Things I Love Thursday

Turning The Last Page - I love the feeling of accomplishment that I get from finishing a really good book. I've just finished reading The Help by Katheryne Stockett. I thought it was a wonderfully well written book that transported me to the southern States with ease. Some of the rest of the books on my nightstand are The Bloody Chamber, The Dice Man, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and a few more. Are there any reads that you'd love to share with me? I'd love to add some more titles to my night time stack of reading.

Convict Stripes - For the past few weeks I've been having a secret love affair with all things in black and white stripes. The fat girl in me is screaming 'no' at the mention of striped clothing though and is constantly warning me not to succumb to the lure of the mono-stripe... but then I saw THIS outfit on Kyla and I'm starting to waver - I already have a mustard cardigan, and I have a striped tube skirt, and some black boots. Hmmmm 

A Little Bit Of Candy - Just cause sometimes, on a dreary Thursday morning you need something nice to look at. So to all my lady readers - enjoy, and to all my guy readers - we're not comparing.   

Honourable Mentions - fizzy cola bottles, clearing some of the clothes that don't fit anymore out of my wardrobe, wearing a high, soft bun on the top of my head, raspberry and vanilla jam, opening a new tub of Ben & Jerry's and only wanting a few spoons before putting it back into the freezer, a freshly made bed, hearing loose change at the bottom of your bag and realising that it's mostly made up of €2 coins, bondage tights, remembering how much I loved glitter make up when I was 18, short skirts, spicy noodle soup - I must have had this at least 4 times in the last week

Gossip Guys

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Aren't the boys of Gossip Girl awfully pretty looking? Now I'm all for the metrosexual male, I highlight the benefits of moisturing to all my guy friends, I comment on the cut of their jeans and the fit of their shirt but enough is enough...

Women, well this woman at least, want a REAL man. A man who looks like he could whip his top off and change the oil in a car, a man who looks like he could mow the lawn, a man who could climb a tree to get your kitty back for you.

Real men have stubble sometimes, and mussed up hair and calluses on their hands from doing manly things - GRRRR!

BUT... before all you guys out there stop shaving and showering there is a limit on how manly I like my men. Fingernails must be clean and short, unibrows must be controlled, bodies should not be smelling of a whole can of lynx. It is a fine line that you must tread - tread carefully.

What are the dealbreakers when it comes to men? How metro is too metro?

Things I Love Today

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Little And Large: Myself and D went into town for a little look yesterday morning and D pointed out a beautiful tunic that she thought I might like, so I tried it on - as did D. When we both emerged from the dressing room we realised that what was a tunic on me was a dress on her. Never did I feel so tall in my bare feet as when I stood beside D's 5'2'' frame and realised that 5'5'' isn't really very short at all. So we both bought the tunic/dress and I just have to remember that if you can't bend over in it then it is a top!

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Driving Home: I know that most people hate being stuck in Friday evening traffic, bumper to bumper, but I actually love it. I crank up the stereo, usually have a coffee beside me and I sing along to whatever cd I have on at the top of my voice, sometimes I might even have a little boogie. I feel free when I'm all alone in the car - safe in my own little metal bubble. I'm driving back home tonight to say hi to my parents this weekend, should be fun.

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Swings and Things: I think the time has come to sneek into the local playground at night and just play for a little while, swings, slides, the jungle gym and monkey bars, maybe even a spin on the roundabout. Have you ever snuck into somewhere after dark and played?

Honorable Mentions: Chocolate covered brazil nuts, skull print scarves, G chats with people I actually want to talk to, walks with my dog

Things I Love Thursday

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Girls Coming Back - Thumbelina is finally back in Limerick after her Christmas holidays (she's been gone since the middle of December) and Laura is finally home from France (I haven't seen her in a whole year), along with Sonya and Raymy all my Limerick gals are back in my life. I am thinking of having a huge girlie sleepover sometime soon.

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Being Secretly Mean - And by 'mean', I mean that we were just being a little critical of silly fashion. But seriously - who could possible think that its ok to go out in a very tight jumper and a pair of lacy tights and think that it's an outfit? One of the guys at our table in the cafe even commented that the girls jumper was so short that if she sits down somewhere unsavory she could actually catch something from a seat. Our whole table agreed.

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Team Spirit - At the 2 day competition last weekend, between 12 of us, we brought home 16 medals, the National Barebow Plate and a new National Champion. Everyone is still so fired up from the whole weekend that all they want to do right now is more and more shooting. I don't ever remember a group of archers ever being this enthuastic before - and their enthuasiam is so unbelievably contagious. Yea!

Honourable Mentions - Its 18 months, to the day, until Sonya and Colins wedding, Laura going up a cup size while she's been away and having no problem at all anouncing it to the whole table at lunch, finding pretty printed dresses in the sales, wearing my hair curly, hot chocolate on a stick

Hilda Pin-Up Series

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I came across the Hilda pin-up series over the weekend and fell in love with Duane Bryers artwork.

If you changed her hair to an inky black and put some glasses on the bridge of her nose you have a cartoon me.

Is there any character in the art world that you identify with? Are you a closet Mona Lisa, or a bashful Betty Boop?

Movember

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In honor of the month of Movember I think that we should all drink our tasty beverages from one of these fabulous mugs by Peter Bruegger

Doogle Day

Oh what a great weekend!
Doogle's 21st was such a fun fun fun party. You would never think that twenty-something year olds could get that excited about balloons and bunting. The house and garden looked so good, all lit up and COVERED in bunting and fairy lights.

And there was a BOUNCY CASTLE! A huge adult sized bouncy castle, and inflatable sumo suits and an inflatable jousting challenge. It was like you got a children's birthday party wish-list and gave it to a bunch of over-excited adults. I have never had such fits of hysterical giggling before and my sides are still aching from all the laughing.

The birthday girl herself got up on the jousting challenge, and didn't even get to win. We felt a little sorry for her so I borrowed her camera and filled it with people pulling stupid faces to cheer her up. The rest of the night was spent curled up outside around the fire pit wrapped in blankets and talking into the wee hours.

But the highlight of the night was seeing Daddy Doogle in a sumo suit and watching Mammy Doogle bop away to the music with her glow-in-the-dark bracelets and glo-sticks.

The Doogle family was nice enough to let us, all 14 of us, take over their lovely sitting room and curl up and sleep until the smell of frying rashers and sausages woke us up the following morning.

And then we re-inflated the bouncy castle and bounced all over again!

Bunny Suicide

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I love Bunny Suicides.

Not politically correct at all, but I still giggle at most of them.