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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137662993036272887</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:12:42 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>media</category><category>Heavy Rotation</category><category>211</category><category>Crafty Lady</category><category>Glee</category><category>2011</category><category>awards shows</category><category>books</category><category>Monday Morning Melody</category><category>Beauty Spot</category><category>Fun Friday Links</category><category>Photography</category><category>2010</category><category>polyvore</category><category>music</category><category>Competitions</category><category>fashion</category><category>Movie</category><category>Boredom Abounds Loves</category><category>Adventures in Cooking</category><category>boredom abounds</category><category>Boredom Abounds By Julia</category><category>2012</category><category>Product review</category><category>Retail therapy</category><category>internet</category><category>Gadding About</category><category>tv</category><category>DVD</category><category>Boredom Abounds Wears</category><category>2008</category><category>Mixtape</category><category>Style</category><title>Boredom Abounds</title><description /><link>http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Julia @ Boredom Abounds)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>270</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/BoredomAbounds" /><feedburner:info uri="boredomabounds" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137662993036272887.post-4942880687718757214</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-15T07:31:56.082+11:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2012</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">tv</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Glee</category><title>Glee Highlights Post - Season 3: Episodes 7, 8 AND 9!</title><description>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: &amp;#39;Trebuchet MS&amp;#39;, sans-serif;"&gt;Being ridiculously busy for past three weeks means I spent Saturday afternoon catching up on Glee. Here are my many thoughts on the episodes &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: &amp;#39;Trebuchet MS&amp;#39;, sans-serif;"&gt;I Kissed a Girl&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: &amp;#39;Trebuchet MS&amp;#39;, sans-serif;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: &amp;#39;Trebuchet MS&amp;#39;, sans-serif;"&gt;Hold on to Sixteen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: &amp;#39;Trebuchet MS&amp;#39;, sans-serif;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: &amp;#39;Trebuchet MS&amp;#39;, sans-serif;"&gt;Extraordinary Merry Christmas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: &amp;#39;Trebuchet MS&amp;#39;, sans-serif;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: &amp;#39;Trebuchet MS&amp;#39;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Starting with Episode 7: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: &amp;#39;Trebuchet MS&amp;#39;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;I Kissed A Girl&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: &amp;#39;Trebuchet MS&amp;#39;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Santana Is A Bully&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7041/6861400911_27bbe181a0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: &amp;#39;Trebuchet MS&amp;#39;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="179" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7041/6861400911_27bbe181a0.jpg" width="320"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: &amp;#39;Trebuchet MS&amp;#39;, sans-serif;"&gt;....still. It&amp;#39;s getting really old.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: &amp;#39;Trebuchet MS&amp;#39;, sans-serif;"&gt;Cut because it&amp;#39;s a hella long entry....Enjoy!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/2012/02/glee-highlights-post-season-3-episodes.html#more"&gt;Read the rest of this post....&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac123/beautifymyblog/f411f45e.png"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
Thanks for reading!&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4137662993036272887-4942880687718757214?l=boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~4/oZw2gBvZZMs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~3/oZw2gBvZZMs/glee-highlights-post-season-3-episodes.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Julia @ Boredom Abounds)</author><thr:total>4</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/2012/02/glee-highlights-post-season-3-episodes.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137662993036272887.post-5822132651132002554</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-14T07:39:57.543+11:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Gadding About</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2012</category><title>Holiday Eating</title><description>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;This is a really quick post about food. Specifically, the best meal I had while we were on holidays last week.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7207/6868116443_2e134cb5a5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7207/6868116443_2e134cb5a5.jpg" width="478" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Salt and pepper squid with a lime and maple dressing on a rocket, cabbage and capsicum salad. I actually don't like sweet and savoury flavours mixed together, but this was so subtle it was absolutely delicious. The squid also had also been cooked in a little bit of curry powder, so the salty, curry flavour mixed beautifully together with the lime and maple. Probably the best squid I've ever eaten.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;We enjoyed this meal at a little place called &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flyingfishcafe.com.au/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Flying Fish Cafe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt; in Port Elliot, South Australia. It's definitely worth a visit if you're ever in the area - the beach in front of the cafe is just gorgeous as well.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac123/beautifymyblog/f411f45e.png"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
Thanks for reading!&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4137662993036272887-5822132651132002554?l=boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~4/6hMM1Ybd-2A" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~3/6hMM1Ybd-2A/holiday-eating.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Julia @ Boredom Abounds)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/2012/02/holiday-eating.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137662993036272887.post-4479049395731705495</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-13T06:57:29.676+11:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2012</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Monday Morning Melody</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">music</category><title>Monday Morning Melody - Bluejuice</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;I've been away for a week of R 'n' R with the lovely Boredom Abounds Husband and we had a marvelous time doing not much at all, but now it's back to real life and posting will resume as normal this week!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;I heard this song a couple of weeks ago, and no matter what you think of Lana Del Ray, this cover of her song &lt;i&gt;Video Games&lt;/i&gt; by Aussie band Bluejuice is very cool. It's sort of bluegrass-y, which (for me) was an unexpected way to go for her music. There's about ninety seconds of chatter, but once you get past that, the song it very much worth a listen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/InM2OoaUofQ" width="560"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Your thoughts?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac123/beautifymyblog/f411f45e.png"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
