[Super Duper Fantastic] ISFP/INFP. 4w5. World Explorer. Super Hero. Rose-colored Glasses.

It seems that every time we have a dinner party, YouTube rears its lovely head for some entertainment. This time around, it’s the extended iTunes version of Bed Intruder song:

It’s catchy, and the lyrics are in the video if you don’t already have the song stuck in your head.

I foresee a karaoke performance of this song in the near future. Paging, Roger Niner Karaoke! Roger Niner always has the newest stuff, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the next time I am at an event where he’s a KJ, I MIGHT find that song!

I am absolutely in love with this.

Jenny Beorkum also has designs for other cities!

I am writing from my Virgin America flight to Toronto. Hooray for wifi in the air, as well as the WordPress app on the phone as I’m too lazy to take the laptop out!

After tallying all the comments first and then the tweets, I had a total of 22 entries. I popped that number into a random number generator, and the winner of the summer giveaway is:

Thankfully, I don’t have a lot of entries, so counting to 22 and then to 7 wasn’t a big deal. Entry #7 was Salt Says – congratulations! I hope you like owls! I’ll post a photo of the prize before I send it out next week.

PS – check out Dorry’s giveway at Living with Healthy Hunger!

On Wednesday evening, Meghan of Wit Whimsy hosted a Style and Beauty blogger meet-up. There was a really good turn-out, and I wish I could have stayed for the duration of the event and met more people.

Attendees walked away with fantastic goodies from Benefit Cosmetics and Shop It To Me. I finally had a chance to look inside this evening, and just WOW!

Lots of goodies, including: BADGal Lash Mascara, Ultra Shines Lip Shine, High Beam, one of their new Crescent Row fragrances, and a one-year subscription to Harper’s Bazaar.

To celebrate receiving a Cherry on Top Award and to share in the awesomeness of the goodie bag, I’ve decided to host a giveaway! Originally, the giveaway item was a bottle of So Hooked on Carmella, but I realized how difficult it might be to mail a bottle of perfume. We’ve got strict rules on liquids in the mail. :(

The giveaway will be a surprise [UPDATED]from The Renegade Craft Fair [UPDATED]. I will be selecting a winner at random next Friday, August 6th!

Here is how to enter:

Please leave a comment below with your beauty bag essential OR your favorite summer beverage.

Bonus Entry: Spread the word via Twitter or blog post. Leave me a comment with a link!

Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!

So the cherry on top of my day was receiving an award from the Tsaritsa! In order to accept this award I have to do three things [not a fan of chain-type things, but FINE]:

1) Answer this question that Tasha posed: “If you had the chance to go back and change one thing in your life, would you and what would it be?”

While I try to live my life free of regrets, fully aware of the consequences of my decisions, there are still things that I could list off when it comes to what I could change because my life is full of changes. There is always something to work for, to strive for.

However, if I were to go back into the past to change ONE thing, it would probably be my reluctance to learn Chinese. The parents made my sister and me attend every Saturday morning, and I really wish I’d paid more attention and was more diligent about studying the language. I still speak more than most would expect, but it’s a little embarrassing to tell people just how many Saturdays were spent in Chinatown and what little I really retained.

2) Pick six people to pass the award on to. Their blog should be truly deserving.

Linda @ Curious Notions, Ange @ Lushlee, Ashley and Stephen @ (never home)maker [this counts as two, right?], Not That Kind of Girl, Dorry @ Living With Healthy Hunger.

3) Thank the person who gave you the award, in the form of a comment on this post.

Done!

To celebrate, my next post will be a giveaway. Stay tuned!

Last night, we had a few friends over for dinner. Between just the six of us, we went through two pounds of Alaskan halibut [that's a LOT of fish!], a slab of yellowtail, pasta salad, a little bit of seaweed salad, a large bottle of hot sake, and five bottles of wine.

RV’s mother’s friend caught the halibut up in the icy cold waters of Alaska this summer, and several vacuum-sealed pounds magically ended up in our freezer! LUCKY US! It was sashimi grade, so of course, we sliced it up as so and put out the soy sauce and wasabi [not a fan, but others LOVE it, so I had to go and buy it!].

Picture stolen right off the sister’s Facebook page. I was too busy eating and not taking any photos of the evening. That’s yellowtail [hamachi] on the left and halibut [ohyo or sometimes hirame meaning "flat fish" in restaurants] on the right. So tasty!

Since we’re such classy individuals, this video came up in our dinner conversation, and we were, of course, thoroughly entertained:

There was also mention of the ShakeWeight commercial… Oh, Infomercials.

If you haven’t heard of Kiva by now, click the link or on the button in the side bar to check it out!

Basically, Kiva is an online micro-lending site, which connects people through lending in an effort to eliminate worldwide poverty. For just $25, you can help fund a loan, and in the given time frame, it is paid back to you. You can choose to either cash out or just take that money and put it into another loan. When deciding who to help with your hard-earned $$, you can sort by country and what they’re using the money for.

I have been a Kiva lender for the last two years. In that time, I’ve helped to fund 22 loans in 14 different countries and turned $125 into $575!

It’s not a huge commitment if you don’t want it to be. It was an investment I made two years ago that is still making an impact today. Whenever my balances reaches $25, I look for another entrepreneur to lend to. While the loans are not tax-deductible, and you don’t get any interest back, keeping money in the Kiva system is about enabling others.

Yeah, it makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. If you’re a Kiva lender, link me to your profile! I’d love to see who you’ve been helping out.

One of my favorite ways to spend the evening with RV these days has been playing New Super Mario Bros. on the Wii. There’s nothing like squashing some Goombas at the end of a long day!

I bought it a few weeks ago when I thought it was “on sale,” but it looks like it is even more discounted now. It’s only a $0.50 difference though, so I don’t feel so bad.

Plus, I’ve really been enjoying it.

Growing up, I didn’t play video games, so I lack the coordination when it comes to button-mashing, which doesn’t really work for New Super Mario Bros. anyway. I’m not particularly good at the game, but it’s still fun to try.

On some levels that I find too difficult, I just tell RV to go on without reviving me or after he does, to carry me the rest of the way. Thankfully, he usually doesn’t mind! A friend of ours mentioned that the Lego games are pretty fun too, so that’s probably where we’re headed if I ever catch ‘em on sale.

I love this Old Spice commercial.

RV helped me build my dream kitchen. He didn’t bake me a cake, but he cooks me dinner. I do the baking in the house. He doesn’t use this body wash though…

He does, however, use the deodorant.

Does that count?

Update: And now Old Spice Guy is making some other hilarious videos…

This video took the words right out of my mouth. It’s been making its rounds, so of course, I had to pass it along. NSFW or around children if certain vocabulary is not allowed.