Things I Love Thursday
[ 11 December 2008 ]
Hey! It’s the 69th TiLT! Fabulous, non?
Yoga — Aw man, I had forgotten how good it feels to do a yoga session! Deep breathing, slow stretching, feeling the sensations & being in the moment is one of the most magnificent things. I always forget how great it feels, & I feel like I should write myself a big reminder somewhere! Just scrawl it on the wall: “Do yoga!” Like, oh yeah! That!
Unicorns — New obsession. Honestly. That holographic Christmas decoration launched something bigger than me! Ever since I bought it, unicorns keep popping up in my life. Everywhere. They’re mentioned in videos I watch on Youtube, in random conversations & in photographs of people I’ve never met. It’s been like unicornmania in the Galaverse! The weirdest thing is that I have never felt any affinity for them whatsoever, especially because I was never a “horsey girl” (I have written about this before), but now I am all over them. & thinking about getting one tattooed on me. Oh yes.
These two pictures which made me smile really widely yesterday.
Fixing my website — It was such a mess yesterday, & I was so freaked out about it! But then this morning, I woke up, & I pottered around, & I fixed it with my own two hands. Figured it out on my own. I cannot tell you the amount of pride I felt! & the relief! I quote from my own Twitter account: The relief is so sweet, it tastes like… lime marmalade spread thinly on someone delicious.
Writing late at night when the house is quiet & I am the only person awake, the black chandelier above me (yes, really!) the only light. Honestly, you should see me sitting here, headphones on, dancing to Missy Elliott in my chair, taking breaks from typing to mouth words & wave my hands around like a lunatic. It is a good time!
Lying in the sun in a pink sequinned bikini, with a hat over my face, guzzling water & listening to Prince, The Roots & A Tribe Called Quest.
Timmy Crunk who I miss dearly. Since I came back to New Zealand we have been embarking on regular late-night phonecalls, in which we discuss unicorns, half-creatures, porn stars, rappers, orphans & channelling the spirit of awesome. Boy makes me laugh. We have sweet mental rapport. Blah blah blah anyway I can’t WAIT to see him in January!!! Lookit! Ditto! Awwwww.
More magic all the time & making a commitment to it.
Sammy — Hello, I love you.
Honourable mentions: Gibsonton, Florida; dichotomies (an hour of yoga followed by an episode of Jackass); boys who give good phone; persuading people to sign up for Twitter; making bracelets & giving them all individual meanings; Doomtree; using the pen from the Las Vegas hotel I shared with Nubby to write “to do” lists; serendipitous super-sleuthing; looking at other people’s Twitter favourites!; Chopped ‘n’ Skrewed; my new necklace from Trashy Deluxe!!!; being called “BatGala”; researching unicorns; “I hope you’re not offended by this, but I think yo’ ass is fine as shit” (so funny, totally needs to be looped & made into a ringtone); sympathy soy hot chocolates made by Mama Darling; having my own chapter in a bright pink book (cover, pages 1 & 2, pages 3 & 4 — & you can buy your own copy here!); people on the bus who do BACKFLIPS DOWN THE STREET when they disembark!; packages of toffee which arrive in the mail; being called a “dirty awesome slapper” (usually not such a compliment but in context, it was excellent); sexy zombie pants; my new bracelet from Gem (thank YOU!); obsessing over this old photo; saying “bwahhhh!” (sometimes it is all that feels appropriate); iGala!!!; B.O.B. by Outkast (an oldie but a goodie); old photos in general (aw, sheesh).
“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, & you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.” — Anais Nin
How about you, beautiful? I have my fingers crossed that something insanely delicious & juicy happened to you this week!
Love letters & feather headdresses,
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My bracelet: My boyfriend bought me a beautiful bracelet for my birthday last week and I can’t bear to not wear it.
007 Villains watches: www.swatch.com/au_en/villain.h… Need I say more? I really want You Only Live Twice (Blofeld’s cat), Diamonds Are Forever (Wint & Kidd), and Die Another Day (Zao).
My boyfriend: He is lovely. I can’t stress it enough.
My upcoming trip to Darwin: 2 weeks with my boyfriend and his family, including Christmas and New Year. Yay!
My new apartment in Wandsworth – like in Love Actually! Quaint & Fab….
My boy fixing the heating in our wee apartment
Posting my first article on Blissfully Domestic’s Style Channel
Wotsits
The L Word box set to keep me amused while at home tied to a box of tissues (getting used to London weather = difficult)
Starbucks Christmas Toffee Nut Lattes with Cream – ultimate way to start the day!
My 3-year-old loves unicorns… She always asks me to make one long twist in the front of her hair… “Mommy, can you make me a unicorn?” LOL... That would be a cute tattoo!
Aw I would be so proud at fixing my website too! Things like that are just amazing!!
Congratulations on fixing the site by yourself! It’s so satisfying when you figure out something like that isn’t it?!
I’ve been following your yoga comments on Twitter with interest, it’s something I’ve never really tried before but I think I may give it a go. I also keep seeing that “Keep Calm and Have A Cupcake” pic everywhere and coveting it like mad!
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I think the unicorn tattoo’s a great idea, for what it’s worth! x
Aw, Gala, you’re beautiful! You, with your TiLTs, and your unicorns, and your sequined bikinis, and your André 3000 love, (he’s vegan?!), and, just… you!
You’re so uplifting. Stay shiny. =) Though I’m pretty sure you need no reminder!
My TiLT this week:
+ iCiNG being on New Zealand time
+ Bizarre encounters with strangers – They’re awkward, they’re weird, and they’re annoying, but afterwards, they always crack me up—_and_ the people I tell them to.
