what they do for a living and they’ll tell you all about their “career” as an aspiring actress or model.

Courtney Stodden is obviously already the best actress of our generation. You others might as well just give up now.

Well, Imma go ahead and call bullshit on all that, well, bullshit. We all know your double zero boy body came from your bout with anorexia and eating air. You know every lyric to every song Top 40 song and Katy Perry’s ‘California Girls’ is your anthem (which is fine, but you just need to own that shit). You graduated high school and forwent the whole college thing so that you could chase that fame. Are you talented? Probably not. Are you smart? Definitely not. And your favorite accessory? Fedora.

FFFEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDOOOOOOORAAAAAAHHHHHHHH.

These girls bother me deep down at my core. Why? Because the aren’t betches. They don’t speak their minds, they speak trends. Granted, they know what is hot and happening and the next big thing but that stuff isn’t of their own creation and beyond that they got nothing. Stupid. So stupid, in fact, and my opinion is so low of this group of females that I have renamed them botches because they totally botched the whole being the West Coast version of the betch thing.

This is me being mean, I know, BUT I just got caught eating Taco Bell in my car. Alone.

How the hell would you feel?

B and I both know. Fun to eat it. Not fun getting caught.

So to go a step further and try to feel better I just created a ridiculously off the wall character version of the botch. Her name is Tammy but she goes by Dioria so don’t you dare call her Tammy, damnit.

"J'adore myself." - Dioria
(J'dioria?)

Tammy/Dioria hails from Ohio but if you ask her she’ll say she has been living in LA for as long as she can remember (3 years). You can find her at all the hottest spots; brunch at Toast, dinner at STK, drinks at SUR (not actually eating, of course). Her end goal? SoHo House.

I imagined a scenario in which Dioria (botch) and a real life NYC betch meet. Dioria immediately feels the need to justify her El Lay life being better than any old betch’s in chilly New York.

Dioria flips hair, is getting visibly worked up. NYC betch calmly anticipates the entertainment about to be bestowed on her by way of a botch attempting to make an intelligent argument/use the English language.

Dioria begins…

“Just this morning, as you New Yorkers bundled up and set out to fight the blistering cold, I was still sleeping in my cozy bed thanks to that three hour time difference and when I did eventually wake up I had a tough time deciding between wearing my short shorts or my really short shorts. But for the record, I chose my short shorts because no one likes a trashy hoe, at least before noon anyway. Also for the record, it wasn’t my bed but I always have fun at Chateau sleepovers with dudes I just met.

Botches feel the need to simultaneously wear short shorts and beanies. Why, botch?

As you waited in a very long Starbucks line trying not to breathe through your nose due to the foul smells emitting from the man in front of you, I sang along to Carly Rae Jespen’s “Call Me Maybe” with the windows rolled down and breezed through a drive thru Starbucks line to pick up an iced latte…extra ice, betch.

CALI-FORN-YAH GURLS WE'RE UNDENIABLE.

As you used a drug store kit to dye your hair dark brown because you just can’t afford to get your hair highlighted anymore and because the darker hue so obviously matches your gloomy city mood, a very nice woman in Korea Town re-glued in my blonde extensions for ten bucks.

Jealous of my pink Bentley, you betch? You don't even DRIVE in NYC. I get to sit in my pink Bentley for HOURS everyday.
Wait.

And finally, as you walked forty blocks then took the subway, started walking again, began freezing to death, hopped on another subway, walked again, got so cold you wanted to cry but couldn’t because your tearducts froze over so finally gave in and paid a cab upwards of seven thousand dollars to take you the remaining three blocks to a club where you no doubt paid upwards of seven thousand more dollars for half a shot of Taaka disguised as Goose and therefore weren’t drunk enough to pretend you actually like house music…

Don't be fooled these betches make it look easy...

I walked from my adorable West Hollywood apartment ($600 a month for rent, just saying) to Sunset where I went to a pool party on the top floor of some ridiculous hotel, rubbed elbows with Shia LeBouef, scored VIP wrist bands to Coachella just for making out with some music industry a-hole and drank three dollar cranberry vodkas until I was drunk enough (only fifteen minutes after I got there due to my recent bout with anorexia/my new air only diet) to jump in the pool naked.

