Karl Lagerfeld is set to be immortalized in a…video game? Yes, you heard correctly. In the 4th installment of Grand Theft Auto which is set to drop April 29th, you can cruise around, steal cars and listen to Karl dj. While he won’t be a real character, the game’s radio station K109 The Studio will have Karl dj on air. They even had him pick his favorite dance and electronic songs to be feature. Of course, it wouldn’t be complete without some Karl Lagerfeld commentary sprinkled in.

Rockstar Games portrait of Karl Lagerfeld.

Now how about that?

First off, thank so much everyone for all your comments on my last post. I’m sure I will be bothering you all eventually for critiques, suggestions and editing. No, seriously, you will probably regret offering your help

As you all know, the lovely Jenn of Free and Flawed has been slaving away at putting together this delicious meet up for all us Chicago bloggy people. It just so happens that it is suppose to be Saturday! We have been hoping for some beautiful weather and crossing our fingers and toes for no rain, but it seems we have been foiled. I think rescheduling is inevitable. Should you be interested, if you have not yet commented on Jenn’s entry, what are you waiting for?!

I registered for fall classes today. I will be going Monday, Wednesday and Fridays from 8:00-2:00. Classes are Math, Psych, Ethics, Mass Communications and Speech. I’m glad I got that out of the way.

My parking ticket was for street cleaning. Street cleaning days are freaking stupid.

Lollapalooza line up was released a few days ago. Pretty sure I will be stalking Mark Ronson all weekend. Radiohead, Kanye, Brand New, Explosions in the Sky, Spank Rock, Chromeo, The Weakerthans, Santogold are just a few of the people I’m looking forward to seeing.

Edie decided she wanted to sleep with her face in the crook of my neck and shoulder while we slept last night.  My puppy is adorable.

You all need to read Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Some people caught the Australia reference. Gold stars for you! It’s my favorite children’s book. Although, I would love to go there. Chris said it all - koala bears!

It’s Wednesday, people! We are halfway there.

And just because I’m in the mood - here is some Justin for you.

Rock Your Body & Like I Love You

Today has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

I worked a 10.5 hour day with a baby attached to my hip who screamed if put down for a second. A 2.5 year old who refused to listen. I had two screaming kids, crying about every and anything. Don’t want to eat, don’t want to nap, don’t want to this, don’t want to that. For 10.5 hours. Okay 9 hours, minus naptime. Dora the Explorer did not even save me.

NOT EVEN DORA.

I walked outside to my finally get in my car and find a parking ticket. A soggy one, no less because of course - it is raining.

Stupid rain.

Stupid street cleaning.

Cranky kids.

Stupid Dora.

I think I’ll move to Australia.

I’ve been browsing online for some opportunities. I’m really thinking I am going to go the PR/Marketing route in school. So I figure, hey, why not check out some new job or interning opportunities.

The thing is - I don’t have an office type experience. I’ve only worked in retail and as a nanny in the past. Will this hinder me in my search? I feel like it will. My resume is going to boast all this fantastic childcare experience and I’m going to be looked at as crazy. Why is this girl looking to be a marketing intern or whatever I am applying for? If I have to suck it up a few days a week with an unpaid internship, I will. I need something to get some sort of experience.

Now how do I get them to take me seriously?

Anyone with any experience with this sort of thing or anyone can help me bang out an amazing cover letter and resume. Email me. I’d love you forever. Seriously.

I need help.

When I was younger my family would occasionally go on vacations- more like “vacation”. I was probably about 7 or 8 years old, still young enough not to know we weren’t really going on vacation. My mother was never a fan of the Mouse so automatically that was ruled out. My dad doesn’t like to fly because of his anxiety. When you live in the Midwest, have 3 children and don’t like to fly, vacations are kind of hard to do. Of course, we hit up The Dells every now and then and that was always fun. We’d also go camping, but that is another entry in itself. Trust me.

My parents favorite thing to do was pack up the car for a weekend and drive to some random place, like LaPorte, IN and we’d shack up for the weekend at a Holiday Inn. Ta da! Vacation! Of course at 7 years old, I thought this was the coolest thing ever. We’d get to hang out in a hotel room! Room service! Gift shop! Game room?! No way! And OMG a pool!

I remember wandering in the hotel gift shop thinking everything was so amazing. Rubber stamp sets? I needed them! I never got my rubber stamp set. The other thing I remember, was this little pewter treasure chest that had a necklace inside. I needed that necklace so bad. It was my souvenir. You would think after taking me to hotel in boofoo Indiana and telling me it’s vacation, I’d at least get some rubber stamps out of the deal!

After swimming, eating free continental breakfast and playing pinball to my little heart’s content we’d head home. Back to south Chicago. I know better now, but then my fake vacations were pretty cool.

I finally got to Disney World at 22 years old and again the year after, I’ll be making another trip there in June. It really is my favorite place in the world. I have San Francisco in July for BlogHer and then hopefully rounding out the year with another trip to Vegas in the fall.

What vacations do you have planned for the year? Fake or real.

Will you bring me some rubber stamps as a souvenir?