+ Cute underwear – I’ve been needing to get some, and even though it took two separate days of shopping to find that many pairs in my size, (they don’t make them small enough!), I ended up with, like, 25 pairs or something. I’ve got no one to show them off to, considering the fact that, really, I’ve got a face that can be likened to a mixture between that of a horse and The Questing Beast from Arthurian legend, but they make me feel a little more shiny inside, regardless! =)
+ Grocery shopping – If there’s one thing in the world I love the most, it’s this. I mean, wow. Food, glorious food!
+ Silk chocolate soy milk – This could probably go under the previous bullet point, but I figured it deserves a sentence (and then some) of its own. Three words: Soy. Milk. Heaven.
+ Cage the Elephant – I definitely recommend this band’s debut album. I discovered them a couple of months back, but finally had a chance to hear their whole album. Everyone should give them a listen.
Before I go to sleeps I will send out the gratitude:
• A few days by the sea & a forest with my nymphy boy
• The word ‘nymphy’!
• Selling more paintings, putting together exhibition proposals. Exciting!
• Having time to plan things, plot out ideas, in the creaky sea-house.
• Writing little stories about mice and cake with said boy.
• Listening to the Smiths after all this time! Who make me feel like I’m fourteen again.
• Driving through heavy rain and fog up a windy mountain. Delicioussss.
• Naked half-public romps!
It’s been another amazing week. But I’m too sleepy to write more. Nighty night, Mademoiselle Darling (and other darlings!)
That picture makes us both look like junkies.
Oh cutezilla, you love it. LOVE IT! You walked me to work that morning, I remember it well, even though I shouldn’t.
I have had a really fantastic week!
So my list includes…
+ Summer fruits that are all of a sudden ripe and fantastic to eat.
+ Painting my nails and reading all my new magazines that have come in the mail.
+ Finding new blogs as well as enjoying oldies but goodies such as icing!
+ Having a date tomorrow night – just thinking about him gives me butterflies in my stomach!
+ Learning that I still have the ability to be independant and that I can still do things that i thought I would never do again.
+ Looking forward to visiting my Grandparents who tell me fantastic stories.
+ Baking vegan sugar cookies that are then given to all my friends as little presents
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Finding new blogs
Magnificent, seedy wine bars
Wrapping stuff for Christmas
Anticipation of seeing family
Fry’s peppermint cream chocolate
find out more on my blog www.prettylittleblog.blogspot….
This Thursday I LOVE that I just applied to do a four week course at the University of Malaysia next year!
This is so so so far out of the ordinary for me, I never take chances or risks….so going to a whole different country on my own for a month is kinda scary!!!
Fingers crossed.
Ps I think a unicorn tattoo would be totally rocking!
Wooo what a great list!!
- I’m loving unicorns too! Just recently I’ve been slightly obsessed with them. They are so fabulous…
- A woman in a red coat I saw in the street powerfully whistling the descant part to a Christmas carol a busker was playing
- Hot chocolate with old friends
- A warm puppy curled up beside me
- Lots of nice plans for the holidays
- Tattoo plans! Next I want a tawny owl and stars. And maybe a unicorn… but I don’t want to make it into a zoo! Wait, maybe I do…
- Being back in Scotland! My accent goes haywire but it’s just like home. Also there are so many crazy Christmas markets about selling things like whisky cheese and hats with ears on, and a big funfair with an old-fashioned carousel – it’s magical!
Oh wow i really like that poster of ‘i love you so much i cannot deal with you’
cheeky note from the universe “Nice gardens, amika! I didn’t know you played tennis! And whose idea were all the naked statues posing like that?”
hihihi sooo good to start my day with.
anoraak www.myspace.com/anoraak nightdrive with you is my favourite song
uluru I love the scent of this long time discontinued Lush bathbomb and i’m sooo happy to have a perfume and a cream with the exact same scent :)
souvenirs i should do my best some more to make a treasure box full of souvenirs from all the places i visited.
postcards i love postsecret its part of my sunday ritual, i love sending the perfect song&image with postcard.fm, i tried postcrossing for a while and now i demand new postcards in my mailbox :)
hunting for the perfect warm dress full of glitter
+ “The Best of My 08” It’s a playlist I’ve been updating regularly with songs that I’ve gotten really into this year. The playlist so far contains 478 tracks (there are more to add) and for the past day or so I’ve been just playing them continuously when I’m chillaxing in my room. It’s quite fun. I’d forgotten about some of them and I miss some of these songs! I think some will have to be re-added to regular rotation.
+ The feeling of success! Last night I had to present my portfolio/idea book for Ad Copy Writing class. Haha I think I succeeded in being charming or something because I got reactions I wanted (laughter, of course-and yes it’s okay if they were laughing at me and not with me). And I know for a fact that I got an A in the class which is great.
+ Feeling alive again. Passionate for life. I really have been a living dead person for the past 3 years. But it’s over now and I’m happy to be alive. I hope it lasts forever.
+ “Single Again” by Trina. Haha this is one of those songs from earlier this year. It was my theme for a bit. It’s excellent. “I got my my own money, there’s nobody I need/ I need, I need my own space/ I’m single again..” Yay Trina!
! MY NEW TUMBLR ACCOUNT: I have never before been so good at keeping up with anything blog-like! I am proud of myself & happy with my first real step on the path of networking.
! FOLIE A DEUX: Okay, so the new Fall Out Boy CD really doesn’t come out until next week— but I listened to the leak! It is so amazing, I cannot even begin to DESCRIBE how amazing it is. Super amazing. Fabulously amazing. Fantastic. I am going to buy two when it comes out: it is just that amazing.
! PAINTING: I had gotten so busy I almost forgot how to paint! Good thing I hadn’t, I still need to get into college. :/ But I also remembered how much I love it!
