dressing more fun! using pinterest!

Carla Ghee, Norman, and I were sitting in the front window at Squirrelly's the other afternoon and these girls walked by and Carla Ghee and I were like "those girls look FUN!" and we broke it down that they were wearing lots of prints and scarves and scarves in their hair so now we're taking it upon ourselves to start dressing more fun so that when people see us they will immediately know how much fun we are and how we like to party forever.

Look how fun these girls look! they are having the best most free times ever!
I had pinned this photo a week or two ago so I was already in the mind-frame of how fun to be I just hadn't put it into action. I did last night though:



(awww Yulie)
I look so fun!


also hilarious was that I was wearing these printed shoes as well and Carla Ghee was wearing prints and her very own headscarf headband!



it was the best because we hadn't really discussed how committed we were going to be to this new plan but then really followed through!


see I'm having extra fun because of how I'm dressed I bet. Yulie is also wearing a printed scarf so there you have it!

obviously when going to dress fun you should look to your friends for inspiration:
all photos below hijacked from Dayna's instagram stream!

 prints!!! colours!!! jewelry!!!

 Man, I think Dayna has me topped in terms of self-portraits! Unfair!
(I'm not even competing in any way fashion-wise)

Yep, a guiding light, a beacon of how to dress fun!
Nice work, lady!
I have to go in search of the best prints!

Yesterday I did another thing off pinterest, I made individual baked oatmeals. Sort of like oatmeal muffins but a bit heavier and different... I got the recipe from sugarfreemom.com but then I just changed everything anyway (as I do).



BAKED OATMEAL

first blend
1 banana - mashed
2 eggs
2 cup un-sweetened applesauce
1/2 cup brown sugar (she called for stevia or honey, I didn't have any)

then add
5 cups rolled oats (she called for old fashioned I used quick)
1/4 cup flaxseeds (she called for flaxseed meal, I only had flaxseeds)
1/2 cup Red Mill Wonderful Gluten-free hot cereal (I forget the actual name of this, I just had it in my cupboard, you could not use it but it is good for you that's why I put it in)
1 tbsp. cinnamon
(I also added a bit of ginger and nutmeg because why not)
1.5 tsp. vanilla (I love vanilla)
1 tsp. salt (yeah, sea salt is the best!)
3 tsp. baking powder

then
2.5 cups skim milk (you could use any kind of milk I bet!)

then it's really runny pretty much and you put it in cupcake liners (top it with things you like if you want or all blueberries in there or whatever, up to you, you're a free man) and bake it at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes.
NICE.
Thanks, Pinterest!

OKAY I HAVE TO GO TO ISLAND NOW BECAUSE MY LIFE IS THE FUN KIND OF LIFE.

yesyesyesyesyesyesyes

live off the attention

sometimes you cut like one inch off your hairs or something and it necessitates a whole whack of photos being taken of your own self.
I mean, like I ever need an excuse. Classic.


I bought this dress in Saskatoon over the holidays but yesterday was the first time I wore it. Insanely comfortable. I wore something underneath it when I left the house. I can't guarantee that will always be the case.




Mrs. gave me this a couple of weeks ago maybe now. I have yet to sit down and really go through it but it is very lovely. I will forsure be copying images from this for my own herb drawings, but also maybe I will learn about plants and what to do with them. I know so, so little about plants it's really kind of remarkable, especially given how my mum is super interested in horticulture and the house was always filled up with plants when I was a kid. Straight up ignored that shit, yo.
I remember my mum saying that she ignored her mother's gardening as a kid as well (did you say that, Mum, or am I making this up?) and was surprised by her interest in it later in life.
I'm not saying I'm going down that road, and I def still have a blind spot for most plants, but... I'm finding it more appealing, I guess.


I love my Second City class, still. In case you were wondering. It's so hard. Conservatory is so hard. And it's hard to bring in ideas for people to work on or shut down or change. I'm super bossy about what I find funny and what I want to do with my ideas, it's a challenge for me to calm down and trust other people to help or change or work with it.
A good challenge.
I'm trying to learn how to pitch my ideas so that I will be trusted and taken seriously about them. I'm trying to learn how to explain why I think it'll be funny and in what way.
I'm learning how to fight for my ideas and how to let other people work with them.
Hard!
And very interesting.
It's fascinating to me how quickly comedy has become insanely important to me. How did I avoid it for so long? How did I manage to pretend that it wasn't something I was that interested in actually pursing? So silly!
it's the best!
And guess what? I am pretty okay not bad at all really.




what a little pink face I am.

we talked breifly in improv class last night about our insecurities and, man, it's hard to even know where to start!
Good god damn, I'm insecure about everything about myself.
Except maybe... ha, nope, just thought about it for awhile and couldn't think of anything I'm not at least a little tiny bit insecure about.
Even things I know I'm good at like being a good friend or having a good sense of humour.

