home again.

My parents are on a very luxurious vacation. This means that I am jealous, but I get the run of their house to watch the dog while they are gone, which is an okay trade off.

I am planning on doing an epic organization of all of the junk I pulled out of my (many) college drawers and giant locker.

Amongst the many more fun things I have to do, is pick my mother's huuuuge harvest of backyard raspberries.



sorry for the pooooor quality, I left the camera at home, with only a palm centro to help blogging along!

post!

Things in the mail are simply the best. I've received a few recently, and I cannot tell you how thrilling it is to open them.

I found a package from a wonderful friend of mine in Wisconsin a while ago,



a letter and some fun stickers and a supercute birthday present that proves that she knows me better than most: tweezers in the shape of a cute little girl. Love! (as do my gnarly eyebrows). She's the best.


I also got a homemade postcard from a friend who is on a cross-country farm tour, showing off his handiwork on a sheep hut that he knows I envy:



I miss him like I can't even say. But now he's a part of my semi-permanent fridge gallery, complete with a few other postcards, including a really raunchy one (that's always a conversation starter) from Cologne sent by roomate/bff.

nerdtastic

My mother has been pushing me to pick out a piece of jewelery as a graduation gift. She wants me to have a sentimental momento, I thought new sneakers would fit the bill.

She disagrees. So I have been looking for something that perfectly encompasses my univeristy at Buffalo experience.

and I think I may have found it today!



the Caffeine Molecule Necklace by etsy seller molecularmuse!

art + science + abundant caffeine = my past 5 years in a nutshell.

I wonder if my mother would go for it?

butter and tunes

After a hectic yesterday going to a superclassy bridal shower (which we will have to wait on cute pictures for), and a superclassy wedding for our friend Sally and her husband Andrew:



sorry for blurriness, I suck. I feel that the cutting of the cake with a sword summed up this couple nicely. Love them!


today, I had a nice slow morning.

I made pancakes from scratch,



while my roomate/bff had a lovely band practice a room away,



and they're good to boot! Actually, you should listen to some of their first cd at their band page, Hecho en Fuego.

As for the rest of the day, I am going to relax and try my best to nurse away this beast of a headache.

mood lifters

I had a rough day. Between having an intermittently busted car, no job, and very soon no health insurance, and having to take care of all of these things as soon as possible made life a bit upsetting. I even had a fight with my mother that I wish didn't happen.

I've been feeling better since dipping into my blog cache and finding this wonderful one that I'm completely hooked on, Color Me Katie. She takes the best pictures of colorful things, fun intervention-style projects, and has the cutest cat.








this girl is the utter definition of whimsy, and that's just what I needed right now.

(I did make up with my mom btw. Still thinking I should bake her a treat to really make up for it though! sssh, don't tell)


pics from the Color Me Katie blog. just go to it now!

I just met you, and I love you.

I'm still not sure about the movie UP! (Cute doggies but overall extremely depressing)

What I do like is this:



...a home in Seattle belonging to a now-deceased 86 year old woman who was apparently very stubborn. I do wonder who owns it now, and if they were the one to add the balloons.

found via Apartment Therapy

bar alternatives.

one of my favorite things about being out of school is late night home activities. Because usually at night I get a very strong urge to BAKE.

Like scones at 1 am with Katie and Kyle.



I am trying my best to learn some recipes for very basic things, and find the best recipes for them possible. These were close to being the best but not quite there yet. I always like recipes that insist on using your hands instead of utensils for mixing.

bye for a little

off for the weekend to celebrate a little dude's birthday. Always good.

My own is rapidly approaching, and I'm depressed. oh well. My weird schedule is taking it's toll on my soul, and all I want to do is go outside. Maybe birthday day will be all about being out and running around, which would make me extremely happy.

Give me a call, let's try to do something. I'll bake!

....maybe these?

thank you, o interweb

I don't know...I was innocently cruising around the interweb and found an amazing thing, a blog with screencaps of amateur porn that include animals. Because, I think, the occasional cat or dog highlights the mediocrity of the thing.

But anyways. Aside from the amazingness that is cats watching amateur porn-filming in disgust, is the awesomely MS-Paint censoring technique of this site.



from the very aptly-named Heavy Petting.


Now kids, help me out so I can make a smart comparison, who is that printmaker who screenprints the huge colored circles over important information in photos/portraits (in a kind of censoring way)? I know it's a passing reference but I know I saw this work not too long ago, and it's making me nuts not being able to find them.