! SENIOR YEAR: I am almost out of high-school! HOW SO FABULOUS?
* dark purple nailpolish * finishing my first year of teaching in one piece * being bored for the first time in a year * going to the gym everyday with other ladies who don’t have to be at work between 9-11am * reading Stephenie Meyer books and falling back in love with all things vampirical * watching star wars for the first time * excellent denim shorts for summer * buying fantastic christmas presents for my family * my little sisters new blog www.withloveandswallow.blogspo… * christmas anticipation
Oh Gala, I’ve been meaning to tell you for ages, my best friend and I have been sending TiLT text messages to each other for months and months. She loved the concept so much that she told all her work colleuges about it and now they stick a piece of paper to the back of the staffroom door every thursday and they all write their lists on it together! How cool is that?
My TLT list today is:
tattoos
boys in italian leather jackets
toast with melting butter
hot pink laptops covered in diamentes and sparly bits
fresh new notebooks
candle holders
earphones
calculator buttons
pirate language
pyjama pants
hot tea in mugs with no handles
xxxxxxx
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Nothing extremely delicious happened to me in the last week but here’s my list anyway –
Things I Love Thursday –
- Getting compliments on my hair! I got it cut and coloured on friday, and EVERYONE at work commented! And my friends I’ve seen! AND EVEN RANDOM STRANGERS AT THE SHOPS AND AT WORK. Yeeew! Makes me feel great! :)
- My new 2009 diary. Nothing beats buying a new diary and starting to fill the zillions of blank pages with art and upcoming events and whatever else!
- DVDS! I went a little nutty today and bought a bunch of dvds, both for myself, and for mum and my brother for xmas presents :) Hehe!!! I got Ten Things I Hate About You for $7! Yeeeah! :)
- Running into people I know whilst chirstmas shopping with Becca today!! :) Good times!
- Drawing ink! It’s a long time obsession of mine but I got all my inks out the other day and I’ve been playing with them on paper a bit :)
- SCRUBS! In the past week I’ve watched all of season 6, all of season 7 and a bunch of other random episodes. Yeeeeew! I wish Season 7 was longer! The scripts are just so darn fantastic and hilarioussss.
- Not being at uni! I love being able to come home from work and not have to write essays! Yeaaah for being avble to waste time on the net or watching tv!
- PUPPIES! I always love puppies but there’s been loads of gorgeous ones at work lately! Yay puppy kisses and lots of cuddles and tail wags! Nothing brightens your day like a puppy that’s happy to see you.
Hmmm I think that’s all for this week!
Louise
xx
I’ve probably just ruined my eyes forever but I managed to read your chapter in that book, give or take a few words. It’s really good!
My T.I.L.T:
- shouting “Falcon Punch! and pretending to punch my family after seeing this youtube vid : uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EL88a0j…
(I am incredibly immature sometimes!)
- salmon and cream cheese sandwiches
- chocolate croissants
- looking out for a unicorn xmas decoration(!)
- reading other people’s T.I.L.Ts
- Icing being all fixed – I really missed it yesterday!
- the first 5 minutes after the kids have gone to bed: my chill out time!
WALL-E. Everyone, this is the best, most romantic movie EVER. A virtually dialogue-free love story about two ambiguously gendered robots, set in a post-apocalyptic future and featuring the retro stylings of Hello, Dolly!... I can’t watch it without tearing up and wanting to hug the director.
Hey Sexy Chixken….
This week i’m totally TiLTing …
***Waking up after a MASSIVE night of drinking with no hangover…. AHHHHHH BONUS!!!
***ICiNG days of christmas… and reading all the funny entries!!!
***My Personal Trainer Hayley…. Even when i wanna kick her in the head after a really FAB work out…
***My friend Abby.. for who without i may be crazy!!!
Anyways Have a FABULOUS weekend Chickys…
Love Arora
Mum and Dad’s new Puppy – We have a new addition to our family – a Shetland Sheepdog called Jasper, who is pooing and peeing everywhere and entertaining all! He’s such a loveable ball of fluff and I can’t wait to see him again!
Femme Sud Clutch! I bought the Diary one! Unfortunately now I’m so broke from my lavish expenditure! On the plus side, my girls love it and compliments are flying! A lovely birthday treat for myself!
Postcards from the Edge I am loving reading Carrie Fisher’s books!
My friend applying to be a surgeon! I am so proud it is unreal. I am helping her with her application and am thrilled for her success!
Mulled Wine I don’t really think this needs muc explanation. It is yumsome.
iCiNG I’m so glad its fixed! I really missed it!!! I’m an iCiNG-a-holic!
-school ending!! and not a minute too soon!
-contact lenses, still and forever.
-watching spanish films in class (el laberinto del fauno and nueve reinas…thoroughly recommend them)
-planning christmas decorations and present shopping, also getting to spend time with my nearest and dearest in the holidays :)
-iPod touch lust
-new hair cut tomorrow
-tilt making me feel better after a pretty bad week…the pretty bad week is nearly over
as i write this someone is playing ‘i feel good’ across from me…perfect <3
~Experiencing snow that actually sticks to the ground in a place that never snows!
~Having a boyfriend from another city get the guts to come meet your parents and stay for a few days in their house.
You know, I justjustjust came back from the gym, and the whole time working out, I was planning out my TILT list. {so it’s very fitness-related}
~dancing. i’ve learned a whole bunch to show off at paki/arab weddings. :)
~stretching after a good run. mmmmm…
~walking a few kilometres to the store with my brothers, to pick up cake mix.
~roses. simply stuff your face in one and BREATHE.
~writing haikus about BFFs :)
~this sexy poem by jalaluddin rumi: *”‘Suddenly the drunken sweetheart
appeared outside of my door.