I really love my job as a nanny. It’s flexible, I make great money, the kids are adorable…most of the time. Sometimes I want to rip my hair out if I have to hear the Wonder Pets theme song one more time, but when the little guy pretends to hurt himself, just so he can say, “Kiss it, Jamie”, I can’t help but smile. Of course, I smother the kids with hugs and kisses all the time, but when you’re 2 1/2 and can squeeze in an extra one by a little faking, you do it. There really is nothing better than turning the keys and hearing a rush of footsteps to greet me at the door. 7:30AM? I am not a morning person, but when I’m greeted with hugs and shouts about what we are going to do today, I don’t mind it at all. I work 11 hour days at least twice a week, it’s tiring. Definitely. But when mom and dad get home and the little guy can show them he can count to 10 in Spanish now because of me, it’s pretty awesome. All in all, I couldn’t ask for a better gig. I’ll be sad once I have to get a “real” job - if I ever graduate, that is. They are like a second family to me.

Downsides of the job? Sickness. Kids are magnets for germs. Seriously. All germs within a mile radius gets sucked into the kids. I feel like I’m always coming down with a cold or something. This time? The flu. The kids were on the very last bits of the flu when I worked on Thursday, but I figured I’d be okay since it was on it’s way out. Friday, I was fine. Saturday, not so much.

Of course, it happens when I have plans. That’s how it always goes. I dragged myself to puppy class thinking I’d be okay. I spent the whole pretty much slumped over in a chair or making trips across the store the restroom. I’m so grateful boyfriend went and handled Edie all class. I couldn’t drive home so I handed Will the keys. The drive home was full of tears for me because I am kind of a baby when I get sick. You know the feeling of having to throw up but you just can’t? Yeah, that’s makes me whiny and shed a few tears.

Unfortunately, my amazing plans with Jenn had to be canceled. I’m so irritated about that. We will get to Minnie’s, Jenn. Sooner, not later! Promise!

I’m finally starting to feel a little better. My stomach still feels like there is a weight in it. Hopefully tomorrow I will be at 100%

Stupid flu.

“You are so lucky.”

It seems my girl, Lauren, has a bit of a temper. I think Fatima is awful and all, but I don’t think she deserved to be on the receiving end of all that! Also, the Tyra mail? I think Lauren is just as fed up with the screaming and running and say…ing…each…word…real…ly…slow..ly as the rest of us. I have said it before and someone always mentions it in the comments, HOW FREAKING ANNOYING IS THAT?! That shit better not be around next cycle because I have already had it with this show and don’t know how much more I can take!

This weeks challenge is go sees. This time they break them up in to teams to do it. Of course, Lauren can’t walk. Whitney is too plus sized. Blah-di-blah-di-blah. Stacy Ann, Claire, Dominique and Whitney’s team win. Their prize? A summer beauty shoot in Seventeen magazine. Dominique proceeds to babble about how she was 5 and always wanted to be in Seventeen or some nonsense. Too bad the bitch looks about 50, so the whole 17 thing? I don’t think so.

The photo shoot is some weird plasticy floor sheet with water on it and they have be fluid and move gracefully while being shot from below. On to the photos.

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I’ve been pretty much maintaining the same weight, give or take a few pounds, since December when I went to Vegas. While the number was far from ideal, I wasn’t really mad at it. I don’t like it and still think it is too high, but it could have been worse. The past two weeks, I have really been indulging myself and telling myself it was okay because my birthday was coming up. Today I got on the scale and saw a number I was definitely not okay with, only a few pounds up but still, not good.

Starting today, I’m now back in lose weight mode. I have a trip to Florida in June and I would like to look acceptable in a swimsuit. So I’m back to watching my intake, daily weigh ins and elliptical every day I can fit it in. Also, now that the weather is actually starting to feel like spring and getting warmer, Edie and I will be taking a long walk once a day. I’m cutting out pop (soda, for your weird people!) completely and drinking tons of water. More protein, less carbs. All the little things like that will make a big difference.

So time to get in to shape. No bullshit. No excuses. Let’s do this - the right way.

My little Edie is almost 4 months old. I can’t believe she has been home for a little over a month.  She is slowly losing all her puppy fluff and getting her big girl coat. She is still soft and fluffy, but is just isn’t the same. Edie also got huge! She’s getting so big, she’s almost not a puppy anymore. She has quite the personality. She loves to cuddle, but only on her terms. She let’s you know when she doesn’t like something! I buy her all kinds of toys, but her favorites are empty water bottles and Tupperwear container tops. She likes to dig in her water bowl and make a big mess. I still need to get that on video because it’s hilarious. She is so determined.

I don’t feel like writing so I’m using puppy filler. As I said before, if you hate puppies - you have no soul. So keep on moving!

I’m Edie.

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I forgot to add this in my last entry, but it was so amazing, it deserves an entry all in it’s own. This was my birthday cake. We skipped candles and happy birthday and dug right in.

Instead of pie crust, it was brownie. Ice cream filling (half chocolate and half vanilla) with bits of brownie thrown in. Whip cream, more brownie bits and hot fudge.  I was going to take a picture of a slice so you could see the inside, but it was devoured in 3.2 seconds.

 I am ready to go back to the ice cream shop and eat a brownie hot fudge sundae.

It was absolutely sinful.