what is this ridiculousness?

Promposals.

Have you heard these before? They're basically when a guy (very elaborately) asks a girl to go to the prom with him, and apparently they are all the rage right now.

It's been 12 years since I went to prom (shoot, has it really been that long?) and I can honestly say that I'm so glad this promposal thing didn't exist back then. (My 18-year-old self would have thought they were silly too.) I almost feel bad for high schoolers now - talk about unnecessary pressure. I went to prom with a friend (who later became my boyfriend and then my husband) and we decided to go together over a phone conversation that went something like this: "Hey, do you want to go to prom together?" "Yah, ok."

Boom. Done.

Actually, no, it wasn't quite over yet. We went to different high schools so we still had to choose which prom to go to. How did we do this? Rock-paper-scissors, yo. Loser went to the other person's prom. (I lost, haha.) No frills. Not romantic in any way but hey, it worked for us.

...and while I didn't get a promposal in high school, I did get the best proposal from my prom date 7 years later, and I'd take that over a promposal any day. :)

book nook: wedding night

Wedding Night
Sophie Kinsella

I usually enjoy reading Kinsella's chick-lit, but this one was just so bad. Now chick-lit isn't supposed to be all deep and full of meaning, but the level of idiocy in this book was just over-the-top. Sure it was pretty hilarious and made me laugh on more than one occasion, but even the book's humour couldn't save its dumb characters or the stupidity of its plot line.


Funny? Yes.
Everything else? Bad.
Recommend? No.

How she rolls

K is continuing to grow well as evidenced by the rolls in her arms and legs. Oh the rolls. Her extremities look like they are made of sausages!

K is also rolling. From front to back and back to front, she's pretty good with both directions now. She is also good at repositioning herself in her crib too. It's always amusing to see where she has ended up when I go to get her, heehee.

She is such a little roly poly and I love her to bits.

book nook: and the mountains echoed

And The Mountains Echoed
Khaled Housseini

Since I really enjoyed reading Housseini's other two books (The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns), I was excited when I found this one sitting on a library shelf all ready for me to borrow and read. Unfortunately, unlike his other two books, this one was a disappointment. A "Whoomp, whoomp" if you will.

The book is about multi-generational family bonds and begins centred around a brother, sister, and father. The first couple of chapters are actually quite charming and Housseini's descriptions create rich scenes while his knack for story-telling draws you into the pages.

Unfortunately, in my opinion, after the first few chapters it all went downhill from there with the introduction of too many plot lines and characters. Sure everything converged towards the end (kind of like Love Actually), but by then the story was so convoluted that I couldn't keep track of what was going on nor did I really care that I didn't know what was going on at that point (kind of like Love Actually, heh). The fact that I literally skipped some pages here and there because I found portions of the book too slow/drawn out probably didn't help but hey, I was bored. Never a good sign. While the ending did make me teary, even the ending couldn't redeem the book as a whole for me.

Would I recommend his other books? Yes. Would I recommend this one? No.

Silver linings exist even in rain clouds

The bright, sunny, and blue sky of yesterday looks like it has been covered up by a heavy, leaky, and grey drop cloth today. It's gloomy and wet out there, but after months of snow, snow, and more snow, it's raining.

Raining?! Raining! Warmer spring weather is on it's way!
(Thank goodness I can't smell the soggy worms, haha.)

No more, no less

No matter what I have done, what I am doing, or what I will do,
He has, does, and will never love me any more or any less.

Mind blown.