I want to blog more.

I feel like I always have things I want to talk about but then never do. Thus maybe here's where I should do it. Air my greivances, ideas, mumblings, etc.

So first of all I just want to update on my google favorites. I don't know what it is, it's just the constant state of flux seems indicative of how I feel. Maybe I'll talk about myself more in a future post. I have no idea.

1000 Awesome Things I've talked about this previously. I've been here since thing like 950 or something and now it's on #610 so I'll be here until they get to thing 1 or stop updating. Whichever one comes last.

50 JDates So this blog is about a 26 year old jewish woman who took a break from her goyim (non-Jewish) boyfriend to date 50 jewish men to try and find her beshert (soulmate). It's aweosme to read her forays into mostly internet dates and the pitfalls and wins along the way.

My college's blackboard site. Gack. I go here to get notes and grades and homework. You don't want to go there so no links

Cake Wrecks These guys make me laugh with their comedic writting style and the pathetic examples of actual "professional" cakes

Calorie Counter yep I still count calories and I'm still fat. However I have an addictive personality and can't stop.

DAR Yeeeeeeeah... WARNING don't go here if you're uncomfortable with cartoon penises and talking about sperm haha. It's the autobiographical comic of an artist that's stretches half a decade. It covers her lesbianism, discovery of a boy she likes, living in portland, marriage, sexual exploits, random thoughts, etc. It updates weekly it seems, so there's a really good chance I'll find some other way to follow.

Dispatches from the Island Do you watch Lost? Do you love Hurley? Then follow the actor Jorge Garcia's blog. He seems so sweet and funny and nice. :)

Facebook What do you want from me? I'm in college and I need easy access so I can harvest Farmville crops or Cafeworld food or Mafia Wars rackets. Have I mentioned I have an addictive personality? Should have never started playing, I can't stop

The Frisky I love this blog. The staff there writes about things I want to read about. Sure I don't agree with all of it, but who will agree with everything ANYONE does? I like reading about clothes, scandals, politics, sex, celebrities, health, television, etc.

Hijab Style I love hijabis. I don't know what it is, but when it's done in a modern yet still observant way I just can't tear my eyes away. I also am toying with the idea of wearing hijab when I study abroad. So I want to look pretty when I do so. Plus without a headscarf many of the outfits are still so cute and modest. I'm not comfortable showing off 6/7ths of my naked skin, so if it's good enough for hijabis it's good enough for me

KimDonesia This is a new return. After Kim's much discussed and controversial rejection of Islam she sort of dropped off the face of the planet so her blog disappeared. Thus I removed it. But now she's returned to blogging and I'm back to absorb some of that quirky and funny attitude. The subjects she writes about now are radically different from before however she still seems to have the same essence her writings always had before. So eff anyone that says she's "completely different" or any mumbo jumbo like that. If you can't handle a change of religion and someone's free choice then you never looked past their religion to who they were. That's quite intolerant.

Memoirs of a Jewminicana So I'm also taking Hebrew now and thus have been looking at blogs that are related to Judaism. So one that I found and particularly took a shining to was one by Aliza Hausman who is a Dominican convert who is currently married to a rabbinical student. I like it as it's interesting to hear about her issues with not being ethnically jewish within the jewish community.

Modblog This is where I go to see cool tattoos and piercings. Not so into the suspensions, scarification, and really bizarre things. But love seeing things I normally wouldn't. WARNING: Frequent nudity and blood

Neatorama Want to read neat stuff? Go here. I started three and a half years ago and never stopped.

Nubbytwiglet I'm drawn to interesting souls, what can I say? So Nubby is a graphic designer living in Portland that updates the world on her work, unique outfits, and is just generally pretty cool in my opinion.

People of Walmart So to tell you the truth I've never seen anyone particularly interesting in Walmart. However I must not be looking hard enough. Also this blog always makes me feel just a little better about myself.

Slice of Lemon I love Sabrina. I love how fun, carefree, funny, and honest she is. I love reading about her and her husband "The Boss" and their new house in LA and them discovering their new life together. :)

Trailer Addict I love movies. I love movie trailers. I love Trailer Addict. End of story.

Twilight Source Yep. I'm one of THOSE girls. I'm addicted it's like crack to me. I started out thinking that Twilight was stupid and then read the books and couldn't put them down. Again, addictive personality I'm telling you.

Hegab-Rehab and more specifically Ange's private blog about her life and marriage "I Married a Masri". This girl is fearless about what she says. She's not afraid to swear and talk about anyone and anything in the bluntest terms possible. Plus hearing about her dealings with her Arab friends, families, and acquaintances makes me laugh and smile.

