COP ROCK

Oh. My. God. Why on God's green earth did I not even know that this existed? Maybe it's because I was too young in the 90s to realize what was going on? Anyway, once upon a time in a magical world there was obviously a genius who decided to create a show called "COP ROCK", a police drama presented as a musical. I don't even need to explain or go on, the videos say it all:

Christmas 2009

I have a feeling that Christmas this year is going to be totally polluted with grossness between family dramz, non-inspired gift giving, and no bedroom decorations, for some reason I am oddly exhilarated at the fact that it's just around the corner. I absolutely plan on wearing sequins and crazy outfits to work starting November 28 - January 1st.

Meep Meep

Last night as I was driving to go out I heard this story in the car on NPR and I thought it was HILARIOUS:

JACOBS: Meep happens

These crazy kids and their words these days ...
By Janet Jacobs

Danvers, Mass., has a new scandal a-brewin’ at the local high school.

Apparently, their teenagers say “meep.”

The principal, in an effort to stop the meeping around, recorded an automatic call to all the parents warning them that if their students say or display the word “meep” at school, they’d be suspended.

The trouble was written about in an article in the Salem News. Apparently, the issue escalated from the odd mischievous “meep” in school to a Facebook plan to take meeping to a higher level, according to the principal, Thomas Murray.

“It has nothing to do with the word,” Murray was quoted as saying. “It has to do with the conduct of the students. We wouldn't just ban a word just to ban a word.”

The article explained: “ ‘Murray said he called parents via the automated message phone system warning students not to use the term because ‘it would be seen as going against the request of the administration and cause a disruption to the school day.’”

Murray said students were not using the term to harass another student or a teacher.

"It's really about language and conduct," Murray said. "For me, it boils down to respectful conduct."

“Meep” of course, doesn’t mean anything. There’s the Muppet named Beaker who says “meep” instead of words, the Road Runner who cries either “meep meep,” or “beep beep,” depending on your interpretation, and then there’s the Monty Python Knights who say ‘Ni,” but which could easily be misinterpreted as “Meep.” Essentially, it was a teenage gag, and it would have been a blip on the high school radar except that now it’s gotten semi-national attention.

I think the only way Principal Murray could have delighted his students more would be if he had brought them pizza and served it while wearing a ballerina costume. You know they’ll be celebrating until graduation day and beyond. For the rest of the year, they’ll be wearing smug little smiles whenever they see the poor principal.

It’s almost a reflex that teenagers roll their eyes around adults, but the Danvers kids will probably need goggles to keep their eyeballs in their heads following this debacle.

I don’t know how much experience the Danvers principal has with teenagers, but I’m pretty sure that preemptively censoring meepings will only lead to other silly words, yes, perhaps even sillier words, if there are any.

My personal favorite meaningless word is “D’oh,” which is what Homer Simpson says when he realizes he’s been dumb, and which Principal Murray is probably using daily since banning “meep.”

Still, do we expect the children, who have been told meeps are off-limits, to refrain from zoinks, jeepers, wubbles, zowas, jinkies, and any number of other nonsensical terms that one could pick up off old “Scooby Doo” reruns? Realistically, we should not.

Meep could become a gateway word, leading to not only other ridiculous words, but even to real words that mean something, such as folderol, balderdash, lackadaisical, and dinky. And once they discover the wealth of new vocabulary experiences available to them, faster than a speeding road runner every teenager on the street will be carrying around a dictionary and a thesaurus and using words with more than one syllable, and even learning how to spell these words.

This being the 21st Century, they’ll carry these books as apps in their cell phones, but they’ll have them.

Oh, the horror, tribulation, consternation, chagrin, wretchedness and vexation of having literate teens. And once they can speak and spell, then they might want to talk to us, and we’d have to — brace yourself for this — listen to them.

I know what you’re saying now, “Oh, meep, no,” but yes, it could happen in our lifetimes.

