good lord. now i'm thirty all i want to do is sleep. i'm not even attempting to be funny. it is just the way it is.

i am awesome at sleeping. so, being thirty continues to rule.

anyway, here are the other eleven things rocking my world at this exact point in time:

1. trivia. so today i watched two episodes of brideshead revisted (1981, bbc). frankly, it was awesome. and i'm so IN to the guy who plays sebastian.

if i owned this photo i'd totoally put a watermark all over it too. sebastian flyte AND royalty. it is photographic GOLD.

so to the trivia.... did you know remington steel was created for him, but he TURNED IT DOWN. god bless him too. because that is directly responsible for last year's greatest movie moment. sigh.

2. l'occitane shower gel. seriously, you should get some of this. it is like crack. for your skin. i can't find an image of it on the line. the l'occitane online store for nz doesn't seem to have it. so i'm linking you to a site i in no way endorse. here. anyway, i figure if you spend more than $30 on shower gel you are simply a better class of person. i am therefore, closer to god as a result of this purchase.

3. no-no-notorious b.i.g. have you seen the movie notorious? you really should see it. 7/10. you should also buy going back to cali from itunes. it is my new favourite song. well that plus let's get it on. the latter thanks to catching two minutes of idol this week. it was motown week on idol. but that doesn't qualify it for my list of eleven things.

4. mexicana breakfast from pranah. it is really good.

5. safety message. like in this poster i just bought from etsy dot com. i can barely wait to see if it is as awesome in real life as it is on the internet.

6. thorndon summer pool. it closes this thursday so you should hurry up and visit. i went today. it was not especially warm. so i retired to the spa instead. and sat there for like an hour. it was thoroughly exhausting. and awesome, obviously. six dollars well spent.

7. ryles, singing TI's "whatever you like" to me over the phone. i am so in love with my nephews. they are adorable. and will get spoiled at easter. if i have my way that is.

8. this website. which is where i got the number eleven for my list today. it combines two of my passions: lists and lauding music knowledge over people.

9. massage. i had a hot stone massage this week. i thought i might pass out from bliss midway through it. it was a gift from my team at work. and it is safe to say, best work gift ever.

10. neon tiger by the killers.



you know i'm going to see them this wednesday night ahe? i actually realised earlier today that i have so deified brandon flowers that i may vomit when he comes on stage and proves to be merely a man. a hot man, but still only flesh and bone and a killer smile.

11. the internet. for reasons like this.

here i am trying out travel outfits. sure i look hot but what a nerd. i lay out all my outfits - mixed and matched and then pretend-packed them to make sure they fit in to my supersmall suitcase. then tried them on to make sure they actually went together. i still have three weeks until i travel.

in my defence i was on a sugar high. i went to simply paris, my new happy place, for afternoon tea. which, because of weird weekend eating habits, was also lunch. and at least some of the people who work there appear to speak french which is awesome because it makes me feel cosmopolitan by association. anyway, go there. there are cute cakes, rich cakes and light cakes and tea in awesome tea pots and they do side orders of fries. i actually don't think there is more you could ask for food wise. decor wise i'd ask for circle rather than square tables. but that's me being picky.

actually picky is a potentially highscoring scrab word. i'll have to store that one in my memory bank.

speaking of banks and scrab it is time for me to review last week:

10 out of 10! honestly. sunglasses are evident in this picture, afternoon tea with hels was at simply paris and i could not speak more highly of it, the klaxons are in new york the same time i am, so HOOK UP ( i don't even mind that it means i'll probably have to see bjork perform live), my cellphone is fully charged, i haven't had a single berry yoghurt trio and my student loan overpayment has gone directly to my credit card.

this week i may be a bit more demanding of myself because frankly the past week has all seemed too easy. this week i will:

• not buy any clothes (i weakened last week and went back to world, my favourite clothes shop in wellington, i voted for it here but somehow it didn't win. neither did lyall bay fishie chippie which makes best chips and best lime milkshakes in the region. and don't even get me started on how the title of best barman was stole from my fave cutie barman. the dj (other) i voted for did though. so i don't feel like i was totally ignored).
• give out the "for no particular reason" presents i have been acquiring over the past week. this one isn't a chore at all though. still, i am noting it as an activity.
• buy tickets to the klaxons.
• decide whether to pay the inflated inflated prices for tickets to the killers in australia in november (i really should have advanced ordered, i just didn't think about how they might sell out).
• do laundry. lots and lots of laundry.
• finish watching gilmore girls season six so that hrc can start (and finish) watching before we depart.
• try and finish the book i'm reading (touching from a distance, about ian curtis - basically what the awesome movie i saw at the film fest was based on. this is a great activity cos it's free)
• win me some scrab (either internet scrabulous or real life scrabble, i'm not fussy)
• organise a flat taboo challenge - i think newtown will win
• hang out with ryles. we'll probably do arts and crafts and make fun of people. he's the greatest ever two year old. EVER. and
  
• be super professional at work. this will be the hardest task of the week.
  

at the risk of being a predictable bore, the simpsons movie was lame. the audience when i saw it were all high. and wearing victoria university sports jackets. they found it hilarious. i spent most of my time thinking the episode where homer tries to stop working due to being disablingly obese would have been better on the big screen than what we were shown.

naturally i googled jump the shark and simpsons movie. because i thought that was the thing about the simpsons - it never jumps the shark. but there are like a million reviews to the contrary, most saying similarly inane things. along the lines that the simpsons hasn't just jumped the shark it has left the aquarium. which is a particularly dumb analogy if you ask me because hello you imagine sharks living in the sea not aquariums plus hello if you are making reference to the happy days episode that was not in an aquarium but the sea. or a lake at least. i can't be sure that i've actually seen the episode, but i know it was not in an aquarium.

anyway, homer was unbearable and unlikeable. and bart was annoying. and lisa was her usual awful self. and marge was self righteous and maggie wasn't even vaguely interesting. i should be a full time reviewer. i have a way with words.

more excitingly i went to pod for dinner tonight. and ate peanut butter icecream pie. it is probably my most favourite-ist desert in wellington and i don't even like icecream very much. it is like a cold peanut toffee pop but even better than that. and is only about infinity times better than actual peanut butter. but then i'm not an utter peanut butter nutter.

which reminds me i need to buy some breakfast food. a girl cannot sustain berry yoghurt trio from wishbone breakfasts daily fix. number one they cost more than an entire box of muesli and number two there is enough sugar in there for like ten bottles of lemonade or something. but they are freakin' delicious. that is just crying out to be put on this weeks to do list: invent my own low cal, low cost berry yoghurt trio. sounds like hardwork but hopefully tastes like delicious.

back to my original topic. simpsons movie. lame. but you know you'll see it anyway, just like i did.