Friday Fascinations

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♠ You can get custom mix hair color online now! For cheap!! This rocked my world.

♠ Early American settlers turned out to be desperate enough to eat each other, and not in a kinky-fun way. 

♠ RuPaul has a game app now! So exciting! (I LOVE RuPaul) Just such a bummer they don't have it for
 android.
 
♠ Rapper Chris Kelly of Kriss Kross was found dead at the age of 34! Dude, I LOVED their song "Jump" when it was hot in 1992. I thought they were cool. I watched the embedded video, I can't believe how little they were! Such cuties!

♠ Have you seen the Dove Real Beauty sketches ads? Makes ya think, whichever side you're on.

♥ ROBERT PLANT IS TOURING AGAIN! ♥

Chocolate sticks

A couple of weeks ago The Man and I were coming back from Hollywood on a rather frustrating night and stopped to get gas. I decided I needed chocolate and headed inside. To my surprise I discovered this gas station (somewhere near Santa Monica and La Cienega) carried Fling! I love Fling! I had meant to write about it months ago when I first had one (all completely unsolicited by the way. Fling, or it creator Mars has never sent me anything or asked my opinion on their product. I just have to tell you about random crap like the different types of sugar I consume in ever growing quantities.) , but then I ate it before I could take pictures, then that happened again the next time I bought one, then I gave up figuring I was a gluttonous slave to chocolate and forgot all about the whole thing.

Enter gas station with Fling bar.

Looking over the shelves I noticed the 3 Musketeers Truffle Crisp Bar, it looked like the same thing. I had to get both, damnit and compare them. Since I was feeling lazy and there was no way I was gonna work on taking decent photos I also had to buy chocolate that I could eat then, it was a peanut butter Twix, had them before, love them, highly recommended (told you I was a glutton).

Fling is really good, and really...girly. That was what I first noticed, it looks, girly. It's got cute bright pink packaging, it's slender and shiny, and at 85 calories a stick it's supposed to let you indulge in chocolate while keeping you...slender and shiny. Flings has a creamy chocolate truffle layer on top of a "subtle crisp layer" (no one explains what this crisp layer is,  but it tastes like chalky Violet Crumble. It's sweet and has a great snap to it but it's not real clear what it's made of), then the whole thing is covered in chocolate and the best part? It's covered in rose colored Luster Dust! It's so, cute!

                                           (^^^Fling ^^^ can you see the shimmer? it was kinda hard to capture on film)
The 3 Musketeers Truffle Crisp Bar is almost EXACTLY the same, same calories, same truffle layer on top of mysterious "crisp layer", covered in chocolate, made by the SAME COMPANY! But, not cute shimmery luster dust. Oh well. So, how does it taste?

Side by side, the 3 Musketeers is WAY better!
The Fling had a better snap to it, firmer truffle layer, was a little wider and flatter, and had that great shimmer. But, it was...Fake. It tasted, stale. And in it's defense maybe it was...but...3 Musketeers was creamier, a little more slender of a bar but thicker, softer truffle that melted in your mouth. I missed the crisper snap of the Fling but, 3 Musketeers tasted so much fresher. I like the cute packaging of Fling, but I don't really require a gender specific candy bar. I will definitely buy the 3 Musketeers again. Have you tried either? What did you think?

Shake it baby!

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So it is the dawn of day 4 (not really dawn I realize, but I don't really get to work on my own projects till I get home at night) of the challenge and I have still made progress! This is amazing, my New Years resolutions didn’t stick this long! I think I mentioned what I intend to do, (working on my photography and dance a little every day) and am pleased to report that a little of both got done last night. AND I still had time to lie in bed, watch TV and love my man! SCORE!

For the dance portion of the evening I mixed it up with The Bollywood Dance Workout,

and loved it. I love, love, LOVE eastern dance, and took my first Bollywood dance class back in July (or was it August?) in a workshop with the amazing girls from Blue 13 Dance Company. It was SO much fun; I knew I would be doing more of it. But then I have tried to concentrate on my belly dance, because that is part of a project I am working on with The Man. I do all of this in my living room by the way. I haven’t always, I was a dance major in college, I used to go to studios to dance; right now though I just can’t afford it, so I do it at home with videos. It’s really funny because I have recently gotten back in touch with quite a few people I used to dance with, they all ask “where do you dance now?” and laugh when I say “my living room”. Then, they smile big and say “no, really though, where are you dancing?” Really people, right there in my living room. And you know what? I love it.

The Bollywood Dance Workout video is really geared toward the novice, living room dancer. I had never heard of Hemalaya Behl, and she seemed to be new to the concept of teaching dance as the instruction moved pretty quickly. She wasn’t always in sync with the music, and the other two dancers weren’t always in sync with her. (Although upon googleing her I have found that she has many videos, so maybe this was just her first one.) Despite all this, it was the best workout video I have ever used, and I had SO much fun!

Part of this is due to the fast pace, which although not good for the first part of learning the movements, does keep your energy way up. Hemalaya is always telling you to smile, and not to worry too much if you don’t get the steps right, just do what feels right. She was having fun the whole time, smiling and laughing. Her voice over instructions are always in an upbeat voice, and a few times she realized what her mistakes were and said not to forget to laugh at yourself and have fun! Wow! This girl rocked! She has such good energy! More exclamation points for her! !!!!!!!!!

I was sweating by the end, and felt like I got a good workout. Then she cools you down and gets a little stretching in. It was a pretty complete package. I am gonna do it again tonight, and would highly recommend this video to my fellow living room dancers!