STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

Okay, I got my list. I might add on more if I think of things...

LIKES:

-Cedarpoint

-Lattes in the morning

-Electronica music-specifically Happy Hardcore and Trance

-Adrenaline  rushes-a lot of the reason for some of my likes

-Fashion/Shopping-my biggest vice.  I devour it.

-Internet message boards/forums

-Text messaging-I am the Queen

-the smell of spring and summer

-warm weather and sunshine

-rollercoasters

-unwrapping presents

-having my hair brushed

-chilling in a warm bath with a book

-cheese

-Lucky, Teen Vogue, Elle, Life & Style, InStyle

-Sephora, Urban Outfitters

-Pepsi, never Coke!!

-Jason James Richter

-Getting out of Iowa whenever I can

-Big city life and atmosphere

-Authentic Mexican food

DISLIKES:

-Fake designer bags

-my ex-boyfriend, Jeremy

-stupid people

-state taxes

-Bad parents who let their children do whatever and get away with whatever

-I've become somewhat of a tightwad, so spending money (to an extent)

-People who shit and work and don't use the fan and air freshner

-Iowa (it's just not for me)

-my apparent inability to date anyone because I get clingy, which I can't seem to stop

-Intolerant people

-Winter and everything that goes with it

Likes:

Valentine's Day sweetarts, Diet Dr Pepper, rainy days, taking naps with my dogs, wearing jeans, new makeup, classic literature, talking to my husband on the phone on my way home, buying toys&collars for my dogs, sleeping in when everyone else is at work, Disneyland, Mexico, funky dog stuff, watching movies with my husband...and stylethread  

Dislikes:

Shopping at Walmart (though I do), getting my hands dirty (*shudder*), awful parents, taking out the trash, yucky food particles in the sink, minivans, freeway closures, temperatures over 90 degrees, snobs, trend whores, girls who wear Bebe logos (sorry )

this is a great poll:

likes:

• shopping and finding great deals (i am a sale whore)
  
• edamame (esp. the seapoint farms ready-to-eat)
  
• cilantro
  
• ravenswood red zin in a riedel glass
  
• my hair stylist
  
• leather interiors (in cars)
  
• throwing parties
  
• decorating
  
• project runway
  
• nip/tuck
  
• six feet under
  
• sex and the city
  
• MELROSE PLACE
  
• pointy shoes with long jeans
  
• shopping/eating in atlanta
  
• partying in costa rica
  
• the beach in costa rica
  
• my bodyslimmers by nancy ganz underwire slips (i have 4 of them and could not live without them)
  
• popcorn popped in olive oil with lots of sea salt
  
• soy lattes at starbucks (iced in the summer)
  
• provincetown -- the monkey bar's scorpions and way down town's mojitos, spritus pizza at 2am
  
• oysters
  
• seafood stew
  
• studying history/culture
  
• body shop hemp cream -- i would die without this to put on my hands
  
• rosebud strawberry salve
  
• rimmel lip vinyl
  
• jack johnson, ani difranco, bob dylan
  
• reggae
  
• reggae bar on the beach in puerto viejo, costa rica
  
• wolaver's organic india pale ale
  
• french bulldogs i want one so badly.
  
• my fat little cat who has to live at my dad's house b/c my bf's allergic
  
• cheese (esp. with wine and bread)
  
• that i have 3 really great girlfriends and a wonderful sister who is also a best friend
  
• staying in bed all day on sunday
  
• vietnamese hot and sour fish soup
  
• hugh grant
  
• tom green
  
• stupid funny movies -- napoleon dynamite, road trip, freddy got fingered, american pie, harold and kumar go to white castle
  
• south park
  
• especially cartman
  
• prank phone calls
  
• howard stern, in the morning
  
• npr, the rest of the day

dislikes:

• mayonnaise the world's grossest condiment
  
• salespeople who are rude and/or ignore you
  
• when people don't use their turn signals
  
• when people don't clean the snow off their cars and drive down the road with only a small bit of the windsheild cleared off
  
• parents who let their kids run wild in inappropriate places and who think that they should get special consideration just b/c they have kids (as if they have done the world a great favor)
  
• those "expectant mom" and "person with small child" parking spaces -- being pregnant is not like being handicapped.  you choose to be pregnant (or to remain pregnant).  deal with it.
  
• when people talk on cell phones in restaurnants or small stores -- i LOVE my cell phone, but go outside if you want to chat.
  
• when people get pissed that you're talking on a cell phone on the train -- how is it different from talking to the person next to you? 
  
• when people don't rsvp for a party (and the invite specifically says: RSVP)
  
• uggg, brazen candian -- the spitting.  so gross.  why, oh why, do you need to spit out the window of your car?  is there really so much saliva in your mouth that you cannot possibly swallow it?
  
• beer in a can.  i would never drink it myself, but i hate seeing others drink it. 
  
• when people are going away for 3 days and ask you to bring them to the airport at 5 am instead of shelling out the $30 to drive themselves and park
  
• when the computer doesn't work
  
• printers (ours is never working right)
  
• stinky dogs that get in your face

Here's mine.

