What's the best way to make change ($$)? Buy a Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha from Starbucks - truth.
In about an hour and a half I am going to be heading on my merry way home for the Lady Gaga concert in Toronto tomorrow! Yippee! Try not to be too jealous and have a lovely weekend!

Gaga or Bust!

Loving you is cherry pie.
Going home for Gaga in Toronto tomorrow with my sister - will report back with details - If I can breathe - I am too excited for words.

Officially NOT the Worst Restauranteur

This is a Picture of my fellow blogette's restaurant .....

Noel and (Satsuma) La Roux

Satsuma La Roux, as voiced by Noel Fielding, is kinda 100 times better than real life La roux, no? The music is still awe-some either way.

House Cleaning Blues

This morning I woke up and found a load of dishes in the sink. Everyone has been very busy with school this week and things have started to pile up in the last few days... It's not so bad but I did feel a bit like Betty Boop and was wishing for my own Grampy as I filled the sink with scorching hot water and pulled on my rubber gloves in preparation for dish duty....

Speaking of Betty Boop and Grampy - are there things from your childhood that make you question whether they were real or imagined? The clip below has haunted my thoughts for years - was it real or did I imagine this craziness? punch from a chandelier? .... Thankfully it's all real and all on Youtube.

Sweet Dreams

My Mum is the Best

Besides all her other wonderful attributes and the amazing things she does for me, there is this:

Today I was complaining about my seminar course, in particular: group work. It has been the cause of a great deal of stress lately and my mum's response was:

"You always have these problems in groups because you are a natural born leader."

Plain and simple as that is it? I'll take it.

This pick-me-up-phrase is almost as good as "It's going to be AWESOME, I just know it!" - I'm pretty sure she told me that one before a major highschool presentation - and I'm pretty sure that presentation was awesome, just as she predicted.

Pearl + Frankie: New Episode

Uh Oh. Looks like they're at it again.
Click HERE to see the latest episode.
Episode 6: Frankie realizes that Jib Jab has posted their annual holiday dancing elves videos and is excited .... as usual. But what will killjoy Pearl think? .....

Swedish Abode

Today my fellow blogette confided in me her desire to move to Sweden ... maybe she could live here ... and I could visit.
Also from Fresh Home, THIS is pretty much my dream home.

Atlas Holds the Heavens

This video is kind of a legend in it's own right and doesn't much if any explanation, suffice to say: you watch - you laugh. But I have to say that this morning I had the volume turned off on my computer and was listening to my ipod and when I clicked to watch this clip, the Dixie Cups' Chapel of Love came on and it just made this whole whole episode so much more amazing. Try it: It actually follows the beat. just restart the song when it ends (yes this is my bargain basement style dubbing - the recession is hard for all of us!)

SNL: ZZZZzzzz

Ugh. Watching SNL last night I couldn't help but think to myself; remember when SNL was somewhat tolerable? Yeah, tolerable. I am nowhere near old enough to remember when SNL was excellent or even good - I am part of a generation that knows SNL as the show that sometimes has special cameos during Weekend Update, when Tina Fey and Jimmy Fallon basically salvaged whatever there was to salvage of the show. Now that they are gone and Tina is no longer a writer, watching the show has become increasingly uncomfortable and much like a televised awards show: Actors read their lines uncomfortably while making the lamest small chat and jokes (which they know are terrible making the delivery 10x worse) and the audience tunes in for the first 1/2 hour, 45 minutes if they are really into masochism, and then groan and switch channels or as the case may be - go to bed. Besides the unstoppable downhill roll SNL has found itself in for some years now, last night was a particularly poor showing for the following reasons:

1 - Am I the ONLY person who finds January Jones' total lack of acting ability troubling given the attention she's received for Mad Men? Also - did that show's season not just end? Why in the world was she hosting? - snooze. The whole Deer in the Headlights look was understandale for the first 30 seconds of her monologue but after that it just got sad. Then it got irritating. Then I turned off my T.V.
2 - I heart Grace Kelly; If you are going to do a sketch about her at least try and make it intelligent funny - not 12 year old boy funny *fart*
3 - Just because she's famous and on a psuedopopular television show does not mean she should be hosting SNL. If ya ain't got the chops you shouldn't have the job.

In all fairness - Ms. Jones did have a tough act to follow - last week's SNL was surprisingly entertaining even if I didn't collapse in giggles, I did smirk often and Taylor was fabulous. Perhaps the weeks should have been reversed?
The sad thing is that it just does not seem to be getting better - ever. The only entertaining and in fact memorable bits of SNL from the past couple of years have been the Digital Shorts - and those aren't even live. I still go back and watching my favourites - like Lazy Sunday or Jonah Hill Dates Andy's Dad (which I watched last night on youtube only to find it removed from the site this morning!) - priceless ... but not enough to save this show I'm afraid. What they DO need is some original and funny recurring characters that younger viewers can get behind. Other than that, I'm at a loss.

