Music Monday : Merry Xmas Everybody – Slade

Hi lovelies!

How was your weekend? It was sooooo cold here. With the wind, it headed to about -34C or so. However, I was still able to get out for brunch with my friends on Saturday.

Funny enough, I haven’t been in the Christmas mood at all. Usually once we have some snow and it’s cold, I’m good to go. I’ve usually started baking as well. I just haven’t been all that excited about it. At least until I heard this song yesterday. It just made me so happy! It wasn’t the first holiday song I heard this year, but it’s the one that got me in the Christmas mood!

Now let’s get started on the gingerbread!

What did you get up to this weekend? What song puts you in the holiday spirit?

Music Monday : Shawn Desman – Nobody Does It Like You

Hi lovelies!

How was your weekend? I have to admit that I have been marathoning Drop Dead Diva on Netflix – LOVE!

I can’t believe how much cooler the weather is lately. I’m kind of loving it. I’m also loving the fact that I took this week off. My holidays have finally arrived even though I’m not really going anywhere. lol However, I hope to get a lot of home decorating done. I think the painting will go by a lot faster when it’s 18C instead of 40C.

This week’s Music Monday comes from Shawn Desman. Everytime it comes on the radio, I start singing along and then it gets stuck in my head. It’s so catchy! Hooray for CanCon!

What did you get up to this weekend?

Music Monday: Running Up That Hill – Kate Bush

Happy Monday! How was your weekend!? I finished wallpapering my living room on Saturday. It was the strangest thing. We started on Friday thinking it wouldn’t take that long but the seams weren’t sticking along the sides. Even Google was no help in that situation. I ended up contacting the manufacturer who put me in touch with someone in their testing department. They were very kind and went through it with us step by step but the side seams still weren`t staying down. In the end, I went to  Rona and picked up a gallon of wallpaper paste and just glued them down myself.

In the end, it worked out and when we stopped spending time trying the get the seams down, it went a lot quicker. Seriously though, has anyone experienced that before? All just a bit ridiculous plus it was fairly expensive wallpaper. Anyway, it’s up now and it’s all behind us.

As soon as I figure out the lighting situation here, (very limited natural light), I’ll post  some photos. The colours are just not showing up very accurately.

Today’s song is courtesy of Kate Bush. Loving that the new remix is charting in the UK. They did such a good job of it. Here’s the original video straight from the 80s.

How was your weekend? Any home decor dramas lately?

Music Monday: Rule The World – Take That

Happy Monday! How was your weekend!? I’m finally done moving!! It was so nice to sleep on something other than an air mattress for the first time in three weeks. lol. Over the past week, we finished our final event of the summer as well so I finally have some breathing room. It’s long over due. It’ll be nice to get back to normal.

Are you suffering from Olympics withdrawl? I don’t think I am. I didn’t really get into it as much as I do the winter games but it’s still so cool to see everyone come together. I’m still so proud of Canada’s Women Soccer team for getting the bronze. They were in last place after the World Cup. Not only that but the semi final game with the US got everyone talking here. The fact that Canadians were talking about soccer and women’s soccer at that, is a phenomenal achievement. Can’t wait for 2015!

Did you watch the closing ceremony? So many great moments! I was so thrilled to see George Michael back on stage. I’m such a big fan and I was so worried for him when he was ill last year. Other highlights for me included Eric Idle, Freddie Mercury and of course the Spice Girls. How could you not be happy when they’re zooming around on those cars? Fantastic! I was really delighted when Take That appeared singing Rule the World. It’s my all time favourite Take That song. It worked perfectly in the moment so it’s my Music Monday song. Big hugs to Gary. Don’t know why I’m surprised that he can show up and deliver such a flaw free performance considering the week he’s had. He never disappoints.

How was your weekend? What was your favourite Olympic moment? 

Music Monday: Je T’aime Tant – Julie Delpy

Happy Monday! How was your weekend!? Great news! I won my splurge dinner party pot. Woo hoo! That’s $275 I have to splurge on condo decorating when I finally get possession in less than a month’s time. I’ve already been scouting through paint chips.

This weekend, my brother was in from Edmonton, plus Sunday was Father’s Day so LOTS of family time this weekend. I also finished two books: Paris in Love by Eloisa James (LOVE) and A Royal Pain by Rhys Bowen, the second book in the series (LOVE).

Last week, rumours seem to have been confirmed that there’ll be a third movie in the Before Sunrise / Before Sunset series. This is VERY EXCITING news to me. I absolutely love those movies. If you haven’t seen them yet, you must! Pick a day that you can lounge in your pjs all day and obsess about the outcome of these movies because trust me you will. So romantic and perfect. The first movie is on youtube I see so no excuses!

