I wish I liked tea

because if I did, I wouldn't feel so silly buying pretty teacups and not putting liquids into them. I remember when I was little, me and Emme (my younger sister) had a Barbie tea set that changed from white to pink when you put cold water into the cups or on the saucers. I wish I had a grown-up version of that tea set.

But in the meantime, I can look at this and be happy:

via creature comforts via courage my love

MACRO

So, after the lovely LAURA at Quirkology explained macro to me (and her entire loving audience) , I got super excited because I realized that I had a macro setting on my camera. So, here's what I got out of that so far. Still experimenting, though.





I think me and macro are going to be friends.

What? My BiRTHDAY?

WHOA! I'm turning 20 tomorrow...on April 15...aka tax day.

My dad always made a funny joke about how he wasn't in the hospital when I was born, he was mailing the tax forms. Har har!

It doesn't feel like my birthday. The last couple days it's been raining in the Lou and SUPER windy. That certainly doesn't equal April season.

Oh well. Here's a picture of me when I turned 18. That's pretty much all I have in relation to birthday things.



Tomorrow I'll spend the day in class, eating good food at Sage, and being with family and friends (hopefully) throughout the day! Oh, and eating my Grandma's world-famous chocolate cake. Probably one of the best things I've ever put in my mouth.

Etsy: Shop Local

I rarely pay attention to the sidebar on Etsy. Today, however, I saw that there was a tab labeled "shop local." Curious, I clicked on it and after I typed in St. Louis, MO...A TON OF SHOPS POPPED UP! I have seen some of them at craft shows (there's only been three big ones in the Lou, but that is STILL so awesome), but this element really excited me!

Some fun, new LOCAL shops I found today:

Hana and Violet:



Bees Knees Industries:



Chocolate Canary:



wonderful:



Check out the links to get some cool stuff. I really like the children's clothes.

Pieces of wisdom

I read this and teared up:

Lies I've told my 3 year old recently

Trees talk to each other at night.

All fish are named either Lorna or Jack.

Before your eyeballs fall out from watching too much TV, they get very loose.

Tiny bears live in drain pipes.

If you are very very quiet you can hear the clouds rub against the sky.

The moon and the sun had a fight a long time ago.

Everyone knows at least one secret language.

When nobody is looking, I can fly.

We are all held together by invisible threads.

Books get lonely too.

Sadness can be eaten.

I will always be there.

{my favorites are bolded-ed}



And for the love of GOD, I hope I make my future kids happy. I want to send them to bed at night, dreaming of not only sugarplum fairies but tiny bears snoozing underneath our house and quietly listening while outside, one ear towards the sky, listening for that sound...

[first found @ swissmiss, who found it here]

[photo from here]

petit dejeuner

Reason #1 I am looking forward to having my OWN apartment next year:



Making my own breakfast.


[via NicnBill]

Good morning!

Wooo it's early but I am awake! I love this above picture - taken at Hilton Head Island when my family was there this past summer. Good memories, waking up at 5 AM to make coffee and basically roll out onto the beach in our PJs.

On this momentous morning occasion, I decided to type in "morning" at etsy and see what came back.


K.Vonnegut pin - Nouveau Motley


"Morning Dream" by ThoughtProcesses


Pretty "sunrise" fiber (if this was a smoothie, I would drink it) - Zero

Now, time to drink some cran-grape juice and jump in the shower. Mornings are maybe my friend after all!

Apartment Hunting

Me and my future roomies, Sarah and Marcy, are apartment hunting today. We looked at one building across from campus, which is (eeee) $1650 a month between the three of us, BUT that includes everything - utilities, wireless, cable, trash pick-up, etc. We're checking out another set of apartments in a couple hours called the MetroLofts.

I'm pulling for that one. It's cheaper. I like the area better. I want to be sort of away from campus next year, since I'll have a car. This past year with being an RA gave me enough time to interact with people on campus. I'm ready to be in solitude from MANY (not all, by any means) but MANY of my college peers.


This whole process makes me want to go to sleep and cuddle uglydog.

Best YouTube video EVER

Check this out.



I laughed so hard the first time I saw it [via yahoo]

The Cakery

I GOT A NEW JOB AT THE CAKERY BAKERY!!!!!!!!!!

Obviously, this is a dream come true. I will basically be working six hour shifts, in which I will be pumping out HUNDREDS of cupcakes.

Like I said, dream come true. I am SO SO SO SO excited. I heard back from the boss/wonderful woman who interviewed me named Ericka today, and...well, I squealed a lot.

