Happy New Year!

How cute is this jacket on a scale 1-10?

I think it’s adorable but often when I see things in magazines and such I’m always disappointed when I finally get to the store and see it live.

Just because

Have I seen anything with Grace Kelly? I might have seen some Hitchcock with her but I can’t remember… She’s so exquisite and elegant, stars of today rarely are.

About top 250

Since that list is changing so much I’ll look at it on midnight tomorrow (well actually today since it’s after midnight) and that list will be the one I’ll go after.

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It seems like it’s changing far more than I thought it would. Now “Young Frankenstein” is on 249 and yesterday “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” was on 250. But now it’s “Casino Royal” which was number 248 or something yesterday.

(Clifton Webb)

Anyway, saw “Laura” yesterday and I guess it was an okay movie, if it weren’t for Clifton Webb it would have been dull as hell. Vincent Price I didn’t even recognize in the beginning but his voice and the way he speaks gave him away, it’s like he’s always quoting his favorite poem when he speaks.

92/250

Movie 250

I’ve seen “Young Frankenstein” so many times, as a kid I watched all Mel Brooke movies. My favorite is Frau Blücher and when Victor Frankenstein puts the scalpel in his own leg. Oh and Marty Feldman of course, he is my favorite character in that movies (sorry Frau Blücher). I have to watch that again, I only have it on video… bet the quality of that tape is pretty crappy now. When I was a kid I thought this was Frankenstein, the Frankenstein and didn’t understand why it was considered a horror film.

Year 2009

I don’t even remember my new year’s resolutions for 2008, there was an awful lot I know that much and they were sort of contradicting each other since one of them was “set realistic goals” and the rest were probably pretty crazy. I’ll only list the most important things, and perhaps add some later… maybe you should have a list and cross them off one by one?

One by one
1. Go to the gyno and do a smear test or whatever it’s called (sounds like fun doesn’t it?) Check!
2. Get a haircut
3. Buy a dress or a skirt


Continuously
1. Keep a food diary to see what I need to add and remove from my “diet” Post it on the blog (and please yell at me when I’m not eating health)
2. Write X pages per X (have to figure out what amount of pages per day/week is reasonable)
3. Work on watching ALL 250 top movies on IMDB (some would call that a waste of time but…)
4. Get a pedicure (homemade, I’m pretty darn good) at least once a month.

Projects
1. Finish one longer story
2. Finish a synopsis for a movie
3. Learn how to walk in heels
4. Learn how to do a decent manicure at home
5. Try to sew something, either finish the pants I have or make a simple dress
6. Try embroidery
7. Finish my brothers shirt and start knitting in the hats (that was last year’s new year’s resolution for Pete sake!)

I want to be evil

Eartha Kitt "I want to be evil" on Swedish TV.

Merry Christmas!

I spent most of my Christmas sleeping, I have no idea why I was so tired but I feel asleep a few times on the sofa. Ate candy, cookies and cake and didn’t feel guilty at all. In the evening I put on my warm pajamas and cute cuddly socks and watched on WALL·E DVD. I won’t make a wish list next year because I got one thing that I had put on it and it was the easiest gift (a gift certificate at a bookstore) so why make the list if no one is using it?

Now I’m off to straighten my hair and then it’s off to the movies, Australia time. It premiers today here in Sweden, worried I will be disappointed.

(Picture by me)

Maybe it’s the whole Christmas thing…

But I feel like crap, everything sucks and I just want to beat someone or something into pulp with a bat! The building construction is moving along from seven in the morning and for some reason they are leaving this huge spotlight on at the end of the day, directly pointed at my bedroom window. It’s mud everywhere and that horrible sound from drills and machines and whatnot is driving me crazy…

My mom is bugging me and basically makes me want to move far far away and make sure there’s no phone.

All the stores hate me; they have like no rubber boots at all. One pair (the crappy brand that didn’t last a year without holes in them) in an entire shoes store and we are in Sweden where it gets pretty damn wet this time of year but it’s cute little pumps everywhere you go, they will come in handy when I’m taking the dog out…

I am so going to move…

I can’t find anything to eat, everything taste like crap, I don’t like food.

Dislike

• When people don’t write where they found the pictures they are posting on their blogs
• Modern architecture

Sunday...

03:24 I can’t sleep! Tossing and turning and I’m not tired! There’s nothing to read and I don’t know what to do! Horrible, horrible, blah! What to do? One two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven...


