tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35880637051575357792024-03-05T01:38:43.164-08:00Shop VicariouslyA place for things and the people who love them.Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17745685912370793455noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588063705157535779.post-22516676130648574002010-11-01T09:32:00.000-07:002010-11-01T09:32:00.625-07:00Michael Kors down coatSo obviously after Project Runway's Gretchen-gate 2010, I am boycotting Michael Kors. I do not currently own anything by Michael Kors (or Michael by Michael Kors--what is with creating a separate brand with your first name? I'm looking at you Marc by Marc Jacobs). But now I never will.
If I lived in a cold climate, however, I might have to take a break from my 5-day boycott to buy this coat on Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17745685912370793455noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588063705157535779.post-31771105177982368082010-10-31T16:05:00.000-07:002010-10-31T16:05:39.512-07:00Frye Melissa Button Suede Short BootsI bought these boots last week, and they should arrive on Monday. I've been wanting Frye boots for years now. I'll be so tough looking and my feet will be super comfortable. Also, I will not be wearing sneakers--it will be nuts. Technically, I already have Frye boots. 2 pairs. One is sitting in my closet because, though I managed to jam my feet into them in the store 3 years ago, I haven't been Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17745685912370793455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588063705157535779.post-70794119427754935972010-10-31T15:42:00.000-07:002010-10-31T16:06:14.127-07:00Back to BusinessI have decided to start blogging again. There is just too much stuff that I want but cannot buy. Watch out world, you're about to get one more ladyblog paying homage to conspicuous consumption.Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17745685912370793455noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588063705157535779.post-12392138608615897462009-07-02T17:39:00.000-07:002009-07-02T17:39:11.042-07:00Alice.comI am obsessed with Alice.com. It's gotten some press lately for good reason. You order things like toilet paper, shampoo, and dishwasher detergent online and get them shipped to you for free.
Somebody called Alice.com "the Netflix of consumer packaged goods" (though I assume Alice.com does not actually want you to mail them back your used deoderant).
Alice.comJenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17745685912370793455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588063705157535779.post-13506079519408477732009-05-04T20:17:00.000-07:002009-05-04T20:49:43.483-07:00Bear Paw SlippersI've been in the market for a pair of slippers for a while now. I want something that will keep my feet warm while protecting them from the floor. I looked into various bells, whistles, and advanced features. There are slippers with soles that can go outside, for instance, but my feeling is that once a pair of slippers has gone outside, they become shoes. Then they are banished from touching the Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17745685912370793455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588063705157535779.post-82901465017319357212009-04-26T18:32:00.000-07:002009-06-20T15:26:02.181-07:00World of GooWorld of Goo is an awesome game. The first thing I did after downloading it was look for instructions. But there are no instructions. You just start playing and the rules become obvious.The graphics are sweet and the music is more like a movie score than a video game soundtrack. It's like if Tim Burton wrote a video game. A video game about balls of goo.World of Goo is available as both a Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17745685912370793455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588063705157535779.post-70160465868973581492009-04-14T10:38:00.000-07:002009-04-26T18:34:41.196-07:00Leak-Proof Travel BottlesLots of things make me angry. Bad grammar. Payday loan companies. Prescription drug commercials. But few things make me angrier than the TSA. Thanks to the government's refusal to admit that making liquid explosives on an airplane is logistically impossible, I can't travel with reasonable quantities of shampoo. So, like every other person whose husband doesn't let her check bags, I must put my Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17745685912370793455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588063705157535779.post-77588075273265700802009-04-13T17:29:00.000-07:002009-04-26T18:34:55.889-07:00Kenneth Cole Digital WatchTelling time is lame. Seriously, clocks with hands to tell time have been around since the 15th century. Do you think people would have created those clocks if they had magical technology that would simply write down the time for them in plain numbers? Of course not.Yet we still use stupid analog clocks. We all have to learn how to tell time based on angles. And ten years after we learn that, we Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17745685912370793455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588063705157535779.post-35631758822836967632009-03-28T09:42:00.000-07:002009-03-28T10:03:58.840-07:00Platypus Wine PreserverI like wine, I really