Favorite things - Part 1 - "Girls"...

Without any further ado I present to you (anyone?) the first ever Rantyhoney post on her favorite stuff! This being the first post has no intentions of ranking my interests at all; it is just a pointer of what I randomly felt like writing about at this present time.

With that said and out of the way. This post will list SOME of my celebrity girl crushes. Criteria’s for making the list (Wohoo, cause this is super exclusive. Watch out Hollywood!):

- I like how the person looks and/or acts. Based on whatever I have seen of both scripted roles and public appearances (Let’s call it being subjectively shallow).

- I like whatever “art” (tv, music, movies etc) the person has created/been a part of.

- I have at some point, or of something related to the person felt some kind of social/any kind of resemblance to myself (This obviously doesn’t count for ALL of my faves… haha!)

- They have inspired me with something, at some point.

- They are HOT, Like Beyonce would (probably more like what Rihanna would say but anyways) say “if I was a boy”…. Or if that someone has made you say: “I would totally change teams for you honey…” hah.

(Ps. All criteria’s must not necessarily be met by one/each person.)

Ok I think that covers everything. And yes, I know they are celebrities and why should one care so much about them, when they don't know you exist and blah blah blah… The point is. Celebrities exist and for some people they have probably made their life a little easier to cope with. They haven't made life easier (Definitely not in a practical way, like my mom says when I have my fan girl moments: “Will they feed you?, Will they pay your bills? Off course not, duh!), but they might have brought some laughter, tears or whatever into a slow, hectic, whatever kind of life. And for that reason I am “proud” (at least proud enough to make a blog where I write stuff like this, since I don't go around ranting like this to anyone, and for the few people who unfortunately have to listen to my: “Omg I love this and this person... “Suck it up! And for the rest of you, who don’t exist: “I don’t care.”) Back to the point, I am proud to say that - yes, I am a fan girl and yes, I am lame enough to even spend some (a lot of) time to rant, analyze and post pictures, videos of things/people I like or find “fascinating”! (When I actually (like always) should be studying. Ah the story of my life).

Finally. Top 6 female celebrity crushes (In no particular order!) + honorable mentions of new/old crushes. And sorry, this is supposed to be a light and fluffy post so no mentions of any political or any “serious” peeps.

Warning: Major pic-spam-esque stuff down below!

Rihanna 

- Girl is hot.

- Girl sings catchy songs.

- Girl has kind of a "F*** off" kind of an attitude, which at the right time and place is "admirable". 

Lea Michele 

- Girl has loads of TALENT.

- Girl doesn't look or "act" like the typical singer/actress.

- Did I say that girl can sing!?

- Girl is short, I'm short. 

Autumn Reeser

- Girl played Taylor Townsend on The O.C, a quirky, at times slutty (season 3 Taylor!) nerd-turned-bad boy-saving-OC princess.

- Girl looks good.

Alexis Bledel 

- Girl starred in one of my all time favorite tv-shows Gilmore Girls as Rory Gilmore, a nerdy, witty, smart small-town girl trying to achieve her big dreams. Oh, and Rory's best friend was her mother. 

- Girl is pretty.

Jessica Simpson

- Girl is ditzy, yes. Girl has starred in a MTV reality show, and several other, yes. But girl seems to be pretty "real". 

- Girl helped a 13 year old insecure me with her music (her album "in this skin", every teenage girl should listen to it).

- Girl is cute. 

Honorable mentions and recent obsessions/re-obsessions:

Alicia Keys

- Her music!! 

Michelle Branch

- Her music!!

- Seriously, her old/new stuff is pop gold!

Mindy Kaling

- She plays Kelly Kapoor on The office, need I say more?

- Girl has a new book out, which I am dying to read! (Will write more about it later!)

Lady gaga 

"Imma eat this sandwich in yo face bitch,  Nom!" 


- Girl is a pop-princess that sometimes dresses like a piece of meat (literally).
- Girl has catchy, but "deep" songs. No, really - "pokerface"? 


The end...

I wanna thank google for giving me the oppurtunity to waste time gazing at my computer screen. And my mom, for giving me the biggest gift of all, the gift of life. Thank you, now you can say your daughter made a difference.

With an over the top celebrity blog-post.

Ok, last thing:

I'm impressed. Now if I could only apply this much of an "effort" into other things...  

Like I explained to my friend. I just needed to get this out of my system. In blog-writing. So until the next excessive fluff post...

Peace <3 

THE END.

"You ever done something really awkard, and then you think about it for 8 years..."

Lol. I'm going to keep it short and just quote one of the top (youtube) comments posted on this video: "He just described my awkward life". (Thumbs up!)



If your only interested in the "nervous/shy-people" jokes, these start around 06:20. Though I recommend watching the whole thing, it's really awkward but seriously funny!

