Happy Little Lemon

Goodbye WordPress, Hello Happiness

Robin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:58:49 +0000

I’ve figured out a solution.

Her name is Happy Little Lemons and Flamingos, and you can find her at, you guessed it, http://happylittlelemonsandflamingos.blogspot.com/.

She’s it. She’s what’s up. Go there from now on.

Thanks.

To My Readers

Robin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:39:50 +0000

I have a question for you.

Would you be very, very, very upset if I made some major changes around here? If you’re reading this, it means you’ve noticed the recent changes. And to the long-time readers, these changes will look pretty familiar.

You might know of my other blog. I feel shameful mentioning her on Happy Little Lemon (hereby known as HLL) – I’ve always felt like having two blogs was dirty and wrong, like I was cheating on one with the other. I made Lemons and Flamingos (hereby known as L&F) because I was fed up with HLL and wanted something different. While it didn’t last, I haven’t forgotten how gorgeous that blog was, and how easy it was to post pictures. And amid all the crap I passed off as blog posts, they were a few okayish ones.

I can’t leave WordPress altogether without feeling awful. But I want to be able to give you a beautiful blog filled with pictures, and I know I’m not doing that right now.

A list.

The Debate: Moving Happy Little Lemon to Blogger, And Combining Her With Lemons and Flamingos

Pros

Gorgeousness
Ease of posting pictures
Fellow Blogger users could follow my blog, thus encouraging me a bit more
Maybe, if I get the design stuff sorted out, I’ll be able to stop blogging about my blog, and start blogging about real things

Cons

WordPress is my home
I’d lose all all 100+ comments I’ve racked up over the years
It would take a very, very long time to copy and paste every post I’ve ever made and put them on Blogger (which, in case it wasn’t clear, is what I’m proposing here)
What few readers I have would be very confused by the change

I’m sure there are more that I’m not thinking of.

A friend of mine proposed that I simply stop blogging on HLL and start blogging on L&F. I could rename the new blog HLL 2.0, or something, and leave a message on THIS blog saying where new posts can be found. The downside is that the blog would never be complete, in one place, ever again.

So I’m in a conundrum.

I WAS SO PROUD OF MY BLOG THIS SUMMER. Then I got all slack again and I don’t know what happened. I have to try harder.

Tagged: Blog

There’s Just More White to Love!

Robin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:25:26 +0000

I consider myself a confident person. That being said, my self-esteem goes up and down more than…something that goes up and down a lot.

Things that murder my self-confidence and leave me wanting to crawl under my covers with nothing but a pack of double-stuffed Oreos and three seasons of Smallville include trying on swimsuits, being around my cousin Shayleigh while being within ten feet of a mirror, sunbathing, and being sweaty.

Things that make me love myself and every curve I have are things like well-fitting jeans, bulky sweaters, having my makeup done by Mai, waking up acne-free, seeing this picture (http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/photo.php?pid=2502126&id=565781751&ref=fbx_album), straightening my hair to perfection, painting my fingernails black, and watching Chris Rock, who normally annoys me, do stand-up about how much black guys love chunky white girls.

Before a day of what I was sure was going to be soul-crushingly painful clothes shopping, I watched a good hour of this stand-up. (There were no Saturday morning cartoons on.)

But what all the Chris Rock the crappy Canadian Comedy channel had on at 8 in the morning couldn’t prepare me for was a little store called Aeropostale.

A haven for those seeking American grunge-style clothes without adopting the Kurt Cobain personality (see: Ke$ha), Aeropostale is famous for it’s eagle logo, plaid chambray shirts, and ridiculous pretention, all seeping through over-priced, mass-produced clothing and accessories. And we just can’t get enough of it.

Silly me, I decided to go into an Aeropostale on the Saturday of American Labor Day weekend. It was completely packed, but the sign that screamed “$15 Hoodies!” was irresistible. Turns out they were actually sweatshirts in ugly colors (note: difference between hoodies and sweatshirts – a zipper up the front. Sweatshirts have to be pulled over your head. Duh) but I ended up finding REAL hoodies and cute shirts in my size, which, I was sad to discover during this shopping trip, is a Large, if I want any breathing room. After waiting in line for what felt like FOREVER for a changing room, I was enraged to find that the Large size was tight on me.

Now, I am NOT a fat-ass. I know I can’t convince you of that, imaginary internet readers. But I am AVERAGE in sweet, kind, lovely stores like Penney’s and Target. And so while I still drool over the gorgeous clothes sold in places like Aeropostale and American Apparel, I have to come to the realization that hipster joints have done the opposite of what Morgan Spurlock talked about. They’ve labeled the Medium sizes “Large”, and the Larges “Supersized” in an effort to make us all feel bad about ourselves.

