....to remember.
When I was younger, I'd stay up late while my mom-mom would talk about a few of her favorite things. She had a blue coat with blue buttons when she was sixteen and she felt like a princess whenever she wore it. She had pumps she would wear with it. I can just imagine her, with the hem of her dress hanging below her long coat, feeling like a queen.
Well, that's how I felt when I went into the city today - walking in heels over cobbled stone paths with big green trees dropping rain drops all around me. A drenched spring in D.C. is the best when you have girly feelings like I did today. It's easy to soak in the beauty as you walk by - especially if you feel pretty, which I did because I was wearing a blue coat, with a lovely full skirt peeking out underneath and I couldn't help but think of my mom-mom.
I'm glad I learned to always remember how lovely it is to be a girl from all the fabulous women that raised me.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
Photo post
My favorite blogs have LOTS of photos. The latest ones I've put on facebook are QUITE old (as in Oct./Nov.) but they are still fun. So I will write about the photos......
This is my friend Calvin. He's pretty cute. This is a great picture to start with because he just moved here and I am TOTALLY thrilled about it. This guy is my best friend. We stuck by each other (especially when we needed each other most) all through college and tried to hang out AS MUCH as possible before I moved to D.C. and he moved to Tucson.
BUT Guess what? He lives in D.C. now too! He has a fancy job at the Treasury and still has time to hang out with me. Sweet!
Neeeeeeexxxxxxttt!
These are some of my FAVORITE girlfriends. They live in AZ, sadly, and look how cute they are dressed up as roller derby girls. It was a very touch subject to bring up the fact that Whip It just came out in theaters. THEM, (collectively): "We came up with this idea BEFORE we even heard anything about that movie! Sad face." Do roller derby girls count devil girls as their good friends? I hope so.
Thirdsies!
He is the cheese to my macaroni, and the sun to my devil. I came up with this costume for going back on Halloween for Homecoming, and it was my BIGGEST pet peeve for someone to say "Devil? Sooo original" (with rolled eyes, of course) whenever Dusty wasn't by my side. It WAS pretty original actually!
You want more? Here comes numbah 4!
My dear friend David. He was a battery. He has lots of energy. I thought it was perfect. Another AZ friend, who I miss as well.
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I truly aspire to make a sangria this beautiful and this delicious. I'll invite you over when I do. Don't let me forget.
Six is for sweethearts ... newlyweds!
I love these two so much! Taylor & Jason just got MARRIED!!! Just a few weeks ago. Their wedding was blissful, classy, and represented the two of them as a couple so much it made me weepy. I CANNOT stop talking to Dusty (and partly freaking him out) about what I want my wedding to be like. Taylor did such a FANTASTIC job, I feel like I need to plan for five years, even without a ring on my finger! : ) Here is herblog and the blog of the photo studio her FABULOUS sister owns!
7 is the place I've wanted to go (and haven't been to!) since at least that age...
This is an odd angle on this REALLY cool LAND ride in DISNEY WORLD! I took about a thousand pictures there. They take you through a greenhouse where they show all these amazing ways they are growing things. One of my favorite "rides" that wasn't a ride.
8 is for grrrrrreat family
This is a picture of my brother, Jim, my sister-in-law Renee, and my sister-in-law's brother, Eric. We went to Disney together, and we've been on other trips together since I've moved to D.C. I really love these three people and feel that they are a wonderful family to me--dealing with my obnoxious amount of picture-taking and my overexcitement about everything.
A stitch in time saves 9
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." If this didn't come up as number 9 in my little photo post I would have never posted it using that expression as context. But I think it's a good frame of mind around sustainable agriculture, or sustainable anything for that matter. Prevention is worth the pay off. People would sometimes just rather do the cheapest, easiest, most convenient, laziest thing rather than the one that should happen now but will save us lots of trouble in the end. This is a picture of a .... get this... tomato tree. How cool and innovative!
