Tired With a Capital T

Yes, GISHWHES is over and I’m back to blogging.

This year had some fun and crazy items to do. I did seven days of happiness, making a different person happy with a kind act every day. That was a lot of fun.

Went prospecting in a public fountain. And my friend and I played badminton in the mall food court for 30 mins without anyone even noticing. Everyone was too busy on their phones.

Then we had to wear white and get red wine poured on us from a two story building.

I taped coupons to five items in the store to help someone out, a coupon fairy.

I made postcards for William Shatner wishing he has joined us in GISHWHES.

Made a mural all about the wonderful Honeybees and what they do for us.

Did five chores for a mom who is overworked (in honor of Mr. Rogers). Serenaded a store employee who is overworked with a musical instrument I made myself.

Dressed up a a Jedi and went to get a root beer float at a ’50s diner.

I turned 15 people into robots! (their facebook pics).

I put a compilation of our team pics together, representing where we were from. I even used The Brady Bunch font for our names. (I hope they notice and give extra points!) For the people who didn’t give a photo I had to replace them with Misha Collins.

And I “buried” a person in popcorn in box (for the coffin, I couldn’t get a real one) in a mausoleum.

And I did this all between my regular three jobs and donating my Saturday to a children’s free backpack fair. There was a lot more I wanted to do, but just ran out of time.

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And that being said I am now tired. Tired with a capital T, which rhymes with P, which stands for pooped out.

But it was worth it. It was nice taking a week out and having this big adventure, doing all kinds of things you wouldn’t normally do.

But now back to regular things like laundry, bills, repairs, cleaning, etc. You know all those things I ignored last week. That is…after a long nap…or reading.

For more on GISHWHES, go to GISHWHES Girl

For more Misha Collins, go to You Can’t Have Just One!

For more on joining GISHWHES click on this link.

The Beauty of Darcy

Now we all know that is the wrong answer, but at the same time, it’ the truth.

Wait, let me explain for those of you who might be confused. Now I don’t know how many of you have seen the Pride and Prejudice (2005) BBC Version but it has a very memorable scene where Colin Firth, who plays Mr. Darcy, jumps into a pond to cool off and looks great doing it!

While this scene isn’t in the book, I’m not one for complaining about it being in the miniseries 🙂 I love how the two are so embarrassed to see each other; not only is it funny but realistic. Plus Colin Firth looks so good!

Anyways this scene was recreated in the TV series Lost in Austen (2008) [This sucked so don’t watch it] as the heroine asked Mr. Darcy to humor her and dunk himself in his pond. Have to say I loved this scene too as I probably would have asked the same thing.

Is that agreeable? Oh YES!

If only Laurence Olivier had done a wet shirt scene!

Such a good-looking man!

Even in Bridget Jones’ Diary (a very, very, bad modern-day telling) there is a scene that nods to the ’95 P&P with Hugh Grant falling in the lake and getting very wet.

In the sequel, Bridget Jones’ Diary 2: The Edge of Reason (also very bad) we get two scenes that refer to this. One is when Bridget Jones daydreams she sees Mark Darcy (played by Colin Firth) coming out of the water just like Darcy did in the ’95 version (couldn’t find a video); along with seeing a wet Hugh Grant and Colin Firth fight in a fountain  (Watch from 3:37).

As you are probably wondering if there is a point to this post besides discussing the beauty of these men in wet clothes, there is. Recently I stumbled upon this and thought I would post it for anyone interested.

All you have to do is go to this website and you can get this image (and a few others) on a multitude of objects. All I can say is that I would love to have this! 😀

UPDATE:

Sooo this really happened!

 Why does this only happen in cyberspace and not in the physical world?

For more on Mr. Darcy, go to Darcy’s Dream Date

For more Pride & Prejudice, go to On the 10th Day ‘Til Christmas: Merry Christmas from the Austen Novels