Likes:

*summer

*the beach

*mojitos

*'Friends'

*organization

*purple

*coffee

*sushi

*Yorkies and Malteses

*John Frieda Ocean Waves

*lipgloss

*Vegas

*Southern Cali

*thunderstorms

*surf 'n turf

Dislikes:

*messy people (my roommate)

*dirty people (my roommate)

*people who don't shower on weekends b/c they don't have to work, and consequently, stink up the whole house (my roommate)

*winter

*snow, ice, freezing rain

*olive green

*chicken

*clutter

*rude customers

*working on a saturday night

*my car

*toothpaste globs in the sink (rinse it out, already!!!)

I'm sure I have more, but I'm drawing a blank.

Karina you always have the best polls :

Likes-

• PF Changs


• Kitten heels


• Gap sweatpants


• Going out for dinner and drinks with my friends


• PTO days


• Winter weather


• Elle, Essence, and Vogue mags


• Discounts


• Good customer service


• Mojitos


• Gin and tonics


• Pugs (especially black ones)


• Finding money I didn't know I had


• Barnes and Noble


• Crazy movies (Roadtrip, Friday, Best in Show)


• The Wiz (my most favorite movie of all time)


• Documentaries


• Sushi


• Chai tea lattes with soy


• Seafood


• Stevie Wonder (we're b-day twins)


• Prince


• Sleeping in late


• Going away on the weekend


• Avocados


• Having deep talks with my family, especially my younger brother


• Getting my hair done, yipee!

Dislikes

• Public restrooms


• Bad breath (I have NO tolerance)


• Boring people


• People who don't use the left lane for passing


• People who think they're smart but they're twits


• Being broke


• Checking the mail (never anything good)


• Emails at work that don't concern me


• Humid weather


• Rock music


• Cats (allergic)


• Getting a cold, especially from someone I work with


• Being sleepy


• Wanting to cry when I hear my alarm clock go off because I'm so sleepy


• Seeing ex boyfriends and other undesirables and wanting to beat them down b/c I hate them, and not being able to b/c I will be put in jail

likes

• sunshine


• punk rock, hip hop and most music in between


• artofthemix.org


• strong, opinionated ladies


• fashion magazines


• vibrant hair colors


• people with a flair for fashion, anyone who tends to be over-the-top


• playing nintendo monopoly with my husband


• swimming before work


• good vegetarian restaurants (red bamboo, nora, vp2)


• going for coffee afterwork with my best friend and waxing poetic about bad hair


• anything from joss whedon


• staying over at my parents house, which my sister has taken to calling my "summer home"


• babysitting my twin nephews


• rogers flea market


• indian buffets


• cookbooks


• sewing

dislikes

• people who don't upkeep their high-maintenance hair color (upkeep is expensive but who wants trashy roots?!)


• logo anything (although some coach bags are cute)


• condiments, including but not limited to: ketchup, mayo, mustard


• excessive perfume


• drawn on eyebrows/anorexic looking brows


• close-minded people


• people who are assholes in general


• bad tippers, particularly in restaurants


• mean-spirited gossip


• cleaning


• road rage

Likes:

• babies and all things baby, even changing my son's diaper, yeppers.
  
• cats, ok dogs too just not lately mine are being pests
  
• leather seats in a car, my car 2003 Honda Accord v6
  
• Mconald's Egg McMuffins no matter how unhealthy
  
• ebay
  
• real and flawed people
  
• my new synthethic down comforter
  
• jeans and my favorite pair of faded Seven's because they are soft, a little loose and cozy.
  
• digital cameras
  
• lunches out
  
• NPR all morning
  
• My hometown, Tulsa, Oklahoma
  
• roadtrips and eating in the car
  
• Days of our Lives and Passions (they are the worst which makes them the best)
  
• my friends (even the least like-minded ones, such as the crew I refer to as Bush Junkies)
  
• tabouleh, hummus and pita bread
  
• getting packages on my doorstep, even if it is oragami ornaments I will probably not use from my grandma
  
• the virtue of humility, and still working on it

Dislikes:

• People who don't like babies and roll their eyes with impatience, though I used to do this, now I get why it's stupid.
  
• losing money
  
• liars
  
• women who wear lots of makeup and are otherwise all dolled up at inappropriate times, like to come visit my baby (ok ok this is also about my mother-in-law).  This actually stems from an incident at a photo studio when I was a 5.  The photographer was a middle aged lady who wore bright red lipstick, she somehow got some on my dressy white outfit with matching hat and gloves, and I was irritated about that. 
  
• people who verbally critique others attire in public.  (ok, my girlfriend does this if someone has a clippie or a scrunchie in their hair, what's the point unless it's really off the wall?)
  
• road ragers
  
• over-emailing (jokes, inspiration, politics)
  
• drug using
  
• heavy drinking
  
• people who answer their cell phone every damn time it rings, not for work, like it's so impressive anymore that somebody has a cute tiny new cell phone and they are "miss important"
  
• over tanners (one of my best friends does this, how to convince her?)
  
• urban vs suburban snobs and vicce versa (think yer better than meee?)
  
• brown nosers
  
• exercising (what is runner's high anyway? my husband runs, I say someday)
  
• bad service at restaurants, (and I used to wait tables, so I do know what it's like, and you suck anyway, but you still get 15% tip)
  
• people who don't tip at all.  there are some you can literally pick out at the door, sorry stereotypes do exist and prove themselves a little valid.
  
• tip jars at places like car washes and coffee bars and to-go stations at restaurants.
  
• concrete thinkers (often people under 18 don't get nuance, but sometimes it lasts in to adulthood and it's annoying)
  
• BUT people can change, so I am not hating.