Cross your fingers and hope it doesn’t, but prepare for the worst. Words could happen, and soon.

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Janet Jacobs is a Daily Sun staff writer. Her column appears on Sundays.

Honestly. It doesn't get any better than banning a fake word.

NY and other things.

I went to New York last week. I never really go to The square anytime I'm in NY so it was kind of cool to see it again through new eyes. None of the girls we took with us have ever seen it- part of it still threw me into an epileptic fit.


I bought an awesome bag. Here is a horrible picture of it.



Here is an addition to my workspace. A Michael Jordan cutout. It's not a joke.


In other news, Daniela and I have been working late and she has been playing this song over and over:


She's trying to learn the words. This song is nuts.


That's all I've got right now. I'm going to try and be better at the updates.
I want a skateboard for Christmas. Just sayin'

I Love This:

This is me:
Oooh. It. Feels Good To Be Free!

Spooky

Say WhAAAAAAT?

How did they do this!?!

Woaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

OMG been gone for so long. I can't even say how busy I've been (not to mention how sick i've been) Who else has this nastola cold that's going around?

The only thing I care about right now is getting the looks that were recently shown at Fashion Week. Check it:











Here's hoping for more regular updates. Did anyone miss this while I was gone? Maybe it's not worth bringing back!

<3Lauren

Green Is Going, Going, Gone.

Summer is going to end soon (boo hoo) and fall is around the corner so I don't have much more time to get some mileage out of this shade of green before I move on to purples.



Pretty shocking, yes?

Let me update ya, Imma update ya

Truth: I have had zero time to update the blog since I'm tired and I look like a ghost of a girl I once was... the girl who used to get a good night's sleep and work regular hours.

Hopefully now the ship will start running smooth and everyday will get easier and easier to handle. Running your own business is more work than you can ever imagine. Sunday we had our friends and family event and I couldn't have been happier at the turn out, at the entire event.. everything. It was great.

I feel like I should be more excited about tomorrow. I've been waiting for it for so long, and it didn't even seem real until this last month. But now I'm everything rolled into one... excited, scared, nervous, tired... everything.

I, sometimes, still can't believe I made this happen. It didn't even look like it would be possible for a while, but now that it's all tangible I just keep thinking 'I can't fail'

Well I'm so tired but i'm going to try for more regular updates now that things are rolling.

<3

Sleepy

Alexis Bledel at the Teen Choice Awards. Love it. Want it. Need it.

Pink Slip Boutique!

Pink Slip Boutique is so close!!


check out www.pinkslipboutique.com this weekend for a sweet update!

Links

Random Anny linked my blog on her inspiration Thursday!
Read her blog- it's super cute: Read it here!

Pink SLIP

Basement, office, storage, and BEYOND

Need it.

Nerves.

Not the stomach flu, but a bleeding ulcer.
Even better.

Updatttttttes!

Here it is in not so many words

- Getting the store open
- Stomach flu
- Sciatica
- Sewing curtains
- Texting like it's my job
- Telling people what to do
- Asking for help
- Not having enough time to myself.
- Missing my dog
- Wishing I had another one.


There you go. Last week in a nutshell.

My Current Heroes

RIP Jingles :(

Well, I've been absent due to the recent loss of my best pal. It's so hard to think about waking up in the morning and not seeing her, or taking her outside to see the ducks, and watching her run up to her mountain (a stack of pillows on the couch) when she wants a cookie. It was heartbreaking to see her go, but even worse to watch her suffer. I'm going to miss my pup so much. She was the best dog you could ever hope for. She was the littlest thing, with such a big personality. I love how she hated other dogs and barked at dogs three times the size of her. It's going to be a rough road, and the house seems so empty without her. I wonder if i'll ever have the heart to get another one.






Look at her on the chair in that sweater! hahaha




I always bought her these stupid clothes that she never wore, but we love to put her in costumes.





Best. Dog. Ever.

Straight Up Awesome