03:42 My body is obviously tired, just knocked a flower pot over, straight into one of my desk drawers, at least I know what I’ll be doing tomorrow (aka later today).

13:11 Managed to fall asleep around, five… Bored out of my mind, I have nothing to do, dull dull dull… I’m so bored I’m reading my junk mail, “Heloo princess…”

Someone wants me to be a good little girl and help decorating the tree. I don’t want to, call it creative differences if you want.

Love...

Saw this commercial on TV the other day and then I started to wonder, will this be aired worldwide? Doubt this one will be aired in the Deep South…



More on Björn Borg

Just because

I think she lied…

In Dita Von Teeses book she said that she’s 168cm tall and weighs 48kg, which makes her BMI 17, which makes her underweight. Sure BMI isn’t a hundred percent but I think she lied about her weight. She looks healthy too me but like someone who works on staying fit.

Um…

I have 349 sek at this store, Bikbok, I never by anything there. It’s from my birthday when I was given a horrible cardigan and returned and got store credit. What should I get? Would you buy at this place?

Brazil

Saw my first Brazilian movie, and liked it! "Ciade de Deus", been wanting to see it from some time and then it was on TV the other day. It’s apparently based on a book, maybe I should read the book? I loved that all of the characters had weird nicknames (maybe because I never have had one?). Favorite character, Bené, the nice gangster. If you have the chance to see it, you should.

Just because

Three more movies

First I saw “O Brother, where art thou?” and it was okay, reminded me a little of “Big Fish” but it’s not a movie I’m likely to ever see again. I wanted to see what happened but then at the end I was like, “So…?”

I hate to see Johnny in bad movies, I don’t like to hear him say cunt. He wasn’t even good in this movie which he usually is even I crappy movies. The best parts of “The Astronaut’s Wife” was when I squinted and pretended it was Mia Farrow and not Charlize Theron. It was quite recently I realized what a beauty she is, Mia that is.

(Mia Farrow)

Then I watched a Danish movie, a thriller called “Murk” and it was like Swedish movies, dull, grey and “real”. There’s a wedding scene and if it had been an American movie it would have been bright and funny, laugher and spontaneous singing but there it was stiff and dull and people were sitting in rows with pieces of paper with the lyrics on singing along looking bored and uncomfortable. The plot was okay but the execution wasn’t.

How cute is this!

She looks like a stewardess or something. I love the suspenders under the corset (at least I think they are under the corset because in the info about the corset I can’t see anything about any suspenders), not sure how comfortable that would be but it’s cute! The corset is from Maya Hansen, more info on this corset here.

Behind the red door

Looks a cute cozy county house in France, bet things are falling off the building if you slam the door too hard or if a truck drives by.

The window shutters and the door seem to be the only thing touched for the last fifty or so years.

Doesn’t look that worn-out and simple from the backyard does it? I love this backyard because of the contrast to the front of the house. A secret little courtyard, how cute is that?

All pictures are from Shootfactory. This house is in La Poste. More pictures here, it’s a real dangerous site because you might be stuck for HOURS

I like!

Not a hundred percent happy about the roof and it’s a little too rustic for me but it’s so adorable! I don’t even mind the fact that the door isn’t center of the house, I’m sort of obsessive about things being symmetrical but here it works anyway. In my head the balcony/porch faces a big glassy lake.

The bushes by the door are a little small; they should get some big rhododendron or yew and get rid of those potted things on the stair.

Found picture here

Tihi!

I was just goofing around and writing down an imaginary tea party with Aimée and it turned in to a story. First draft ready and I’ll clean it up this weekend and maybe I have a story for my story bank. I have to wait awhile and see if I really like it, sometimes a story seem good but when you’ve let it cold a day or so it turns out to be crap.

Imaginary tea party II

I need a place to have the tea party and come up with a menu, oh and a guest list of course. Not too many people. And a date, saturday maybe...? Is this a good mix of people I wonder?

1. Albus Dumbledore
2. Snow White
3. Freddie Mercury
4. Edgar Allan Poe
5. Jane and Edward Rochester
6. Catwoman

Treehouse

I don’t know why but I like small houses like shed and little cottages (like the one in that movie “The Holliday”) and treehouses. But even if I start looking for a treehouse in the area to have tea in, I have no one to keep me company. (I wonder if I could persuade my dad to build me a treehouse even though I’m not twelve?)

Books about treehouses
The treehouse book
Treehouses: The Art and Craft of Living Out on a Limb

Picture found here