February 2010
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January 2010
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decisions are the worst
i am making a curtain for my living room to cover some truly hideous black marble that surrounds an unused fireplace.
i can’t decide between these 3 fabrics. please help. {note the ruler at the bottom of the pics - helps visualizes what a 9 ft X 9 ft wall of it would look like}
1. Amy Butler’s LOVE twill trumpet flowers
2. Anna Maria Horner’s Garden Party Table Cloth
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my favorite fabric designer bar none
anna maria horner is the best! most of the fabric in my house and the stacked bolts along the edges of this blog are designed by her. not only is she brilliant with color, but she writes an awesome blog and takes gorgeous pictures. please check it out: http://annamariahorner.blogspot.com/
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excuse me, but
as much as i like twilight - the series, the reinvention of vampire fiction, the theater going, the dialogue writing, the tweener fanaticism, the stay-at-home mom author - it also chargrins** me to say that the heroine bella is a tool. in addition, the story {like many fairytales} begins with a powerless woman needing saving. while her tale ends with a decent measure of female empowerment i...
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keeping time
i often run about 10 minutes late. friends falsely advertise meeting times a few minutes early so i arrive “on time”. best-friend-holly once said that i had a sense of time that was not defined by others’ expectation, rather by my own sense of timely importance.
here is a working list** of things i will and will not be on time for
meeting for coffee with old friend: +10
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gleetastic! gleegasm! gleerageous!
yes, that’s right. idina medzel is joining the cast of Glee!!!! i love her. muah!
i love perez hilton. this is what he has to report:
Wicked’s Idina Medzel has joined the cast of Glee for the remainder of the season and she’s sure getting her share of the action!
“I already directed her in the first episode,” said co-creator Brad Falchuk. “She did two...
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“to answer your question: no, boys should not flat iron their hair”
– me
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like, yum
we’re having a smallish dinner party tonight. the guest list is entirely composed with people of the same last name. this has come to pass because the majority of our local friends are also siblings. {possible when one has very very few friends}
{this is K and S with babies A and D. all W’s}
i am grateful for my W friends. not only are they super convenient {which they are btw},...
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WatchReading in her ‘future reader’ shirt.
Bonny Doon →
Where my mister is taking me to dinner tonight. c/o KQED
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WatchGood girls go bad … Aka em’s favorite song.
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“There is in every true woman’s heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies...”
– Washington Irving
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do this for yourself... do this for america...
watch chuck on nbc, tonight 8 9 o’clock a 2 hour premier. NOT TO BE MISSED!
it is funny. it has intrigue (hello … it’s a lance). spies. it was created by the creators of the OC
nuf said,
erin
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the sisterhood grows
ACT I
me (laying on my bed info snacking): “oh no. oh no. oh no. OH NO!”
brett (from the other room): “what? something wrong?”
me (in a sheepish voice): “yes. and no. you know the sisterhood of the traveling pants?”
brett (answering an obviously rhetorical question): “of course.”
me: “the author, ann brashares, has come out with a new...
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“The stars will wheel forth from their daytime hiding places; and one of those...”
– george clooney up in the air
a long plug for a short website
1993 AND BEYOND: A BRIEF MUSICAL MEMOIR
me, 12 years old:
{fortunately i don’t have a prepubescent digital snap of myself. my dad said i looked like MJH while this was on the tele - i was mortified… in retrospect he was probably right}
I will always love you Whitney Houston
Rump Shaker Wreckx-N-Effect
Informer Snow
Masquerade The Phantom of the Opera
ALL top 10 songs...
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i want this
the season of gifting is over.
sad, i would’ve asked for this.
i love delicate gold chains.
bows.
i'll be watching this tonight →
it is a pot of chicken pie
i have an unfortunate habit of making things only one time. there are a few exceptions - chicken pot pie is one of them. i love making it. i love the smell. i love the meat and the pie crust and the dean and deluca poultry seasoning. i love that i have time to clean the kitchen between the stove-top and oven portions {makes my mister hap-hap-happy}.
make this - you won’t be...
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“someone needs to write down what we owe one another; what we, without a...”
– beth kephart into the tangle of friendship