My favorite things.

In the name of more randomness, I have decided that I am going to be listing some of my favorite things.
And in the progress I'll be doing something that I have grown to appreciate, which is - you guessed it - making lists! 
As a former unorganized "flake" of  a teenager I am now a half-way perfectionist wannabe/listmaker/packs-her-backpack-the-night-before-school kind of person (the organized me - comes and goes though, you should have seen me and my planning skills in action the first day of January this year!).

So, just for fun and for the sake of future reference and documentation I will simply be writing posts about stuff/celebrities/music anything really that I like/love/hate etc. After all this is my virtual diary and I wanna show my kids (kids, huh?) what their mommy was fan-girling about in her twenties (plus all the emotional/angsty stuff that might pop up....) More precisely it is just for the sake of having it all written down somewhere, so I can easily read through it myself ;) Cause who is following this blog anyways? Haha.

So in the spirit list making! Lets listen to "my favorite things" from The sound of music! I'm kinda ashamed of saying this, but I still haven't watched it! But I will... soon! How can I not when it is on my "movies to watch list".

And yes, I'm posting the glee version too. Yea, I admit it I  am a sucker for American-mainstream-tween-entertainment. Sue me. 

What are your favorite things?


To be continued...

(Oh no) Justin what you got...

Pictures: musicroom.com

That is Justin Timberlake! No hate lil JB, but this Monday (like so many of my Mondays lately) as I was studying accompanied by youtube and music I briefly and totally randomly watched Biebers newest music video - "boyfriend". Now the song itself is okay. Only problem is that the video, theme and concept is  kind of a copy of Nsync's "girlfriend". Anyways, JB made me realize one thing (I'm not going into a fury about the copying thing, whats the point? The fans will buy anything :P I should know I am a fan girl myself, hah.. Even though I later read somewhere that JB claimed to have never even seen the Nsync video! How rude! hah.) 
Yes so, back to the point: JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE IS AND WAS THE MAN! I was a huge fan at the age of 12/13 and Nsync and Justin were and still are awesome. I had a hugeeeee crush on JT, I'm talking posters, fan letters and major day-dreamage!
I especially loved JT's albums: "Justified" (Thats where the title comes from, "(oh no) what you got") and "Futuresex-lovesounds", which I still consider one of my all time favorite rnb/pop albums (check them out, seriously!). Oh man, I could go on  with a looooong rant about the albums, describing each song on it, but I won't (since im currently, yup trying to *drumroll* STUDY :).

Ok. On a last note.. I'm just gonna post one of  Nsync's videoes and I wish I could post all my favorite Nsync and JT videos, but I'm going to refrain. (You know to preserve whats left of my sanity) Just do me a favor, and someday just go through all their stuff. It is amazing! (Ugh, early 90's and 00's music/memories flooding my brain!!)

And if you still hate it, well fine. At least you tried. 

 Fittingly this expression comes to mind:

"Personal taste is like your butt, it's divided" - "Smaken er som baken, den er delt".

(Another Norwegian expression that clearly doesn't work in English!)

So, if you guys have seen both JB's and Nsync's videos what do you think? Rip off of  or tribute? 


I think this girl said it pretty well: 

*Goes back to the Timberlake, and trust me it is very deep,wet and...* Wow, haha. If that doesn't deserve a "thats what she said" than I don't know. Sorry. Lol. 



Peace.

Self-diagnosis, "agoraphobia" and bike riding...

If you ask some of my closest friends what I had self-diagnosed myself with last year. They would tell you that I would go around telling them I had become a schizophrenic. They would then continue to mock me and then try to explain to me that I was being irrational and simply exaggerating whatever "bi-polar"-ish behavior I was trying to explain or justify. And yes, I was exaggerating. Looking back (which was really just a couple of months ago) I know, I was exaggerating. I was probably (still am) RESTLESS. And well, I just couldn't call it that, because being schizo is so much more serious and sounds so much like a "real" problem.
And yes, I admit I was being over dramatic. And those same friends of mine who had to listen to my many rants about my "medical-mental" condition will tell you that I do probably do/did that pretty often. I guess you could say that like Beyonce has her Sasha Fierce, I have my "teenage drama queen" - call her whatever you want - alter ego. While Sasha Fierce is Beyonce's sexy twin, my twin is the overly stressed, anxiety, rambling Sasha Angst.


So for the last couple of months (after many discussions about my so called schizophrenic "diagnosis") I have moved past it, and realized that whatever I was or am going through is more correctly just some good ol' fashioned restlessness. And yes, it might sound less serious and it might not be an official medical term. But at least I am not striving to label or diagnose myself with a serious condition that is as pointed out already much more serious than a case of "having worms in your a**" (another Norwegian expression that works poorly in english!). Because going around telling your friends you have caught a serious mental disease is not fair to those people who actually suffer from the real stuff. 


