While I’m all about progress and innovations, there are some things that you just can’t improve. Since I’m involved in the lingerie/fashion industry I tend to see some pretty retarded “innovations” at the tradeshows. It actually makes me feel bad looking at these people that have dumped their life savings into something that is an obvious failure, but hey at least they tried?

Here are a few lingerie items that I find to be totally ridiculous:

The C-String: This is apparently supposed to be some sort of improvement on the popular g-string panty style. according to their website:

“The CString is a completely new and exciting innovation in lingerie. Say goodbye to panty line and uncomfortable straps. Say hello to a sexy new freedom.”

Because, you know, straps on your underwear are way more uncomfortable then a headband-like object stuck up your buttcrack? I’m actually quite surprised that CString is still in business, but I did notice that they added real underwear (g-string and booty shorts) to their collection instead of just producing the C-String.

Pastease Strapless Bikini: The Pastease are actually pretty cool, but when Pastease expanded their pasties collection to include the “strapless bikini”, they kinda jumped the shark. The bikini bottom is essentially a waterproof triangle sticker that measure 1.5″ x 2.5″. We have deemed the Pastease Strapless Bikini, “The Vag Sealer”, at the office. According to the Pastease website:

“Our most daring funwear strapless bikini features the same waterproof, skin-safe adhesive as all Pastease.”

Funwear? I wonder how much fun removing the strapless bikini is?

The Backless Thong: Oh boy, where to begin. According to BacklessLingerie.com:

“Unlike a G-String or thong, our Lingerie minimize VPL (visible panty lines) but also have a full width gusset, giving you comfort and peace of mind. Unlike other forms of lingerie, Backless Lingerie doesn’t ride, wedge or shift. Their soft straps sit snugly below your bottom, keeping them firmly in place.”

For the girl so obsessed with panty lines that a thong is not good enough? But she would wear this crazy contraption rather then go commando? Kind of a small market there…

I can’t imagine the backless thong staying in place without making the leg straps uncomfortably tight. And, there has to be some shifting when you sit down that’s going to look a lot stranger trying to fix then picking a wedgie.

The Butt Bra: Sadly, this is the least stupid lingerie innovation on my list, but come on…A butt bra? Shapewear has been around for a long time and The Butt Bra would fall into the shapewear category along with girdles and slimmers, but I think this beauty has been brought on by the “Kim Kardashian Era”, where there is no such thing as too much booty. Can you imagine getting caught wearing something as silly as this? I’ll just stick with doing squats thank you very much.

Yep. I’m pregnant.

I found out a few weeks ago, and while I was shocked, I wasn’t surprised at all. I just knew that I was pregnant (which is a pretty weird feeling for someone that has never been prego before). My early pregnancy symptoms were:

- A total lack of energy. As in, it took effort to pick up my feet and walk across the yard

- Insatiable appetite. No matter what I would eat, I would want to eat something else.

- Distaste for alcohol. I thought giving up wine would be REALLY hard, but wine, beer and booze all tastes totally gross now.

- Bloating. I swear I looked pregnant 2 weeks after conception, but it was just pregnancy bloat.

- People looking at you differently. Maybe I just imagined this one, but I swear I would catch random people looking at me and smiling.

Like I said before, I was pretty shocked to find out that I was pregnant. It’s not like Stefan and I were trying to get pregnant, but we wern’t exactly not trying to get pregnant. I did just want it to happen, rather then the whole “let’s try and have a baby” routine. That just seems weird to me. I want a family, but I’ve never looked forward to being pregnant. And while my pregnancy has been comparatively easy (no morning sickness), I’m ready to be not pregnant again. I hate being tired all the time (I feel like a sloth), not being able to workout normally (I’m usually too tired to do anything, let alone my normal 3 mile run) and I don’t particularly enjoying feeling fat. Oh, and my skin is freaaaakkking out. I know, I know….”But pregnancy is beautiful!”. Easy for you to say .

3 months down, 7 months to go (due around July 19th).

Do you ever wonder what washed up porn stars do after they turn 40? I highly doubt Busty Heart saved up for retirement, because rather then retiring to live her golden years on a golf course in Leisure Town, instead she’s come up with a circus freak act: Using her saggy breast implants to crush objects. Like watermelons.

Yikes. Tell me that isn’t painful?!

I’ve finally made the switch from blogger (weak) to WordPress (infinitely superior)! It was actually fairly simple to make the switch since WordPress has an “import blogger blog” button, that will import all of your content from your blogger blog.

