If you’re reading this anywhere other than on my actual site, you need to click over rightthissecond because I have an entirely redesigned blog and I love it so much that I’ve completely lost track of reality and all I want to do is dance around naked to Damian Marley songs while staring at my blog on the biggest screen I can possibly find.
In other totally related news, I HAVE A JOB and that job is managing business operations for Shatterboxx Media (my roommate’s pimpass awesome graphic & web design company) and yes this means that she’s the one who designed my blog and yes this also means that in addition to living together, Jamie and I are also working together and I cook for her every night so basically we’re married without the sex. Which is to say that all I need from men at this point is the sex and maybe I should start taking applications for that. Or maybe I should stop making decisions based on how turned on I am by my new blog design. Or maybe I shouldn’t be typing this while drinking.
Either way, Jamie and I working together is kind of like a dream come true. And by “kind of,” I mean “eleventy thousand percent” because our creative process in action is nothing short of ridiculously incredible (or incredibly ridiculous).
Like, okay, so we’re making the navigation for my blog, right, and we’re using totally normal symbols like a girl for “the girl” page and a megaphone for “the shout out” page and then we get to “the book” and we’re all, “let’s do something totally random” and I suggest a tiny vagina and Jamie is like, “I don’t have a tiny vagina image,” and I’m all, “I’ll Google it” and then I start searching for “tiny vagina” and “tiny vagina image” and oh my god my advice to you is to NOT GOOGLE THINGS LIKE TINY VAGINA because you get entire pages of people asking questions like, “Is my tiny vagina hole normal?” and I’m all, “I don’t know, let me see it” but then I’m like, “NO I’M JUST KIDDING THE HORROR THE HORROR” and we opt for using a fishbowl instead.
But wait, look closely at the fish in the bowl for a second. Doesn’t it sort of look like a baby shark? What do baby sharks even look like? Are they just smaller versions of actual sharks?
You know what, no, let me pause before I spend the rest of the day looking up baby shark pictures and instead tell you about the fantastical fact that in honor of my joining Shatterboxx, Jamie and I are giving away one full custom blog design and that the giveaway starts right now and that all details can be found over on her blog and that the inclusion of your own baby shark is totally negotiable.
The end.
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Your new design is super sexy. Also, I can't win a blog design apparently because I'm not on wordpress. SADFACE. Plus, I hope when I move back to NYC I find a roommate who will either a) get me a job or b) cook for me every night. Or both! But I will take just one.
you should know that some of the words are cut out under the "subscribe via rss" button! sorry to pee on your parade =( oh and also some words are cut out under "internship with the bloggess" when you go to post a new comment.
Love the new design!!
Its like you are wearing a stupidly sexy pink&black cocktail dress but when you look at it, the parts that were pink&black are now black&pink! !! WTF? I am sure that there are other good points to the site, but I am too busy rolling my mouse over the "More is Better" logo, and trying to avoid the shark vagina.
The new design is amazing! Jamie does amazing work!
This is a test comment
This is a test vagina.
NOTHING TO FUCKING FUCK FUCK SEE HERE.
Also?
THIS THE BEST DAY
DAMNIT NICOLE I DON"T HAVE WORDPRESS EITHER AND THUSLY CANNOT WIN A NEW BLOG DESIGN. fuck and fuck.
in other news, glad life is treating you well. if you call your crazy ass adventures being treated well.
The new design is awesome. Like, really awesome. Good luck with the new job!
Hot design. Hot job. YOUR LIFE IS AWESOME!
Your new blog design is HAUTE. Loves, loves it.
OH MY GAWD, LOVE IT! I need to hire Jamie to revamp my site…clearly!
So nice, even though the "tiny vagina image" intro page lay lifeless on the cutting room floor.
Tragic.
Additionally…
"…all I need from men at this point is the sex and maybe I should start taking applications for that." – You. Above.
Umm, does this position pay? Or, rather, do some positions pay and not others? I mean is it a sliding scale based on degree of difficulty?
I mean, I don't need pay. I'd even be willing to split the contraception bill. I just need to know if I need to get a day job.
