I spent this past weekend celebrating a good friend's bachelorette party in South Lake Tahoe, one of my favorite summer destinations! If only summer could last forever (and if only I didn't have to worry about that pesky full-time work schedule...)!
No other reason for this song choice except for I can't get enough of it... STILL (even after all these years since it was released)! Enjoy Nelly Furtado's acoustic version of Say it Right and also a really awesome cover.
Olivia Joules is my hero. Or, one of them. I'd like to thank Helen Fielding for creating her and making me laugh out loud (LOL). This has been posted on my fridge for the past couple years:
1. Never panic. Stop, breathe, think. 2. No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you. 3. Never change haircut or color before an important event. 4. Nothing is either as bad or as good as it seems. 5. Do as you would be done by, e.g., thou shalt not kill. 6. It is better to buy one expensive thing that you really like than several cheap ones that you only quite like. 7. Hardly anything matters: if you get upset, ask yourself, "Does it really matter?" 8. The key to success lies in how you pick yourself up from failure. 9. Be honest and kind. 10. Only buy clothes that make you feel like doing a small dance. 11. Trust your instincts, not your overactive imagination. 12. When overwhelmed by disaster, check if it's really a disaster by doing the following: (a) think, "Oh, f*ck it" (b) look on the bright side and, if that doesn't work, look on the funny side. If neither of the above works then maybe it is a disaster so turn to items 1 and 4. 13. Don't expect the world to be safe or life to be fair. 14. Sometimes you just have to go with the flow. 15. Don't regret anything. Remember there wasn't anything else that could have happened, given who you were and the state of the world at that moment. The only thing you can change is the present, so learn from the past. 16. If you start regretting something and thinking, "I should have done..." always add, "but then I might have been run over by a lorry or blown up by a Japanese-manned torpedo".
(Readers beware: Sarah McLachlan's new album is my newest love and I can't help but to share her words here. It's not hard to get lost in her lyrics, voice, and music.)
"Oh I wanna learn, I wanna know Will our history crush us or can we let it go? I'm not so willing anymore to bend Still pleasing and conceding but I'm not gonna lose myself again."