Thanks for reading!&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4137662993036272887-4479049395731705495?l=boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~4/jM0fTeewmrc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~3/jM0fTeewmrc/monday-morning-melody-bluejuice.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Julia @ Boredom Abounds)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/InM2OoaUofQ/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/2012/02/monday-morning-melody-bluejuice.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137662993036272887.post-8486392796892927351</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-03T07:28:46.855+11:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2012</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Fun Friday Links</category><title>Fun Friday Links</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;We're off for a week of relaxation soon and I cannot wait. Whatever your doing for your weekend, I hope that today goes quickly for you and that these two videos make your Friday just a little bit better!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;- Matthew Broderick is in a new Honda CR-V commercial. &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;v=VhkDdayA4iA&amp;amp;gl=US"&gt;It's something of an homage to &lt;i&gt;Ferris Bueller's Day Off&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - see how many Ferris references you pick up on during the two and a half minutes. I really, really want a bright red phone like the one in the video. I have no use for it, since we have three phones in our house already (not including mobile phones), but it's so shiny!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;- I've always liked Kristin Bell. She's cute and she seems like a fun person to hang out with. &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5jw3T3Jy70"&gt;So I loved this video of her on &lt;i&gt;Ellen&lt;/i&gt; where she brought home video of her FLIPPING OUT&lt;/a&gt; over the fact that her fiance got someone to bring a sloth to their house. A SLOTH. It's hilarious. There's a &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQb2DFTKZh8"&gt;bit more from after the show&lt;/a&gt;, too.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;- Did you check out my &lt;a href="http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/2012-sag-awards-fashion-hits-and-misses.html"&gt;SAG Award Fashion Hits and Misses&lt;/a&gt; post from Tuesday? What did you think of the red carpet fashion? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Sadly, that's it for this week. I have approximately 157,879,25871 things to do between writing this and Friday afternoon, so it's a short and sweet one.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Happy weekend everyone!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac123/beautifymyblog/f411f45e.png"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
Thanks for reading!&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4137662993036272887-8486392796892927351?l=boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~4/6tC7lMndMBw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~3/6tC7lMndMBw/fun-friday-links.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Julia @ Boredom Abounds)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/2012/02/fun-friday-links.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137662993036272887.post-3704024455771981378</guid><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-31T19:41:25.027+11:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">awards shows</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2012</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">fashion</category><title>2012 SAG Awards - Fashion Hits and Misses</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;I did not realise how close the SAG Awards were to the Golden Globes, so thank goodness Twitter alerted me to the red carpet arrivals that had just started. Otherwise I would totally have forgotten to pour over the images last night.&lt;br&gt;
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I suspect Rose Byrne may also want to forget everything about this look.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7174/6793372747_88bf064c7f.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7174/6793372747_88bf064c7f.jpg" width="188"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Rose, the 1970s called. Even they don’t want this look back.&lt;br&gt;
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I bet Anna Wintour is fuming and throwing three thousand dollar couch cushions around in her office at Vogue because of Rose’s copycat bob. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7001/6793373015_a842a4f348.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/2012/01/2012-sag-awards-fashion-hits-and-misses.html#more"&gt;Read the rest of this post....&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac123/beautifymyblog/f411f45e.png"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
Thanks for reading!&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4137662993036272887-3704024455771981378?l=boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~4/ARpWpHdZro4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~3/ARpWpHdZro4/2012-sag-awards-fashion-hits-and-misses.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Julia @ Boredom Abounds)</author><thr:total>9</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/2012/01/2012-sag-awards-fashion-hits-and-misses.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137662993036272887.post-4450612501906132521</guid><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-30T06:58:06.434+11:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2012</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Monday Morning Melody</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">music</category><title>Monday Morning Melody - Colbie Caillat</title><description>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Even though it's been so gosh darn hot in Melbourne this weekend, this song is a nice little tune for Summer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Almost makes you forget about the sweat running down your back.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Almost.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac123/beautifymyblog/f411f45e.png"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
Thanks for reading!&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4137662993036272887-4450612501906132521?l=boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~4/4IdDORkkLp8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~3/4IdDORkkLp8/monday-morning-melody-colbie-caillat.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Julia @ Boredom Abounds)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/KU5o6M7S5nQ/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/2012/01/monday-morning-melody-colbie-caillat.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137662993036272887.post-5073874201913374282</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-27T11:53:45.935+11:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2012</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Fun Friday Links</category><title>Fun Friday Links</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;It's award season, yay! Oscar nominations were announced this week (I SO hope Jean Dujardin wins for &lt;em&gt;The Artist&lt;/em&gt; - if you enjoyed his performance, you should definitely check out the &lt;em&gt;OSS:117&lt;/em&gt; films he's in. Think a French version of &lt;em&gt;Get Smart&lt;/em&gt;. Hilarious). Some of these links are related to the Oscars, some are not. Regardless, I hope you enjoy all of them!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;- &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://izismile.com/2012/01/26/honest_posters_about_2012_oscar_nominated_films_15_pics.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;If 2012's Oscar-nominated film posters told the truth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;. I think the Leonardo DiCaprio one might be my favourite.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;- Vulture has a great slideshow of what some of those &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2012/01/from-best-jacket-to-not-worst-movie-eight-spoofs-of-for-your-consideration-ads.html#last-slide"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;For Your Consideration Oscar movie posters should really say&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;. I really wish there &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; a category for Best Beard.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;- I get that people are sick of those Sh*t Girls/Guys/Whoever Say videos, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://newsroom.mtv.com/2012/01/26/stuff-liz-lemon-says/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;but I kind of love this one featuring Liz Lemon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;. Mostly because she's a huge dork who says the kind of stuff I often think.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;- So, in the States, they have the Superbowl, which is basically like our AFL Grand Final. But they also have &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppy_Bowl"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Puppy Bowl&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;. Here's &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/23/puppy-bowl-viii-photos-starting-lineup_n_1222285.