March 2nd, 2010

Things That Make Me Happy… In February 2010

Canada, and being Canadian. ♥

Surprise muffins baked by my mom.

Long, hot baths.

Colourful balloons.

Playing Tori Amos songs on the piano.

Silence.

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February 28th, 2010

This Moment… In February 2010

Anticipating… the release of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland in the next few days. The Alice books have been favourites of mine since childhood, so I’m quite excited to see Burton’s take on them.

Also anticipating… the release of the new Goldfrapp album, Head First, and She & Him’s album, Volume II, which are both out this month on March 23! So excited!

Trying… (to no avail) to clean out my feed reader. I have way too many blog subscriptions and I can’t keep up with them any more. How on earth do people decide which to unsubscribe from? This is too hard.

Re-watching… Skins series 1. Classic.

Puppysitting… my aunt and uncle’s dog. She’s so adorable!

Listening… to copious amounts of A Fine Frenzy and Tori Amos. I always go through strange phases with my music.

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February 26th, 2010

A Love Letter

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February 1st, 2010

Things That Make Me Happy… In January 2010

Birman cats.

Listening to music I haven’t listened to in a long, long time and falling in love with it all over again.

Bright Star. ♥ Again. (Why yes, I am obsessed!)

Cliched sailor-style tattoos.

The colour magenta.

Christmas lights that are still on in the middle of January.

Brilliant ideas in the middle of the night.

Homemade blueberry muffins fresh from the oven when the tops are still crunchy.

Snow! (Snow never gets old in my books, and is always happiness inducing.)

Receiving a response to a message I sent Coco Rocha. “Oh you’re sweet. I’ll tweet about it after 7pm! Xoxo” Saving that forever!

Eating so many Sweet Tarts your tongue becomes tingly for hours.

Discovering my Dad also likes Natalie Portman.

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What made you feel all warm and squishy inside this month?

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January 27th, 2010

On Finding (And Keeping) Your Inspiration

For the observant bunch, you’ve probably noticed that I stopped participating in NaBloPoMo. I know I’d vowed to post every day for the month of January, but the forced posts became too taxing on me. I loathed the task of writing a blog entry knowing that I had to do it. Two weeks later after having “quit” and am no longer required post daily, all I want to do is compile blog posts.

Funny how inspiration works. It’s not something that can be forced and task produced. Sure, you can whip things out one after another, but in time, when your heart really isn’t feeling your creative process, your output becomes stale. You’re uninspired.

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