EEEEE! Keep you updated as I know.


[via cupcakes take the cake]

Sweeney Todd

Until tonight, I hadn't had the, uh, pleasure of seeing Sweeney Todd. Pete was really, really excited about showing this to me tonight, after getting calzones from Vito's and before I had to do the hardcore work of being an RA on call on a Friday night in a freshman dorm.

It was good, I guess. I would have to say that my favorite part of the whole film was when Mrs. Lovett was having her daydream about whisking Mr. T away and marrying him. I love the color schemes in it, the costumes, and even Helena Bonham Carter's quirky singing voice.

I looked for photo stills, but of course I couldn't find any. Here, however, is the entire CLIP of the song from the movie. One of the only times I wasn't hiding under the covers.

flickr

After looking at numerous peoples' flickr pages for almost a year, I finally decided to make one of my own - HERE IT IS!

I wish I could afford to have a PRO account...as in, make multiple albums, but alas, I cannot. Maybe someday.

It's fun. I've been uploading pictures every couple of weeks, silly ones, serious ones...I wish my photos on my computer looked more professional sometimes. I have a real camera, a Nikon Rebel OSR and I lalaLOVE it, but I don't have a scanner. Some of my favorite pictures have been taken with that camera.

So yay! Check my pictures out. They're fun. Most of them are cute. Some of them are mooshy (as in...love) so sorry about those...

PS: one of my favorite pictures EVER:

Jessica at the KSLU Snowball dance. With a mustache. And looking gorgeous, might I add.

Playing Favorites

Quite possibly the best part of one of my favorite movies...



I suggest that if you haven't seen The Royal Tenenbaums, you run yourself out to Blockbuster, Hollywood Video, the local library - wherever - and rent it QUICKLY.

I feel like I grew up more today...

Okay. I'm young, I'll be the first to admit it. I'm not even 20 yet (only...13 MORE DAYS!) but I had never been to a cemetery until today. Uncle Leo, a lovely man from Pete's family, passed away after catching pneumonia. Pneumonia scares me. It really just grabs older people by surprise and then, well...it's just sad and scary.

I hadn't been to a funeral for a long time, but I'm really glad I went. Not just to support Pete, but to see everyone else in his family and really, just celebrate a wonderful man who moved on.

Uncle Leo, I hope you're having a good time, listening to jazz music and drinking your favorite wine. <3

Exciting News!

[via avaloncm]

I am so lucky to know so many generous people all over this country (and daresay the world? So many of my friends are studying abroad...), and while I was spending lots of time with my friend Megan before she went back to school in Philly, she mentioned that her school is weird and makes her be in school year round with every-once-in-awhile three week breaks thrown in, so she's in Philly all summer...and me and Pete are going to visit her!

It's going to be exciting, because Pete and I haven't been anywhere together besides Chicago and Cairo and places in between, PLUS we'll be seeing friends! Our aim:

June 4 - leave stL at 7 AM and get to Philly by midnight or so

June 5-6 - spend time exploring a city I've never been to and hang out with MEGAN

June 7-8 - be in the city of NEW YORK for a comic festival (Pete's idea, but I'm not going to lie, I'm kind of excited about this part) and to generally just explore

June 9-? - head up to Boston if my aunt is around and chill in her cute little house and run around another wonderful, awesome city

EEEEEEEEEE! I'm so excited. I'm hoping we can find a place to leave our car in Philly, because after that we can just take MegaBus pretty much everywhere- Boston, Philly, New York- they're all connected! I hope we can get it to work out.

Does anyone have any ideas of places that we DEFINITELY need to hit up while we're in this area? I don't want to miss anything amazing...


So far, this is what I have that I had saved in my bookmarks folder (one of my favorite things is finding good websites and just using that function out of control):

1. SoHo walk (no idea where I found it, but if you know, let me know!)
2. Magnolia Bakery (duh!)
3. See Kurt Halsey in Philly at his art opening at Art Star Gallery
4. Get a hot dog from a hot dog vendor
5. MoMA
6. Cafe Mona Lisa
7. Central Park - want to see Cleopatra's Needle, Alice, and John Lennon
8. Run by here, if it hasn't been demolished
9. Go to a jazz club
10. head to Coney Island
11. Wish I could be around for this
12. Go here and undo all the working out

There are so many more things- again, those are pretty much just ideas for NYC, but any thoughts are welcome!