I'm thinking you should probably pay me.
[insert witty and wildly inappropriate comment about the awesomeness of my vagina here]
So, to recap, this is your official application then?
Please believe it.
This design wins. The end.
Super loving the new design!! Signed up for the mailing list and thinking this may be kismet as I've been thinking of doing an overhaul. Congrats on the j-o-b!!
Fuck.
I mean.
THIS IS THE BEST DAY
ahhh cute, I super love it!!
woah dude! it’s way cute in here now!
THERE IS SO MUCH PINK.
Nice blog:)
It is beautiful!
Holy moly, I really like it! I'm gonna win this blog design. I need a facelift over at mine.
I love it. And I want this blog design so bad I don’t know what I’m going to do. But it might be devastating.
love this! it is incredibly cute (if it's ok i say that – anything tiny (all your little images/symbols) is cute to me), totally hip and super awesome. congrats!
wooho! pink is always the answer. ALWAYS.
i love your face and your new design, but you already know all of this.
Your new design is teh hotness!
looks good but isn't rendering correctly in chrome browser. lots of the stuff on the left is trampling the stuff on the right
having the same problem w/ firefox (3.6 if that matters) but not ie. otherwise, i think it's supercute.
Congrats on the job! The new blog design rocks!
AMAZING. AMAZING!
Love the new design, wow! You must be thrilled to pieces =)
OMG I love the new look!!!
Lovity love it. I want a shiny new blog design. STAT.
This looks so good Nicole! It's so you.
Love the new design!!!
Congrats on the new job…and on the super sexy new blog design!
your design is like sex on the website
Love it gal!
you kill me. in a good way, of course.
congrats on the bitchin' new job! sounds like you guys will have a ridiculously amazing time.
Gorgeous new design. Good luck with the new job!
your new blog design is so fabulously sleek! jamie sounds like an amazing roomie.
I love the new design!! You constantly crack me up. I'm not on wordpress or I'd be all over the contest. One day I'll become a grown up blogger
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New design is nearly as gorgeous as your face. Which is, you know, saying a lot.
I love your new layout! Very clean and easy to follow. And I'm going to enter the giveaway now… I might need a new blog design. Everyone seems to be switching it up, and I feel left in the dust.
Love the new design, and congrats on the new job!
Eeee! You guys are now like fraternal Siamese twins via the internet! Is that even possible? Ha! Like I said on Jamie's post, I AM SO JEALOUS OF EVERYTHING right now. Probably more because I hate my job/life, but also because I LOVE you and wish that I was awesome enough to make all these things happen.
I'd like to reiterate: if you need anyone to exploit themselves for the sake of your business, I am RIGHT HERE waiting to be exploited. Maybe our strip club idea could send a portion of the profits to Shatterboxx. OR if the three of us strip there, we'll totally have enough money to make the business even MORE ridiculously incredible. We'd also be the hottest girls to ever strip ever ever in the history of stripping.
Sound good? I think yes. xoxoxo
I always feel like I should be drinking a glass of wine when I come read your blog, even though it is approximately 1:20 in the afternoon. I don't think a glass of wine at that time is wrong, I mean…it's not like it's going to keep me from doing the things I gotta do…
I'll be right back…
It looks amazing Nicole! Congrats on the job as well. xo
I just noticed your new design last night! LOVE it!!! Absolutely amazing!!
holy fucking awesomeness. seriously.
i seriously just laughed my ass off reading the tiny vagina story. for serious.
The new design is awesome – congrats!
Lovelovelove the new design! And congrats on the new job, too!
I want to be with you two always.
But I also think I'd be really tired a lot.
And fragile from learning so much about girl bits.
Awesome new layout. I love it. It definitely has that "so much pink I want to gouge my eyes out with a spoon feel". Which is to say that iti definitely has the feel of a very tiny, interwebs vagina.
Swoon! The new design is as gorgeous as you are!
I love the new design, Nicole! Congrats! You both are going BIG places. Seriously.
Love the new design!
