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Feature Friday! Closet 365!

Posted by Heather Manning On July - 22 - 2010

Feature Friday is a new thing here at The 24/7 Mom! I am going to play 20 questions with some of my favorite bloggers each Friday! Read along, check them out, and hopefully you will find a new blog to read because these bloggers featured on Friday are Fabulous!

I don’t remember the site that linked me to Closet 365, but I found out about Jenny on New Year’s Eve! She inspired my New Year’s aspirations post and my last trip to a thrift store. Since that first day I read her blog, I’ve been a subscriber rooting her on! I never finished my own Project 365, which was just taking a picture every day. I don’t know how Jenny manages to take different clothes, come up with an entirely different outfit every singe day, and then do a photo shoot. I’ve watched her do it through sickness and in health and even in snow. I love her sense of fashion and her writing style.

A few of my own favorite outfits? (This is hard because I’m constantly posting, oh now this is my new fave, but then I go through the old posts, and but this is my fave and this is my fave!)

Knowing Nothin’ In Life But To Be Legit

It Was A Murder But Not A Crime

Connect The Cause And Effect, One Foot In Front Of The Left

That’s just a few, I could make this a whole post of favorite Jenny outfits, but this post isn’t about me, it’s about Jenny from Closet 365!

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Who are you? I am Jenny. I’m 27 and I live in Colorado. I guess you could say I’m a fashion blogger of sorts. I am documenting a years worth of outfits in order to not repeat the same outfit twice in 2010. Okay, maybe that doesn’t make me a fashion blogger. Maybe that just makes me crazy.

Why did you start to blog? I wanted a blog for a very long time. I have always loved to write, and I’m a total internet junkie, so I knew it would be a good fit. It took me a long time to get started. I’ve been reading blogs since they were invented but it was only last fall that I figured out what I wanted to blog about.

How old is your blog? I launched the Closet365 Project on New Year’s Day last year, but I started posting a bit before that.

Has your blog changed over time? My blog is still young by a lot of people’s standards. I’m a creature of habit, so the format has stayed very much the same since day one. However, I like to think that I am slowly improving my photography (maybe) and my writing changes all the time.

Favorite post? I do theme weeks at the end of every month. Mostly just to mix up the monotony of daily outfit posts. Some of the fun ones have been music themed, movie themed and recreating outfits from my childhood.

Pepsi or Coke? I have been trying to kick my diet soda addiction for oh…ten years…but it just depends on my mood. Usually Diet Pepsi.

Favorite Blogs You Read? There are WAY too many to name. Check my blog roll. I love pretty much any blogs related to fashion, celebrity gossip, fitness and food. And I’m not a parent but I occasionally fall for a good mommy blog if it’s funny and well-written.

Would You Like Fries With That? Again, depends on the day. I’m a healthy eater six days a week, but Thursdays are my junk food day. Fries every Thursday!

Partners In Crime? My husband. And my co-workers. I like people that I can be my real evil self around and not get in trouble. Muahahaha.

Favorite Blogging Tip? Comment! Not every blog you comment on will hit you back. But I think secretly (or not so secretly) every blogger is a whore for comments. It’s the best way to get your name out there and make new friends!

Inspiration IRL? I have so many! I am inspired by artists, pop culture icons, writers, designers, musicians, activists. In fact, I don’t think I have a real personality of my own. I’m just a conglomeration of everything I’ve learned from TV and fashion magazines. I’m a bunch of bad SNL skits and South Park punchlines. In cuter clothes.

Bloggy Inspiration? This will sound really weird, but the first person who ever inspired me to have a blog was Melissa Howard (now Beck) (Does anyone remember Real World: New Orleans?! Haha). She has had the funniest blog since before it was cool to have one or even called a blog. I loved how entertaining she is, simply by being hilarious and fabulous self and I take a lot of inspiration from that. I still like to read it now and then to see what she’s up to.

Hobbies? Reading, writing, music, blogging, running, yoga, fitness in general.

Bikini or one piece? Bikini. I have the torso of a 10-year-old, with bigger boobs so I can’t pull off a one piece.

Edward, Bill, LeStat, or insert your own vampire? I don’t get the vampire thing at all. I’m sorry. Feel free to disown me.

Does your family get your blogging? Sort of…my husband is very supportive, although he doesn’t always read. Hence the fact that I told everybody about his crush on Sally Field. My mom and family are avid readers and supporters. Some members of my family still don’t really get it, but for the most part they are fans. Or secret fans.I have some of those too.

Favorite Online Community? I honestly don’t know as much about blogging communities as I should. Although IFB (Independent Fashion Bloggers) is a great resource.

What would I be shocked to know about you? I’m such a weird person already, there isn’t much I can think of that shocks people. That I own a couple of Hilary Duff CDs? That I sometimes stalk people from afar, because I’m extremely nosy? That I had to ban myself from playing The Sims, because it would eat away days of my life?

I guess people who read my blog might be shocked to know that I have serious insecurity issues. I am extremely shy and socially awkward. I used to hate having my picture taken.(And still sort of do) I don’t consider myself super-good looking and I constantly worry that other people think I’m fat and ugly. And that they hate me and are secretly out to get me. Why it doesn’t bother me to put pictures of myself in flamboyant outfits on the internet every single day, still does not make any sense. Not even a little.

How much time would your man say it takes you to get ready? When you consider that I have to primp every.single.day for my blog picture, my husband would probably still say I’m quick and low-maintenance. I’ve got my routine down pat because I myself hate spending a bunch of time in the bathroom.

Over or under? Under?

