December 2009
25 posts
I don't understand
what this means:
Whatever is meant to be will work out.
Well, duh.
You make a choice, and apparently, everything works out. Or you do nothing, and everything works out.
But why? Is it because in making that choice that you chose correctly, or just because that was the choice you were supposed to make all along? How do you know? You don’t. And I absolutely hate that. I want so many things...
Novel Ideas
1. Love/musician/journey
2. An adventure kid
3. Familiar essays
From Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to her. Here is the point of everything I have been trying to tell you… It’s always necessary. I love you.” ______________________________
“In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir....
If you go home with somebody, and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ‘em!
– John Waters
Christmas
Why I don’t enjoy the holidays:
I got pj’s and an entire kitchenware set.
Are my parents trying to tell me something?
My grandmother can’t remember why she’s here.
Mother is angry with Katie for barking at little kids.
Someone didn’t tell me ‘Merry Christmas.’
But, I’m still glad to be here.
Our amazing new frisbee-dog-in-training.
John Krasinski Imagines Himself as an English...
drcatherinesoldtimeytonic:
“I go by Mr. K. I’m teaching English at a prep school in rural Connecticut. In my class, homework is not homework, it’s preparation for the next day. I love teaching books that have been pigeonholed as ”epics,” and my big thing is discovering for yourself why you like them. I’d have a lot of stuff written in some cryptic way on the whiteboard where you can’t understand...
Want. →
Most people would be crazy to get married in a barn.
“Not if it looks and feels like this,” say I.
SNL Pics →
Kate Winslet, Natalie Portman = classic.
Megan Fox = not so much.
Dear Husband-to-be
I hope you follow this outline when choosing to love me.
You must:
1. Love me for exactly who I am 2. Support me 3. Be financially secure and able to provide plentifully 4. Must be a family man- spend lots of quality time with kids (if we have any) 5. Must have good relationship with your own family 6. Must be able to talk openly about our relationship You need to: 1. Have a stable career...
Colors! >> →
This will be my next procrastination site for the week.
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To-Do
Over the holiday break:
Read (at least) 3 good books
Play with Katie
Go ice-skating!
Write, write, write
Work on the vision board
Work on the blog
Upload pictures
Upload stories/poems
See Sherlock Holmes
See It’s Complicated
Try a new recipe
Eat the recipe
Work out (some)
Complete a few photo shoots
Go shopping
Buy myself a Christmas present
Sleep
Record all that I’ve...
I’m done with accounting, at least until I hire someone who understands it.
Christmas List
Leather jacket
Puppy
National Geographic’s Image Collection
External Flash
Ski trip
New AF lens (wide-angle or the such)
Guts
Twenty-seven years have passed. My life seems too fast now, so obstructions...
– Anne Fadiman, Under Water