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;this year's line up of players&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt; (hint: contains lots of adorable dogs!), and I just learned that the&amp;nbsp;dogs are all from animal shelters and throughout the match, information on how people can adopt them is shown. Awww! And for your viewing pleasure, here are &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dxANjGsZCM"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;some links&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt; to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ozn-OytW-c"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;past matches&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;- Finally, in shameless self-promotion, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/2012/01/summer-giveaway.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;I'm linking to the fabulous Summer giveaway I'm currently running&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;! I will post this prize pack to anywhere in the world, so you don't have to be in Australia to enter! Contest is running until next Tuesday, so make sure you enter ASAP.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;That's it for this week - seen anything else good online? Hit up the comments and let me know!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac123/beautifymyblog/f411f45e.png"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
Thanks for reading!&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4137662993036272887-5073874201913374282?l=boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~4/2ntMx4xj9QM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~3/2ntMx4xj9QM/fun-friday-links_27.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Julia @ Boredom Abounds)</author><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/2012/01/fun-friday-links_27.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137662993036272887.post-6835433309658117776</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:22:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-01T21:39:18.082+11:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2012</category><title>Summer Giveaway!</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;I've been wanting to do a giveaway for aaaages, and Summer seemed like the perfect time to do it. So I thought about the essentials for Summer. For me, it's a good book, a sassy, bright beach towel for lazing around on the sand and brightly coloured nail polish for pretty toes in strappy sandals.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;So I decided that those would be the three things I'd give away! Behold the Boredom Abounds By Julia Summer Giveaway prize pack:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-egj2cVd_Wo8/Txviy6Mta8I/AAAAAAAABEE/0KGzIMhVKuI/s1600/Summer+Giveaway+2012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-egj2cVd_Wo8/Txviy6Mta8I/AAAAAAAABEE/0KGzIMhVKuI/s320/Summer+Giveaway+2012.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;**WINNER** thanks to all who entered! The winner (chosen at random) is Courtney! Courtney, I'll be in touch shortly to arrange postage of the prizes! &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;The pack includes an Espirit Miami Hot Beach towel, a five pack of Models Inc. nail polishes, and a copy of Jenny Colgan's book &lt;i&gt;Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe&lt;/i&gt; (which you'll recall &lt;a href="http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/2011/12/book-review-meet-me-at-cupcake-cafe.html"&gt;I reviewed quite recently&lt;/a&gt;). Total prize pack value is $80AUD!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;If you want to win this super hot Summer prize pack, just do this:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mandatory entry: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;1. Leave a comment in this blog entry (make sure you leave your name in the blog comment if you don't have a Google account).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Bonus entries:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;For extra entries, just do any of the following: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;1. Tweet about the giveaway with the following line: I've entered @BoredomAbounds super hot Summer giveaway over at Boredom Abounds By Julia!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;2. Follow &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/BoredomAbounds"&gt;@BoredomAbounds on Twitter&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;2. Become a follower of &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Boredom-Abounds-By-Julia/150764478274753"&gt;Boredom Abounds By Julia on Facebook&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;3. Become a Boredom Abounds By Julia follower on Blogspot.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;(note that each bonus entry can only be done once - for  example, no matter how many times you Tweet about the giveaway, you will  only receive one extra entry):&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Note that you &lt;b&gt;MUST&lt;/b&gt; leave a comment in this blog entry to be eligible to then the additional forms of entry.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;If you do any of the four additional types of entries, you &lt;b&gt;MUST&lt;/b&gt; leave the details of which additional entry type you've done in your original blog comment so I know who you are in the various forms of social media!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Best part? I will ship this prize pack anywhere in the world! So as long as you have a valid street or postal address, you can totally enter this contest!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Contest closes at midnight Melbourne, Australia time on Tuesday, 31st January, 2012, with the winner announced the following day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Good luck!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac123/beautifymyblog/f411f45e.png"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
Thanks for reading!&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4137662993036272887-6835433309658117776?l=boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~4/yLWvhWw5XxU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~3/yLWvhWw5XxU/summer-giveaway.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Julia @ Boredom Abounds)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-egj2cVd_Wo8/Txviy6Mta8I/AAAAAAAABEE/0KGzIMhVKuI/s72-c/Summer+Giveaway+2012.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>11</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/2012/01/summer-giveaway.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137662993036272887.post-3845398574564544385</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-23T07:02:52.725+11:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2012</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Monday Morning Melody</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">music</category><title>Monday Morning Melody - Etta James</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Singer Etta James died over the weekend. Let's all pause to listen to her gorgeous voice.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ciu7JjF2ssg" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;One of the greatest love songs ever written. I have never heard anyone cover this and sound better than Ms. James.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac123/beautifymyblog/f411f45e.png"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
Thanks for reading!&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4137662993036272887-3845398574564544385?l=boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~4/3z6-CRnvXlY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~3/3z6-CRnvXlY/monday-morning-melody-etta-james.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Julia @ Boredom Abounds)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/ciu7JjF2ssg/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/2012/01/monday-morning-melody-etta-james.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137662993036272887.post-3463904882843843238</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:16:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-20T07:16:47.862+11:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2012</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Fun Friday Links</category><title>Fun Friday Links</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;This week we have video links. You may have already seen most of them, but they're just too clever for me to ignore!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQeTlxhhmEo&amp;amp;sns=fb"&gt;Disney princesses. with audio from &lt;i&gt;Mean Girls&lt;/i&gt; playing over the top&lt;/a&gt;. You know you want to watch it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;- Libraries are great for the borrowing of all the books. &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;v=7_a7OTE2nLg"&gt;And they've been used in a bunch of films - watch this&lt;/a&gt;. Can anyone tell me where I could buy a vintage card catalogue cabinet? Seriously. I need one of those ASAP. Have you been to your local public library lately? GO!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/35055590"&gt;Hello? Is it me you're looking for?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Seen any other good clips online this week? Drop me a line in the comments. Happy weekend everyone!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Oh, make sure you check back here next week - I'll be doing the first of two awesome giveaways!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac123/beautifymyblog/f411f45e.png"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
