It's been an incredibly hard month.
My precious Bijou, who has been by my side every day for the past fifteen years passed away on February 18. I am still grieving. Grief is hard enough with the external judgement that comes with the territory of "pet grief" - I don't see grieving for a pet as any different than grieving for a fellow human being. Other people do, though. No one has outright said to me anything about how I should be getting over it or anything, but there is this underlying tension of people who cannot relate. It makes me distance myself from people. There are people I normally talk to on a weekly basis who I have not contacted in over a month - just because I know they will not understand. Blah.

I don't know why I'm writing about this on my blog. It's probably rambly nonsense.

Whatever. I'm feeling lost.

I love you, Bijou.

I sort of miss blogging. I was fumbling through the internet just now, from pinterest to modcloth to facebook to pinterest.
I sigh.

I haven't done anything creative with ANY of this in so very long. No videos. No photographs. No blog posts.
So I'm starting with a blog post.

Hello, followers! Haha. I'm kidding. I know none of my followers use blogger any more. But maybe some of them might get the same creative itch as I did, and hop on board.

I will begin today just by saying hello again. I don't think I need to say any more than that.

So, Hello again, for now.

With love,

Emma

It's That Fairy Time of Year

Stripey Dress

Okay, guys. We get that there is a strong association with all things nautical in the Summer, but do ALL of the dresses I buy have to have stripes? No. No. Probably not. But they DO. Because I seem to walk in the store with a strong sense of practicality and a list of what I have been missing in my wardrobe, but as soon as I see stripes, I decide that practicality is for losers and that thing-that-I-actually-needed can wait.

Conclusion:
It's 1988
I'm actually Taylor Swift
OR
Stripes are just beast.

Movie's GG Must Watch!

I found GG's Must-Watch-Movies/Shows list from last year!!!! I'm putting it here so that she can see it and reflect on how she really needs to get back to it.... :-p

1. Ladykillers
2. Billy Elliot
3. Bend It Like Beckham
4. Calendar Girls
5. Flipper
6. Moulin Rouge
7. Surf Ninjas
8. Sense & Sensibility (the Hugh Grant one AND the Dan Stevens one....)
9. Australia
10. Galaxy Quest
11. Back To The Future parts II and III
12. Tulsa, Tokyo & The Middle of Nowhere
13. Shakespeare In Love
14. A Wake In Providence
15. North
16. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
17. My Boy Jack
18. Hook
19. CELTIC THUNDER!!!!
20. The Jungle Book (Live version with John Cleese!)
21. Secondhand Lions
22. Singin' In The Rain
23. Nicholas Nickleby
24. Hello Dolly
25. Oh Brother, Where Art Thou
26. Are You Being Served
27. 20,00 Leagues Under The Sea
28. Encino Man
29. The House Bunny
30. Third Rock From The Sun
31. Stardust
32. Harry & The Hendersons
33. Josh Kirby: Time Warrior
34. Indiana Jones
35. The Producers
36. Andre
37. The Little Giants
38. A Knights Tale
39. A Fish Called Wanda
40. Newsies
41. Downton Abbey
42. This is Spinal Tap
43. Spaceballs
44. Almost Famous
45. Groundhog Day
46. The Birdcage
47. Bye Bye Birdie
48. Robin Hood (BBC Series) 
49. Peter Pan (Most Recent Live Action Version)
50. And I am adding number 50! - ECHO BEACH! :-p

Sadly, we actually got to most of this list. In retrospect, we watched a lot of T.V. 

Among the scribbly-scrabblies of this list that we added to over time, there are little conversations.
In GG's Handwriting: I Love Movies!
In Mine: But you suck at watching them!
In GG's: Shut it!

Frappe-On-Demand

GOOD MORNING

I am a firm believer that if every day started off with bacon and Downton Abbey, the world would be a happier place.

Except for pigs, I suppose.