Perfectly Swell

2012-01-15T09:50:00.000-08:00

Hello! I am not dead.

But I'm not really updating either, haha. Got my bob back and a new watch!

Golden Globes tonight, yay!

<3

What's My Line?

2012-01-03T06:23:00.001-08:00

Unfortunately 2012 got off to a rocky start for the Mr. and I (not that we're having issues with each other), so as a pleasant distraction during my down time, I've been developing a new addiction: watching "What's My Line?" on YouTube!

"What's My Line?" was a panel game show that ran from 1950 to 1967. In addition to trying to guess the occupation of non-celebrities, they would have segments where the panel was blindfolded, celebrity guests would answer yes or no questions, and they would have to be identified. Fans of the time period would get a real kick out of these glamorous stars being goofy as all get out!

Here are some of my favorites:

Pure class, all the way around!
xo

Christmas and New Years Photo Dump!

2012-01-01T09:38:00.000-08:00

Christmas 2011

New Year's Eve!

Let's make 2012 amazing!

Adieu, 2011!

2011-12-31T14:42:00.000-08:00

It's the last day of 2011! This year flew by!

Christmas zoomed by as usual. Got to spend it with lots of friends and family, and got a fair amount of stuff (including a Kindle Fire, yay!)...now I get to relax.

Going to a 1920s themed party to ring in the new year, lots of photos (from Christmas too!) soon to come!

My book loot!

"...I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind." --Neil Gaiman

Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas!

2011-12-24T09:48:00.000-08:00

I'm going to be baking and watching Christmas movies and traveling from house to house, so I want to wish anybody reading this a very merry Christmas!

xoxo
'Becca'lise

My Life in Instagram

2011-12-23T11:52:00.001-08:00

It's almost Christmas...!

California Midcentury Design

2011-12-19T06:55:00.000-08:00

There's a great exhibit at LACMA right now on midcentury design in California...made me wish I was a zillionaire so I could own all of these great pieces! Went with Craig and our friends Natalie and Blake and had a great time. :)

2011-12-14T07:02:00.000-08:00

The Mr. and I party in style!

Happy Holidays!

2011-12-10T13:25:00.000-08:00

Thanksgiving blew right by us, didn't it! And now it's almost Christmas...and New Year's! Whew!

♥ Work's been exhausting but we've been putting Christmas decorations up and the classroom looks absolutely darling. I made an entire brick fireplace out of butcher paper!

♥ I got an iphone 4s! I love it so much! I made my Christmas cards with this app called "RedStamp"...we'll see how they turn out!

♥ I've been watching Christmas movies like crazy...so far I've watched Home Alone, Elf, Miracle on 34th Street, Christmas in Connecticut, Joyeaux Noel, Christmas Vacation, Scrooged, Shop Around the Corner and The Man Who Came To Dinner. Still have quite a few to go!

♥ Candy Cane Joe Joes from Trader Joe's? I'm addicted.

♥ Getting gussied up to go to a Christmas party tonight...think I'll break out the vintage!

Apologies for not updating...I know not too many people read this here blog besides me, but I'm sorry nonetheless!

xoxo
'Becca'lise

Andy Warhol birthday bash!

2011-11-13T10:42:00.000-08:00

Still can't believe how close we are to the end of the year...November has mostly been work and birthdays (Dri's birthday is Nov 3, Dad's is Nov 4, and Craig's is Nov 11)! To celebrate Craig's 28th birthday on 11/11/11, I threw him an Andy Warhol themed party. It was a total blast!

Woohoo!

It's here!

2011-10-31T06:57:00.000-07:00

Happy Halloween!

Halloween Party!

2011-10-30T12:17:00.000-07:00

Halloween is tomorrow, yay! Craig and I went to a Halloween party at our friend John and Chelsea's house and had a marvelous time!

Collin and Renee

Aaron and Becky

Colin and Rachel

Baby Ethan! "Look, no hands!"

Chris and Nicole

Craig was Jeff Goldblum's character in "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou")

John and Chelsea (John's costume is "New Dad", haha)

Halloween Time at Disneyland!

2011-10-24T19:42:00.000-07:00

While I've had a pretty relaxed October compared to previous years, I absolutely HAD to visit Disneyland during this time of year! My sister, cousin and I took my mom to Disneyland on the 18th for my mom's birthday, and we all dressed up as Peter Pan characters. I make a very convincing Captain Hook, no?

We had a blast! Halloween is in a week, hooray!
xoxo

Home Sweet Home

2011-10-09T14:47:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures from my trip back east! More can be found at my flickr, although I've included plenty!

We had a pretty good time, and I got to go to Kate Spade and Tiffany's, so I'm happy! It's wonderful to be home though. <3

Bon Voyage!

2011-09-28T13:16:00.000-07:00

Off to Boston in the morning! I haven't been since I was little, and all I really remember is a horrible cold I got. :( It'll also be my first time going to NYC, even though we'll only be there for a day or so. I'm excited!

Lots of pictures to come!

xoxo

Happy Fall!

2011-09-25T08:55:00.001-07:00

I've been absolutely horrible about updating! My apologies.

It's officially fall! While I normally would be watching my horror movies without another thought in my head, I'm stressing out a bit about my upcoming trip to Boston for a friend's wedding! What do I pack? I always end up forgetting something!

Luckily I just bought a saucy dress for the wedding...it's a LBD so I can wear it over and over again. When I showed Craig the dress in the Nordstrom's dressing room, he made a face that was somewhere between "Yowza" and "Lemme at that ass!" so I'm pretty sure it looks good. :P

We're always stopping in NYC for about a day and a half, which is just TORTURE. I've never been before and can't imagine that I'll be able to fit anything worthwhile in with so little time. Of course, if it were me, I'd go to Laduree, Kate Spade, Patricia Field, wherever. I just want to shop and eat! And maybe go to Central Park too, haha.

Work has it's good days and bad days. Mostly I come home exhausted because the kids are totally crazy. I don't mean "Oh, they're running around, so crazy!" I mean slapping and biting each other, banging toy cars into the wall over and over and over and having tantrums during naptime. And screaming all day. I'm not kidding! But! October was here and we're turning our classroom into Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. Well...we're trying anyway. I'll take pictures if it comes out!

That's all for now, xoxo!

Fall approaches...!

2011-09-12T13:55:00.000-07:00

Isn't that a gorrrgeous waffle?

Random post time!

♥ Work's been crazy, our kids are pretty wild and we're trying to get the classroom in order. Still lovin' my schedule though!
♥ Recently went to the Hollywood Bowl to see the AFI Movie Quiz hosted by Alex Trebek! I didn't take a single photo and I very much regret it, but it was magical.
♥ Also saw West Side Story at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. Not so magical. The leads were hilarious and Maria sounded like she was trying to be a sexy drunk. Her singing voice was nice though.
♥ We had hail on Saturday! And thunder! I want fall to hurry up and get here so I can get out my Halloween decorations!
♥ I'm on lookbook now, ha!

Eep! Gotta get back to work, ciao! ♥ ♥ ♥

Hobbit Party!

2011-08-21T13:26:00.000-07:00

My sister and I are total nerds, and we decided we'd have a little hobbit party with a few friends.

We watched the animated film The Hobbit, ate corn bread and berry pies, and read poems and riddles from "The Hobbit" and had a nerdy good time!

Star Trek

2011-08-15T20:48:00.000-07:00

Current obsession....

And for giggles...

Speeding Up and Slowing Down

2011-08-07T22:03:00.001-07:00

Trying to decide what technology and modern conveniences to embrace, and which to flee from. We're all moving so fast, how can anyone keep up?

Comic Con!

2011-07-28T22:52:00.000-07:00

This entry is late, wah wah, but here are some photos from our trip to Comic Con last week!

We saw Steven Soderbergh, William Shatner, Scott Bakula, Kevin Smith, John Cusack, Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, Andy Serkis, Guillermo Del Toro and the Hernandez brothers, among others. Sharing a room and breathing the same air as Spielberg was very overwhelming. I was surprised by how excited and moved I was to be able to see him. He said some inspiring words about doing this work for the fans, and that he appreciates the fans for keeping him to task and writing about his (and other directors') work and staying interested. Amazing!
Didn't dress up this year, but maybe next year?
Nerd for life!

My House

2011-07-18T07:07:00.000-07:00

I haven't taken pictures of the house in forever, and there are a lot of changes. Nothing MAJOR, but you know.

View from the front door

View from the kitchen...the picture above the TV is an image of 50s model Dovima that I printed out and taped over an old Beatles poster I had.

The piano (with accordions and composer tree!) and one of the bookshelves.

The couch again. And our year-long tree!

The kitchen's basically the same. I made banana bread!

Pretty much the same. Posters are framed now. This photo is crooked.

Meow.

Our new Iron Giant art print that we got at Crazy 4 Cult

Still Craig's room, still messy. Not *terrible* though.

The movie collection's getting out of control. We have three other mini-shelves scattered around the house with more movies on them.

Bathroom is pinker.

O HAI!

The boudoir

Girly things. Yes, that is a photo of Nick and Nora Charles.

The wall opposite the bed is light years away from when we first moved in! All of the art on the wall is by friends of ours (except for the clown one, Craig bought it at an antique store and he loves it, despite his fear of clowns. He says it looks like Dean Stockwell in Blue Velvet)

Our closet, my dresses, a map of Paris.

That's pretty much it. Work's going pretty good I guess, I'm loving my schedule, and I'm going to Comic Con on Friday, yay!
Ciao!

Harry Potter and the Sniffling Fangirls

2011-07-17T08:28:00.000-07:00

10 years! What a fantastic ride! I'm sad that it's all over! Yes, I cried. And laughed, and enjoyed the hell out of myself. Long Live Potter!

(PS - Emma Watson is pretty much the cutest thing ever.)

Cute!

Summer Lovin'

2011-07-08T07:34:00.001-07:00

Happy 4th!

2011-07-02T08:49:00.000-07:00

Have a great 4th of July weekend, everybody! Remember, flags are best in cake form, and beach towels are best when used to dress up your children like beggars!

(dried corn husk optional)

2011-06-25T07:01:00.001-07:00

Poor blog, have I abandoned thee?

I've been working a whole lot, going to classes (have another one in two hours, oi!), and trying not to pass out. Being in charge of toddlers really takes the energy out of you! Maybe I should nix future parenthood, haha.

Last night I went with my dad and some friends to see "Les Miserables" at the Ahmanson Theatre in LA. While I do tend to nitpick (I *love* this musical and have heard two stellar versions) I did enjoy it. ValJean knocked it out of the park with "Bring Him Home." Sniff!

And I managed to make it home without twisting my ankle on my super high but very fierce heels!

***

Summer's here and I couldn't be happier! This is my last weekend class, and then I have bridal showers and weddings and Comic Con and fairs to look forward to! My first summer in years where I have weekends off! Hooray!

I guess that's all, just wanted to let you know that I'm not dead!
But Peter Falk is. R.I.P. :(

Ciao.

