Sad Day

After my stint at the gym (yeah I said GYM bitches) I decided to cool down and walk to Union Square and take the train home from there. That is when I saw the saddest site of my life.

Aldo's Liquidation shoe store in Union Square was having a Lease Sale... meaning GOODBYE!!!

I have a large obessession for Aldo's ever since I was 10 and was in Montreal with my parents and saw a pair of shoes in the window that I just had to have. I loved the European sizes because it was different, and I got to come home with things no one else had.

I mean it's not like can't get Aldo shoes anymore, but I can't get them for 10, 15 or even 20 bucks. Boo!

Soo... I'm thinking Zappo's? Online shopping is rad. Gotta go, Valley Girls is on VH1... Fer sure, totally awesome!!!!

-the nakedbuppie

It's Hump Day Bitches

Be proud y'all. I joined the gym and I didn't let them scam me. No I didn't. So I went in wanting to join for the advertised 19 dollars a month. They tried to roll me over with $150.00 sign up fees and all this and that, and I held firm at the $19 deal. Well what do you know. They get someone over to set me up and blimmey! They don't have the deal anymore. Now I'm all geeked and pumped to join the gym and get my booty on the elliptical and they literally burst my bubble. The manager did a bit of prodding (still, I hold firm) I said, no thanks to his membership rates and complained about just moving to the city and having a tiny flow of cashoola. Pshaw! I moved to the city 8 months ago (yet, my flow of money is tiny, teeeeeny tiny).

I finally got up to leave and he said, wait for it..... "How about 20.00 bucks to sign up, since that's all you have (he just HAD to slide that in there) and 43 bucks a month with the third year free?"

Now if you are savvy on the gym deals within the city, I believe mine is pretty rad. I have tri-state coverage and can go to any gym in the city. I believe that I have a great deal, especially knowing that some friends are paying 100 bucks just to run. Eesh.

Hooray for me.

Anyone going to Coachella and if so, HOW?

To Gym or Not to Gym ... there is no question. I must Gym

I need a gym. I've lived in this city for 8 months and I still haven't joined one. First I said,"Bah, I can work out in my living room." That never happened. Then I said, "I live right next to the river, (East River) I'll run along the path." That also never happened. Well it happened once and it was after spending the night before wide awake cleaning and unable to fall asleep. So I put on my PSU hoodie and headed out at 6:45am to watch the sun rise and do a sort of run/walk thing. Surprisingly I ran quite far. from 20th all the way to the Williamsburg bridge (Manhattan side) and then did two laps around this ginormous soccer field directly underneath it. It was nice. I felt like a runner for a hot second. I did the runner's nod when I passed by other runner/walkers. It's like a code or a special club. Although I did not belong. Lucky for me it was morning and I didn't have to worry about anyone watching my sad little 60 second run spurts followed by 3 minutes walks. Terrible. My high school soccer coach would probably look at me with disgust, yet it would be a mutual exchange cause this woman had varicose veins that looked like they were about to BURST a bloody mess. Blech.

I DIGRESS!

So with my pitiful salary I need to find a gym. I've researched the NY Sports Club, NY Health & Racquet Club, Equinox, and finally Bally's. I have heard the horror stories. "Bally's cheats you out of money, Bally's won't let you cancel your membership, Bally's steals your credit card info and still charges you after you've gone." But those commercials are killing me! (as you will see below)



Now in this commercial everyone's smiling, happy, jumping on the beach. Looking at the camera like, "oh this lil 6pack? Just took me a month, pshaw, wasn't hard at all." I know it will be a tough process, seeing that I havent been gym bound in.... let's not go there. BUT, it makes you wanna go out there and work out. So I'm thinking of trying it out. Plus its 19 bucks a month! By New York standards, that's downright free. So if I get scammed or ripped off, I'll be sure to let you all know.

Let's just see if I can even get my ass in to the gym on a regular basis. Then we'll see if I can be one of those happy smiling beach people and not a beached whale.

-the nakedbuppie

{Sniff, Sniff} Is that the Mercedes-Benz Fall 2007 FashionWeek I smell?

Fashion Week is upon us y'all. Skinny models who haven't eaten in months are ready to strut their itty bitty stuff for the extravaganza that is New York Fashion Week. This time sponsored by Mercedes-Benz. Snazzy eh? Well if you've been following me regularly, and I see you are, (my comments are LITERALLY overflowing) you will know that I will be parking my tush in front of the tele for a fun week of fashion shows. Courtesy of NYC TV's show Full Frontal Fashion. If you'd like to know everything and anything about this years fall fashion week, the website you must bookmark to save your life is Mercedes-Benz Fall FashionWeek. At this site you'll be able to do what you crazy NYC Fashionistas do best ... drool over clothes you will most likely never possess.

Enjoy!

Go here and here so that you can blow your mind ... fashion wise.

-the nakedbuppie

Lily's American Tour

I hope you all got your tickets for Lily, NYC, Webster Hall. It's going to be a great night, and I hope you all can make it.

And if you didn't get tickets for Webster Hall, Lily announced yesterday that she has an American tour goin on. To get more info go to Pitchfork Media.

That's all for now.

-the nakedbuppie