She drank a cup of ruby wine
and sat by my side.
Seeing and holding the lockets of her hair
my face became all eyes
and my eyes….all hands”*
~staying up all night with my sis…just SINGING.
~my friend with her new baby sister!!
This is my first icing comment (long time reader), but I’ve been feeling the love lately, so I feel very TiLT-ish. :)
- my temp job as a programmer at a company that produces solar panels! how fun.
- coming home to a my small apartment to find all three of my roommates piled on the couch watching The Office and giggling
- the boyfriend! He’s been so spectacular about cheering me up lately that I feel like the luckiest girl!
- Christmas! And knowing when you’ve bought the perfect gift for someone!
aw my comment was cut off. i’m not done yet!
~people at the gym who work out so intensely, it inspires you to push your own limits.
~‘feeling the burn.’ not in a painful way though.
~snuggling in a blanket soft as fur
~biking. {when i was little i used to pretend my bike was a black arabian horse with temper. now i pretend it’s a dappled grey pony who likes carrots.}
~irish neighbours. always.
B.O.B. by Outkast was the song to get me in to them! I LOVED it in high school, and still want to shake my booty while it plays.
And aww! I am happy to see BatGala made the list.
Oh my goodness, that’s so *weird*! I hadn’t listened to B.O.B for yeeeeeeeears, and then for some reason the other day I suddenly thought of it and had an immediate urge to download it! BIZARRE! :o
I can’t put my finger on it, but this TiLT was one of my very favorites :). The Lolita bracelet makes me swoon, btw! It’s perfect.
Okay, some things I love this week:
1. Snuggling in bed on a cold winter’s night.
2. Potstickers.
3. Being brave and going to the office party with my boyfriend despite my shyness.
4. Recovering from perfectionism (an endless task, but very worthwhile).
5. My new sweaters in brilliant colors like “vino.”
x being on holidays in Hong Kong with my darling boyfriend
x actually discovering that i really really like Hong Kong (we came here because this is where his dad lives – not my choice of holiday destination, but i absolutely love it)
x catching up with an old friend while i’m here and having her show me around (she is a friend from high school, one of the few i still talk to, and we have lunch every now and then, but it was great to hang out with her for hours on end for like 3 days. she lived here for a while so she knows the area well. its great having a local to take me shopping!)
x (following on from the previous point) SHOPPING!!!
x meeting my boys dad for the first time
very Hong Kong centric, i know, but i have been here for a whole week already so everything that has happened has been related to Hong Kong.
oh, and @ alice: i love wall-e so so much too!!!! its so cute and i was all gushy and ‘awwww’-ing when i saw it. my boy thought my reaction was cute. such a good film to carry a story line with pretty much no dialogue.
I lived in Gibsonton for 3 years, from ages 14-17!It was horribly depressing while I was there, and I was miserable, because the town is filled with such crushing poverty, but, in retrospect, it was one of the most culturally rewarding experiences of my entire life. It bolstered my interest in sideshow culture and the bizarre, and really helped me develop who I am as a person. I’m kicking around the idea of writing a book about my experiences. I lived on the same road as the now deceased world famous lobster boy, and I used to see bearded ladies at the grocery store!
TiLt-
Purple Rain by Prince [the album, not the song]- it’s been one of my favorites since I was 12 or so. The man is a genius and my secret best friend.
OUTKAST- enough said. Andre 3000 is incredible. He loves morrissey and is vegan to boot! So sexy!
Prezzies- My mum got my husband and I a Bunn coffee maker, which is a heavenly appliance! Holla!
Pink hair- I’ve recently become a pink haired lady, and I am loving it loving it loving it.
The end of the semester- No classes for 1 month! woot!
making big decisions about my life. staying home from work because of bad weather. cuddling.
haha my best friend absolutely loves unicorns and is considering getting a tattoo of one. last year at half price books we found this totally awesome unicorn picture encyclopedia that had everything you would ever need to know about them in there! awesome!!! unicorns yay!
heh my tilt
=it snowed in houston texas yesterday! it never ever ever snows here and it was so cool! it didn’t stick so i know it seems silly, but its so rare everyone just kinda shut off for a while and played!
=finals being done with! (hoorah!)
=hot chocolate in the cold
=my cat
=my new dress for my boyfriends company xmas party sat! its like a 50s party dress and its so cute! eee
My Things I love Thursday?
-Today is my last day of school before my 5 week winter break! Hurrah! Hurrah! I only have two classes, both which are in class exams. Yayness!
-My boyfriend stayed with me yesterday, and we made cookies, chicken nuggets, french fries and cheesy-cubes for dinner. Oh, and we watched cheesy movies like The Mummy Returns.
-Snow! There’s so much snow! I love it!
-Wearing funky clothes. Today, since it’s my last day, I’ll be wearing my pink metalic moon boots and dancing around in them first class. I think I may even wear them with my pink frilly skirt. I will be a moon-walking-ballet-dancer!
-Luna Lovegood. I don’t know why, but she’s just so incredible!
this week has been bitter sweet!
-deciding i’m much to good to just take whatever jock decides he likes me. I had been going on waaay too many sympathy dates and then feeling guilty when i had to come up with an excuse not to do it again… why not just nip it in the bud?
-i sat on the floor of my long term crush’s appartment and made his roommates laugh til they cried. he made me hot chocolate and i stayed til midnight watching bad morgan freeman movies.
-now he’s gone home for christmas and i’ve realized that in those 4 weeks i can fix myself and see if i’m reaally ready for him. Yay mini make overs!
Okay.
- CHINA! My god… I am so glad I seized this opportunity! Everyone at my job is SO nice and I feel so welcome and well taken care of! I never want to leave!
