sexy men that I enjoy staring at.

Medusa

Colorado Rules

Rule #1 Do not ride your breaks
Rule #2 Do not drive into the mountains without gas
Rule #3 Drink lots of water, and when I say lots, I mean it
Rule #4 Dress in layers
Rule #5 When the road sign says "15 mph with an upside down 'U', you go 15 mph
Rule #6 Bring a hat and sunglasses
Rule #7 Bring snackie snacks
Rule #8 Turn off your cell phone, its liberating


Merriweather

I am a quote collector (how very postmodern, i know)

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. PABLO PICASSO In love, the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. ERICH FROMM I’ve been thinking a lot lately about taking chances, and how it’s really just about overcoming your fears. Because the truth is, every time you take a big risk in your life, no matter how it ends up, you’re always glad you took it. ZACH BRAFF, SCRUBS You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun. AL CAPONE If you kiss someone with feeling, they know it. And you know it. It’s like everything else goes gray and you’re the only two people left in the whole world.  MARC ST. JAMES - UGLY BETTY Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. MOTHER TERESA Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do and damned if you don’t. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on tv telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it. FRANK ZAPPA It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. ALBUS DUMBLEDORE, J. K. ROWLING For myself I know not how to express my devotion to so fair a form: I want a brighter word than bright, a fairer word than fair. I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer day — three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain. JOHN KEATS To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. RALPH WALDO EMERSON The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. ELIE WIESEL Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. Mahatma Gandhi And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. Friedrich Nietzsche None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. Ralph Waldo Emerson I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. T.S. ELIOT Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great. MARK TWAIN If you can’t razzle them with dazzle, baffle them with bullshit. W.C. FIELDS What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, ‘This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!’ Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, ‘Never have I heard anything more divine'? FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can’t tell fast enough, the ears that aren’t big enough, the eyes that can’t take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone. EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE, JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe. A GAME OF YOU, NEIL GAIMAN Not everything that counts can be counted, and not

everything that can be counted counts.(Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton) And it’s not “clever lonely”(like Morrissey) or “interesting Lonely”(like Radiohead); it’s “lonely, lonely,” like the way it feels when you’re being hugged by someone and it somehow makes you sadder. Chuck Klosterman Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. Franz Kafka If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means ‘flunk." Lemony Snicket Oftentimes, when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps. Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. Mel Brooks

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known. Winnie the Pooh I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they’re here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It’s like looking at all the students and wondering who’s had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why. The Perks of Being A Wallflower …don’t tell me I’m not sensitive to beauty. that’s my achilles’ heel, and don’t you forget it. to me, everything is beautiful. show me a pink sunset and i’m limp, by god. anything. ‘peter pan.’ even before the curtain goes up i’m a goddam puddle of tears… j.d. salinger, franny and zooey If you take a book with you on a journey,…an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it…yes, books are like flypaper—memories cling to the printed page better than anything else. Cornelia Funke And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter — they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Sylvia Plath A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover. Charles Bukowski Write hard and clear about what hurts. Ernest Hemingway I’m telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true. Lady Gaga Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for. Banksy Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives…and to the ‘good life,’ whatever it is and wherever it happens to be. Hunter S. Thompson You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. Plato Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary. Oscar Wilde Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. Alls of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all got through this. And if you are just staring out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know it’s normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through. Ira Glass The Blue album, there’s hardly a dishonest note in the vocals. At that period of my life, I had no personal defenses. I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes. I felt like I had absolutely no secrets from the world and I couldn’t pretend in my life to be strong. Or to be happy. But the advantage of it in the music was that there were no defenses there either. Joni Mitchell, on the creation of her 1971 album, Blue I hope that you will have a wonderful year, that you’ll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you’ll make something that didn’t exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind. Neil Gaiman Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like no one is watching. a tin sign in a Chicago Jimmy John’s 

XOXO

MEDUSA

Tables

I love round tables. You can see everyone, you can pile shit in the middle, you can climb underneath the tablecloth and hide. They are just great.

