Shake - Legal App for Freelancers

“Think back to the last time you signed a legal agreement. Did it stress you out? Did it make you feel uncomfortable? Did it cost you a lot of money? If you’re like us, you probably answered YES to most of those questions. It’s a shame and it doesn’t need to be this way.

Our mission is to make the law accessible, understandable and affordable for consumers and small businesses. We want to empower our users to share ideas, goods, and services without the fear of being stiffed for a freelance gig or putting their business at risk.”

— Mission Statement of Shake Law

This is basically an app that freelancers have been waiting EONS for. It allows you to create, sign and send legally binding documents (with no lawyers involved) in a matter of minutes. Unfortunately it's only available for iPhones at the moment, but the second it isn't? I'll let you know. You can check it out here. 

Cop Gets High Video

Listen, I know this is old as hell (Jesus, it's seven years old) but it still ranks high amongst the best things that I've seen on YouTube. Always makes me laugh. (I realize this is very mom-like of me to post something so old, but man. I can't help it, I'm sorry. I have to JUST incase you're one of the weirdos who've never seen it.)

“I have a towel that I can’t throw out because it may have feelings.”

— the movie, 'Dedication'

Gross Confession of the Day

This will be a new segment where I will divulge one of my gross personal habits. I’m pretty judgemental about the things I tell you to do and like, I realize - so to balance that out, I figured this would be a welcome addition and reminder of the fact that I’m just as gross as everyone else.

Confession #1:
I don’t wash my bras. I think I’ve washed maybe four bras in my entire life. And each time I did it - it took FOREVER ‘cause I did it in the sink, so that’s pretty much why I refuse to do it again. Too time consuming, can’t be bothered. (This does not include sports bras, I’m not a mutant.)

(I was about to lie to you and go, “Oh, but it’s no big deal ‘cause I buy a billion bras and throw them away so often, so it doesn’t make a difference!” but I stopped myself. Because I value you and you deserve to hear an honest account of my repugnant behaviour.)

(Confession #2 can be found over here.)

Kee's Chocolate in NYC

If I'm not eating these chocolate truffles or these cake truffles, I shall most likely be eating these guys. I've been wanting to try them for awhile since every chocolate-loving person existing in New York City has mentioned this place to me. 

If that picture above doesn't make them look appetizing, well, I took it - so my apologies. They're actually ridiculously tasty. 

Was it smart of me to go and buy some chocolates here three days before Valentine's Day? Nope, not at all. The ones I really wanted to try (the crème brûlée, the keylime, the balsamic and the blended pepper) were of course sold out. But thankfully, the ones above were available and sublime. 

I completely understand why people won't shut up about this place. Even the bad-sounding flavours are crazy good. Go. Eat them. You can see all the flavours they have here. 

Long Hair Ponytail Trick Via Pinterest

One of my New Year's resolutions was to actually try at least two Pinterest pins a month. (Does that seem like I'm aiming pretty low with only doing two? I think it does, but two is better than my usual one-a-year.)

Anyway, I just tried this one and I loved it. Also, it ups my hairstyles-to-leave-the-house-in quota to a whopping THREE HAIRDOS. So that's big news, guys. You should try the hell out of this because it makes you look goddess-like. 

Sidenote: I am in no way saying that this hairstyle made me look like a goddess. I've looked like a goddess for many years now.

Movie To See - Dallas Buyers Club

Before I begin, I purposely didn't attach the trailer to this post because it makes it better if you don't really know what the movie's about. I summarized the plot to someone the other day and realized that I made it sound way less good than it actually is. So by learning that lesson, I'm not going to say much here. 

What will I say? Only that I really didn't expect it to be watchable/great/notable-in-the-slightest and I was surprised by how good it was. Definitely see this.

(If you're thinking, "This is barely a post, Liz" - well, all right. That's fair. Sometimes you don't need to be so wordy. Sometimes a good movie is just a good movie.)

“If you can see your toothbrush from the toilet... yikes. This is awful. Please store that brush in a place that’s somewhat hidden (ie. medicine cabinet) from all the gross things that become airborne in there.”

— #lizadvice

Night Court in NYC

I've gone to night court twice and I've gotta say - it's actually kind of a neat thing to do in this city. Neat and free. I didn't even know this was something that the public could attend, so of course I was into the idea after first reading about it. 

Does this seem like a crass thing to want to go to? In any case, I really wanted to go purely to see what kinds of crimes most people were in for, since that seemed the most interesting to me - and it was. Some people were brought it just hours after their arrest (those were the more heated cases) and it was definitely something to see. Lot of assault cases. One guy lit someone on fire. Just madness. Definitely go and see for yourself if this kind of thing intrigues you at all. It's crazy that they just let you in to witness this stuff.