Friday Fascinations - Live from Saturday

Gentle Reader,
     What a week, what a week!  Such craziness at work    and it turned out my stress over the first week of house hunting (which is my personal circle of hell) was all for naught because Jess & I found The One (where we can stay with Cherie and Erin) the Thursday of week one!!!

On the one hand, there goes my chance to rant blog about the Hellish exercise in dashing one's own hopes that is house hunting in the greater Provo-Orem area. On the other hand, one less week of stressing myself out more than I normally do/calling landlords at lunch/not actually eating lunch at lunch.

So I have a lot to be happy about now. I would have got to writing this last night, but all Jess and I wanted to do after work last night was sit, veg, and re-watch the masterpiece of TV that is Avatar: The Last Airbender whilst making sassy comments and the accidental pun "Aangsty."

With that, I present my semi-belated Friday Fascinations.

So, First of All, This Happened

Remember how last week I mentioned how much I love "All About that Bass" by Meghan Trainor? Well, it seems Buzzfeed loves it too, and YouTube is promoting the song! I fangirled a bit when I saw an ad for it pop up on a Vlogbrothers video, and I fangirled a lot when it popped up on Buzzfeed at the one work lunch that actually felt like a break this week.

I feel like such a trendsetter right now. 

John Green's Thoughts on Makeup

So, if any of you aren't subscribed to the Vlogbrothers Youtube channel I highly recommend it but this week John made this video about having his making his makeup done for many days in a row as a part of the press junket for The Fault in Our Stars and his recent appearance on The Colbert Report. 

Everything about this video is flawless, but I think my favorite part is John's first observation that makeup is enjoyable because "it feels good to touch your face gently and kindly." I think a lot of people who enjoy makeup (like myself, for although I'm nowhere near as good as Jess or any of the YouTube peeps who do proper makeup tutorials I do quite enjoy it) don't even realize that this part of it is present within our own enjoyment of applying makeup. Plus John makes some interesting points about makeup in general. 

Jess' Latest Creation

If you follow me on Instagram (that plug was less than subtle), you may have noticed that my friends and I are some pretty awesome cooks. That came in very handy on Friday night. Post-apartment-reservation, Jess and I were trying to answer the age-old question: how can we not go grocery shopping and still eat well today?

Because if you can stay in comfortable clothing and watch fantastic television after a trying, stressful week, why would you ever go to Smith's or Macey's instead?

Eventually, we remembered our gallon of frozen pumpkin puree, sitting in our freezer neat as you please, and using this recipe as a base, Jess came up with a curried chicken pumpkin soup that is total bliss. 

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

This is, hands-down, one of the most under-rated movies and it needs more love. My sweet friend Bri showed it to me this past February after I fell in love with Lee Pace's voice. Last Thursday, we made our girls at movie night watch it and it was rather well-received as it should be. 

Guinevere Pettigrew (Frances McDormand), a penniless and chronically unemployed governess, is given a new chance when an act of bravery catapults her into the position of Social Secretary to aspiring actress Delysia Lafosse (Amy Adams). 

Any more would be spoilers. But it's a very visually beautiful film, warm and funny though it deals with poverty, love, heartbreak, and the precarious emotional climate in Britain on the brink of World War Two. It is probably in my top ten films I have ever seen, and I can only give it the highest recommendation. 

Well, at last my computer is cooled down enough to post this    what's fascinating you lately?