on a few of my favorite beauty things

When it comes to beauty products, I’m a sucker for packaging. I like to ogle the myriad options online, in catalogs and in stores, but I don’t often pull the trigger. The truth is, I can’t be bothered to spend too much time on my beauty regiment…it seems no matter how much time I spend I always end up looking pretty much the same. So while I often walk slowly through the aisles of the cosmetic department at Nordstrom, plotting my next purchase, I mostly stick to a few tried-and-true products. Here’s a list of some of my favorites:

on the top of 2010 – TV

The list mania continues. I truly don’t watch that much TV on a regular basis, but since we started streaming Netflix through our PS3 I’ve been catching up on some shows that escaped my attention to this point. So while some of the items on the list may not be new in 2010, they are new to me.

Here are the best things I watched in 2010:

on the top of 2010 – music

I love lists. I love recaps. I love end-of-the-year recap lists. And I love that having a blog makes me qualified (at least in my own mind) to create my own list.

I don’t listen much to entire albums anymore, so here’s a list of my 20 favorite songs of 2010, half-heartedly sorted into my own categories:

Best ’80s songs in 2010:
-  “I Can Change”, LCD Soundsystem
- “Easy Bear” (feat. Tim Harrington), Hesta Prynn
- “Not in Love” (feat. Robert Smith), Crystal Castles

The dreamiest songs of 2010:
- “Crazy for You”, Best Coast
- “Go Outside”, Cults
- “Expectation”, Tame Impala

The peppiest songs of 2010:
- “Friendly Ghost”, Harlem
- “Marathon”, Tennis

The best bells of 2010:
- Tie: “Rill Rill”/”Tell ‘Em”, Sleigh Bells
- “Windstorm”, School of Seven Bells
- Tie “The Ghost Inside”/”Mongrel Heart”, Broken Bells

The best suburban ennui since “Subdivisions”:
- Tie: “The Suburbs”/”Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)”, Arcade Fire
- “Bloodbuzz Ohio”, The National

The best odes to (potential) lovers:
- “Coquet Coquette”, Of Montreal
- “Taos”, Menomena

The best bands I saw in Australia in 2010:
- “Little Lion Man”, Mumford and Sons
- “Little Girl” (feat. Julian Casablancas), Dark Night of the Soul

The  best “yes, sometimes I love hip-hop”:
- “Runaway”, Kanye West
- “Love the Way You Lie” (feat. Rihanna), Eminem
- “hahahahajk?”, Das Racist