Quatchi

Oh Hai, Quatchi! This little guy arrived today. I am so excited. I've wanted on forever and this one even has the little Olympic red mittens like me.

He is so cute! Totally one of the best Olympic mascots in the history of Olympic Mascots.

Happy Hump Day

After Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF (Why the face?)

Yup. 

These ads are adorable and ...

 the week is halfway to done. 

90s Techno Dance Party is Go.

As much as I like to pretend that I have a discerning taste in music, for the most part this claim is completely unfounded. It's not that I don't listen to what has critically been deemed excellent, oh do I ever. It's just that I, like many, listen to such a variety of styles and genres of music that it is impossible to choose my favourite or pretend that all of it is really good. As I was driving today my friend and fellow blogette comandeered the radio and turned it to some ghastly techno-dance station. Much to my surprise one of the first songs we heard, I in fact have on my ipod and quite enjoy.  Call it what you will, reminiscent or otherwise, but I truly enjoy dance and techno songs from the 90s and more and more from contemporary beats as well. I hope this isn't just a result of getting caught up in the jersey shore phenomenon. Anyway, It's a bit of a grey day where I am so here is my pitiful list of some of my favourite 90s dance songs to brighten your/my day:

I tried to stick with purely dance songs (i.e. no rap or pop) just for the hell of it. If this mix doesn't make you want to get up and shake your rump 90s style, then quite frankly, there is no hope for you. Now go forth and dance.

Top 3 ... Favourite Food Websites.

It's 2:30 and I've yet to eat today. I woke up after breakfast then fumbled about for a time before I was whisked away to my sister's hockey game. A couple of errands done and now I'm home and it's 2:30 and I'm about as starving as I've ever been. I can smell lunch being made but until it get's in my belly it's torture. Not to mention the added torture I do unto myself by flicking midlessly through some of my favourite foodie websites. Join me won't you?

1) Food Porn Daily.

   Click, drool, repeat. http://foodporndaily.com/

2) The Kitchn.

An offshoot of another favourite, Apartment Therapy. http://www.thekitchn.com/

3) Epicute.

cute + silly. http://epicute.com/

Polaroid Scarf

wish I had $500 for every time I wanted a new scarf. 

If you have $500 for a new polaroid scarf (heh.) buy here: Reborn.

Waking Sleeping Beauty

Like many my age, Disney films of the late 80s, early 90s played a large role in my childhoo. I count them to be among my favourite films. It takes about 5 seconds into The Little Mermaid for me to weep with joy and sentimentality. Everything about The Lion King makes me wish I was 6 again and don't get me started on how amazing Lumiere and Cogsworth are in Beauty and the Beast. For me, these films, along with Aladdin, are some of the best ever made by Disney or anyone else. I cannot explain the depth of emotion in me that is connected to these films, their characters and the music. I also find it extremely difficult to choose my favourite. I suppose it is between The Little Mermaid and The Lion King, but they are so different. I do not remember a time in my life when I was ever unaware or unattached to The Little Mermaid, but I remember the specific feeling of joy upon being present (along with my stepsisters) with a shared copy of The Lion King.  I suppose they will remain forever tied together at the top of my list of favourite films.

Of course it will be of no surprise then when I say the trailer for this documentary on the people and years that produced my favourite films has me the definition of excited. Enjoy the preview below, hopefully this will be playing in a theatre near me. Oh and when is The Lion King coming out of the Disney vault. I am antsy.

Mr. Williams

Brian Williams has kind of stolen my heart. I was listening to Q this morning and he was a guest. He is so thoughtful and cool and at one point it was casually brought up that he has a website called Britunes. What!? I didn't think this guy could get any more rad, but I was mistaken. He is so boss. Check out his website (chuckle, I love it!): Britunes
Spoiler!: He has pretty great taste in music.

Movie Poster Mashup

Over at Worth1000.com there is a contest underway, Mate a Movie. My favourites so far are the ones mashing up, Up! and Up in the Air. That's a lot of 'ups' in one sentence. 

Check out more here. 

Lost Fans Unite!

Suddenly everything serious seems so funny. 

See more cartoons by Graham Annable here: Flickr Album.

Modelmorphosis

It's New York Fashion week and The Times has a cool feature on it's blog displaying the before and after shots of some of the models. See the modelmorphosis.

Walking a Fine Line .... Between Pretty and Tough

Purge Plan Oh-10 Pt. 4

Part Four of my somewhat epic Purge Plan Oh-10 is a much smaller feat than those that have come before it. I decided to riffle through two of the random bags and containers in my bedroom closet. The rest of the closet is pretty much organized - It's full of clothes, shoes and bags which I wear fairly regularly. Of the things that need to be sorted through from this closet: one contains office supplies and odds and ends, while the other has toiletries. I'll admit, like clothes, and hand creams, I have an excessive amount of makeup and note pads. First up, my overflow of office supplies...

Before and After. This box just required some reorganizing. I needed to put some of the things in other boxes and some in my desk organizer (pencils!) but other than that I kept almost everything. The only thing I can't find a home for is my old reusable batter charger. I don't have that brand of battery anymore, nor do I know where to find them. I've also already got a newer version so ..... garbage? Seems like a waste. 

