Andddd... another month is gone. Where is time going!? It seems like just yesterday I was basking in the glow of early summer, and now here we are getting into the throes of fall. Cold temperatures, shorter days... barf.
This September was unseasonably warm here, though, so I can't complain. The leaves have barely started to turn, which is both amazing (because it has fooled me into thinking that summer is not over!) and slightly disconcerting. I mean, it is pretty much October -- you would think that we would be seeing at least a little yellow and red!
But anyway, September favourites. I need to stop yammering on about the weather and, let's face it, crap that you guys could probably care less about ;)
With working full time, I haven't exactly had as much time as I would like to try out new recipes as well as blog here! By the time I get home it is dinner time, and I would rather relax than dirty up a whole bunch of dishes.
Alas, days off are my only days to bake, and usually my only days to update (today is an exception; I work the late shift and do not go into work until five. Yay?). Last Wednesday was pretty rainy and a day that I happened to have off, so I figured that trying out a new recipe was an excellent idea!
Pumpkin Pull-Apart bread. With butter rum glaze. Yes, it is every bit as delicious as it sounds.
I am a self-professed nail polish junkie. My history with it has been somewhat conflicted -- as a child and a preteen, I loved the stuff. My first ever nail polish was a Tinkerbell peel-off kind, which I lovingly painted on to my nails with utmost care, only to peel it off a couple of hours later. Then I went through a no-nail polish stage, where I think I owned maybe one bottle that I shared with my mom. Over the years, that one bottle slowly became four or five, until a little over a year ago. Soon I found myself slinking over to the nail polish display in drugstores. Stopping dead in my tracks and turning around whenever I passed a salon. Finished my midterms? Reward myself with a new bottle. Having a crappy day? Make myself feel better with a pretty new shade. Got an A+ on an important paper? Yay, new nail polish!
Now that I am taking a break from school and working full time, I don't feel that I need an excuse (haha), and I am also more willing to splurge! Hence the reason why I am reviewing these two polishes. Both have price tags that are a far cry from your average Sally Hansen or Revlon polish, but does the quality make them worth it?
It has been too long since my last update! I meant to post this exact same post up earlier, actually, but things have been kind of crazy with me lately. Last weekend I took a trip to what I consider my second hometown to visit friends (friends who are staying, and a friend who has since returned to Korea), and then this week I started back at the 9-5 day job that I had before I went back to university, which involved turning my sleeping schedule nearly upside down. So needless to say, it has been a bit of an adjustment, and this blog kind of fell by the wayside for the past 11 days. Boo!
Anyway, on to the song spotlight for August! I have decided that from now on, I will choose both one "foreign" pick, as well as one "domestic" pick, because I realized that if I didn't? There would be a whole lotta kpop posted here. And contrary to popular belief, I don't just listen to kpop! (I swear!)
Pick number one is by Xiah Junsu, a member of JYJ, who I have been a fan of for nearly seven years now. The song is called "You Are So Beautiful" and is featured on the Scent of a Woman OST. This song is gorgeous, with Junsu's unique vocals, as well as overall lyrics and arrangement. Love it. Definitely one of my favourite releases of the summer.
My second choice, the "domestic" (or English language choice) is a song that I didn't particularly listen to a lot to in August, per se, but one that I discovered in August, and have been listening to a lot more lately, haha. And that is "Titanium" by David Guetta, featuring Sia. I first discovered Sia about
three years ago after watching her performance of "Soon We'll be Found" on David Letterman, and was taken to her voice right away. It has a really interesting quality to it in the fact that it is very distinctive -- there is no way that you could mistake her for another vocalist. This song is a really interesting mash-up of electronic sounds and Sia's trademark style. It's not really a mix that I would have ever really thought would work, but it totally does in this case.
Actually, it was somewhat difficult to pick the second choice for this month, because I don't have any set criteria in place for determining the song spotlight, and well :p I am not quite as enamored with it as I am my first pick. But in any case, I think that it is a good listen and definitely an excellent addition to my iTunes library.
I can't believe that August is over and that September is also nearly halfway finished! In a way I am looking forward to it, because it means that I can start baking again (yay for more posting material for this blog!), but at the same time I am in mourning for summer as the days grow shorter and the nights chillier. :(
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