01 September 2009
31 August 2009
I Remember When...
we would go to Union Station, just because.
I was laying in bed the other morning, in one of those half asleep-half awake moments and I looked past the shades in my room to the outside world. It glowed white, looking like there was snow on the ground (there wasn't). It was just cloudy and the way the world looked through the windy, it looked chillier than normal. Do you know what I mean?
I laid back into bed and closed my eyes. All of a sudden, I remembered walking into Union Station, holding Dad's hand, and seeing the pictures. At the entrance of Union Station, the one we would always walk into, there used to be a kiosk that belonged to an artist. He had simple line drawings of St. Louis set up. I was always transfixed by the ones with the hot-air balloons. Every year, St. Louis has a hot-air balloon festival. I loved the different stages of the balloons in the painting/drawing - some were just getting off the ground, others were half inflated, some were high in the sky.
I remember always begging dad to get it. I have no idea how much they cost or anything like that. I was probably six or seven. But I remember that kiosk so well. And now it's gone. Union Station has pretty much deteriorated into a Hooters, a Houlihan's, and a hotel. There used to be all kinds of shops there - the Disney store, the Nature Company, a WaldenBooks...stuff I cared about. None of those things are left.
I was laying in bed the other morning, in one of those half asleep-half awake moments and I looked past the shades in my room to the outside world. It glowed white, looking like there was snow on the ground (there wasn't). It was just cloudy and the way the world looked through the windy, it looked chillier than normal. Do you know what I mean?
I laid back into bed and closed my eyes. All of a sudden, I remembered walking into Union Station, holding Dad's hand, and seeing the pictures. At the entrance of Union Station, the one we would always walk into, there used to be a kiosk that belonged to an artist. He had simple line drawings of St. Louis set up. I was always transfixed by the ones with the hot-air balloons. Every year, St. Louis has a hot-air balloon festival. I loved the different stages of the balloons in the painting/drawing - some were just getting off the ground, others were half inflated, some were high in the sky.
I remember always begging dad to get it. I have no idea how much they cost or anything like that. I was probably six or seven. But I remember that kiosk so well. And now it's gone. Union Station has pretty much deteriorated into a Hooters, a Houlihan's, and a hotel. There used to be all kinds of shops there - the Disney store, the Nature Company, a WaldenBooks...stuff I cared about. None of those things are left.
28 August 2009
Entryway
Joanna said that she liked this entry way.
I like it, too. I want a vintage steamer trunk. I saw one on freecycle/reuseitstlouis a couple of days ago but it was in bad shape. However, upon looking up some information on craigslist...there's some good, cheap options in the St. Louis area out there. I just don't know where I would put it...
I like it, too. I want a vintage steamer trunk. I saw one on freecycle/reuseitstlouis a couple of days ago but it was in bad shape. However, upon looking up some information on craigslist...there's some good, cheap options in the St. Louis area out there. I just don't know where I would put it...
What the World Eats
Someone (again, didn't pay enough attention to know WHO) posted this on twitter and then I looked at it and was in awe.
You should look at it, too - it's pictures of families around the world, with all the food they have for the week in front of them. Each caption also shares what their weekly food stipend is, a family recipe, or favorite food.
Very interesting. The first two pictures looked kind of normal to me and then the third one...whoa. Definitely puts things into perspective.
You should look at it, too - it's pictures of families around the world, with all the food they have for the week in front of them. Each caption also shares what their weekly food stipend is, a family recipe, or favorite food.
Very interesting. The first two pictures looked kind of normal to me and then the third one...whoa. Definitely puts things into perspective.
27 August 2009
Micaela reminded me...
This sort of goes hand-in-hand with my size 14 jeans.
I LOVE Glamour magazine. Adore it. It has a great combination of fashion (but not too much), lifestyle, music, books, girly stuff, etc...
I used to have a subscription to it...in fact, the most recent issue was my last one, I think. And so I was flipping through it and I got to page 194 and my eyes just RESTED on this woman.
How gorgeous is she? I mean, I looked up from the magazine and Pete was just awkwardly staring at me, and he said, "what's wrong?" and I held the pages up to him and said, "Pete...she looks like ME."