Thanks for reading!&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4137662993036272887-3463904882843843238?l=boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~4/KzzVcZjCgt4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~3/KzzVcZjCgt4/fun-friday-links_20.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Julia @ Boredom Abounds)</author><thr:total>6</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/2012/01/fun-friday-links_20.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137662993036272887.post-5887876215707235854</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-18T07:28:46.951+11:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Adventures in Cooking</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2012</category><title>Adventures in Cooking - Choc Chip Cookie Bars</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;A few weeks ago we went to a little cafe up in the hills for a lovely brunch. Afterwards, we bought a couple of sweet things to bring home to have later. My choice was a choc chip and walnut cookie bar, that apparently was made with Lindt chocolate. Sounds delicious, right? Wrong. It was the driest, most tasteless thing I&amp;#39;ve ever eaten in my life. My people, choc chip anything should &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; be dry and tasteless. EVER.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;I started thinking I could make my own version. So I did.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Behold:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Choc Chip Cookie Bars!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ingredients&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7026/6699796243_697569548a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7026/6699796243_697569548a.jpg" width="320"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;125 grams butter (room temperature)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;1/2 cup caster sugar&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;1/2 cup brown sugar, lightly packed&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;1 egg&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;1 3/4 cups self-raising flour&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;1/2 teaspoon salt&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;125 grams good quality chocolate chips&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;50 grams chopped walnuts or hazelnuts (optional)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Total prep and cooking time: about an hour. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/2012/01/adventures-in-cooking-choc-chip-cookie.html#more"&gt;Read the rest of this post....&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac123/beautifymyblog/f411f45e.png"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
Thanks for reading!&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4137662993036272887-5887876215707235854?l=boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~4/IghNqj5Ut5M" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~3/IghNqj5Ut5M/adventures-in-cooking-choc-chip-cookie.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Julia @ Boredom Abounds)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/2012/01/adventures-in-cooking-choc-chip-cookie.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137662993036272887.post-3754997443948014793</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-17T09:17:14.120+11:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">awards shows</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2012</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">fashion</category><title>Golden Globes Fashion Hits and Misses</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Yay, award season is here! And what better way to kick off the Boredom Abounds By Julia fashion hits and misses posts with the award ceremony where celebrities get drunk on camera. Woot!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;It was so kind of Madame Tussauds to loan out their Angeline Jolie wax figure for the evening.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7001/6707284729_49288604f1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7001/6707284729_49288604f1.jpg" width="216"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1889768972"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1889768973"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;She really adds to the formality of the occasion with her &amp;quot;Bitch, please&amp;quot; expression, no?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;(That being said, she does look FIERCE. I love the pops of red)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/2012/01/golden-globes-fashion-hits-and-misses.html#more"&gt;Read the rest of this post....&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac123/beautifymyblog/f411f45e.png"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
Thanks for reading!&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4137662993036272887-3754997443948014793?l=boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~4/08-9vlpGo5Q" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~3/08-9vlpGo5Q/golden-globes-fashion-hits-and-misses.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Julia @ Boredom Abounds)</author><thr:total>5</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/2012/01/golden-globes-fashion-hits-and-misses.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137662993036272887.post-2185289376292276505</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:25:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-16T07:25:43.376+11:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2012</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Monday Morning Melody</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">music</category><title>Monday Morning Melody - The Wombats</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;It was dreary, grey and rainy last Friday morning as I drove to work. So when this song came on the radio it was a welcome pick-me-up for a boring drive. Take a listen - I guarantee you'll be in a better mood afterwards.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/owcbWBXIXTo" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;See? Told you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac123/beautifymyblog/f411f45e.png"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
Thanks for reading!&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4137662993036272887-2185289376292276505?l=boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~4/IEJczYC1NvQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~3/IEJczYC1NvQ/monday-morning-melody-wombats.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Julia @ Boredom Abounds)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/owcbWBXIXTo/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/2012/01/monday-morning-melody-wombats.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137662993036272887.post-5649624705978165037</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-13T13:04:32.030+11:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2012</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Fun Friday Links</category><title>Fun Friday Links</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Yay, Friday! We don't have a lot planned so I'm hoping to get stuck into reading &lt;i&gt;Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy&lt;/i&gt; before the movie comes out. What are you all reading at the moment?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;- If you read &lt;a href="http://www.dooce.com/"&gt;Dooce&lt;/a&gt;, you will have already seen that she linked to this awesome &lt;a href="http://www.momentjunkie.com/"&gt;wedding photography blog called Moment Junkie&lt;/a&gt;. Thing is though, it's just single shots from weddings, &lt;a href="http://www.momentjunkie.com/2011/11/the-oncoming-storm/"&gt;that amazing&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.momentjunkie.com/2011/10/the-holy-communion/"&gt;special&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.momentjunkie.com/2011/10/the-im-getting-too-old-for-this-shit/"&gt;one-off shot&lt;/a&gt; the photographer manages to capture in a split second. You'll get lost in here for hours.