irish love affair

"may you have warm words
a cold evening.
a full moon on a dark night.
and the road downhill all the
way to your door"
- Irish Blessing (from my irish oatmeal box)

i love oatmeal. plus, there is an oatmeal raisin recipe on the back that i would like to try sometime.

i'm currently going through a book titled, 'simple pleasures' and i'm in love. it's so funny, but its not a novel or anything, just little snippits of the joys of other people. sometimes i find myself laughing because there will be a little passage about something that i can relate to fully, even if its this random stupid 'pleasure'. and oh the recipes, like chocolate chip cookies, nostalgic brownies, ;P

whenever i think of ireland, i just remember how much i love saoirse ronan's specific dialect. it's so lovely. that's the only word i can use to describe it. i discovered her when atonement came out, and then learned that she would be playing the role of susie salmon in one of my favourite novels, 'the lovely bones'. and with peter jackson directing? so amazing ;) but i actually love her the most in a film that she did before any of these i think, called 'i could never be your woman', with michelle pfeiffer and paul rudd.

it's quite sweet, and saoirse sings a bit, but her style really catches me. its totally funky and adorable, but there is a seen where she is trying on pants, and hates her body, and says 'im too fat'. :/ i guess her mom has become so obsessed with trying to stay young while working in the film business, that things sort of rub off.

but i think you should watch it :)