I was so happy. Literally. Thank GOD that some magazine editors are trying to combat the world of skinny women in media. I'm an avid magazine reader (I probably buy one or two mags a week and when the newest batch of monthly issues come out...well, I buy a lot more), and there are not normal looking women in the majority of the magazine ads...or even the magazine article pages.
The tummy roll, those thighs...she even has stretch marks. It's perfection. It's the WAY women are supposed to look.
Anyway - I don't want to shove the whole weight thing down your throat. It's been interesting reading some other comments about the whole thing. On Vitamin G (a blog on Glamour's website), someone wrote a post about it and some people commented saying that they don't want to see a person looking like her in a magazine and that she needs to lose weight.
Well, I digress. Thanks for the reminder, Micaela!! And if you click on the Vitamin G link up in the last paragraph, you can read a small interview with Lizzie (the model/woman in the picture), and 748 of the comments posted about her.
I LOVE Glamour magazine. Adore it. It has a great combination of fashion (but not too much), lifestyle, music, books, girly stuff, etc...
I used to have a subscription to it...in fact, the most recent issue was my last one, I think. And so I was flipping through it and I got to page 194 and my eyes just RESTED on this woman.
How gorgeous is she? I mean, I looked up from the magazine and Pete was just awkwardly staring at me, and he said, "what's wrong?" and I held the pages up to him and said, "Pete...she looks like ME."
I was so happy. Literally. Thank GOD that some magazine editors are trying to combat the world of skinny women in media. I'm an avid magazine reader (I probably buy one or two mags a week and when the newest batch of monthly issues come out...well, I buy a lot more), and there are not normal looking women in the majority of the magazine ads...or even the magazine article pages.
The tummy roll, those thighs...she even has stretch marks. It's perfection. It's the WAY women are supposed to look.
Anyway - I don't want to shove the whole weight thing down your throat. It's been interesting reading some other comments about the whole thing. On Vitamin G (a blog on Glamour's website), someone wrote a post about it and some people commented saying that they don't want to see a person looking like her in a magazine and that she needs to lose weight.
Well, I digress. Thanks for the reminder, Micaela!! And if you click on the Vitamin G link up in the last paragraph, you can read a small interview with Lizzie (the model/woman in the picture), and 748 of the comments posted about her.
Wait Until You See Number 9...
I was tagged by the LOVELY missy. Sorry it's a bit late, love!
The rules are, erase the answers already listed and fill in your own then pass it on to four bloggers of your choice. here goes:
1. Who is the hottest Movie Star?
[it should be known that I don't really consider people "hot"...it's more "cute"
BOY: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
GIRL: Zooey Deschanel
3. What is your most treasured memory? - family vacations. We went all over the country every summer, to Hilton Head and out to California and up to Boston and to the Southwest to see the Grand Canyon...it's funny, because we were in cramped spaces (the car, hotel rooms, etc) but we seemed to get along so well on vacations. I guess we were all just really excited.
4. What was the best gift you ever received as a child? - I particularly remember receiving a Barbie mini-van back in the day and I thought it was the BEST THING EVER. But now, looking back, my mom used to write me and Emme poems every couple of years. I still have all mine and I think that's the best thing ever. And when I graduated from high school, part of the invitations for my grad party were detachable and people wrote advice on them and gave them to me at the party. I still read through those now and then and they are just wonderful.
5. What is the biggest mistake you have ever made? Hmmm. I try not to look at things as mistakes, but as opportunities (I know it sounds cheesy, but it's true). Lying to my parents, in general...those were not opportunities. That was just dumb. (One time in particular.)
6. 4 words to describe yourself? - ha, I used to have this on my facebook profile: "sometimes cranky, always artsy". But for real... compassionate, goofy, creative, weird.
7. What was your highlight or low light of 2008? I just sat in front of the screen for a good four or five minutes and cannot remember ANYTHING that is really bad or really great. I enjoyed being an RA for the second half of 2008 and it was pretty fulfilling. I also hated being an RA for the second half of 2008, especially the three AM phone calls about puke in the stairwells. Sweet.
8. Favorite Film? - Amelie. Garden State. Little Miss Sunshine. The Royal Tenenbaums. But first and foremost, Amelie.
9. Tell me one thing I don’t know about you. - I was Homecoming Queen as a senior in high school.
10. If you were a comic book/strip or cartoon character, who would you be? This doesn't really count, but probably Lucy Knisley. She wrote French Milk and I think it would be cool to be her. But out of, like, superheroes...Superman.