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;- Love books? So do these people - so much that they spent many "sleepless nights" organising the books in &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKVcQnyEIT8"&gt;this bookshop to create a really cool stop-motion animation&lt;/a&gt;. Worth a quick look just to ogle all the gorgeous, gorgeous books.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;- Sometimes Google turns up &lt;a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/hgrant/26-of-the-strangest-search-results-from-google-ima"&gt;really, really weird image search results&lt;/a&gt; (couple of these photos are NSFW).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;- The &lt;a href="http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/worlds-most-stunning-beauty-product-fotoshop-adob-137444"&gt;newest beauty product to take the world by storm - Fotoshop&lt;/a&gt;. Everyone needs to watch this, if only to remind us all that the images presentded by the media, particularly fashion magazines are TOTALLY FAKE AND UNACHIEVABLE. Scroll down the page to see the video.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;That's it for now - we're watching &lt;i&gt;The Untouchables&lt;/i&gt; and it's up to the scene in the train station on the stairs. Such a great movie.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Happy weekend, everyone!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Thanks for reading!&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4137662993036272887-5649624705978165037?l=boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~4/CaaUzmManV4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~3/CaaUzmManV4/fun-friday-links_13.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Julia @ Boredom Abounds)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/2012/01/fun-friday-links_13.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137662993036272887.post-5578933108115645711</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:59:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-11T09:12:02.050+11:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2012</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Movie</category><title>Movie Review: The Adventures of Tintin</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Movie:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;The Adventures of Tintin&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;The Players:&lt;/b&gt; Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;The Makers:&lt;/b&gt; Steven Spielberg (director), Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, Kathleen Kennedy (producers), Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright, Joe Cornish (writers)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Run time:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;107 minutes &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7029/6672319585_c484401b4c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7029/6672319585_c484401b4c.jpg" width="292" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Tintin (Jamie Bell) is a young journalist living in a European town with his dog, Snowy. While browsing in a market one day, he spots a model sailing ship, the Unicorn, and purchases it on the spot, pleased with such a great find. Before leaving the market, Tintin has offers from two other gentlemen to take the ship off his hands for a decent sum of money, which he attributes to nothing more than a strange coincidence. When Tintin refuses, one of them issues an ominous warning that he will be cursed as long as he owns the model ship.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Back home, after a scuffle with the neighbour's cat, Snowy destroys the model ship by accident, and eventually they discover that the ship holds part of a secret that leads Tintin to Marlinspike Hall, the residence of Ivan Sakharine (Daniel Craig), one of the men who offered to buy the ship from Tintin at the market. While at the mansion, Tintin notices that Sakharine is also in possession of a model of the Unicorn and his curiosity it piqued. Returning home, Tintin discovers that his model ship has been stolen, and moments later he is shot at and abducted.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Snowy manages to track Tintin down where he's being held captive aboard the SS Karaboudjan, which has been taken over by Sakharine. As Tintin and Snowy escape, they discover the ship's captain, Haddock (Andy Serkis), a bumbling drunk with a temper who is also being held captive. Haddock reveals that his ancestor, Sir Francis Haddock, was captain of the treasure-laden Unicorn when it was attacked by pirates led by Red Rackham, Sakharine's ancestor, and sunk. It is revealed that there are three model ships that each hold a piece of the puzzle that will lead them to the buried treasure, so the trio decides to find the other two pieces of the puzzles and beat Sakharine at his own game.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Based on three of Hergé's original comic books, I think&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;The Adventures of TinTin&lt;/i&gt; is one of the best animated films released in years. The plot is set up nicely and without too much laborious&amp;nbsp;explanation of Tintin's backstory, so the audience is able to get a grasp of adventure-loving Tintin's life and his talent for solving mysteries as the story moves forward at a cracking pace. Tintin, with his&amp;nbsp;curious nature paired with Snowy,&amp;nbsp;his mischeiveous dog are a delightful duo, and once they team up with the unpredictable Haddock things become action packed.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Critics may take issue with this film for a seeming lack of humor, or sit down expecting to watch a cute, fluffy&amp;nbsp;film, thus completely missing the care and attention to detail the creators have taken with this adaptation. Light-hearted and funny (particularly when the bumbling Thomson and Thompson are on screen), Tintin, Snowy and Haddock make an entertaining trio of adventurers.&amp;nbsp;While the character of Tintin would have benfitted from a little more personalisation to help the audience connect with him on a deeper level, the creators can't be faulted for their faithful portrayal of such a beloved comic book character.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;The animation is simply stunning - scenes in Morocco are richly layered with the most intricate details, and the characters' faces are so emotive it's hard to believe what you're watching &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; an animation. The film is action packed and offers viewers a rollicking good ride full of thrills, spills and a nice, old fashioned goodies versus baddies battle. It's also&amp;nbsp;great to see the plot doesn't rely on a traditional male/female love interest story&amp;nbsp;to hold the&amp;nbsp;things together, keeping the mystery and adventure front and centre for the duration of the film. Tintin, Snowy&amp;nbsp;and Haddock's journey to defeat the bad guy is all this movie needs to keep you on the edge of your seat.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;While fans of the comics and cartoons from years gone by will love this spectacular update of a comic book icon, it's also a nice movie to introduce kids to as an alternative to the often&amp;nbsp;formulaic Disney and Pixar films. Definitely something for the whole family to enjoy!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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In a word:&lt;/b&gt; great&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Sidenote: if you're ever travelling through the Loire Valley in France and have the opportunity to visit &lt;a href="http://www.chateau-cheverny.fr/uk_accueil.php"&gt;Château de Cheverny&lt;/a&gt;, the mansion Marlinspike Hall was based on, I highly recommend it. It's set on beautiful grounds, has luxurious interiors and if you time your visit to coincide with the hounds' feeding time you'll be in for a real treat!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac123/beautifymyblog/f411f45e.png"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