2011-06-05T16:57:00.000-07:00

My new favorite song, aww. It makes me cry.

Nothing terribly new. I'm taking two weekend ECE classes this month so I powered through my homework today. Not the most exciting way to spend a weekend, but I was productive so yay!

Saw the new X-Men film last night. Pretty good, although I had the giggles everytime Azazel (is that his name?) came onscreen. He looked like he was wearing a devil Halloween costume. Cracked me up. I also feel that January Jones was miscast, but I just have an issue with her acting. But! Overall I enjoyed the movie. I very much liked X-Men and X2 (never saw the 3rd or the Wolverine movie) as well.

Nothing much to say, sorry for the boring update!
Ciao.

Birthday Weekend!

2011-05-30T07:04:00.000-07:00

I've been having the best birthday weekend ever! On Saturday my mother-in-law threw me a party that was SO cute and pink and very "me." I got movies and fashion books and charms and vegetarian cookbooks and art and it was super marvelous.

And then yesterday I went to see my grandparents and my dad's girlfriend made me raspberry cheesecake that was DIVINE. And we played dominoes and I won. :D
Today my mom's taking me shopping and then we're having a barbecue in the evening. Best weekend ever!

2011-05-28T00:01:00.001-07:00

Happy Birthday to Me.
<3

Is It Summer Yet?

2011-05-24T21:48:00.000-07:00

Summer Lovin' from Floataway Studios on Vimeo.

Quick update on my life!

♥ I'm a toddler teacher now, and so far I'm really enjoying it! The pay's not as good as the last job, but it's definitely more along the lines of what I actually want to be doing.
♥ My birthday is Friday! 25 years old, eep!
♥ Feeling optimistic about my future, which is a wonderful feeling that I'm trying to grab onto and keep forever (I'm a recovering pessimist, haha)
♥ I guess that's it, that was brief! Daydreaming about bicycle rides, fairs, parties, shows, and OH! Oh those summer nights...!

Happy Mother's Day!

2011-05-08T07:54:00.000-07:00

So much to update about...new job, insane head cold for about a week, my birthday coming up, eek!

But for now, I will simply say Happy Mother's Day to all the fabulous mommas out there, especially mine.

An update.

2011-04-06T09:17:00.000-07:00

I haven't updated in ages, I'm sorry!

Had a job interview at a preschool yesterday, I'm not super confident that I'll get the job (plus it would be a tiny paycut at first), but I'm glad I made the effort to go out there and look!

Started a film blog with Craig (http://cinemanerds.blogspot.com) that has been really fun to work on! So far I've reviewed The Virgin Suicides, The Women, Chocolat, Fantasia and The Bad Seed. Woop!

Currently obsessed with coral lipstick. It's a refreshing break from my usual classic red.

Also obsessed with Matchbook Magazine, a free online publication of girly fabulousness. I emailed them basically begging them to let me work for them, but yeah. We'll see if that works, haha.

I'm going to a screening of "The Wizard of Oz" with a live orchestra on Thursday, and I'm crazy excited. It's one of my favorite movies ever, except I hate the end. Who would want to go back to boring sepia-toned Kansas after all that technicolor Oz glory?

Looking forward to warmer weather, short skirts, and straw hats!
That's all!

Elizabeth Taylor xoxo

2011-03-27T10:44:00.000-07:00

A little late, but R.I.P. Liz Taylor.

I love this photo, taken by David LaChapelle. She must've had a great sense of humor. :)

2011-03-18T08:29:00.001-07:00

Yesterday I chopped off my hair.

And posed with Wednesday, my cat.

The end!

2011-03-14T11:43:00.000-07:00

Love this video. <3

4th Street!

2011-03-12T07:49:00.001-08:00

I scored this awesome set of books at a vintage shop on 4th Street in Long Beach yesterday!

"This Fabulous Century" covers 1870 to 1970, each book has a different groovy fabric patterned cover, and there's a lot of info and pictures inside about, well, this fabulous century! I loooove them.

That's all for now. <3

Oscars 2011

2011-02-28T08:43:00.001-08:00

Okay, so I did horribly at the Oscar pool, and Craig won AGAIN, but what are you going to do. I watched the Oscars at my in-laws' annual Oscar party, perched on the stairs trying to ignore my oh-so-painful cramps. TMI, but this is my blog so HA!

Anyways. Despite losing the pool, I'm actually thrilled with all the winners, especially Colin Firth for Best Actor. I adore him.
I also liked the song "Smile" used for the memorial (Chaplin FTW!) and Anne Hathaway looked amazing (she's been getting a lot of hate on the Internet, poor thing). And I loved Cate Blanchett's dress.

Okay, enough of that. Congratulations to The King's Speech! Such a good movie!

2011-02-27T13:33:00.001-08:00

Tonight....!

Manifesting dresses!

2011-02-13T11:42:00.000-08:00

I love a wonderfully bizarre coincidence, don't you?
Since discovering Pinterest, I've been collecting images of different outfits I like from a variety of sources, along with hairstyles, cute boys, dream interiors, and anything else that I fancy. A couple weeks ago, I pinned a screencap of this dress:

From the underrated movie "Gidget Goes Hawaiian", which I love. This character, Abby, has the best clothes and I especially love how fun this dress is. I posted it with the caption "I wish I had this dress!"

Fast forward to a couple days ago, when my dad tells me that he has a friend that has a dress I might like. He showed me it today and....it's that dress!

The resemblance is uncanny! Need to get it taken in a bit, but YAY!
Okay, that was all, haha.

Recuperating, and going back in time!

2011-02-09T12:50:00.000-08:00

I've had a hell of a week at work (today's my "Friday", as it were), so I'm turning to nostalgia to cheer myself up. Hooray!

Ah, I miss the 90s!

Vivien of Holloway

2011-02-03T10:07:00.000-08:00

Finally bought something from Vivien of Holloway...!

I loooove these pants and they are sooo insanely comfortable. A little baggy in the hips, but perfect in the waist. J'adore!

Brain Pain

2011-01-31T10:15:00.000-08:00

I'm still alive, just battling some inner demons per usual.

Trying to stay above it all...I feel like I'm in high school again. I know I shouldn't vent about it here, but I don't feel that I have anyone to talk to about this and I need to get it all out of my head.

So.
I feel unproductive. I feel this great need to be creative and express myself but nothing comes out. The closest I can get is by playing beautiful pieces written by somebody else. I read too many blogs and watch too many films and look at too many pieces of art. My brain explodes with all the wonderful stimulation and I feel inspired, but when it comes to creating something of my own...there's nothing.
I feel like a shadow of who I used to be. Take cinema, for example. I knew my shit. I watched films and read books on film history and I really really knew what I was talking about. I wrote film reviews online, read screenplays, it's all I wanted to do. My husband is a knowledge JUNKIE. He went to school for screenwriting, he remembers everything he ever read, and he knows WAY more about, well, everything than I do. He never did anything to shut me up, but somewhere along the line I lost the confidence to speak up. People act so surprised when I do.
I used to write. I used to take pictures and know what all the buttons on the camera do. I was my own person. Being in a relationship is hard...I'm not blaming him at all, but it becomes so easy to just rely on him to do all the talking and thinking and existing for both of us.
And then there's the bloggers. Beautiful girls writing beautiful words and creating beautiful content and wearing beautiful clothes. "You can do it too!" they say. Yeah...I need to learn that I don't HAVE to. I don't need to beat myself up for not writing more often. But I also need to learn that yes, I can do it too.
I don't want to be the girl-who-makes-cupcakes and that's it. I want to be the girl who can hold her own in a conversation, the girl that has friends that DON'T flake out on her, the girl who knows a thing or two about a thing or two, the girl who can do whatever she wants.
I know I'm that girl, I just lost her somewhere. I need to get it together and stop comparing myself to everybody else.

And breathe. I need to remember to RELAX.
Okay. I'm done for now.

Daily Routine

2011-01-03T09:35:00.000-08:00

In her devoom blog "Gala Darling", Miss Darling wrote about her daily routine, and asked readers about what theirs looked like. I was going to post mine, and then realized that it looked a little sad. I don't do anything at the moment except stumble over to the computer where I stay for hours and eat. Boo!

So here's what I would LIKE my routine to look like.
♥ Meditate. And no, staying in bed and "thinking" doesn't count.
♥ Exercise. I used to be SO good and now I'm a lazy bum. Although...I did do some yoga routines at work yesterday before some girl grabbed the remote and turned it off because it was "too hard."
♥ Eat real meals. I've actually been doing a lot better lately...having all of that Christmas candy in the house was murder!
♥ Piano! I want to play every day. I pretty much do this already, but instead of aimlessly playing bits of pieces I already know, I want to learn new pieces. I have a book of Les Miserables sheet music coming in the mail (I knoooow) so I think that'll be a kick in the right direction.
♥ Vitamins/pills. I've been bad about remembering to take my vitamin every day so...yeah.
♥ Update my other blog "Swellegant". Inspired by Kate Spade's (not for sale! ugh!) book "Things We Love", I decided to make a little love-blog. Haha.
♥ DRESS UP! I absolutely LOVE putting together a "look". Modern flapper one day, 50s housewife on acid the next, superspy the next...ah, I love playing dress-up!
♥ Tidy up as I go. My house gets so messy if I don't do a little at a time.

Okay. These aren't daily routine things. These are more like resolutions..or...I don't know.

But that's all for now. I'm starting to ramble.
Bye!

Au Revoir, 2010!

2010-12-31T19:09:00.000-08:00

I spent the last day of 2010 seeing "Burlesque" with my mom, shopping and baking for my cousin's baby shower tomorrow, getting packages in the mail (books and movies and my new camera!), and watching "Best in Show" and "200 Cigarettes".

New Year's Resolutions? Always!
♥ I want to start a balcony garden this year, hopefully conquering that black thumb of mine!
♥ Learn to sew? I know I know...hopefully I can find something to work with my schedule, but I'd absolutely love to learn.
♥ Learning French was my resolution last year...I know a teeny bit more, but I'd like to keep learning.
♥ I want to cook a lot more and expand my palate and get creative!
♥ EXERCISE. Seriously. I know, but I've been feeling so unfit lately, blah.
♥ Love myself more. This is the most important one. In fact, I'm going to put it in huge letters.

LOVE MYSELF.

Bring it on, 2011!

Holiday Loot!

2010-12-28T08:05:00.000-08:00

It's the "What I Got For Christmas" post!

And the pièce de résistance...

Hahahahahaha!
Also got some fabulous art and jewelry, vintage ornaments, baking stuff, and clothes.

Christmas (all five billion parts) was decent, except now I'm exhausted and my house is a mess. I've got my work cut out for me!

Addiction

2010-12-15T09:01:00.000-08:00

My name is 'Becca'lise, and I'm an Internet addict.

