Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Old lady chic

I love wearing my old lady chic clothing, but I never thought of putting them together in a polyvore style mashup. Here is attempt #1 using SAS classic shoes and an afghan jacket pattern I found at the thrift store.

Friday, September 25, 2009

FAME!

I went to see it tonight with my friends. It's what you would expect. The best part is that I didn't even go to a cool theater to see it but I still wore this:


20 Questions

I saw this over on FreckledNest and thought it looked fun.

Wanna play too? Answer these 20 questions on your blog (or just the q's you want to answer) and share a link to your 20q in the comments of this post :) Have fun :)




2. What's the last homecooking you had?

We made this pork loin with a blackberry sauce, green beans with parmesan, and baked beans (we like the beans around here!)



3. What do you miss? (no dead people please)

Since I'm so busy with school most of the time I miss a LOT of the things I used to be able to do when I had free time. I miss traveling more often


Believe it or not, I sometimes miss teaching. I loved seeing the joy of discovery on kiddos' faces. I also loved field trips and picture day and holidays with them!


I miss having dance parties with my awesome friend Eric:



4. What makes you laugh often?

here

5. What's your favorite word?

CAKE! I love the way the word feels in your mouth when you say it. I also love to eat it!

6. What are you trying to quit?

Stressing...

7. What's your favorite commercial right now?

We don't have TV, so the only commercials I see are movie previews online. This one looks so funny.



8. Whose style do you dig?

Masuimi Max and Bernie Dexter. These images from here





9. Link to a great blog you've discovered lately...

Mental Floss Blog

10. What's the last craft you made?

I made a quilt square for Janel's blogger BFF quilt.



11. A photo of the last happy mail you got :]

Alec bought me this shirt as a surprise/gift



12. Something you've got lately?

My new cousin Karen gave me a crochet hook so I can learn to make all kinds of cool things! I like crafts made with fabric and yarn because you end up with something that you can display or gift nicely.

13. What are you looking forward to?

Alec and I have a lot of anniversaries. We don't know exactly when we evolved from friends into dating so we arbitrarily decided it was the first time we ate at Arby's together. We joke that we owe it all to that delicious Arby's sauce. YUM! We call that one our Arby's anniversary and it is coming up on October 13th. Can you guess how we'll celebrate?



14. Post a recent snapshot of yourself.

I realized I don't have any recent snapshots of myself. I either need to recruit Alec to start taking more pictures or start taking them myself. This is from this summer. That's my awesome mother and my awesome husband there with me. I call this picture, "Hello our names are..."



15. Recent Favorite Movie?

I haven't really LOVED any movies I've seen recently and I often choose to watch streaming TV shows instead of movies lately due to the shorter time commitment. Anyway, we've been watching the IT Crowd and LOVE it! It is so hilarious!





17. If a movie were made about you, who would play you?

Ally Sheedy from Breakfast Club, of course.



18. What gives you goosebumps?

Stories about otherworldly events.

19. Share a new obsession.

Embroidery, sewing, crafting in general...whenever I get a moment!

20. What's the meaning of your life?

Being the nicest and best person I can be and inspiring others to be the same.

(So you can copy and paste it easy)
1. Show us the inside of something cute
2. What's the last homecooking you had?
3. What do you miss? (alive)
4. What makes you laugh often?
5. What's your favorite word?
6. What are you trying to quit?
7. What's your favorite commercial right now?
8. Whose style do you dig?
9. Link to a great blog you've discovered lately...
10. What's the last craft you made?
11. A photo of the last happy mail you got :]
12. Something you've got lately?
13. What are you looking forward to?
14. Post a recent snapshot of yourself.
15. Recent Favorite Movie?
16. Something you're working on right now?
17. If a movie were made about you, who would play you?
18. What gives you goosebumps?
19. Share a new obsession.
20. What's the meaning of your life?

Saturday, September 12, 2009

More Living Room Upgrades - Record Player Time!

We always had the record player itself, but it stood on a different stand before. You may see the before picture here. This picture shows the old entertainment center and the old record player stand next to the TV. This picture was taken before one of the glass shelves mysteriously shattered while we weren't home. Thank goodness none of the heavy components were on that shelf! Anyway, my awesome friend Jana gave us this record player stand when she moved into a different house and Alec refinished it to match the entertainment center he built. The living room looks so much better and warmer now! I also love having our records alphabetized and accessible. Now I just need to make some cool dividers for them.

Monday, September 7, 2009

MAGIC

I wish I could find the full length version of this video. It makes me really happy, and my awesome friend Eric told me about it. He always has the magic.






I miss you, Eric!


Sunday, September 6, 2009

New Desk!

I study ALL of the time so I sit at my desk TONS. My old desk, while cute, was not very ergonomic. Since I already have neck/shoulder/wrist issues I really needed to get something that allowed me more leg room to rotate my chair and a place to put my keyboard at a better height. I found this awesome used office supply store in Austin called Cox Office Furniture and they exceeded my expectations by a mile! They had tons of old really cool desks and other office supplies as well as newer stuff. I was in love with this All-steel tanker desk from the 50s but my goal was to get an articulating keyboard tray. The man who works there took the lap drawer off, put an articulating kayboard tray on and now I'm set to go with an awesome desk that is MUCH more comfortable than the old one! YAY!

Old Desk:
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New Desk (shown here in an ad from retrooffice.com with the lap drawer still in place:

Tanker arch leg desk

My actual desk with my ergonomic adjustments:
1) articulating keyboard holder
2) elevated laptop stand



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Now I need to find a way to hide the cords that is compatible with a steel desk but still keeps my cords accessible for when my laptop is on the go. hmmm...

Maybe I also need a cool retro phone and/or typewriter.

Friday, September 4, 2009

Joyland

This sign I found on the doe-c-doe blog makes me so happy, being named Joy and all. I wish I could buy the signs for my house!



This 2nd image is from the Wikipedia page she linked to.



Happy Labor Day!

I'm dreaming of storage...

Someday when we finally decide to "settle down" and own a home I want to have so much storage. Alec is a collector of books and CDs, and we jointly collect records. I would love to have them all attractively displayed like these inspirational images I found.



from Dwell



from Living Etc




from Unplggd

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Weepies video

This is not at all what I would have expected for a Weepies video so it cracks me up!