Color, Cut, Clarity What?!

I was listening to Rick Ross at the gym the other night, specifically this song, where one of the first lines says "Color, Cut, Clarity." Ya know, the diamond ring stuff :-) Gave me the perfect song for linking up with Whit-teezy!

It got me thinking. For being a girl AND for listening to lots of rap where they rap about diamonds and carats and clarity, I don't know a damn effing thing about color, cut, clarity, carat, stones, bands this that the whole shebang.

I bet these sexual beings could give me a tip or two??

BUT...apparently Kurt does! I started talking about it all and he was pretty surprised that I knew nothing, and even more surprised he knew more. He even told me about this website where you design your own ring and it explains everything about the setting, the cuts, the carats. Except "he's never been on the site before, he just knows about it."---direct quote.

Uh huh, okay Kurt...you ain't foolin' this bish

I think real life bling looks pretty good on me, wouldn't ya say?

Katie and I!! And I'm sporting Stephs gorgeous ring with my heinous chipped nailpolish!

Really though, how do you girls learn about all of this? Should I be reading something? I don't know ANYTHING about setting a stone or what carat I want. However, I have ultimately decided the style ring I want...and that my friends, is a Round Brilliant Cut.

Perfection!!

I actually used to just call it a circle or round stone, but now that I've educated myself a little more, I sound more professional when I say Round Brilliant Cut! Boo-Ya! #I_suck_as_a_girl.

I have to tell Kurt that if I can't get a diamond ring anytime soon, I'd be okay with him getting me Rick Ross' diamond chain of his face. Minus the man-boobs. Actually I'll take those too as I'm lacking!

Happy Friday and Happy Weekend my loves!

Link up with WHitney for Back Dat Azz up Friday!

Instagram what the F?!

I have to begin this post with some good news. I am pretty sure my post yesterday where I talked about the dress I've been praying goes on sale, gave me good luck. I went on their website yesterday and it was half off. HALF EFFING OFF. White House/Black Market you rock.

I must have took my credit card out of my bag in about .000009 seconds and ordered it immediately. EEE! It's currently on it's way to my doorstop! Can I get a what what?

Just a quick little post here for you guys because sometimes I just don't understand Instagram. I was perusing my insta feed, like I do once every 20 minutes, and saw someone post a picture that looked way too good for a phone pic. Someone commented something along the lines of "awesome pic what filter is that!?" The person actually said it was a photo taken with their big DSLR camera.

Say whaaaa? I could be completely dumb and not know this, but are people really taking pictures on their big cameras, running to their computer to put the picture on it, emailing it to themselves, and then instagramming it!? That seems like WAY too much work! I can understand if someone has a a DSLR pic already saved on their phone and such, but really though, do people do that? Is that a thing? It's so easy to just snap-a-roo on your phone and that's that!

Meanwhile I'm just trying to find the most flattering filter. We know we all do it ;-)

(clearly!...)

And one other thing...

Who are those 12 year old boys on the popular page and why do they have girls commenting things like "OMG I want to kiss your plump boy lips with raspberry lipgloss" (I actually saw that once)!

I'm also loving the new insta video update.

It's awesome to see and hear people do things rather than just a still photo!

Find me! (@ericamariejordan)

Have you done a video yet?!

Happy Thursday! :-)
2 more days until the weekend...we can do it!

My current situation

I wish I could muster up something other than a blog post of me complaining like a little bitch. I don't remember the last time I was this sick! Head cold with every symptom that makes me want to curl in a ball of stuffed animals and puppies on a white fluffy bed and just cry! I'm also typing this at 10pm looking like absolute crap except I'm wearing bright coral lipstick so I make myself feel less heinous.

That was semi-dramatic. Anywho, taking a lil something something from my Katie love and giving you all a current look into this life.

Lusting over...This dress. I've been creeping on it for weeks hoping and praying for the price to go down from 9 million to 1 million dollars. Actually not that much, but I must have gone to look at it once a week. Le Sigh...