Thanks for reading!&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4137662993036272887-5578933108115645711?l=boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~4/jQy6NC2IXJ8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~3/jQy6NC2IXJ8/movie-review-adventures-of-tintin.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Julia @ Boredom Abounds)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/2012/01/movie-review-adventures-of-tintin.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137662993036272887.post-5980786117778645888</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:16:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-09T07:16:02.193+11:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2012</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Monday Morning Melody</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">music</category><title>Monday Morning Melody - Kate Nash</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;I've never really heard much of Kate Nash's music, despite her being around for a while. But this song came on our digital radio the other day and the opening piano notes really caught my attention.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/EqAGXtDCXCk" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;It's boppy and cute and really just a fun song to listen to! Any recommendations for some of her other songs that are worth checking out?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac123/beautifymyblog/f411f45e.png"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
Thanks for reading!&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4137662993036272887-5980786117778645888?l=boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~4/9-K3ksYvpDE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~3/9-K3ksYvpDE/monday-morning-melody-kate-nash.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Julia @ Boredom Abounds)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/EqAGXtDCXCk/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/2012/01/monday-morning-melody-kate-nash.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137662993036272887.post-4599477466476052121</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:24:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-06T13:25:17.329+11:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2012</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Fun Friday Links</category><title>Fun Friday Links</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;First links of 2012! These are ones I would have posted last week before New Years Eve, but we had our internet disconnected for a few days while we painted part of the house and moved the phone connection and cable points around. When I say "we", I mean "my husband" when referring to the phone and cable stuff. Obviously. They're sort of 2011 best of type of things, and they're always entertaining.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;- Of course you know all about Damn You Autocorrect. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/burnred/the-25-funniest-autocorrects-of-2011-281t"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Here is a list of the best 25 autocorrects of 2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;. Number 12 is hilarious and creepy at the same time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;- One of the great things about Twitter is using it to tweet stuff about TV while you're watching a particular show. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://warmingglow.uproxx.com/2011/12/the-30-best-tv-tweets-of-2011"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;This list is 30 of the best TV tweets from 2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;.&amp;nbsp;Number 25 might be the most amusing tweet I've ever read. And there are probably a bunch of TV nerds thinking "YES. A jetpack fueled by internet rage should be a REAL THING."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;- These lists from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,2101344,00.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;TIME for the top 10 of everything in 2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt; will keep you occupied for hours. There are SO MANY lists to get lost in.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;- Also from TIME, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,2087815,00.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;the 50 best websites of 2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;. Another rabbit hole to get lost in, trust me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Seen any other good best of lists? Hit me up in the comments!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac123/beautifymyblog/f411f45e.png"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
Thanks for reading!&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4137662993036272887-4599477466476052121?l=boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~4/k_JkH6lzFi4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~3/k_JkH6lzFi4/fun-friday-links.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Julia @ Boredom Abounds)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/2012/01/fun-friday-links.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137662993036272887.post-6129718609703607070</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-04T10:49:08.024+11:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Boredom Abounds Wears</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">polyvore</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Boredom Abounds By Julia</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">fashion</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">boredom abounds</category><title>Summer Days</title><description>&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;div style="height: 500px; position: relative; width: 500px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.polyvore.com/summer_days/set?.embedder=2725587&amp;amp;.svc=blogger&amp;amp;id=41065744"&gt;&lt;img alt="Summer Days" border="0" force="1" height="500" src="http://embed.polyvoreimg.com/cgi/img-set/cid/41065744/id/5NRuj4Ar4RGfJgB_IYVG9Q/size/x.jpg" title="Summer Days" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac123/beautifymyblog/f411f45e.png"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
Thanks for reading!&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4137662993036272887-6129718609703607070?l=boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~4/UDw8r7Mlen0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~3/UDw8r7Mlen0/summer-days.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Julia @ Boredom Abounds)</author><thr:total>4</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/2011/12/summer-days.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137662993036272887.post-5729155271603054295</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 02:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-02T13:18:45.072+11:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2012</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Monday Morning Melody</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">music</category><title>Monday Morning Melody - Snakadaktal</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Happy New Year, everyone! Many thanks for your support of Boredom Abounds By Julia in 2011 - there's some big stuff happening this year, so stick around!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;For now, though, enjoy this very chilled out song from Triple J's unearthed band Snakadaktal, titled &lt;i&gt;Air&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/p9Q-hNR7v1k" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Blogging will resume as normal next week - we've been without internet and doing a bunch of stuff around the house, so my time in front of a computer has been minimal this week.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac123/beautifymyblog/f411f45e.png"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
Thanks for reading!&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4137662993036272887-5729155271603054295?l=boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~4/lodUIHZDhwE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~3/lodUIHZDhwE/monday-morning-melody-snakadaktal.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Julia @ Boredom Abounds)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/p9Q-hNR7v1k/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/2012/01/monday-morning-melody-snakadaktal.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137662993036272887.post-8336173991574536180</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-27T20:08:38.450+11:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2011</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Monday Morning Melody</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">music</category><title>Monday Morning Melody - Tuesday Edition</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;I totally forgot that it was Monday yesterday, hence the lack of a music video. Also, we still had another Christmas lunch to go to, so I was kind of focused on thinking about what I was going to be eating that afternoon. My priorities: food.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Anyway, I heard this song on the radio last week and know nothing about the band except for their name and the fact that they come from Sydney.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;But it's a very cool song, so have a listen!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/503mOceNBZI" width="560"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;There's something about it that makes me think of songs from the mid to late nineties that Triple J would have played.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac123/beautifymyblog/f411f45e.png"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
