c'est l'hallowe'en, c'est l'halloween!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYBODY!

and now i will share with you my secret pumpkin seed recipe:

spend hours picking the pumpkin seeds out of the pile of shitty pumpkin insides from the pumpkin you just shittily carved:

preheat oven 350f

rinse off seeds.

put in a pan.

add: 4 tbs oil (preferably olive)

add: 5 pinches of basil

add: 4 pinches of oregano

add: 3.5 pinches of rosemary

add: 3.5 pinches of thyme

add: loads of salt

roast for at least one hour.

though, don't neglect, check every 15 minutes, until golden brown:

they're probably done.

mine weren't, they were still chewy. 

probably because i could only cook them for 40 minutes.

they were still tasty though.

probably best not to do this at 4 am while stoned.

it's rather time-consuming.

GOOD LUCK!

ps. instead of going as tiger lily, as originally planned, i've decided to go as ugly betty.

what can i say? i was inspired by my own blog post.

it was way too easy to put together an ugly betty outfit from my closet.

un-ugly betty

is it just me, or does betty suarez have the best style ever?  it's colourful, loud and bold. but ultimately fashion foward.

i mean, i know everyone's always talking about how america ferrera's so beautiful and how ironic it is for her to be "ugly betty" but no one ever admits to how rad her outfits actually are.

if i could dress like this everyday, i would in a mothafuckin heartbeat.

mainstream porno

Zack and Miri Make a Porno comes out tomorrow to a theatre near you.  I had the pleasure of seeing a sneak peek on Monday because my friend Dallas scored some free passes from the tubular dudes at Y108.

The movie was great, so many laugh my ass off moments.  But what Dallas and I didn't love about it was the fact that the dirty comedy was interwoven with a dramatic love story.  And maybe it's just me, but I couldn't handle the fact that Seth Rogen was the lead romantic character.

Maybe Kevin Smith should have casted someone less hot in the lead actress' role, because Elizabeth Banks is about 14 levels hotter than Rogen.  She also happens to look EXACTLY like rachel mcadams.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for the ugly fat funny guy getting the gorgeous blonde girl, but they didn't make it believable enough for me I guess.  And I think the love story aspect of the film partly ruined the comedic part for me, because their awkward 'love' moments made me uncomfortable, when my heart was supposed to be melting.

Either way, the movie was great and Justin Long was fucking outstanding. He's such a good gay.

And Jason Mewes chopped off his hair, highlighted it, and looks incredible! He played an actual porn star in the movie and was so believable.  I couldn't believe it was him! He looks younger and hotter and porno-e-er. 

Overall, it gets an 8 out of 10... 

No, make that 8.4

all hallow's eve

I'm so pumped for Halloween.

All I've been oozing halloween spirit by:

1. watching repeat Simpson's Treehouse of Horror episodes

2. watching Hocus Pocus three nights

 in a row before going to bed

3. carving pumpkins (haven't done it since my sister marci cut her right hand open while carving a pumpkin in 1993)

4. watching this video of filipino inmates performing the Thriller dance on youtube (so incredibly entertaining, especially the guy playing the girl):

the only things that have been making me not as truly happy as halloween usually makes me is the whole Hudson family murderous fiasco in Chicago, and this piece of shitty news I just heard on cnn two minutes ago, about an 8-year old boy who accidentally shot and killed himself at a gun show.

robin kay vs. rick the temp

saturday night ended up being pretty fun...

i missed the last fashion show but instead, we went to the spoke supper club to party with the drunk yuppy crowd of fashion week.  my sister amy was there, also drunk and yuppy. she introduced me to robin kay who said to my dad a day earlier, after grabbing his face:

 "i've been waiting 

for you all my life!!"

she was super jokes and introduced me to my

 "step-sister," her daughter.

apparently she is getting a lot of flak for her drunken speech last week.

they say she could be replaced as president of the FDCC, 

which is bullshit i think.

LeaVe heR aLone!

Also at the party was the well-aging Rick Campanelli.  It was the highlight of the ever excited ami, seen here: (please note michelle's satisfied grin masked by suavely drinking beer)

i think the amount of vodka and redbull that was ingested by ami was the major factor of what caused her to give rick a facial (rubbing her hand over his face, as if she was using a washcloth).

as excited as ami was to be talking to/facialing rick, or richard, it was barely a fraction of how excited michelle was to meet him.  she was too nervous to take his photo so she shoved her camera in my pocket to do the dirty deed. 

fashion week

today's the last day/night of fashion week, and i'm hoping to score a ticket from my sister amy, whose company sponsors it.  she's always involved in fashion week and has made a good friend out of robin kay, the president of the fashion design council of canada.

two days ago my dad and i were watching etalk daily to catch up on the latest 'e-sightings.'   instead, we watched a clip of the launch of fashion week at the mango show in nathan phillips square.  ben mulroney described it as "an uncomfortable and awkward moment when robin kay fumbled for her cue cards as the audience squirmed in their seats."

luckily they showed a clip, where robin is clearly drunk and wobbily.  she got escorted off stage by a mango rep.  

my dad and i laughed our asses off!

not only because it was awkward and embarrassing, but because my sister amy had plans to set up robin with my dad this weekend!

do blind dates exist anymore?  

water vs. oil

yesterday I had my re-scheduled appointment with Norah (of Norah Salon and Spa) to do below the waist maintenance.

I asked her opinion on whether girls should get waxed on their period.

All she said was: "it's more painful"

She's so professional.

But before I went, I washed my legs, etc. because I thought it is only kind to do so before you go for a wax.  As I was laying down, she swiftly removed the first wax strip; she gasped and said: "did you shower before you came??!!" (as if it were a crime)... I hesitantly admitted to doing so.  She tsk tsk'd me and said: "NIKKI I'M GONNA KILL YOU"

I didn't correct her misuse of my name, but asked her why she wanted me dead.

(I thought it was cause I'm a jew)

And she said that by showering before I came, I rinsed off all my body's oil which made waxing much more difficult.

SO DONt WASH be4 U WAX!!! Or You'll be a dead woMAN walking

bad makeout story

So i've decided to come clean to my reader(s) about a rendezvous i had in toronto couple weeks ago.

went and saw plants and animals at horseshoe, got totally trashed.

went to the beaver and got even more trashed.

made out with a guy who refused to tell me how old he was.

he tried to steal my credit card, but successfully stole $5 from me.

next day, wake up, with a fucking cold sore.

SHITTY NIGHT

bloody wax

I had a bikini and leg wax scheduled for 2pm today.

Of course, last night, I get my period.

So today I sent a poll out to some of my girlfriends, asking whether or not I should cancel.

Almost all said yes. Due to smell and sensitivity issues.

But I once spoke about this issue with my sister's best friend, who is an aesthetician.

She said she waxes period-ridden veegees all the time, which got me thinking, is it that big of a deal??

Then, I remembered!!

My friend Zoe once told me this horror story of her aesthetician friend who so graciously willed to brazilian wax an unnamed woman on her period.

It was a flawless procedure, until the wax strip horrifically attached itself to the tampon string.

When she quickly removed the strip, she

 unknowingly ripped out the tampon and flung it across the room.

Needless to say, I cancelled my appointment.