Merriweather

The Wrath of Me

Apparently I tell people when they are not dressed up to par. Usually not in a mean way, maybe sometimes it just comes out like that to my mother and my closest friends but all I really want is for them to look their best. My co-workers told me that while they are getting dressed they keep me in mind and wonder what I will say. If you ask my opinion I will most likely tell you what I think, so if you don't want to know then don't ask. I feel like I have a good grasp on what looks good on people and myself but sometimes I may be wrong or I may not follow the rules either. But I am really just trying to help, seriously help.

Yesterday one of my bestest and I went shopping and found absolute shit in every store we went in. I was really disappointed but when I came to think of it I had not really been shopping since I had been back in Wisconsin. We went for a certain purpose and came out with diddly squat. I was almost about to try on a pair of skinny jeans because I just wanted something new but my conscience kicked in and told me "you hate skinny jeans; you're knees get claustrophobic and you look top heavy" My friend found a cute dress at Macy's after what seemed like hours of sifting through terribly made garments in a crappy mall with icky lightning. Hahaha, I'm not bitter or anything but man oh man was I pampered in Chicago with all those fantastic stores. However I do not miss the sales tax one bit.

Merriweather

the truth about art school

via fuck yeah art student owl


These make me laugh so hard.  

Medusa

"I only have a kitchen because it came with the house"

There are two kinds of people; people who cook and people who don't. My family cooks, bakes, broils, grills you name it. My mom's best friend who happens to live across the street does not use her kitchen, well more specifically her over. One of my bestest and I were mixing up some treats the other day to bake when our oven became inoperable so we marched on over across the street. "L" was showing me where the hot pads were and she got out her cookie sheets which are in miraculous condition and I just could not believe it. "That's because I don't bake on them" HAHAHA, what? "Nope, they are for taco dip only" Soo fantastic. And apparently my mom did bake on them once and was badly scolded for it. Haha.

Merriweather

Kisses

My grandparents kiss each other before they leave the house "just in case" my grandpa says.

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Not quite as short as shorts but not quite as long as pants

Pedal Pushers (for bicycling)
Capris (Grace Kelly was one of the first to wear these on the island of Capri)
High Waters (to wade in water)
Clam Diggers (for harvesting clams)
Knickerbockers (think old baseball players)
Manpris (common term used for men)
Bloomers (variations of  womens bottoms, including undergarments)
Breeches (men's bottoms, very billowy)

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Passive Aggressive

I hate passive aggressive street signs. "One Way" Oh yeah? Okay so you do you want me to turn around or something? Am I not allowed to enter? Also I dislike "Lane ends in ____ feet" Right, so should I get over? Is this my last chance? What is going to happen? It should say "GET THE FUCK OVER BECAUSE THIS LANE IS GOING TO CEASE TO EXIST" or maybe without the profanity, but seriously who came up with this shit. Tell me what you want me to do, I cannot read your mind. And I know what you are thinking, I am woman and we are the damn queens of being passive aggressive, guilty as charged. However I am trying my very hardest to say what I mean. But men probably came up with those damn street signs.

Merriweather

Moms

At the office that I work at there are moms everywhere, all very sweet and nurturing but by gollie if something is up they can smell it in the air as you walk past them. They just know. They have a crazy sense about these things. So when I am feeling down they are there to try and bring me back up whether they smother me with hugs, silly compliments or just a shoulder to cry on; it's kind of nice having a mom wherever I go.

I don't know if I will ever be a Mom but I have always certainly been the motherly one with every group of friends.
Merriweather

Teased by your blouse Spit out by your mouth

I'm already feeling nostalgic...