Thanks for reading!&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4137662993036272887-8336173991574536180?l=boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~4/5ylzaqvV8rA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~3/5ylzaqvV8rA/monday-morning-melody-tuesday-edition.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Julia @ Boredom Abounds)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/503mOceNBZI/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/2011/12/monday-morning-melody-tuesday-edition.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137662993036272887.post-3159335616339904921</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-23T09:07:08.772+11:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2011</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Fun Friday Links</category><title>Fun Friday Links</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Hey, it's &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS7-jcsB_WQ"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Festivus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;!&amp;nbsp; Good luck with your Feats of Strength, everyone!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;It's also, you know, Christmas in TWO DAYS. This year has officially gone faster than any other year in the history of everything. Am I right?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;- Take a look at the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-most-powerful-photos-of-2011"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;45 most powerful images of 2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;. It's been a heck of a year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;- Remeber at the start of Clueless when Cher uses that computer program to choose what she's going to wear? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://thegloss.com/fashion/clueless-technology-cloth-app-819/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Yeah, that's totally a reality now&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;. If you're challenged in the ensemble department, this app is going to make life a lot easier. Is it weird that fifteen years later I still covet most of Cher's clothes?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;- Here are &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://videogum.com/435741/the-best-viral-videos-of-2011-a-retrospective/webjunk/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;79 of the best viral videos from 2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;. If you're at work today, this should keep you busy. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://videogum.com/330711/as-close-as-we-have-yet-come-to-a-perfect-internet-video/webjunk/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;You're welcome&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;- Finally, if you're like me and you haven't had time to do any Christmas baking, check out this super easy recipe &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/2010/12/easy-peasy-christmas-baking.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;I posted last December for Rumballs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;.&amp;nbsp;They take about an hour to put together and everyone LOVES them. It's baking without the actual baking part of things.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Have a lovely Christmas (or a happy Sunday)&amp;nbsp;everyone!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac123/beautifymyblog/f411f45e.png"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
Thanks for reading!&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4137662993036272887-3159335616339904921?l=boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~4/7FmZBCn0vrs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~3/7FmZBCn0vrs/fun-friday-links_23.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Julia @ Boredom Abounds)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/2011/12/fun-friday-links_23.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137662993036272887.post-5170707898001092628</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-13T13:04:11.739+11:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Boredom Abounds Wears</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">polyvore</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Boredom Abounds By Julia</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">boredom abounds</category><title>Christmas Cheer</title><description>&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;div style="height: 500px; position: relative; width: 500px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.polyvore.com/christmas_cheer/set?.embedder=2725587&amp;amp;.svc=blogger&amp;amp;id=41060651"&gt;&lt;img alt="Christmas Cheer" border="0" force="1" height="500" src="http://embed.polyvoreimg.com/cgi/img-set/cid/41060651/id/fAQMqHEr4RGngEEKX-OW3g/size/x.jpg" title="Christmas Cheer" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;This is what I would wear if we had a super fancy Christmas party to attend. You know, the kind you see in movies where everyone is dressed to the nines and sipping from retro champagne glasses and there are fires roaring and snow falling.&lt;br /&gt;
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How gorgeous is this dress?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac123/beautifymyblog/f411f45e.png"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
Thanks for reading!&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4137662993036272887-5170707898001092628?l=boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~4/6-i_SdyQrlY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~3/6-i_SdyQrlY/christmas-cheer.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Julia @ Boredom Abounds)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-cheer.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137662993036272887.post-1679425657602813469</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-21T07:26:53.051+11:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2011</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">books</category><title>Book Review: Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Title:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;Meet Me at the Cupcake Caf&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;é&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Author:&lt;/b&gt; Jenny Colgan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Publisher:&lt;/b&gt; Sphere / Hachette Australia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Year of Publication:&lt;/b&gt; 2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Page Extent:&lt;/b&gt;456&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7034/6542696597_339f515243.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7034/6542696597_339f515243.jpg" width="253" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Issy Randall is a thirty-something in London, working in an office job that does nothing for her except pay the bills. She's having a secret relationship with her boss, Graeme (well, she thinks it's a relationship - it's a bit hard for her to tell) and she spends her spare time baking and visiting her grandfather, a former baker, in a nursing home. Life is pretty....average. &lt;br /&gt;
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Suddenly, changes are afoot in the property development office where she works and redundancies loom. But Issy knows her job is secure. She's sleeping with the boss after all. So imagine her surprise when she's called into Graeme's&amp;nbsp;office and given her marching orders. Not long after that, Graeme ends their affair and leaves her jobless, boyfriend-less and totally humiliated. &lt;br /&gt;
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Retreating to a hermit-like existence, Issy spends her time baking delicious cakes for her and her roommate, Helena, and lying in bed all day depressed and desolate. A forced excursion to an employment training seminar leaves Issy feeling even more hopeless at finding another job, and after admiring the empty little shop and sunny courtyard at the corner of her street, and idea begins to take shape in Issy's mind. Encouraged by Helena, Issy starts investigating the possibility of opening her own cupcake café, and before she knows it, she's up to her eyeballs in lease agreements and mortgage applications and building quotes. &lt;br /&gt;
