Uhhh… I have a bridge to sell you. June 18, 2009
Posted by Quelyn in : Random , 2 commentsKimberley Vlaeminck, an 18 year old girl, now has 56 stars tatoo’d on her face. As she tells the story she was walking by the shop with her Dad, and he told her to go on and get a tattoo. She told the artist that she wanted three small stars above her eyebrow. Then she says he asked her how far he could go & she indicated that he could tattoo from above where her eyes are, but not below on the left side of her face. She then says she fell asleep when he started, and woke up shocked with 56 stars on her face.
I’ve gotten a couple of tattoos and well, yeah… How do you fall asleep while getting tattoos without being on some sort of drugs? And there’s some inconsistencies in her story. First, why would she say “Here are the three specific stars I want above my eyebrow” then change it to “Eh, you can tattoo in this region here”. Either you know exactly what you want and you say it, or you don’t. She sounded pretty vague even recounting the details. In the video I noticed that the artist had a picture of her for his portfolio that he had taken after the tattoo was done. If you had fallen asleep and had your face covered in tattoos in a way that you did not want, would you then pose for the shot for the tattoo artists Portfolio?
I find this to be completely unbelievable. Chances are more likely that she thought this was awesome, then went home and everyone told her she looked stupid. I feel bad for the tattoo artist that has to pay out thousands of dollars now because this girl is dumb.
Jacquelyn Dunphy is updating her life one sentence at a time. June 13, 2009
Posted by Quelyn in : Random , 5 commentsGosh, this “twitter” age has really gotten to everyone, and it sure as heck has gotten to me. One sentence seems to sum everything up so nicely. It’s such a quick and easy little package to tell the world what you are doing and move on quickly. How boring. I’m very disappointed in myself for losing the desire to write. Not that being an egomaniac who likes to tell strangers everything she thinks about is necessarily an accomplishment, at least it was writing something.
I used to want to be a professor, or a writer. I originally went to College with the intention that I would go on to get my Masters then my PhD and share my passion for literature, society, and the world with others in some shape or form. But then I got distracted by something shiny.
I don’t really know what’s wrong with me. Sure, you can talk to a doctor & they can tell you that you have Depression, Anxiety, Paranoia, and Hypo-mania. But you only told them about one quarter of all that nonsense that goes on in your silly little head. Who knows what would have been different if you told them everything.
I have a pretty great life. I have a job that I don’t hate, and that let’s me be who I am and forgives me of that since I’m pretty good at what I do. I have the greatest Fiance in the entire universe who really motivates me to be a better person every day, and move past all the silly shit in my head. I have awesome nerd-ass friends who are willing to pile up in a room and watch all three Lord of the Rings extended movies in one day.
But I never write anymore. Going for a walk is such a chore. Showering seems like a huge undertaking. Motivation and Misery are coupled together sometimes for people, and I wonder sometimes if that’s the case for me. I want a lot of things, but perhaps being happy just lets me sit around eating pints of Ben & Jerry’s and be fine with just that. What an odd shame.
Well I certainly can’t go back to being miserable, I mean, can I? I suppose if I keep being so melodramatic that’s where I will be headed. But, I’d like to write more at least. I suppose a stream of consciousness blog about that very thing is a bit of a good start…
Money Saving Tip. February 6, 2009
Posted by Quelyn in : Random , 2 commentsSo, I am in the process of buying a new car, and one of the things they asked me was if I wanted to get the VIN # etched on all of the windows for $299. They mentioned that this would save money on your insurance. I declined for now, and decided to do some research. So, apparently putting the VIN # on the windows acts as a theft-deterrent. Since Police use VIN to find stolen cars, if someone were to steal your vehicle they would have to replace all of the windows. Most people stealing cars know this & it makes your car less attractive. I found some DIY kits online for about $20, but I don’t want to link one in particular yet because I haven’t researched which one is the best. The best part is that doing this will save you some money on your car insurance as it’s an anti-theft measure! Just passing it along in case anyone else didn’t know! 
