the riot has returned

There's absolutely no one but myself to blame for this 14-month blogging delay, and more than anything, I wish I could say that I spent the lengthy interim performing noble Peruvian missionary work or diligently attending to the advancement of my career as an overzealous young adult looking to change the world.  But let’s face it I’ve spent much of the past year contriving mischievous practical jokes, dressing up the dogs in funny outfits, and painting my nails with dutiful alacrity.

Without a job or collegiate obligations to attend to, the relaxation binge quickly took a turn for the worse,  as the crazy shenanigans  of the  past year unfolded with a Jersey-Shore breed of reckless abandon. But thanks to  a good dose of soul-searching, I can confidently and ambitiously say that I’m back in the saddle again….bitches.

But the tomfoolery…the controversy….those crater-sized balls….not going anywhere suckaaaa.

But going back to my point, what I aim to do from this point on is to rekindle that undaunted, ambitious inherent drive to create. If anyone is brave enough to give his/her time and attention to the ramblings of this recovering procrastinator, you won’t be let down. If nothing else you’re in for a total riot.

sir link a lot

• 22 ways to reuse an Altoids tin - I bet you'll have more of an appreciation for those curiously strong mints from now on.
• the geek's guide to getting almost anything for free - don't you just love anything free?
• exercise finder - easy-breezy website which allows you to choose the targeted area of your body that needs a pick-me-up and shows you a lot of great exercises for your muscle of choice. it's like having your own  free, easily accessible trainer right at home
• 40 worst dressed cities in america-Oklahoma City is not on there. Hoorah
• so you wanna work in the movie industry? really, who wouldn't wanna work in the move industry?
• 20 coolest gadgets for your office - i love this geek-chic assortment of items 
• cookie monster cupcakes - sooo cute!
• 21 best drugstore beauty buys - a really useful guide featuring the creme-de-la-creme of drugstore makeup items.
• diy notebooks- tutorials for making an adorable assortment of notebooks all by yourself.
• information creation and circulation, after twitter - an interesting infographic showing the time it takes for different mediums to respond and report news storers
• extraordinary uses for 16 everyday products -did you know cornstarch can help you detangle knots? find lots of other unconventional but handy uses of these everyday products.

soldier dancing like Carlton

i need dollars, dollars, dollars is what i need

Normative means of attaining monetary income have always seemed, well, boring. I love money, I'm enchanted by it, I lust after the filthy lucre. And, don't get me wrong,  I really am a workhorse, but the orthodox 8-5, cubically encapsulated  workplace rigmarole has never appealed to me. I'm a night owl with bizarro sleeeping habits, reclusive creative withdrawals from society, and an attention span of a nine year old rugrat on a sugar high.

I'm a creative entrepreneur, relishing in odd job tasks, money-making schemes, and everyday hustling. My mind is constantly teeter tottering from one bright-eyed project to another, but in order to maintain a (somewhat)steady stream of income, I've turned to a varied palette of earning sources, keeping the energy and excitement of my not-so-ordinary work alive and passionate. 

Never was there a monetarily compensated dare too daunting for me to turn down. At three years old I unflinchingly stuck my hand into a boiling pot of water for $.50 at the impish suggestion of my two older brothers, and ever since have maintained a consistent Evil-Knieval like prowess for trouble making antics and daredevil ploys--so long as some sort of  financial gain would be awarded . As appealing to my immature taste-buds as this sort of tomfoolery is, I've decided to take my economic shenanigans into less perilous terrains through online business start-ups and ventures,  which I will definitely be getting into on a later post.

 How to Make it in America is an underrated HBO show about the ruthlessly passionate entrpreneurial dreams of two rugged NYers, who have learned to be resilient in their business ventures, so they can eventually make it.  Second season is coming out in October of 2011--highly recommend it for all of us untraditional, ambitious folks who want to make it on our own terms.

But  if you're strapped for cash or could use a financial pick me up, then let me be of service to you. Here are what I've found to be the most legitimate, easy ways to make pretty good money without having to conform to blue collar America and have fun along the way.