I think it’s time I put aside my Chris Rock issues and load up on his wisdom before I go back for Shopping Trip, Volume 2.

Tagged: Image, Self-confidence

A Cleaning Frenzy

Robin — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:21:57 +0000

HELLO, AGAIN.

See, this is what I like about getting to dictate my own blog rules. I SHOULD be giving every single detail about my trip to Trinidad and everything else that happened this summer. I SHOULD tell you that it was awesome and fabulous and we had a bitchin’ time. And I SHOULD tell you that I’m back in Winnipeg now and am in a cleaning frenzy to “get ready for school” which starts on September 9th.

I SHOULD tell you all of those things.

But I don’t really WANT to.

So, here is a sampling of blog posts that I started over the past few weeks and didn’t finish. Because I just didn’t feel like it.

1. No Title (Because I’m Bad Like That)

AGH! NOOO! I’m doing it again! I’m failing to blog for weeks straight! You guys! This isn’t good!

I know I said I don’t like people breaking the fourth wall when it comes to my blog, but that only applies when we’re in PERSON! COMMENT, YOU GUYS! I wrote that EPIC post about me yorking all over the Capitol steps AND NO ONE CARED. Do you know what that DOES to a girl’s self esteem? Shit’s CRAZY.

Anyhoooo.

What have I been doing recently?

Not a whole heck of a lot.

I know I’m in Our National’s Capital, so the thought that I’m doing squat is pretty ridonculous. But these days, I’m more inclined to sleep until 2pm, laze around, watch old House re-runs and spend WAY too much time on Facebook.

2. Love-Hate Relationships

Everything is different when you’re in a long-distance relationship. Nothing is the same as when you both live within ten miles of each other. The dynamic is different. Every conversation is long and full and complicated because once you’re finally in a rhythm with that person again, after how ever many days it’s been, you don’t want to lose it.

I’m not in one of these relationships – I’m in several. I’m with family right now, which, ironically, means I’m not with any of my friends. Every friend I care about is far away – whether its the other side of the world, thousands of miles south of here, or a short bus ride north of me, not one of them is here.

The internet eases the pain. It always has. I got my first ever email account (the Hotmail account I use to this day) before I moved away from Poland, and though there have been some fabulous technological advances since then – Gmail, MSN, Skype, Facebook – the basic principles are still the same. Internet may ease the pain, but it doesn’t make it go away.

This is the second post in a row that has sounded down. That’s probably because I’m writing it at closer to 4 in the morning than 3. (Barely.)

3. An Update from AMERICA

I’M ALLIIIVEEE!

And in the homeland. I figured I should update so I don’t look like Ms. Allie over at Hyperbole and a Half, not blogging for a month. I WOULD blog, except I didn’t bring Flamingo (my laptop. Seriously. If you don’t know that, learn to use my *Archives* –>) and the only laptop around is my brother’s, but more importantly, the internet around here is majorly lacking.

We’re gonna make a list now, so I can organize mah thoughts.

ANOTHER THING THAT’S MAJORLY LACKING – COLDNESS. If you know me, you know how much I love to be cold and how much I hate to be hot. It is HOT here.

See, you guys? I tried. You can’t say I didn’t TRY.

Meanwhile, props to Kaster (lifeisgouda.blogspot.com) for blogging again. Props to my brother (theextras.tumblr.com) for doing what I’ve encouraged him to for YEARS, and creating a place to post all the links he bombardes Facebook with. Props to Ms. Chesler (3limes.wordpress.com) for moving into her new house TODAY and being unlike me and blogging about every minute of it.

Props to everyone but Happy Little Lemon, who, I assure you, will get better at this.

Only if I feel like it.

Tagged: Blog

Update

Robin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:06:54 +0000

HAY, FRIENDS.

So, I’m in Trinidad.

And if you’re reading this, you’re probably not. Which SUCKS, because that means you and I aren’t hanging out. Which is a major shame.

While I’m not exactly *busy*, I don’t have much time for blogging, so we’ll be on one of those little empty times where you all wonder, Will she come back? Is she just going to stop blogging again? What will I DO if she doesn’t come back? Do you think she knows how much I love and appreciate her? Should I tell her? (The answer is, and always will be, yes.)

IMPORTANT NEWS: I OFFICIALLY HAVE A SECOND COUSIN. My cousin, Jeremy, and his wife, Veronica, who you may remember me blogging about back when she got PREGNANT (which seems like waaaaaaaaaaaay less than 9 months ago), are the proud momma and poppa to GAWJUS Josephine Isabelle Dimick (which, by the way, is WAY prettier than any Sims name I have ever come up with). So YAAAY.

That’s it on the news front. Talk to you, my dear, probably non-existant, internet readers, soon.

Tagged: Blog, family