Goodbye Old Friend January 30, 2009
Posted by Quelyn in : Random , 6 commentsSo, on Tuesday I got into a really bad car accident. I was at a full stop at a light on Route 1 and got hit from behind by someone going like 30-40MPH. Upon impact my glasses flew off my face and disappeared somewhere so for awhile I couldn’t see ANYTHING. That was the really scary part, I didn’t know what was going on. I finally got my glasses back and talked to the woman in front of us to make sure that she was ok. The person that hit us was like 18 years old & did not give a crap. He didn’t once ask if we were ok, or anything. Total punk 
In the report he tried to say that I stopped short even! What a jerk. Here’s the result:
And yeah, I am really glad that I am ok, but overall really bummed out about this whole thing. My neck & Back hurt and I have a bruise on my leg, that’s all that the damage is for me, so that’s ok. Gary is fine too. But I was almost done paying that car off & everything. It’s the fist car I ever bought. Total boner. They haven’t declared anything yet but I’m almost certain they will call this a total loss. Still waiting to be sure.
So, the insurance company has set me up with a Rental Car while this is all going on. When I got to Enterprise to pick up the car the woman there asked if I was in an Accident. I said that I was and she proceeded to ask me if I was ok. Again, I confirmed that to be true and she said… “You know we sell new cars here!”. I couldn’t believe it. Oye. Psh, I know times are tough but I’ll never buy one of those abused ass rental cars. Forget it!
So for anyone that’s kinda sorta heard what is up, I am ok! Just sad about this stuff, it sucks.
The Bridal Garden, NYC January 25, 2009
Posted by Quelyn in : Advice, Life, Wedding , 3 commentsSo, as some of you know, I am currently a Bridezilla in training. My wedding is going to be in September of 2009. One of the most important parts of the wedding, for us girls anyway, is the dress. I was kind of dreading dress shopping for a lot of reasons. First of all, I’m not entirely happy with the way I look in a dress. Now this is not one of those fishing for complements things, it’s just a fact. Also, I’m not really into spending money for this Bridal Industry I keep reading about. I’ve been reading a book called “Bridal Bargains” which I would recommend to any Bride-to-be as it really has some awesome tips in it. There’s a lot of corruption in the wedding industry as people know that brides will pay top dollar to have that wedding experience.
So my friend Megan told me about this awesome Bridal shop in NYC called Bridal Garden. It’s actually quite an awesome concept. What happens is that designers donate their sample gowns to the shop, and then the shop marks them down. So you buy the dress as the marked down price and any profits go to “Sheltering Arms Children’s Services” which is a charity organization for local NYC Children. I really hoped that I would find my dress here because that concept is so awesome to me.
The first store I went to, however, was David’s Bridal on Route 18 in New Brunswick. I tried on a number of dresses there & settled on one that I liked more than others. The assistant was actually pretty helpful & they gave you some undergarments to try the dresses on with. This allowed for you to have a more genuine experience with what the dress looks like. The dresses were ok, but none of them were THE ONE. I didn’t want to stop there. I eventually went to this little Bridal Shop next to it called The Bridal Center. This shop was really nice and the lady was very helpful. I tried on some dresses there that were comparable designers to what they had at David’s Bridal. I settled on liking an Alfred Angelo there that had a lot of color on it. I figured I might get one of those dresses, but I wanted to keep trucking.
As I was waiting for my appointment at The Bridal Garden I started reading The Offbeat Bride. This website has a lot of awesome information & pictures from some really awesome and non-traditional weddings. It got me thinking that maybe I don’t even want a traditional dress at all. Heck, maybe I’ll just get a prom dress or a black dress or something. But then, I went to the Bridal Garden.
When I called this shop to make an appointment the girl told me that I could only bring 2 people with me because the shop is very small. She was right. When you walk in there’s two rows full of dresses and at the end of those two rows are three dressing rooms. Some people online said you cannot take pictures there, but that’s not true. They let me take pictures of the dress no problem. The woman I worked with was Gina & she was nice. I like that they let you just go pick out the dresses that you want, go into the dressing room & try them on. Every so often she came over to see if I needed something or to hold a dress tighter to show me how it would fit after alterations.
The one thing that was unfortunate was that there was a HUGE selection for dress size 2-12, and a very small selection for dresses over size 12. Guess where I fit! Well where most women in the world fit. I guess when Designers make sample dresses they make them for tiny people, thems the breaks. Well, even with that I still managed to find some dresses worth trying on.
The first dress I tried on was a really classy dress that was on the simpler side. I can’t give more details than that because it’s going to be a surprise!! And I really liked the way it fit. It made me think that perhaps I could wear a traditional dress & feel a bit like a princess for a day. I mean, why not. I ended up trying on about 10 more dresses. There was another Couture dress I tried on that looked like it would have been amazing, but it was way too small for me. The thing about dresses is that you can take them in no problem… but taking them out is apparently a huge deal. So, after much deliberation I decided to go with the first dress I tried on. It fit me really well, it was different, and I liked it better than any other I had tried on. The girls at Bridal Garden let me sit in front of the mirror for like 30 minutes just staring at the dress deciding what I wanted to do. That was really nice. There was no huge crowd, no rush!
