I love the holidays and all, but there is one thing about this time of year that really, really sucks – most of our favorite TV shows are going on hiatus.  I mean, how am I supposed to get by without my weekly Finn Hudson fix thanks to the lack of new Glee episodes?   Luckily, the glee gang gives us something to hold on to in their absence: tons of amazing music.

There’s a Glee song that can be applied to pretty much every situation and we’ve done the hard work for you and come up with a pretty solid list.

What to listen to when you’re really excited about a new crush:

What to listen to when you’re getting ready for a night out:

What to listen to you when you’re getting ready to tell off your douchebag ex:

What to listen to when you’re getting ready to take a fabulous trip:

What to listen to when you’re falling in love:

What to listen to when you’re sad about anything at all:

What to listen to when you’re pissed off:

What to listen to when you’re trying to fall asleep:

What to listen to when you’re feeling nostalgic:

What to listen to when you’re in the mood for…”love”:

For a long time, I thought Newport News was a total “mom store” with terribly outdated and, well, momish stuff.  Then, a few months ago  I noticed some of their stuff in mags like Lucky, InStyle and Glamour and realized that they actually had some super cuteness going on.

Since then I’ve bought several items from them and they’re not only stylish and well-made, they’re great for a gal on a budget. Which is me. And you.

I combed the entire website and found so many adorable things, many for under $20, but here are my top 8, MySpace style:

I love simple jersey dresses for their comfort and versatility…you can wear this with flip flops/sandals, flats, wedges or super sexy heels for a totally different look every time (not to mention, it comes in a wide array of colors).

This peasant style top is a great way to change it up from that basic tee and it looks great with everything from jeans to pencil skirts to wide leg trousers (and once again it comes in a great range of colors).

Leopard print is all over the place this season and this tank (which comes in a pack of 2; 1 print & 1 black) is the perfect way to incorporate this trend into your wardrobe. Wear it by its lonesome or under a boyfriend blazer or blazer.

Close-toed wedges are a great shoe for fall and early winter and with the ankle strap, they look super cute with tights.  They have them in a deep red that is perfect for this fall’s red trend.

I love the cut and sleeves of this tunic – totally unique from any other tunics lining your closet. It will look great with that summer tan, some skinny jeans or leggings and a cute pair of flats, boots or heels.

This sweater may look a bit frumpy at first glance, but it has potential to not only be super comfy and cozy come fall/winter, but it’ll also look super cute with a pair of skinny jeans and some riding boots.

Bangles are a great way to jazz up a basic ensemble and I love the woven texture of this one. Plus, at under $5, it’s really hard to say no.

It’s all about going girlie this season with lace, ruffles and other feminine details and this shirt incorporates both lace and ruffles. Hello, more trend for your buck! It’ll look great on it’s own with some fun accessories, or under a cardi or cropped blazer.

Yeah, so clearly we’ve all missed the memo on Newport News. This store will most definitely be in my “online shopping while extremely bored in lecture” rotation. You might want to add it, too.

However, if you play your cards right, you can find great success after college. Sure, some of us will spend years after college struggling to pay off student loans and going on interview after interview, sometimes for entry-level jobs we are overqualified for but still can’t seem to nab. But some of us are on the brink of making headlines, like these uber-successful post-grad powerhouses have done in recent years.

1. Lin-Manuel Miranda

Lin-Manuel Miranda went to Wesleyan University in Connecticut, a school where tuition runs at over $38 grand a year, plus $10-12,000 for room and board expenses. While attending Wesleyan, Miranda, a native of Inwood, New York City, turned his life experience into a theatrical production that has exploded since his graduation from the University in 2002. Miranda is the composer and lyricist behind the smash hit musical In the Heights, which was produced at Wesleyan, picked up for off-Broadway, and transferred to the Great White Way in 2008. Miranda, an actor-slash-rapper who originated the lead role, Usnavi, in his own show, picked up a Tony award last spring and is currently slated to reprise the role when it hits the silver screen.

2. Mark Zuckerberg

Love Facebook today, hate it tomorrow. Either way, Mark Zuckerberg is rolling in dough. Zuckerberg actually dropped out of Harvard to focus on the social networking site that changed the face of the internet forever (saving over $30,000 a year in tuition). This May, Zuckerberg will celebrate a milestone birthday- the quarter-century mark, and with an estimated networth of about $1.5 billion, it’s bound to be one kick-ass party. Check your mini-feed for event details.

3. Fred De Luca

Fred De Luca didn’t become an entrepreneur in college; he opened his own sandwich shop at 17 to raise money to pay for college. When De Luca graduated from the University of Bridgeport with his Bachelor’s degree, his Subway sandwich shops were already taking over Connecticut, and today the chaine consists of over 30,000 stores worldwide. Today, the University of Bridgeport isn’t too daunting, with the relatively low tuition rate of about $23,000 per year- a mere fraction of the $1.5 billion De Luca has netted through his enterprise.

4. Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold didn’t find financial success as quickly as Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mark Zuckerberg, or Fred De Luca, but after being violently raped at Syracuse University as a freshman, she made several amazing accomplishments that have led her down the path of a bestselling author. Not only did Sebold finish her degree from $45,000-a-year Syracuse, but she faced down her attacker in court and later developed the real-life story into her acclaimed memoir, Lucky. Sebold’s next book, and most well-known work, is The Lovely Bones, a film version of which will be released later this year.