I tag....
Laura
Karen
Rosemary
Bridgett (although I'm not sure if this meme is u p your alley or not)
Micaela
The rules are, erase the answers already listed and fill in your own then pass it on to four bloggers of your choice. here goes:
1. Who is the hottest Movie Star?
[it should be known that I don't really consider people "hot"...it's more "cute"
BOY: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
GIRL: Zooey Deschanel
3. What is your most treasured memory? - family vacations. We went all over the country every summer, to Hilton Head and out to California and up to Boston and to the Southwest to see the Grand Canyon...it's funny, because we were in cramped spaces (the car, hotel rooms, etc) but we seemed to get along so well on vacations. I guess we were all just really excited.
4. What was the best gift you ever received as a child? - I particularly remember receiving a Barbie mini-van back in the day and I thought it was the BEST THING EVER. But now, looking back, my mom used to write me and Emme poems every couple of years. I still have all mine and I think that's the best thing ever. And when I graduated from high school, part of the invitations for my grad party were detachable and people wrote advice on them and gave them to me at the party. I still read through those now and then and they are just wonderful.
5. What is the biggest mistake you have ever made? Hmmm. I try not to look at things as mistakes, but as opportunities (I know it sounds cheesy, but it's true). Lying to my parents, in general...those were not opportunities. That was just dumb. (One time in particular.)
6. 4 words to describe yourself? - ha, I used to have this on my facebook profile: "sometimes cranky, always artsy". But for real... compassionate, goofy, creative, weird.
7. What was your highlight or low light of 2008? I just sat in front of the screen for a good four or five minutes and cannot remember ANYTHING that is really bad or really great. I enjoyed being an RA for the second half of 2008 and it was pretty fulfilling. I also hated being an RA for the second half of 2008, especially the three AM phone calls about puke in the stairwells. Sweet.
8. Favorite Film? - Amelie. Garden State. Little Miss Sunshine. The Royal Tenenbaums. But first and foremost, Amelie.
9. Tell me one thing I don’t know about you. - I was Homecoming Queen as a senior in high school.
10. If you were a comic book/strip or cartoon character, who would you be? This doesn't really count, but probably Lucy Knisley. She wrote French Milk and I think it would be cool to be her. But out of, like, superheroes...Superman.
I tag....
Laura
Karen
Rosemary
Bridgett (although I'm not sure if this meme is u p your alley or not)
Micaela
To the Readers.
To the readers - to my friends who pop in from time to time, and to the friends that I have known for years that read religiously.
To the strangers that read and get to know me through words and pictures - but really, you are all friends in my eyes.
To the people whom I got to know better through blogging - really, I'm thinking of a few people in particular who ALWAYS make time to read and comment.
I just want to say THANK YOU to all of you. It means to the world to me, to know that people care enough to see what I have to show you and say to you. You are all wonderfully creative and lovely and smart people and I love reading what you have to show ME as well.
Basically, we're just awesome.
To the strangers that read and get to know me through words and pictures - but really, you are all friends in my eyes.
To the people whom I got to know better through blogging - really, I'm thinking of a few people in particular who ALWAYS make time to read and comment.
I just want to say THANK YOU to all of you. It means to the world to me, to know that people care enough to see what I have to show you and say to you. You are all wonderfully creative and lovely and smart people and I love reading what you have to show ME as well.
Basically, we're just awesome.
254 letters!
I wrote my first letter! It isn't super interesting - it's a cousin that I have always deeply respected but rarely talk to.
It's funny because as days have gone by and I've been thinking more and more about this project, I get excited about writing certain letters to certain people. But I am FORCING myself to go in order of the contacts on my phone.
Read along if you want; I would really love it if you did!
[image via papertissue's tumblr]
It's funny because as days have gone by and I've been thinking more and more about this project, I get excited about writing certain letters to certain people. But I am FORCING myself to go in order of the contacts on my phone.
Read along if you want; I would really love it if you did!