Some of my favorite Chicago things:

summer in chicago (nothing compares)

music in the park 

myopic books 

orange (orange rosemary french toast) 

sprinkles cupcakes 

the anthropologie on chicago ave. 

walking under the lights of the chicago theatre at night 

the blackstone (interior decorations)

the top of the harold washington library 

the flat iron building 

riding the fine arts building elevators 

the double door dressing rooms 

the art institute free days 

hollywood beach 

saturday night at roscoe's 

the old mailbox in columbia's 624 michigan building 

rush street 

hollywood mirror

vogue fabrics in evanston
fishman's fabrics 

the newsstand off the main st. purple line stop 

the great porches and balconies and rooftops 

the shoe department in belmont army 

the starbucks on harrison 

looking at the skyline from the museum campus 

looking at the skyline from the roosevelt bridge

looking at the skyline from the end of navy pier  

the new art supply store on wabash 

the brown elephant
long walks and cigarettes 

the salvation army off grand

goose island 312 

fox and obel vanilla latte 

standing room only 

walking down and up michigan avenue 

halloween house parties 

watching the sunrise on the lake 

playing in the face fountains 

the smell of the first snowfall 

This city will always have a huge chunk of my heart and soul...

Medusa 

Dad's "Room"

My father has several spaces to call his own. He has his bedroom, he has his office, he has his bedroom at the group home where he sleeps four days a week and he has his car no matter which particular one he has that day it is guaranteed to be "his". Along with these rooms he has "closets". He has his trunk or the bed of the truck, he has his double door closet at home, he has his closet at the group home and then he has his closet at work which is actually the coat closet. He has claimed all these spaces and uses them well. I think a room defines your character.

When I was younger and would visit my father at work I remember having to strategically maneuver my body around mounds of paper and filing cabinets just to sit down in his chair. And forget about trying to find the keyboard and the mouse to pull up solitaire. And it is still this way and always will be. And I like it this way, because this is the way I work. It is organized in a way only he understands which is how I do it. "Organized chaos" someone once described the mess I had on the floor.

Merriweather

and I cannot fight the fact that I am my father's daughter. We make everything our own, he bring in our shit and it just throws up every which way. You can tell who we are and probably a few things about us

Medusa

Happy Fucking Birthday Other Half.

I miss you terribly and I hope your birthday concert (cough cough, BACKSTREET BOYS) is awesome. Please get home safely and don't talk to people with missing teeth or large bags that may contain guns and such.

LOVE YOU,
Merriweather

love and the apple store

*Actual photo of me taken in the Apple store 

I never bought into the whole prince charming thing (the only Disney movie I've ever enjoyed is Beauty and the Beast). I have  never second guessed kissing a frog(gross) or thought a man would return my shoe because i was a careless loser without a watch.  I do believe in love and fate and all of that stuff but I do not expect my hair to twirl around in the wind when our lips first touch.  I do not need gifts or the reassuring "okigottagoiloveyou" phone thingy, however,  there is one thing I would enjoy... I would like you to tell me that I am pretty in the Apple store.


Medusa

Our House

Let me start with the fact that I am an observer; I pay attention. I like knowing what is up and how things go. As a kid my bestest friends house was very different from mine. It was always clean,  things were in their place and there weren't any projects covering the kitchen table preventing us from eating dinner as a family but come to think of it we didn't eat as a family nor did we eat at the table very often. I am not saying these things are bad or that I would change anything but what I am thinking of today is adding little touches.

We never had candy dishes sitting around, so whenever I would see a candy dish in another home I could control myself. Sometimes I didn't even really like what the candy was I just wanted it because it was there and I never had it.


We were also the kind of house that only had kleenex when we were sick. There was never a box on the back of the toilet or anywhere else in bathroom. And by gollie I like having kleenex around. I usually blow my nose every time I get out of the bath or shower.

Ever need something to read while sitting on the toilet? That is a yes for everyone. We never EVER had anything to read in the bathroom so I reverted to reading the ingredients and labels of everything and anything that I could reach (this is where a box of kleenex would come in handy).

These sound like silly little things BUT these are things I have noticed and like. : ) I just need to buy some candy tomorrow!

Merriweather

Muffins

I looked through some really hilarious and lovely photos of my friend's parents today. I told his papa bear there were some pretty great ones and he responded with "Back then I was a stud muffin, now I'm just all muffin" Hahaha hells yeah. There is nothing wrong with a little bit of muffin.