Anyway, I know this was dumb and two favorites posts in a row was redundant. But they were a longtime apart and they've changed some. Plus this was actually pretty revealing and cathartic because it made me reconsider what I actually use and look at everyday and groom accordingly.

I promise a real update soon though. However I'll be going back home form uni soon for winter holidays and my internet situation is quite sketchy there. HOWEVER: I'll make a New Years resolution right now to blog more. Not because I want 600 followers or anything, but because I need an outlit for my feelings and thoughts. Besides I'm such a consumer of blog content but have no offerings of my own. Who knows where this blog will go. Hopefully nowhere but up.

My Bookmarks

I thought it might be interesting to share my bookmarks. I check these everyday and sometimes even more than that. I use google bookmarks specifically and so that means that I only have 27 bookmarks at a time. This way you can see them all at once. So every once and awhile when I find something new I want to bookmark I switch it out.

These are in alphabetical order as opposed to anything else. If you get to this page for whatever reason, you should totally check some of these out.

• 1,000 Awesome Things
  It's a blog counting down the 1,000 awesome things. It's currently only on #715, so there's a couple more years out of this. But it's amazing. It's almost like these writers got inside my own head and guessed all of the little things in life that I love. Some gems include
  #724 Placing the last piece of the puzzle
  #999 That last crumby triangle in a bag of potato chips
  #876 Taking your bra off after wearing it for hours
  Those might not be awesome to you but I promise that there will be something that you love.
• Blackboard-UNC
  I'm not going to link this one. But it's my school's blackboard site, that's all. Where I go to look at my class syllabus during the year or print out my notes or print out my homework
• Cake Wrecks
  Have you seen this yet? It is amaaaazing. Plus the people who write this are hilarious times a million. The blog features pictures sent in of professionally made cakes that look like craaaaaaap. Either because the design was made badly or especially for awful spelling or handwriting. Just check it out. I can not caption these like they can.
• Calorie Count
  Kind of self explanatory. I sort of keep really good track of what I eat lately. And this website is amaaaazing. It has easy to use tools and also has things like a recipe analyzer and you can submit your own foods and use them time and time again. I also really love the forums and such. If you're interested in things like that than please at least try this website.
• Chictopia
  A site where users submit pictures of their outfits or even their inspirations. I love seeing what people have put together and even have gotten good ideas from it. I'm new to it but I really like it so far.
• Dispatches from the Island
  So I'm sure anyone reading is at least familar with the show Lost. Well one of it's stars Jorge Garcia, who plays Hurley/Hugo has a blog. I love it because it's sort of photo-centric. I love his little pictures from his life and his travels. He seems just as sweet as his character.
• Dumb Little Man
  A blog with advice on living a better life. A lot of it is common sense but there are quite a few little things that are awesome to see and are designed to make life easier and simpler.
• Facebook
  I'm sure you know what this is. And you're probably on it. But I like having a quick little bookmark to get to it quickly.
• The Frisky
  A delightful little website that has all sorts of awesome little articles about frivilous things like fashion, celebs, interesting things. I mostly like it because it's entertaining and it updates often. It's a guilty pleasure to tell you the truth.
• Gary: Landlord of the Flies
  Please read this (FROM THE BEGINNING!) to read the most hilarious account of a guy dealing with a crazy redneck landlord

Okay first I'm going to have to break to explain something:
So I'm not Muslim and really have no plans to become one. I do really respect the religion though. But as an Arabic major I do plan to study abroad in the Middle East at some point. I plan on wearing hijab while I'm there. But when I started looking at hijab style blogs i found three hijab style blogs and found that I really enjoyed their writers. So I still have the blogs bookmarked today. Okay back to my explanations