Reading...THIS book, called Thirteen Reasons Why. It's a little dark, but a friend of mine said it was one of those books you just cannot put down. It's about a girl who had committed suicide but before she did, she mailed out a bunch of cassette tapes to different people who gave her a reason to end her life.

Looking forward to...July! Not only is it my birthday month, but we have a lot of fun plans coming up! Six Flags trips, 4th of July spent with the family and friends on our boat down the cape, did I mention my birthday?---the big 2-5 HOLY BAJOLEY.

Listening to...This song. I cannot get enough. Whenever I hear it, I get up and twerk and jam!

 

Dreaming...of purchasing a home. Kurt and I have started thinking about the whole buying a house thing. I'm traditional when it comes to living together in a legit home and want to wait until we are engaged or something. Ya feel me?! We live together now in an apartment, but you know what I mean? So far we've been looking at the South Shore of Massachusetts, on the water,  by the harbor--we are definitely ocean people :-)

Scituate Harbor, Scituate MA

Hope you all have a happy Hump Day!

Jimmy Buffett: We barely survived...

Well, we all survived the tailgating and Jimmy Buffett experience Saturday!

Barely though, as I have somehow come down with a sickness including sore throat, heavy head, body aches, the whole nine yards! I do however, know how I must have contracted this sickness but it is a little R-rated for this here blog so I'll have to hold off on sharing it on here :-)

Alas! We had such an amazing amazing time and I wish I could do it over again and again! We set up camp along with thousands of other parrot heads and drank, grilled and chilled the day away until it was concert time!

I'll tell ya this...if you listen to Jimmy's CD version songs and then listen to him live in concert, it's EXACTLY the same! He plays such an amazing show and is seriously a talented performer! Listening to him and seeing his set filled with all things Carribean really makes me want to go somewhere warm and tropical without a care in the world. I think that's what I love most about Jimmy Buffett and his music...he takes you to another place!!

We saw some spectacular, killer set-ups at the concert! Everything from a bus made into a pirate ship to tiki bars and of course, the people watching ;-) Our families and us had literally the best time!!

Have you ever seen Jimmy Buffett before? Seriously you must go if he comes near you! Hands down one of the best concerts and tailgating I have EVER been to!! Shh...don't tell Lil Wayne ;-)

And just because....

Oy...

Link up with Sami for Weekend Shenanies!

Drag Queens, tight asses and blog love!

FRIDAY!! Can I get a holla??!!

I have an awesome weekend ahead of me! Tomorrow I will be spending the entire day tailgating and drinking margaritas and rum punch at the Jimmy Buffet concert with Kurt, my parents, Kurt's parents and my sister and her boyfriend! I am beeeeeyond excited, as we are all Parrotheads, and equally as excited because Kurt's parents are driving all the way up from New Jersey; I absolutely love them! I've gotta link up with Whitney here with a little Jimmy to get your weekend started!!

But before I get ahead of myself, I have to just tell you guys something. Last week, I won a free Boston Harbor sunset cruise through my company, and immediately knew Kurt would be coming with me. Let's just say, upon further investigation, I found out it was a gay pride cruise because June is Pride month. This excited me even more!! Gay Pride supporter right here! :) We had such a blast! The cruise was this past Wednesday night!

There was a drag queen on board selling raffle tickets. $20 for as many tickets that could either fit around my chest or up and down Kurt's inseam (basically his peen area!) Kurt pretty much said something along the lines of "yeah...you can measure HER!!!" Needless to say, there wasn't much for them to measure on me, but I somehow ended up winning $1,500 to a spa for "healthy liposuction" as they called it. It's more or less a body wrap to shrink the fat...but yeah the man announcing it had a good laugh when he saw little old me. I'll most likely use the money to go for a mani/pedi or massage ha!

Speaking of shrinking fat...I did this booty workout from the gorgeous Tone It Up girls. Holy tight ass. My ass is on fire. You need to do this RIGHT NOW! I did it twice and I'm seriously feeling like I could bounce Lil Waynes grill off my ass it feels immediately tighter.

(If you can't see the GIF's find it here!!)

