Umami...Your mami...what...

Hi lovers and friends. How are you? I hope all is well. Better than well! AMAZING. UNBEWEAVABLE. K, Im done.

I swear, I always have this inner battle going on in my little pea brain when I’m out and about…like, “OHHHH I should blog about this!” and then, “Ughh I don’t want to be taking pictures for my blog, that’s so lame!” AND THEN, “I don’t want these people to even KNOW I have a blog, so pass.” Haha…clearly this lil piece o’the interwebs is still suffering from an identity crisis, and in the same thought as “Ohh I should blog about this” I also think, “I should just delete it, wait wtf I would NEVER delete it!” AND HERE WE ARE.

Day by day, dolls. That’s how I’m doing it in real life, and blog life. Day by mother effing amazing, stressful, tiring, exciting…day.

Lately-

I’ve been eating at some of the most YUMMY restaurants in LA/OC. I’m a creature of habit and usually find myself at the same places, so I’ve been making it a point to expand my horizons-and having a man in my life who always has a new place to take me certainly helps. I won’t bore you with all the places I’ve been stuffing my face at, but I do want to mention Umami Burger…Burgers are apparently the new cupcake, at least in Cali, where there is a new fancy shmancy gourmet burger place opening up every week. Umami was totally hyped up, so OF COURSE I dragged Dan with me to Hollywood to see if it was all it was cracked up to be. It was good. Super good, even. And hey, I’ve never met a sweet potato fry I didn’t like.

But seriously? Give this girl an In N Out Burger over all these hyped up joints ANYDAY. ANIMAL STYLE. Yep.

Lately-

I’ve been posting on We Love Dates! About fun stuff like getting matched with my STEPBROTHER on a dating site. Because my life is fun like that, and I’m really looking forward to the awkwardness over the Thanksgiving dinner table this year. I like to keep things interesting. Uh.no.com. On the We Love Dates note-TAKE MY SURVEY! Pretty please? It’s only 5 questions!

Lately-

I can’t wait for September. Blogging has brought THE MOST AMAZING PEOPLE into my life and I get to see so many of them next month, some for the first time, some again. So while I’m hot and cold about how much to share here, I’m never wishy washy about how blessed I feel to be a part of this community-even if I’m not at the center of it anymore. Um, THAT? Was not supposed to sound as conceited as I’m sure it did. But whatever…my blog.

LOVE YOU, Mean it. xx

Share/Bookmark

I know my regular posting schedule has been way off, and it might stay that way, but rest assured-I am NOT going anywhere. Except to WordPress, booyah. Anyways, during last week’s nonsense, so many of you kindly sent emails that I am still replying to, and one was from one of my favorite bloggers The Novelista Barista, offering to write something for me because she knew I was having a rough time. Plus, the subject she was hoping to write about is something I am A) Dealing with and B) Can’t really talk about, ugh dating. But she can, and she did…and I adore this post.

You know it has.
You have seen it happen.
It probably happened to you.
There is no denying that facebook, myspace, linked in, blogs are ruining relationships. You are basically cyber-relationship screwed. Facebook has destroyed serious relationships for many close friends of mine. How you ask? (or this might have already happened to you!)

Well let’s start with the stalker wall feed that they have. Everyone, regardless of if you want them to know or not, can see everything that you do on facebook in their wall feed, without even having to blink their eyes, it appears before them. So if you boyfriend is friends with you on facebook and some guy you hooked up with before him hits you up on facebook before you have a chance to delete the wall post, the BOYFRIEND is going to see it because facebook wants you to break up! And now what sort of problems does that bring to your relationship?

guy-”Why is that guy hitting you up on facebook?”
girl- We dont even talk anymore, I dont know!
guy- You must have written something on his wall or sent him a message, show me his wall!
girl- I am not showing you his wall! That is ridiculous, I dont know why he contacted me!

Ending: Big huge fight.

