Charming
Monday, February 04, 2008
Saturday was a great day, very nice weather, heavy snow though, but shockingly I didn't hurt myself too badly! Just one fall at the bottom I could have done without. By the way, who goes snowboarding and sits 2/5ths down the hill and chats on their cell phone? Just a question... ! What did you seriously have to talk about?? And why didn't I run into her?
I think we're all agreed to make this a regular thing as long as the weather holds out, for anyone who dares to come with. My dad seemed to think he would be a double black-diamond-belt snowboarding ninja. I might have to insist he comes next time, then! Talk is cheap, yes, we all know this. Let's see it! ;)
Sad blog news. It looks like one of my favourite blogs has been baleeted, possibly forever! If you got a chance to read it yourself you will know that John Mayer's blog was totally awesome. I enjoyed reading his blurbs quite a bit since he is very funny and very smart. At any rate, it made me wish we were friends, and it deserved a mention now that it is gone. Let's move on to his successor on my blog roll list: Things I've Bought That I Love. A cute and funny little blog by Mindy Ephron, one of the actors/writers from The Office. I will admit that women would probably appreciate this blog a lot more than men, but I think there is something for everyone so feel free to check it out without thinking I sent you somewhere weird.
With that said, I had my very first "man, I wish Mindy wrote a review about this" moment. I was doing my favourite Sunday morning activity... a little virtu-window shopping, and I ran into a bunch of totally unbelievable bracelets from this crazy lady who runs a website called So-Charmed.
Naturally, the last one is probably the only one I would actually buy, if I had the coin she is asking for these gems (which I don't, I just got my hair cut OK, I'm far from indulging myself in fabulous bracelets!). I am tempted though, since the more I looked through them and read their little stories, the more I kinda wanted one. She naturally does custom bracelets and I couldn't help but wonder what I'd like mine to look like. I think it was the pink enamel chain and pixy dust in the "momentarily, she was transformed" bracelet that got me. It reminded me of something I had as a kid, and of course in her other custom pieces she basically challenges you to try and imagine the best little memories you have to put on the thing that would just make you happy looking at it.
So I came up with that pink chain and then the crazy lady got to me! Yes, suddenly, I knew that if it existed my bracelet should have a tiny replica of a glossy candy music flute. Specifically in peach/orange. Does anyone else remember those??? You have to. It should also have something watermelon on it to remind me of this 80s lip balm I had called Kissing Koolers. It was all watermelon marble and AWESOME.
Sweet Jesus, I found it!
Someone from Jamaica, NY is selling 20 of them on eBay.
Goddamn you, international shipping!!
Anyhow, now all I can think about is what other stuff I would put on my magic bracelet! And also, what would other people put on theirs?? What would I buy for friends? Great. Sigh, So-Charmed, you are absolutely NUTS and stupid expensive ....but I kinda dig that about you.
Labels: blogger sucks, Jewlery, snow
Search of the Week
Saturday, February 02, 2008
Now, there was a particularly priceless search earlier this week that seemed like poetry BUT I had forgotten to save it. Our rules are exactly like Miss America, if the winner can't fulfill their obligations as Search of the Week then the first runner up takes their place. Therefore the winner is: babytalk august 2006.
Apparently in 2006 there was a lot of babytalk, particularly in august. I had no idea! Isn't it good to be informed? Babytalk is back on the rise, my friends, look out for it in 2008!
In other news I finally went and got my hair cut last night. It looks great, and trust me, I know a bad haircut when I see it and this is the opposite of that. I am pretty happy since it's been a long time and I needed one, but as usual, I never go. Like the dentist, which I also went to the night before (and I am feeling much better about that now as well). What a satisfying feeling to actually start doing things for yourself lol. I think I will stick to getting my hair cut at this new place since it was basically down my street AND full service..... she even put my coat on for me! How much do you tip someone after that?? Just a question. I'm from Hamilton, after all, I don't know these things.
I took a crappy pic for my step-mom who, after reading my facebook status about my sexy new hair, she wanted to see it! It is much sexier in person with all the wind blowing in it and everything ;) of course.
While I had the camera out, Sean and I decided to have some fun. This is our role reversal pic. AKA Sean's interpretation of me, and mine of HIM. Hahaha.
It's our new favourite.