I love looking through old photos, its fantastic. Maybe you should bust out those dusty photo albums that are in need of some sunlight because they have been hanging out in the basement for years, maybe even decades. Just do it, you will probably laugh your ass off because you are bound to find something inappropriate. Plus you probably look just like your parents when they were younger. Same facial expressions and everything.

Merriweather

101 Things...

A fellow lovely designer gave me a book titled "101 Things I Learned in Fashion School" and it is simply fantastic. And it is so accurate:

#13 Cotton is a fiber, not a fabric


#14 Satin is a weave, not a fabric


#29 Rules for buttoning a man's jacket
       Two buttons: Always button the top, never button the bottom
       Three buttons: Sometimes button the top, always button the middle, never button the last

#47 Simple clothes aren't simple to design


#55 Two ways to disappoint a design instructor
        Do exactly what the instructor says
        Don't do what the instructor says

Merriweather

SAVE THE DATE!!!!

My entire life I have dreamed about the day I could throw an epic party.  It's pretty much my only long term goal.  I just want to throw ONE epic party.  Definitely Marie Antoinette style, definitely a complete waste of money.  I have started to plan this party because, you know, I'm like totally going to be famous soon... It will be an invite only event, everything will be paid for, everything will be available.  Everyone will camp in lovely cloth tents on hundreds of pillows.  Champagne will be flowing and there will be music everywhere.  The food will be strange and wonderful and everyone will be dressed in a lovely whimsical costume.

This is my dream.  Save the date...
Medusa

Learning new languages

For the past month I have been living with my grandparents until I find a job/apartment.  My grandpa is full blooded Irish and my grandma is full blooded Italian.  Their relationship is bound together by their bickering.  They have an entirely different language...

Grandma language:

Tex Mex = Text Messaging
Steak = Steak N Shake
Tavern = Bar
Zink = Sink

Grandpa language:

Crazy Horse the furnace guy = My dad's friend/ our neighbor
That sissy girl college =  any liberal arts college


Medusa

Favorites

This is one of my favorite photos of all time:

Halston (fashion designer), Bianca Jagger (fashion icon), Jack Haley Jr., (Tin Man from Wizard of OZ), Liza Minelli and Michael Jackson at Studio 54.

Merriweather

Lists

I am a list maker and I come from a long line of list makers. This is my summer list but don't be alarmed it is nothing to worry about, some of these things are nothing you to me but man oh man they are not things I ever do.

Dance in public
Sing at the top of my lungs with someone present
Kiss a stranger
Do something spontaneous
Make something wonderful
Flash someone while in a car
Scrape my knees
Stay up all night
Change a tire
Check the oil
Make a chair
Drink espresso
Dance the night away
Scream off a cliff
Jump off a cliff
Sit and do nothing
Make a new swim suit
Eat something new
Don't be shy
Just do it and by it, don't chicken out but try it out first

This here is a list written by Johnny Cash courtesy of Medusa:

How fantastic right?
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Hallelujah

My Father's Desk Decoration:

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Good Marketing

They fucking hit the nail on the head. Do I want to buy this car? Yes. Why? Because if I own it maybe I can get a lumberjack too. Yes please and thank you very much.

Merriweather

Outfits

Feeling grumpy? Or sad? Or just unclean? Change your outfit! Sometimes I am down in the dumps and putting on something different puts me in a whole other mood. Try it, see how it goes.

Merriweather

Scusi

My mother and I went to this cute and wonderfully delicious restaurant called Scusi in Saint Paul for dinner this evening. I was talking about the beautiful flowers at the wedding I attended this weekend with my sister. Then we brought up what kind of flowers my cousin wants for her wedding and how everything has been done before so of course I brain storm and have come up with the perfect wedding bouquet! Cactus. Think about it, how cool would that be? Maybe not throwing the bouquet  though (maybe a different succulent would work better) for those poor single ladies. But seriously how fucking funny would it be walking down an aisle (I picture mine outside) with a cactus in your hands? So I am telling this to my mother as her food arrives and the lovely gentleman is grating fresh parmesan onto her dish and he keeps going and going because we are in the midst of laughing hysterically about the idea of a cactus bouquet. A little extra parmesan never hurt anybody.