• Hijab Style
  This is an excellent hijab style blog written by a Muslimah in England. It has excellent editorials from papers around the world. Also runway inspirations and Muslimah Style pictures sent in by readers.
• Gives Me Hope
  Well for those familar with FMyLife there's now a version for optimists. It has heart warming stories that really do give you hope. I love it
• Instructables
  So this site has step by step instructions on how to do almost anything you could possibly want to know how to do. They're submitted by users and it's awesome. They have things like crafts, recipes, home decorations, tons of awesome stuff.
• Modblog
  This one is definitely not for everyone. It has pictures of body modifications. Everything from tattoos to piercings. Also scarification and suspensions (not a big fan of those by the way) as well. But it's just nice to see the beautiful tattoos that they show on the site but also some of the piercing projects. Beautiful pictures of gorgeous alternative folks. What more could you want? (If you're into that sort of thing of course...)
• My Boss is Michael Scott
  This site is hilarious. Stories that really do sound exactly like the show the Office. Worth a look. Wish it updated more often.
• Neatorama
  I've been looking at this website everyday for several years. It updates often and posts truly neat news.
• Nubby Twiglet
  I like this blog because it's interesting to read the posts this blogger writes about. She's a graphic designer with great fashion and she always posts visually appealing pictures and posts.
• Twilight Saga Daily Dose
  So this is the most embarassing one. But for the purposes of full disclosure I'm going to be honest. I'm a Twilight fan. Pretty hard in fact. But this site just has little Twilight updates about New Moon and the stars and yeah. Embarassing. Thank you in advance for not making fun of me
• Slice of Lemon
  My second Muslimah blog. This blogger is such a lovely, smart, funny lady. She blogs about hijabi fashion as well as just small happenings in her life in DC and now LA. I can't get enough of her stories.
• Style Rookie
  This fashion blog is done by a style conscious 13 year old. She has just about the most unique sense of style I've ever seen, especially with someone so young. That's why it's just so fabulous. She also talks about other little things in her life. Plus she's so funny as well.
• Surviving the World
  This guy writes advice and just funny little quips and observances about life. All on a chalkboard. So it's almost like a live action web comic.
• Journal Promps Library
  I sometimes just like to have verbal diarrhea. So I just write whatever comes to mind. Sometimes this helps me with that. Just a ton of thought provoking journal prompts.
• Obameter
  So I'm a liberal, but I still really enjoy this website that's tracking Obama's progress on issues and promises he made during his campaign. Keeping politicians honest is always a good thing.
• The State of Virginia
  So I'm not going to link this one either because I'm sure it'd embarass my friend Virginia if strangers were being lead to it to read it. But she's one of my best friends at school and she was in Southeast Asia all summer so it was interesting to read about her travels. I hope she continues during the school year.
• UNC-Chapel Hill Secrets Project
  This site is awesome. It's secrets anonymously submitted and posted of UNC Student's secrets. I love reading them and thinking about the fact that I could have class with the kids that write these or pass them on campus. It's amazing to know people's secrets
• Trailer Addict
  I love watching movie trailers. So this site is amazing. It updates pretty often and it also posts the little TV spots and extras from all over.
• Hegab-Rehab
  My third hijab blog. Written by a hilarious Australian blogger. She's a Muslimah convert/revert. She posts all sorts of modern hijabi outfits, including ones with abayas, proving that they don't just have to be gigantic black capes. Although they can be if you want yours to be so :)
  Also on this link are the links to her other blog and her novel in progress. The other blog is called "Mama I Married a Masri" about non-style related parts of her life. Also you can get a link to her book, Jacaranda Secret, she's working on and posting parts online. It's amazing.

So now you can see a glimpse at my online life.

Jealous and Popcorn

Why does this fat cat get all of that popcorn?

I want loads of popcorn please. It's my favorite food, so whole buckets worth would be excellent.

Whenever I go to the movies now I get the large bucket and then on my way out of the theater I get the free refill. That way I get three times the popcorn for a dollar more than the medium I usually share with a friend. This way I also get to enjoy awesome movie theater popcorn at home. I love eating the best popcorn on earth while laying in bed and reading.

Aaaaaaaaaah wonderful.

Mind Dump... that's why I'm here

Okay, so I've had this idea for awhile, that I just wanted some little corner of the web to call my own and then just write whatever came to mind and just tell people what was on my mind, what I was thinking and maybe even how my day was going.

I don't expect anyone to read it. I just want to write it.

So a quick about me if you happened to stumble upon this blog;

• My name is Arielle, pronounced like R-E-L. Hence why my handle on my sites online is relright. Very similar to the name of this blog as it is now; Arielle, Right? Get it? Get it?
• I at this moment in the summer of 2009 just recently finished my freshman year at UNC-Chapel Hill.
• I major in Arabic and am quite interested in many languages. I'm taking Hebrew this coming semester and have hopes of taking some Farsi and Turkish before I leave school as well.
• I don't know what I want to do with my life right now. But I do know that I want to travel.
• I'm single. And looking. haha. I'm sure I'll talk about things relating to such looking at a later date.
• I'm not sure how censored or edited this blog will really be. I kind of want it to be a mind dump where I can just write what's on my mind. But I'm also a rather secretive person. So who knows what will win in the end.
• If anyone at any point for some reason would like to design me a better layout or something that would be awesome. But really I don't really think anyone will do that.
• And I'm sure you'll find plenty out about me later. I just wanted to get this started.