Yes, writing a blog post about the fact that I'm online WAY too much is a little stupid. I could be doing other things right now like...READING or something. But the fact is, there's so much fantastic stuff online and it's super hard for me to stay away. I just discovered three amazing online home design/lifestyle magazines (Rue, Ivy and Piper, and Lonny, for the curious). Add those to Facebook, Livejournal (I knoowww), Apartment Therapy, Re-Nest, Design Sponge, Flickr, and the countless blogs I read, and there goes my whole day. And online shopping! Gah! Modcloth, Plasticland, Urban Outfitters, Fred Flare, Trashy Diva, I spend SO much time "window" browsing, as it were.
I always gripe about all the things I want to do, but how can I do them if I'm online all day? Tsk tsk, Becca.

I guess that's my 2011 resolution. Get off the Internet.
But I love it so. :(

Puce Moment

2010-12-10T22:33:00.001-08:00

Christmas Time is Here

2010-12-05T22:38:00.000-08:00

Here are a few shots of Christmas decorations I have around the house. Most wonderful time of the year? Quite possibly!

Hasta Luego

2010-12-01T21:28:00.000-08:00

In loving memory of my grandfather Roy, 9/4/1920-12/1/2010

What I Wore

2010-11-26T07:37:00.000-08:00

Thanksgiving Outfit!
♥ Dress - Trashy Diva (trashydiva.com, in the sale section!)
♥ Shoes - Urban Outfitter
♥ Bra (not pictured) - Victoria's Secret (hahahaha)

I had a great Thanksgiving...I spent it with my dad and my in-laws and all their friends and family. The food was great, everybody is so nice, we celebrated Leah's (my sister in law) birthday, and Craig's cousin Muriel was being soooo cute aside from the occasion melt-down. I want babies, I do I do.
I can't wait to host Thanksgiving someday...I love holiday table set-ups and food tables and all that jazz, so beautiful. I guess I need a house first, haha.
Hope yours was lovely, and if not, better luck next year?

(photos by my loverman Craig Duffy)

Happy Thanksgiving!

2010-11-24T19:48:00.000-08:00

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!
I'll be spending the holiday this year with my in-laws and my dad! I'm bringing steamed carrots with a butter-brown sugar-honey glaze, mmm! I also have the most divine dress, I'll take pictures!

This year I'm thankful for...
♥ My beloved Internet, seriously, I find so much fantastic inspiration!
♥ My piano, for letting my fingers play again!
♥ My aprons, for keeping my clothes clean at work!
♥ My cat Wednesday, even though she's crazy.
♥ My bed, just because I have one.
♥ Art and music and cinema and love and good food!
♥ My family, especially my fab sister and my super loving husband. <3

Happy Thanksgiving!

Another Trip to Disneyland

2010-11-22T11:40:00.000-08:00

I spend last Friday (ALL of last Friday) at Disneyland with Aaron and Becky and we had a blast! The park was especially beautiful because they had all of their Christmas decorations up already, and I absolutely light up when I see shiny and sparkly ornaments and lights, swoon!

Get yourself down there this holiday season if you can, it's really quite pretty! I recommend Small World for pure sparkly magic. <3

All photos by yours truly.

Pink Martini - Joy To The World

2010-11-17T10:17:00.001-08:00

As if I didn't already own enough Christmas music, yesterday I treated myself to Pink Martini's brand new Christmas album "Joy To The World". And aw, I love it.

It's everything you would expect from a Christmas album from them...a mix of old and new standards, all with an international flair and true spirit.

From their own site:
Joy To The World is a festive, nondenominational holiday album with music from around the globe. “There are 14 songs on Joy to the World,” says Thomas Lauderdale, “including well-known traditional holiday songs like Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas”…sung by China Forbes in English and by the incredible Saori Yuki… the Barbra Streisand of Japan… in Japanese. With the Pacific Youth Choir and the handbell choir Bells of the Cascades, we recorded “Shchedryk,” known in English-speaking countries as “Carol of the Bells,” with the original Ukrainian text which tells of a lark flying into the house at the start of a new year, thus bringing good fortune. We recorded a Hebrew prayer “Elohai N’tzor” with Ida Rae Cahana and Ari Shapiro and Patricia Costa Kim. (Ida Rae Cahana was for many years the canter at Central Synagogue in New York City and now lives in Portland… Ari Shapiro is the NPR White House correspondent… and accordionist Patricia Costa Kim was just named director of education at Experience Music Project in Seattle, but is also known by millions on YouTube as the keyboardist bandleader of Sonseed and their Christian ska song “Jesus is a friend of mine”). There’s a Chinese New Year song from 1946, a Felainspired version of “We Three kings,” a song in Ladino (the intersection of Spanish and Hebrew), “Silent Night” in the original German, as well as a verse in Arabic and another in English. The album ends with a samba parade of “Auld Lang Syne” with choruses in English, Arabic and French over the incredible percussion of the Lions of Batucada.” Lauderdale notes, “I love the holidays and all the music that goes with it. We strove to make an inclusive and non-denominational album that could be played anywhere in the world.”

I must say, their kicky and joyful rendition of "Auld Lang Syne" is so fantastic, and it's the perfect closer to this jewel of an album. It's like if the kids from "Small World" grew up and started a cool band. J'adore!

Here's a preview, their take on "We Three Kings"

Happy Holidays! They're just about here! <3

Harry Potter, Home Decor, and You!

2010-11-15T08:59:00.000-08:00

Yesterday I watched Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (my dad, sister and I have been making our way through the Harry Potter movies in anticipation of the 7th!) and I was really digging the castle decor. It's not really my style (I'm more of a starburst clocks, formica, sputnik chandelier, 50s and 60s kitsch kinda gal) but I started thinking about how I'd decorate my house if I was going for this look!

♥ What's a castle without armor? I would put one of these bad boys in the corner and let it collect dust for that spooky abandoned sort of feeling...

♥ Gorgeous paintings are a must, except I probably couldn't get the subjects to move, *sigh*

♥ I would get a huge mirror and search for my heart's true desires in my reflection.

♥ If I was trying to terrify everyone, I would hang dozens and dozens of kitten plates on the wall, a la Umbridge.

♥ For my imaginary teenage children, I would hang all the house rules as decrees on the wall. Ha!

♥ I would have a super fab chess set so my friends could play wizards, er, regular chess. And look, they actually make a reproduction of the wizard's chess board! How awesome!

♥ I'd also have a pet owl. Why not?

♥ I would also hang heavy curtains in jewel tones, decorate with peacock feathers and little cauldrons and flowers and old books and candlesticks and birdcages, and I would keep a giant harp for lulling giant three-headed dogs to sleep. Ah, so divine!

Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)

2010-11-13T12:56:00.000-08:00

Today I *finally* watched the classic film "Meet Me In St. Louis" (1944) with Judy Garland. It was really cute...Judy Garland plays Esther, who lives with her family in St. Louis and everybod's abuzz about the upcoming World's Fair. She has her eyes on John, the boy next door (yes, he actually lives next door...convenient, no?). Lots of fun songs, lots of beautiful period costumes, and Judy Garland singing "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is just too magical.

Have I mentioned yet that I'm stoked that it's basically Christmastime? I'm so ready!

Anyways, back to the costumes...I love all the color combos, especially the pops of chartreuse, the pretty hats, swoon!

Now off to get myself ready for a merry little Christmas...!

Happy Birthday, Loverman!

2010-11-12T12:38:00.001-08:00

I'm not dead! October took up a lot of my attention and I'm still recovering from the aftermath, haha.

Yesterday was Craig's birthday and it was super windy...the wind knocked a bunch of pinecones onto our balcony. I want to spray paint them gold and do something with them! We went to the farmers market (where I bought him "birthday hummus") and Trader Joe's (where I bought yellow mums). He had to work, so while he was working I went to my mom's and we made him an apple pie. Unfortunately it got scarfed up before we got any decent photographs. Dinner with Chris and Nicole at this vegan restaurant they like, and later apple pie at the apartment while we watched "Scott Pilgrim vs The World". All in all, he said it was a pretty good birthday. :)

By the way, those saint candles make pretty nifty vases once you get rid of the candle inside. I've had these for years and the wax was really nasty and the wick had all but disappeared. But now they are fab vases and I love them!

That's all for now...

Happy October!

2010-10-03T11:02:00.001-07:00

Dri and I had a blast at Disneyland last Friday, running around being Greek deities, collecting candy, going on rides, dancing, eating too much, watching the fireworks, ah, so much fun!

The weather has been delightfully gloomy, and I've been watching my old horror movies in the mornings before work (an October tradition for me!). I just finished watching "Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (1931) with the ever-so-dashing Fredric March.

You sexy beast!
Yesterday was "The Last Man on Earth" with Vincent Price, the day before was "The Picture of Dorian Gray". So pumped for this month!

What's your favorite Octobery thing to do?

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

2010-09-29T09:46:00.000-07:00

It's fall! <3 Time for overcast skies, ginger and pumpkin flavored EVERYTHING, colorful tights, 30s horror movies, black nailpolish, and gorrrgeous Halloween decorations (glitter skulls, carved pumpkins, skeleton-flamingos, and black wreaths). My Halloween costume is pretty much done...I'm the Greek god Hermes, if you couldn't tell by the clue above!

I started my October movie marathon a little early this year...I've watched The Exorcist, Poltergeist, The Birds, The Wolf Man, Cat People, The Raven, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Black Cat, The Sixth Sense, and Beetlejuice! I have many many more to get through. It's tradition!

Looking forward to Disneyland on Friday with Dri in full costumes, Knotts Scary Farm sometime next month, a friend's art show, a free screening of "Young Frankenstein", pumpkin carving, and ideally I'd like to make a Halloween gingerbread house! Too much fun!

Here's to fall! ♥

Musings

2010-09-18T12:04:00.000-07:00

Had a decent couple of days off...on Thursday we had Dri, Karla and Aaron over for baked potatoes, pecan tassies and "Poltergeist"!
And yesterday Craig and I went to LA to visit our friends Chris and Nicole. We went to a little Italian restaurant where I ate tortelloni with pink sauce and chocolate gelato, and then went back to their apartment to watch MST3K's "Soultaker" and the whole drive home I babbled endlessly about Weetzie Bat, movie censorship and children, and my entire identity. Nice to get it all off my chest, whew!