Merriweather

Stores

I am pretty sure every day I am wearing something that is either from Kohl's, Gap or Target

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Puppy Crazy.

I am crazy about puppies right now. I check the humane society daily and bookmark puppies i can't adopt. I look on craigslist.  I just google "cute puppies."  I'm obsessed and I need help.  I have my own puppy but she's technically my family puppy so they won't let me have her even though we're obsessed with each other.  As soon as I get a job and sign a lease I'm getting a pup of my own. Any of these will do : )

Medusa

Actual Inspiration

These are some of my favorite lyrics from the new Bon Iver album 




"Well, youʼre standing on my sternum don’t you climb down darling"


"honey in the hale could fill the pales of loving less with vain"
"I'm telling darkness from lines on you"


The new album of course brought me back to the old album which is just the most perfect post-breakup album of all time from beginning to the very end...




In case you were unaware these are the last lyrics:
"This is not the sound of a new man or crispy realization
It's the sound of the unlocking and the lift away
Your love will be
Safe with me"


Music like this makes my chest fill up and it sort of feels like a minor anxiety attack.  It's love.  


Medusa

On being inspired

I truly believe i can do anything. ANYTHING. Nothing is impossible.  Maybe it's because I've been obsessed with inspirational quotes since forever, or maybe it's because I had a good childhood.  I think it's because I listen when people give me advice.  I went to the mall with my friend in grade school when I was 12 and we came across a sample booth.  The woman working the booth was giving out sunscreen. She told me her biggest regret in life was not wearing sunscreen when she was my age.  I could tell this woman was serious and not just trying to sell me a bottle.  Ever since that day I have worn sunscreen everyday on my face at least.  Years later I would hear the song/speech "Sunscreen" which I also took to heart.  I read a book about struggle and I learn from it as if I lived it.  I try to learn from other peoples mistakes because I make enough of my own.  I don't think I know everything but I do feel like I have a HUGE advantage because I try "impossible."  I like to take risks.  I feel most alive when I am failing at something.  You can trash talk art school all you want but we learn how to produce, produce, produce.  Produce absolute shit! because eventually it will be good, why? because you worked hard and you didn't give up.  You may not like the final outcome, you will probably want to set it on fire but you have it...in your hand...you finished something, you cared about something.  Where did all the passion go? where did your imagination go? get it the fuck back because it will change your world.  Every minute of everyday i am thinking about what I'm going to do next.  I people watch, i read magazines, i use my iPhone for good not evil and i desperately seek out what I'm trying to find.  You cannot wait for your life to come to you, happiness isn't a pill and it's not going to slap you in the face one day.  You are your own worst enemy.  Think about what you really want and do whatever it takes to get it. That's it. If you try your hardest and it doesn't work out then move on.  It's so easy, why does everyone make it so complicated.  If you want to be a country singer but you live in LA and majored in biology then fucking move to Nashville and tear the place apart.  If you want to get married and have kids then find the best, most fascinating person you can and love those kids like they're going to get hit by a bus the next day, everyday.  If you want to be a unicorn start a goddamn unicorn colony, I guarantee it will get its own capitol city someday if you truly believe in it.  It just pisses me off that nobody gives a damn about anyone or anything but they want everything.  I feel very lucky that I can get inspired by a plate of spaghetti but you can teach yourself how to do that, how?  look at the plate, pick out the colors, use your favorite color, go buy a t-shirt of the same color BAM! that's inspiration.  I'm sick of seeing really talented people settle for mediocrity, I'm sick of seeing my friends settle for guys and girls that treat them like shit, and I'm sick of everyone taking everything so seriously.  This is what makes my chest hurt, this is what breaks my heart.
Now, go forth and change the world or at least convince me to buy what you're selling

Medusa

"If You Give A Mouse A Cookie"

