Randomness

I have forgotten to post my 52 Lists entries the last few weeks. Oops. This one's about breakfast so I was all over that. There's tonnes more things to add to the list, but it could go on forever and ever. Especially when it comes to Singapore food. OMG. And if you're wondering, kaya is like a coconut jam thing, and chee kueh is like a umm rice flour thing that's steamed and topped with yummy salty things. I'm really not good at explaining these things. I'm good at eating them though.

Our vacuum cleaner finally bit the dust (Hur hur geddit? Dust? Vacuum? Not funny? I'll stop...) so we ordered a new one. I call it Darth Vader because... I mean look at it. It frightens me a little. It's sooooo much lighter than our old one so I zipped around the house cleaning the second it arrived.

And then I lay on the floor and admired my clean carpet. That remained clean for about five minutes when the cats had a little fur battle. Idiots.

I love my 75 cent socks from Target. I have them in pink too. Should've worn those to match my awesome Old Navy jammies.

Look at the grossness it sucked up in one room only. Damn cats. It hadn't been vacuumed in three days but still! I have a feeling the old vacuum hasn't been doing its job very well for ages! Ewwwwww!!! But our carpets are all nice and fluffy now. And so fresh and so clean, clean :)

I apologise for the gross picture but I was so excited about how much dirt it got out! I've become that lame-o who gets excited about vacuums and clean carpets... help...

Randomness

- I couldn't stand it anymore and allowed myself to start making those x and + blocks. Damn peer pressure. Or lack of self-control... whatever. The tutorial there shows a 7.5" finished block but I used Ali's measurements to make a 10" finished. I don't know what size it's going to end up but I'm having loads of fun pulling out bits and pieces (many of the scraps were courtesy of Rita... Thanks again, darl!) to make the blocks. Each new block seems so different from the last, and I think that's what I love about it.  (Sorry about the crap picture... it's from Instagram.)

- The hubs and I found out that Before Midnight is going to be released in May and we're so bloody excited!!! It'll be the third in a series of movies that's special to us... Before Sunrise and Before Sunset were the first two movies we watched together as a couple. Plus they're amazing movies and kind of remind us of ourselves. We're kind of like the two characters... just walking around and talking about everything and nothing constantly. When the hubs found out about it, he was sitting in the car while I was as a fabric shop. He ran in to tell me and we were quietly squealing to ourselves. We had to hold in our excitement till we got to the car and then there was a lot of "OH MY GOD!" and "HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO WAIT TILL MAY?!" happening. We really found each other, no?

- I thought this was really funny.

- And this is just madness. How does one not know they're pregnant?! And the baby was 10 lbs! It's honestly one of my worst nightmares (I have many... I'm damaged). I loathe surprises and like everything planned... this would cause me so much strife. Plus I'd need to at least make a (couple dozen) quilts. A quilter's baby that doesn't have a quilt is just embarrassing.

- I've been looking at property websites and I found a house that had three bedrooms, one full bathroom and FIVE half-bathrooms. They really shouldn't let crackheads design houses. 

- I believe it's going to snow again over the weekend. I officially give up.

- And my list for this week... Things I Do Every Day. I didn't include the normal daily ablutions because the list would just be inane and looooong.

Randomness

- My list for the week: The Best Snacks. The list could have gone on and on forever... I had to stop myself somewhere. One thing is clear... I love my chocolate and my gummies. I actually do love fruit a lot, but a lot of the fruit I love, I can't find here. I did find mangoes the other day and I bought a whole bunch of them :) What are your favourite snacks?

- We're going to see Vampire Weekend in May!!! I signed up for presale tickets and the whole shebang. Dork, party of one. I'm so bloody excited, I can't stand it. Their third album is released a week before the gig so I'm going to listen to that shit on repeat, yo.

- So the other day I'm making a sample table runner for work, and I'm being all smug because it's a small project and I can bang this shit out super quick. Nope, not what happened. I got too cocky and cut the sashing wrongly. I suck.

- I'm teaching a couple of friends to quilt over the weekend (I hope by Sunday the snow won't pose a problem) and I'm really excited about it. I taught myself, so I'm never quite certain if what I'm passing on is correct. They asked if I could teach them the braided runner as their first project and I've chosen the pattern by Bari J because I liked it best. And I applaud them for choosing something a tiny bit challenging for a beginner. It's not difficult at all, but if you know nothing about quilting, all those angles could scare you pretty easily, I think!


- Later today, we're going to get a blizzard of epic proportions. It'll go on for an entire day, I think. Yay. Not. From what I gather, we're to expect between 15" and 24" of snow. That's not cool, Mother Nature. Not cool at all. I have a feeling it's going to look like the winter of 2010/11 when the snow got to be about as high as me. Which is not very high at all, but you know what I mean. Hubs had to dig a path for me lest he lose me in the mahoosive piles of snow.

Everyone who's on the east coast and will be affected by the snow storm, please stay safe. And if you don't hear from me for days, it's probably because we lost power. Holy crap please don't let us lose powerrrrrr *sigh*

52 Lists: Favourite Smells

There's probably many, many more smells I love... these were what came to mind. What are your favourite smells?

52 Lists: Favourite TV Shows From Childhood

I clearly watched A LOT of television as a child. I still do. It's an affliction my entire family suffers from haha! This week's list for the 52 Lists project is favourite shows from my childhood. The list could go on and on but these are my favourite. Oh and also, Rainbow Brite. Someone on Instagram reminded me. How could I forget her?!?! Those little sprites were the cutest little things ever.

When I was in uni, my friend and housemate, Margie, and I decided to rent a VHS tape (REMEMBER THOSE?!?!) of the Care Bears and we kind of regretted it immediately. Watching it as 20-somethings made us realise it was quite stupid. Well, not stupid per se... It just made me sad that some of the magic was gone. It was like me revisiting my favourite spaghetti bolognese dish from childhood and realising it was complete rubbish. So sad. Although I'm pretty sure Fraggle Rock is forever awesome. And Noddy too. I LOVE NODDY SO SO MUCH.

Noddy... the little man with the red and yellow car...

Seriously guys, too much telly.

52 Lists: Places I Have Lived In

Pip of Meet Me At Mikes has started a 52 lists, one for every week of the year, and I'm going to try to keep it up for the year. The first on the list (heehee) is Suburbs I Have Lived In but I've lived in different countries, so I changed it to Places. (I left out the 'In'... oops) 

I hope you can read my handwriting... it's pretty squiggly.