Carousel -- Week Ending 13th July 2007
[ 13 July 2007 ]
6 ways to sharpen your intuition, from Steve Olson. (No relation to the twins!) He has some good points. Learning to listen to & trust your intuition is really important. This is most obvious to me in restaurants. If I go into one & have a bad feeling, I know I’ll have a better meal elsewhere — so I leave.
He Forgot To Call? Oh, No Big Deal from the New York Times, on rejecting the relationship “rules”.
Fancy rose, Japanese plum or caramel flavoured toothpaste? Me too! Tamara emailed me about this & I am soooo keen! Unimaginably so!
LED picnic blanket, as a follow up to how to have a great picnic!
Threadbanger have started “How-To Tuesdays” (yay!) & here’s their first one!
Tokyomade is having a rad competition where you can win a huge bag of Japanese goodies! All you have to do is write a haiku about summer. Here’s an example!
Flirting madly while
My make-up melts in the heat
Is not a great look.
Okay, see, it’s easy! Now go & enter!
Apparently, L’Oreal is racist. Worth knowing about, so you can make your own choices… & remember that L’Oreal is in bed with Redken, Garnier, Maybelline, The Body Shop, Kiehl’s, Lancome, Ralph Lauren, Shu Uemura, etc.!
& on the narcissism front, I was interviewed by Tricia Royal for Remixers Revealed! & here’s a wallpaper of me if you’re interested ;>
P.S. Happy Friday the 13th! * ghoulish leer *
Super-love & cupcakes,
Gala
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The topic of intuition is interesting, have you read malcolm gladwell’s ‘Blink’? It is all about how people use their intuition. It says that it is really your subconscious brain accumulating knowledge and making a quick decision based on patterns you have subconsciously observed/learned. ie) when you go into a restaurant you may subconsciously see dirt on the floor, the patrons look unhappy and the menus are shabby, your ‘gut feeling’ is that you will get a shitty meal which is really based on your exprience. Bottom line is that your intuition is very powerful and mostly correct!
A collection of teeth – fascinating!
I’m a bit creepy, huh? ;>
I loved that article about ignoring the relationship rules…and I think your collection of teeth is very cool! I had four of my teeth pulled a few years ago to make room for braces and they were the BIGGEST teeth I’ve ever seen. I regret losing them!
Okay, enough with the random story…it’s so cool that you didn’t feel embarassed to share that! Not that you should be, but I know most girls wouldn’t be very proud of it. :)
I love the idea of you hanging out in the back of your mum’s shop in Lower Hutt. I can’t believe she’s sold it – it was on my tourist must-see list for my next trip down that way (yes, I am a COMPLETE nerd, wanting to visit “Gala’s Mum’s Shop”).
Hmm, the thing about L’Oreal is interesting. It’s just that Lancome sells the only skin product that seems to work on me :P! I hope it doesn’t happen in any other countries, though.
Rose flavoured toothpaste? I’m so there.
i have had 3 of my wisedom teeth pulled. i keep 2 of them in a little jar in my handbag. one of my dogs ate the other one :|
oooh this is my Haiku…
Sunrise, sunset, love
People feel free to enjoy
The wonderful world© 2007 Robin Hosking =oP
Valerie — Most of the teeth in my jar aren’t even mine! I think a few are, but I also have some of my dog’s teeth & teeth from TWO ex-boyfriends! Heeee hee, good thing I’m not into voodoo!
Nadine — Mostly I sat out the back of her shop in Eastbourne, but when she opened her store in Lower Hutt I did my fair share of time there too! P.S. You are soooo cute! My mother has moved on to buying & renovating houses now which isn’t really something you can pop in & check out, unfortunately ;D It was a great shop though, it’s a shame you missed out! (I’m not even biased, she won Top Shop baby!)
S_parkle — Makes you think, huh? It’s crazy, things like this happen all the time with big companies, & sometimes no one even notices. Thank god for the internet.
sarah — AAARGHHH dog eating your tooth! Did you cringe?!
Thanks for the link up!
I don’t know…
I might be related to those twins:-) My dad said half his grandfather’s family disappeared into California in the 1940s and no one has heard from them since. Could it be that they spawned the Olson twins? It’s a mystery. I think we’ll need some blood work done :-D
Steve — Ooh, that’s such an exciting mystery! I’m sure there is something more conclusive than blood work, like maybe your family could be graded on how they look in leggings & big sunglasses?! Nice to get a comment from you, btw!
Eastbourne! Even cooler! God I love Wellington. And yes, popping in and checking on your mum’s renovations is too tragic, even for me.