And that goes both ways. It very well happens as women, we tend to get jealous of other girls, especially on someone we are datings facebook or myspace page. If you aren’t necessarily friends with them, you wonder why they are writing to your boyfriend “just wanted to say hi!”. Although the boyfriend cannot control this, you still get angry and fight it out until he either A)removes her from his facebook and blocks all contact with her B) you send her a message on facebook telling her to stay the F away from him, or C) Break up because you will never move past this point in your relationship again.

The worst part after the wall writing would be the tagging of the photos. This is the danger zone and sometimes when people tag you, they don’t even realize that they just planted a bomb right in the middle of your relationship that is just ticking waiting for the other to see this said tagged picture.

This picture, could be you doing absolutely nothing, but if you are in another picture with the opposite sex and it is not your BEST friend, prepare for some sort of jealousy. Granted not everyone is as jealous as others but it is still not the favored topic of conversation.
Now take for instance how the internet has changed dating people you have never met. With the help of Match.com, Eharmony.com, Jdate.com; you can see what people look like and know everything about them even before you meet them!

I mean, blind dating? I don’t think so!!! If you don’t have a facebook, myspace, twitter, blog or something.. basically you don’t exist. Then you check to see if you can see anything on their page, and if not, you try another network. It is a crazy, easily informed era we have going on here. And I am most definitely a huge part of it.

Even when I am looking for employers I facebook the company to see if anyone actually does work there or not. That’s usually how I know if I should even bother to consider applying completely for the position. And then LinkedIn? PAH…. Before going on a job interview, you can linkedin & facebook stalk the employees of who you’re meeting with and know where they worked, where they graduated from college and what they do at their job even before you meet them! It is sort of crazy if you think about it.

So lastly (because I could go on for hours about how many of my friends relationships have had drama due to facebook!), you take our blogs. This is the place where you can write whatever you want and you can pick and choose who you want to read the material (telling your friends or people you know). I have chosen to tell only a select few due to the fact that I still need to write about things that are happening in my life and I can’t write about the people who are READING my blog!!! An example– my ex-boyfriend, T, (you can read ALL about him HERE) he never knew that I had a blog. Granted we were on the outs and that was the only way that I could write about how I was really feeling, but oh my god, if he ever read how I really felt, he would have had a heart attack.

I love social networking, really. I don’t even know how we communicated with people.. I guess beepers were the “text messages” of the 90s and AIM was the google chat of the 90s. But facebook? AOL profiles had NOTHING on facebook!

Even though it has ruined our lives, ruined our friendships, our relationships and ruined our privacy, millions of people still continue to love social networking every single day. And as we love it more and more… the internet is determined to keep ruining our relationships, every wall update at a time.

Thanks love!

How do you guys feel? For me, I’m thinking of unlinking my blog and my FB. I have a mild to moderate panic attack when a guy I’m just starting to get to know finds my blog, and I stress over the things guys write on my FB wall. She’s right! There is NO such thing as blind dating anymore! It’s like the email I just sent her telling her I was about to post-

“Hey honey, going to post early. Going out with a guy I can’t blog about tonight.”

Also? HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAUREN. I adore you!!

And? The WiNK Tee Giveaway is here til Friday.

Share/Bookmark

Online Dating Volumes 1 here and 2 here if you’re new to the…fun.

Now, I have A LOT of (fake ha) hair. (I didn’t name this blog Unbeweavable for nothin!) First date hair vs mellow hanging out with the girls/family hair are 2 different animals, right? Can I get an AMEN on that? I didn’t want to start fully getting ready until I heard from him.( Total date hair inspiration below, love it.)I call and it goes straight to voicemail where I leave a very mellow, casual message. (Inner monologue-am I being punked? wtf?)

He calls me at 1030-I am home watching the Devil Wears Prada and hoping my dog doesn’t have a heart attack due to the fireworks.(Ms. Bella is not a fan.) Leaves VM “I really need to talk to you. Please call me.” etc, etc.

We’ve since talked again and made plans…again. I like him. Am I making a big mistake? Don’t answer that. Everybody deserves a second chance, right? ( Answer that one.)

My weekend wasn’t a complete failure! I did a lot of this…

And this!

Share/Bookmark

I made Sangria last night! Pretty proud of myself as my sis usually handles these things (these things being anything in the kitchen), while I usually handle drinking them! Check it out on my sister’s blog here. But remember I MADE IT haha. Oh sisters. Yes, to answer you all who caught that on my last post-Gabby, She Wrote and I are twins! Crazy, right? Yin and yang or whatever… but there is nothing like being a twin!

And just a reminder…this is your last chance to enter my It’s Unbeweavable Hair and Make-up Giveaway! Yes, the longest giveaway in blog history will finally come to an end…I think I looked at the calendar wrong when planning, but hey more time for YOU.

LOTS of fun stuff next week on le blog. I’m going to try to step away from the laptop this weekend but we’ll see how that goes…I guess if I blog this weekend you’ll know my date with drummer boy=fail!

Share/Bookmark

Happy Monday dollfaces. I hope you had fabulous weekends?!

• Summer is officially here! And it is H-O-T. I am so excited the Cali June gloom and doom is over!
• The Drummer/Bachelor #1 is now the only guy I am interested in meeting- I ignored him, he recognized and started calling me cupcake. Men! (That’s the short version, but I mean, there’s not much more to them. ) Our first date is Saturday, which is the 4th-good and bad, right? It’s a group thing so that will be fun…or not fun. Let’s go with fun for now, and on Thursday we can re-visit. Deal? Deal. Of course I picked the rocker. OF COURSE.
• Because it’s so hot, all I want to wear are dresses! Or…rompers. I can’t even say that without feeling like a toddler. I KNOW how some of you feel about rompers haha. But I found a few that I really love in addition to some perfect summer dresses. Maybe for the 4th?? Some cute wedges and lots of jewelry? First date, casual (but not too casual) bbqing by the beach, meaning…I have a week to get really tan.

Roberta Oaks Amelie Dress $148 available at 80spurple.com

“Get Your Freak On Halter Dress” by Obey $78 available at 80spurple.com
Heartloom “Lexi” Romper $150 available at shopintuition.com
Hazel and Jaroux $109 available at 80spurple.com (I love the flowers on this one and the color!)
Glam Crochet Lace $50 80spurple.com (love the price, right?!)

Thoughts or suggestions?
Here’s to a great week for us all! XOXO, Liz

Share/Bookmark

Hey lovely banana’s!! (If you haven’t read Online Dating Vol One…click here. And consider yourself a banana!)

Sooo….it’s my 100th post! Insert fireworks/explosives/cupcakes yay! I can’t wait for my next 100 posts. Blogging has impacted my life so much, in such a short time. I’m so blessed to have met so many fabulous people, and I thank you all for reading, supporting, sharing, following, commenting, lurking, stalking, whatever! I hope that my blog is as fun for you as it is for me.

Share/Bookmark

I’m keeping my word and updating you on my Online Dating Adventures! I actually just signed up tonight and had to answer almost a billion questions about myself-which was kind of cool but kind of odd too.

Here’s the evening re-cap, quickstyle because…well, read on.

I am not on for more than literally 30 seconds, I swear, ask Gabby…when I get a message from a classy gentleman stating, “I would do anything to do you.” Umm, thanks? And BLOCK.

Then, seconds later another winner winner chicken dinner…
“You’re gorgeous”-Dbag
“Thank you”- Moi
“I love your lips. And your eyes. And your hair.”-Dbag
“Thank you”-Moi
“What are we going to do about this?” -Dbag
I didn’t respond. We were going to be doing nothing about that.

And then..my personal favorite of the evening…
“psssst .. you are cute. like a banana.”

A banana?!…I could go on, and TRUST ME, I am not writing this post to toot my own horn, because I am sure this happens to just about every girl on these sites.