I've been thinking a lot about who I am, and what I want out of life. I've been in a sort of slump lately, thinking about all the things I want to do and the little insecurities that stop me from doing what I want. I don't want my defining characteristic to be that I'm sick all the time (something I'm becoming known for at work...:/)

So, what do I want?
♥ I want to cook and bake a LOT. I want to try new recipes, and eat healthy, and decorate beautiful cakes and cupcakes.
♥ I want to play the piano everyday, learning new pieces and figuring out other songs by ear. I want my house to be filled with music.
♥ I want to celebrate holidays MY way, even create my own celebratory days, like celebrating the birthdays of my heroes in offbeat ways.
♥ I want to throw the most amazing and fun parties...I want to take my guests' breath away.
♥ I want to grow my own flowers and vegetables on my balcony, and watch hummingbirds drink from the feeder while I read something amazing on a lazy day.
♥ I want to cross-stitch naughty things and inspirational quotes onto pillows.
♥ I want to write a screenplay, make a short film, write film reviews in my own voice, learn everything about cinema.
♥ I want to organize everything in my home, organize my clothes, have a closet full of things that make me feel fantastic and nothing else.
♥ I want to go on magical dates.
♥ I want to exercise everyday and surprise myself with my determination.
♥ I want to play tennis, be a Photoshop pro, play the accordion, take photographs every day and speak French and Spanish.
♥ I want to give the best birthday presents in the universe.
♥ I want my own daycare, and to be my own boss, and create the most fun lessons plans and theme days for my kids.
♥ I want to quiet the negative voice in my head forever, and live my own life on my terms and be incredibly proud of everything I have accomplished.

That's all. :)

Deja vu?

2010-09-15T12:55:00.000-07:00

Oh, what to do with you, Perfectly Swell?
I wanted a blog because I like reading blogs. I love getting inspiration and thought I might be able to inspire others. I thought I'd make something like iCiNG or one of those, but found I had nothing to say.
So I turned it into a personal journal for me, and found that I STILL don't have much to say. But I don't want to abandon this space, not just yet.
I used to write ALL the time growing up. I wanted to do nothing but write, and here we are. I have nothing to say.

Ohhhh well. In short, apologies to the few of you reading. I've been out of sorts so I'm afraid you'll have to wait until my head is screwed back on for more verbal vomit from me.

Love. <3

Another Week

2010-09-14T09:49:00.000-07:00

Oh dear, I hope I don't make a habit of this. I haven't felt much like updating due to feeling absolutely rotten, but here you can see my week.
♥ Went to Disneyland on Thursday, didn't stay long because a lot of attractions were closed while they were being Octoberized.
♥ Saw 2001: A Space Odyssey on the big screen which was INCREDIBLE. I was so moved.
♥ Of course some dude freaked out and started screaming and everybody was being silly about it, but that's on youtube and I'm tired of talking about it.
♥ But Kubrick, swoon!
♥ Bought more parts of my Halloween costume, the store by my house is well-stocked in costume parts!
♥ Almost bought these too:

♥ Ohhh well.
♥ Guess that's all for now.

Long time no see...

2010-09-06T08:29:00.000-07:00

There's my week! I haven't updated in ages, so I thought this might be easier. Basically, I'm excited that it's September and I'll be starting my spookfest movie marathon early this year to accomodate all of the movies I need to watch!

Also, I watched "Arsenic and Old Lace" yesterday and forgot how totally insane that movie is.

Gotta fly. LOVE!

Saturday/Sunday/Monday

2010-08-31T07:52:00.000-07:00

♥ Back to work, noooo!
♥ Saturday I went on a walk with Craig, looked at the cute houses in our neighborhood. Some of our neighbors have the craziest houses, bright blue and purple together, pink, some are covered in plants, windchimes, gnomes. It's all so lovely.
♥ Had oatmeal for breakfast, got comfy, watched "Kind Hearts and Coronets"

♥ My old film history teacher called this film "Kind Hearts and Crumpets" and I have no idea why. I was too nice to constantly correct him in front of the whole class.
♥ Anyway, the film was alright, very darkly lit for a comedy, but I suppose that's the British for you.
♥ Craig went to work, I played my piano, then went to work.
♥ Work was nothing exciting, I was alone all day, yawns all around.
♥ After work Craig and I attempted to watch "Shampoo" but the sound was off, so we watched "The Dick Van Dyke Show" instead, woo!

♥ Sunday Craig went to work early, which gave me a chance to use my new Bollywood Dance Workout DVD, which is probably the silliest workout tape I've ever used. I was glad I was alone to use it!

♥ Despite the silliness, it's actually pretty fun and awesome and kicked my ass a little bit after the half hour mark.
♥ Cleaned the balcony, refilled the hummingbird feeder, watched "The Graduate" with director commentary track...

♥ This film is so good, seriously. "Elaaaine!" "BEEEEEENNNNN!!!"
♥ I also started my "Coffee Break French" lessons over to review. I won't attempt to write any French here, because I'm learning strictly by hearing and can't write a word. Except BONJOUR! Haha.
♥ Off to work I go!
♥ My coworker insisted I watch "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers", her favorite movie ever.

♥ It musical fan in me liked it, but it totally offended the feminist in me, so I guess it's a draw? Haha. When watching most old movies I have to tell my inner feminist to shush a bit. This movie pushed it though...
♥ Also watched "Edward Scissorhands" which I could watch forever because it's a truly beautiful movie.

♥ After work I visited my mom, then went home to watch "Mad Men". What an odd episode filled with flashbacks!
♥ Bed! Zzzzz....

♥ What's that, Wednesday? You don't want us to sleep EVER? I see how it is.
♥ Monday continued the trend of Wednesday waking us up at the crack of dawn with her incessant meowing. Good grief.
♥ Went on another walk with Craig, only this time the walk had a mission: to peruse the Chapman University library! Craig has an alumni card, yay!
♥ I got the book "Film, Form, and Culture" which I really wanted to like but found exceptionally dull. It reads like the introduction Robin Williams tells the boys to rip out of their textbooks in "Dead Poets Society". Wah waaah wah wah wah. Film is so interesting, why do they have to take the fun out of it? I need to do more research before I grab film books off the shelf willy-nilly.
♥ Spent a lot of time on my piano once I got home. Learned the third gnossienne by Satie, tried relearning some pieces I'd forgotten.
♥ Made a super cute Snoopy birthday card for my stepdad for his birthday. I like making my own cards!
♥ Work. Lots of screaming toddlers and grouchy moms. One girl's last day was yesterday, so we said goodbye to her and her baby who is SO cute.
♥ After work Craig and I watched part of "Mad Monster Party" which is totally insane, but Dracula and The Invisible Man cracked me up. Did you know that appropriate clothing if you're invisible is a fez, sunglasses, and a smoking jacket? Neither did I!

That's all for now!

Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday/Friday

2010-08-28T11:11:00.000-07:00

The last four days just flew by!

♥ Tuesday I don't recall much. I made banana bread, played my piano.
♥ Went to work, was bored to death.
♥ After work...don't remember.
♥ Wednesday was much of the same, except I was channeling Cleopatra in my hair and makeup for no good reason.

♥ Thursday I went with Dri and Craig to breakfast at Mimi's...eggs and potatoes and a coffee cake muffin, oh my!
♥ It was much too hot and as a result we were zapped of all energy.

♥ We watched youtubes, went to Michael's and Barnes & Noble and generally killed time.

♥ In the evening my dad came over and we got pizza and watched "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"

♥ Oh Cedric, so cute before you became a vampire. *sigh*
♥ Friday was Pee Wee Herman's birthday, woo!

♥ Got in a ridiculous fight with Craig because I'm the most hormonal person on the planet.
♥ Went on an awesome bike ride together post-fight, was very good for getting out any anger and brought the good vibes in.

♥ Watched "Pee Wee's Big Adventure", hooray!

♥ Such an awesome movie, I miss old school Tim Burton.
♥ Went to Barnes and Noble again to kill time, read books on filmmaking and interior design and entertaining, love!
♥ Met up with Chris and Nicole and got dinner at Old Towne Grinder and Ice Cream Parlor

♥ Back at the apartment we watched the first episode of "Pushing Daisies" because Nicole had never seen it.
♥ Early to bed. Zzzz.

Saturday/Sunday/Monday

2010-08-24T07:33:00.000-07:00

AKA THE PIANO SAGA!

♥ On Saturday, after much lazing about, I went with my dad to some storage facility in Long Beach to see a piano his coworker's friend was selling. Supposedly in "good condition."
♥ Uh, broken veneers, keys that stick and keys that don't sound DOES NOT EQUAL good condition! Grrrr.
♥ Later pigged out on leftover cupcakes, and went to work.
♥ Work was pretty slow and boring, did chores and watched "Signs"

♥ I hate Mel Gibson a whole lot but I still like this movie. Ah well.
♥ Later at home Craig and I watched "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and snuggled.

♥ Sunday was Aaron's birthday! Woohoo!

♥ What his couch looked like when I visited, haha.
♥ I brought him his birthday present (a vintage-style toy robot that walks around)
♥ And then Aaron, Becky, Braedon and I went to Best Buy so he could look at TVs and I could look at their digital pianos.

♥ The Yamaha Arius got my stamp of approval, and I made plans to get it the next day!
♥ I also bought a Bollywood workout DVD because I'm ridiculous.
♥ Later the four of us got lunch at Panera's and then I had to dash off to work.
♥ Work was boring again, watched "Daredevil" which is just as bad as I remembered it.
♥ After work Craig and I moved furniture around to accomodate the piano and I had a mini-meltdown because I've been really tired and stress about everything, so...yeah.

♥ Monday! Up at the crack of dawn again. I should mention again that I don't sleep well. Wednesday loves to run around the bedroom around 6 AM, and Craig is pretty good at falling back asleep when this happens. But yes, I was up much too early.
♥ Went to breakfast with Craig and my dad at Kimme's Coffee Cup (I think that's what it was called...) where I got chocolate chip pancakes and scrambled eggs.

♥ Looks gross but it was super delish!
♥ Then we were off to Best Buy to get my piano! The guy working there was totally like "Hey, welcome back!" I guess sitting in the same spot testing a piano for AGES gets you remembered.
♥ After much lifting and dragging and assembling and sweating, the piano was in it's new spot in our home.

♥ I was very excited, and played right up until I had to leave for work. I also taught myself that song "If We Hold On Together" from Land Before Time, haha!
♥ Work was very GAAAAHHHH inducing. I was feeling the lack of sleep and felt like a zombie during my shift.
♥ Aaron and Becky came over after work to play the new piano, and I played for them, and it all felt very classy, haha.
♥ Cranky before bed again, I need to do something about this.
♥ And today? In bed at 1:00 last night, up at 7:00. Ugggh. At least I got my piano.

Friday

2010-08-21T08:43:00.000-07:00

♥ Friday was super hot again.
♥ Laid around the house like a lazy bum watching old episodes of "The Addams Family" until about noon.
♥ Got dolled up all 20s and forgot to document it. I looked tres adorable though, I promise!
♥ Went to lunch at Rutabegorz with Craig's family and his sister's new boyfriend.
♥ Got a chicken caesar wrap, nom nom!
♥ Dri came over and we all went grocery shopping for our movie party, bought pasta, stick butter, ice cream, you name it. Little piglets are we!
♥ Back home we watched more Addams Family, cleaned and cooked.
♥ We were joined in the evening by my dad, Colin, Karla, Evan, Aaron, Becky, Leah, and her BF for tortellini and "Some Like it Hot!"