And fiinnnallly, I feel like this whole Google Reader thing going away is about to freak me out. What's going on with it? I don't even use reader! I read all my blogs through the Blogger Dashboard page! Is that really newbie? Anywho...I have bloglovin' so if you click HERE you can follow me! Or to the left of this post you should see the little icon! :-)

Love you all! Have the best weekend in the world! 

Link up with Whitney for Back That Azz Up Friday too!

Speaking of which...she wrote a kickass post on google reader, find it HERE!!!

Stop wishing and just DO IT

I was chatting with a friend the other night who was telling me about how his friend owns a bar. The concept of the bar was cool and it had me expressing how I wished something like that existed in Boston. He said “open one!” Immediately I said, “yeah right!”

It got me thinking about how I am so quick to shrug off insane ideas, like opening a bar or traveling the world. There are so many places I want to see and things I want to do in life, but I admit I am a creature of habit sometimes and only do what’s comfortable! I make excuses for myself: “I cant take that many days off work.” “What if I hate this?” “What if I FAIL!!!”

When I think about some of the random things I want to try and do, they don’t seem all that hard to accomplish. It’s just a matter of mind and attitude to just effing DO IT...even if I think they're impossible. I immediately think of two things that I've been like, hmmm, I wish I could do this one day.

Play a round of golf in every state.

This has something that has always captivated me, though it’s nothing too exciting for some! I golfed at a gorgeous course in Florida a long time ago and it made me appreciate the beauty and design of different courses. Plus, I am pretty convinced that golfing at a course in the middle of the Arizona desert or overlooking a mountain in Colorado would be pretty stellar.

Find a random location on Google Maps and go there. 

I’ve actually had this picture saved for so long, as a place I found that I just want to go see in person.

It's kind of a random spot, but one day I was creeping through the tippy tip of Italy and found this gorgeous street. A quaint, colorful town overlooking this beautiful vast greenery with the ocean and mountains. I was blown away by how peaceful it looked as well as how vibrant it looked. Needless to say, I want to just GO there and soak it up. Why not? How cool would it be to one day just put a pic of me in a Fedora eating Gelato next to this screen capture photo? :)

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” Ain't that the truth?!

Is there anything you've ever wanted to do but second guessed yourself? Happy Hump Day!

It's the freakin' weekend baby I'm about to have me some fun

I'm currently staring at Kurt's nasty ass foot as it looks like he is peeling 500 layers of skin. His 2 week old sunburn on his feet are starting to peel and he takes pleasure in peeling it (which is fine) but then rolling it into little balls before putting it in the trash. Gag me with a spoon!

Okay back to my regularly scheduled blog post! This weekend was so much fun I wish I could rewind it and go BACK to Friday at 2:00 when my boss told us to high-tail it out of there.

Kurt and I decided to hit the beach Saturday morning. We woke up early and headed north to Crane Beach which is in Ipswich, Massachusetts...close to Gloucester (Gloucester fisherman/Perfect Storm movie haaylooo!) It was gorgeous out! Also this beach trip showed me just how uncool Kurt looks in a snapback. But then again I don't look that cool either.

That night, we went out for a Father's Day dinner/watched the Bruins dominate! I also ate the biggest meal ever...spicy lobster over pasta and holy crap it was DIVINE! And I don't throw around that word for nothin! :-) We went to Mezzo Mare, a great italian place down by the beach. After dinner, we watched the last hour or so of the game down where my family's boat is docked. Let's just say the beers are 2$ and the mixed drinks are 3$....Hollllllla for a dolla!

I see you Kurty..

Sunday was spent with my parents and Kurt and we took the boat out for a Boston Harbor cruise and to get some lunch and drinks! Perfect Father's Day! :-)

There's my weekend in a little nutshell!! Lots of time spent outside which is always nice during the summer. Might I also add, I was a professional sunscreen applier this weekend and didn't get one ounce of burn---in fact, I may even have a little tan! That's huge for me. Caught the Irish/Scottish side of my dad while my sister got the Italian side of my mom.

Happy week! Link up with Sami and tell us about your weekend!