The moral of this story is, however, if you know someone in the NYC area getting married please tell them about Bridal Garden. It’s a nice shop and they have some awesome dresses there. It’s a really good opportunity to help a charitable cause & get some charity yourself with some awesome discounts!
Twitter… November 25, 2008
Posted by Quelyn in : Random , add a commentI have to be honest with you for a minute. The idea of twitter kind of made me mad. It seemed like blogging with ADD, like it was going to take away even more attention from people really pouring their hearts and souls into writing online, and give it to people who just like sending text messages. Sure, I thought it was neat with President-Elect Obama used it when he was on the campaign trail and that almost turned me around on it. But since then I’ve finally seen the greatest application of twitter possibly imaginable. And that, my friends, is Shaquille O’Neal.
Shaq himself has joined the world of twitter, and you can see it here. There’s not much else I can say to promote this, but here see for yourself:
Im wearing a jacket dat says 1946, a lady asked me wat it means, i replied, mam its the yr i was born. Lol
Everyone was born a genius, i only kept mine a few minutes, lol
Watchn true blood, thats were i was born and raised, dat vampire town, shaqula has been discovered aaaaggggh
THOSE R NOT TYPOS, JUST SAVN MONEY, MORE U TYPE MORE U PAY, LOL
Source: http://twitter.com/the_real_shaq
It really makes me want to hang out with him for like a day, he seems insane in a good way, haha! So yeah, you can probably stop reading any other website (except for this one) and go check out Shaq.
Automobile Industry Bailout November 21, 2008
Posted by Quelyn in : Personal, Politics, Rants , add a commentAs I’ve said before I’m not very well versed on this whole economy thing here. For any of you that know me, however, you know that won’t stop me from having an opinion about it. Besides I’ve been bitchin’ enough about bigotry lately anyway. In general I was in support of the $700 Billion Dollar Bailout for the Financial district of the country. Not that I thought it was a great thing but more that the alternative seemed much much worse. Well the government agreed and they decided to throw some money to the bailout. No idea how long it will take for this to kick in, or for the positives to happen, but it is done. So now, the vultures will begin to come out of the woodwork.
Enter: The Automobile Industry. Seeing as how we’re the only industrialized nation still not on the Kyoto Treaty, and the standards our cars are made for… well I’m not too patriotic on this one. I own a Japanese car, and I am okay with that. Japanese cars are more efficient, better machines. And they care about emissions. So, with the financial crisis at play the economy is attempting to fix itself. Things are starting to regulate themselves. So the big car companies are starting to feel the burn. They’ve been running their companies inefficiently and need to seriously tighten their belts. They are in bed with the Oil Companies and haven’t brought truly forward energy efficient thinking onto the Horizon.
So let them burn. That’s what I say.
Let these companies embroiled in their bad business practices and big money politics go under. And let smaller, more innovative companies emerge. Free enterprise is about looking forward, competition, and capitalism. I think that if companies do not want to take advantage of Bankruptcy to restructure their companies and try to bounce back, then there’s nothing else the government should do.
It’s hard, to have that opinion though because millions of people’s jobs are at stake. I don’t wish unemployment on anyone, and it’s a terrible side effect. Ideally I just wish that these good old boy companies would start cutting back and more underdogs would rise to the top. Hey, maybe we can resurrect the electric car.
Everyone needs cars. I don’t think people are going to cut cars out of their lives completely. What everyone doesn’t need, however, is a new car every year. Or a flashy super duper luxury car. Unless it’s a DeLorean then everyone needs that. These companies are just mass producing more cars than they can sell and they’ve been pumping them out like hot-cakes. And it needs to stop. The structure of their business needs to be re-examined and progress needs to be made.
I really hope that’s the direction this is going to go in. I mean seriously if we bail out the Automobile industry, who’s next?
My Own Worst Enemy November 18, 2008
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After only four episodes making it to air NBC has decided to pull the plug on My Own Worst Enemy starring Christian Slater and Christian Slater. The series which premiered with 7.3 million viewers saw a hit in it’s ratings and by the fourth episode was down to just 4.25 million viewers. I have to admit this comes as unfortunate news for me as I actually kind of liked this show. Sure it’s not as smart say Fringe but it was fun! I was pretty excited to see Christian Slater doing something.
