a day in the life...

Ahhh, hair. I always wish I could have perfect, lovely, effortless hair. But everytime I wake up, it's out to here *holds out hands* and I can't really do much with it. It's frizzy, peer-pressured by humidity,

I do love my hair, the curls always get compliments, but the curls get so much sometimes, it's almost suffocating. It's just one of those things...no pain no gain, huh?

Brb, googling how to style curly hair.

The Cute.

My jam!

funeral songs, everywhere.

Sometimes I walk along imagining things to update this lovely slice of a blog, but then I completely forget.

But, one thing that's always on my mind lately; maybe it's because I've been dealing with death registrations at work (Christchurch Earthquake death regs, oh no!), is that of death. It's really strange. I can't stop thinking about what it's like to die, what happens to the people you leave behind, the way they feel, the way you can be taken at any moment. I don't know how to deal with these feelings, but I guess we all have these moments.

Life is so damn precious. We don't really notice it until it's gone. We don't really know how much we love having someone with us until they're gone. I just love how life is like this - short, but long, with so many different emotions and people around us to deal with, and memories that last forever.

Death makes life so important. It's the idea of death that makes us want to live our lives.

Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac

These guys I could never get sick of. "It's like being inside a dream or something," Rose Dewitt-Bukator said of Picasso. I feel the same way about Fleety.

shine.

I can see it in your eyes, what I know in my heart is true. That our love it has faded, like a summer run through. So we'll walk down the shoreline, one last time together, feel the wind blow our wanderin' hearts, like a feather. But who knows what's waiting in the wings of time, dry your eyes, we're gonna go where we can shine.

Don't be hiding in sorrow, or clinging to the past, with your beauty so precious and the season so fast. No matter how cold the horizon appears, or how far the first night when I held you near, you gotta rise from these ashes like a bird of flame. Step out of the shadow, we gotta go where we can shine.

For all that we struggle, for all we pretend, it don't come down to nothing, except love in the end. And ours is a road that is strewn with goodbyes, but as it all unfolds, as it all unwinds, remember your soul is the one thing you can't compromise. Take my hand, we're gonna go, where, we, can, shine.

Through the windows of midnight,

moonfoam and silver.

betty and don.

i want...

I want a new camera, to read the Harry Potter books all in a row, to live in a small town for a year, a white christmas, to work at Borders, a dentist check up, Mad Men clothes, to kiss someone during the Hellogoodbye 'Here In Your Arms' instrumental, to go to Russia, to hug all my friends in one huge group hug, to go to the Carolinas, to live in New York, to write for a magazine, to do what i want to do, not what everyone else wants, like Bon Jovi and Billy Joel say "it's my life."

Movies To Watch

- Cleopatra

- The Philadelphia Story

- A Place In The Sun

- To Catch A Thief

- Bullitt

- Love Story

- Saturday Night Fever

- It Happened One Night

- Gone With The Wind

- Pillow Talk

- Adam's Rib

- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

- A New Kind of Love

- Risky Business

- Nine to Five

- Swing Shift

- Disclosure

- The First Wives Club

- Wall Street

- Sabrina

I Put A Spell On You

I watched Nowhere Boy this weekend, and I adored it! Mainly because of the fabulous music (I am a sucker for 50s and 60s tunes), and the clothing - Aaron Johnson's glasses? Sexxxxxy. This song was pretty much amazing. I love the trumpet sounds at the start, the sharp and quick ones. Dancing to this would be bliss.