This book is fantastic. It's a children's book written by Laura Numeroff. So if you give a mouse a cookie he'll want a glass of milk and if you give him that he'll want a long slew of other things. Sometimes I catch myself thinking "well if I get that then I am going to have to get that too" sort of thing. At work today we all took an ice cream break in Annie and my office. CEC, papa and sprinkles all came in and we had ourselves a laugh of a good time. Sprinkles (nicknamed for the sole reason that she LOVES sprinkles) had to of course run across the hall to her office to get her sprinkles stash because "what is ice cream without sprinkles?!? Good call. Long story short there are sprinkles everywhere. I mean e v e r y w h e r e. It is definitely the herpes of baking supplies.  We will be finding them for the next couple of weeks like you do when glitter gets on you.




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I have decided...

Mercedes is the Chanel of the car industry

I often think about cars and clothing together. Why? I have no idea because my mind is always racing. If I were driving a Subaru I'd be wearing organic colors, comfortable shoes, slightly loose fitting knit top and a pair of cargo carpri's or a linen skirt. A Mercedes you ask? A little black dress, lime green cardigan, big necklace, big sunglasses, heels. So what I have basically concluded is that I need a different car for each adventure and a different outfit I would wear on these said adventures. A pick-em-up truck? A tight pair of ragged jeans, white shirt, flannel around the waist, brown boots, a pony tail and a pair of sunglasses. I could go on for days. One of my bestest has an old boat of a buick and she totally fits it perfectly. Surf board on the roof, skateboard in the trunk, aviators, floral blouse, cut offs, iced tea, flip flops and lots of anklets.

It's like playing dress up for adults. What am I doing today? Because I firmly believe that there is an outfit for everything.

Merriweather

Quote of The Day

"Fashion is made to become unfashionable" Coco Chanel

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Sofia Blanc de Blancs

Today I had Francis Ford Coppola wine (as in the director of The Godfather). It was called Sofia and it was pink and girly and really kind of fantastic. And apparently he has a whole vineyard in California. This is an excerpt from their website:

"Fruity and refreshing, Sofia Blanc de Blancs is a rare blend of Pinot Blanc, Sauvignon Blanc, and Muscat.  Mellow flavors of apples and pears are topped by a hint of citrus and honeysuckle. Elegant in character, this wine is lightly textured and vibrant through the finish. "

Does that not sound lovely?

Merriweather

(RED)

I always enjoy the (RED) ads

From You To Me

Go to your closet.
Sift through and count how many pieces were not yours but are yours now. For example I have several shirts that my father wore in high school that he can no longer fit into or pull off. Or maybe you have a few of your grandpa's sweaters. It could be something you borrowed and never gave back (cough cough) or something that another person owned and thought you needed it more.

I have twenty two things plus a few aprons and a couple pairs of tights from others. Now some of these things were inherited because of a death, or not being able to wear it any longer. Others are stolen, lost or misplaced garments that have found a safe haven inside my closet. I cherish every one of these articles because they remind me of the other person. Make that twenty three things, I just found a sweatshirt stuck between my bed and the wall. But by all means keep your mouth shut if you wish to keep these things a secret. I let a fantastic pair of pants out out of my big mouth the other day and boy do I regret that, however one of my bestest suggested that I pattern them for us. But for those of your who don't know how to pattern and want to keep these things just do it.

Merriweather

Slacker #2

I have been neglecting our baby blog, sorry, merriweather.  I recently moved from Chicago to St. Louis, my hometown, and I have been so busy catching up with people that i have had no time to sit and blog. I actually should be updating my resume at the moment...
I've actually really been enjoying STL, It's home, ya know? last week I caught up with a couple of my friends from high school.  We went to a couple bars one was a bicycle themed bar called Handlebar! It was nice to catch up with them.  This week I went to a music showcase downtown it was from 2-2 and it featured a bunch of different bands at a bunch of different bars.  I've always been into the local music scene but there were a lot of talented bands at this thing. I really like the vibe in St. Louis it's similar to the Chicago vibe but it's not as fast and it's not the attention whore that is Chi-town.  I am not a day-by-day type of person, I never have been but being a recent graduate and choosing to be funemployed until I either a) run out of money or b)find a job that doesn't make me want to jump is kind of forcing me to be a free spirit.  I'm all over the place right now but at least I'm having fun...
Medusa