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Go over and start blog stalking Closet 365! Jenny has honestly inspired me to step away from my standard stay at home mom wardrobe of yoga pants and t-shirts every once in awhile. And, she’s teaching me the fine art of accessorizing without even knowing it!

You can also keep track of Jenny’s work out/training for a half marathon here.

Follow Closet 365 on Twitter

Jenny thank you so much and now you can say

(I know, prestigious, right?)

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Crisis Averted

Posted by Heather Manning On July - 22 - 2010

Remember my dishwasher was broke yesterday? They had someone over by 2:00 PM to fix it. It was my fave maintenance guy.

Is it weird that I have a fave maintenance guy?

Probably.

Anyways, he took the bottom panel off, spun the motor around a couple of times and poof! my dishwasher worked.

Crisis averted. I’m telling you, my having to handwash dishes is a crisis. Don’t do getting my hand dirty.

My mom said I need to get a pair of gloves. That would probably work better than holding a plate by the very edge and using the scrubber on it that way.

We had an interesting experience with toothpaste yesterday.

Toothpaste you say?

Yes, Disney princess pink toothpaste.

Christiano and Alyce were playing so well together, not too quiet. I suspected nothing.

Until Christiano walked out smiling.

It was a brand new tube of toothpaste.

It’s now 3/4 empty.

Christiano had a completely pink head. His arms were covered in toothpaste. His legs were covered in toothpaste. My make up box? Covered in toothpaste. The toilet? Covered in toothpaste. Oh they had a blast!

Guess what else they did?

Jordan’s new trombone had gotten here yesterday. I won one off of Ebay after the music store told me that the one I got for free wasn’t economical to fix. It’s so pretty! No, it wasn’t covered in toothpaste.

Alyce broke up the little Styrofoam peanuts that it was packed with and stuck those to the toothpaste on Christiano’s head. Oh he was pretty.

He walked out with this big ol’ grin, pointing at his head.

I just about died.

Had to pick off all the Styrofoam before throwing him in the shower. I was worried about the toothpaste maybe stinging his eyes, but he did fine. Well, fine if you throw in the fact that he was ready for a nap and taking a shower ticks him off anyway.

He has the opposite problem of my not liking to get dirty.

He doesn’t like to get clean.

I’d like to say Happy Birthday to my niece, Taylor, who doesn’t read my blog, but hey! We can always use an excuse to celebrate around here! Happy 12th birthday tator tot! I love you!

I have got to go scrub my kitchen floor (again) and then go to the store. I’m out of veggies for the birds plus I suppose I should get something to cook for my kids’ supper tonight. Then I need to run to the pet store and get some supplies for Woodstock’s arrival.

Tomorrow is Feature Friday, so be sure to stop back by! I’ve got a wonderful blogger to introduce you too!

You have a wonderful day!

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My Life

Rubicon and the Government

Posted by Heather Manning On July - 22 - 2010

Like your “typical” republican, I am leery of big government. I think government has gotten way too big, too many hands in too many pockets, too many self-serving politicians, too many people only looking out for themselves. I however veer from my fellow republicans on issues of immigration. I agree with the need to secure our borders, I agree that the federal government needs to do their job, I don’t agree with the way Arizona is going about dealing with immigration issues, and I’ve talked about that before.

I told you that I got to watch the premiere episode of Rubicon and that I really enjoyed it. It didn’t change my opinion at all about our government. I’m usually one of those glass half full kind of people. I want to believe that our government has our best interests at heart. I want to believe that when it comes to national security they are doing everything possible to protect us. I mean, look how quickly they busted the Russian spy ring – coincidently, not too long after our president, met with their president, and they discussed improving relations between the two countries, but I’m sure that is all just one big coincidence.

But then I look at the figures in this article.

* Some 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence in about 10,000 locations across the United States.

* An estimated 854,000 people, nearly 1.5 times as many people as live in Washington, D.C., hold top-secret security clearances.

* In Washington and the surrounding area, 33 building complexes for top-secret intelligence work are under construction or have been built since September 2001. Together they occupy the equivalent of almost three Pentagons or 22 U.S. Capitol buildings – about 17 million square feet of space.

That’s close to 1,000,000 people holding top secret security clearance. That is a lot of people with access to important secrets vital to our security here. I really hope they know what they are doing.

Big big government.

It’s hard not to be skeptical of it.

But then, I want my children to be safe. I guess if it takes that many people to keep my kids safe, so be it. It takes a village and all, but it makes me leery.

And how about Shahram Amiri? Surely we wouldn’t kidnap someone? Part of me laughed at loud when this was said –

A U.S. official briefed on the Amiri case dismissed Iranian claims of intelligence gains comparable with the information Washington says it gleaned from the scientist. "The United States got insights into Iran’s nuclear program. The Iranians claim to have gotten some license plate numbers," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the details of the case remain sensitive.

But part of me is sad that while 95% of me believes that we wouldn’t kidnap someone, that he came of his own free will, but 5% doubts my own government. We wouldn’t do that. We are advocates for human rights. We condemn political kidnappings. We couldn’t have done that. Then the 95% of me argues back with the 5% saying, please, consider the source. I mean Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not exactly the United States’ biggest fan.

What do you think of that story?

You should really watch AMC’s new series Rubicon when it premieres! If you have a skeptical mind, you’ll totally dig this show! If you don’t have a skeptical mind, it may just make you a bit more skeptical of believing everything that is put out there for us.

AMC’s newest original drama series “Rubicon” debuts on Sunday, August 1 with a special two-hour premiere from 8–10pm ET.

I was provided a small stipend for my review.

As always though, my thoughts are my own.

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