You could do a Google Images seach and turn SafeSearch up to Strict. You might be able to find an image of a tiny vagina, but I'm at work, otherwise I would totally do all the hard work for you. And if this is successful, can I just win contest for the custom blog design without even entering?
So basically, to recap, you're too lazy to enter the contest and you love vagina?
Love the new design! I also really enjoyed the talk about the "tiny vagina!" Exactly what is a tiny vagina?
It's now REALLY REALLY pink! But love the symbols. Especially the wine bottle. And the fish trapped in a tragically small bowl.
So happy for you!!!
SF looks good on you
okay this new layout is amazing. i want to kiss it and then copy it and make it my own. too much? i didn't think so.
and high five for getting a sweet ass job. or maybe shots all around? either one works for me.
I love all the new icons, but I miss the photos and the big banner. The photos helped break up all the pink in my opinion, but maybe this will grow on me. Just like Playboy, I only read the articles anyway. Okay, maybe not.
Dude your blog design is BAD ASS. I love it. Jealous by like a million percent.
If this blog design was an 80's movie it would totally have Mollie Ringwald in it. PS – that's a good thing in my book. Then again, so are 80's movies in general.
Nicole the new design kicks ass! I hate to pink to be honest, but Jamie did an awesomesauce job with the site. I can't stop staring at it and I'm not subscribing to the site. I want to come back and see this design until I get sick of it. It's too fresh. Congrats on everything hun!
- Corvida
Ha, thanks lady! I'm thinking that if you can hate the pink and STILL love the design, clearly that's a testament to it's overwhelming awesomeness. Woo!
I like the new site design. Bravo! I noticed the fishbowl and was slightly confused and then intrigued. Like what does a fishbowl have to do with her book? Is this some sort of metaphor that I'm not getting? I then decided I needed the book. Brilliant work you diabolical genius.
Next up: world dominance via confusing fishbowls.
So like everyone has already stated the blog is badass.
Even though it's pink. >_>
(That is a fail to me because…I don't know, because I fail)
Ps.
I'm utterly in love with your baby shark in the fish bowl (even though I'm horrified of sharks in general) However, I'm more fascinated and in love with your title "More Is Better" because it changes from black to white when I move my mouse thing over it.
Which is epic.
super awesome amazing design!!!!! love!
Love the new look! It's awesome.
I LOVE YOUR NEW DESIGN, IT SOOOOOOOO CUTE & SEXY!!
I forgot to say Congratulations!!
HOT! I love it! SOOOOOO super sexy!
Your new design is totally awesome. I'm in love with it too!
Your spatting of the mouth is just giving me giggles. That is all.
Baby sharks and tiny vaginas are elated. They have to be.
Hahahaha.
And, amazing design!!!
I know we've already been through this, but I AM SO PROUD OF YOU. And I promise to stop failing with the phone updates soon because so many UMF! UMF! need to happen. I LOVE YOU! And I want a new web design, so you know. Enter that shit.
I LOVE it! Love and adore it! And I love that Nicole's favorites have a crown.
Fancy fancy. Loving the new digs. I love you more though.
These are ridiculous and stupidly exciting things. yaaay.
Big congratulations for the new job, and I'm loving the blog!!! Also, this world would be a boring place without the crap you can find while googling things
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I want to sleep with your blog.
Congrats on the job, and I adore the new blog design. Where can I get one?
First time commenter. I love your blog!
LOVE your new hair. Er, blog design. Shit.
Seriously, though – the two of you are pretty fucking amazing.
In all seriousness, I am in love. This shit is fabulous. Y'all are some talented betches.
Love you, love the digs.
I really wish i could just go have a beer with you. You have totally been my girl crush! Love the new look.
I like your new design. I'm on wordpress…but somehow confused about the other stipulations involved to qualifying for a new blog design. Damn.
I live and work with my roommate as well. We jokingly call each other husband and wife. So basically all we need from men as well is the sex.
The new site looks great. I like the pink as well.
WordPress only?!?! Booo to blog discrimination! Although, I imagine it'd be pretty easy for us to spruce up FIWK if we ever go off our lazy asses…