Fetish

Okay maybe fetish is the wrong word. Obsession possibly? I love scissors, a lot. I have to restrain from walking down the scissor aisle in any craft or sewing establishment. Here are a few of my lovelies

 

*Merriweather, I took this photo 2 weeks ago when I was moving out of 6 W. 

(Medusa)

Merriweather

Digital

I am still very confused why switching to digital television was better than what their was. Now that it is all digital I have this stupid converter box and a lovely pair of bunny ears to make that converter box work. Well guess what? It doesn't work some of the time and some of that time it is pixelated and cuts out and the picture is distorted. I feel like its 1992 when I have to walk over to my television and move one of the antennae to try and make the picture better. And I am sure people who have fancy cable do not have this problem but I am never home, neither are my parents so their is no need for fanciness.

That is my bitterness for the day. I sound like I am 50.

Merriweather

BEER

I don't know how many different beers I have tried but I still have not found the right one. But when I am in a beer "setting" or "environment" I am totally down for a shitty beer that I will most likely hate.

Last evening I attended a show in Saint Paul at this quaint little bar called The Turf Club. I went alone and entered into a very full bar, very full of attractive bearded men. So of course my anxiety set it. I stepped to the side, got out my phone, sent out a few texts and then decided I needed a beer to keep me occupied. I walked over to the bar to find 312 on tap, which is a Chicago beer that is not my cup of tea but I was totally excited to be in a bar at a show to see David Bazan who I have only seen in Chicago. It was meant to be. Shows like this are totally beer appropriate. Baseball games are my other beer "environment". I am not necessarily there to watch some men hit a a ball around a diamond field, but its the whole experience that counts. Hot dogs, baseball, beer, peanuts, yelling fans. A perfect beer day.

Merriweather

Propietary Eponyms

I always thought of weird lists such as this. These are the original brands that have just turned into the actual product i.e. Kleenex for facial tissue.

Kleenex
Hi-Liter
Coke
Jell-o
Magic Marker
Post-it
Q-tip
Teflon
Scotch tape
Super Glue
Thermos
Vaseline
Windbreaker
Xerox
X-Acto knife
Wite Out
Windbreaker
Chap Stick
Kool-aid


Merriweather

Finding Neverland

Have you seen this? It is a lovely lovely movie about the man who wrote Peter Pan

Johnny Depp
Kate Winslet
Freddy Moore

A little bit of make believe and silliness always makes my heart swell a bit.

Merriweather

A little silliness for the day

"Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies"

Merriweather

A Wise Man Said....

When I was younger, probably in middle school, I was telling my grandpa about this boy that would always be mean to me during recess. He would chase me, throw things at me, tease me; he just would not leave me alone and of course I reacted so it would just continue.

"That means he likes you" My grandpa told me
"Yeah right, that's dumb. Why would he do that?"
"That's what boys do because they don't know what to do with their feelings"

"Yeah, okay"

Well guess what? He was totally right.

Merriweather

Eleven

While waiting for the 29 state bus in Chicago one day minding my own business an older man started chatting me up while I was wearing my fairly large headphones. I didn't catch the first few things he said because I literally could not hear him so I took them off and listened. He went on and on about the number eleven and how people are eleven's. He said that eleven's are technical and do things a certain way. And he said that he was born on the 11th of a month making him an eleven. I let him talk and talk until the I could see the bus across the street, he noticed it too and his mouth stopped. And I turned to him and said that I was an eleven born in the 11th month. His eyes lit up and said he met three eleven's that very day. Then we both got on the bus and went out separate ways and I've been thinking about this constantly lately. I am sure there are several different theories about numbers and people but I thought this was a strange and neat little coincidence.

Merriweather