So lesson learned, or wait...

You see since I have been having less school work to focus on (im done with three exams, only two to go), less mandatory classes and less work (my boss has practically given me all of may off) I have been sacking it up at home lately. And my newest self-diagnose is that I have caught a mean streak of agoraphobia. (I am just not proclaiming it to the "world" like a serious and literal thing, like I did with the above mentioned condition...)

Now wikipedia explains the conditon as:


Agoraphobia (from Greek ἀγορά, "marketplace"; and φόβος/φοβία, -phobia) is an anxiety disorder characterized by anxiety in situations where it is perceived to be difficult or embarrassing to escape. These situations can include, but are not limited to, wide-open spaces, and uncontrollable social situations such as may be met in shopping malls, airports, and on bridges. Agoraphobia is defined within the DSM-IV TR as a subset of panic disorder, involving the fear of incurring a panic attack in those environments.[1] The sufferer may go to great lengths to avoid those situations, in severe cases becoming unable to leave their home or safe haven.



Since my last failed attempt at self-diagnosing my "condition" I am not claiming to seriously suffer from this (this time). But I will say, and I think I am I am experiencing some mild agoraphobic anxiety these days. 

For example I am constantly rethinking and last minute retreating from taking walks outside if I actually don't HAVE to go out. I want to go for walks, I want to take my new bike for a ride and I want to do these things alone. Anyhow lately I have only gone out of the house when I actually have made plans with someone (meaning it has been written down in my calender with precise time and place scrolled down) or if I absolutely need to, or have to go out, like if I have to go buy something from the store. Other than that there has been been many home-study days which honestly becomes home slouchy days, with tv, youtube and music interfering with everything else. 



Once I go to campus to study, I will do so with my trusty study-buddy and I will 1- 2 times a week go to the gym right after. Not stopping by my house, because I know I will not leave once I'm inside. It seems to work and I am glad to at least be doing that much. Cause simply going to the gym is such a big step in the right direction if anyone like me is going through similar anxieties or depressions. I can now honestly say that I can master Zumba classes with a bunch of girls, or even crowded gyms filled with bulky, sweaty men and women. 



So with that out of the way, I am still trying to be more comfortable with just the simpler tasks of going for a walk or even taking that damn bike of mine out for a ride. So far, I have been out riding my bike two times, both at night, in the dark (paranoid much?) Why? Well, because there's no people on the streets, and there's most importantly no cars blinding me or driving next to me staring (thats what I feel) at me. 


So to conclude this excessively long rant and after this weekends serious bike "pimpage" (my vintage 67' rusty bike now has a wooden pleated basket!), my goal for the next week is to ride that bike like I have never rode a bike before! You know, just hoping Sasha Angst will have better things to do than to come out and play...



To end this awesome rant and to reward anyone for reading it, I will shower you with some awesome vintage bike eye candy. (My personal bike will not be shown, so if you must, imagine a blue, rustier, dirtier version of these bikes below :) 

Photos: Google, source unknown. 

Un-thinkable...

I hate finding new music to listen to. Simply because I feel it takes up to much of my time. Not that I actually listen to it for hours and hours, but because my "need-to-download/buy" music list keeps growing, and the songs get stuck in my head. It is a minimal problem to be concerned about but it still manages to annoy me. On the other hand it does what great music is supposed to do, it is relaxing, it touches you (in some way or another), maybe it inspires you? For me I know a song is good when an absolute "unrelatable" song gets to me, that just proves the singers talent to really feel the song and convey it to the rest of the world. That is my opinion anyway, and that is probably why I can like any type of music. As long as that one song, or one artist somehow makes me interested I do not care if I am listening to country or heavy metal (though I still haven't found any heavy metal stuff that has "touced" me yet, hah!) 
Anyways, one of those awesome artists is Alcia Keys. I have been a fan since "falling" came out, but the last couple of years I have completely forgotten about her (blame my stupid music list and everything else that comes in the way for music obsessing-time!)
Now somehow I came across one of her most recent songs (yesterday, while trying to study :P), and well I fell right back in love with her. So, one thing led to another and after a mini Alicia K. music marathon she is back on the list and currently singing in my head.

Btw. Yes. That is Chad Michael Murray ('Lucas' - One Tree Hill, 'Tristin' - Gilmore girls)  in the music video posted above, and yes I think he did a great job. The video showing a "typical" complicated relationship throughout the years, starting back in the 60's (I think?) till today is such a great concept for the video.
High five, if you noticed her playing 'snake' on her Nokia phone ;)

Where have you been?

I love Rihanna's new song and video. Great choreography, and finally riri is dancing again! The video reminds me of her 'umbrella' and 'pon de replay' videos with just a dash of 'disturbia' :)