BLING BLING

(from Urban Dictionary)	bling bling
	n. synonym for expensive, often flashy jewelry sported mostly by African American hip-hop artists and middle class Caucasian adolescents. v. to "bling-bling;" the act of sporting jewelry of a highly extravagant gaudy nature. n. "Man, I gots tha bling-bling, yo." v. "Damn Johnny, you sure be bling-blinging it tonight!"

Behold the power of my new watch. A watch only worthy of a rappers wife! Donna Karan knows how to bling it out, swarovski style!

My interest in all things bling-related began in middle school. One of my classmates wrote a short story for our advanced english class called "Bling Bling" and I remember thinking "Man, that guy is so much cooler than me, because I wrote a real story instead of just making up a funny title and modeling the story around that." While I cannot remember the plot of "Bling Bling," I knew that there was something special about those words. This was the same year that a girl in my class named Jamecia taught me that the word ice also meant diamonds.

Nowadays I like anything that involves crystals, sparkles, shiny fabric, or is otherwise bejeweled.