We're all off snowboarding again this morning. Wish me luck! No seriously, go ahead and say good luck out loud please, I am probably falling on my ass this very moment. Thank you :)
Labels: haircut, search of the week, snow
Little Plastic Milk Hats
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
New Flickr pics are up of our snowboarding adventure. It was a lot of fun! I am black&blue, sore, and happy I went. That said, the bruise count is up to 5 right now. My favourite is the one on my right thigh that is about the size of a cell phone. I call it "that little bastard". It was from my first time realizing that I had no idea how to steer!
Anyways, I thought I should let you know how that went. Hopefully we'll go again soon. As soon as I typed that my body took control of my hand and slapped myself in the face. Weird.
So I consider myself somewhat of an idea person, meaning I invent things from time to time. Most of these inventions are just things I think will make other inventions better.. so don't think I am inventing lightbulbs here. If I were I think I would have mentioned it, oh once or twice by now. Anyways! I don't want to advertise all my good ideas because I am sure the minute I did one would get stolen and used by some shifty-eyed guy to make a billion dollars and then I will be FORCED to throw this computer out the window and move to France. And I don't want to do that! What I will divulge to you is my first invention idea. I can't say how young I was but at some point in my little life I became interested in milk bags. Of course I remembered this story yesterday for absolutely no reason other than I was opening a milk bag. I used to watch my Grandma open a new bag with scissors all the time, and decided it was pretty silly that we throw away that little plastic triangle that is cut off.
I automatically assumed it was used for something, but when I asked her she said we just throw it away. Unbelievable, right? Throw away a perfectly good.... uh... hmm. I tried to figure out a way to use it, as doll hats, finger puppets, fake nails (or nail protectors!) ETC... but it never worked out. They truly were USELESS. I threw my little girl hands up in disgust! Later on there was that invention of the blade that sticks on your fridge to open the bag of milk, which I thought was neat. And I believe there have been some inventions since then trying to seal the bag back up after it is opened. However these are not really addressing the problem of the useless plastic milk-hat which gets thrown away, which is clearly the more important issue. To this day, while it was my first inventive idea, it remains unsolved. So if anyone out there has any great ideas on what to do with those plastic milk bag triangles, I would love to hear them! If I like it, I will tell you my great adult cereal idea.*
*No it is not just 2 Cheerios stuck together and renamed Titty'Os.
Radiator Mittens
Friday, November 23, 2007
Some pictures from Maria and Alanna's Birthday.. also Cousin Night!
Alisia, Me, Maria and Carolanne
Cousin Love
Pringle Ducks?
Antonella said "let me try on your glasses so I can look smart"
That's my family, aww. I think this is the only picture that exists of all us girl cousins together. We're going to have to have some professional black out the other blonde girl.. I have no idea who she is. lol. Oh and those "whassamatta for you" guys in the background too, ya they can go.
Today I actually got to be out in the first snow of the year, yesterday I just watched it from my window. I have noticed that it's one of those things that you don't miss at all until you see it. I stood there and thought "oh yeah" like it just dawned on me that I really like snow and winter. lol. I think it's a universal feeling, maybe it's some kind of survival thing deep down in our DNA to remember previous wintertimes. Like when I am 81 I will stand there and think "ah shit" instead; or "so this is the year I am going to die shoveling snow".
Cousin Love
Whatever I was doing here, it was hilarious apparently. Kinda looks like I'm telling them a story via my crotch.
Pringle Ducks?
Antonella said "let me try on your glasses so I can look smart" so I said "then you should probably put down the wine"
That's my family, aww. I think this is the only picture that exists of all us girl cousins together. We're going to have to have some professional black out the other blonde girl.. I have no idea who she is. lol. Oh and those "whassamatta for you" guys in the background too, ya they can go.Today I thought about a few times when I was a kid, what I liked to do in the snow. One year I dug out the bottom of the picnic table to make an igloo. 2 hours later I had an igloo and I was fucking freezing. But you know the thought of all that happy digging made me smile, especially when my mittens got completely soaked because my mom or my teachers would put them on the radiator to dry. Sometimes you would have to go home or back outside and they hadn't fully dried yet so they were still damp, and how much that sucked. Not all memories have to be good ones. lol. It made me smile because no matter what, that was just a winter thing, and nothing else. Just like my grandma yelling at me every time I left the house to put on a hat.. wait that's not an annual thing.. that's all the time ;)
Labels: birthday, Mother-fucking Booze Time, snow, winter
