What To Do: The First Weekend Of 2008
[ 4 January 2008 ]
Lie around in your underwear & eat chocolate mousse! (When I was young, I used to own a book called A Book Of Milliganimals by Spike Milligan. Inside, it had a picture of a moose whose skin had a strawberry pattern — underneath, it said “Strawberry Mousse”. HEE!)
Do ballet in your living room — also best performed in underwear. (My ballet conditioning DVDs arrived yesterday!)
Create a collage of a wardrobe that you would kill for. (Try Polyvore, but using scissors, magazines & glue is fun too.)
Listen to Jurassic 5’s Feedback album.
Buy something lovely for your creative area, big or small. (I bought white & pink carnations & put them in a green bottle which says ‘Lucky’ in gold & has a laughing buddha carved into the front.)
Hunt out a watch which simultaneously complements your personal style & makes you feel like a Rockefeller!
I will be indulging in all of these things! Have a fabulous weekend, everyone! Start this weekend as you mean to go on for the rest of the year!
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Despite how hard you blatently work to constantly add to the sparkly icing, I always imagine you just lounging around your apartment in a series of fabulous outfits with the city backdrop and half a cupcake.
Love the chocolate mousse idea!
This weekend, I am roadtripping it to NYC!
In case you cannot tell, I am ridiculously excited. My girlfriends and I, instead of buying Christmas and Hannukah presents for eachother, we decided to spend gas money and shopping money in NYC. Hopefully this weekend will be the best roadtrip yet :)
i’m going to a huge free street party in the CBD. i intend to party my way through 2008 with my friends, yay!
ah, and also, do lot’s of coursework and pay attention in uni and all of that.
Lovely ideas Gala! I haven’t been doing ballet, but I recently gave in to my inner kid from the 90’s and bought a Spice Girl cd from iTunes and have been dancing around singing. So I will continue that this weekend. I also plan to read Silverstein poems. :)
Sounds fun! Too bad I have to pack this weekend to go back to dorm! Flowers would be nice in my room though. Make it even more cozy!
The Buddha bottle sounds cute. It would go well with my Buddha bank and my little statue.
I just went on Polyvore…so many shoes that so many things I could probably never afford great site.
I am going to spend this weekend working and figuring out my goals for this new year – with more than a little assistance from my iCing inspiration on how to reach for amazing goals!
And I am going to meet some friends for coffee to give myself a break from all this planning.
Have a beautiful weekend, everyone!
The bottle sounds like the bottle Lucky beer comes in. I hate beer but the bottle was so sweet so I bought one :)
I like your watch suggestion, I’ve been looking for a watch like that for a while now.
Oh, I am SO doing everything on this list.
I’d forgotten it’ll be the first weekend of ’08.
http://www.philosophersguild.com/index.lasso?page_mode=Product_Detail&cat=watch&skip=1&item=0559
For riding the ‘watches and Dali’ wave
Something that I consider really horrible has happened today (my enrollment for my final year of university didnt go though and now I have to take an invollentary year off) so I am using this weekend to get as much information as possible to try and start my big business idea so it feels more real. I refuse to believe this year will be a complete waste in the first 4 days.
Unfortunately I’m going to spend most of the weekend working on my coursework, however I may well do a lot of that whilst lounging around in pyjamas!
I must look into the idea of a ballet conditioning DVD myself, it sounds more fun than an ordinary workout!
I would do the first two, if the temperature would rise up a little here _. However, I’ll work on my schedule for next semester wilst in my pijamas and my fuzzy pink slippers.
I might do the wardrobe collage, that one sounds really good for me.
Kisses.
Hanging around in your underwear is the best way to spend the weekend. FACT.
“When I was young”... Come on ^^
I could see you rocking one of the acrylic Toy Watch watches –
http://bubblegumplastic.blogspot.com/2007/08/acrylic-watches.html
The pink face version would be especially cute.
Luv
Poochie
I like the idea of buying something lovely for one’s creative area. I am planning to get a plant for my room as soon as I find the right one, and at the moment I’ve got a lot of nice postcards on the wall above my desk, representing things that make me happy and/or inspire me.
Maybe instead of buying something for my creative area, I will actually CREATE one. Hehe, new project!
I’ll cleaning up my wardrobe, read lots of magazines, try out my new hair curling iron, going to a birthday party, maybe meet a friend for coffee…
I’m going on a road trip down to San Diego with my sweetie — we leave tonight!
Speaking of ballet, I’ve also already called the ballet studio where I want to start taking lessons; I’m just waiting for her to call me back and let me know when I can start!
I’m working all weekend pretty much =(
BUT! Tonight after work, I’m going swing-dancing at the Sydney Festival in Hyde Park with a friend of mine who’s driven up from Nowra…it shall be awesome!
Oh my God! I had completely forgotten about Spike Milligan! I used to have Milliganimals and a load of old Goon Show scripts, and I think they shaped my imagination as a child…I’ve never been able to draw anything that didn’t look like it was out of that book or Yellow Submarine :D
This weekend I’ll be ploughing through 8000 words worth of essays…which is probably how I should go on in the next year. bleh
Spooky! I had commenced the act of sitting around in my uber-comfy Thunderpants (www.thunderpants.co.nz) & eating punnets of chocolate mousse just before this article was posted. Hehe! Whenever my family used to go to those lame buffet family restaurants (i.e. Valentines) when I was a wee whipper snapper, I used to flag any of the entrees/main courses & go straight to the desserts cabinet & just eat chocolate mousse all through the meal. :D I would probably do the same thing today to be honest. ;) xox
You have inspired me to practice ballet. When I was little, I was in love with it, but never got around to going to classes, because we didn’t have the money. Now I’m 18, and I realize it’s never too late to start. So this weekend, I will be starting some ballet.
Tick for the chocolate mousse :) Just spent a lovely evening chilling with my boy and family bonding over some mousse…next up – Ballet in le Undies…
Mmm, yum…chocolate mousse!
Polyvore is amazing! You could literally spend hours there! It’s a very cool idea! :)
my other half and i were meant to be having a cooking day together today but last night i became very poorly :( which means no cooking or shopping. sigh maybe next weekend.
Once you take ballet or do ballet it never leaves you. Better posture, you’ll stand like a ballerina… etc. People stop me and ask if I do ballet… because it never leaves you. The way I stand today was directly influenced by ballet and I do not even do ballet any more. :) I have been working all day and unfortunately wont get to do all these things :( although… tomorrow is sunday which means sunday paper day hehehe fun fun. Christy. wow i admire you’re bouncabakibilty… very inspiring, the next time something bad happens to me I am going to take your approach and not let it beat me. Also good luck with you’re business ideas. I hope you have a good weekend Gala and everyone else xox
My weekend was fabulous! I did all kinds of lovely things like buy stuff to make into jewellery and ate yummy food with my love. I’m so excited that your ballet DVDs arrived. I can’t wait to hear what you have to say about them! :-)
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