do. I like wine so much that when my husband asks if I want to split a bottle with him, I say yes. Sadly, there is always a difference between how much wine I want to drink before opening a bottle and how much wine I want to drink after the bottle has been opened. In economics we call this a time inconsistency problem.So whenever I agree to split a bottle of wine with my Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17745685912370793455noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588063705157535779.post-18188802919960537692009-03-25T06:13:00.000-07:002009-03-28T09:27:48.917-07:00ShopSmart MagazineThis should be a no brainer in terms of things I would recommend. ShopSmart is a magazine filled with shopping recommendations from the fine folks at Consumer Reports. I spent a few minutes skimming through an issue at Barnes and Noble once (before the cashier's dirty look got the best of me) and I think it's great. It's like Consumer Reports but geared toward people who aren't currently in the Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17745685912370793455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588063705157535779.post-30401263846644152012009-03-22T21:04:00.000-07:002009-03-22T22:29:18.789-07:00Water Bottles: Winners and LosersI've decided to buy a new water bottle.Of course, that means I'll need the perfect water bottle. It needs to be easy to carry, easy to clean, and easy to drink from. It also needs to improve my image. I want a water bottle that says, "I have a reusable water bottle because I care about the earth and definitely not because I'm trying to break a soda habit." Also, I'd prefer it not kill me by Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17745685912370793455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588063705157535779.post-35186918952851376532009-03-21T11:42:00.000-07:002009-03-28T09:05:55.998-07:00Shop It To MeI am not a very good consumer of products marketed toward women my age. Expensive shoes and handbags generally don't command my attention the way a good gadget does. And clothes? Meh. I work at a company that encourages the wearing of jeans and flip flops, and I'm too married to care about impressing people with my personal style. I do, of course, have product recommendations for various Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17745685912370793455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588063705157535779.post-47800173641827157642009-03-20T05:45:00.000-07:002009-03-28T09:09:34.556-07:00Fountain PensGiven the choice, I generally choose typing over handwriting. That's more an issue of efficiency (91 WPM, bitches!) than anything else.But I recognize that there's something nice about writing something out by hand. Especially if I'm writing in cursive instead of my regular half-print half-cursive chicken scratch. And crossing things out in pen is so much more satisfying than hitting the delete Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17745685912370793455noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588063705157535779.post-4629420228426144392009-03-17T17:40:00.000-07:002009-03-28T09:13:56.156-07:00DreamweaverAs many of you know, I have many great ideas for websites. I am convinced that if I were to actually follow through on any of my genius ideas, I would be a millionaire already.The bottleneck in my internet empire is my lack of website-building skills. If I had the skills of a web developer, I would be able to quit my day job within about a month.Then again, learning things takes time and energy, Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17745685912370793455noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588063705157535779.post-80753057255116073862009-03-11T07:48:00.000-07:002009-03-28T09:14:29.103-07:00KC Masterpiece BBQ SauceI am not good at cooking. Baking? Sort of. Cooking? Not so much.I can make very good chili, decent spaghetti and meatballs, and excellent applesauce.And now I can make fairly delicious barbecue chicken. Is this thanks to my amazing cooking skills? Not so much. It's based on amazing pre-packaged barbecue sauce from KC Masterpiece.Here is the recipe:Put chicken in a baking dish. Douse it in KC Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17745685912370793455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588063705157535779.post-52706627328084141952009-03-10T21:00:00.000-07:002009-03-28T09:57:21.987-07:00Cascade 2-in-1 Action PacsThis product recommendation is thanks to my friend Erica (perhaps you've heard of her), who convinced me to buy this product once when I dragged her to Safeway.I don't know how much I can really say about dishwasher detergent, except that some kinds work better than others.Cascade 2-in-1 ActionPacs work particularly well. They're little packets with dish detergent and rinse aid inside. They do a Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17745685912370793455noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588063705157535779.post-34745177501423571182009-03-10T07:18:00.000-07:002009-03-28T09:17:35.263-07:00Disney MoviesWhen I was a little kid, I LOVED Disney movies.It was less the thought of falling in love with a prince that attracted me and more the fact that Disney heroes and heroines seemed to get lots and lots of attention. (I was a middle child, as anyone