- My new Chinese sister! aka the girl I am living with while here. She is amazing! And really does treat me like her sister and it makes me feel, well, amazing. I love her to death already. She is so cool and sweet and funny!
- $5 facials! 90 minutes of back-, neck- & head massage and skin caring goodness! This was my first one ever, and I am guessing I could not have picked a better place to start. Seriously. $5! That’s cheap, right?!
- Dumplings! Oh My God they taste so friggin’ good I want to eat them all day!
- Fruit tea! Tea in general! Fruit tea morning and night, green tea for lunch and dinner and whenever! Awesome!
- The thing I love the most, though… is being happy. I have been away from home for more than three months now, being alone in foreign countries and taking care of myself and I am SO proud of myself for doing this! And for not giving up on myself and telling myself I can do it. I friggin’ am a strong, young woman!
- Last one… My job! Teaching English (which is my second language) for the first time to 30 Chinese adults… and rocking it!
I feel I am awesome right now. Yes.
Thank you Gala, for being such an amazing inspiration!
My TiLT is here!
♥ No school today =]
♥ Dance practice. Liking the dances I’m in. Little bunnies. (that is truly related to dance practice)
♥ The whole state of adviserhood in general. All the funny stuff that’s happened because of it.
♥ Donnets.
♥ Seeing my classmate walk around with a balloon tail all day.
♥ Cream puffs.
♥ “Rose = love = JESUS!!” (Love you, katie)
♥ Sending off an article at 11:59 pm.
♥ Latin class
♥ Being way louder than I thought I could be in my sonnet recitation.
♥ Reading your articles, Gala!
YAY! I have so many things I love:
- Being done with classes and papers and such for a month!
- Early Hanukkah party tonight! Because the holiday starts after all my friends and I go home, we’re doing it early at my place. Latkes and dreidel for all!
- Cooking challenges. I’m about to start a slow cooker chicken recipe I saw on Food Network that didn’t get great reviews. So I decided to do my best to make it double-extra-tasty, with my own seasonings and add-ons. Hopefully everyone will like it!
- Naps. Naps have saved my life this week.
1. watching kids watch classic christmas specials for the first time
2. waking up early enough to get some sunshine
3. singing hanukkah songs with my kindergartners in spanish
4. a week left til the end of the semester
5. and the cta holiday train!: prettyhowtown.wordpress.com/20…
Ahhh, another Thursday, another TILT.
Today I am thankful for many, many, many things but mostly I am thankful for my daughter. She was born today at 12:35 in 1995. She is so beautiful and smart. She makes me proud to be her mom. I am honestly so blessed to have her in my life. She makes me who I am. I love her heart, her face, her hair, her arms and legs, her style, her smile, her quirky remarks, her random thoughts, her choice to be vegaterian, her brain, her thoughts and ideas. I love her. Every little thing about her. When I look at her, I can’t imagine my life without her. She makes me complete. I am also thankful for her dad. Even thought we are not together, we make beautiful children together. Over all, I think that I was born to be her mom and she was meant to be my daughter. I am so happy with her. I love my beautiful, wonderful, amazing, fabulous, lovely, daughter. MaKyia Bah Shellie Guardiola. Thank you for being my baby.
i have done tilt on my blog once and its so fun i need to do it again.
but
my amazing thing this week is the success i am having in ballet and the realization that i cant imagine doing anything else that doesnt involve dancing. i just got pointe shoes and i am so so happy. :)
OH
and finals are over so i get to go home for christmas and see my adorable family and my grandma wants to make me vegan dip since i didnt get any at thanksgiving… now im rambling
have a lovely weekend everyone :)
Unicorns are simply magical. The new godsgirls launch has all sorts of unicorns. They are like the second brand logo. I have quite the collection of unicorn memorabilia, including a What would a Unicorn do wheel in my office.
I am excited that my yearly Christmas travel extravaganza is finally coming into place
I am proud of myself that I finally did my massive amounts of laundry
I give many thanks to my many new kitchen items and the sweet morsels that have been filling my tummy as a result of new cookware/gadgets/knives and bowls.
I give thanks to anyone who secretly makes the girl that I saw with the perfect bag ever run into me again so I can ask her who makes it or google to finally come through and find it for me.
Endless amounts of spinach artichoke dip
Yoga and Pilates cure the winter blues
My new snow boots make me feel rugged.
TILT:
-Huge lollipops
-Baking Christmas Cookies every night
-Rereading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
-That fantastic feeling of anticipation that comes ob finals week when you’re so excited for the semester to officially end and winter break to start
-Watching a boy ride a unicylce around campus
-My Charlie Brown Christmas Tree !!!
This week I’m loving:
Going to the movies – I went with Pato and Liz yesterday. We went to see Quantum of Solace (which wasn’t here nor there) and we had an awesome time speaking flawless English and making everyone stare at us in weird ways.
Walking my dog – I finally have the time to take my little (not so little) Maximus out for a stroll.
Oh and I ♥ ♥ the iGala. Anything that runs on Linux has a spot in my heart n_n.
The cold weather finally making it down into the desert.
My best friend’s love, and her reminders of it sent from afar.
Mod Cloth, and their ability to have the perfect gifts.
Planning out how to paint my bedroom.
Old notebooks.
Here goes nothing:
The fact that my sister is moving out, I’m so excited for her!
My little nephews
Christmas!
Waking up to a beautiful day, all sunny skies
My new red coat!
Puppies
French music (I have no idea what they are saying, bliss!)lol
The cherry blossom girl blog
and Icing, of course!!!
