piles of it

We're deep into moving mentality and these piles keep growing around our house. Garage/stoop/yard sale piles. No plans or dates for one yet, but when it happens, it's gonna be good.

See something you like? Come over, it's yours.
It feels good to get rid of stuff, but it's so annoying to walk by every day.

jokes

Last night we saw Funny People (thanks Philebrity). Yes, that Adam Sandler movie. Yes, there was Adam Sandlar trivia before the movie, to win Billy Joel/Elton John tickets. Yes, the questions were things like, "In what movie was Adam Sandler a hockey player?".

Anyway! This movie was funny, and had 100 actually smart jokes in it. There's a really good part about kittens that I wanted to post but surprisingly doesn't exist yet on Youtube, and a couple other golden moments. After about an hour and a half though, everyone started checking the time a lot, like "really? It's still happening?". Jason Schwartzman is good. Eminem was good. Some other people were good in it too. Informative, right?

30% stand-up, 30% potentially okay plot, 40% too long and overly sentimental.

2 or more secrets

(Because one time Nikki suggested that we post shopping steals and deals. I think there was supposed to be a whole different, multi-contributor blog devoted to it, but for now, it'll be here, until Nick builds it.)

I have two things to confess today.
The first is that I secretly like shopping at Kmart (and even Walmart) sometimes. I know Target is better, and closer, and nicer, and cleaner, and everything (plus they sometimes have nachos?), but sometimes I just like making that trip down to Oregon Ave and hitting Kmart.
(That's 1).
(2) I have a small place in my heart for leopard print shoes. I don't really think of myself as an "amimal prints" kind of girl - we'll save that for sexy moms and Bratz dolls, but just a little ballet flat in brown and black leopard? Sign me up. Oh, I'll just put those on the shoe shelf next to my other leopard print flats.

This week these two things combined, and I got these wacky pom-pom shoes for real cheap. Along with it came a pair of brown moccasins that look suspiciously like my old Steve Madden ones, but seem much more sturdy. Twelve and five. Kmart, guys. Kmart.

Fall-down

I guess I'm ready (for Fall). A few more weeks of summer dresses, then let's get deep into tights and boots and sweaters and everything.

So many colors appeal to me. Yeah, a shopping plug.
And I can't decide if white(ish) boots are ridic.

Anyway, Fall will mean new house, birthday parties at new house, scooter rides, dark hair, so many things. Bring it on.


Oh, and Sarah, you should know that they're making 10 Things I Hate About You into a TV show. I'm sure it's going to be really good.

little things

Remember when I quit buying clothes for a minute? I started painting them instead. Teeny-tiny versions of clothes.

I like little paintings and stuff lately, and have been itching to get another art swap together. For a long time, I've been wanting to do the periodic table, but I think that one is going to get shelved for right now, until I feel a little more sciency. More utilitarianly (yes), I'm thinking of a perpetual calendar, since by the time we get it together, the last calendar we made will be spent.
So, I'm thinking maybe about ten of us? Small format (for desks), maybe 3x5 or 4x6. We'll divide up the days depending on how many people are interested, so you'd get three or four days - like "4, 11, and 21" or whatever, and make a little print/painting/collage/whatever, and make a series (just of ten or so - I'd like to keep it small so you could conceivably make them by hand if you wanted to). Held together with a binder clip, easily updated every day. No months, just days, so you can use it for as long as you like. This is a feeler. Send me an email or something if you'd be interested. I'm thinking fall.

not a wizard

This weekend while I was at a rooftop party in New York meeting a guy named "Liquid" who wore a cape and traveled from other dimensions to bring us smiles, someone went out of their way to steal the least critical parts of my bicycle*.


*like the broken rear rack, that doesn't hold anything and just flopped around. They had to take my seat off to get this, but thoughtfully took the time to try to reattach my seat. Also, my kickstand?

chinchillas: are they real?

Yesterday I was watching a little Diego (yes, Dora's cousin), the episode had a baby chinchilla on it.
How can they even be real?

These guys are supposed to be able to live in the wild? They're so funny! Melissa, maybe this is a good, non-dog version of a corgi? What if it just hopped around your house all the time?