Saturday Selections 22.08.15

Watching: The Fall – Gillian Anderson OMG total babe. Plus it’s on the edge of your seat and brain engaging mystery stuff – loving it!!!

Listening: Would you judge me if I said the Magic Mike XXLSoundtrack? No? Good!
  
Reading: Martha Stewart Living!!! My perfect sistor brought a mag over for me and I am in HEAVEN.

Wishing: Grey skinnies, motorcycle boots and chunky knits – uhm hello? This weather has got me all AUTUMN IS HAPPENING!!! Even though it is totally still August and I’m not ready….I AM NOT READY.

Loving: I bought this ridiculous candle from Zara home and I’m in love.(*update it's not there anymore...this one is similar but mine is all gold and croc skin textured)

Doing: Hanging with my sis – we’re parking and shopping and day drinking and sun bathing and it’s all sorts of fabulous to have her here.

Making: Getting decorations ready for the baptism party on Sunday.  

Eating: Chia pudding – based off of Deliciously Ella’s version. Sprinkling flax seeds etc. on top and whatever berries are to hand. It’s YUM.

a xxx

Open letter to emoji makers/creators (!?!)

I love an emoji. We’ve all seen the thing on HuffPost about which country uses which one the most (the results make me SO proud to be Canadian), and the research (questionable!) out this morning about how ‘LOL’ ‘WTF’ and other acronyms of text type are being used less and less in favour of the good, new fashioned emoji! 

To be clear, and full disclosure, I don’t have an iPhone. I’m a bit of a tech-phobe – but I have a deep underlying love of an emoji. 

So here’s what I’m thinking we need:

• Pie. We need a pie emoji. Not an English savoury pie – Fruit Pie (not bothered which type…) either a whole one or a slice. We have pie day every year (two I think!) and who doesn’t love pie.
• One more on the baked goods front – a cupcake. Obvs.
• Wood. So a log or something in that vein. The number of picture based messages that having an option for ‘would’ would (ha!) have helped with are countless.
• A WTF face – there isn’t a face that I fell fully gets across the ‘WTF’ that I would like. This is a key factor in my daily conversations so really, a non-negotiable.
• A bottle of wine. Yes there are glasses, but let’s be real…who ever only drinks a glass? And I don’t need help picturing how many glasses I’m actually consuming.
• Eyeroll – there are the big googly eyes, and at a push I’m sure you could get by. But why do I have to type *eye roll* in these technologically advanced times, why is that necessary?!?!?
• A hipster (or something dictating hipster…moustache, black framed glasses etc).
• Crossed fingers – HOW IS THIS NOT A THING YET?!?!?!
• A puking/green faced person. You know when you’re hungover, or something gross has been discussed in the convo and you’re not SARS mask contagious but you feel YUCK! Something for that.
• Shots – or a shot glass. I’m seeing a theme here, booze and baked goods. But seriously for reals. Sometimes everyone just needs a shot.
• Cheese. How do we not have a cheese emoji. Everyone likes cheese (or everyone worth knowing anyway). How am I supposed to invite people to a wine and cheese night through pictorial representation without a cheese emoji.

This might be part one of … a few. Let’s be honest – there is no shortage to the number of emoji variations we should have.

a xxx

Saturday Selections 15.08.15

Watching: GBBO is BACK! YAY! Love it big time. I think I’m going to be firmly rooting for the Fireman – he’s hilarious!

Listening: The wheels on the bus. Honestly – we sing this song ALL THE TIME. So I’m balancing it with some James Bay as this weather is making me melancholy.  

Reading: All the light we cannot see – literally started it today, so no opinion yet…will update accordingly!  

Wishing: For a suitable dress to wear to a baptism. I cannot find a bloomin thing that fits the bill. White jeans, flats and flowy tops abound but not a single approp dress for a baptism. Lame.

Loving: My new mascara – Bourjois volume glamour push up – it’s been on for seven hours and not a crumb or an itchy eye. Plus it kind of smells like roses…and its totes cheap.

Doing: Prepping for a VIP guest – getting the house sorted for my gorgeous sister who arrives on Thursday! Also trying to make space for our new (to us) tumble dryer. Never in my life did I think this was going to be something I thought was a treat. But HALLELUJAH!

Making: Total GBBO inspo – doing some baking this weekend. Haven’t decided what, but something, feels ages since I baked,

Eating: Not greatly I must admit. With so much going on it’s been a week of ‘what’s in the freezer, what can we make with what’s still in date in the fridge’ and ‘how many take-aways is too many’ NAUGHTY. Must do better.  

a xxx