SweetGirlSmirk

When the weather starts to get warm, the car windows go down and the radio goes up. It is a great time to discover a few new songs, dust off some old favorites, and go to that happy place. Here's a sampling of what I'm blasting this spring! Sidenote: While I love them all, I am SUPER looking forward to Highly Suspect's album. Lydia is a great jam! AWOLNATION- Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf)* Highly Suspect- Lydia* Florence + The Machine- What Kind of Man Cold War Kids- Hang Me Up to Dry KONGOS- I'm Only Joking* Modest Mouse- Lampshades on Fire Gerard Way- No Shows* Keane- Somewhere Only We Know Frank Turner- American Girl* Mumford & Sons- The Wolf Passion Pit- Until We Can't (Let's Go) Blur-Lonesome Street Radiohead- High and Dry Ray LaMontagne- Burn Alabama Shakes- Shoegaze *explicit You can check out this playlist here on Spotify! Happy Spring!  What's your favorite old and new song? KimmayJ  is all about...

Age of Adaline http://www.theageofadalinemovie.com/ Opens April 24, 2015 Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 1 hour 49 minutes Genre: Drama, Science Fiction & Fantasy Director: Lee Toland Krieger Starring: Blake Lively, Michiel Huisman, Harrison Ford, Amanda Crew, Ellen Burstyn Age of Adaline promo poster, Lionsgate Adaline ( Blake Lively ) is a lovely woman with a lovely life, but is left due to a series of events 29 years old for 80 years . With time on her side, she is allowed to see more than one could hope for. But at what price? The cast gave the story the life that it needed. Lively is stunning as she navigates the decades, loves, loses, and wins. She is able to be at once perfectly poised but cautiously guarded. She has come so far from the youthfully manic early days of Serena van der Woodsen, and should be a star for a long time to come. Several times I gasped at just how simply stunning she looked on screen. She and  Michiel Huisman (the e...

At 4:00 pm on Saturday, April 11, 2015, I shaved 4 years of long, curly hair off my head. I am a 31 year old female Instagram addict and let all of my hair fall to the ground (well, in my hand because of the 6 braids of hair I was donating). I am not going through a mental breakdown, or trying to shock the world. I am not suffering from disease. I simply want all of those who have no choice in what grows, or does not grow, on their head to know they look beautiful too. so long, long braids! I must say, I had no idea of what I was getting myself into. For the past 6 years, I have attended a St. Baldrick's event and watched as countless people raise money to fight pediatric cancer and additionally shave their head in solidarity. Each year I consider actually participating but have never had the courage to do so. I finally decided this was the year, and in twenty minutes, other attendees contributed the $250 I pledged to shave at.  It didn't take courage, though. I...

Age of Adaline , starring Blake Lively, Michiel Huisman, and Harrison Ford may not open until April 24th, but I'm giving away two passes to an advance screening in Philadelphia on April 15th! This also includes a happy hour meet and greet with the director, Lee Toland Krieger. To enter, visit SweetGirlSmirk's Facebook Page and like and share the pinned post, or invite a friend to like the page (comment with their name and they must like the post and the page). You get an entry for both! For additional entries, you can get 1 entry for every $5 you donate to Aaron Walls' St Baldrick's donation page as he's shaving his head in solidarity with kids who have cancer. This is the biggest St. Baldrick's event in PA and benefits the local pediatric cancer patients at Hershey Medical Center. All entries must be submitted between 4/10 and 4/13 at 11:59 pm eastern time.  The event is April 15th at 6 pm and I will message the winner on 4/14 the details! Good luc...

Taco Tuesday is the highlight of my weekdays. I live for copious amounts of sour cream and shredded cheese and warm meat cradled in a crispy shell or swaddled like a delicious baby. Without it, Tuesdays are pretty meh. Monday has overshadowed the weekend high and we are still days away from Friday happy hour. But the tacos are here to save us. Whoever invented the idea deserves sainthood. Yes, cheap tacos are aplenty on this glorious of days, but if you are a homebody/Netflix addict like me, going out on a Tuesday night is not on the docket. Then again, neither is slaving away over a stove after a long day. What is a taco champion to do?! Enter the next person up for should-be sainthood, the inventor the slow cooker. Throw that chicken in the crock-pot and when you come home all you need to do it smother it in cheese and lay back and watch the next season of Gilmore Girls. Now, I like to experiment with food. So, one day I grabbed some chicken from the freezer and some Chi-Chi'...