♥ We all enjoyed the movie, stuffed ourselves silly and pestered Wednesday. A good time was had by all!
♥ After the movie when some of our guests left, Craig put on Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus which was atrocious (and probably purposely so) while I cleaned up.
♥ Snooooooooze.

Thursday

2010-08-21T08:34:00.000-07:00

♥ Thursday, my day off!
♥ Craig and I went to the farmer's market for eggs, fruit, and some blueberry bagels that the vendor set aside just for me!
♥ Later we took a walk down to the Circle and looked at some of the vintage shops.
♥ I bought a birthday present for Aaron (his birthday's Sunday!) and Craig bought this painting he's wanted for forever.

♥ He claims that the subject of the painting looks like Dean Stockwell in "Blue Velvet". He loves that thing.
♥ We had ice cream for a late breakfast and I also bought a bicycle basket, wahoo!
♥ We also hit up the Flame Broiler for late lunch (drank soda for the first time in ages...I just don't like it anymore) and Party City for Halloween costume parts (DON'T JUDGE! I'm an early planner!)
♥ Need to go back to PC though, because they were stocking the shelves and all the Halloween stuff was blocked with boxes.
♥ Back home Craig and I watched "Cape Fear" with my BF Gregory Peck

♥ SO freaky, Robert Mitchum is a scary dude.
♥ Afterwards we met up with Aaron, Becky and Dri for Del Taco and to see "Scott Pilgrim vs The World" again.

♥ Just as good the second time!
♥ Afterwards Aaron, Becky, Craig and I watched "Death Proof" at the apartment. Loooong day.

♥ Cue coma!

Wednesday

2010-08-21T08:02:00.000-07:00

♥ Wednesday? I don't remember very well.
♥ I woke up, ate breakfast, and then basically took a very very long nap because it's been super duper hot here.
♥ Heat makes me headachy and tummyachy.
♥ Finally got some PROOF that hummingbirds like our feeder!

♥ Okay, so it's a horrible picture, hahaha.
♥ Got dolled up, went to work.
♥ Work was alright, watched "Mystery Men"

♥ The girls haaaaated it, haha.
♥ After work I came home to Craig and his friend Julia playing with Wednesday (the cat). She just loves the attention.
♥ Boring day, booooo. But I do like how my hair turned out.

Ciao!

Tuesday

2010-08-18T08:03:00.000-07:00

♥ Felt a bit better, so I wanted to take advantage of not feeling like crap and ate some apple-cinnamon oatmeal and started my day!
♥ Went to Target for a new shower curtain (my old one was cute but IMPOSSIBLE to clean)
♥ Went to Michaels to find some star stickers for my bike but I couldn't find any I liked, wah wah.
♥ Also made a stop at Big Lots. This is boring information, I know, but I mostly just wanted to say that there IS Halloween stuff in stores now, so I'm not a freak for being in total October mode right now!
♥ Headed home, had a tuna sandwich, a gala apple and some oatmeal chocolate chip cookies (best lunch evaaar) and dashed off to work.
♥ Work was DRAMA DRAMA DRAMA but I was surprisingly chipper all day and let it roll off my back like water on a duck, haha.
♥ After work I went to Denny's with Craig, Aaron, Becky, Dri, Brent, and my cousin Christina. Christina's going back to college in Indiana today so we wanted to send her off.

♥ I love my friends. <3

A Special Request

2010-08-17T12:07:00.000-07:00

PLEASE go vote for my sister's design over at Threadless! She has designed a very awesome shirt that would be perfect for Halloween coming up!

Vote "5" HERE
Thank you thank you!

Saturday/Sunday/Monday

2010-08-17T08:11:00.000-07:00

*grumblegrumble* I am a bad blogger. Whatevs.

♥ Saturday Craig and I took a great walk around the neighborhood.
♥ Later we watched "The Great Ziegfeld"

♥ I love William Powell and Myrna Loy!
♥ Work, blah. So over it. So much drama.
♥ But I brought Hairspray and The Princess Bride to watch to distract myself!

♥ After work we watched more of Ziegfeld (it's a three hour movie!)
♥ Zzz.

♥ Sunday I made cinnamon rolls and headed to Dri's!
♥ Later Aaron, Becky, Christina and Natalie came over and we (excluding Natalie) hung out in the sun, eating and playing Catchphrase while we listened to the Ditty Bops, Sweet, and She & Him.
♥ We also watched our crazy production of "The Wizard of Oz" when us three kids were very young (my sister and I were munchkins in the Lullaby League, my brother was the Coroner, and my mom was the Wicked Witch of the West!)
♥ Aaron and Becky were greatly amused.
♥ Christina's leaving for school on Wednesday. :( So we all said goodbye to her.
♥ Off to work. Not feeling well at all.
♥ Watched Short Circuit and ignored everybody.

♥ After work went to Aaron and Becky's, watched the second half of "Creepshow"

♥ Could. Not. Handle. Bug. Scene.
♥ What a note to end the day on!

♥ Monday I woke up with horrible cramps and pain and all sorts of awfulness, called out sick to work.
♥ Spent the day resting, tidying up the house, and listening to my ipod on shuffle all day.
♥ After Craig came home from work we watched "Night of the Hunter" and the new episode of "Mad Men"

♥ Robert Mitchum scares me!
♥ I also got an insane computer virus that Craig fixed, after which I bought some Halloween goodies, yay!
♥ And that's was about it. Good night!

Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday/Friday

2010-08-14T09:15:00.001-07:00

♥ Tuesday's not even worth mentioning. I got in a huge fight with Craig and was cranky all day. I barely remember a thing.

♥ Wednesday!
♥ Woke up late, went to the Block to buy tickets for "Scott Pilgrim vs The World"
♥ Lunch date! Subway + Tutti Frutti frozen yogurt. He got the sandwiches and I treated him to dessert.
♥ Work, wah wah wah. Don't remember much, watched TV, ate chicken, the usual.
♥ Work days can be so deadly boring. I need to find a way to spruce them up!
♥ Stayed up late making oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, mmm!

♥ On Thursday Dri and I went to Sea World!
♥ We saw "Shamu", belugas, starfish, dolphins, otters, eels, cats, dogs, flamingos, rays, sharks, you name it!
♥ The new dolphin show is pretty ridiculous, but they make fun of it at the Sea Lion & Otter Show, so we had a good laugh.
♥ I always feel like saving the world after I go to Sea World, haha!
♥ I love spending time with my sister, she's a good sport.
♥ And we spent the drive home singing our hearts out to "Les Miserables", haha
♥ After I got home Craig and I joined Aaron to watch the first half of "Creepshow"

♥ We'll all so eager for October to get here, haha! Soon enough!

♥ Friday I got a good start cleaning the house. I NEED the house to be clean or I feel awful. :\
♥ My dad and Dri came over, we watched some youtubes and had lunch.
♥ Watched "The Most Dangerous Game", which I think Dri enjoyed and my dad slept through.

♥ Grabbed more food, and met up with Leah, Christina, Collin, Aaron and Becky to see "Scott Pilgrim vs The World"!

♥ What a superfun movie! We all enjoyed the hell out of it, and being so pumped up, a good portion of us headed to the apartment afterwards for a nerf gun fight and "The Fantastic Mr Fox"

Good times! <3 <3 <3

Saturday/Sunday/Monday

2010-08-10T07:37:00.000-07:00

♥ Aaaah too many days passed, not enough pictures!

♥ Saturday I went to a Pampered Chef party that my mom hosted.
♥ Ended up buying a mini-muffin pan, a tart former (basically a ball on a stick, haha), a scooper thing, and a chopper. Hooray!
♥ Work was uneventful, we watched "Where the Heart Is" again.

♥ I also made really good Spanish rice and bean and cheese burritos with red enchilada sauce, mm!
♥ After work I worked on my cross-stitching and then went to bed. Wah waaaah.

(I'm sad about missing the Weetzie Bat screenplay reading in LA!)
♥ Sunday I went to breakfast with some of Craig's family.
♥ Had a Belgian waffle, mmm.
♥ Went home and chilled out for a bit before dashing off to work, watched "Dr. No"

♥ Work was boring again.
♥ Had barbecue chicken sandwiches for dinner
♥ Watched "Benny and Joon" because the girls like Johnny Depp, haha.

♥ I think they thought it was weird.
♥ After work Aaron and Becky came over to watch "The Haunting"...not the good one, the crappy one.

♥ We had a great time making fun of it and eating chips and candy, haha. Trash all around!

♥ Monday was kind of a lazy morning.
♥ Craig and I watched "Mad Men"...the movie theatre scene was hysterical!
♥ Lazed around, enjoyed the Internets
♥ Bought tickets for Sea World! Dri and I are going this week!
♥ Work, wah wah wah. The girls watched the Teen Choice Awards which made me want to rip my own head off. Bieber fever? Gawd.
♥ After work Aaron, Braedon, Craig and I went "ghosthunting", aka driving around dark neighborhoods and past cemeteries with a "ghost meter"
♥ We played spooky music in the car and Braedon terrified us with his wild driving (he kept switching his headlights off and screaming, hitting the brakes for no reason, aah!)
♥ We ended the night with ice cream cones and ghost stories, ooooh.

All in all, not a bad couple of days!

Friday

2010-08-07T09:13:00.000-07:00

♥ Friday morning was spent doing absolutely nothing. I need to stop having such lazy mornings, hmm...
♥ But I did have a delicious bowl of Rice Krispies with banana slices. Mmmm.
♥ Later on in the day, Dri visited us for a bit.

♥ She left, Craig and I got icees/ice cream.

(new shoes!)
♥ Afterwards we went grocery shopping for supplies because I wanted to make werewolf cupcakes (as seen in the cupcake cookbook "Hello, Cupcake!")
♥ We invited company over to watch "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" (hence the werewolf cupcakes)

♥ I only ended up making one werewolf cupcake because it took FOREVER and it was really messy.

♥ But I think it was a success!
♥ Our guests for the evening included Dri, Aaron, Becky, my dad, Nicole, Chris, and Braedon.
♥ We also watched some of Aaron and Braedon's old home movies (including a parody video called The Blair Bitch Project) and eventually "Jackass 2"

♥ I have a feeling I'm going to be dragged to Jackass 3D. Eeep!
♥ Bid adieu to everyone, worked on more cross-stitching while watching "The Dick Van Dyke Show", and washed a ton of dishes.

♥ Goodnight!

Thursday

2010-08-06T09:48:00.000-07:00

♥ Spent the morning/afternoon cleaning cleaning cleaning!
♥ Took some pictures of the house because everything was so clean.

♥ But these pictures are tiny, haha.
♥ Craig and I went grocery shopping with our cute reusable bags.
♥ Watched a documentary on the history of cross-dressing in film and another behind-the-scenes thing on the making of the album "Plastic Ono Band"
♥ Had Aaron and Becky over, made them a vegetarian-friendly pot pie

♥ And brownies from scratch!

♥ We also made some chicken that had been sitting in our freezer for ages.