5. Stephanie Joanne Angelina Germanotta

This former student at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts now goes by the stage name Lady Gaga. Before she could legally drink, Gaga was working as a songwriter at Interscope Records, penning hits for the Pussycat Dolls. Gaga studied music at Tisch, but showed off her smarts in several classes (hey she was paying like $40 g’s in tuition, might as well take advantage), writing research papers on topics such as art, religion, and socio-political order. Now a mega popstar, Steph is also quite the philanthropist, who has made donations to help raise money for schools in Los Angeles affected by educational budget cuts.

These are just a few major names who hit big before, during, or after college by combining their education and talent to explode into household names. Think you have what it takes to start up your own business? Check out the top most profitable businesses for college entrepreneurs. Relying on your talents to pay the rent? Use your time in college to work on your skills– as Norah Jones did. “In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That’s where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing,” the Grammy-award winning singer has stated.

President Obama lamented on the huge rates of both high school and college dropouts in his speech last night. You’re already winning the battle – you’re enrolled! – SSo take advantage of your higher education and maybe we’ll see you on the cover of Forbes in a few years.

Lucky Style Spotter is giving away 4 TAG Heuer watches! Show them your style – sporty stylist, uptown classic, downtown chic or funky fashionista – and you could win one!

Did Tom Cruise really give relationship advice to Spencer Pratt?!

Bottle opener ring: fashion meets function.

Get the perfect cat eye.

Lohan should really invest in a new pair of pants.

Have you ever blacked out?

Looks like I can’t be a Britney backup dancer….

Cutest gift idea for the girls who have everything.

Is O’Malley leaving Grey’s?

Great tips for cheap grocery runs.

Among the accusations are that the magazine’s editors could really use a thesaurus (the words ‘elegant‘, ‘gorgeous‘ and ‘sophisticated‘ appear 8, 9 and 12 times respectively in January’s issue), that they insist on adding -y to the end of pretty much any word (retro-y really just means the same thing as retro, ladies…), and my own personal favorite, the abuse of the ‘_____ just screams _______ construction, i.e. “This little sun dress just screams French Riviera in June!”

Does it? Does it actually scream? I don’t want a screaming sun dress.

I think Jezebel is totally on-target here. The magazine is poorly written and shamelessly devoted to convincing women with average incomes to spend their hard-earned cash on overpriced items they don’t actually need. I t’s the embodiment of our consumer-driven culture–no love advice or human interest stories here, just pages and pages of things. Shiny pretty things with big big price tags.

So why do I love it so much?

Since the magazine began, I have shelled out my hard-earned cash ($2.99 per issue) to flip through their pages and gawk at $385 toggle sweaters or $3,295 “menswearish” watches. Can I afford a $3,295 watch? Obviously, no. But now I will be on the lookout for a cheap mens watch next time I’m at my local thrift store.

There’s also something refreshingly honest about a magazine that bills itself as “the magazine about shopping and style“. Flip through any issue of Glamour or Elle and look closely: almost every page is trying to sell you something. Lucky cuts the crap and tells you “here are some pretty things, you probably want to buy them”.

If you’re smart, you don’t have to go out and purchase that exact item (thus blowing your entire week’s paycheck on one pair of shoes), but instead you can use the magazine like your own personal stylist, taking inspiration from the combinations they put together and getting your own version, custom-tailored to your budget. I’m sure some of you out there have a little extra cash to spend at that exclusive boutique, some of us love our chain stores, and some may spend hours scouring the local second-hand bins.

So there you have it. My name is Sarah, and I’m addicted to the gorgeous, sophisticated and totally consumer-y Lucky Magazine. Although maybe I’ll buy the editors a thesaurus for Christmas.

It’s usually pretty easy to tell if a guy is single from his apartment. You’ve got the typical underwear out in the open, ring around the bathtub, week old stubble discard in the sink, that odd “shoe and old clothes smell”…I could go on, but it only gets grosser from here.

Most of us are well versed in the signs of The Bachelor Pad, but did you know you can tell if a girl is single and unlaid by her Bachelorette Pad?

Here are some of the signs (which I may or may not totally recognize):

• Piles of magazines everywhere, comprised of tons of pretentious ones that are clearly untouched and then severely thumbed-through Vogues and Luckys

• Slovenly heaps of little-used makeups in the bathroom

• Nair

• inspirational or thinspirational things on the fridge

And my personal favorite,

• Overflowing shoe rack and nothing in the fridge

Do you have your own Bachelorette Pad dead giveaways? How about underwear and bras hanging from the shower curtain? A vibrator within arm’s reach? Half-eaten ice cream cartons that are crumpled and melty because someone’s eaten them without the aid of a bowl?

Come on, girls, give us those dirty apartment secrets!

Then he takes you on the red carpets and introduces you to all his hot, famous friends and takes you on vacations around the world and stuff?

Yea, me neither.

Apparently, for this chick, it’s not an unimaginable thing, cause George Clooney, world’s most eligible bachelor and #1 “DILF without the dad”, is now her boyfriend.

Sarah Lawson, who got into a motorcycle accident with Clooney a few days ago and got injured with a broken foot, was his cocktail waitress at the Moon nightclub in Vegas.

Gee, I wonder why he hit on her? Maybe it was the metallic bikini. Or the go-go boots.

The press has, of course, been trying to get in her biznass, and now there’s all this talk about the 28-year-old’s shady past – her being a “model,” or a stripper, or a dancer. Whatever she was….she snagged The Clooney! Hollywood’s like, most eligible bachelor, ever! Some girls have all the luck, even if it’s only temporary.

Sarah was also a past contestant on Fear Factor, and she won, along with her boyfriend at the time.

This weird-looking dude is probably kicking himself.

Screw this “career” thing, I’m going into cocktail waitressing.