Anyway, taking photos of myself where I look way better than in real life is all part of that. I get it, I get it. Super self-indulgent. But, there you go.




part of all this self-obsession is maybe also that I can't seem to hold onto a concept of who I am. I find myself mesmerized by people in the subway wondering if that's what I look like, if that's what I sound like or act like. Even though I've seen myself on film lots of times, I can't comprehend how I must look to other people, I can't imagine what they would think of me.


ha, following up that last little ramble with this photo is just great. Look how seriously I can take myself.


I haven't worn this broach yet because I'm scared I'll lose it. It is a particularly lovely one, the leaves are my favourite part.

Okay, I'm going to go to a screening of A Small Thing (short I was in a few years ago) now just to see if there are any compliments that need to be thrown my way. Also to hang out with my bud I never get to see... and hopefully see some other good things.
But mostly for the attention.
I don't know if the photos contained in this entry make it completely clear or not, but I live off attention. Pretty much.

please spring, be now

Today would be a good day to follow me on instagram. Oh, how I love instagram.

Man, I sure love a lot of things today. Spring, man, that must be it.

I bought hyacinths and am enjoying my valentines flowers to their bitter end.


I was up and out of the house by 11 for a couple quick errands and it was so warm and sunny. Nothing makes me feel like a luckier lady than when spring starts to hit.

I'm not feeling super well but I'm weirdly powering through it (very unlike me) to do some projects and take photos and stuff. I haven't even watched any TV today. Super bizarre.
Spring, man.





finally got around to hanging some of the crystals from a broken chandelier I found in an abandoned house in Saskatchewan last summer. I've given a few of them away, gave one to my roommate, Catdad (that's what I'm going to call him from now on because the cats follow him around like his little children and he's obsessed with them. in a good way), because he asked. So he's got one for the morning light in his upstairs bedroom.



I'm a big fan of Catdad. So far.
We are both around all the time in the days so it's good we get along. He's very, very silly. And pretty much everything he says makes me laugh. just too silly. He frequently comes downstairs to ask me "serious questions" such as, "does my hair look weird parted to the other side?" and so on...



I had a few of my favourite people over last night to watch the Oscars and Catdad joined for a bit and later he told me, "I stayed quiet and unfunny as I could so people would think you were lying about me".



Finally started going through a bunch of people's pinterest pages. Just sucks you in, doesn't it? My family's pages were especially tasteful (who is surprised!?) and it made me miss them.
You can see what I'm posting: pinterest.com/ohmistletoe, if you like.



I got a surprise (I mean, I knew it was coming I just didn't know so soon) package delivery from my mum this afternoon. Oh how I love a good package (HA HA).



Look at this cape! (I know it's technically a poncho but I really like the word cape better.

I'm pretty pleased with it.


My aunt commented on this on facebook and said "I think you might actually BE your mother."  Maybe not quite, but I do love my mother and also admire her so that is not a bad thing to say to me.
These pictures do particularly make me think of my mother. In several ways.
Funny that my aunt wrote that, though because today I was going back through the tiny magazines I made years ago and found this

too true, too too true.


there was also gluten-free gingersnaps and fair-trade chocolate in this package. Congratulations for being exactly what I wanted to eat today!


this is what my hairs are doing these days. I'm still very torn as to what I want to do with the colour. But I'm also kind of feeling this roots business. I almost wish there were more of a constrast. So much natural colour right now, the most in years.


I like when I look a bit older and plainer, like in these. Like a little mum, like a good person, like a kind little bud.

haaaaaaaa, oh you know what I mean.


Things are going really, really well today. As we've discussed. But I'm also sad. The good kind of sad where it's for a good reason. Does that make sense? Probably if you're a sensitive artist-type like me.
No, what I mean is like I'm homesick and I really miss my mum and family a lot right now. And I'm worried about my future.