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Luckily the local bank manager, Austin, is there to help Issy along the way, and despite his disheveled appearance and equally disheveled personal life, Issy begins to feel soft sparks flying between them. As her café takes shape, we are introduced to a host of quirky and likable characters: Pearl, the unemployed single mother Issy recruits to work in the café, Caroline, the sharp divorcee who isn't afraid to voice her upper-class opinions on everything, and Grandpa Joe, who supplies Issy with his tried and true recipes. The café opens to moderate success, with word of mouth and a few lucky breaks&amp;nbsp;propelling Issy and her baking into the spotlight.&lt;br /&gt;
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While Issy works hard to establish herself in the small business world, Graeme hatches a scheme to try and win Issy back and develop the lovely little group of shops on Pear Tree Court where Issy's café is, into a group of modern apartments, with the deluded idea that she'll actually be grateful to him for selling up her dream and getting her back into an office job. Tension mounts as Austin and Graeme vie for Issy's attention, and Issy and Helena clash over Issy's choices as she works to achieve her goals, both professional and personal.&lt;br /&gt;
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This all sounds like fairly standard chick lit fare, but there's something more personal and touching about this novel than the usual material in the genre. One of the most enticing and thoughtful touches is the inclusion of a recipe at the start of each chapter, which is then something Issy bakes or is featured in the café throughout the chapter. Not only do the recipes sound delicious and, as someone who loves to bake, I find that particular aspect of the novel extremely appealing, but there's a realness to Issy and her friends that makes the story totally relateable.&lt;br /&gt;
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The story itself is somewhat predictable, but the author's focus on each characters' story is what sets this apart from other chick lit. The audience isn't subjected to Issy's every thought and rumination over her love life - there's a good amount of focus on her setting up the business and the day to day running of the café with Pearl and Caroline. Told in the third person, the point of view switches from&amp;nbsp;Issy to Pearl to Austin to Graeme with ease, giving the reader a nice, balanced taste of life in Stoke Newington, London with all its kooky characters.&amp;nbsp; It's hard not to find yourself feeling like part of the neighbourhood (and craving a cupcake almost constantly as you read)!&lt;br /&gt;
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This book is the perfect Summer read. It's a denser book than most chick lit, and it would be wonderful for lazy days at the beach or warm nights sipping a cocktail after dinner, and I highly recommend it if you're after a good comfort read during the busy festive season!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;In a word:&lt;/b&gt; lovely&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac123/beautifymyblog/f411f45e.png"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
Thanks for reading!&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4137662993036272887-1679425657602813469?l=boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~4/dZFsUEY_ihE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~3/dZFsUEY_ihE/book-review-meet-me-at-cupcake-cafe.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Julia @ Boredom Abounds)</author><thr:total>4</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/2011/12/book-review-meet-me-at-cupcake-cafe.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137662993036272887.post-9177675201380460721</guid><pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-19T07:18:11.503+11:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2011</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Monday Morning Melody</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">music</category><title>Monday Morning Melody - Christmas Edition</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;I know, Christmas carols are everywhere at this time of year and it's so annoying.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;But not this one. Because as manic and irritating carols are in a crowded supermarket or shopping centre, this one rarely gets played. It's by far my favourite carol, and it's beautiful and it sums up what Christmas is about.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/qrRRqRIBZCA" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Also, how many people could sing this without back up music and hit the right notes? Not many.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Chills, I tell you. Chills.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac123/beautifymyblog/f411f45e.png"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
Thanks for reading!&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4137662993036272887-9177675201380460721?l=boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~4/hF38yTtGH2Y" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~3/hF38yTtGH2Y/monday-morning-melody-christmas-edition.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Julia @ Boredom Abounds)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/qrRRqRIBZCA/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/2011/12/monday-morning-melody-christmas-edition.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137662993036272887.post-2836249595299099285</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-16T10:27:09.772+11:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2011</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Fun Friday Links</category><title>Fun Friday Links</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;One week til Christmas! I thought I was organised, then last night I remembered one more gift I have to get, so back to the shops for me. Blarg.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;But still, one week to go, and that means Christmas baking! Rumballs and gingerbread and shortbread, oh my!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;For now though, here are some links to keep your Friday interesting!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;- Okay, how did I not know about &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-yLGIH7W9Y"&gt;Shit Girls Say&lt;/a&gt;? You simply MUST check out this video. I am kind of ashamed to admit that I have said several of those things. Also, I may or may not crunch food really loudly. Watch the video and you'll know what I mean. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;- You need to have a look at this &lt;a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/5iopGM/www.thedailybuzz.com.au/2011/11/25-clever-ideas_household-tips_storage-ideas/"&gt;list of twenty five things to make life easier&lt;/a&gt;. It's pure genius. I'm totally trying the wet wipes/plastic bag storage one. Currently I have all my plastic bags stuffed in a&amp;nbsp; drawer and it's making me CRAZY.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;- Check out the &lt;a href="http://oldloves.tumblr.com/"&gt;tumblr called Old Love&lt;/a&gt;. It's just a bunch of photos of celebrities who used to date and it's such a time waster, but it's so, so entertaining. The fashion is especially amusing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://jezebel.com/5868061/adorable-baby-attacked-by-adorable-teacup-yorkie-in-most-adorable-fight-ever"&gt;Baby versus teacup Yorkie dog&lt;/a&gt;. Adorable.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_292_25-propaganda-posters-everyday-annoyances/?view=article"&gt;Propaganda posters for everyday modern annoyances&lt;/a&gt;. Number twenty three may be the greatest thing EVER.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Happy weekend everyone!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac123/beautifymyblog/f411f45e.png"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
Thanks for reading!&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4137662993036272887-2836249595299099285?l=boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~4/tOT2lv1U3EE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BoredomAbounds/~3/tOT2lv1U3EE/fun-friday-links_16.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Julia @ Boredom Abounds)</author><thr:total>4</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://boredomaboundsbyjulia.blogspot.com/2011/12/fun-friday-links_16.html</feedburner:origLink></item></channel></rss>

