Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Monday, November 25, 2013
Seth Rogen - James Franco: Bound 3
Dying. Perfect. If you're confused, it's based on this music video.
Liebster Award
The Rules:
You must link the person who nominated you.
You must share 11 random facts about yourself.
You must answer the 10 Liebster questions given to you by the nominee.
You must pick 10 bloggers with under 200 followers to be nominated for the award.
You must come up with 10 questions for your nominees to answer.
You must go to their blogs and notify your nominees.
Nominees: PLEASE comment on this post with the link to your post. I would love to read your answers!
11 Random Facts About Me:
1) I'd love to visit Ireland and Japan someday.
2) I'm quite embarrassed that I'm not a great cook, but I would definitely love to improve.
3) I was born on Christmas Day. I will say it kind of sucked at times but I've still had some great birthdays.
4) I love the scent of certain types of wood and for some reason, I love the scent of a musty basement. Weird, I know.
5) I love Harry Potter and I get a bit weepy when I think about my first experience reading the books.
6) My guilty pleasures are Sims 3 and Second Life. I love to dress up my Second Life avatar. Yep. Dork. I also like Nancy Drew games (and I've looked up cheats before even though the games are meant for 12 year olds).
7) I met my boyfriend online almost 6 years ago and I moved to live with him in Ohio.
8) I'm a very anxious person and I've suffered from anxiety my whole life.
9) I get way too into television shows and movies. I just love a good story.
10) I collect pressed pennies, journals, classic children's books with beautiful illustrations and Hello Kitty stuff.
11) I think centipedes and millipedes are terrifying.
Rawlly Yours Questions:
1. Silver or gold?
-Silver. I don't think I pull off gold well.
2. What is your favorite Starbucks (or your favorite coffee shop) drink?
-I really love the pumpkin chai tea latte from Saxby's.
3. What is your favorite holiday?
-I've always loved Halloween. Scary movies, candy, costumes and fall of course.
4. Would your rather live in cold snowy rainy weather, or sunshine and heat?
-I can't stand feeling too hot, so I think I'd pick rainy weather. I've always found something relaxing about the rain.
5. If you could study one thing for the rest of your life what would it be?
-Sociology.
6. What is your special or hidden talent?
-I never know what to say when I'm asked this. I have a freaky good memory when it comes to people. I remember strange details and conversations forever.
7. What is your favorite scent?
-I'm cheap and mostly just get scents from Bath & Body Works. I love the scents Twilight Woods and Country Chic.
8. Batman or Superman? [Answer carefully... just kidding.. but really 
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-Batman! I love how he doesn't have special powers but still kicks some ass.
9. What is your favorite meal?
-Being honest here. Pizza. Or Pad Thai.
10. TV show (or movie) you couldn’t do without?
-I love re-watching The Office, it always cheers me up when I'm in a bad mood. I also re-watch Nip/Tuck often. Six Feet Under is probably my all-time favorite though. I love dark dysfunctional dramas.
11. Favorite beauty product?
-I usually keep it pretty simple but I like using tinted lip balms for just a little bit of color. I love Baby Lips by Maybelline and Burt's Bees tinted lip balm.
My Questions:
1) What is your favorite indulgent food/treat?
2) What is your guilty pleasure?
3) What was your most embarrassing moment?
4) Who do you admire and why?
5) If you could trade places with a person for one day, who would you choose?
6) What are your pet peeves?
7) What fictional character would you love to be friends with if they were real?
8) What is one thing you would love to do that you haven't done yet?
9) What is your all time favorite movie?
10) If you could visit one place, where would you choose?
Nominations:
Friday, November 22, 2013
Film Club: Cracks
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Saturday, November 9, 2013
III.
Alabaster table lamp / Bone china, $72 / Framed wall art / ZENTS yellow home decor / Blissliving Home scented candle / Buddha statue / ASOS home decor / Gus* Modern tufted sofa / Painted furniture / Vintage Book Set in Orange
II.
Black throw pillow, $105 / Fox home decor, $35 / Book shelve / Vintage home decor / Wall clock, $48 / Home decor / Painted sign / Red purse / ASOS knit hat / 15.75, $25
I.
Wedgwood drinkware, $39 / Dena Home white accent pillow / Magnetic frame, $135 / Tiffany & Co. leather jewelry box / Glass floral vase / Home decor / Ceramic vase / Cath Kidston office supply, $8.04 / Recycled furniture, $635
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Library Haul: Monica Drake
Sarah, a behaviorist at the local zoo, turns her studies to the human population when infertility keeps her from reaching her life’s goal of becoming a mother. Dulcet, a single and fiercely independent nonconformist, introduces sex ed to high-school students when she isn’t otherwise focused on getting high. Georgie, a brand-new mom, struggles to meld the roles of professional, mother, and wife into a life that will be both pleasing and productive. Nyla, a self-proclaimed ecologist, strives to save the world and her teenage daughter at the same time. As these four friends come in and out of each other’s lives, negotiating their individual worlds of love, family, and work, Drake teases out the intersection between theories on parenthood, evolution, sex, and reproduction. The result is a relevant and original story about life and self-worth in an increasingly crowded world. Although the characters are whiny and self-absorbed at times, and their stories seem connected almost by afterthought, Drake’s sharp wit and contemporary take on ecology and adult life make this an entertaining and thought-provoking read. --Cortney Ophoff
Clown Girl by Monica Drake
As Drake's debut opens, Nita, otherwise known as Sniffles the Clown, is tying balloon animals for a horde of greedy, sticky children at a fair. Suffering what may be a cardiac event, she's rushed to the hospital—after trying to get help from a clown fetishist, who simply drops his phone number on top of her prone form. Welcome to wacky, stressful Baloneytown, where clown prostitution, stoned dogs and fire juggling–cum–arson are the norm. Nita struggles to make enough money clowning to keep herself in oversized shoes and squirting daisies, while also saving for Clown College tuition for her boyfriend, handsome clown Rex Galore. But Rex is mostly MIA, and Nita's longing for him settles on local cop Jerrod. While not much happens, the pace of the narrative is methamphetamine-frantic, as Drake drills down past the face paint and into Nita's core, often using Nita's relations with men as the bit. Nita emerges as a fully-realized character, bearing witness to a lot of the emotionally ridiculous and just a hint of the sublime. Some plot threads never quite come together, and a few characters are underdeveloped, but there is a lot more going on here than just clowning around.
Monday, November 4, 2013
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