Must love dogs.

This is Lulu. She's the little doggie of some friends of ours who are letting us take care of her for the weekend.

She sleeps on my bed - it's like having a miniature hot water bottle that is kind of alive.

This picture doesn't do her justice. She is so gorgeous.

Anyway. This isn't very interesting. I just thought everyone could appreciate how darn adorable she is.

All dolled up.

While quite terribly sick over the past few days, I've been indulging in one of my most favourite guilty pleasures - period/costume dramas - specifically Downton Abbey (2010) (fabulous, marvellous, amazing and shocking) and Wives and Daughters (1999) (charming, sweet and romantic). What I have noticed quite a bit is the lack of makeup the women seem to be wearing, or not wearing as it were. So being a cosmetics fanatic, I googled makeup in the 19th century and stumbled across such interesting tidbits about what women and men used to do in terms of prettying themselves up.

"The Great Cover Up

In the 17th century, men and women used makeup to limited degree; ceruse was used as a base, and a cheek and lip reddeners were sometimes applied. From the late 1600s forward, makeup began to get heavier. First, white paint was applied, then white powder, then a brownish rouge, and red lip color.

“Beauty patches”—pieces of velvet or silk cut into the shape of stars, moons, hearts, and similar figures—were frequently applied to the face and body to cover smallpox scars, and similar marks. A “secret language” even developed through their use: A patch near the mouth meant you were flirtatious; one next to the right cheek signaled you were married; one on the left cheek announced you were engaged; one at the corner of the eye meant you were somebody’s mistress."

A secret code! I thought this was so unbelievably cool, and even though I think it might have looked rather strange I wish something like this occurred today.

More fun facts I discovered were:

• At some point, people used mouse fur to shape and fill in their eyebrows (YUCK)
• To make their eyes bright, women would wash them with arsenic or belladonna - which are both poisonous
• Some women ate chalk or drank iodine to achieve the coveted pale complexion
• Historians speculate that TB was so common in the 18th-19th century that the trend of a pale complexion arose from people wanting to look as if suffering from the disease!
• People would even paint themselves with white lead or bleed themselves
• Women only started shaving their underarm hair in 1915 when a model without any appeared on the cover of Harpers Bazaar

Jessica Brown-Findlay as Sybil Crawley in Downton Abbey. She is so very pretty.

Adios amigos :)

Someone has stolen who I am.

I knew I should have copyrighted that shit.

Dirty Dancing + crying = me. Singing to myself randomly = me. Being really awkward about boys = me. Doing weird dances and making weird sounds just because = me.

The New Girl

But seriously. This, I will watch.

Unlike a plethora (big word) of other shows coming this mid season that I just SHAN'T.

I Hate My Teenage Daughter - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQyB5ii4o3Y

I would rather poke out my eyeballs and inject cocaine into my fingernails while being chased by Jason Voorheies.

Charlie's Angels (2011) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6BIGoSu_Rg

Pretty much speaks for itself.

Napoleon Dynamite (2011) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scWAETwLojk&feature=relmfu

Yeah. Remember when the movie came out and then all the excitement/hype about it died? It's dead, people. It's also animated. What? That's all I can say.

Shows I will be enjoying (hopefully) however, include:

Pan Am - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oVdLIvcNRE

A period drama set in the 60s about the sexy pilots and stewardessess (is that the word? Probably not..) from the ultra glamourous Pan Am airlines. Christina Ricci stars.

Once Upon A Time - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCDDwx1Njn0

From the writers of Lost. A fairytale/imaginative/adventure/wicked queen/princess/prince type of thing. With any luck it won't trail off into obscurity like Lost did.

Maybe I will, Maybe I won't:

Suburgatory - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L9SKh0RJr8

A father moves his teenage daughter who he thinks is growing up too fast to the suburbs where the people are blonder, plasticer, lamer etc etc etc need I go on?

Terra Nova - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6aNEIZwPFc

Being a sucker for anything remotely Sci fi this one appealed to me in theory, but the trailer looks a bit meh. The earth is dying, and there is time travel, and people are sent back to rebuild humanity, but there's something bad out there in the jungle that kills everyone. But like, dinosaurs. I fucking love dinosaurs.

I hope that is at least sort of useful for someone. Anyone at all. Personally, I know I get intensely lost/sad/confused in midseason when all my shows are on hiatus. So like the saddo I am I did some serious research to try and put off the inevitable tv slump.

Anywhosies. Tata for now.

Decisions, decisions. Help me somebody.

It's really not that urgent. I'm just bored and indecisive.I can't decide whether I want ombre hair, along the lines of

Or dark red hair, like

Yeah, it's a toughie!