Sell Things on EBay(or Craigslist)

If you're a clothes fjend like me, chances are you have a lot of estranged pieces lining the racks of your closet. One day I decided to confront the sartorial mosh pit that is my closet. It turns out a lot of what I owned were either from a highschool yesteryear, one-hit wonders, or never even worn. A more noble approach might be to haul these  clothes off to GoodWill, which I'm always good about doing every six months or so, but we of the debt-ridden kin can turn our more valuable assets like name-brand clothing directly into financial income using sites like EBay or Craigslist.

 A lot of people are too daunted by the supposed complexities of these sites that they are too fearful or lazy to pioneer this cyber terrain. All that it takes is to snap a picture or two, write a brief description of your item for sale, and answer a few questions here and there regarding your sale, and next thing you know you've inherited an income. Other items you can put up for auction:

• Electronics(even broken products can be purchased for spare parts)
• Video games
• Houseware
• Collectibles(that beanie baby collection is actually worth something afterall!)
• And any other rando hodgepodge hanging around the house(the weirder the better in a lot of cases)

Another great revenue source, especially for college kids, is to sell back your old books to Amazon users. Academic text books are always ridiculously priced, and if a literary maelstrom is taking over your life, get rid of some of those dusty paper backs and make a little money for it.

Participate in research studies:

You can sign up for research email lists online that will notify you regarding any research opportunities that might be appealing to you on a daily or weekly basis. Coorporations put a whole lot of money into the research field and are constantly holding surveys to gather customer-related information about current or future products. To make it easy my favorite site, Focus Group, will email you regarding surveys you qualify for.

The greatest profits are reserved for the field of health-care and pharmaceuticals. if you suffer from a medical condition such as depression, ADHD, obesity or insomnia you might qualify to participate in a local research study which pay  high-dollar compensation to volunteers. Click here to see what research studies are currently looking for volunteers in your area.

Freelance:

The dawning of the age of the internet has brought about an infinite number of changes, to which the top-of-the-line savvy cyber-space-cadette has manipulated to his advantage. Employment opportunities are among the bountiful wealth of resources made available courtesy of the world wide web. Financial income can be acquired without ever having to leave your computer via websites like Elance and Getafreelancer.com. These sites provide an extremely useful outlet for employers and employees and can be a potential landmine for any of you out there looking for some extra cash.

• fiverr-"a place where people are willing to share what they'll do for $5" Browse through the list of

Sure I find myself quite enthralled with the financial gains available by web but that's not to say we can't still resort to old-fashioned methods of monetary income.

some of my other favorite money-making endeavors:

• garage sales
• diy arts and crafts(which you can sell to friends or family or better yet list on the handcrafter's mecca, Etsy.com.
• learn some sort of useful unique skillset through youtube--fixing broken iphone screens for instance--and market yourself properly and you never know, you might even be the next Uncle Money Bags.

related links:

45 ways to earn extra money

it's discipline time

A hard-to-handle spark-plug and renown mischief-maker with a propensity for scatterbrained creative undertakings in any number, shapes, or sizes. I spend most of my time swimming in a sea of perpetual chaos. It is this whirlwind of high jinks, madhatter idionsyncracies, and topsy-turvy ideation ceaselessly spinning cartwheels through my mind, which I aim to chronicle in my blogging efforts. Warning: content is likely to include uncouth, innapropriate, and controversial content along with its fair share of oddities, zig-zagging digression, and wayward spontaneity. So prudes, crybabies, and tattle-talers alike--leave while your mind is still pure and untainted by the lewd rantings of this unabashed blog.

Like it or not, the unpredictable span of these flailing meteorities hurdling through the scatterbrained landscape of my conscious mind must be catalogued with reckless abandon if any semblance of sanity is to seize command over my life. Ever inundated by a flurry of mentally probing curiosities, thoughts, and new interests,  the individual life span of each Eureka! flicker of  inspiration  is constantly threatened by the catcall of some other bigger, better, shinier idea. Within the past several years, this unconscious but consistent abandonment of half-baked ideation, has significantly depleted my creative lifeblood, leaving me productively stagnant and unfulfilled.

The onslaught of innovative ramblings can either serve as an anxiety-ridden attack or it can release an unbridled determination to thrive. So i'm now gleefully adopting the latter frame of mind. This blog will thus not only serve as a creative outlet but as an external emblem of my progressive efforts and resolute commitment.

What's next to follow is a quirky, entertaining thril ride through the cluttered terrain of my hyperactive mind as I attempt to pop a cap in the ass of procrastination, and forge some type of interactive articulation of this discombobulated internal madness.

