Movin' on up!

I must say, work has been going really well lately. Yesterday I received the following award for all my dedication and "outside the box" thinking. It now hangs proudly in my office:

This type of validation was truly unexpected. I mean, it's an honor just to be nominated for something like this. Next year I look forward to being a presenter.

Art is in the Eye of the Beholder.

And this is the most innovative series I have seen in a long long time.

Introducing the Tom Selleck Waterfall Sandwich Series.

Featured Sandwich: Shrimp Po' Boy

Featured Sandwich: Panini

Featured Sandwich: Caprese

To view more of this amazing exhibit, coming soon to an art museum near you, visit: http://selleckwaterfallsandwich.tumblr.com/

The Great Doppelganger Test.

As you may know, it is Doppelganger week on Facebook. Why? Who knows...in fact, it was probably just a rumor someone started to see how far it would go. But it certainly is quite a revealing little social experiment.

Here is the status message that has been circulating: "It’s Doppelganger Week: change your profile picture to a shot of a celebrity that you’ve been told that you look like. Cut/paste this msg. to your status. Have fun!"

Exhibit A: Some people take it for what it is, posting photos of people who actually do resemble them - a truly rare feat since not many of us look like celebs, and therefore are not celebs.

"Pregnant Adriana Lima??"

Loves it girl!!

Exhibit B: Others have fun with the absurdity of it all, and post absolutely hilarious matches in the name of bringing their friends joy and laughter.

Exhibit C: And then there is that very special breed that gives us insight into their psyche - and possible neurosis - by posting photos of celebs they painfully wished they looked like, or even WERE, with all their heart and soul.

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*Although I have several other examples of Exhibit C,

I believe it is in my best interest to keep them to myself.

I fell into the Exhibit B category, posting this stunningly ___(adjective)___ photo of Tilda Swinton since my boyfriend LD said "I can't think of anyone you look like...maybe Tilda Swinton?" Grrrr....

Needless to say this photo recieved a lot of witty comments from friends and provided for a full day of entertainment.

Then, last night before bed, I decided to take it up a notch and posted this photo of the Heidi Montag 3.0, the "circus freak" edition:

Upon waking this morning I had 3 Facebook friend requests from sketchy foreign men!! THREE!! They obviously have no idea who the woman in this photo is since she is solely an American tabloid celeb, but it was freaking wierd. I get an average of 1 random male friend request a month with my regular face - and I got zip, zero, nada with Tilda. Sigh.... 

So thus begins THE GREAT DOPPLEGANGER TEST:

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  For 48 hours I will leave the photo of "circus freak" Heidi on my FB page.
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  I am choosing 48 hours so I can keep it up over a Friday evening, when many a lonely man likely peruses FB for virtual female companionship.
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  I will then return to The Silvey Lining on Saturday and post the photos and locales of all the skechy men who friended the big-boobed fake version of me.

Stay tuned! This should be quite enjoyable. :)

I'm back. Now get me out of here.

First and foremost, I apologize for hibernating for the past 2 months.

Second, I apologize for being enough of an egotist to think that anyone noticed or cared.

Life has been a damn stress sammich lately - as anyone who kept up with political news, celebrated the holidays with family, or watched the NFL Playoffs knows. Yes. I'm talking to me.

But, my plebian life must go on. I made a commitment to blog, and I must stick to that commitment. My 15 followers are waiting with bated breath, and boy do I have a lot of juicy nuggets socked away for my big comeback.

That's right...with a nice collection of Teriyaki Nugget Jumbo Bags from Costco, I am snack-ready and getting back to the blogging grindstone.

As you may know, yesterday was Groundhog Day. I knew this because I saw that they were playing Groundhog Day on Bravo all day instead of Real Housewives of Orange County, which was really quite shocking.

Chunky little Phil saw his shadow, and to that end we are slated to get 20 inches of snow this weekend. PHEW! Thank goodness it's happening on a Saturday - per the usual - and not on a week day when Washingtonians would be stuck at home, possibly without blackberry service, and unable to meet for lunch/coffee/drinks!! That would just be wrong. Why would God ever deprive us of what we love best - networking - in the name of a carefree, old school snowday. He simply wouldn't think of doing something so rash!!

"Dummm dee Dumm Dumm."

Well, I damn well wish he would.

Bring on the snow! Bring on the cable outages! Bring on the Antiques Road Show marathons on PBS, snow angels and hot toddies!! BOOO on memos and deadlines. Boo on e-mail. It is soooo passe.

I think many of us twenty/thirty-somethings in Washington have more in common with Bill Murray than we ever thought possible, even if we're afraid to admit it.

"Where the hell am I going and who the hell said you could drive?"

It is the rare rare breed who actually finds it in themselves to admit that a rabid animal has taken the wheel of their life, and chooses to call the exterminator.

Simplify is the operative word.

That is why I am so proud to call Peach - whom you all know and love - one of my best friends. We had a wonderful visit this last weekend when she came into town for the MARIAH CAREY CONCERT (Oh yes we did!!), and we spent the days reminiscing about days gone by. And although hindsight is often 20/20, these joyous chats and fun-filled evenings could not eclipse the truth: Washington D.C. sings a sweet siren song to bright-eyed young politicos - but if you're not careful, it will chew you up and spit you out.

I hope Peach's personal tale will speak to you the way it spoke to me:

Peach: "So want to hear something weird? When I was living in D.C. at like this time last year and was working like 7 days a week and so stressed, I started finding grey hairs. I became obsessed with finding them and pulling them out. Well, yesterday I saw the tip of a grey hair!! So, I pulled it out, and the root is red, but halfway down the middle it goes grey and I think the midpoint is when I moved to SF and stopped having stress!!! But that's not the weirdest part... the weirdest part is that I can't stop looking at this half red, half grey hair that represents my move to SF and I taped it onto my printer.... so if anyone comes into my office they'll see a hair taped on my printer at my desk! AHHHH, I'm a freak.”

"lolling there in their meadow,

round them heaps of corpses rotting away,

rags of skin shriveling on their bones."

- The Odyssey