Next up is my toiletries bag. My two step-sisters bought this bag from Sephora  for me when I was in my first year of university and it was a swell shower bag while in residence. Now though, I use it as more of a storage place or more accurately, a place where makeup goes to die. I say this because once I put stuff in this bag and then put the bag in my closet, I completely forget about it. So while this has resulted in having to throw out a few tubes of mascara, it's also allowed me a few fun surprises:

Like this Soothing eye mask (maybe I'll use this tonight)! And a brand new Nars blush (though this blush proves the point that I have far too much make up in comparison to what I actually wear which is very little to none at all on a dail basis. You see, I already have a Nars blush in the exact same colour in use and not yet near finished.)

Or this tube of Estee Lauder lipstick. I don't wear lipstick - My lips and teeth are a fair size on their own without loads of pinkish red attention - but the smell of this lipstick is yummy and reminds me of the Bahamas.   With this lipstick I also got gloss that smells the same and I got it around the time I went to the Bahamas 3 years ago. 

And here is just a small sample of the shadows I have that I never use. Keep in my that these are the ones that never see the light of day, so I'm sure you can imagine how much more I have in my actually make case for day-to-day. yikes!

Done! 

Alexandre Bilodeau

Canada, more specifically Alexandre Bilodeau, won Gold in Men's Moguls tonight and it was exhilarating, edge-of-your-seat action. I am so happy, so proud, and so tired. Being a spectator is hard work. I cannot imagine anyone else carrying the Canadian flag at the closing ceremonies. Truly inspiring.

Here is more of his story at ctv.

February Fourteenth

You know what it is. If you feel so inclined ... click here to make these crocheted hearts. 

Envirocharge

Shiba Inu Puppy Cam

Do you watch the Shiba Inu Puppycam? You should. The whole concept is voyeuristic but cute and I totally am addicted. Sometime I take snapshots of cute moments. Here are some:

Visit the puppies here

Polyvore

It's official, my new obsession is Polyvore. You can find the link to my profile and creations under "Shove Elsewhere" to the right. I'm also sure I'll be posting some here. Enjoy! Go forth and create.

Pillow Post.

Good afternoon weekend warriors! I'm taking a break from reading Lady Audley's Secret, which is very enjoyable, to bring you a post about pillows! I absolutely love these pillows from Helkatdesign. Hand painted and sewn Brit-style throw pillows, could you ask for anything more.

Purge Plan Oh-10 Pt. 3

                                          looks benign, but ...                                            Boo!

Instead of studying I got the urge to continue on the war path against "stuff", this time in the hall closet. I have kept the majority of boxes I used while moving from home to residence to my 2nd year house to the apartment I am in now. So a lot of the extra stuff I have tucked away in closets is just empty boxes waiting to be used again when I move. There are, however, some random things in some of the boxes that need to be addressed.

this isn't even my box - I think I stole it from a former housemate?

Like sorting through clothes, it is important to have a plan of action that can be adhered to. This time however I didn't even know what I was I was going to be dealing with - I couldn't remember what was in any other boxes and it turns out - there wasn't much. I found a lot of newspapers (which I'll hold onto for packing up breakable stuff) and some random school supplies, an iron .... nothing too interesting.

Basically, this was one of the easiest steps in cleaning out my apartment and my literal closet, not the metaphorical one. I'm thinking the next spot I tackle is my bedroom closet. Though most of its contents are things I wear/use regularly, there are some things that need to be sorted through. not today though.


posting note: eek this post is a couple weeks old. whoops I've been bad at updating, but still keeping on track with my purge plan, promise!

In the Navy

In these depths of winter doldrums it is important to look forward to the brighter, lighter, sunnier season of Summer. And what better way to do that than to day dream about what one might wear if they could wear anything they wanted without thought for price? Tis true, I probably (read: definitely) can't afford anything in this little fashion spread, but dammit a girl can dream can't she?

I am a recent convert to Polyvore. My friend has mentioned the site before but I was never bored enough to make my way over there - also I felt like if I did it would not end well - it would turn to obsession over what should be paired with what and how it should be displayed. Well, I am throwing caution to the wind. Here's to pretending to be my very own fashion editor! here is my sorry attempt at fancy day and night looks for on the water living or vacationing.

Haul.

Today when I went downstairs there was a nice big package waiting for me. Evidently one of my housemates had greeted the deliveryman because I was still sleeping =). In it was the most wonderful assortment of goodies from my mum! She always sends the best carepackages and this was to be no different. First of all, It had lots of fun edible goodies: Smartfood, Mrs. Fields cookies to name a few. But it also contained some lovely useful goodies!

 

My skin is winter dry at the moment and my lips are suffering due to lack of appropriate product. This Crabtree & Evelyn exfoliating lip smoother and Honey berry LypSyl will do nicely!

Ahem - I don't know what my mother would think I need this for.

I am officially Soap&Glory's biggest fan. They have the cutest makeup bags, and now I own 4. 

  

I am most excited to use this Voodoo doll and revenge book, obviously. 

I feel like those kids who got the Nintendo 64 and all their basic brain function was channeled into yelling RAWWR! Nintendo 64!!!!: