Day 30 — Your favourite song at this time last year

i couldn't make up my mind what i was listening to more, so here are two of the most likely candidates

on & on by erykah badu - she's such a bad ass



this way by nero - crazy sexy dubstep (amazingly good for doing minor house renovations, like spackling & painting)

SURPRISE!!

For my lovely Amanda!! Surprise!!

Found this and thought it would be happiest being shared with the world!

This was taken the morning after the FIRST time Amanda spent the nite with me at my house! We were headed to a marching competition. Colorguard FTW!!

Your favorite song at this time last year...

Didn't everyone like this one? I'm thinking they did. This has happy memories of getting my Saiyuki sleeve tattoo attached to it. Still really like it.

Day 29 — A song from your childhood

i love this song! i used to stand on my swingset, on the top of the slide part, and holler this song out at the top of my lungs. uncle harold (second, no, great uncle actually) played in a band while i was growing up & he'd play this song just for me. he'd even say "and this one here's for mandy, get to dancin' little girl" or something epic silly like that.

i apologies for the ... lameness of this video. all of the ones that had the group singing live were just AWFUL quality. this song has nothing to do with this elvira lady. but, i'm sure y'all already knew that.

A song from your childhood...

As the World Falls Down by David Bowie from the Labyrinth soundtrack

I have soooo much to say about this. Probably too much. When Labyrinth came out I was 5. I believe I was a little older when I first saw it. It was the most amazing thing I had ever seen in my short little life. Everything about it captured my imagination. I wanted to be absorbed by the world of the Labyrinth.

I'm assuming you've seen this movie, so if you haven't, you might want to stop reading now. This is a little bit of a spoiler. It's obvious, but a spoiler.

I never, ever, ever, and still to this day!!! can not understand why Sarah chose to take her brother back home over living a magnificent life with Jareth. WHY SARAH?!?!? WHY?!?!? I would have taken David Bowie in a heart beat. Give me that beautiful dress, dance with me, and sing to me and I will be your slave. lol

I am 29 now. I still want to join the Labyrinth world. I still dream of one day wearing her dress. I still know all the words to all of the Labyrinth songs, I can do the lines for all of the characters, and unlike Sarah, I always remember that line and would never use it against Jareth.

Happy song from my childhood...

woah! look at this bit of craziness!

as if things haven't been crazy enough (thankfully i'm still alive and heather hasn't exploded [yet])... here's a bit of awesome for y'all to attempt to decipher. first, a smidgen of background story.

in high school, i purposefully misspelled things. allllllllllll the time. wrote in lower case, and made circles instead of dots over my i's. tried to have handwriting that was as vertically focused as possible. i wrote tons of poems like this, plus notes to heather, and ten pages letters to my out of town boyfriend. teachers complained about my handwriting, but at least i spelled things properly for them.

sadly, i cannot find my actual high school journals. on the upside, being insanely anal retentive and so sure that i was going to be a 'serious poet' i have copies of every poem before mid-98 re-written in spiral notebooks, printed out (in dot matrix, none the less) and saved TWICE in freakin' wordpad. i was a hot mess back then - holy. fucking. hell. full of angst. epic depressed for no reason. and oddly self-righteous! i can't help but giggle at these when i read over them again.

(waves arms with a great flourish) here y'all go! a poem from my senior year in high school - 1997

ascertaining society
magik want insyde fynds yoo
grasping the key tew mi hart
yoo akuse meeh of xenophobia
i laff in yoor face aynd toss mi books
yoor face burns wyth irascibility
aynd yoo feel enkased in an iron lung
i observe yoo folater for words
as yoo try tew xplane the way yoo are
aynd the way thyngs are tew us all
everywhere i glance there yoo are
red eyes glaring at mi general xistence
yoo as mi society abate mi emotions
aynd attempt tew turn meeh tew normality
i skoff at everydae typical objekts
aynd sprinkle love on yoo tew make yoo melt

For your reading enjoyment!

I know it's been a little bit dead around here (music excluded!) for the past few days. Amanda survived a very busy and crazy two weeks and I had a nice little scare with appendicitis. What a weekend! So to perk things up and remind you of why you really like to read Squeals & Glitter we've decided to each post a poem we wrote while in high school or those younger angsty years. >.<

My poem was written in between leaving high school and starting at Colorado State University. I would have been about 17 or 18. I've scanned the cover of my notebook so you can get an idea of what may be written on the pages it contains.

I have tons of journals I've decorated just filled with my random writings and musings. This goes for all time periods of my life. Maybe one day after I'm famous for my amazing writing (I'm smirking, you just can't see it!) all these journals will be worth something.

I love my random pokemon stickers on there! Bonus points to anyone who knows where the stickers are from. Fairies, pokemon, Danzig, deadgirl...I'm one complex chick! LOL

Alright, let's just get to the poem shall we? I've typed it exactly as it is written in my notebook. It is titled "the past." Seems quite appropriate eh?

the past

not being able to change that

for it all to stay the same

and all the dirt is scattered

in the wind

breaking and tearing

away at my mind,

at my heart

and all the while

the sun shines brighter

in someone else's head

will it ever be mine?

and running into

all those of the past

and everything in it

leaves scars thick and

pink

like snowflakes on the ground

til it builds up

and everything's covered

just a facade

yet it all remains

buried, unseen

to eventually reappear

when the snow melts

when you come into my view again

spewing the lies and the hate

you've always held dear

that sometimes i seem to hold dear

but i'll always be higher

no matter how low i sink

and if i can just keep that in mind

i'll be ok

Day 28 — A song that makes you feel guilty

universe by sarah slean

A song that makes you feel guilty...

No comment. LOL

Day 27 — A song that you wish you could play

another tori song.

caught a lite sneeze - i remember watching this version on the oxygen channel, bawling my eyes out. i do that every time i see anything 'new' from her. man, she's breathtakingly gorgeous here. wow.



i took harpsichord lessons in college (as a music course) just so i could try to play this song. never did quite grasp it though. and because she's so awesome, have a second version with a healthy dose of crazy amazing.

monday morsel

"There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness." - C G Jung

Monday Morsel

"A heart's a heavy burden." - Sophie in Howl's Moving Castle

Day 26 — A song that you can play on an instrument

i took piano lessons from the time i was in 3rd grade until summer before 9th grade. my mother LOVED this song, and i played it sooooooooo freaking much i used to have it memorized. i realized last weekend that i no longer do. which means ... nothing!

fur elise by beethoven

A song that you can play on an instrument...

Honestly, it's been awhile, but I know my fingers know this song without any prompting from me. I can play My Friends by Red Hot Chili Peppers on the guitar.

I have quite a few songs I used to know how to play but I'm not real sure how I'd do if I picked up my guitar again and tried. My Friends would be no problem though. I used to sit and play it over and over and sing my little heart out.

As an added super secret bonus. I'm pretty sure I could still play People are Strange by The Doors. ^.^

Day 25 — A song that makes you laugh

this song takes me back to ... 2000? 2001? when i worked at toys r us and roger had an mp3 player - the first person i had ever known to have one! it was so small, physcially, and only held ... 512k of music? 20 songs or something? anyways, this was one of them. i'd balance out the register tills, up in the tower, at 7 in the morning and roger would be down in the main area doing something, and he'd let me borrow this and i'd just shake-a-booty. IT'S GOOD STUFF!!  >.<  lol

i've never seen this video, i just love the song, and the video makes me laugh too

because of you by scanty sandwich

A song that makes you laugh...

omg. This is so f-in' funny to me. Srsly. Just so damn funny. I even bought the single from iTunes. Can you believe it? LMAO IT'S SO FREAKING FUNNY!!! *sighs* My stomach hurts. I'm laughing so hard. I love it!

Day 24 — A song that you want to play at your funeral

i wanted to do tori's 'over it' piano suite, because there are no words, just music, and hell if i can't find it online. well, i'm sure i could, i just don't want to put TOO much effort into it

so, second tori back up - somewhere over the rainbow

also - hell if i can't embed it. so click here to watch it directly on youtube. it's worth it. she's positively gorgeous here. heather, make sure tori's scheduled to play at my funeral. this is the only thing i'll ever EVER ask you to do, ok? sweet, thanks, i knew i could count on you!

A song that you want to play at your wedding...

Ok, first of all I have something I want to say. It's important.

If I get any shit from ya'll, (and by ya'll I mean Amanda and well everyone *lol*) I will cry in the bathroom all day long and not come out. We all have our weak sappy moments and yes, some of them may be kinda Twilight related, but that doesn't mean you have to rain on someone's parade. *giggles*

Alright, that being said, my song choice is Never Think by Robert Pattinson. I apologize for the pics of him in the video. I swear I'm not a crazy Rob fangirl or even a crazy Twilight fangirl for that matter. Crazy is the keyword there. I just did the best I could for finding the song. >.<



Now, if you don't want to read mushy, move on to another post. That's the only warning you're gonna get.

I like to daydream of dancing slowly to this song with my honey. We have plans for a party and vow renewal next year (ten years!) and I'd love to use this song. *sighs* Just a really close slow dance as our first official dance since we've never had one. The romantic in me wants it bad. The dork in me thinks I'm being dorky. lol

Day 23 — A song that you want to play at your wedding

i had big plans for a my 'perfect' wedding - in a spectacular garden, beneath a gazebo, with the first dance being some kind of well-rehearsed show of spinning, holding, dipping and awesome. fireflies at the reception. best laid plans, blah blah blah ... (sigh) ... one thing i would keep is the song i choose for the father/daughter dance. it's a beautifully simple song, and it still manages to get me kinda teary. i blame it on being a daddy's girl.

what a wonderful world - louis armstrong

It's a day late but...

Happy Birthday Hakkai!! *giggles*

I'm sorry I'm late. Sometimes I get lazy, but I thought of you all day yesterday! I still felt like I should say it since you're a real person and all and you'll certainly be reading this. >.<

*waves to Amanda* Hi bestie! Thanks for letting me use our blog to fuel my imagination.

Day 22 — A song that you listen to when you’re sad

i listen to a lot of different music when i'm sad, just like i do any other time. it's mostly tori, as she evens me out and helps me move from sad to ... well, a place of at least being even & stable. however, i've gotten to where i try to move myself up from being even, and this song helps. the music's uppity and fun, although the lyrics express a sad sort of frustration mixed with a determination. ah, fuck it, i'm tired of trying to explain it.

less than jake - look what happened

A song that you listen to when you're sad...

Linoleum by NOFX

I listen to it, wallow in my sadness, cry some more, and when it ends I don't allow myself to be sad anymore. I admit I listen to it to make myself cry harder. It helps me get over whatever is bothering me that much faster.

and it's all because of you ...

is my music choice today! again! are any of y'all tired of hearing us go on and on about music, dear readers? well, fret not, the month is almost over ... but until then, have some more music chit-chat!!  >:)

today's prompt was for happy music, and i picked a ne-yo song. he's also my artist of the week! of the past two? hell, probably of the month (after tori & gaga, of course, derr)

the first video here is for "closer" - this is how i discovered ne-yo. it was early last summer, back when i had cable (canceling it all of a month ago, i only miss it a little). i'd park myself down in front of the telly and watch VH1 soul for a couple of hours over the weekend, usually sunday  late morning with coffee. this came on, and my jaw dropped. like i said before, i love clean and simple dance moves, he's got a fantastic voice, he's well dressed, the TATTOO ON HIS NECK (yum yum) ... this music - when it's good like i think it is here - is my crack. also a little secret about this video: it reminded me of how i wanted to be a dancer, when i was a little girl. i wanted to dance in janet jackson videos, or videos like this. no no no - not because i could strut around half naked ... ok, fine, maybe a little, but only now. but that wasn't the driving force when i was ten! i promise



this next song is the first track of his second album. this is another song that makes me happy. like, i want to stand in the middle of my living room with this on the stereo, swaying my arms out like he does in the sequined jacket blazer thing (all mariah carey style, sup playa?), belting it out. i'm a dork, i know. and i'm dramanic.



ok, and the final one. it also makes me happy. in that silly way that listening to TLC makes me happy. there's also something ... giggly ... about singing "she's fly effortlessly" *snorts and rolls around laughing*



so yeah, that's what i've been listening to more than anything the past week or so.

