new years fridge

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TILT!!

have no fear, i did not forget it was thursday! 

i decided today that i would dedicate this weeks edition to the most amazing woman i ever had the pleasure of knowing.


my momma.


today would have been her 46th birthday.  so wherever you are, happy birthday momma.  i love and miss you more than i ever thought i could.

buy something!

a good friend of mine lost her job today.   she is amazing artist and crafter, not to mention one of the strongest women i know. 

not the best time of year for this to happen to anyone, rents due in a few day, as well as the new year upon us.

i dont want her to start off 2011 in a funk.

so how can you help?  buy her stuff, send her etsy store link to anyone you can think of!!!


http://www.etsy.com/shop/MissMeg5150

i dreamt of a white christmas...

Yesterday afternoon it started snowing. It hasn't really stopped. The Sidekick left this morning for his own week-long adventure. So the Partner-in-Crime set off, on foot, for out own adventures in the snow and our surrounding neighborhood.

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gaaahhziiiraaaahhhh

Only a few hours into Christmas Day and Godzilla has already destroyed Tokyo!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

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christmas eve recap

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cornflake wreaths

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is it a sign?

anyone that knows me knows that i love to change my hairstyle.  whether it be a cut, color, style or texture.

for as long as i can remember i've wanted to be a hair stylist (among a growing list of other professions).  i've spent a lot of time in hair salons, beauty supply stores.  anyway, i've had some amazing results and well, some not so amazing results.  but i've been able to teach myself and a few brave souls have even donated their hair to be guinea pigs.


so today the partner and crime and i had to run some last minute errands (christmas cookie supplies) and i saw that they built a regency beauty institute right near my house!!!

this could be my chance!!  so as soon as i got home i went to the website and requested information on enrolling.  they even have part-time enrollment, which means i could still work and go to school.  yes, i know i flip flop on my major at college all the time, but i think thats because im choosing things that'll bring me monetary happiness, rather than just plain happiness.  i want to do something i love, not something that i sort of like doing that'll make me tons of money.

TILT!!!

its thursday!

and you know what that means?  its time for another round of TILT!

1.  yarn!  i love the way it feels and smells.  i love all the colors and how cozy i feel amongst skeins of it in any craft store.  if given the chance, i would and could spend hours browsing yarn...and then spend hundreds of dollars on skeins....

don't judge me, i know i am not alone on my love for luxurious yarn.

since unplugging parts of my life from the online world (mainly facebook which kind of consumed me), i have been diving right back into my crafting.  and i love nothing more than creating things for people.  granted, i have been crocheting since high school, so well over 13 years.  but reading patterns is extremely difficult for me and i only know a few stitches.  so my creations are super basic.  but this week i finally mastered the "puff" stitch.  well my version of it, haha.

2. cupcakes! om nom nom.  not just any out of the box cupcake.  not those crappy ones you buy from the bakery at the grocery store, but those classy (yes classy), tasty (amazing flavors!), designer looking, looks too pretty to eat cupcakes from cupcakeries (is that a word?).

if you really love me, you'll buy me cupcakes.  just sayin' ;)

while searching for tasty images, i ran across this amazing blog that has some amazing goodies and recipes, i suggest you check it out.  i have a feeling i will be hitting this blog up more often now: http://fieldsofcake.blogspot.com/

3.  my christmas tree!!!  i'm biased, so shoot me.

its not the best picture, but i like it.  reminds me of old timey photos.

 4.  chick-fil-a!  granted because of their christian morals they're closed on sundays (you bastards!), i can't help but love this place.  amazing chicken sammiches, southern style sweet tea, real ice cream milkshakes so thick your brain explodes and motherfuckin' waffle fries!!!!

other things im loving?

snow, christmas cookies, beautifully wrapped presents under impeccably decorated trees, bath & body works body sprays, spinach dip and hawaiian bread, matte fingernail polish, knee-high suede slouchy boots paired with jeggings.

im on vacation bitches!

No more of this til December 27th!

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hook love

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the hollow men - t.s. eliot

you have no idea who t.s. eliot is/was, i suggest you do some research.  but in case you're too lazy, just know that he was in fact one of the most important, if not the most important english-language poet of the twentieth century.

you might remember the scene in apocalypse now where marlon brando's character reads excerpts of the poem. 

the last few lines of the poem are eliot's most often quotes lines.  the poem has been referenced in film, television and  video games.

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

for some reason, this poem totally mirrors my mood today.  enjoy.

Mistah Kurtz—he dead.

      A penny for the Old Guy

      I

We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death’s other Kingdom
Remember us—if at all—not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.

      II

Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death’s dream kingdom
These do not appear:
There, the eyes are
Sunlight on a broken column
There, is a tree swinging
And voices are
In the wind’s singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star.

Let me be no nearer
In death’s dream kingdom
Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat’s coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field
Behaving as the wind behaves
No nearer—

Not that final meeting
In the twilight kingdom

      III

This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man’s hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star.

Is it like this
In death’s other kingdom
Waking alone
At the hour when we are
Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone.

      IV

The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms

In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of the tumid river

Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of death’s twilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men.

      V
Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o’clock in the morning.

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
                                For Thine is the Kingdom

Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
                                Life is very long

Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
                                For Thine is the Kingdom

For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

today...i quit facebook

i've never in my life had so many people freakout!

its just facebook people.  its not like i offed myself or something.

saturday morning geekiness

i'm in the mood to do nothing but stay in my pajamas and watch star wars....alll....day.....long


happy saturday!