Caution: Sleeping(?) Zone

Oh Lordy, this made me chuckle. More Here

Cute Overload Part Deux: Flashdance

This will probably be my new desktop background when I get around to being bored of the one I have currently.  I saw this picture on Cute Overload and was joyful. What made it even more wonderful? Although, I guess they decided to give it a different story on the blog, the file name was "Prosciutto, Pancetta and Sir Hammy Reenact Flashdance" I could not have thought of a more perfect caption myself. oink - It's a typical Tuesday.

Ready for the Weekend

It's Monday and I'm ready for the Weekend ... or at least Thursday when I'll be going to QPID's Middle School Dancy (typo, but keeping it) Party. Basically they play music from around the time people my age were in middle school all night.  I've already put my request in for Soul Decision's Faded.  And don't you dare say: "Sould Decision - who's that?" Because nobody likes liars. I'll always remember Faded because it was the second song I ever downloaded on Napster, well that my older sister downloaded for me. What was the first? Otherside by Red Hot Chili Peppers .... yeah I was that kind of awesome.
What I'm Listening To? Pretty much this and everything else from Calvin Harris' Album: Ready for the Weekend - SO GOOD.

Just One Year of Blog

Oh hi there. Don't mind me, I'm just celebrating my one year anniversary with my blog ... by candlelight. Maybe you'd like to join me and my blog as we take a walk down memory lane and recall our favourite posts from the past year. So sit back and enjoy the slideshow/movie I made especially for the occasion and try and hold back the joyous, celebratory tears as you recall the good times and the great times ... (sorry about the awful quality - it was fine until I uploaded it onto blogger....)

Lessons, Trials and Lots of Smiles:

I delved into the secret lives of the Gosselins, in particular AAden Gosselin, who is not quite as nice as he seems.
See: Here and Here
Not to mention I liveblogged their epic fail of a t.v. show and reenacted Jon and Kate's awkward couch scenes ... the role playing stuck...
See: Here

I was pranked, hardcore. But I did eventually get my revenge al la postage mix-up.
See: Here

I became a Mad Woman and picked up a severe chain smoking habit and weave issue.
See: Here

We met Pearl and Frankie, who've I've know forever, but my blog hadn't yet had the pleasure.
See: Here

I went to P.E.I. and though my blog couldn't come along, I dutifully reported back as soon as I could with a list of all the wonderful things I had done!
See: Here

I created some much needed PSAs for Suspicinouns and Epipens!
See: Here and Here

I celebrated my very own 101th post with a little insight into the workings of the dreaded/loved informerial ... than I got to see these products for myself when ....

See: Here

I was forced to go to the sketchiest mall in the history of sketchy malls: Dixie Outlet, where I came face to face, body to polyester with a Snuggie!
See: Here
I also learned that probably it's best if I don't go to any mall will my fellow blogette. Things get real. Then they get weird.
See: Here

I learned that Ken dolls can be used as decorations and that you're never to old to joyride or fulfill a fantasy of going to Appleby.
See: Here

I learned that great minds really do think alike, but Awesome minds think identically.
See: Here

Calvin and I took time out from exam prep to enjoy the Kingston Shoreline
See: Here

Calvin learned how to read ...
See: Here
... While Dorcas and I learned how to camera-whore properly
See: Here

I documented my involvement in the play Alcestis - see school can be fun
See: Here, Here, Here, Here

Calvin and I were not drunk when we came up with Trash Toss the game.
See: Here

We were introduced to the comic Cape Boy - and nothing was ever the same again.
Ep. 1, 2, 3, 4

For the first time (and hopefully last) in my life, I missed my plane - Lauren Conrad tears...
See: Here

I shared my and my fellow blogette's obsession with Prison. fyi: my prof held a special session of my seminar to look at original works by Dickens from the Queen's Library special collections and read aloud a passage from his travel journal of the Americas which praised Kingston's Jails. and that's about all he liked about this city.
See: Here

I almost got in a fist-to-cuffs with a bish in the Oakville place parking lot ... goodtimes
See: Here

I found my doppleganger in the children's program Backyardigans
See: Here and also Here

And finally I discussed the pain of suffering alone from the effects of a poltergeist....
See: Here

So all in all it's been a stellar year, I've enjoyed posting whatever the hell I post and will continue to do so.

The Whole (soft, moisturizing and smooth) Story

A week ago I blogged about a friend's unreasonable obsession with Nivea hand cream. And though I didn't lie or make any false claims, I also wasn't completely honest about my own relationship with hand cream, or perhaps more appropriately: hand creams.

The above is a photo of some of my various hand creams and body butters. I realize it's a bit much, but I can't help it. In fact - I blame my mother. Out of all those products pictured, I've personally purchased 2. My mum is the one who gives me most of these. One might call her my supplier - it wouldn't be far fetched to do so. Though, I'm not so innocent as to refuse hand creams and body butters when generously offered or gifted, I definitely don't demand them like my fellow blogette. And in that sense I think I'll stay comfy up here on my high horse.