So I’m including a song from the movie. There is another song from Before Sunset that’s perfect but it gives away too much of the plot if you haven’t seen the first one.

 How was your weekend?

Music Monday: Never Close Our Eyes – Adam Lambert

Happy Monday! How was your weekend!? I had such a hard time sleeping the last few days that it was pretty much a wash for me. I’m having a lot of anxiety over an upcoming event but I think I just need to take a break from it so I’m not thinking about it all the time. Such is the life of an event planner. I don’t know how some people who do events every weekend (like wedding planners), handle it. Anyway, I spent Friday and Saturday in a bit of a daze. You know, when you wake up from a deep sleep too quickly and you can’t seem to wake up? The worst! I even woke up at 8:30 pm on Saturday and wasn’t sure if it was Saturday or Sunday.  Apart from wandering around like a mess, I just watched some The L Word episodes on Netflix. I thought I had watched more of that show during it’s original run but it was all new to me so I really couldn’t have watched that much of it. I also watched New York, I love You which was a bit of a disappointment. I really loved Paris, J’taime (the movie that it was based on) but sometimes, things don’t translate as well as you’d like.

Today’s song comes courtesy of my all-time favourite American Idol contestant. I love Adam Lambert! Surprisingly,  I haven’t picked up his new album yet but I know I’ll buy it within a week or so. His first album is still on heavy rotation on my ipod. I particularly like the 80′s style blazers he’s rocking in the video.

 How was your weekend?

Music Monday: Timebomb – Kylie!

Happy Monday! How was your weekend!? It was so rainy here but it’s spring so that’s to be expected. I felt like I had a lot of time to relax even though I had a lot going on. Always a good thing! At my friend’s wedding social I won the camping silent auction package! Yay! I was so excited and then I realized it came with a coupon for a lot of money towards a pig roast. The vegetarian will always win a pig roast prize guaranteed. lol. I passed that on to a friend.

Today’s song of the day comes from the birthday girl! Today’s Kylie’s 44th birthday. Can you believe it? If I look half as good as her today I’d consider it a win. You know how much I love her. She is my all time favourite female singer. She’s so positive and upbeat. Love love love! Here’s the video for her brand new single, Timebomb. It’s from her next greatest hits album (I think it’s her 8th Greatest Hits album) which I will probably pick up. It’d be good for the car even though I think I have every song on there on various cds. I like compilations though. If you’re ever curious about Kylie, I suggest you pick up her greatest hits. I picked up her two disk Ultimate Kylie cd about 10 years ago and fell in love. She doesn’t receive a ton of airplay in Canada so many songs were new to me.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KYLIE!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 How was your weekend?

Music Monday, er…Tuesday : Big Hoops – Nelly Furtado

Happy Tuesday! Where have I been? Well, our Gala was on Wednesday and that literally takes every waking moment for the entire week surrounding it. It’s a bit embarrassing to admit  but I actually went to sleep on Sunday night at 8 pm. I so needed it.  Thankfully Monday was Victoria Day and we had the extra day off. I’m glad things will be getting back to normal. I still have two more events before the summer is out. Two down, two to go!

It took me a couple of listens to get into Nelly Furtado’s new song. If I’m honest, it’s the hoop dancing that kept me watching at first. If you ever have the chance to see hoop dancing live you really have to check it out. It’s so fast. You blink and the dancer has gone from a turtle to a bird and back to a bear! It’s very cool to watch. It’s also nice to see First Nations culture in the mainstream without including one of those awful headresses hipsters wear to Coachella. Who really thinks that’s a good idea? It’s just embarrassing.

 How was your weekend?

Music Monday : Call My Name – Cheryl

Happy Monday!

This weekend was really low key.  I think I really needed that. I slept a lot. I’m not a big sleeper but I guess I had lots to make up for. I also had a virus on the computer which I was finally able to get rid of. So annoying. Why do people do that?! I so miss my Mac at times like this.  Today’s song is by Cheryl (formerly Cole).  The video makes me laugh because the first minute is nothing but strutting. I guess it’s to add ~drama~. Welcome back Cheryl.

 How was your weekend?

Music Monday : Don’t Stop Me Now – Queen

Happy Monday!

I was such a bitter butters on the weekend it was not a good scene. Here I thought last week was going to be a breeze! Maybe I just have to focus on the positive. Hence today’s song.

Today’s song is Queen. The ultimate getting ready to party song.

 How was your weekend?