Here are my top 5 reasons why WordPress is better then Blogger’s blogging platform:

1. WordPress has hundreds of thousands of cool plugins/widgets to customize your blog in practically any way imaginable.

2. WordPress is more search engine friendly then Blogger.

3. WordPress has a vastly infinite selection when it comes to themes/skins.

4. WordPress is more user friendly.

5. All the cool kids are switching from Blogger to WordPress. There has to be a reason why that is…

So my blog has been moved to its new home (complete with new look), redirects are in place, custom tweaks are mostly done, co-op is set up, cool plug-ins have been activated and I’m back to blogging .

So, let’s use one of these cool new plugins now, shall we?

Paris Hilton has paid West Coast Customs $200,000 to completly ruin a perfectly sexy Bentley Continental. She had the car painted Pepto-Bismol pink, with pink rims, pink trim, pink/black interior, pink grill and a whole lot of other pink crap. I have to say that Paris now owns the ugliest car I have ever seen. You couldn’t PAY me to drive that monstrosity.

You could have very easily sexed up a Bentley with a pink paint job or pink accents, but the color that Paris chose and the sheer overkill of “MAKE EVERYTHING PINK!” is just plain ugly. Kinda goes to show what a great “designer” Paris Hilton is. (Have you ever seen anyone wearing her clothing line besides herself? Nope. And there is a reason why…)

I used to sell on Ebay, but stopped selling on Ebay over a year ago because of the constant fee hikes that eBay imposes on it’s seller (like eBay doesn’t make enough money). Over the Halloween season, I decided to give eBay another shot and have come to this conclusion: EBAY IS A TOTAL JOKE. It’s not even close to being worth selling on eBay and you can tell that there has been a major decline in quality sellers, since nearly everything on eBay is total crap (shipping straight out of Taiwan) or overpriced (because the sellers have to pass on the cost of doing business on eBay to the buyers).

Say you bought a book for $5 and want to sell it for $10 (standard retail markup is 100%). If you sell that book on eBay for $10, it’s going to cost you $2.25 in fees, plus the $5 it cost for the product, so you profit a whooping $2.75 for a $10 eBay sale. Ebay is taking nearly HALF of your profit!

Say you have a $15 shirt that you want to sell for $30 on eBay. That will cost you $4.54 in fees, leaving you with profit of $10.46 on a $30 sale.

Ebay hides their fees by making them difficult to understand and by making them variable. You can check out the current eBay fees here:

http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html

But, don’t forget about the Paypal fees too (Paypal is owned by eBay):

https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-receiving-fees

Also, eBay has decided that sellers can no longer participate in the feedback aspect of eBay. Sellers can not leave negative or neutral feedback for a buyer, no matter what. But buyers can leave negative or neutral feedback for a seller. Gee that seem fair?

Ebay is lame. I hope they go out of business soon.

This video is so incredibly cute and funny! Apparently this cockatoo really likes the Backstreet boys and totally rocks out when he hears them…

Am I crazy or does that bird have mad rythme!?!

Blogger is pretty lame, if you ask me. I am going to switch over to WordPress soon. Then I will blog more, I promise .

I was never the little girl that dreamed about getting married one day. As a matter of fact, I still have zero desire to ever have a wedding. Weddings seem a little cheesy to me, not to mention a waste of money. If marriage meant anything anymore, perhaps I wouldn’t feel that way, but with the average divorce rate nearing 50% it’s obvious that vowing to be with someone for better or worse is not taken to heart (or, 50% of Americans are liars), so why make such a big deal about getting married? I can think of 1000 other things I would rather spend $20,000 on (the average US couple spends between $14,000 and $43,000 on their wedding!).

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a bitter old maid (yet…haha…just kidding), I love seeing people get married that are truly in love. And seeing a little old man and women hobble down the street holding hands is probably the cutest thing ever.

Any how, I’m totally getting off topic here! Along with not ever “dreaming” about getting married, I never wanted to change my name. It seems strange to me that a women loses her identity as soon as she gets married. BUT, that all changed when I met Stefan. Ever since we started dating I couldn’t wait to become Summer Rest . Now that is a great name…haha

Thanks to Conner that took the picture above. He found Summer Rest Road in North Carolina.

It’s a Whirlcat!!

Ever since I was a kid, I knew what all of our baby animals would look like when they grew up. That’s the beauty of “purebreds”. But is that nearly as fun as discovering new species in the tropics?!?!

Well, in Puerto Rico, when you adopt a baby animal, you have no idea what it will end up being. Take for example, the cat we adopted (after finding him starving in the middle of the road). We thought he was a mere cat. But, no. I have decided that he is really a cross between a weasel (long body), squirrel (outrageously fluffy tail) and a cat. Chichieto is a Whirlcat. Who woulda thought…

My friend Carrie has two (Puerto Rican) dogs from the same litter and you would totally not believe it. One is tiny (8lbs?) with a short brown coat and the other dog is 4 times his size with a long ivory-colored coat. I really thought she was joking when she told me they were brother/sister.