Category: Everyday Clutter

  • Masala Tea, And Indian Memories

    I wonder who among us doesn’t occasionally sit down and have tea with their memories. The past, whatever it is, just is. Or was, whichever is more appropriate. Memories are a strange and wonderful thing; sometimes you remember perfectly, that chunk of recollection is there in your palm, and yet at other times you embellish, add on →

  • A Controversy For Your Collection, Mr. President

    Dear (Mr.) President of the USA, (controversy, obviously) I’d like you to trade places with me for a day. When you’re in my body and start to live your life, you’ll inevitably notice a lot of things. First off, you will wake up in stifling heat, your bedclothes pasted to you, by glue it’d seem. →

  • Ginny Weasley, Meet Real Life

    So, my best friend and I (in a particularly twilight zonish bout of insomnia), were complaining about how girls in books never have to go through regular life. Okay sure, so they have a lot on their plates, what with Dark Lords, Dragons, and lumpy spaghetti. But as with the Harry Potter series, there’s magic, →

  • Be My Friend, Lisa?

    If anyone has seen Girl, Interrupted and not loved it, I would like to know them, and teach them a thing or two. Talk about moving chick flicks. However, the point is, Angeline Jolie is absolutely stellar. Her character in the movie, Lisa is a sociopath with neurotic tendencies who has never gone into remission, and so →

  • Dial 800-TAMPON (Or When A Psycho Calls)

    *ring ring* “Hello, who is this?” “OhmyGOD hun I’m so glad you’re home! I have to tell you something dynamite! Ok so I’ll start with what happened yesterday!” “- excuse me? Wh-who is this?” “HUN I have no time to play your little games right now, just listen to what I have to say. Shut →

  • Blogging For Squirrels…And OCD

    An ode to blogging. – To the fish in the river, and the fish in the sea “Why do you live in water?” “Ahh, you’d be pretty shocked if we walked, you see.” – To the kangaroo (addressing her pouch are we) “Why do you keep little joey chest to chest?” “Because then I can’t possibly →

  • 5 Disney Movies I Found Disturbing…

    Okay so when you’re a kid and your parents pop in a Disney movie with lunch or supper, you get all excited. A fantasy land with cartoon characters and singing and dancing! What could be better? However, now that I’m older, I’m beginning to see those movies in a new light… 5. ALICE IN WONDERLAND →

  • Broccoli Yes, Ryan Gosling No

    The ‘I Am Sort of Weird’ List: Basically, I’m different from a lot of people my age, and here’s how. I love love LOVE broccoli. With cheese, without, steamed, boiled, mushy, anything. I don’t like Ryan Gosling. Repeat. Do not. Never have, never will. I think about things on various levels. For eg, I picture myself →

  • The Angel Who Broke A Wing…And Wobbled

    My last post was all about romance novels in the ‘Fallen Angel’ category; quite a bitter little post I must admit. But it did inspire me to imagine what I would write about, if I were ever to step into the divinely murky waters of fallen angels and their world on earth. First off, my main lead →

  • I Want To Touch My Boyfriend’s Wings…

    She said, “You’re an angel!” My sister, sitting right next to me, (annoyingly so, in fact) was chattering incessantly about the new love-of-her-life Daniel Gregori or Greogri or Greg, something. His flawless features, blond hair, perfect lazy (bitchy) smile and oh, angel wings. Also, his unfortunate non existence.  I’ve read a couple of swooning romances →

  • Having Tea With The Tsar In A Cottage On The Nile…?

    I want to have wings on my feet. I want to…explore. I want to have breakfast in a river side cafe in Paris and lunch in a crowded sweet-smelling farmers market in California.  I want to live out of my suitcase; I don’t have a problem washing my clothes in a stream in Japan while stunned →

  • Heirate mich! Hooking Up With The Berlin Wall…And More

    So…stranded in a strange country with no monies and no food? Gulp. Being stuck in a foreign country where the locals speak English would be way too easy. I could just seek out a kindred looking spirit, ask to use their cell phone and call my family or the nearest embassy, and get rescued. So to →

  • Dragon’s Loyalty Award!

    Oh my oh my! The Dragon’s Loyalty Award! I’m hoping this comes complete with a stone castle, emeralds as big as my palm and of course my perfect prince… On a serious note, WOW. This is one of the coolest awards I’ve received, and all thanks to Arman at Corporate Skirts. You’re a sweetheart! ❤ →

  • “Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!”

    “Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!” Dumbledore’s ‘signature’ dialogue, which in a way opens and closes the Harry Potter series. Since the phrase refers to the four houses, I’ll let my mind ponder over the possibilities… NITWIT…RAVENCLAW: After being sorted, I would be ecstatic. Actually, since I’d be so brilliant, I would just politely and demurely congratulate →

  • How To…Survive A Gap Year

    Gap Year: (def.) A year that you take off from ‘normal’ life, namely hole up at home and veg out, away from real responsibilities, basically adult stuff. This year that I took off from real life, has been strange. I took a vacation because I got rejected from the one university I wanted to get into, →

  • Emasculation and Derogation…Why Respect Can Never Be Overrated

    I’ve seen so many couples. Teenagers in for a ‘fling’, couples struggling through their 10th anniversary, even couples who relished their 70th year together, and still found themselves wishing for more time. And now I want to root out the rules for a successful relationship. I won’t pretend that I can even begin to understand →

  • Trees Can’t Swim, Or Climb Mountains

    I’m a foresty kind of person. You know what I mean. Thick undergrowth underfoot, littered with roots and leaves. The very low incessant humming and buzzing of all the tiny lives that live there: beetles tapping on wood, spiders spinning their homes, constructing new identities everyday. The trees overhead, growing together, clustering branches and foliage, soaking up the sun, →

  • The Perfect Salad: Lettuce, Tomatoes, Dead Bird?

    So, imagine a nice cosy winter’s evening, a candle lit dinner and your partner. You set the plates and the food that you’ve slaved over all day. The only thing that you bought from the store was ‘fresh’ baby leaves rocket salad which you set lovingly in a glass dish. And then you see a →

  • Demons On A Warm Summer’s Day!

    We fear what we do not understand, and most of all, we fear the unknown, the intangible. Dream sequence. A bright summer’s day and I’m standing on a mountain. From the very peak, I can see below and there are rivers and trees and hills and sunlight. I feel content, and am just about to →

  • I Was A Seaman, Cook Or Carpenter… In 1675

    Re-incarnation. Of course I believe in it! I mean you must have been somewhere or someone else before you came to exist in this life. And just to be sure of who I was in my past life, I did thorough research and found that I was:  Awesome. Okay so there was no research, and →

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