If you're patient enough to have teeter tottered through the rocky waters of this page alone, then congradulations on being one hell of a trooper.warning, you've got a complex, born again free-spirit in your  hands---this could get a litttttttle bit nutty---irrefutably controversial, messy, harsh, but fun and entertaining, nevertheless.

 But misfits, sinners, and adventurers, join me in this rowdy literary frenzy of mine--at the very least, a guaranteed thriil-ride.(We're talking Back to the Future, Universal Studios caliber)

Blogging Peregrinations will (attempt to) focus on these core categories:(but lord only knows what else might spawn up along the way. like i said, my fixations change on a daily basis: from pornos to philosophy to justin bieber[kidding]to spontaneous combustion. you never know what you're gonna get)

But here are my intended blogging topics I, at least, strive to explore.

• new media
• pop-culture
• diy(do-it-yourself)
• entrepreneurship
• technology
• fashion
• creative expression
• utterly biased reviews
• random lists
• findings from the cyberspace treasure chest
• fitness
• trends
• ____________________

linkasborg

• Take a look at some of these fab designer closets at shelter pop. Nanette Lepore's precious sartorial abode pictured above is my very favorite
• Top ten most difficult books to read
• While we're on the topic of literature check out the best places to get free books
• The rasterbator is an amazing, free online application that turns your favorite online image into an "Rasterized" printable poster like the one below.

•  Spoonflower is a crafty gal's dream come true. Here you can create your very own fabric designs and order them at reasonable prices.  But if you're not feeling too creative, take a look at their extensive user-made fabric showcase.
• You know those delicious girl scout cookies we can't wait to get our hands on each year? somoas, thin mints, do-si-dos. well wait no longer, you can find the recipes for these scrumptious cookies over at The Kitchn

rich, happy, and hot

rich happy and hot has a message for any of you entrepreneurial minded women out there! veni vide vici! this is exactly what Marie Forleo had in mind when she founded her successful life-coaching business. In this video Forleo describes her path to success, and, as you will see, it was no walk in the park.

Marie Forleo from shatterbox on Vimeo.




oh and by the way if you are so enlivened by that entrepreneurial spirit, shatterbox is an inspiring website for all you go-getting youngens out there. this website is an inspirational jackpot for any  ambitious, giddy fresh-outta-college grad who wants to make a career doing what he or she loves.

okc country club

it was the perfect job...at least seemingly so. golf cart girl at the country club. chris watkins  my boss, who didn't like me in the first place because well my dad's a doctor and) i had abundant opportunities but its the candid truth was deprived of . so this balding bully stringently hounds me down for every little thing..because well he rides that high horse all the way down to cow town. so silent battle warred on for the entirety of my summer job. that i can handle....with finesse.

and then there were the thunder girls...

one in particular:

hayley


yiiiiikes.

well hayley doeesn't seem to like working . evidence resides within that she asked me to fill in for her twice within her very first week. i needed money. i willingly agreed. third time she asks me to fill in she leaves me a voicemail that you can listen to right here. 

i called her back and kindly said i'd be willing to switch her work shift days.wednesday comes around i reluctantly show up. thursday she doesn't show up like she said she would.. so this heavily laden makeup wearing CHUMP is summoned up by my boss and completely plays dumb "i never said i'd switch shifts with mallory." and what do you know, at the end of the day I get fired. So prideful was the big shot OSU grad, that he refused to rethink his unjust decision even after I'd forwarded him Hayley's pleading voicemail.

the facts has been stated. and maybe justice will be done. maybe not. but i just want to publicly point a caustic finger at these two fraidy cats that have never stepped up to the plate and taking responsibility for their errors. Mr. Watkins, at the very least I expected an apology from you the general manager of the reputed Oklahoma City Country Club.  But your blatant disregard to any such courtesy (or any response whatsoever in spite of my numerous attempts to contact him in the aftermath of this whole debacle) hass led me to question your integrity as an individual let along a capable manager of such a reputable country club. it also would have been behoove of you to take into consideration that i went to school with 90% of your country club members. (take a look at some of the big-shot names Casady's 2006 graduating class had on its roster you'll see what ii mean) i was a debutante!

you mr. christopher watkins messed with the wrong girl.