This week has actually been a little more like a holding pattern, but here’s my list of gratefulness: fishnorfowl.net/?p=313
x planning visits to friends who live far away (for england anyway). i want to goooo there now.
x “the waste land”. half of it’s stolen and it’s mental and i don’t understand it at all but whatever. so good. all the towers and shit are amazing. i wish eliot was more consistent.
x the beach boys. they make my life. sloop john b, god only knows, i can hear music… it’s soooo good. and twinkly and timeless, properly properly timeless, i just love them.
x the local libraries. not as good for acamdeic stuff as my university’s libraries, but well good for everything else.
x oxford. i miss it so much, i wish i was there now.
Really good fun days; putting up Christmas decorations (BLACK CHRISTMAS TREE!!); being apologised to for something that upset me deeply; bottles of water; listening to someone quote Mean Girls non stop for an hour; Robots in Disguise – again; unripe bananas; sitting outside Waitrose eating raspberries; sparkly blue legwarmers; neon bracelets; going Christmas shopping; my new purple and blue glitter ball!
My husband, my cats, and my growing baby girl. Good organic food. Good friends that listen and are there when ya need them the most. Great post GAla on dealing with your family during the holidays or summer break Thank you so much for it! Having a great mother in law who is rather non judgmental and does not make snide comments about your hair/dreads.
1. 98 on a math quiz
2. 64 on a bio test – Who the fuck cares about mitosis? I’m glad I failed.
3. uggs – I used to be a hater but I’ve gone over to the dark side. What can I say.
4. dumb i sound – sufjan stevens
5. toilets
My TiLT:
GALAGALAGALAORAMA : plotting & scheming : getting to play dress up basically for a living : coffee & google reader in the mornings : seeing where things are headed :
and last, but surely not least, index cards. God, I love index cards.
♥ little panda cubs
♥ husband becoming american citizen tomorrow
♥ mimosas
♥ imagining the virgos i would invite to a virgo dinner party
I love: the lovely jewellary and presents I got for my birthday, the wonderful people who gave me them, my new star jumper – had been eyeing them up for ages then when I went to buy they were less expensive than I thought, candles, working hard, my boyfriend, drawing and my ace new whiteboard and pens for previously uncharted heights of overly organised geekdom :D
xx
My TiLT : cupcakesandmace.com/2008/12/11…
Have you seen Charlie the Unicorn? He’s old, but I only just discovered him. Now he’s my favourite :D
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5im0S…
+ That I’ve got a job, and it’s in a flash lingerie store opening up! I love new underwear so here’s hoping the discount is going to be good.. Earning money again will be great, after three weeks of unemployment. I’m looking forward to ticking off my list of things to buy – iPod classic, external hard drive, Panasonic headphones…
+ Always: my boyfriend. He was away in Samoa for a week, so it was good to hang out with him again. We have such fun together – cooking, listening to music, watching Animal Planet.. lol
+ A new skincare regime! I bought the complete set of the Vitamin E range from the Body Shop and I really like it so far. I hope to receive a lot more of their wares for Christmas…
+ Sorting out my iTunes – filling in gaps of album artwork, organising by Album by Artist… altogether indulging the organisational geek within me… I probably should have been born a Virgo!
- Spending time with friends and PWNING viciously at board games!
- Buying enough ingredients to make five dozen sugar cookies!
- My new Tea Tree Oil Toner from the Body Shop and the nice lady at the store who totally put up with me not knowing how to say what I was looking for in German!
- Just realizing that I did not just lose my brand new lipgloss that has the amazing ability to make me look awake and glowy instantly!
- The fact that I don’t have any classes on Friday! :D
This week I love honey badgers. I want one as a pet.
UNICORNS! Most excellent Gala! I myself have a clam shell with a unicorn horn tattoo. (It’s a gang thing :) )
Parade float time! My kids are dressing as Vader and Luke, and I’ve had the gold paint out for my Leia bikini . . .
The way one song can change your whole day around. I finally own Bon Jovi’s ‘I Get a Rush’, and it makes me smile so hard! I like it I like it I can’t get enough . . .
Barker’s redcurrent and pomegranate jelly. On crumpets, or straight off the spoon.
My new togs. Ones I am actually excited about wearing in public, for the first time in over 10 years, I’d say. (Damn that childbearing!)
Lovely end-of-term prezzies from my ballet girls.
New red knickers.
-gala for inspiring a day full of haiku popping in my head
-having next years classes all enrolled and confirmed
-catching up with people alone that Im usually only with with my lover and having a blast
-cracking up with my family
-being ice cold
-water and more water ~gasp!
-supportive people popping up left and right YAY!
i’m glad that we share a love of unicorns (:
welcome to the dark side! well, maybe not the dark side, maybe the sparkly & magical unicorn-loving side!
*being done with finals!!! *captain morgan :) *flannel shirts especially around the waist *meeting cute boys on train rides who are in bands and buy you lots of wine *sequins *new kanye cd *accidently matching my bra and panties _
- Smelling the grounds of coffee in its little tin first thing every morning (DIVINE!), I think I enjoy making it as much as drinking it!
-‘Doing a Gala’ and turning a Christmas ornament into a necklace…mine was a gold guitar! – Lamington cupcakes!! – Redecorating my room, surprisingly invigorating. – Letters in the mail. – Being the only person in the movie theatre.
and last but not least – Buying pigs for people on oxfamunwrapped, JOY!
*The Miss Dior Cherie video!
*Making presents for people! I am especially fond of my newfound talent for making tiny! origami paper cranes and putting them on earrings.
*Chocolate. Really really good chocolate. Especially truffles.
*Having the courage to wear something other than a sweatshirt and jeans to school, and feeling amazing all day because of it.
*Guy friends. Especially those named Beau Speed Nelson.
