Monthly Archives: November 2011

Comme Un Enfant

Posted on November 30, 2011 | Leave a comment

J’adore!

Watch this for fun times:

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Posted in Music

My dog is a cat

Posted on November 28, 2011 | Leave a comment

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Posted in Alfie, Favorite Pics!

Mongolia!

Posted on November 28, 2011 | Leave a comment

I just randomly came across this cute clip of children in Mongolia looking at Polaroids of themselves. It made me smile big.

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Posted in Just for Fun, Special Moments

Notchless Tape Dispenser by Mamoru Yasukuni

Posted on November 22, 2011 | Leave a comment

Today I saw this tape dispenser on Daily Icon and I really want one.

“Notchless is an adhesive tape dispenser which leaves clean, straight edges without zig-zags on cut tape, simply by tearing it on the edge of a blade in the same easy way as with conventional tape dispensers. Adhesive tape without zigzags has an attractive appearance, and it does not break up when peeled as does tape cut with conventional dispensers. It thus has the advantage of not causing stickiness or dirtiness at the cut edge, increasing the utility of adhesive tape. This patented blade technology cuts adhesive tape with a straight edge in an easy and safe manner.”






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Posted in Design

All That Heaven Allows

Posted on November 22, 2011 | Leave a comment

My dog, Alfie, woke me up at 4 AM the other night, barking hysterically. After I calmed him down I found myself wide awake and so decided to find any boring, old movie that would put me back to sleep. I combed Netflix looking for anything that sounded stale enough, and I came across Douglas Sirk’s 1955 classic starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson. The next thing I knew, it was 7:00 AM, I was obsessed with Rock Hudson and I had just finished watching one of most enjoyable melodramatic movies I’d ever seen.

The movie reminded me of Todd Haynes’ Far From Heaven in that it critiques the closed-minded, conformity-obsessed 1950s. I loved Far From Heaven and I loved All That Heaven Allows. Check them out!

UPDATE
I just read this great synopsis taken from Criterion and I obviously could not have said it better:
“Jane Wyman is a repressed wealthy widow and Rock Hudson is the hunky Thoreau-following gardener who loves her in Douglas Sirk’s heartbreakingly beautiful indictment of 1950s small-town America. Sirk utilizes expressionist colors, reflective surfaces, and frames-within-frames to convey the loneliness and isolation of a matriarch trapped by the snobbery of her children and the gossip of her social-climbing country club chums.”






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Posted in Foxy Hunks, Movies, Sad

Pamela Meyer

Posted on November 9, 2011 | Leave a comment

This fascinating, eye-opening TED talk by Pamela Meyer has inspired me to become a lie spotter; to always find out the truth and to never be deceived. Meyer calls lying a deception epidemic in our society and explains why we lie and how we can know when people are lying to us.

Some highlights:
-Studies show that we may be lied to 10-200 times a day.
-Strangers lie 3 times within the first 10 minutes of meeting each other.
-We lie more to strangers than we do to co-workers.
-Extroverts lie more than introverts.
-Men lie 8 times more about themselves than they do other people.
-Women lie more to protect other people.
-An average married couple lies to each other 1 out of every 10 interactions.
-If you’re single, you lie 1 out of every 3 interactions.

“Lying is an attempt to bridge the gap; to connect our wishes and our fantasies about who we wish we were, how we wish we could be, with what we’re really like.”

“Lying is a cooperative act… A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.”

Amazing. I love this!

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Posted in TED Talk

Baby Chameleon

Posted on November 7, 2011 | 1 Comment

I’m obsessed with these adorable photos by Igor Siwanowicz of a baby chameleon.

TOO CUTE!






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Posted in Cute Animals, Favorite Pics!

Happy Halloween

Posted on November 2, 2011 | 2 Comments

We at the house of Blood and Friendship would like to thank everyone who came to our Spooky party this last Saturday. We had the time of our lives and even though I “unintentionally went to bed” before some guests even arrived, I’m sure they had fun too. The spook alley was a huge hit (sorry if I scared you!) and Julia, Angela, Brian were huge helpers. I love you guys!

Everyone’s costumes were intensely perfect and I really wish the night would have lasted longer. It seemed like it lasted 20 minutes; it was just too much fun. I also wish I would have taken more pics. :’(

Here are a few of the pics from the night. They’re pretty great. I wish it were Halloween every day!

Me as Lambchop and Taylor as Shari Lewis


Kristen as a scary zombie! AMAZING makeup award!


Cassie, Kaylene, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir


Erin as a porcelain doll (or Whatever Happened to Baby Jane!)


Shanthi as a wise owl. SO CUTE!


Angela as art nouvavavavavaveaum!


Jurd and Megan as pirates and Derek as a McNugget! CUTE!

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Posted in Best Friends, Cute Animals, Holidays

Egg Wonk

Posted on November 2, 2011 | 3 Comments

A few days ago we found this wonky egg in our coop, thanks to Flo or Gertie. We kept it in our fridge for a little bit but soon realized that none of us would ever dare eat it. After a little bit of research, I found that there exists a long list of chicken-egg oddities including blood spots (seen it), double yolks (not yet seen it), shell-less eggs that feel like water balloons (gross!), and perhaps the craziest egg one might encounter which is an egg within another egg. It’s like you crack open an egg and voilà, another egg! CRAZY! Suddenly our lumpy egg doesn’t seem so weird.

But look at it! It’s so freaky!


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Posted in Chickens, Crazy!, Cute Animals, Just for Fun

Alfie Doo

Posted on November 1, 2011 | Leave a comment

I’d like to say that I hate being one of those people who gushes over their dog, but I’m not. I LOVE IT. Alfie seriously cracks me up sometimes. Like in this video with Taylor where he goes berserk for no real good reason.

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Posted in Alfie, Cute Animals, So Funny