One Point for Materialism

// December 25th, 2008 // Fashion, Personal, Quotables

I logged into WP today and lo and behold, a new dashboard theme! Thank you Lene for kindly upgrading WP so diligently. Yes, it’s Christmas Break so that means I finally have time to blog (or not - the chocolates and wine are calling my name!) To the outside world my life is pretty mundane at the moment, i.e. no new obsessions, no materialistic acquisitions, no romances (boys just aren’t interested, alas). But I do love the daily nuances that pop up in my life. For example:

Mum: Hey what exactly does “XD” mean?
Me: It’s face mother. You have to look at it sideways.
Mum: I don’t get it.
Me: Come here *types out XD*, see? The D is the mouth and the X are the eyes like this: ><
Mum: That’s stupid. I still don’t get it. What does LOL mean?
Me: *headdesk*

Mind you this was right after a Facebook conversation I had with my dad.

Dad: Why can’t I see the snowman photo I just took of you Crystal? On Facebook?
Me: Oh I don’t know, you’re on my limited profile?!
Dad: WHY? WHY DID YOU BLOCK ME? MY OWN DAUGHTER. WHY?!
Me: Uh…kidding *shifty eyes* … maybe you’re not logged in probably… *quickly changes privacy setting for one album* … refresh it now…
Dad: OH OKAY I see it!

They tried to get me to teach my grandma how to use the internet. I passed. I can’t decide whether or not my parents are “at-least-better-than-most-parents-who-fail-at-computer” or just complete lunatics from whom I inherited my DNA. I still proudly announce to all my friends that not one but BOTH of my parents have Facebook lol. Watch out everyone. In a few years I’ll be trying to convince my grandkids to let me reprogram their hovercrafts.

In other news, I finally got down to decorate one of the bare walls in my bedroom. Why should I miss out the whole decorate your dorm wall thing even if I live at home?! Behold, les photos.

BEFORE. Oh dreary white walls!
Bedroom Wall Fashion Spread

AFTER.
Bedroom Wall Fashion Spread

DETAILS. May I direct your attention to DANIEL RADCLIFFE IN EQUUS, and in the right corner CHUCK + BLAIR = LOVE.
Bedroom Wall Fashion Spread

Bedroom Wall Fashion Spread

Bedroom Wall Fashion Spread

Spreads from: ELLE Canada July, Vogue September, ELLE Canada September, Glamour December. It’s deliciously materialistic isn’t it?

Merry Christmas everyone!

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17 Responses to “One Point for Materialism”

  1. Regina says:
    December 25, 2008 at 8:24 pm

    I want to do that to my room one day. :P
    Thank goodness my parents don’t have facebook, or else I’d be in the same situation as you were. Anyway, merry Christmas!

  2. Holly says:
    December 25, 2008 at 8:55 pm

    LOL I’m glad my parents don’t have Facebook! I have enough trouble myself sometimes! I just spent 10 minutes trying to work out how the heck to change my profile pic!
    Holly = FAIL.

  3. Lene says:
    December 26, 2008 at 10:19 am

    That wall looks lovely! It’s so much better than the bare white look. Merry Christmas, I hope you had a great day, even if your family has different traditions :D

  4. Sarai says:
    December 26, 2008 at 6:55 pm

    I love what you did with your walls!

  5. Robmarie says:
    December 26, 2008 at 8:23 pm

    Merry Christmas! Your walls look awesome.

    My mom is scared to death of the computer *sigh* Whenever she wants to use it it’s a pain in the ass because she wants me to do EVERYTHING! Her excuse is that she doesn’t want to “break anything”, heh :P Silly mother.

  6. Ally says:
    December 27, 2008 at 1:56 am

    Ahahaha. ‘rents not understanding chatspeak makes me LOL xD!!

    I love what you did with your walls. That must have taken a lot of work. It’s inspired/reminded me to decorate my own drab and dreary white walls though.

    Daniel Radcliffe :).

    I remember when the first photos of Equus with him showed up on the net…I think I spent more time staring at him than finding out about the play itself o_o.