[image via papertissue's tumblr]
Old Soul New Heart
Okay, I TOTALLY remember when I first saw these - Joanna! Ah, Joanna. She's getting married on Saturday! Very excited. And I feel weird getting excited for her wedding, since I've never met her and probably (booo) never will, but she's delightful. I DO know that.
She posted about these gorgeous headbands. They are very similar to Ban.do's style, but much easier on the wallet/pocketbook/wherever you put your cash money.
I have decided that I am going to wear some type of headband on my wedding day. I'm leaning towards a poofy headband. I like poufs! Poufs and glitter. Those two things together are the best.
She posted about these gorgeous headbands. They are very similar to Ban.do's style, but much easier on the wallet/pocketbook/wherever you put your cash money.
I have decided that I am going to wear some type of headband on my wedding day. I'm leaning towards a poofy headband. I like poufs! Poufs and glitter. Those two things together are the best.
Grey Gloves
I love alliteration - just typing "grey gloves" up there in the title bar made me feel happy.
These are another twitter find. Sorry. Whoever showed them to me is awesome! I want some!
They also come in other colors. They are also $49.50. Ugh.
These are another twitter find. Sorry. Whoever showed them to me is awesome! I want some!
They also come in other colors. They are also $49.50. Ugh.
Yet Another Commercial
I need to start keeping track of how I get to things I see on the Internet. Twitter has made this difficult. People tweet links or pictures and I open them all in new tabs and forget who said what.
But anyway, someone on twitter posted this link and I LOVE this commercial! Usually Budweiser/Bud Light/anything Anheuser-Bush commercials bother me (my dad works at A-B so I've been paying special attention to commercials from them for years) but I really, really like this one. Cute!
But anyway, someone on twitter posted this link and I LOVE this commercial! Usually Budweiser/Bud Light/anything Anheuser-Bush commercials bother me (my dad works at A-B so I've been paying special attention to commercials from them for years) but I really, really like this one. Cute!
26 August 2009
Space Mountain
Want to see what Space Mountain looks like with the lights on?
Oh, now you can! Check it out. (I have to say it still looks pretty terrifying to me.)
Oh, now you can! Check it out. (I have to say it still looks pretty terrifying to me.)
Perfection.
This was in the Reading and Writing Go Hand in Hand tumblr. Like I said, perfection.
I get excited! I make things! I have a Moleskine notebook! (I'm on my third, actually, and pretty proud of myself.)
I get excited! I make things! I have a Moleskine notebook! (I'm on my third, actually, and pretty proud of myself.)
The Swell Season
Did you see the movie Once? No? You should have.
I actually have a really sad story about Once. Pete and I used to write for a music magazine called playback:stl (I guess we still do but I haven't contributed in a long time). I would get many, many emails each work on the listserv, about local shows, CD/book releases, etc. Occasionally we would get emails about movie premieres (I say occasionally because come on. I live in St. Louis. Movie premieres don't usually occur here). This email was about a premiere for Once. Glen Hasard, Marketa Irglova (the two stars), and the director of the movie would all be present and would take questions after the movie was over. So we watched the trailer and the trailer REALLY didn't look that good. So all was forgotten.
A couple of months later I was hanging out with my friend Sam. He mentioned how much he, as a boy, LOVED it and that it was right up my alley. So we went and saw it, and Sam and his other friend Mike totally teared up and wouldn't admit it. The next time Pete was in town, we saw it. And Pete loved it. And I had forgotten about the free movie premiere with the TWO STARS and DIRECTOR...for awhile. And then I remembered and was really sad.
That's it.
The soundtrack from the movie is great. Glen Hasard and Marketa Irglova just work together so beautifully. As a duo, they call themselves The Swell Season. And they are in the process of releasing another album. And if you go here, on NPR's site, you can listen to some of their new stuff! It sounds so good.
This picture above is from when Hasard and Irglova won the Oscar for Best Original Song from a Movie, or whatever that Oscar is called. It was so sweet - you could tell they were just in awe. But then Hasard talked the whole time and played them off stage, and Jon Stewart brought Irglova back out so she could actually get a word in of acceptance speech. It was annoying (that they played her off) but so sweet that Jon Stewart helped her out.
And, as good measure, here's their award-winning song, "Falling Slowly", set to snippets of film from Once. If you like the look of this, you'll love the movie. You should go rent it now.
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