The up side to all of this is that at least I’m home, watching So You Think You Can Dance in my comfy clothes and am not wasting any makeup or cute outfits on loooosers.

I decided to take the online dating bulls by the horn and sent out my first “wink” to a guy who’s profile was free from any horrendous grammatical errors, he even threw in some sarcasm, is geographically desirable (meaning close enough but not all up in my face, if you know what I mean), and…judging from the pictures, H-O-T. He is also in a band (this has been the death of me ever since I started dating). WEAKNESS for the tattooed rockstar type, YEP.

He responded and ASKED me if it was ok if he IM’ed me. Manners. I like. Talking to him now…

I asked him how the site is working out for him and he responded…“It’s been lame. It’s much better now.” Anyone laughing? Just me? Awwww…will keep you updated.

In the meantime…I just want to tell you all, because YOU are the ones who make my heart go pitter patter on a daily basis…that… you are all cute. Like a banana.
XOXO, Liz

Giveaway news coming tomorrow…I wanted to give it a few days to get my new domain all synched up!

Share/Bookmark

Happy Thursday lovelies!

Sooo…I’ve decided to go prance around online and see what happens! Thank you for sharing your stories and thoughs. I will DEFINITELY be blogging about my online dating adventures. Maybe I’ll start a weekly series or something, at the very least for entertainment value! I am doing my best to get back to all of you who commented on this post, I really appreciate your insights and know it’s personal to many of you…so I’m comin!

Isn’t this picture SO CUTE? I adore her.

I got a little frustrated last night at the blogosphere…but the situation has been resolved, and I think this is the perfect time for some link LOVE.

I feel like the baby jesus of blogland giveways is raining down upon us…did that even make any sense? There seem to be so many fabulous giveaways going on right now, so I want to give you a heads up to three of my favorite blogs/girls!

First, Dream Sequins is doing a giveaway so amazing, thoughtful and detailed I can’t even describe it, so you must go check it out…and you better hurry. Like go right now, the clock is ticking! It’s in honor of her 100th post! Dream Sequins is one of my new favorite blogs-she covers emerging fashion designers and stores, and is really just an all around doll.

Next, my lovely Iva at Iva Messy is doing two giveaways right now…one is a super cool printed scarf that I want, so actually don’t enter (kidding, goooo), and the other is a surprise!

Also, Ms. Chrystina at Whimsical Rose has a NARS giveaway happening in celebration of her 100th follower! Congratulations, darrrrrling!

Have you guys met my friend Daniel at Man, that’s fraiche! yet? I’ve mentioned him in a few of my posts…and now he has a blog! He is super unbeweavable-loves fashion, art, architecture, wine, CHEESE…If you like any of the above, I think you should stop by and say hello! He had me at “cheese.”

In Unbeweavable news, I have a huge hair post coming! I’m really excited! I’m wondering-WHAT HAIR QUESTIONS DO YOU HAVE? Let me know, and I’ll get them answered for you-I’m working with my fabulous celeb stylist on this one! This post will also include a fab giveaway, but I’m gonna let my girls shine for now!

I got my bangs back! Pictures coming in hair post! It was one of those spur of the moment things and I had images of Zooey Deschanel floating in my head, because you know how much I am obsessed with/want to be her.

I hope you all have a fabulous day!

GO LAKERS!!!

xoxo, Liz

(images via fffound and google)

Share/Bookmark

Calling all my lovelies!

It’s time for you to tell me if I should attempt online dating or not.

But this lil lady is ready to get out there, in one way or another…because I DO believe in true love.

Who knows, maybe it will end up like this! Or we’ll be on a match or eharmony commercial! Kidding…So? Yes or No Dollfaces?
Obviously if I get the green light, my online dating escapades and adventures will be chronicled here on It’s Unbeweavable for your pleasure and I’m sure, amusement.
Can’t wait to hear your thoughts!
XOXO, Liz

Share/Bookmark