  7. Brandy says:
    December 29, 2008 at 1:52 pm

    I’m glad neither of my parents are very computer savvy. Well, my Mom anyway, she can’t even move a mouse. My Dad, he only uses it to do tests for work, so he knows the basics. I yell at him, if I catch him using Internet Explorer. I have a note on my Icon (on the desktop) that says, “DO NOT CLICK ME, CLICK THE ICON NEXT TO IT”. Then on the Firefox icon, I have, “CLICK ME!”. haha.

    I’d feel so violated if my parents used MySpace or FB. lol.

    The new WP dashboard is LOVE, isn’t it?

  8. Ellie says:
    January 1, 2009 at 8:50 pm

    Those quotes are absolutely hilarious. My mom only uses the internet to play Shockwave games and check E-Mail and do bills and stuff and my dad is pretty internet challenged so I don’t really have to worry about any of that Facebook stuff. I don’t even know what I would do haha. And The new WP Dashboard is fantastic.

  9. Arielle says:
    January 1, 2009 at 10:16 pm

    I’M BORED. AND YOU RUINED MY PANTS.

    …that’s all I can think of.

  10. Stella says:
    January 2, 2009 at 4:36 pm

    I do this too! The back of my door, and my wardrobe doors are covered in pages from magazines and fashion cut-outs. Good to know I’m not the only one!

  11. Kayla says:
    January 4, 2009 at 6:34 am

    Hi, I was just wondering if you were going to do the 28 books in 2009 like you did last year.

    Thanks!

  12. Mimi says:
    January 7, 2009 at 7:55 am

    That is a sexy sexy wall. You’ve inspired me to sexify my wall now.

    Love your quotes too, they are hilarious!

  13. Shannon says:
    January 8, 2009 at 6:48 pm

    LAWLZ!
    My mom has Facebook; well, it’s a shared account between her and my step dad. They’re not very technologic, but they just do basics. I really wish they weren’t my friend on Facebook though… ‘Cos there’s pictures of me and my friends, and we’re like 14/15, so obviously we take dumb pictures and… They save them and ask me, like, “What the heck?” and if it’s kind of embarrassing (like, we were fooling around at a urinal this one time), they save it and sent it out to all of their friends and family. Plus, they can read my personal Facebook Notes and what my friends say. ‘Cos teen are very inappropriate.

    XD
    I use that ALL OF THE TIME.
    And I swear that at least 20 people have asked me in the past week what that means. I tell them it’s like a dead-ish face sideways, kind of like LOL, but not… And they’re like, WHAT?

    Ps, I wish my wall was coo’ like that. My walls are plain. And one wall has a calendar on it (:

  14. Jonathan Brennecke says:
    January 8, 2009 at 8:09 pm

    ahh, Crystal, but you don’t now how lucky you are! If only my parents were half as tech savvy as yours, alas… Honestly, I can’t imagine what they’ll do when I go off to college this fall, but in the meantime it’s always “Jon, how do you copy and paste something?” “Jon, how do I play CDs?” “Jon, how do I turn the computer off?” (seriously, the latter happened yesterday)

    Dammnnn… Me, the amateur programmer, geek and linux enthusiast, they, the extreme of ignorant parents.

    …..XD

  15. Ania says:
    January 11, 2009 at 7:55 pm

    That’s a pretty fabulous wall. And having Dan Radcliffe, Blair, and Chuck? Perfection.

  16. Erin says:
    January 16, 2009 at 1:32 pm

    Haha, my dad has Facebook, too. He doesn’t really use it though. He doesn’t have any pictures, and he only updates his status occasionally. He has 3 friends. My mother is even more technologically challenged… although she has advanced on to emailing her family in the Philippines and has even discovered YouTube so she could listen to Journey before she got the new DVD/CD set for Christmas!

    Your wall looks awesome! My walls are so bare and boring. D:

  17. deltay says:
    January 28, 2009 at 6:47 pm

    Hahaha, your parents sound amazing. Unfortunately for me, my mom’s in computer engineering, so in some instances she’s more tech-savvy than I am >.<

    Your wall post-decoration looks amazing, btw.

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