Don't talk to me, Shia. Just stand there and look pretty/pouty.

Alright, so I’m lying about that last part, drinks are at least twelve bucks each but at least I can say that although I paid forty dollars to be only sorta tipsy, Kanye got on stage and drunkenly rap about how much he hates Blue Ivy because now Yonce and HOV have a little less room in their hearts for him, and he hates sharing but he saw my boobs so whatever.”

"Imma let you finish but this LA Botch had one of the best sets of boobs of all time..."

………………………………………..

While Dioria is so proud of herself, NYC Betch recognizes she just wasted 5 minutes of her life listening to that.

And you just wasted 3 minutes of your life reading that.

And all of this over Taco Bell.

You’re welcome.

Next time I’ll save all of our time and just eat my Taco Bell out in the open. I’ll learn to be Taco Bell Proud. My stomach will still hate me though. Its a win-lose anyway you look at it.

W

Pretty Pretty Princess Hooker

This past weekend a fantasy dream of mine happened and I didn’t even force it.

A wealthy gentleman treated me to a one night stay at the Beverly Wilshire hotel and I felt JUST like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman.

Yes, I know, I have incredibly toned arms. Thank you.

Don’t get ahead of yourselves though. Still is not a hooker.

Not really my thing.

Prostitution aside, it was actually a friend’s birthday and said friend’s family wanted to treat said friend and a friend (me) to a luxurious night at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel where IN FACT the 1990 blockbuster romance Pretty Woman was set. So of course Pretty Woman behavior ensued. Duh.

My new go-to picture ready face. I know what ya'lls are thinking...adorable.

I asked for Barney at concierge, I ordered champagne and strawberries from room service AND I refused to let anyone kiss me on the mouth.

The next morning, continuing the Pretty Woman theme, I walked into the first shop on Rodeo Drive and told the sales associate that she had made a, “big mistake, big, HUGE.”

Funformation: Julia reprises the famous “big mistake” quote twenty years later in Valentines Day.

But apparently that was a totally unoriginal move.

The sales associate just sorta kinda rolled her eyes at me. I felt like I was 8 years old all over again and my older, cooler sister didn’t want to play beanie baby zoo with me. She claimed she was too old for beanie baby zoo and she had better things to do, like watch the Spice Girls and exo facto ruin her innocence. WHY COULDN’T YOU JUST PLAY ALONG, EMILY?!

This isn't getting old yet, right?

Speaking of small, young, beanie baby zoo playing Wilhelmina…

In Pretty Woman, Julia Roberts character, Vivienne, tells Richard Gere’s character, Edward, a story about her childhood. She said that when she was a little girl she would pretend she was a princess, trapped in a tower by a wicked queen and then suddenly a knight on a white horse with these colors flying would come charging up and draw his sword. Young Vivienne would wave and the knight would climb up the tower and rescue her.

It's fun to include white horses in any and all imaginary scenarios.

BUT when I was a little girl I would imagine a Pretty Woman scenario as my fairytale.

A business man falls in love with me over champagne and strawberries in a luxurious hotel. He pays me for a joint venture rendezvous and leaves ONLY to realize that he is in loves with me.

SO THIS WEEKEND WAS BASICALLY THE BEST.

(Again, minus actually being a prostitution whore)

By the way, you is so wise for inventing the phrase "prostitution whore."

But you know what is NOT the best? Richard Gere recently dissing Pretty Woman by saying he has “forgotten it” and that it was just a “silly romantic comedy.

Wink wink, Ricardo. You were just kidding.

I don’t give a fack what Mr. Perfect Salt And Pepper Hair thinks, I thoroughly enjoyed playing dress up as a pretty pretty princess hooker this weekend AND I still “want the fairytale,” you a-hole.

And I would have stayed for two thousand too.

But no less becoz I like money.

But basically it was a faaaaaabulous weekend and I just had to blag about it.

Blag; Definition: Combination of the words ‘blog’ and ‘brag.’ Bragging via the internets.

It’s, like, what blogs are for…vanity.

Don’t you know anything?

………….

And for no other reason but the love of excess…

Going to see Titanic 3D this week?

Okay, I think this picture game is out of my system now.

W

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