12.14.2009

"...when it snows...we'll frolic and play..."

on december 28th i will be losing my ice skating virginity here:

and i couldn't be any happier about it.

12.10.2009

"...so let go...whatcha waiting for...we've no time for later now..."

currently listening to:
frou frou :: let go

recently played:
[just for you whit...
hope you enjoy what you don't already have on your christmas playlist...]

otis redding :: white christmas
louis armstrong :: cool yule
sara bareilles & ingrid michaelson :: winter song
leon redbone & zooey deschanel :: baby, it's cold outside
leighton meester :: christmas (baby please come home)
colbie caillat :: mistletoe
lady gaga :: christmas tree
colbie caillat :: have yourself a merry little christmas
ivy :: christmas time is here
nat king cole :: the christmas song
india arie & stevie wonder :: the christmas song
louis armstrong :: 'zat you santa claus?
dmb :: christmas song
jack johnson :: rudolf the red-nosed reindeer
the weepies :: all that i want
leona naess :: christmas
charlie brown :: christmas time is here
ella fitzgerald :: winter wonderland
charles brown :: merry christmas, baby
norah jones :: peace
brandi carlile :: the heartache can wait
kt tunstale :: sleigh ride
fiona apple :: frosty the snowman
kate havenvik :: winter wonderland
meiko :: maybe next year (x-mas song)
regina spektor :: my dear acquaintance (a happy new year)
mick jagger & joss stone :: lonely without you (this christmas)
death cab :: the new year
coldplay :: have yourself a merry christmas



"...i suppose i think about love more than anyone really should. i am constantly amazed by its sheer power to alter and define our lives. it was shakespeare who also said "love is blind". now that is something i know to be true. for some quite inexplicably, love fades; for others love is simply lost. but then of course love can also be found, even if just for the night. and then, there's another kind of love: the cruelest kind. the one that almost kills its victims. its called unrequited love. of that i am an expert. most love stories are about people who fall in love with each other. but what about the rest of us? what about our stories, those of us who fall in love alone? we are the victims of the one sided affair. we are the cursed of the loved ones. we are the unloved ones, the walking wounded. the handicapped without the advantage of a great parking space!"
-- the holiday

^ one of my ABSOLUTE favorite movies. the holiday & love actually have both been satisfying my love for love & christmas & london. 17 more days. i've been thinking lately... if i get there and i'm as madly in love with that city as i believe that i will be then i'll be moving there. AFTER nyc of course. i have this sudden urge to spread my little wings and fly. far. far. away. i have nothing tying me down [minus my PEOPLE]. now is the time. i just wanna see and do so much it's hard for me to want to stay.

FUTURE residences:
1) birmingham
[ONLY if i decide to be/have to be practical]
2) NYC
3) london
4) nashville

NYE in london:


it grosses me out to see such class-less, poor sports. i have never been one to enjoy trash talking the opposing or defeated team. i have and will always be the fan that can sit next to a fan of the opposing team & proudly cheer on my team while letting them do the same w/o ever getting rowdy about it. it's so silly. i LOVE edamame! it's my new fave side item/after school snack. how some can be meat & potato people only i just don't understand. i'm really excited about the items on my dear santa list. he's going green & bling this year. LOVE.

this convo in season 3 [the big time] of SATC is SO completely true and it makes me giggle:

charlotte: sometimes you just know...with the right man. it's fate.
miranda: it's not fate, his light is on, that's all.
charlotte: what light?
miranda: men are like cabs, when they’re available their light goes on. they awake one day and decide they’re ready to settle down, have babies, whatever, and they turn their light on. the next woman they pickup, boom, that's the one they'll marry. it's not fate. it's dumb luck.
charlotte: i'm sorry, i refuse to believe that love is that random.
miranda: please, it's all about timing. you gotta get ‘em, when their light’s on.
carrie: most men i meet are flashing yellows.
miranda: or off duty. they can drive around for years picking up women and not be available.
carrie: then, they really shouldn't be allowed to get behind the wheel.

miranda: most men don't stay lit long before they take the plunge vs. most women who have been lit pretty much since birth.