How is it sustainable? A caption I found online explains:
I loved that Living with the Land boat ride!! : )
To Infinity and Beyond!!! (Or just to 10... and no further) : )
How gorgeous!!! I love the parks at Disney World. They are so inspiring, and everything a kid dreams it to be like. Tomorrowland was a blast!!!
Sorry there were so many dorky puns but I can't help it; it's just me!
Love out to the blogosphere!
This is my friend Calvin. He's pretty cute. This is a great picture to start with because he just moved here and I am TOTALLY thrilled about it. This guy is my best friend. We stuck by each other (especially when we needed each other most) all through college and tried to hang out AS MUCH as possible before I moved to D.C. and he moved to Tucson.
BUT Guess what? He lives in D.C. now too! He has a fancy job at the Treasury and still has time to hang out with me. Sweet!
Neeeeeeexxxxxxttt!
These are some of my FAVORITE girlfriends. They live in AZ, sadly, and look how cute they are dressed up as roller derby girls. It was a very touch subject to bring up the fact that Whip It just came out in theaters. THEM, (collectively): "We came up with this idea BEFORE we even heard anything about that movie! Sad face." Do roller derby girls count devil girls as their good friends? I hope so.
Thirdsies!
He is the cheese to my macaroni, and the sun to my devil. I came up with this costume for going back on Halloween for Homecoming, and it was my BIGGEST pet peeve for someone to say "Devil? Sooo original" (with rolled eyes, of course) whenever Dusty wasn't by my side. It WAS pretty original actually!
You want more? Here comes numbah 4!
My dear friend David. He was a battery. He has lots of energy. I thought it was perfect. Another AZ friend, who I miss as well.
5555555
I truly aspire to make a sangria this beautiful and this delicious. I'll invite you over when I do. Don't let me forget.
Six is for sweethearts ... newlyweds!
I love these two so much! Taylor & Jason just got MARRIED!!! Just a few weeks ago. Their wedding was blissful, classy, and represented the two of them as a couple so much it made me weepy. I CANNOT stop talking to Dusty (and partly freaking him out) about what I want my wedding to be like. Taylor did such a FANTASTIC job, I feel like I need to plan for five years, even without a ring on my finger! : ) Here is herblog and the blog of the photo studio her FABULOUS sister owns!
7 is the place I've wanted to go (and haven't been to!) since at least that age...
This is an odd angle on this REALLY cool LAND ride in DISNEY WORLD! I took about a thousand pictures there. They take you through a greenhouse where they show all these amazing ways they are growing things. One of my favorite "rides" that wasn't a ride.
8 is for grrrrrreat family
This is a picture of my brother, Jim, my sister-in-law Renee, and my sister-in-law's brother, Eric. We went to Disney together, and we've been on other trips together since I've moved to D.C. I really love these three people and feel that they are a wonderful family to me--dealing with my obnoxious amount of picture-taking and my overexcitement about everything.
A stitch in time saves 9
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." If this didn't come up as number 9 in my little photo post I would have never posted it using that expression as context. But I think it's a good frame of mind around sustainable agriculture, or sustainable anything for that matter. Prevention is worth the pay off. People would sometimes just rather do the cheapest, easiest, most convenient, laziest thing rather than the one that should happen now but will save us lots of trouble in the end. This is a picture of a .... get this... tomato tree. How cool and innovative!
How is it sustainable? A caption I found online explains:
The plant's single vine grows tens of thousands of golf ball-sized tomatoes which are harvested and served at restaurants across Walt Disney World Resort. Huang's first tomato tree at Epcot, planted last year, set a Guinness World Record when it yielded a harvest of more than 32,000 tomatoes from one vine. The tomato trees can be seen by guests on the pavilion"s "Living with the Land" boat ride.
I loved that Living with the Land boat ride!! : )
To Infinity and Beyond!!! (Or just to 10... and no further) : )
How gorgeous!!! I love the parks at Disney World. They are so inspiring, and everything a kid dreams it to be like. Tomorrowland was a blast!!!
Sorry there were so many dorky puns but I can't help it; it's just me!
Love out to the blogosphere!
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