Day 21 — A song that you listen to when you’re happy

there are soooo many things in the song that i just love love love. it makes me happy to hear it, even when i'm not in the best mood. hearing it when i am happy elevates me through the roof. i can't listen to it just once - i have to listen five times, minimum. his voice is great, the choreography is fantastic (albeit sporadic & simple), i love her clothes and shoes, i love how the song makes me feel - MAN. i love soooooooooooooo many things. i dance in my chair, or where ever the hell i am when i hear it. it makes me smooshy in special ways. and gross. and stupid happy. but i like that and i deserve it. so, here you go. you should listen at least five times, too

ne-yo, sexy love




wanna know a secret? that part in the video where he's moving the mic stand with his feet & stuff? i had tried SO HARD to get props like that so i could use them in my colourguard routines in high school. i failed (epic fail, even) but i will blush and admit that i squealed a little when i saw him do it. lol

A song that you listen to when you're happy...

When the Day Met the Night by Panic at the Disco

I love Panic at the Disco! Yay! I love it when I can talk about my very favorite bands! <3 This song is just so wonderful. I can listen to it over and over a million times and never get tired of it. Words escape me. I'm just happy. hehe



Isn't it awesome? It's so full of win. *sighs* Complete and utter happiness. <3

Day 20 — A song that you listen to when you’re angry

so, even when i'm angry, i wanna do some booty shaking, it seems. i think it's mostly the lyrics. also, the way shit just crams together around a minute in, and then again around 2:20 that helps me. that's angry. then it resolves, calms down, and i feel better. granted, phil screaming in a pantera song is also angry, but i haven't been in the mood for him lately. he's more sexy, less angry in my head (and other places - ooh ooh! lol).

santigold - you'll find a way (remix)

Monday Morsel

"I am certain of nothing, but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination." - John Keats

monday morsel

"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge." - Bertrand Russell

A song that you listen to when you're angry...

I like Flyleaf. It's not a bad angry for this song, more of a release angry. That's it. Nothing else to say. hehe It's a good song from a good band. =D

postsecret sunday

hooray! it's postsecret sunday again! the best thing about my whole weekend! >.<

this one, i just HAD to pick ... because i do (used to do, when i had interviews) the same thing!!!! oh, who am i kidding - i even currently do it up at work if i'm going to be in a large group meetings or workshop.  plus i like the extra li'l kick i get from feeling attractive & sexy.  skirts that show off my great gams help me get that feeling.

(from postsecret)

Heather's Truth

Ok, so here was the truth I chose:

in a hypothetical universe, you wake up and all of your tattoos are gone. blam, disappeared. you run to the doctor's (well, fly, in a hover car) and she tells you that your skin will never hold ink again. your only way of getting a tattoo is to take it from someone else, like a skin transplant. whose tattoo would you take and why?

I really thought about this all weekend. I'm assuming that if it's a skin transplant then the other person looses the tattoo and I gain it? I even thought that maybe the person still gets to keep it. Like when you get the tattoos on the wrappers from Fruit Stripe gum. You lick your skin and stick the picture on it. It transfers to your skin and stays on the paper at the same time.

Also, the whole thought of this scenario is just so depressing. Every tattoo I have is like a small memory or story of a specific time in my life. There is an exact reason for each one of them. I have never just said "Oh! That would look cool as a tattoo or that's some awesome art!" Everything had to have special meaning. I would lose all that and would have to find a new way to tell my story. Ok, ok, anyway after much consideration, here's what I decided; there are only four tattoos I would take.

The first would be my Type O Negative tattoo. See it over there on Mr. Steele's right shoulder. It looks like mine!! ZOMG! lol Anyway, I would take his. FROM HIM. (This IS a hypothetical universe remember?) And should it be a problem getting his, then we can fix it by taking it from one of the other band members. I thought of everything! ^.^



Next, I would take Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow tattoo. Without the Jack please. I hate stealing that from him, so I hope it works like the Fruit Stripe gum wrappers. I've loved that tattoo from the moment I saw it!

I have two more but I would need my husband's help with these. Since I'd be losing my wedding ring, I'd want a copy of his. I could always buy an actual ring, but it just wouldn't be the same you know? And then I'd beg him to get my Buddhist quote that I have tattooed on my left arm. I'd happily take it from him and put it in the same place. It would be the one tattoo I would miss the most.

After that, I'd hate taking anymore. I wouldn't want to steal other people's special stuff and I also wouldn't want a copy of something someone else has. That's weird I know, considering I have a Danzig skull tattoo and that's something fairly common.

So how's that my dear bestie? Was it what you expected? What did you expect? I'm afraid you've thought of something I've forgotten!

What about you dear readers? Do you have a tattoo you'd be willing to take from someone else?

PostSecret Sunday

Chickie, don't tell him it's okay!!! It's not okay. Well, it's okay sometimes cause sometimes it's fun to just be having fun. But it's not okay all of the time. And dude, wtf? Can't you stop and spend a little more time with her? You know it's not ok. Also, if you're so sorry, why can't you help "finish" her up after you are finished. There are soooo many other ways to do this. So many. *sighs*

There's my two cents. Not that it's going to change anything but I just wanted to comment on it. There's nothing wrong with talking about sex and being open. It would make it a hell of a lot better. And with that, Happy Sunday! lol

Day 19 — A song from your favourite album

surprise surprise, it's another tori song! lol ... i don't have much to say about this other than it moves me like woah. plus, you can see her lips & teeth really well here, and she gets all dreamy in the face (in the second one). is another similarity heather & i share - we're obsessed with her lips.

putting the damage on, from boys for pele, by tori amos

this first video gets wonky sometimes, i'd recommend opening it in another tab or window, pausing it to let it load, watching the second one, and then going back to the first one. i love love love the band in this first one. makes the wait worth it, i promise. if it doesn't work, i'm really sorry



this one is equally good, just tori and her piano (epic love)

A song from your favorite album...

This one was so hard!! I couldn't decide about the whole favorite album part. I looked through all of my music and really wanted to find the cd that I just love to listen to all the way through. It also had to be one that I choose often. I've decided to go with Saturday Night Wrist by the Deftones. Love, love, love me some Deftones.

After all that, I still have to pick a song from it. @.@ So many to love!! I'm going to go with Beware the Water. There's something so damn sexy about this song. It gets to me right here! Ha! You can't see where I'm pointing can you? Like chest-ish area. My heart maybe? lol Anyway, for your listening/viewing pleasure:

Day 18 — A song that you wish you heard on the radio

i've tried plugging this song into pandora, but i don't really like a lot of the suggestions that come up. oh well!

manchester orchestra - i can feel a hot one



and then him singing alone

A song that you wish you heard on the radio...

I should have said this yesterday, but I don't really listen to the radio. Pretty much the only time is when I forget my Touch at home. >.< SO, if I'm picking a song that I think is absolutely awesome and more people should listen to it. That means, it should be on the radio! =D

This is an opening theme for the anime Bleach or wait...is it an ending...shoot, I don't remember. I can see the animation sequence in my mind. All those hot characters. *drooling* Well, it doesn't matter. It's from Bleach but the full length song is just awesome!!

D-technolife by UVERworld



*squuueaaaallll* Look what I found! YouTube is so damn amazing!!! Here's the OPENING for the second season of Bleach. Happy, happy day!!

I choose...

TRUTH!

I know, I'm so boring! I thought really long and hard about it yesterday. I'm going to be sitting around my house being lazy allllll weekend long. What fun would it be to go from room to room declaring that I'm the Flash?? I wanna declare it to THE WORLD! The kids would just tell me to stop being a krod. =/

In fairness I'm going to do the truth so I have to actually work for it a little. Would have been so easy to sit around reading as The Flash though! *sighs* If anything, Amanda dear, take pleasure in knowing that I'm completely spazzing out about losing my tattoos. What if I wake up and they're gone?? omg. >.< And who the hell has tattoos that are cooler than mine? NO ONE! That's who! lol Gotta really think about this. *sighs*

I'll get back to you with my full answer.

A song that you hear often on the radio...

YAY! I'm picking Lady Gaga's Telephone!

Yeah, yeah, I know everyone knows it and everyone has heard it. That's partly why I picked it and also partly because I can never get tired of it! *squuuuuueeeee*

Naughty version of the video has been chosen because it's just better that way, you know?

Day 17 — A song that you hear often on the radio

i don't really listen to the radio, unless you count listening to npr, and i do that for maybe 5 minutes a day when i'm driving to work. occasionally i'll pop open pandora, if i can't decide on an album or a playlist to listen to in itunes, or can't focus. pandora is where i found this song. i love it. i have two stations that she shows up on. it's haunting, it's sorrowful, it's aching. it's beautiful.

alex parks - mad world

hey heather, truth or dare????

pick one, and choose wisely!

dare: wear your comfy cozy favourite flash shirt, again! and when entering a room (where people are, not if you go into the bathroom or something, that would just get really old really fast), or a building, you have to say (loudly enough for others to actually hear) "my name is heather, i'm the fastest woman alive! i'm the flash!" and you have to hold one of your arms out, kinda like this picture here. wear red pants if you have them, if not, red shoes if you have them?

truth: in a hypothetical universe, you wake up and all of your tattoos are gone. blam, disappeared. you run to the doctors (well, fly, in a hover car) and she tells you that your skin will never hold ink again. your only way of getting a tattoo is to take it from someone else, like a skin transplant. whose tattoo would you take, and why?

of course, if you take the dare, you have to get pics to document. i know your children BOTH know how to operate cameras, even if it's just the camera phone, so there's no excuse.

The Last Mistress - Heather's Review

This movie (The Last Mistress) is not even worth the time it would take to review it. Do I have to review it? Is that an absolute must? Can I just make fun of it? For instance, was it a requirement for every actor/actress to have enormous lips? When they kissed, it was like they were swallowing each other's faces. It was...creepy.

And main character dude named after a rhinocerous, are you Scarlett Johansson's brother? Because that was all I could see when I watched you. Well, that and you are too beautiful to even be allowed to exist. But I don't really dig Scarlett...so why is it hot on a man? *shakes head* Something to ponder later.

The story was nothing new or even creative; man of the aristocracy has mistress but is going to get married to a woman of the aristocracy. Was it supposed to be Victorian era? I dunno. I do know they did not have breast implants back in the day. But you know, since this movie was just so accurate, I may be wrong about that. And the sex...wtf? I don't have sex like that, do other people have sex like that? Am I doing it wrong? I believe the description said "steamy romance." Netflix and I obviously have different ideas of what constitutes "steamy romance."

I will however tell you about my favorite part of the movie. There's a nice little scene where there's some sort of costume party/dinner thing. One of the guests has THE BEST costume. Srsly, the best! I'm jealous of him so hard! He has the most elegant victorian footman looking pale blue outfit, a high white powdered wig, and you know what's on top of his wig? A SHIP! Yes, it's an ENTIRE ship!! Sails and all!! Wait, wait. Imma find a picture for you. Hang on.

Look! Here it is! It's the guy sitting in the chair. Sorry, you have to look kind of hard, but it was the best I could find! lol

That's it. I don't have much more to add. I just recommend that you not waste your time with it. There are so many other GOOD movies out there. It's not even worth it for the sex. Pervert, I knew what you were thinking, didn't I? lol Two stars cause I didn't hate it. I just thought it was stupid. =/

amanda's review: the last mistress

heather gave me three options, and i picked the last mistress. i loved the picture on netflix, and i was all "i wanna do some strips of my bangs into a little heart, sweet"  ... plus the lady was hot.

the story is about love and hate, power and loss, and it's in french with english subtitles. i love hearing french spoken, it's almost as pretty as italian. mmmm .... italian food .... ok! ok! back to the movie. it's also set long long ago, back when women wore corsets and did crazy shit with their hair. the main character, vellini, is positively gorgeous. i like her face, and her hair, and the accessories she puts in her hair. and her outfits. and her attitude. i want fresh flowers every day! why not me!? (grumble grumble)

she has a love/hate relationship with someone she can't let go of. i wonder if she needs to hate him as much as she need to feel power over him, to feel as though he can't live without her (as he keeps coming back over a period of ten years). they used to love each other, once upon a time, then they lost someone close to both of them. she promptly loses her mind - things happen and the walk away repulsed with each other. he finds someone else and promises to love this new gal forever - as normally happens with plots like this, there's not necessarily a happy ending.

over all the story isn't original, but there were little gems in it. seeing the grandmother half-drunk on port, slid down in her seat, old and grey and oh so proper, but in the most un-lady-like position! vellini telling rhyno that he was her prisoner for now, and later she would make him her slave, then locking him a room. sexy sexy! LOL - maybe it was just the way she said it too. plus being hot. have i said that yet? she gets a look in her eyes, in a few places, that struck me, very familiar looks that i could relate to, could remember giving. now i sound conceited. oh well.

also sex on a rug made from a white tiger (or some kinda big cat) - that goes on my next 101 list. wtf really!?

i give the movie ... crap, how are we rating this again? four or five is highest? i give it three stars. is an easy movie to watch, and there are times when i like easy movies. with hot ladies and good costumes. i'm also recently obsessed with black lace, and that was in the movie. hooray! >.<

Day 16 — A song that you used to love but now hate

i used to loooooooooooooooooooooooove this song. man, i could dance for hours to this, and anything like it. now i listen to it, and i think ... uuugh, really? REALLY? could i have been any more typical rave bunny? this is the part where i should insert an amazingly embarrassing photo of me wearing a visor, tank top, phat pants, and candy up to my elbow, but no - not today, dear readers. you don't want it bad enough!

darude - sandstorm

A song that you used to love but now hate...

This one was soooo easy. It's a newly hated song so I thought of it immediately. I had fond memories of it, but in the past few months I've started to cringe when I hear it. It's a shame because it's really a beautiful song.

Planet Caravan by Pantera

Day 15 — A song that describes you

this song would describe the ideal me - the inner me, the me that i hold dear, the me i want to be remembered for. with less yoko - like, none yoko. yes, i know it's idealistic and super hippie crunchy granola to have picked this song ... but i did. so there. put that in your peace pipe & smoke it

A song that describes you...

I knew immediately this song was just soooooooo me:

LMAO!

Alright, if I'm a little more serious I would choose open up your mind by Mirai. Lucky you, if you watch the video, you get to see lovely Saiyuki pictures. Also, it's in Japanese and English:

Day 14 — A song that no one would expect you to love

this was epic tough to decide. i like so much random shit! how could anyone, even heather, NOT expect something? so, i went with some wicked ska - his voice is awful and raw and normally i'm all "ugh" and turn it off, but this i honestly, really enjoy. not just tolerate. a moment of silence, by streetlight manifesto

Prince of Persia

YAY! It's my music day and in honor of today's release of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time I have a nice little video for you. Yes, the blu-ray is already in my possession (I bought it first thing this morning!) And yes, I've watched it at least once and I'm sure I will again before the day is over.

I am all about the imagination. Sometimes my biggest problem is that I live in mine too much. The Prince of Persia just helps to feed it! Helps? Hinders? Who cares! Nothing better than seeing all those cool special effects AND that long hair! *sighs* I love everything about it. Fantasy story, amazing characters, romance, danger, action. Sorry, when I get excited about something I seem to lose my ability to form coherent sentences.

Let's just move on to the video. The song is I Remain by Alanis Morissette. It's a gorgeous song. Love the Middle Eastern sounds throughout it. I confess I bought the soundtrack for the entire movie after seeing it in the theatre. It's really nice and I highly recommend it!

A song that no one would expect you to love...

I'll Still Be Loving You by Restless Heart

Is that weird? lol I really love this song. I can even remember sitting at my radio waiting for it to come on Casey Kasem's American Top 40 just so I could record it on to tape. *snickers* Mix tapes FTW!!

It's so romantic. When I was younger I knew I would play it at my wedding while I danced with my dreamy husband. Uh...I dunno what happened there. *snorts* (I'm j/k baby! You are dreamy.) I just wasn't a huge wedding wanter/planner/dreamer so this song really stuck with me since it was one of my few wishes for getting married.

monday morsel

"We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. ...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out." - William James

Monday Morsel

"Writing's a lot like cooking. Sometimes the cake won't rise, no matter what you do, and every now and again the cake tastes better than you ever could have dreamed it would." - Neil Gaiman

Day 13 — A song that is a guilty pleasure

my adoration of pop music is apparent by now, i would hope, so this guilty pleasure comes in not only loving the song, but in having silly choreography made for it. no - not knowing the video choreography - that's too easy. having special choreography just for that song! all those years at toys-r-us did me some good! bye bye bye - n'sync

A song that is a guilty pleasure...

I guess the whole point of this one is that it will embarrass me a little right? Well, it does. Is this song considered older? I dunno, I kind of think it is. I still listen to it and when I do, I turn it up really, really loud and I put the bass all the way up. hehe Even the video is a bit of a guilty pleasure. It's sooo good and I don't want to admit it. I like to sing and shake my butt to it! *blushes*

Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around, Comes Around

My silly secret!

It's a silly secret! At least I think it is. Eep! Now I don't know?! What if it's not silly and I really do need help??? AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!



Srsly. There are 14 journals in that picture. Only the two are in use. When I see a journal with a great cover and it's blank pages (mind you, that have to be the perfect pages) I just can't resist buying it. See that green one? Up at the top there? It's the most beautiful shade of green. The picture in it, some kinda southern-y style house, came with it. I have yet to stick in a picture of my choice. It's been a couple years. LOL But it was so perfect I couldn't resist it.

My newest purchase came in the mail yesterday. The little cassette tape on the bottom. He's from NerdJerk. The most expensive was the metallic umbrellas on your left. The pages inside are so creamy I could cry. The one above it, with the girls, I bought it because it had brown kraft paper and regular paper inside. It also made me think of travelling around the world with Amanda. And the best is on your right side. See the gorgeous red flower over there. That journal influenced me to get the same flower tattooed on my wrist. Actually, I took it into the artist and he drew it out for me. lol

Addiction? Yeah, probably! =D

a silly little postsecret of my own

 
this requires a little back-story. else it won't make much sense. or it will seem like i'm moving to being lesbian full time.

deep deep down, i'm a very structured, organized, colour-coordinated, list making control freak. srsly. i am. i've learned to be very careful in the ways i let myself express it.

once, while living in waco, a guy that i was seeing came over to the apartment. for whatever reason, i had told him to get something out of my dresser, across the room. it should be noted now, in the story, that i also have, for all of my control issues, the damnedest time telling my left & right apart. srsly. i still have to raise my hands to see the L on the left. i meant for him to go right middle, not left middle, drawer ... and he opened the wrong one. with my underwear in it.

not the worst thing for a boy to do - unless you had each piece rolled up nicely, sorted by cut, and then sorted by colour. in rainbow order, from palest shade to darkest of each color. i had (and still have, although not the same ones) a lot of underwear. this guy started laughing. and kept laughing. and kept laughing. aaaand kept laughing.

i was mortified.

he left that night - shortly after this little incident - i pulled them all out, unrolled them, made a huge jumbled mess and shoved them back into the drawer. yeah, i saw him a few more times after that, but i never EVAR sorted my underwear like that. so, hence, never again.

also, the only magazine i have in the house that's not dedicated to food is the gaga issue of vogue. the ONLY picture of anyone in their underwear, in there, is this perry ellis advertisement. wtf is the world coming to?! give me more half naked ladies. now. kthnxbai. (as if that statement doesn't sound 'full time lesbian' huh?)

PostSecret Sunday

Happy PostSecret Sunday! Here's my choice for the day:

This is cute! I think that if the person who made this feels this way, then it's probably true! So often you'll hear other people complain about their relationships, friends, family members, hell I even listened to a woman cry to her friend for an hour while I had lunch with the kids in a restaurant! (Really lady? You think we can't hear you at the next table? Nothing like going out in public to confess to your friend for the first time that your husband has been an alcoholic for years. *sighs*)

You hear the stories and you can feel relief that you don't have to go through the same things. Maybe it makes you realize that what you have is really good. I'll tell you what. My relationship with my bestie sure as hell is better than everyone else's. hehe Alright, alright. I won't get all mushy serious. This was a cute little secret. I'm happy for it's writer!

postsecret sunday

there were two postsecrets that grabbed me by the proverbial balls this week. i'm choosing to go with the one that's more lighthearted.

(from postsecret)

the only place i use a microwave is up at work. i don't want one at the house because i'm afraid i'll resort to eating a lot of crap, tv dinners & the like. yeah yeah, i know i can still eat plenty of crap without it, but whatever. i HATE standing there and just waiting for the food to heat up. so i'll either race to the loo, wash out my coffee and/or tea mugs (yes, i have one for each), wipe down the counter if it's a mess, or something. and like this postcard says, it has to be finished before the timer ends. i also hate having the timer go off. i usually stop it,  or open the door, with a second or two left.

Day 12 — A song from a band you hate

i hate the rolling stones. there, i've said it. now it's out in the open. oddly enough, i went through a phase where i was accumulating covers of paint it black, for whatever reason, back when napster was free & i had access to free music in college.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand - just when you thought it couldn't get any worse: have this, y'all

A song from a band you hate...

Well, since Rush has already been used, let's go with Primus. Once again, that goes for anything. Primus I really dislike you. Really. No links for you either. I would rather listen to Miley Cyrus or The Jonas Brothers. I think. I've never really listened to either of them so I could be totally wrong. Maybe my new favorite would be Justin Bieber and I just don't know it yet. Hmmm... Really gives me something to think about. *pukes*

A song from your favorite band...

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!!! I couldn't pick just one!! I know, I'm so bad. I've taken this entire month and twisted all the little prompts into what I want them to be. *snickers* I've never been very good at following directions. Anyway,

TYPE O NEGATIVE I LOVE YOU!

Yes, Type O Negative is my very favorite band. They have been for years. and years. and years. No, let's not talk about Peter Steele. Well, we can but it can only be happy stuff. Like I still have the original Playgirl his delicious pictures appeared in. (THANK YOU MOM!!) It's well loved. My second tattoo was the TON symbol on my left shoulder. Yes, I love them. Like crazy. Like Sayuki crazy! Hey! My TON and Saiyuki tattoos are on the same arm. Coincidence? I think not! ^.^

My choices for the day:

Day 11 — A song from your favourite band

LED ZEPPELIN!!! i really wish i could find heartbreaker with livin' lovin' maid right after it ... man, those two songs are epic together. they even get played like that on the radio. anyways - have some awesomeness



i discovered led zeppelin the summer before my sr year in high school. yes, i was a late rock & roll bloomer, i suppose. mama had II up in the attic, along with some little 45's (HOLY SHIT THEY MAKE RECORD SINGLES? NO WAY), and i remember putting this on the record player and absolutely losing my mind. i'd move the stereo speakers into the window during the mid-morning, when i'd go to lay out & be that stupid "i need to get tanner" teenager and read & jam out to led zeppelin. she also had some clapton & cream - another great band, but zep's my favourite.

robert plant from that era also helps - i would have eaten that man alive, had i been around back then. rawr.

Day 10 — A song that makes you fall asleep

today's song was difficult to choose. i can't really sleep with music or noises anymore, like i used to (i lay there & pay attention to what i'm hearing) and i didn't read the prompt as "put you to sleep because it's boring" - why would you continue listening to a song that was boring? just turn it off! anyways - sound in a dark room, by telefon tel aviv



i could fall into a slow, thick, liquid sleep with this song on repeat

A song that makes you fall asleep...

This song doesn't make me fall asleep in the bad sense. It's just a song I like to put on as I'm falling asleep. If I really wanted one that made me sleepy, I'd have to have my mom come over and rock me while she sang The Beatles or something. hehe

I actually enjoy the entire cd this song comes from. It's called Black Aria and it's by Danzig (sorry! Danzig again!) I have the old original cd and it's one of my favorite possessions. Check it out if you have the chance!

FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD

mmmmmmmmmm .... food. i love food. southern food. soul food. mexican food. italian food. thai food. indian food. chicken fried steak. mashed taters. gravy. GRAAAAAAAAAAAAVY. if i were a zombie, i'd still go for gravy over brains. mmmmmmmmm

ok, i'm drooling on the keyboard, just a moment while i wipe it away

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alright, betters. i've never really been super picky about food. i don't like raw oysters because they feel like snot sliding down my throat, and i don't like carrots because they taste disgusting. THEY DO. stfu. i love my steak bloody, but i'm an epic wussy when it comes to hot spices. still, i do like trying new things (see my 101 goal of new foods, and foods i thought i hated & am retrying) and i love to cook. i'm a better cook than i am a baker, although i'm pretty decent at making breads. and what goes well with breads, besides butter? why soup, dear reader! soup!

soups are versatile, with eleventy bamillion combinations. i made soup for heather twice when i went to visit her this year. soups are nutritional, and they're one of those foods that get better the longer that they sit. stews and chowders are good too, but soups are my favourite. one of my recently acquired loves is indian food. i grew up in the sticks, i thought indian food meant native american food. the only indian person i had ever seen was my allergist, and i was so little & naive i thought she was just from 'somewhere else' (read: sheltered child in a tiny, tiny town). i loved her accent, even though she kept hurting me with those damned allergy shots. anyways, i found a recipe online for mulligatawny, and made it, and fell. in. loooooooooove. it's the most amazing soup ever, i think. i share it with you today, with this one uhm ... warning. i don't ever measure much of anything when i cook. i use recipes for ingredients, and taste as i go, and i encourage you to do the same. like for this one, i use more coriander, cumin, onion & garlic.

4–6 tablespoons olive oil, divided (or butter, which i prefer)
2 cups cooked chicken, cut into bite-sized pieces
1 medium onion
1 tablespoon crushed garlic
2 tablespoons finely grated ginger
1 teaspoon ground turmeric
2 tablespoons ground coriander
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon chili powder
1 can diced tomatoes
6 cups chicken stock
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 teaspoon garam masala
1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lime juice
2 cups cooked rice, as accompaniment
2–3 limes, quartered, for garnish
2–3 fresh cilantro, for garnish

heat some of the oil or butter in a big pot. add the chicken & brown lightly (almost completely cook, but not quite). remove and set aside. heat more of oil in the pot and add the chopped onions. sauté until soft.  add the garlic and ginger, stir well and cook for a minute or so. add the turmeric, coriander, cumin, chili, and garam masala, then cook for two minutes. adjust the heat as needed to prevent burning. add stock. add the chicken to the soup. bring to simmer, then reduce heat to medium, and cook for 20 minutes. add the salt, pepper (to taste). squeeze in the lime juice. divide rice among serving bowls and ladle the soup over. garnish with lime wedges and fresh cilantro.

cook's note: also really stinkin' good if you add coconut milk, along with the chicken - that's what i did over at heather's

and shame on me, i don't have photos like heather does. i'm a bad blogger.

Hope you like cupcakes!

I'm crazy about baking. Like crazy, crazy!! I like to bake pretty much any recipe you put in front of me. Sweets are also my thing. They are my biggest downfall. It's a tie between Red Velvet and Chocolate as my favorites for cakes. Which really isn't surprising considering red velvet is just a glorified chocolate cake anyway. It's always best with cream cheese frosting. I'm going to go cry just thinking about this.

So anyway, if you've read this blog or some of the comments before, you have probably figured out by now that I'm trying my best to lose weight (another sweet little opposite for these besties! lol) I'm using the Weight Watchers program with much success so the recipe I'm sharing with you today is from them! Don't be scared by it though!! You'll be eating a yummy and healthier cupcake if you decide to make this recipe.

Imagine my excitement when I came across a red velvet cupcake with cream cheese frosting on the WW website last week. I absolutely had to try it, you know just in case a better for you cupcake could actually taste good! While it's not the absolutely to die for flavor of a real red velvet, it's close enough that this little chickie is happy, happy, happy!

Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

1 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

2 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa

1 1/4 cups buttermilk

1 tsp vinegar

2 tsp vanilla, divided

3/4 cup granulated sugar

1/4 cup light butter, softened

2 large eggs

1 cup powdered sugar

2 Tbsp Neufchatel cheese, softened (That's basically a light cream cheese! =D)

1 oz. bottle of red food coloring

Preheat oven to 350ºF. Prepare 16 muffin tins with paper muffin liners.

In a large bowl, mix together flour, salt, baking soda and cocoa; set aside.

In another large bowl, mix together buttermilk, vinegar and 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract; set aside.

With an electric mixer on high speed, cream granulated sugar with butter until light and fluffy. Reduce mixer speed and add eggs, one at a time, until well-incorporated.

Add about 1/3 each of flour and buttermilk mixtures to sugar mixture; beat until just combined. Repeat until all of flour and buttermilk mixtures are incorporated; add red food coloring and mix well with mixer (do not over beat batter).

Fill each muffin tin about 2/3 full with batter.