<3 Writing (as normal)
<3 My degree and classmates (as normal)
<3 My family
<3 Planning for Xmas
<3 Cute little hipster pubs that I initially dismissed as pretentious…ummm…yeah
<3 Gala Darling! (obvs.) the competitions are especially fun!
<3 Seeds of Change chocolate, I got four different bars for free from BzzAgent and I actually adore this stuff and will buy it regularly for myself it is the best chocolate I have possibly ever tasted. AMAZING
<3 Pastel colours – I’m really going through a pastel-colour love thing today which is funny as usually I’m not that into them, even lilac (diluted purple is inferior to hardcore proper purple)
<3 the Key Quest game on Neopets (it’s brought me back to Neopets. I love winning it. It’s like a virtual boardgame. I can’t believe I’m still playing Neopets after seven years!)
<3 Make-up, jewellery, my recently-polished beautiful shiny purple Docs.
<3 Doing TiLT for a change! I’ve been skiving it for a while, naughty…
<3 The word naughty. Also pounceable. I’ve been reading Francesca Lia Block. So that reminds me
<3 Francesca Lia Block
<3 My friends.
+ Getting a new Hello Kitty watch as a present from my friend, since I lost mine at a concert
+ Downloading great new music (thanks last.fm!)
+ Cute boys who smile at you even when you meet their eyes with your mouth hanging open
+ Japanese candy
+ iCiNG, of course!
And I totally agree with you on yoga. Even if it makes you a little sore and tired while you’re doing it, after you feel so great. I always feel more confident and happy.
Gala, I am in Computer Science hell. None of my other finals are an issue, just this one class that is going to murder me and I’m afraid that I will like, fail. So we’re going for some major positivity right now, which will hopefully get me through at least tonight. Thing I love this Thursday!
My friend Jeremy is kind of awesome. We TA together, and spent part of today hanging out/calibrating our grading for the last problem set we’re grading.
Care packages from Mom filled with stuff from Trader Joe’s! Chocolate and noodles and cookies and such wonderful goodies to get me through finals.
Feeling healthier at least a little. Recovering from pneumonia and all that fun stuff!
Music is carrying my moods right now, if that makes sense? I’ve got it on shuffle, but I’m trying to skip anything that will keep me down. Right now I’ve got Aaliyah, which is a lot of fun.
Looking past Comp Sci, which will end on Tuesday morning no matter what, to the fun of writing a 10 page comp lit paper. And I mean fun- I’m really pumped about writing this paper. I want to do it. I can’t do it until after my Computer Science stuff is done. But I can look ahead, and it makes things a little better.
I’m feeling really loved up this week!
-christmas!wrapping presents,putting up lights and planning all the xmas baking goodies!
-being a natural summer hater i’m loving the cold snuggly rain at the moment..
-vampires!twilight..true blood…all of it!
-going a huge grocery shop and having a fridge packed full of food with a bzillion food choices
-pink sparkley nail polish!
-dreaming about all the new things i want to learn how to do next year
-all the good cheap food around in sydney and how fun adventuring to new suburbs is
-MY MUM:D
-Spending long days studying for exams with friends. Especially if said friends are your bandmates in awesome musical collaborations so you can play & sing epic ukulele ballads during study breaks.
-The way a long strand of pearls makes any outfit seem classier: tinyurl.com/6lzcuo
-The goodies my mother brought me from a flapper-themed holiday party: purple feather boa, several long strings of pearls, a black sequined/feather headband, & a black plastic bowler hat.
-Wearing suspenders. It always makes me feel like the cutest girl alive.
-All my many lesbian friends & the detailed accounts of girl-on-girl sex they provide me with. Haha!
-Rachel Flowers, who is blind & mentally disabled but can still play an absolutely stunning piece of music on the flute & the piano at the same time (!!!!): tinyurl.com/5ez7rg
-The new(ish) Ralph Lauren ad that features a man in a dapper black suit & an electric purple turban.
-Finding out that my great-great-grandfather was the guy who hardened Clara Bow’s nipples with ice before shows!
-Any & all music by Nataly Dawn. I am in love with the woman.
-Sexy construction workers who remove their clothes in front of my window.
-This week’s episode of House, which made me shriek with glee on MANY an occasion.
-This photo tinyurl.com/6kk6xr
-Finding out that Mr Darcy’s first name is Fitzwilliam.
-The fact that someone called me a “sexy little mongoose.”
-Making money selling my used clothes to people who will truly love them.
HAPPY DAYS!
Gala I think this whole idea of TilT has changed my outlook on my life. THANK YOU!
Here is my lovely TilT for last week!
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i just made a tilt group on facebook. i don’t know why there wasn’t one already! my list is posted there!
those photos of mary-kate and the little boy are SO adorable!
I love my new gypsy pants. I have to wait til Christmas til I can wear them but they are so insanely rad and exciting!!!!
I love eating fruit and vegetables. I’m eating them more now than I have been before and feel all the more better for it :)
I am so excited for my New Years holiday. Three weeks of camping, climbing and being spontaneous, while having a chaotic amount of fun is going to be amazing!!
Yay, tilt. It’s been a pretty chill week, something I love in itself. But, anyway…
+Christmas decorations! I’m such a nerd, but ever since Black Friday the first section I go to in any store, online or brick&mortar, is the Christmas section. I especially love non-traditional ornaments, holographic things, white trees, neon bulbs, feather trees like something out of Dr. Seuss, etc.
+Meeting new people every day or so.
+The world, which astounds me in small ways, all the time.
+Being a giant nerd 24/7.
+Learning.