♥ Craig loooooves shredding chicken (not)
♥ By the way, have I mentioned how much everything in my life is color-coordinated?

♥ Ridiculous.
♥ The four of us watched "Ed Wood"...

♥ And "Matinee"...

♥ ...during which I worked on my geisha.

♥ I love her! I should give her a name. Ideas?

The end!

Wednesday

2010-08-05T08:36:00.000-07:00

♥ Honey Bunches of Oats is the yummiest cereal ever!
♥ Watched "Hell's Kitchen" and "Masterchef" in the morning (I'm SO GLAD Benjamin is gone, what a whiny-baby!)
♥ Later that morning Craig and I watched "Angel-A", a French film about an angel who comes to earth to help a suicidal dude who owes everybody money.

♥ I really liked it, made me teary-eyed.
♥ Also did my nails, woo!

♥ Hard to tell in this picture but they are so sparkly and beautiful!
♥ Work, booooo.
♥ However, YAY for the Prop 8 ruling!
♥ Unfortunately I work with and around ignorant people who went on and on about how it would be sick for two guys to adopt a kid, and then poking fun at the gay community, ugh. I hate everyone.
♥ Watched "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"!

♥ Home. Sporcle. Failblog. Bed.

Tuesday

2010-08-04T08:59:00.000-07:00

♥ Another lazy daaaaay!
♥ Watched disc 3 of "The Movies Begin" and "The Damned Don't Cry"

♥ Joan Crawford is such a bad girl, haha.
♥ Cross-stitched like a fiend!

♥ Oh she's looking so good! I'm so proud of myself for taking this on, because I don't consider myself a crafty person but I'm trying new things!
♥ Work! It was a slooooow day, seemed to last forever.
♥ Watched "Big Fish" which still amazes me...what a beautiful movie.

♥ At home I was grumpy for some reason, stitched some more and went to bed.
Zzzzz.

Saturday/Sunday/Monday

2010-08-03T08:37:00.000-07:00

♥ Saturday I woke up bright and early to go shopping with my mom.
♥ She owed me from my birthday...I got two dresses, three bras, a t-shirt, two pairs of shoes (one of them being brown sandals for my Hermes costume!), and a cloche hat. So cute!
♥ Work! I don't remember much about work, except I had a very cute baby to watch.
♥ I also watched "Better Off Dead" and "Dead Poets Society"

♥ I love both of these, and I forgot how amazing "Dead Poets Society" is!
♥ Home, Sporcle, Failblog, zzzz.

♥ Sunday I woke early, made pancakes (mm!)
♥ Also, we are now a 100% real maple syrup family, none of that artificial stuff!
♥ Later I watched Disc 1 of "The Movies Begin" and worked on my cross-stitching

♥ Haven't I mentioned lately how much I love cinema? I really and truly do.
♥ My cross-stitch picture is coming along slowly but surely.

♥ Geisha hair!
♥ I also watched "To Be Or Not To Be" before work

♥ I love Lubitsch!
♥ Work, nothing much.
♥ Watched "West Side Story"

♥ *sob*
♥ Home, "Mad Men"! Much better than last week!
♥ For some reason we stayed up until 2 AM. I wasn't tired. I would soon regret this.

♥ Monday was an extremely lazy day.
♥ Woke up too early, did absolutely nothing but cross-stitch and watch disc 2 of "The Movies Begin" and "The Lady Eve"

♥ So great!
♥ I was supposed to work until midnight (woohoo, two hours of overtime!)
♥ However, shortly into my shift I started feeling really headachy and dizzy and super nauseous, so I was sent home and actually lost hours. Dammit.
♥ Spent the rest of the day relaxing at Aaron and Becky's and watching youtube videos for way too long.

So! New resolutions! I need to be better about sleeping 8 hours a night, eating proper meals at regular times and exercising. My body must think I hate it!

Friday

2010-07-31T13:05:00.000-07:00

♥ Another day off, woo!
♥ Blogged in the morning, watched more "Pushing Daisies"
♥ Went shoe shopping! Went to about a million stores, didn't find anything I liked.
♥ Home, Craig made bean salad and I watched "What A Way To Go"

♥ What a bizarre little movie, hehe.
♥ I also created a tumblr to collect things I like. It's HERE!
♥ Trekked to Urban Outfitters where I bought my shoes. Pictures soon!
♥ Off to the OC Fair! Craig and I met up with Christina, Karla, Chris and Nicole.
♥ Ate incredibly unhealthy food, looked at art and animals (pig races!), listened to terrible bands, and scared ourselves silly on the rides!

♥ I also got a nasty blister from my new shoes :(
♥ Home, zzzz! The pictures speak for themselves, I had a blast today!

Wednesday/Thursday

2010-07-30T07:39:00.000-07:00

♥ Wednesday morniiiiing...woke up early.
♥ Had a waffle and watched the new episode of "Hell's Kitchen" and the premiere of that new show "Masterchef"...

♥ Chef Ramsay amuses the hell out me, I'll watch anything with him!
♥ Made snickerdoodles for the first time, go me!

♥ Craig devoured a whole bunch. He also made an orange cream smoothie.

♥ I watched more old episodes of "Pushing Daisies", got prettified, went to work.
♥ Work was pretty uneventful, watched "Hook" in the evening.

♥ Helped a resident make brownies. Well...she made the brownies and I made frosting and wrote on the brownies.
♥ BTW, the frosting was delicious, and my frosting writing was awesome and I can't wait to make something at home using my newly acquired mad skillz.
♥ After work Aaron came over and we watched "Planet Terror" which he had never seen.

♥ I can still barely watch this, haha! So much zombie nastiness!
♥ Beddie bye!

♥ Thursday morning I went for an awesome walk/run as soon as I got up...I've really fallen off the exercise wagon, need to get back!
♥ Had a bowl of Honey Bunches of Oats (LOVE) and spotted hummingbirds at my new feeder! They're still too fast to photograph, but I'll catch them one of these days.
♥ Went to the farmer's market, bought some fruit and eggs and a delicious plum!

♥ Cleaned the house while Craig watched "Badlands"

♥ The house is now beautiful and spotless!
♥ Also, yum Martin Sheen!
♥ Made black beans in the slow cooker...Craig's going to turn it into some kind of black bean salad tomorrow.
♥ Made my cousin Cierra a birthday card using our new printer, I love that thing!
♥ Later in the evening my other cousin Allyson was in "Once On This Island Junior", with an all-child cast.

♥ My cousin was really good, but the story was kinda ridiculous, haha. Girl falls in love with a guy who's unconscious and then she nurses him back to health, he leads her on and then leaves her, she lays around outside his house for two weeks and then the "gods" turn her into a tree. Whaa?
♥ Craig and I went back home, watched "The Dick Van Dyke Show", ate ice cream, and went to bed early like an old couple, haha.

The end!

Monday/Tuesday

2010-07-28T07:55:00.000-07:00

♥ Monday was meh...I don't remember much about it.
♥ I connected my laptop to our new printer so I can make my own greeting cards, whoop!
♥ Which is handy, because I have a lot of friends with birthdays coming up!
♥ Work, yeah, it was complete chaos.
♥ In charge of FOUR babies, there's a bunch of drama in the house, and I didn't leave until very late because of the stupid staff meeting.
♥ Anyways, Monday's not even worth mentioning.
♥ Gah, WHY have I not taken pictures of anything lately? Boo to me!
♥ Tuesday was better, hehe.
♥ Did my nails while I watched "Possessed" with Joan Crawford.
♥ As in, she starred in it, I didn't watch it next to her bones.

♥ I really enjoyed it! She does crazy so well!
♥ Had the longest day everrrr at work.
♥ Staff meeting, work, chores, baaahhh.
♥ We watched "Chasing Liberty" which I'm not even going to find a picture from because I thought it was incredibly stupid.
♥ After work Craig and I watched "The Dick Van Dyke" show and then Aaron came over and the three of us talked about movies until 2 AM, woo!

The end <3

Friday/Saturday/Sunday

2010-07-26T10:59:00.000-07:00

♥ Friday I recovered from Comic Con.
♥ Went grocery shopping with Craig
♥ Bought some flea stuff for Wednesday, but I think I did it wrong.
♥ I will try again in a month.
♥ Spent the day cooking and baking!
♥ Finally used the air popper my mom gave us for Christmas, it shoots popcorn everywhere! But it's yummy once you catch it!
♥ Made corn tortillas, mmm!
♥ I also made rotini with homemade tomato sauce (with faux-ground beef in the sauce, yummy yummy!)
♥ And I also made my first from-scratch chocolate cake (a little dry but oh well).
♥ I didn't get pictures of any of it. :(
♥ Had Dri over for old episodes of "Pushing Daisies"

♥ I adore this show, *swoon*
♥ Later Aaron and Becky and Craig and Chris and Nicole and Evan (eep!) stopped by, and we had a "Lost Skeleton" marathon, of "The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra" and "The Lost Skeleton Returns Again"

♥ Good campy fun!

♥ Saturday I spent all morning cleaning the disaster that was my kitchen.
♥ Craig and I watched Star Trek, woop!

♥ I like this cast so much!
♥ Visited my mom and sister and we ate meatballs and brownies and veggies with dip and watched Contact!

♥ Which is only one of the best movies evarrr!
♥ Work, watched movies all day, including The Iron Giant and The Sword in the Stone!

♥ Love love love!
♥ Home. Dick Van Dyke. Zzz.

♥ Sunday I made some waffles and Craig and I watched "Wait Until Dark"

♥ In which Audrey Hepburn is blind and mentions this fact about every five seconds. Nevertheless, the film was campy but enjoyable. And the end credit song was a scream, hahaha.
♥ More work!
♥ Did some cleaning, watched "It Happened One Night" and "Sleeping Beauty"

♥ I love both of these so much
♥ I babbled endlessly to my new coworker about my love of classic film, I'm sure she's sick of me by now.
♥ Had quite a bit of drama at work, which was no fun.
♥ Home, watched the season 4 premiere of "Mad Men"!

♥ Umm...what happened? This episode was so weird and kinda depressing...hmm.
♥ I still love Joanie.

♥ The end!

G'nite!

Comic Con!

2010-07-23T06:31:00.000-07:00

♥ I won't even update about Wednesday. Wednesday I cleaned my house, went to work, and baked cookies. Yawn!
♥ Thursday was Comic Con!
♥ We woke up bright and early, got dressed, had to reprint my ticket, got pan dulce, and hit the road!
♥ Craig can sleep and drive at the same time. Okay, not really.

♥ It was drizzling when we got there, and my hair got a little poofy, but oh well!

♥ I was supposed to be Friend the Girl from "Meat Cake", but I don't know how big that fanbase is.
♥ As a result, nobody reacted to me. I got checked out plenty by old nerds though (and some teenage boy in a wheelchair, who ran into me and after apologizing told me I was beautiful, haha!)
♥ First panel was Danny Elfman!

♥ My inner 10th grade goth self was way excited. I guess they're releasing something commemorating 25 years of his partnership with Tim Burton; lots of soundtracks, pictures, never-before-released tracks that didn't make it onto the original soundtracks. Somebody should buy this for me!
♥ Lots of costumes ahoy!

♥ Craig got to meet the Hernandez brothers again, had some books signed.

♥ I got to meet some of the cast of "The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra"!!

♥ Yes it's an obscure little movie and I'm probably a huge nerd for geeking out like I did, but I think they appreciated that somebody has seen their movie, let alone was a huge fan!

♥ Yaaaaay!
♥ Bought a lot of pins and postcards because I'm cheap.
♥ Ate some vile nachos...I'm bringing food next year!
♥ Took more pictures...

♥ Had to sit through the Expendables panel to see the Scott Pilgrim panel, but it was cool because Terry Crews, Sylvester Stallone, and even Bruce Willis were there!

♥ The Scott Pilgrim panel was pretty awesome...I haven't read any of the books so I wasn't fangirling all over the place, but the movie looks really good.
♥ Also, my boyfriends Brandon Routh and Jason Schwartzman (looking very much like John Lennon in his Sgt. Pepper days) were there, yum!

♥ Michael Cera dressed as Captain America for some reason.

♥ Took forever to get out of there when it was all over, but all in all it was a very awesome day!

Sunday/Monday/Tuesday

2010-07-21T10:11:00.000-07:00

♥ Sunday I didn't do much, visited my mom and sister.
♥ Had some guilt before I went over...I have family issues. :(
♥ Watched "Snapped" and "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion" (LOVE)

♥ Mom made us nachos, and I went to work.
♥ I don't remember much about work...I'm sure I watched some movies but I don't remember. I DO remember playing Disney Trivial Pursuit and Disney Scene It.
♥ I kicked ass, of course.
♥ Home. Watched "Melody Time" with Craig.

♥ Cuuuuute. Bedtime!

♥ Monday I woke up with cramps :(
♥ But then I suddenly felt better so I took Dri to Disneyland on a whim.
♥ We were only there for a couple hours because it was HOT and crowded, but we managed to do Tower of Terror, The Haunted Mansion and The Enchanted Tiki Room as well as walking around quite a bit.

♥ Went back to Dri's house, I had a hissy fit due to previously mentioned family issues.
♥ Met up with Craig, and the two of us got Subway before I had to work.
♥ Work, boring, yawn.
♥ After work Craig and I went to our local comic book shop for the midnight release of the last Scott Pilgrim book! Craig was very excited, haha.

♥ I don't read Scott Pilgrim, but I found a compilation book of the comic "Meat Cake" which I'd been meaning to read for years.

♥ I think I'm going to be Friend the Girl for Comic Con on Thursday! She's got this really cute goth-flapper look, and it should be fairly easy to pull off.
♥ BED!

♥ Tuesday was something of a lazy day.
♥ Made banana pancakes for Craig and myself
♥ Watched more Disney cartoons
♥ Then I was lazy some more until work.
♥ Work wasn't too bad, had to watch a LOT of screaming babies, but we had something of a mini Disney marathon: The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, and Mulan!

♥ Good ol' Disney! I love just about all of the Disney animated movies before 2000 with only a few exceptions.
♥ After work I went home, cuddled with my loverman, and watched another episode of "The Dick Van Dyke Show".
♥ Best show ever? I think so.

♥ Rob and Laura agree!

Friday/Saturday

2010-07-18T08:47:00.000-07:00

♥ The heatwave continues!
♥ Dri, Craig and I headed to Laguna Beach to enjoy the sun and the waves.
♥ Craig at the beach?? I KNOW!
♥ Got too hot and hungry so we went to Johnny Rocket's for lunch!
♥ Pictures...

♥ Drove back to Dri's, Dri and I went swimming in the pool while Craig napped.
♥ Later in the evening Craig and I met up with my dad and Dri at the Block for dinner before we saw "Inception"!
♥ We went to the 8:15 show with Christina, Chris, Aaron, Becky, Braedon, and Evan.

♥ I really liked it, it made me cry (like most movies, haha), and it was so visually striking!
♥ Afterwards a bunch of us went to Denny's for some late-night grub. Mmm.
♥ Home! Bed!

♥ Saturday was a bunch of "I guess I have to do this" stuff.
♥ Wednesday has fleas that she got everywhere, so I sprayed the house, bought her a flea collar, washed everything, bought new bedding, tossed the old mattress pad, and framed the art I bought the other day. Busy busy busy!
♥ Actually, the house is looking quite good these days, I should take pictures!
♥ Worrrk.
♥ Finally watched "The Color Purple"

♥ This one REALLY made me cry. Good thing the girls were all gone to the beach for the day!
♥ Cleaned, did paperwork, the usual.
♥ Home. Sporcle. Bed!

Thursday

2010-07-15T22:10:00.000-07:00

♥ My day off! Woke up early because it was a scorcher again!
♥ Had some cantaloupe for breakfast, watched more "Mad Men"
♥ Cleaned the apartment like a champ, watched "Beach Blanket Bingo"

♥ I found it appropriate, haha.
♥ Dri came over and two of us plus Craig went to LA to see the Crazy 4 Cult art show.
♥ Preview the art here: http://www.nineteeneightyeight.com/la/cc4orig.html
♥ Bought two prints, pictures coming soon! I want to hang them up before I show them off!
♥ Stopped at 7-11 for some much needed ice cream. Seriously, it was really really hot.

♥ Grabbed some Del Taco (fast food? Shame on me!) and headed back to the apartment to watch "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"

♥ We were joined by my dad, Christina, and Aaron and Becky. The marathon continues!
♥ The weather got really strange and overcast and there was lightning and cool clouds!

♥ With and without flash...odd.
♥ After the movie and after Christina and my dad left, we decided to watch Jaws.

♥ A summer classic, non?
♥ It's too darn hot!

Wednesday

2010-07-15T21:58:00.000-07:00

♥ Wednesday was sweltering.
♥ I watched old Mad Men episodes, ate lots of food, and lay around before going in to work.
♥ Work was pretty decent, a very quiet night!
♥ Watched "Robin Hood", which I *love*!

♥ I love this scene, with the fireflies and the lily pads, so pretty!
♥ I was so determined to clean but it was way too hot. Went to bed and melted into a puddle.

Tuesday

2010-07-14T11:51:00.000-07:00

♥ HERE's July! What was that gloomy weather doing last week, teasing me with dreams of October? Pish posh!
♥ Went for a walk with Craig, had breakfast and watched MORE "Mad Men"!
♥ Visited Dri to take advantage of this lovely weather. :)
♥ We went swimming, teased the dogs (haha), and watched old episodes of Top Model while we ate pizza!

♥ Work, wah wah. My girls were being silly and my coworker pissed me off again. People need to think before they talk. I'm not excluding myself, but seriously, ugh.
♥ Home. Ice Cream. Failblog. Sporcle. Woop!

Monday

2010-07-13T08:02:00.000-07:00

♥ Monday morning I went for a walk, with a little run at the end which kinda KILLED me, but I felt awesome and sweaty afterwards, haha.
♥ Had oatmeal, showered, got dolled up.
♥ Went to Target (AGAIN) to go blow all my money...this time I got sunscreen, anti-itch cream (summer = bugbites!), tights in black, military green, navy blue, bright blue, pink, and purple, pretty underwear in raspberry colors, a clear bubble umbrella with pink trim (SO CUUUTE), some dahlia seeds, a stool for my desk (which is too big but oh well), some body wash, and pens.
♥ My bank account is saaaad, but my things are all so cute!
♥ Came home to my new ipod skin in the mail!

♥ It's a custom job, both the front and back are photos I've taken. Note the shoes? And I'm wearing the same dress, haha.
♥ Made myself a smoothie...

♥ And put together the stool I bought while I watched "Make Mine Music" from Netflix.

♥ SO much better than "Fun and Fancy Free"
♥ And "The Whale Who Wanted To Sing At The Met" is one of the best cartoons I've ever seen, and so sad. Like...really really sad. :(
♥ Off to work.
♥ Work would've been great except that my coworker really pissed me off, probably without meaning to, so I was pissy all shift. :(
♥ Oh, also, a baby bottle got spilled all over me (and the baby, actually) so I had a costume change!
♥ Home, went to Aaron and Becky's for brownies and then back home to watch "American Splendor" (R.I.P. Harvey Pekar!)

♥ Fell asleep about 20 minutes in, haha. Ah well, I've seen it before.
♥ Zzzz.

Sunday

2010-07-13T07:51:00.000-07:00

♥ Sunday Sunday Sunday!
♥ I made waffles for breakfast, watched more "Mad Men"
♥ Craig reeeeally wanted to watch the World Cup finale (and who could blame him?) so he went to watch it with our friends Chris and Nicole while I stayed back and hung around the house, haha. I wasn't really following it anyway.
♥ Put on lots of makeup and headed to work
♥ Work was a whole lot of cleaning and not much else.
♥ Brought Pleasantville but the girls totally didn't get it, which isn't surprising.

♥ Such a good movie, though.
♥ Home, more "Mad Men", zzz.

Thursday/Friday/Saturday

2010-07-11T11:30:00.000-07:00

I've been the worst at updating every day, but oh well. This is my blog, isn't it? What do I have to prove!

(sloppy-doo)

♥ Had a really good few days!
♥ Thursday Craig and I went to the grocery store and the farmer's market (they were out of my blueberry bagels, *sob*)
♥ We had mac and cheese for lunch, then I went with Dri to look for an interview outfit for her.
♥ Ended up buying purple mascara and a pink picture frame for me! I think I'm going to put some affirmations in the frame and put it on my desk!
♥ Back home, Craig and I went to pick up our friend Pia, who was visiting California for the first time in six years. We went to high school with her, and she currently travels around between Paris, the Phillipines, and New York among other places. She's even on a bag of Doritos!

♥ Had dinner at Rutabegorz with Pia, Aaron, Becky, Leah (Craig's sister) and our friend Melody who we hadn't seen in aaaaages.

♥ Back at the apartment we bid adieu to Pia (after she took about a billion pictures of us), Melody, and Becky, and were joined by Chris, Nicole, and Colin for a Pop Noir show!
♥ Pop Noir is an awesome band consisting of Joe and Luke McGarry (friends of ours we went to high school with) and Nico, the drummer, who's from Chile. They put on a hell of a show!

♥ All in all, a wonderful day!

♥ Friday was a bit of a lazy day.
♥ Went for a walk, listened to a Gala Darling podcast while I did so.
♥ Later went over to visit Dri. We went to Goodwill (nothing good there) and Target (bought a slow-cooker!) and vegged out at the house.
♥ Later we went to the apartment and invited over my cousin Christina, my dad, Aaron and Becky and Aaron's brother Braedon to eat pizza and watch Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

♥ My dad had expressed an interest in rewatching all the Harry Potter movies to lead up to the 7th one, so we did it in style!
♥ Also, I *love* to make fun of the kids' acting, hahahaha.
♥ After Craig got home and mostly everybody went home except Aaron and Becky, we watched "Black Dynamite" and some youtubes.

♥ And we called it a night!

♥ Saturday I was the crankiest girl in Crankytown! And I don't even remember why. I'm very dramatic.
♥ Eventually snapped out of it and went to Target with Craig to buy a new comforter...it's teal and pretty and brightens the room up.
♥ Work was pretty easy...did some cleaning and watched "Whip It", "Sister Act 2" and "October Sky".

♥ I swear I don't just watch movies all day!
♥ I also baked some delicious peanut butter cookies, yum!
♥ Home, Craig had to work late so I was lonesome.
♥ Watched Mad Men, ate ice cream and went to bed.

That's it!

Tuesday/Wednesday

2010-07-08T07:48:00.000-07:00

♥ SO little to report about.
♥ Went to urgent care for a personal problem (AGAIN) and now I'm on antibiotics, hooray!
♥ Called out sick to appropriately treat this problem.
♥ Used the day off to clean my house while I watched "Dreamgirls"

♥ Which makes me cry because Jennifer Hudson is so fab.
♥ I also wish Beyonce always looked like she does in these 60s/70s roles (Cadillac Records, Dreamgirls, the "Why Don't You Love Me" music video, hell, even Austin Powers!) because 2010 is so ho-hum.
♥ Later I went to Aaron and Becky's to watch "The Sixth Sense" because Aaron and his brother made a parody video when they were in middle school that we watched recently, so it was in our minds, haha.

♥ Still such a good movie, Toni Collette is awesome.
♥ Home, beddie bye.

♥ WEDNESDAY was more of the same, I guess. Went for a walk with Craig.
♥ Watched some "Hell's Kitchen," yay!
♥ Went to pick up a prescription at Kaiser, then was cranky at home for a while, boo.
♥ Work. Made tacos. Watched "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"

♥ Which my coworker had never seen! I think she was right when she said she was probably the only person on the planet who hadn't seen it. My goodness, a life without that movie!
♥ After work we went to Aaron and Becky's again to watch "Drowning Mona"

♥ Funny little movie, but Jamie Lee Curtis's hair is SO painful, haha.
♥ Home and bed again. Bad Wednesday kept us up all night, she's asking for it!

Monday

2010-07-06T15:56:00.000-07:00

♥ Up bright and early on Monday for a trip to Irvine Park!
♥ I went with Aaron and Becky, who very much wanted to check out the peacocks.
♥ We saw quite a few. And one dropped a bunch of its feathers which we eagerly collected.
(BABIES!)
♥ We climed on these rocks, and the park ranger yelled at us, haha.
♥ "For OBVIOUS REASONS this area is closed!"
♥ Your obvious reasons are not obvious to anyone.

♥ We had lunch at Rutabegorz right by the house, which was totally delicious.

♥ Off to work...felt kinda crummy.
♥ Home! Craig's friend Collin was over and he brought me the soundtracks to Myst, Riven, and Exile. Computer nerd 4 life!

♥ LOVEEEE!

Saturday/Sunday

2010-07-06T15:38:00.001-07:00

♥ 4th of July Weekend! Celebrated....at work! Booo.
♥ Spent Saturday morning cleaning up the aftermath of Friday night
♥ Off to work, yay.
♥ Except...
♥ They let me go home early and I saw the fireworks!

♥ Aaron and Becky were there, and my cousin Christina.
♥ We ate ice cream and popcorn and danced around to music blasting out of the car.
♥ Craig bought "A Serious Man", "Whip It" and "An Education" from the Blockbuster while we waited for them to start, haha.
♥ After the fireworks we went back to the apartment and watched "A Serious Man" which is amazing and nuts.

♥ Happy 4th!
♥ Got doughnuts with Dri, watched some old home videos, then went to my grandmother's house for lunch.
♥ My family...I don't know. I need to create my own holiday traditions for myself because this is my life and I'm an adult and I don't need to be surrounded by negative or dull people on special days, or anyday for that matter.
♥ Dri and I at least jumped in the pool, but my mind was a million miles away.

♥ Off to work.
♥ I was mostly alone and cleaned all day at work, watched "Gidget Goes Hawaiian", "Anywhere But Here" and "Never Been Kissed" while I did all that cleaning.
♥ After work Craig and I went to Becky's parents' house to light some fireworks.
♥ Aaron had a bit too much to drink and was a hilarious hot mess.
♥ All in all, the last couple hours of my day were quite nice. :)

Friday

2010-07-03T08:35:00.000-07:00

♥ Another day off, hurrah!
♥ Had a dream about the day they put my dog Mariah down four years ago, woke up bawling. :(
♥ Craig and I went to the beauty supply store to get some red hair dye. For me, not for him. I just pictured him with red hair and had myself a laugh, hahaha!
♥ We also went to Trader Joe's for some party snacks and ice cream, thanks work for the gift card!
♥ Craig also finally talked me into trying Kogi's (this Korean taco truck he's OBSESSED with)

♥ Aw, he's so excited.
♥ Went back home to meet our friend Nicole who needed to vent over some family issues she's having :(
♥ Went to get slushies at Joe's to make us all feel better.
♥ Grocery store again for some stuff we forgot...
♥ Dyed my hair! It's a subtle red but it's definitely different!
♥ Got ready for the first movie of "Cinematheque D" (that's what Craig named it, haha).
♥ Cleaned the apartment, made the spaghetti and homemade sauce for our spaghetti western, and got started!
♥ We had over my dad, Dri, Christina, Chris & Nicole, Aaron & Becky (who made some awesome dinner rolls), Collin, John, and Leah.
♥ The movie? The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, of course!

♥ I found Clint Eastwood's clothes in the film SUPER inspiring for some reason...not my style at all but I couldn't keep my eyes off that poncho thing, haha.
♥ I had never seen the before, and actually missed a lot of the first half because I made chocolate chip cookies for everybody. But I quite liked what I saw!

♥ Overall a very fun night!
♥ And I was too tired to clean so I have to deal with that now, boooo!

Thursday

2010-07-03T08:14:00.001-07:00

♥ My day off, woohoo!
♥ Made banana pancakes for breakfast, we scarfed them down.
♥ Dri came over and the three of us went on some errands.
♥ Went to Toys R Us because Dri needed a stuffed animal for her boyfriend (don't ask)

♥ She ended up buying the Buzz Lightyear Bear because it's the cutest thing in the universe!
♥ We went to Michael's where I bought some sparkly pens for my filofax, also made me want to start crafting but I'm not very creative...if I'm going to get started I need to commit!

♥ Haha, Dri liked this ugly puppet thing.
♥ Dri bid us adieu, Craig and I lay around for a while before going grocery shopping for our movie party on Friday.
♥ Afterwards we visited Becky because she was home sick and lonesome. We talked about relationships and past boyfriends and other things.

♥ She also showed me how to work my sewing machine.
♥ I WILL learn to sew, I will I will!
♥ Aaron finally came home, we watched this awesome spoof of "The Sixth Sense" that he and his brother made when they were in middle school. If they ever put it on youtube I'll upload it here, it's hilarious.
♥ Home! Bed!

Wednesday

2010-07-01T08:36:00.001-07:00

♥ I had a weird morning, see my grouchy face?
♥ Watched "Bus Stop"...

♥ Which I really didn't like all that much...Eileen Heckart was the best part, and she wasn't in it THAT much.
♥ I like Marilyn best when she's being funny in a less major role (ie How to Marry a Millionaire, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Some Like it Hot) (yes I know she AND Jane Russell are the leads in GPB but Jane feels like the star)
♥ I also caught up on some Hell's Kitchen!
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♥ Cleaned the apartment like woah, it is now beautiful.
♥ Off to work, where we watched "Where the Heart Is" AGAIN because the girls really liked it.
♥ I also made barbecue chicken that wasn't great, boo.
♥ After work I drove around a bit, ended up at Denny's for a dessert date for one!

♥ Helped me sort out my weird headspace.
♥ Home. Some lovin' (teehee). Bed.

Tuesday

2010-06-30T08:12:00.000-07:00

♥ Another daaaay.
♥ Started rewatching "Mad Men" from the first episode to get ready for Season 4 in a few weeks!

♥ I know there are countless blogs and reviews and all that praising the hell out of this show, but it really is fantastic.
♥ Did some chores around the house
♥ Thinking about getting started in running...I'm the LEAST athletic person on the planet, what with my dodgy heart and bad foot and all that, but I want to see if I can do it.
♥ At the very least it'll be a nice shocker to everyone who thinks I'm just a lazy blob.
♥ We got "It Happened One Night" in the mail from our friend Chelsea...she also sent us "The Bad Seed" and "Alfie" (the original). Cinephiles? Why yes we are!
♥ Off to a super fun staff meeting...the rules at work are so bizarre, seriously. They got all mad at the girls for wearing tutus and tights out in public. Seriously? Let them!
♥ Work was alright, pretty easy. We watched "Where the Heart Is"...

♥ Which is only one of my favorite "aww" movies! And do I have a crush on "Forney"? Absolutely.
♥ Back at home I was super stoked because my new filofax came in the mail!

♥ I've had personal planners since I was probably eight years old, I love them so. My current one wasn't cutting it so I jumped on the Gala-Darling-bandwagon. Ahhhh well. But isn't she beautiful? My planner, I mean. *swoon*
♥ The honeybunny and I watched some episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show (best show everrr) and hit the hay.

Overall, not bad! Now I have to tackle a major housebeastawfulmess that is my apartment! Ahh!

Monday

2010-06-29T11:55:00.001-07:00

♥ Went to Rite Aid earrrly to get some haircolor. I had a weird need for change!
♥ Ended up getting some Color Oops in attempts to strip the black. It's hard to see but my hair is a bit lighter now.
♥ Watched "Jaws" in the morning, aaah!

♥ SO GOOD, I don't care about any of these kids and their "the shark looks so fake" comments!
♥ Dri came over later, we watched "Saved"

♥ Mandy Moore's so good at being bitchy, haha!
♥ We ate spaghetti and crackers and I baked chocolate chip cookies and we ate those too! NOM NOM NOM!
♥ Work was okay, lots of cranky babies and cranky girls, but ah well. Mostly pretty easy.
♥ And another day passes...

Sunday

2010-06-29T11:49:00.000-07:00

Weird, I totally thought I'd updated about Sunday already. Hmm.

♥ I made cinnamon rolls from scratch, invited Aaron and Becky and Dri over to eat them.
♥ Watched "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" during the baking process, good times!

♥ I <3 Pee Wee! And Tim Burton's early work, but I won't rant about Tim Burton again.
♥ Work was very meh. Watched "Holes"...

♥ Made tostadas!
♥ Overall a very easy day.
♥ Had a dumb argument with Craig when I got home, don't even remember what it was about. Aaaaand goodnight!