December 2008
“Our Faith is over 2000 years old. Our thinking is not.
God is still speaking.”
– Sign on a church I drove by yesterday.
I like it and keep mulling it over…
Auld Lame Syne: Share Your Worst New Years Eve!
I’ll get us started.
It was New Years Eve a handful of years ago and I was still tragically dating my idiot of a boyfriend. Things had been rough for a while. I think we both more or less hated each other by that point but were too lazy or comfortable to breakup.
He headed out to a party, I agreed to call him and get directions to meet up when I was ready.
I think the first call I made, he...
Angels in Middle America
Drove back from outstate this afternoon in a snowglobe, hurtling through flurries like a time traveler.
Thought about the crest that snow forms in between the highway lanes. And how half the world can’t understand the surge of courage it takes to cross that wake going 50 miles an hour.
“Angels in America” has been drifting through my mind all day. Maybe that’s the mood I’m in. And that’s a...
I'm not going to lie to you.
I’m drunk on mimosas and Hangar One vodka, playing American Idol for Wii with Kraabel and my little brother.
I’ve got to tell you that it’s surprisingly affirming when Simon praises me after I’ve given all I have to a rendition of Fergie’s “Big Girls Don’t Cry.” I feel like Liza.
Shit. I’m not ready to work tomorrow.
I may explode before the 25th.
I am absolutely overcome with Christmas cheer – nay, Christmas glee.
This time of year, I am always commandeered by my inner six year old: Compelled to sleep beside the Christmas tree, unable to stop humming carols and buying additional gifts, smitten with every home decked in white lights and pine boughs.
It’s all I can do to refrain from performing Ciseauz leaps down the hallway and...
Apt holiday card from my former political polster
“All of us here at Wilson Research Strategies wish you every happiness this Holiday Season and prosperity in the New Year. All the best to you and your family,
Your team at WRS P.S., Did you know that 77% of Americans prefer to use “Merry Christmas” instead of “Happy Holidays?” Find out more here.”
despite it all.
So last week, my sister found out she’s pregnant and despite it being her fifth little guy, I was as delighted as if it was her first. They’re just the kind of parents who you are deeply pleased to see procreating. And her first four kids are such funny, smart, kind, weird little people that you can’t help but be excited to see what she produces next….like waiting for your...
Best & Worst Logos of 2008 →
livejamie:
The logo for 826 Valencia and Microsoft Mouse are amazing.
“What?????!!!! Is Oprah freaking kidding me? Does she NOT realize that those of...”
– My sister, a server, freaked out when I told her that on Oprah’s “Financial Crisis 101” show, the big “O” told the audience to tip only 10% in order to save money. (via jackieheartsb)
Further proof that Oprah lives about 10,000 miles from the real world. Here’s an idea: If you can’t...
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer (via ebb-andflow, srsly, bon-bon)
“As long as I am breathing and able to make decisions around this house we will...”
– Kraab takes a stand on the holidays
Phillip Toledano - Days with My Father →
(via kraabel)
This. just. kills me.
Update
#1.) I love you Ell and your excellent, face saving (ass covering?) advice.
#2.) The zipper in my pants (which have a side closure, by the way) got stuck at the kink and I had a near hyperventilation moment….battling the beastly zipper for five minutes in a two foot stall, seriously wondering if I was going to have to cut them off in order to finally use the ladies’ room.
I know...
Bad surprises.
Today, my zipper is kinked and stops about an inch or two from the top of my pants.
Resultantly, I am living in constant fear that they’re going to fall down or burst off, spontaneous-stripper-style.
Never learn.
So, even as I deeply understood that I shouldn’t, I cut my own bangs last night.
Because I really like a graduated side sweep – and for some odd reason, I can’t convince professionals to chop a triangle in the middle of my bangs. Go figure.
For the most part, I’m ok with the results. Except that there’s this one section, in the very middle – where west bangs meet and part from east bangs, if you...
WatchAnd….I just found one of my End of Year giving projects!
Apparently, this commercial (created pro bono by Taxi) is causing an uproar from people who would like to pretend children aren’t fighting wars, being prostituted out or building the goods we buy on clearance.
Check out this article in the Boston Globe about One Laptop Per Child - which distributes $199 heavy duty, partially...
Three Confessions.
1.) Today for lunch, I ate an Arby’s Melt. From the drive thru. It was basically a hot, sloppy pile of processed meat and cheese. And it was awesome.
2.) Sometimes, alone in my car, I listen to horrific music. I shake and shimmy to Beyonce and nod my head to all the single girls and emphatically agree that if he liked it, he should have put a ring on it, indeed.
3.) I really find...
“The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human...”
– W. Faulkner in his acceptance Nobel speech (via shanai-matteson)
University of Florida president donates $285,000... →
Machen has directed his gift to help fund a scholarship program for first-generation college students whose family income is below $40,000 and whose parents never earned bachelor’s degrees.
Awesome. That’s how it’s done, John Thaine.
Cambodia photos and ramblings →
Some new photos from Angkor and around. Some half assed ramblings about the trip. Mostly too busy out enjoying this incredible country to tumbl. And that’s saying something!
