The day is sunday

and i just finished watching Julie & Julia besides being a great movie it made me want to cook and for some reason listen to classical music?
but i changed my mind in 2 seconds flat and am now listening to an amazingly talented and extremely good looking Italian singer by the name of Eros Ramazzotti. I can listen to him ANYTIME. :) He makes me happy.

So, I am very proud to say that I did not work ALL WEEK LONG. nope not one day. I decided to take the weekend off :) and it has been wonderful. it's nice not working for a change. I'm always working I know I know maybe not 40 hours a week like most "adults" but it's damn....liberating, to able to take time off for yourself to do nothing in particular. it's late and I'm going to bed soon but I felt like writing because...

I feel uplifted. Maybe it was the movie that caused this feeling? In the movie Julie blogs about her cooking and it helped her in much the same way it helps me.
To be honest....I want to pick up Julia's cookbook and cook a 3 course meal. I will do it to. I'm thinking Bruschetta as a starter (it looked seriously mouth watering in the movie) with a Caesar salad and some type of chicken and mashed potato? i haven't decided on desert but oh boy, it is going to be superb to say the least. I will take pictures and blog about it. I will dedicate it to both Amy Adams & Meryl Streep for portraying Julie and Julia as well as the real Julie and Julia for inspiring me to cook and write. Especially write. I love that Julie (Amy Adams) doesn't give up her cooking or Writing that made me particularly giddy and actually filled me with a renewed sense of hope that one day I will publish my own book :)

I will share, that I am ready to begin snapping pictures with ( my recently downloaded) RETRO CAMERA APP. i just downloaded onto my phone tonight -Apple, has Hipstamatic but of course T-mobile being the better company of the two came up with Retro Camera a similar application that works twice as good. Settle down apple lovers. Simply except the harsh facts of life and move on. We all make mistakes.

oh!!! I also completely forgot about the advent calendar that has been sitting in my kitchen cabinet since the beginning of November...oh gosh that doesn't sound to appetizing when said out loud. Any who, I bought it for myself...I know kind of sad but I really wanted one and I doubt anyone in my family or circle of friends was seriously going to go out of their way and buy me, a 20 year old, an advent calendar. so don't judge me OK? Some of us still want to enjoy the spirit of Christmas. HAH HAH. but the best part about finding this wonderful little calendar was that it is the fourth i repeat the fourth day of December. Which of course means I had FOUR heavenly sweet milk chocolates all in the form of little bears and tinsels which made them THAT MUCH BETTER. yum. and tomorrow, I get to have another one if I choose too. I am totally on my way to getting in the best shape of my life. Oh, how i love the holidays.

Stay tuned-Natalie.