Pot Belly Bonanza

According to my calculations - every wannabe, blonde ambitionist, pseudo starlet will have a pot belly pig by the end of the month. And here I thought only George Clooney and country folk had pigs for pets ... wrong! While I agree that baby pot belly pigs, a la the telus piglet, are oh-so-cute, I hate that they are being made into a celebrity trend. Only one thing can come as a result of it - stupid girls buying a baby pig and not understanding that it will eventually, and probably sooner rather than later, turn into this:

At which point they will no longer be able, nor have interest in taking care of it. *sad*. This is why I will limit my indulgence in this trend to searching "pot belly piglet" on Google Images .... oh and working out with Miss Piggy, obviously.

And just so you guys know: That second picture above is actually the same cute piggy as in the first one - just full grown. And his name is Sparky. And he has his very own website, because he's that kind of cool: http://www.sparkythepig.com/. And apparently hes loves to chill to music - which makes him my favourite thing in life.
One more thing: Judging from this picture --> he is also the kindred spirit of my dog Angus. And I'm about all pig pictured out for today .... Psyche!!!!! There is NO SUCH THING AS TOO MANY PIGGY PICTURES!!!

Happy Friday

Oh Happy Day - Not really - I got bucket loads of work to do, I got snippy on the phone with via (what's new) and I have to spend hours moving files (mostly itunes) to my new computer. But, hey .... NEW computer! Swweeeetttnnnneeeessss. ..... just like this picture of (some) of my favourites.


photo from: http://www.thecobrasnake.com/

lush.

So luxurious. The whole padded wall behind the bed is taking my dreams of a fabric headboard and going to far beyond! Happy Friday!!

Hallowe'en 2009

So this past weekend was the most beloved of holidays, save for Christmas, Hallowe'en. Both my camera and my phone have been acting up: one won't take pictures, the other won't let me transfer pictures I have taken onto my computer (though I suspect this is more Jules' fault than anything else). Anyway, all I have to show for it pictures from other people's cameras (sketch). Hopefully I will be able to transfer the photos from my phone soon. Until then:

I LOVE this picture of Ainsley et Moi - we look so happy and carefree

Also, Calvin looked amazing as Tuxedo Mask!

Pearl + Frankie: New Episode

Excellent - although the formatting is Off and bothering me endlessly, there is a new Pearl and Frankie episode up at Pearl + Frankie: The Blog


Enjoy!

Pack Up Your Files Jules ....

Time to start prepping for my new computer - put that champagne on ice and turn on some sexy music because my new machine has been shipped. It is now only a matter of days until it will be mine! This morning I turned on Julius and just as I was about to check my email he crashed hardcore - I mean no light no nothing. Half of an hour later we were finally back up and running and I saw the email from Dell in my inbox. It's like Jules knew and wanted to prevent me seeing the fabulous news .... he better start packing up all his files and searching online for a new home because his days are numbered.

Confession: Rapture Rhythms

Last night, after wandering downtown Kingston streets I ended up at my highschool friend's house just off campus. It was almost 2 am, we were chowing down on cheese and spinach pizza and reminiscing about the time I got in trouble for leaving my juicebox on the table in the cafetria in grade 10 - humiliating. While recounting that story to the group I began thinking about other random things from high school, namely bubbles on fire, jazz solos and band trips,  ping pong in gym class and confession. I've never confessed to a priest because that is some straight up Roman Catholic business and that's not how I role, but I did attend a Catholic high school within which I went to near-monthly mass and at least once a semester our religion class was sent to the in school chapel (I feel like this was called something else, but I've blanked). It was always a semi awkward affair for the reason stated above. Usually I would bide my time reading the reflection questions our lovely/awesome Chaplain (sidenote: who also wrote me a wonder letter of reference for a scholarship which I am eternally grateful for) had projected onto a wall until an appropriate number of students had confessed then I would silently slip out and back to class. This sort of anxious and uncomfortable experience of course brought me back to another awkward religious event: The RAPTURE. Now I myself am not in on this whole Rapture bonanza which televangelists seem to be delighted, no, Ecstatic over "WE ARE LIVING IN THE END OF DAYS- PRAISE THE LORD HALLELUJAH, AMEN!" (straight up this is how one lady minister began her preaching when I tuned into CTS midday a couple of weeks ago) .... but I am ecstatic over the song above and to more of an extent over the version of it below. I am ready to fly awayyyyyy - oh so anxious for the Rapture dayyyy! .....Well I've heard about it since I was a child, carried it with me through my troubles and trials .... I just can't wait!!! I just can't help myself, it is so catchy. Also it remains semi novel to me as I have yet to find an available mp3 version so I'm stuck searching it up on Youtube every time I'm looking to hear a little fundamentalist folk .... Anyway,  gather 'round kiddies and enjoy some Rapture Rhythms with me.



p.s. How random is the accompanying slideshow in the first video? - 1:50 and 2:26 are a bit much ... but then so is the whole thing...

Pearl + Frankie The Blog

Pearl et Frankie have a new home at http://frankiepearl.blogspot.com

From now on only previews of episodes will be available at Take Your Carriage Clock and Shove It ... because Pearl and Frankie are bishes not to be messed with.