who knows me now could probably guess.)Aurora from Sleeping Beauty pricks her finger and an entire kingdom has to sleep for 100 years to keep her Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17745685912370793455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588063705157535779.post-77678757911529595702009-03-09T14:47:00.000-07:002009-03-28T09:18:06.615-07:00Onion GogglesI love French onion soup and I'd like to try to make it at home. I saw someone making it on a cooking show and it looked pretty easy. Put onions, broth, cheese, and some other stuff together in a specific way and BOOM. French onion soup. Except that french onion soup seems to require at least six onions, all of which must be cut up.Everyone's eyes are sensitive to onion fumes. According to the Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17745685912370793455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588063705157535779.post-45216083312473008962009-03-08T11:03:00.000-07:002009-03-28T09:53:59.199-07:00The Touch BookI've decided I want the Touch Book.I've wanted a netbook for a while. My Mac is awesome because of all the user-friendly software products (you know, like i[insertnounhere]). But now that Google owns my heart, I do everything with online apps (you know, like Google [insertdescriptivewordthatiseasytolocalizehere]).I'm not saying I want to replace my computer for no reason with one that can only Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17745685912370793455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588063705157535779.post-76484791759714635542009-03-07T08:32:00.000-08:002009-03-28T09:21:03.523-07:00DIY Starbucks MochaI like coffee.Okay, that's a lie. I hate coffee. I like grande non-fat no-whip extra-hot mochas from Starbucks. They are equal parts delicious and expensive.But a Starbucks mocha is nothing but milk, espresso, and cocoa. And Starbucks sells the very cocoa they use to make their mochas. (They sell the powder that the baristas mix with water in the store to make syrup.)Let's do a quick Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17745685912370793455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588063705157535779.post-86782256440864041072009-03-06T16:06:00.000-08:002009-03-28T09:21:26.726-07:00Six-Word MemoirsI know, I know, it's been covered on NPR. That means readers of this blog already know about this book.Well, you know what? I don't care. I haven't read it yet, and I want to.My only concern is that annoying people will take something really awesome (the six-word memoir) and make it insufferable (like they did with robots and zombies). I hate when that happens.Here is a six-word memoir to tide Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17745685912370793455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588063705157535779.post-13812818072495898622008-12-12T06:08:00.000-08:002009-04-30T19:13:10.091-07:00Aaron Sorkin DVDsI really like Aaron Sorkin. This is not uncommon among people like me (Americans who watch a lot of tv and consider themselves smarter than most other Americans who watch a lot of tv).
What might be more uncommon among people like me is that I don't own all of the DVDs in the Sorkin collection. Sure, I own the West Wing Seasons 1-4 (before the kidnapping/shark-jumping fiasco). I also own TheJenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17745685912370793455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588063705157535779.post-66191557704677889032008-12-10T21:12:00.000-08:002009-04-30T19:13:59.809-07:00PedometerI work in an office. That means I sit at a desk all day reading things and typing things and waiting for other people to read things and type things. I also work in an office with free food. That means I sit at a desk all day that is about 50 feet from a jar of homemade brownies and a fridge full of soda. I don't do a lot of walking during the workday, except from my desk to meetings and food.
Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17745685912370793455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588063705157535779.post-84588294953823450802008-12-09T17:48:00.000-08:002009-06-12T03:16:08.332-07:00Beginner Sewing MachineI aspire to be crafty. I read about crafty things on blogs and in lady magazines. I've tried knitting, needlepoint, and homemade thank you cards. So far, nothing has really stuck.
But sewing will definitely stick. Why is sewing different from past attempts at crafting?I have past sewing experience: see, for example, window treatments in a certain West Village apartment or that time I fixed the Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17745685912370793455noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588063705157535779.post-66914681277257246552008-12-08T21:40:00.000-08:002009-04-30T19:14:29.223-07:00KitchenAid Ice Cream Maker Attachment
I like to bake. I like to eat baked goods. But there's one thing more delicious than baked goods: baked goods a la mode. And that's what I'm missing. The ability to make things a la mode.
For that, I need an ice cream maker. But I don't have the counter space for another appliance, according to my husband. Enter the KitchenAid Ice Cream Maker Attachment. It's basically just a bowl that you Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17745685912370793455noreply@blogger.com0