Bake until a toothpick inserted in center of a cupcake comes out dry, about 25 minutes; cool for 5 minutes in pan and then cool completely on a wire rack.

Meanwhile, to make frosting, combine powdered sugar, cheese and remaining teaspoon of vanilla in a medium bowl. Beat with an electric mixer until well-combined and creamy. Frost cooled cupcakes. Yields 1 iced cupcake per serving.

For anyone who may be interested, ONE cupcake is THREE points! I also use Mexican vanilla when I bake so the frosting in my pictures isn't white. If you're looking for the pure white, you need to use a clear vanilla! =D

And tada! There you have it. Cupcakes you can fully enjoy!! If you really do try them, let me know! I'd like to see what you thought about them. Or if you have a great healthy/lowfat chocolate cake recipe that rocks, let me know. I have yet to find one that makes me squeal!

Happy baking!

Day 09 — A song that you can dance to

there are sooooooooooooo many (because i'm a dancin' queen) but this is one that's been on heavy rotation lately. i first heard it on the groove soundtrack: girls like us, by b15 project



oh my freakin' GAWD i can't not bob my head and close my eyes and make those retarded li'l hand motions and move my shoulders and MAN *dance dance dance*

A song that you can dance to...

30 Seconds to Mars. I love you. Let's get married and have babies. While you may not think this band is really a dancey kind of band, there's a great remix on the newish This is War album. Well it was on mine and I downloaded it on iTunes. Was it a special thing? I dunno. LOL Anyway it's Kings and Queens (LA Riots Main Vocal Mix)

I DO dance to this song. I put it on loud while I'm cleaning up the kitchen and I wiggle my ass around. Probably doesn't look too pretty, but my stove gets cleaned faster. Also, my son does THE BEST robot to this song. Srsly. THE BEST!

A song you know all the words to...

Mother by Danzig!!! Yaaaaaaay!! Really, I know the words to lots and lots of songs, but I wanted to pick a fun one that I really get into when I'm singing. Danzig, one of my most favorite bands (well, technically it's a man) on the planet. Favorite song is Sistinas. Yeah, I know all the words to it, but there's just something about that husky screamy "Motheeeeerrrrr!" lol

Day 08 — A song that you know all the words to

well duh, the aggie war hymn!!



WHOOP! hee hee hee ... nothin' better than watching a t-sip sing it. *insane squeals* what, you want more aggie stuff? why certainly! here's the band playing it so wonderfully well, like they always do



and here's them marching (massive band nerd moment here - epic squeal!!)



and here's the singing cadets, who include the first verse that no one uses

A song that reminds you of a certain event...

I'm sorry! This post is so late!!! Really, I was trying to think and think about what song reminds me of an event and I just couldn't come up with something. That really seems strange to me. Music is such a big happy part of my life, why don't I have an event to go with it? I really didn't want to use what I'm going to use, but it's 10:30 at nite so I'm running out of time.

So, song, When You Were Young by the Killers. Event, going into labor with my son. LOL That's why I didn't want to use it. Yeah it's all frickin' great and happy (not really *snickers*) that you're having a kid but labor? Why would I want to remember that? It's quite an event though so it totally counts.

I was living in Hawaii for this event. We had just had a big earthquake. There was no power for the entire day, even Wal-mart was closed down. That should tell you something. I was 42 weeks pregnant (that's two weeks overdue for you non-baby people) and I was scheduled to be induced the very next day. Well at midnite I was up pacing because labor had started coming on naturally.

I didn't want to run to the hospital immediately so I was doing anything to just not think about it. My hubby took me downstairs to time the contractions and FINALLY the electricity came on at 2 am. We turn the tv on for some background music and this was the song playing. So while pacing, timing, breathing hard I listened to this damn song and every time I hear it now I get all panicky about those stupid contractions! The event of all events to remember: baby #2 (the LAST baby)

Day 07 — A song that reminds you of a certain event

black or white, michael jackson



i remember being at home, watching this premiere when it came on tv, sitting 3 foot away from the telly with my little brother, with my parents on the couch. we had waited for this day for a while now, and we were even allowed to have popcorn & coke!! i was in awe of EVERYTHING in this video. srsly. i don't remember breathing through any of it. it's a miracle i survived.

one of my friends had mentioned how, for many of us, the very end of this video was the first collective WTF moment of recent years.

amanda's music choice for the week!!!

yes yes, dear readers, i know we're doing a month of music ... but still, it's something we love and something heather & i can't get enough of. tuesdays are always more fun with as much music as you can stomach. it's like having lots and lots of noodles in the japanese friendship garden - you're always hungry for more. right heather!? RIGHT!? yeah, that's right. >.<

boys for pele by tori amos (big surprise!) has been in rotation for the last week. almost all weekend solid, when i could get some free time. at least once a day, completely through, up at work. this is my absolute favourite album from her, for so many reasons. it's like my security blanket. it's always the first thing i think of when people ask that stupid "what would you save if your house was burning?" question - yes, i know i can buy another cd, but this is the original one i got in 1998, after i bought a cd player! i even have the original TAPE i bought from, like, high school. the hey jupiter cd single was the first cd i had ever, ever purchased.



"nothing's gonna stop me from floating"

gawddamnit, tori, you're so ... timely and relevant. and perfect

Day 06 — A song that reminds of you of somewhere

redneck girl, by the bellamy brothers



for formality's sake, let me just say - i hate how this video has all sorts of confederate flag crap!

ok, now that that's out of the way ... this song takes me back to the beginning of my last year at texas a&m. my roommate and i were walking around campus, either headed to or from our dorms, and there were some guys unloading their truck next to the dorms. they were playing this song, and merlie-girlie and i started dancing. you know, the silly kind of almost square dance where you link arms & just go in circles? yeah, like that. and singin' at the top of our lungs, and laughing like loons.

A song that reminds you of somewhere...

I'm giggling thinking of this. I had just moved back to Texas from Colorado and met this really awesome guy. We would "lay around" and listen to Moby. When I hear this song, I think of Texas and his room. Black lights and all. hehe