Go Buffs

The value of a CU degree continues to be high. Payscale.comand Forbes.com have rated a CU bachelor's degree among the top 20 degrees nationally for earning power, and a USA Today/Princeton Review analysis rates CU-Boulder as one of the top five best values in all of American higher education.

Happy Friday

I'm going to have an exciting weekend of studying for finals and working... luckily the weather seems like it will cooperate with temperatures in the 50s accompanied with some rain. It's a race to the finish, which lands on Cinco de Mayo (so perfect). Enjoy your weekend, and enjoy not having finals in the real world!

GOOP

GOOP is a strange word. It kind of makes me think of hair products, or jelly, but definitely something I don't want to interact with. That is, until I saw this blog, created by the beautiful and elegant Gwyneth Paltrow. Gwyneth was busy filming movies in Paris while her friends were going to college keg parties, and when they were buying their first house, she has already bought hers years before. Because of her many life experiences she became to go to gal for her friends on where to eat, stay, play, when traveling, how to remodel a bedroom, etc. After a while she realized that this information might be helpful to people other than her close circle of friends, thus she started GOOP (a nicknamer her friends gave her long ago). I haven't explored it too much, but I did read a section on where to dine with kids, (I don't know why, I don't have kids and don't plan on having them for a while) the website seems like it has a lot to offer and I can't wait to explore it more!

pick one

check THIS out.

dibs

i want. i need! too out there? too trendy? too perfect?

time teller

Watches might me one of my new favorite accessories. Not to mention it's a practical accessory as well. I love Marc Jacobs & Michael Kors, but everyone seems to have them on their wrists already. Nixon is a less traveled path with some great options (with great names too). Nixon makes watches for ladies and gentleman, but ladies, be sure to check out the gentleman's section too.

Current: The Private SS

Future: The Kensington Leather

Dream: The 42-20 Chrono

pickles

I have a simple obsession with elephants. I love them. I want to see them in the wild, and I want a pet baby elephant as soon as possible. I guess I will have to buy a safari ranch in Africa as a place for it to live, and it's name will be Pickles. Until I can accomplish all these goals, and have an elephant of my own, I have found my next overseas vacation destination: The Mfuwe Lodge in South Luangwa National Park (Zambia). The lodge is built next to a mango grove, and every November elephants stop by for a visit. If you stay at the hotel in late November you are more than likely to see elephants mid-migration in the hotel lobby and around the grounds, eating mangos and just hanging out.