Also, sometimes being a good person and good friend is hard.
I talk a lot about wanting to be less selfish. And I very much would like to be a kind person and a good friend. It's funny when one is faced with a situation that tests that. You can either be a good person OR you can have what you want when you want it.
I'm very much a giant brat, so guess what I normally choose.
Anyway. I'm trying to be better. Baby steps, kids, baby steps.

don't say randy it reminds me too much of home improvement

here is a dress I'm pretty into wearing. It's my friends I got at a clothing swap and then I hemmed the shit out of it. I wore it a lot at the beginning of the month and it's so specific now I have to give it a rest!

OH GOD MY LIFE IS FILLED WITH RIVETING EXCITEMENT.

......

Sometimes I look at a room and think "needs more stuff". actually, most of the time. STUFF STUFF STUFF STUFF.

haaa sometimes I come home with more trinkets and Yulie says "more stuff??". OBVIOUSLY. how else will our house be the best house. Stuff.



Wow, none of these photos are particularly flattering! I guess I'll just post all of them anyway!


My roommates have been into this song for a bit and then Firehorse posted it again yesterday or something and now it's the only thing I want to listen to.

also those dance moves are so great. It makes me want to have a billion dance parties.

look,

Prune stayed over the other night. Everyone loves my flower sheets. I wonder if babes love my flower sheets or if they think I'm a nutbar. Not that that's the only reason they'd think that. hahaaaa I was thinking about dates today like the event not the fruit and man, the idea of a real-life actual date sure seems like a weird bad idea to me. unnerving.

Anyway, yeah, Prune is back around but I haven't been seeing enough of her.



Oh my god I'm going to do everything in my power today to avoid doing any actual writing. Don't worry. I won't do anything! I'm going to watch all my tv shows and make crafts instead!
I did get a lot of tv watching done yesterday plus got a start on some Christmas projects. And that's important!



I'm def not going to be able to afford Christmas. I have to tell Mrs. to invite me over for a canning project again. Maybe our beans could be less salty this time.


OH GREAT, some pictures of me lying around!
This is from when I was feeling ill earlier this week. I was really, really sick this month with my not-pregnant.
ahahhaaa guess how much I'm into that joke.
I think it makes it seem nicer for babes. Like "Hey, babe! I got my not-pregnant!" exciting times!

I was standing outside of Communist's Daughter the other night and Norman and I had just gotten snacks for watching the hockey game at my place (HAHA hockey) (haahaah I asked my brother to get me Canucks gear for Christmas. I hope he does it. Did I say all this already?) and so I was standing there showing Fisher through the window that I had pickles and ice cream and this group of people came out and the guy was like,
"nice!"
and one of the girls was like,
"who got dumped..?"
and I said "no one! I'm just on my not-pregnant."



I feel weird. Maybe because I just drank a pot of green tea and I didn't sleep that long and I have a weird assortment of drinks last night and for breakfast I had a gluten-free brownie with vanilla ice cream?
ohhhh yeah I'm probably on an awful sugar high. Gross.


maybe I'll post smaller pictures again. Are they getting too big? Overwhelming?

I keep forgetting I have a tattoo! goodgoddamn I am so bad.



"I've been more than clear on my position on things. Reverse cowgirl." -joke I just made to Dollface.

aaaaaaaand with that I leave you!

remember when they made cinnamon cream cheese?

maybe I've said this before, but, cloth napkins make me feel fancy.


as do all-neutral-tone outfits. I may have stolen this from Onesie a bit, but, hey... that's what roommates are for, right? to get creepily obsessive and copy you and climb into bed with you while you're sleeping. right?


rain, when I have things to do, gets very annoying. I wish I could bike in the rain to auditions but I'd get so muddy it'd take just as long to straighten everything out when I got there. hmmmm.

look, family,

stained-glass post-tops!
Mum, I was thinking you could do this sort of thing except with the broken blue-and-white china? rrrrright?


cakecakecakecake
if you are going on a diet you should tell me before I arrange for flourless chocolate cake with cinnamon cream cheese swirled in and popcorn for dinner. hahaaaa diet.

so fucking delicious!

Nick Rose is playing tonight at Cameron House and it's been too long since I've heard that guy's songs.
In case you NEEDED to know what I was doing tonight.

BYE NOW.