Graduating!!!!! or Oh crap I'm graduating

Literally graduating in 3 weeks. Holy balls what am I going to do? That's all I've got.

Susan Boyle...

All I can say is that if I was one of those people in the British Idol crowd rolling my eyes at Susan Boyle, before she sang, I would hate my life right now. Goes to show you that you ALWAYS need to be careful because this world we live in is so transparent. At any point in the day you could be filmed and be put on youtube for millions to see. 

With that said, I think there is OBVIOUSLY a great lesson to be learned here. What has your mother always told you? "Don't Judge a Book by its Cover!" Let this be a reminder to all.

Product Placement Advertising

Okay so I have been watching 90210 for 20 minutes and have already seen a Dr.Pepper can 3 times, have heard the name Dr.Pepper twice, and have seen the logo twice. Also commercials spots are flooded with Dr.Pepper Cherry. There is such a thing as over-doing it! Dr. Pepper is dangerous close to alienating their consumers ..... this is coming from a die hard diet dr. pepper drinker too!!!

Show me that "Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name...." commercial and I jump for joy! I love that commercial. Stay with that advertising campaign and get away from product placement that is so darn obvious!

I still love you Dr. Pepper :)

Web and Advertising 2.0

Advertising and Web 2.0 is a thing of the past...... That is what an interactive guest speaker from Fallon spoke to my class about today and she had some great points. The first thing and most distressing part about web 2.0 is that it is UGLY! Look at it, you will be shocked! Compared to the beautiful advertising layouts we create for television and magazines it is shocking how ugly the internet can be.

Web 2.0 was designed to bring people together and share thoughts and ideas. It definitely has done that. We are more connected now than ever before. Shall we call the future Web and Advertising 3.0 ..... ? Well this is where the advertisers are going to step-in and make everything beautiful. Fallon has just recently launched a site that they hope will jump start this 3.0. The site is called Skimmer. It ties all your Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, fickr, ect together into one site. It is also pretty! 

I for one am happy about this new future of the internet!

Confessions of a ....

I just finished reading Confessions of a Shopaholic, a little late I know.... Anyways, it got me thinking about what else I am a _aholic of. Shopping, yes but I am working on it being that the probability of getting a job after a graduate is slim to none! I still wonder the Galleria and 50th and France shops religiously though. I think about just using my credit card, but where would that leave me a month from now? 

What else am I an _aholic of? Well I am definitely a diet coke-aholic and a House Hunters-aholic. What about you?

What is the deal with every television commercial, radio spot, and news story mentioning 'this terrible down spinning economy'? It is depressing! The goal right now is to jump start the economy with consumers purchasing 'american' products right? Well when all the media outlets are talking about how bad the economy is and how it is not getting any better the last thing I want to do is go out and spend more money. What an interesting experiment this would be....If all the media outlets stopped covering the depressing economy for just one week would spending go up? I bet it would! The media is so powerful, it could help get us out of this crisis. 

Therefore, we need to stop using phrases like 'these tough times'. This article talks about this concept ..... http://tiny.cc/5xDoL

Balancing Life...

I consider myself a fairly well-rounded individual with a good head on my shoulders. Lately I have been feeling a bit out of the loop though. In high school I was always out with friends doing things I hope to god my kids never do! I had a blast in high school! I also met my best friend. Unfortunately I cannot say that I am still close with her. She went off to school in a different state and we rarely speak, and when I say speak I mean a quick facebook message. Needless to say, we had some crazy times..... The times I will remember for the rest of my life. Songs still come on the radio that remind me of some crazy night with her. Whether we were out with friends or staying in watching shark week drinking tea we were always laughing and having the best time. 

I can guarantee that a number of my friends, if asked, would say that their favorite time in their life would be their four years at college. I also enjoyed college very much, but I never found those special people. I joined a sorority my freshman year and loved every minute of it. There was always something going on and the girls were all amazing in their own ways. There always seems to be that one girl that just ruins it though. She was the girl that everyone wished was not there but had to pretend to like because she was entertaining and funny...the life of the party. By college I was sick of all the drinking and partying. I had been there and done that, but a number of my friends had not. They were overwhelmed by the craziness and did not know their own tolerance levels. I would go out to protect them and make sure everyone made it home okay. My sophomore and junior year were the best. We went out and had fun. By this point people knew how much was too much. Unfortunately by my senior year I was over it. I no longer cared to participate in sorority functions. It was constant drama and I was over it. I have been spending every waking minute with my boyfriend this year. It has been great, but of course I miss my girl time. I do not miss college life though. I want my high school best friend back. What do you do when you realize you made a wrong choice? 

I was hosting this past week and a table randomly asked me if I could go back and change one thing in my life what would it be? I knew hands down that I would have gone away for college and kept in touch with my best friend.