One of my favourite pictures of Noodles, from about 10 years ago.
1. 2012 was an awful year for respect towards women, in so much as there was very little of it. I'm not going to rehash all the reasons - I'll just get angry all over again, and you all know them anyway. Suffice to say I will not be shedding a tear if Alan Jones finally shuffles off this mortal coil in 2013. What I'd love to see this year is more positive support, both from men and from each other. Let's stop bagging out women who don't fit the Hollywood norm of 'beauty' and yet still have the nerve to be on our screens. Let's stop blaming women who are attacked for being out and about in the first place. Let's stop making ourselves miserable and boring everyone else shitless with our diet obsessions. Let's stop judging mothers for not meeting whatever our own lofty standards of perfection are. Starving a child = abuse. Formula feeding =/= abuse. And so on. In short, let's just be nice.
2. I am really enjoying my perfume a day reviews. I've found a handful of perfume oil fans who also have blogs I'm enjoying reading, such as La Domna, Liber Vix, Brightest Star of All, and Iris Handmade Soaps, and it's so nice to be back into one of my longstanding hobbies again. My only problem is that my wishlist won't stop growing.
3. TV shows I'm hanging out for the return of this year:
- Breaking Bad (of course)
- Mad Men
- Game of Thrones
- The Walking Dead.
- Grimm
- Once Upon A Time
- Glee (ugh)
- How I Met Your Mother.
4. I'm on holiday at the moment and I've been home for a week. I had plans to get up early every morning and do all sorts of useful things. Very little of that has happened. I have another week off, so maybe I can get started on all that tomorrow...
5. I'm finding myself increasingly distracted by overly botoxed and derma-filled faces on TV these days. Both men and women from about 26 onward have these ridiculously smooth, unlined, expressionless foreheads and frankly, it's just creepy. If you're in your 40s, it is OKAY to look like you're in your 40s. Check out Connie Britton. She looks like a 40-something woman, but she's still gorgeous.
6. Don't forget to check out Twyla's generous 20% off for readers of this blog! The code is PRISSYPERFUME and it will run until 12 Feb.
I've been thinking the same thing about all these botoxed faces lately. Also, if the point of botox is to freeze muscles, I'd be worried about the result of long term use. Isn't it just going to make your face even flabbier as your muscles atrophy?
ReplyDeleteLove the rest of your list, Dee, and glad to hear you're using your holidays as an actual holiday! All the other stuff can wait :)
The potential long term effects of botox scares me enough to not ever try it. Injecting something to freeze muscles just can't end up being a good thing.
DeleteNoodles is so freaking cute here <3
ReplyDeleteI have so so soooo many perfume wants due to you and Su, will bookmark these other fume blogs too!
TV 4eva <3 I can not wait for it all to return eeeeeee :D
Yer the faces of hollywood freak me out, I don't know how anyone can look in the mirror and think it looks good/normal to have all of that puffiness going on.
There are so many perfumes I want. Way more than I can ever use!
DeleteAll I have to say about your stuff under number one is amen, sister! I totally feel the same way! Thanks for linking my blog, that was über sweet of you! I enjoy both your blogs too, very much :) Unfortunately, I can't comment on the TV shows cause I cancelled my TV awhile ago ;) But I've heard awesome things about all the shows you're enjoying! <3
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome, I love finding cool new blogs to read. :-)
DeleteI don't have regular TV, as I don't have an aerial or cable, but I download stuff I want to watch. It means I never have to sit through commercials. But it also means I'm often out of the loop about who TV celebs are, lol.
Yeah! Amen to that! <3 Thanks for mentioning my blog too, that´s even more <3 for you! And keep those perfume reviews coming! I love them!
ReplyDelete(Second season of Game of Thrones starts here on Monday, guess who will geek out!)
You're very welcome, and I will definitely keep them coming - I'm not going to run out of perfumes to review any time soon!
DeleteIt took me a while to get into Game of Thrones but once I finally did I was hooked. I'm considering reading the books but I don't want to spoil myself. :-/
I read the books after the first season, now I have read them two times plus a whole lot of fanfiction... ;)(Fanfiction is my obession number one forever!!)
DeleteMassive girl crush on Connie Britton and Connie Britton's hair 4 eva!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely! And if it's hair extensions, it's bloody good ones.
DeleteI'll def co-sign 1) Enough with the shaming women for being women already! and 2) - I'm loving your perfume oil reviews and am lemming more than a few.
ReplyDeleteI still need to get onto Breaking Bad etc. Can't wait have the time to sit and absorb s2 of Revenge, love my trashy stories ;)
Love Noodles "REALLY?" expression there.
Well, 2013 got off to a roaring start with walking, talking boob Kochie shooting his mouth off.
DeleteThis was a period where I took photos of Noodles all the time to send to absent relatives. She was pretty over it by then!
Why is it so hard to respect a woman and the choices she makes? Somehow makes me sad, not angry :(
ReplyDeleteYay to all the perfume blogs! Love them all!
Holidays are for waking up late and staying in. You are doing it right, Dee! Enjoy :) x
The only problem is that when I go back to work next week I'll be struggling to get out of bed!
DeleteI couldn’t agree more with what you said under number 1. All this situation makes me angry and scary…
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for mentioning my blog! Means a lot to me!
I am addicted to Breaking Bad too. So good!
I think what it comes next to Botox is a cosmetic surgery. You can’t stop there.
Enjoy your Holidays Dee!
You're very welcome, and yay for another Breaking Bad fan! I can't wait for the last 8 episodes this year, but then I'm going to be really sad that it's over. :-(
DeleteI'm late to the party, as I just figured out you had this other blog. I'm quite enjoying your rants, and amen to #1, especially! And thank you for for the plug, also :)
ReplyDeleteYep, here I am! And thanks for reading my rants. ;-)
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