Musik Mundi: Lana Del Rey

Lana Del Rey
Album: Born To Die (2012)
Song: Summertime Sadness
Song: Radio
Song: Dark Paradise

You either like Lana Del Rey or you don't. Her singing style may take a little getting used to but i'm all for quirky voices. I watched Burlesque this weekend and although christina did an okay acting job (def better than britney in crossroads!), her voice just isn't for me. Cher's such a great actor! Who knew her acting could be so subtle when in reality she's larger than life! So yeah. I don't likey screaming singing. Big poppa and i made some additional progress with our flooring remodel with the laminate wood. Our goal for the weekend was to complete the rest of the first floor which included the kitchen, bathroom, small dining area, laundry room, pantry and small closet. We accomplished only 25% of it. And our bodies were so incredibly sore. As if we weren't busy enough, Alfie got a UTI and was peeing cloudy pink droplets everywhere. Poor guy. We took him to the vet and got him some antibiotics. He's a tough guy who deep down really is a scaredy cat. So our reno obstacles included the fact that we had to remove the toilet, which turned out to be a lot easier than putting it back. It took us three tries. Two sets of screws. Two sets of wax rings. And just really gross. Then there was moving out the fridge and stove. More grossness in the form of lots of rat poop. It was like no signal on the telly. Okay not that bad. But bless big poppa's heart for taking on that challenge while everyone pretended to be busy with other things. And right when we thought the hard parts were finally over with, planks from the left area didn't quite meet up with the planks from the right area. I was so mad. There's this huge gap. The only solution now is to put a transition bar across the entire gap which just messes up the flow. I am still mad every time i think about it. I just wanted to go all hulk and rip everything up and throw it everywhere whilst screaming like a banshee. Big poppa, stop saying it'll be okay. Argh. Oh yeah, big poppa kept throwing f-bombs my way for constantly screwing up the measuring. Measure once, cut twice. I know. It's supposed to be the other way around. Hah. Steel magnolias came on the telly so i watched that while working. I wouldn't recommend doing that. Towards the end when shelby was taken off life support, the measuring tape was all blurry from the tears in my eyes. Maybe that's why everything was so inaccurate.

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Holiday: NYE 2012

NYE with my good peeps! Let's see. Hotel rooms at hotel sorella. There were pre-drinks and pre-snacks. Most expensive and oprah approved tequila ever. Costco croissants. Sweets for some macarons. Dinner at eddie v's. Shafer equals very good merlot. Truffled mac. Great crab two ways. Lump and cake. Big poppa has a cow over his lack of greens in his caprese salad. Guess he didn't know what a caprese salad was! Haha. A waiter brought him a side of greens for his caprese salad. He was kinda buzzing so he was a bit louder than his normal self. Night was cold and rainy. Feet hurt. Hate my hobbit feet. Made it back to monna lisa for the countdown and firworks show. And then it was back to the room for game time! We really didn't have anything planned for the night. I was kinda tired and my feet were hurting. So gilles found some games we could play from her phone and we just went at it all night. Taboo and charades. Girls suck at taboo but we rocked in charades. I wish i would have thot to take photos of everyone in action but i was having too much fun laughing and watching everyone cut up. It's good to find people who enjoy these types of games as much as i do. Dehydrated. Gangnam style. We were so loud at one point that we got a nice warning to lower it down just a bit. Who the hell books a hotel NYE and decides to sleep early? GEEZ. Party poopers. I always have a good time with these peeps. But we could have maybe saved some money did the same thing at someone's house. Haha. I guess it's always nice to do something different. Socks having to wake up early and check out though. Haha. We all had some nice dim sum for brekkie the next morning. The new year was off to a pretty great start.

Trippin': Sydney - Olympic Park

The Sydney Olympic park was one of those places where i wasn't sure if it would be a waste of time going to or not. I keep wondering if there were other things we could have done but honestly, i'm not sure what else sydney had to offer. We could have prolly roamed the city a bit more i suppose. Would i recommend checking the Olympic park out? If you have small children and/or a lot of days booked for Sydney, then yes. For a small fee, people can swim at the aquatic center pool. There's lots of green space and public art pieces to run around and look at. It's definitely the kind of thing that i enjoy doing.