joie de vivre: golden statues and fancy packaging

- i just finished watching the oscars and am so pleased that natalie portman won. i feel like i've been talking about her lately so much, both here and in real life. i honestly think that she is the greatest actress of my generation, and on top of that she is such a smart and beautiful woman. she deserved that oscar! my other faves colin firth and the kings speech won as well. if only helena bonham carter won, then everything would have been perfect!

- again, another busy busy week on the education front. i'm drowning in school work, as per usual. i have a presentation on tuesday on a book that i haven't even begun reading so....yeah. better get on that.

- after much searching i finally tracked downa bottle of john freida 3 day straight. i must have gone to about 6 different stores trying to find this, so it better be worth it. i have the frizziest, most annoying hair, so if this stuff does as it promises, i'll be a happy camper!

- i tried on tom ford lipstick in the color pink dusk...so. damn. gorgeous. but the price! $45 for a lipstick is insanity (but it's tom ford!...thats what the little demon on my left shoulder was saying to me)

- lastly, i did some shopping this week in the urban outfitters sale. i got quite a few good things at really great prices. i might do a blog post if i'm able to photograph the items to my satisfaction. i don't know about you, but i have a thing against "hauls". i know that most people don't do it to show off, but i still find it somewhat pointless. and don't get me going on the actual word "haul". it makes my skin crawl.

joie de vivre: childhood dreams and chocolate

a lot of the blogs that i read feature a weekly summary type thing, where on a certain day of the week (mostly sundays) the writer does a little recap of some of the things that they have done in the past week...i always love reading those types of posts...maybe cause i'm nosy? anyway, i thought i'd try it out myself, and if it's something i like doing then i'll make it a regular thing...well, you know, i'll try to ;)

i tried to think a clever title for it, something really cute and witty, but everything just sounded lame. in the meantime i'm going to be calling this "feature" joie de vivre - one of my favorite french sayings. not everything that happens in my life is incredibly joyous, but in general...life is sweet. so this is going to be a little celebration of life, both the good and the bad. here goes...

- at the beginning of the week i reconnected with a childhood friend, someone i hadn't seen or heard from in about 10 years! we met up later in the week for a starbucks and just caught up with each others lives. these are the only times that i actually am grateful for facebook!

- may seem boring to you all, but i finally tackled the jungle that has become my room. i've been so disgustingly lazy over the past few weeks and my room became so chaotic, with clothes, shoes, books and magazines everywhere. i'm still not 100% done, but let's put it this way...i can actually see the floor, which has been hiding since about christmas.

- i finally got the mumford & sons album! i've been a fan for a while now, but was lazy and just listened to the songs on youtube. i'm so glad i went ahead and got the full album, because i've been listening to it non-stop and it's brilliant.

- school has taken over my life. i'm taking 6 different english classes and they're all beginning to get mixed up into one big jumble of authors and theories and novels...i can't wait for spring break!

- i've eaten an unhealthy amount of this in the past week.


i guess that's it for now...i promise to get better at this. i probably picked a weird week to start this because this week has been on the uneventful side, but oh well. hope you all have a fab day!

xx roisin