It’s that time of the week when giant sites like Gawker, Jezebel, and Perez send a shout out!! to their sponsors in a witty-but-yet-still-whorish way. After reading plug after obvious plug, we started to feel a little left out, so we’re gonna do it too.

A big OMG THANK YOU FOR KEEPING US ALIVE THIS WEEK to the following things:

* That House Vodka I Always Drink When I Go Out Because I’m Too Cheap To Drink Anything Else * Unsucky Episodes Of Saturday Night Live * Dunkin Donuts Employees Who Charge Me For A Small Coffee Instead Of The Medium I Actually Ordered * Miniature Chocolate Bars That Taste Better When Frozen *Lululemon Groove pants * Pillsbury Break and Bake Sugar Cookies (with the little Ghosts inside!) * Arrested Development on DVD *

I had seen the little symbol before: some weird upside-down horseshoe in a circle. My yoga instructor had even referenced them in the middle of class.

“Grab your legs, ladies. And don’t worry about stretching out those lululemons.”

I just never made any sort of connection. Lululemon? Is that some new way to refer to the va-jay-jay?

And then my sister in law brought me up to speed. Lululemon was a brand of workout apparel. The “best workout clothes around,” according to her; not to mention “super cute.”

“Lauren, they are seriously amazing,” she told me. “They are totally worth the money.”

So, when I was shopping with my mom this weekend and came across a brand new lululemon store, I decided to pop in and see what all the fuss was about. I sat my mom down in a chair and began sifting through the infamous black pants stacked neatly in little bamboo cubes.

I pulled out a pair labeled “tall;” simple black with some cute black diamond stitching at the top. They looked nice. Felt nice too. And then I saw the price tag. Read More »