Thoughts on a Sunday Evening

Ahh, cardinals--my favourite kind of bird. Mainly because of their colours. I have a coat in the same colour! 

- I really should go to Smitten Kitchen more often. 

-Ooh, I very much should.

-Challah.

-I have wanted to make bread lately.

-Popular. I want to be popu-hu-lar.

-I remember that from Wicked.

-And was not crazy about it.

-Though the plotline was impressive.

-I had to rewatch The Wizard of Oz to humour myself by thinking where the witch was after Dorothy left Oz.

-Thinking of Oz makes me think of The Wiz.

-Which makes me think of Michael Jackson.

-Which, in turn, makes me think of Whitney Houston.

-Damn, she had a powerful set of pipes.

-So similar in fates, yet so different.

-Which in turn, makes me think of that Cinderella movie starring Brandy.

-I forgot she was in that!

-I don't think I ever saw that movie, but I do remember seeing it in the video store, with Brandy in her gown on the cover and Whitney's poofy hair.

-What?? What??? Whaaaaaaat?!!!

-I would like to see the broadway version.

-I think I hear my dog snoring.

-I had the biggest crush on Michael J. Fox when I was in eighth grade.

-Now it's just... Quiet.

-Touch wood.

-Torchwood?

-Nah.

-I would think of that, having seen it out of the top corner of my eye.
-If there is such a thing.

-Just think: if we didn't have all the fancy stuff the internet has to offer, how would be be biding our time?

-I'd probably be reading. 

-Or writing.

-Or baking.

-Ad nauseum. 

-Reading by candle light.
-Ha.
-Maybe for Earth Hour.
-Last year the roomies and I were roasting marshmallows over a candle flame.
-Clever of us, indeed!

Much like this. C'est mmmmm

ps: Made it up to 200 posts! Woo!

From here and here

I'll have some of that chocolate now, please.

I love you more than applesauce,

Than peaches and a plum,

Than chocolate hearts,

And cherry tarts,

And berry bubble-gum.

I love you more than lemonade,

And seven-layer cake,

Than lollipops,

And candy drops,

And thick vanilla shake.

I love you more than marzipan,

Than marmalade on toast;

For I love pies Of any size,

But I love YOU the most.

By Jack Prelutsky


I first came across this poem in the third grade. Our teacher split us into groups, and made us read it out to each other from opposite sides of the classroom, professing our love in the most over-dramatized way. (Another year I did 'Rat for Lunch', but that's a different story.) Ahh, good times!


For some reason as of late, when I think of V-day I think of Mad Men. Now I know why. (And huzzah, it's returning in March!) ps: I'm also waiting on this to happen. Oh, yes I am.


Here's an interesting article about those shmaltzy romantic comedies of our age. 


D'aww. 


Glorious ganache. 


And a few lasting reminders...





Oh, what the heck. I may as well sap things up!

From here, here, here, here, here, aaaaand here

The Artist

I saw it, and..... I liked it. Or so the cornball in me does!

 

And because I had to. Come on, you love him. Admit it.

From here, here, here

If Botticelli used Photoshop

The artist, Anna Utopia Giordano, re-did these paintings to how the beauty standards that we have today would have been portrayed by Botticelli. It does make you think about the wrong way in which consider our ideals. A full figure was praised once upon a time, only to be distorted and stretched to uphold an ideal we have today for women. (It certainly makes it less interesting to look at, I find.)

Images and article from here    

Blood oranges

And seeing as I had my camera out....

Egg on toast.

Happy Monday!

Thoughts on a Friday

-Steady as she goes.

-My hands feel dry.
-And my moisturizer is elsewhere. 

-Enter the month of love and chocolate.
-I feel like I should just get myself and get a box of Godiva chocolate for this month.
-Just because. 

-C'est la vie.

-Oh no, not that song again.

-I did a jazz dance to that song once when I was about ten, and we had to wear these garish neon green two piece outfits.

-To this day, I would not wear something that showed my belly like that costume did.

-But then again, why would they ever want to bring that back?

-Curse you, fashions of the 00's!

-Ah, even at the turn of the century there were some god-awful trends going on.

-Tang tops and cargo pants.

-Holy hot chocolate, the campy-ness of that video.

-The hair.

-The dancing.

-The crowds before them.

-The lyrics...

-But then again, you don't hear too many positive lyrics that nowadays.

-Ever wondered where those kiddies are now? I did.

-Oh man, and those puffed vests.

-And bell bottom jeans.

-*Shudders*.

-And those butterfly hair clips.

-I admit it. I had some.

-Those light up yo-yos. Haha.

-God zooks, by the time my future kids get big, it will be an entirely different world from when I grew up.

-Will everything be virtual?

-Yo-yos will be a novelty.

-Pogs (remember those?) will be unheard of. 

-Our grandkids will ask us, "what did you play with when you were kids?"

-And I will answer "POGS. Not that you would know what they were."

-Minus that snooty ending remark.

-I want to visit Russia.
-Beautiful and snowy.

-Speaking of Russia, I give this girl major props, whose about to graduate this year from the Bolshoi Academy of Dance.

-Rrrrave on.

From here, here