;] Now I shall stop procrastinating and actually do my homework. [Maybe.]
i’m done with school until next year!
one special thing:
spanish eggs (beans, fetta and tomato in a bowl with baked eggs over and topped with sausage, and rounds of sourdough toast) from Empire Strikes Back cafe on Sydney road, by myself, with a new P.D. James and the rain on the roof.
mmm.
bright Turquoisey-Tealy colour finger nails
multi-tonal hair(I think needs dying) which EVERYONE keeps commenting on and how good it looks – its not even streaks or anything interesting its just blah :)
Rain In the last 20minz it has just started bucketing down after being super sunny all day
freckles
Dad Hugz and actually getting to spend time with him, even if it is behind bars.
Tim McGraws – My Little Girl So going to be my father / daughter dance at my wedding. If the right man ever enters my life
Naked Sunbathing & Wandering Hands enough said, I love how secluded my house is
never too late for gratitutde right?!
/ homemade strawberry rawffins
// long telephone conversations with friends who fully understand what you are going through
/// bjork, bjork, bjork – i played every album yesterday
//// planning ways to spend next winter in sunnier climes
///// naked hula hooping, he he!
////// candles for cosiness
/////// looking forward to friends returning to the area for Christmas
//////// suddenly having breakthrough art idea
///////// being alive
////////// lovefilm home dvd delivery – godsent!
warm-fuzzy-cinnamon-sprinkled blessings to all
Winning an I-touch at The Mister’s office party The weird thing was that as soon as they started drawing names, I knew I would win. I turned to him and said “I feel like I’m going to win this and it’s going to be embarrassing because I don’t even work here.
Starting a new list-centric blog with some lovely blogger girlfriends We all pooled our resources to create The Secret Society of List Addicts! It’s heaps of fun and the first post got 21 comments. So fun! listaddicts.blogspot.com/
Weekend Plans Casino, ice-climbing, Hmong New Year, oh my!
Also teaching my ESL students ‘Jingle Bells,’ stringing cranberries, re-discovering my Dr Zhivago winter coat, my mum attempting to comment on my blog.
I missed doing this yesterday because I was really busy:
+ Watching futuristic dystopian movies
+ Getting 3 books for $3 at the local used bookstore
+ Black tights, ripped blue jeans and using a black dress as a t-shirt.
+ Hanging out with friends
+ Getting things with Paypal resolved
+ New blog ideas
+ Working on the blog I already have
+ Wearing scarves and jackets
+ BACON!!! Seriously, I had bacon several times yesterday (breakfast and in my sandwich at lunch) it’s so yummy.
+ Getting Christmas cards/prints from artists that I’ve interviewed
+ Twitter, I love it so much
+ carminemag.com/2008/12/08/coop… Cooper the Cat, a cat that wears a digital camera around his neck and documents the world around him, too freaking cool!
+ Polyvore, it makes me really happy and calm
+ Having subway sandwiches for lunch, I adore them
+ French fries and burgers, I’ve been avoiding most fast food for months, this week was a bit of a binge, but it was delicious.
I’m a little behind, but anyway… – Planning party costumes – I am dressing up as Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca tonight! – Coconut ice – so gooooood. – My boyfriend, who is always fantastic. – Ramen. Eighteen kinds of delicious. – The amazing bar we went to last night, which was bright red, and reminded me of an oldschool train.
xx
I love…Vivienne Westwood and her Active Resistance movement (not to mention the grey silky dress of my dreams!), Levi’s jeans, Pt Chev Beach, the orange Penguin classic books – Tales of the Unexpected and the Picture of Dorian Gray – so lovely!, a saucy Agent Provocateur black lacy bra, a cool breeze, my new Tate Modern tote bag – I adore it!, YSL Paris parfum, pain au chocolat from Pyrenees, my new Moleskine, getting into all the art courses I wanted to get into!, woolly jumpers – esp. ones from Topshop, the new navy silk shirt from Jaimie Boutique that will soon be mine!, pink scented lillies, laughing uproriously at anything and nothing with my brother, the BBC’s Are You Being Served?, watching the cricket and shouting out ‘googly!’ ‘silly mid-on!’ and ‘how-zat!‘ha!, dreaming of a trip to S’pore and Sydney next month, realising how recession-friendly I really am – what with public transport and living at home and budgeting ok (if not exactly fantastic!), making Nigella’s yummy chocolate fudge with pistachio – then scoffing the lot!, grey cardigans, slightly rumpled Oxford blue shirts, worn with anything! and finally…a quiet new year’s in – with sparkling grape juice and a roast and some marshmallows – I’m easily pleased!
I love…Vivienne Westwood and her Active Resistance movement (not to mention the grey silky dress of my dreams!), Levi’s jeans, Pt Chev Beach, the orange Penguin classic books – Tales of the Unexpected and the Picture of Dorian Gray – so lovely!, a saucy Agent Provocateur black lacy bra, a cool breeze, my new Tate Modern tote bag – I adore it!, YSL Paris parfum, pain au chocolat from Pyrenees, my new Moleskine, getting into all the art courses I wanted to get into!, woolly jumpers – esp. ones from Topshop, the new navy silk shirt from Jaimie Boutique that will soon be mine!, pink scented lillies, laughing uproriously at anything and nothing with my brother, the BBC’s Are You Being Served?, watching the cricket and shouting out ‘googly!’ ‘silly mid-on!’ and ‘how-zat!‘ha!, dreaming of a trip to S’pore and Sydney next month, realising how recession-friendly I really am – what with public transport and living at home and budgeting ok (if not exactly fantastic!), making Nigella’s yummy chocolate fudge with pistachio – then scoffing the lot!, grey cardigans, slightly rumpled Oxford blue shirts, worn with anything! and finally…a quiet new year’s in – with sparkling grape juice and a roast and some marshmallows – I’m easily pleased!