NBC plans on airing all nine episodes that were already filmed for the series but will not be continuing production on the series to complete the season at least. That’s what burns me the most. If you are going to produce a show and start a story at the very least let the first season play out. I wish they would come up with a way to track DVR viewing accurately or something, because I feel like a lot of shows will have inaccurate ratings as a result. I will definitely be sad to see this one go 
Spivey’s in the box.
Marriage…. November 17, 2008
Posted by Quelyn in : Photography , 1 comment so farSo this morning I was listening to NJ 101.5 and the Dennis show was on, he was discussing Marriage, and Gay people. Melissa Etheridge is protesting Prop 8 by not paying her state taxes any longer.
Okay. So Prop 8 passed. Alright, I get it. 51% of you think that I am a second class citizen. Alright then. So my wife, uh I mean, roommate? Girlfriend? Special lady friend? You are gonna have to help me here because I am not sure what to call her now. Anyways, she and I are not allowed the same right under the state constitution as any other citizen. Okay, so I am taking that to mean I do not have to pay my state taxes because I am not a full citizen. I mean that would just be wrong, to make someone pay taxes and not give them the same rights, sounds sort of like that taxation without representation thing from the history books. (More)
So this started a discussion of Marriage and Gay People and whether or not they should get married. What this particular Radio Personality was saying was that they should have all the same rights, but give it a different name. Because Marriage is a tradition between a man and a woman. And while that was more progressive than some of his callers, who were comparing it to marriage between a person and a canine, I still don’t think it is good enough.
Tradition is such an odd thing. Sometime in the year 342 Christianity stepped into Rome and declared that same-sex marriage was illegal. So, we were actually more progressive pre-342 than we are now. And of course at some point religion has to step into government and create morality laws.
The first recorded use of the word “marriage” for the union of same-sex couples also occurs during the Roman Empire. The term, however, was rarely associated with same-sex relationships, even though the relationships themselves were common.[12] In the year 342, the Christian emperors Constantius and Constans declared same-sex marriage to be illegal. (Source)
Being Gay is nothing new, this is old news. There’s been Gay people since the dawn of time. Heck, there’s probably more than our census or our surveys even tell us because some people are still, sadly enough, hiding who they are for fear of how they will be treated. People hide behind the fact that this is a “new thing” and should be treated “differently” than the tradition. But it’s not.
Tradition is steeped in how society defines its members. Tradition used to state that a Man goes to work & takes care of the woman. Laws were shaped so that a Man would be able to provide for & support his family under the umbrella of his benefits and his salary. A lot of the tradition afforded to heterosexual married couples is predicated on this. But that tradition has changed. Often you have a situation where both members of the marriage are working or where the woman is in the position to have a better job. Does that mean we should change those laws too? I mean that tradition is breaking, but we certainly can’t vote on a Prop to ban that kind of progress.
I am of the opinion that a “good reason” for Gay marriage to be illegal does not exist. Sure, people have good personal reasons for believing that it is wrong. I cannot argue against every religious belief that exists in this world and tell them that they are wrong. One truth that we should all agree on, however, is that this type of morality has no place in our lawmaking procedures.
The thing about laws. They’re typically made to protect people. Sure there’s other laws steeped in morality such as the abortion debate. That’s a little harder to be black & white about since there is possibly a “life at stake”. But with Gay Marriage, who is in trouble? Who are you protecting? What this is really is morality sneaking it’s way into our law making process and hiding itself with “Well this is the tradition why change it now?”
It makes me sad that we still have this kind of thinking in society. And I certainly don’t expect my opinions to be put into law. If that was the case the “No talking in the bathroom ever” law would be the first on my own personal legislature. But you have to admit that’s a good one.
I wish I could accomplish more with my little corner of the internet that the 3 of you read, I wish there was something I could do to just shake people out of their own little bubbles and have them get over themselves. I really do. But, I can’t. I’ve donated to some organizations and I try to spread the word when I can. It’s just so sad to me that people really truly feel the need to make laws governing other people’s happiness. But hey, this is America.
President George W. Bush officially endorses the Shocker November 13, 2008
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You just know that one of those guys was like… “Yeah everybody look at this awesome way to do a W *wink*”. This might be the most amazing image of the year.
