i havent been blogging much lately, and i don't really have a good reason. i just don't feel like i have any funny stories to tell. or any news that isnt awful or sad. sometimes i feel like i only ever write sad shit on here. maybe it's easier to pour your heart out to strangers when something bad happens as opposed to when i eat a donut. but speaking of sad. this is what i have been dealing with since new years:
http://www.myfoxaustin.com//dpp/video/Victim-Says-Flasher%2C-Serial-Attacker-Is-Same-Man20120105-ktbcw#axzz1jFNZLKHW
http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/local/austin/police-talk-to-neighbors-about-murder
http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2012-01-13/excited-about-life/
i didn't know esme personally, but several of my friends were very close to her and it seems that almost all of austin knew her well. her story literally hits home for me because, well, it happened very near my neighborhood. and since it was such a random act, it makes you feel like it could happen to you, or it could happen to anyone-at any time. this whole thing was making it hard for me to sleep so i had to go out and buy some pepper spray. i keep it on me at all times and it has been making me feel somewhat better. i basically do nothing but read about this on the internet and think about it, i even attended a neighborhood meeting with the austin police department in an attempt to gain some peace (to no avail). but that's all i am going to say about this for now. because it really makes my anxiety shoot through the roof.
so, to change the subject...
i've been listening to a lot of the war on drugs lately. and maybe, just maybe, you guys might like it.
to me, it's a mix of kurt vile and bruce springsteen with a dash of bob dylan in some songs.
i've also been making my way through season one of the increasingly poor decisions of todd margaret.
the cat-bit reminds me of what i leave for my cat when i am gone 2-3 days.
i looove david cross and the cast brings back some fond arrested development memories too.
(speaking of, and as you probably know, the arrested development movie is supposed to come out this year..oh my)
(and to continue talking in parenthesis, there is going to be a party down movie too!)
the whole todd margaret first season is on netflix instant too. yay! now go ruin your weekend by watching them all and getting couch cramps from not moving. the new season starts on friday so you have exactly one day to watch all of these actually.
and if you havent seen party down either, the first two (and only) seasons are also on netflix instant. your weekend is screwed now..
sorry!
or... you're welcome!
i don't really feel like digging up pictures of the colors of my walls in my little garage apartment, but believe me when i tell you they are bright and bold. my bedroom is grass green, the kitchen/big room thingy is mustard yellow, the living room is eggplant and the bathroom is orange. you are probably thinking "WTF?" but the whole house used to be bright blue, red, canary yellow and orange. so it is somewhat of an improvement. but i am sick to death of all these colors. i've been doing an excellent job of de-cluttering and it really helps with keeping my house clean. but yet i yearn for a simple home. that sounds like a white-whine. "oh i have too much stuff...UGGH." but you know what i mean. i will never be a girl with only two pairs of shoes but maybe i can start with some nice white walls. i will try to get some pics up of my place and maybe you guys can help me figure out where to start. more on that later.
and...uh. um.
see, i cannot remember all the things i know i wanted to write.
i think i have less to blog about because i already blab on about shit on twitter too much. so i feel like most of my stories have already been told. but i promise you (with every intention of following though on said promise) that i will do my very best to update this blog more. i know you all are just sitting around waiting for me to post something. (yeah..right)
that's all for now.
hug your friends. hug your family.
xo
em
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I hear you on the white walls.
ReplyDeleteWhen we bought our house I painted each and every room in a dark, dramatic color. I loved it for the first two years and then started getting itchy. Lighter colors came into play, but now I'm leaning more into the whites and the pales. Let me just say, though, that Behr's "Wheat Bread" may very well be the best wall color ever made. Check it out!
I know I owe you an e-mail, but much like your blog slump, I'm in a computer slump and stay away lately. I'll hit you back soon!
ohhhh... i really like that color. i will for sure keep that in mind when i my tax return comes back. i think i am going to take that time to paint the whole place.
ReplyDeleteand no worries on returning that email. girl, i think we are so similar on our love/hate relationship with the internet. but i still think you should get a pinterest account.
Haha, you're the fifth or sixth person this month alone to ask me why I don't use Pinterest. Maybe someday. I have the same aversion to any new internet ventures as I do to Facebook lately, so I doubt it'll happen any time soon. Sorry, ma'am.
ReplyDeleteWheat Bread went up on the walls in my shop and people would actually stop in to ask me what color it was. It changes a lot with the light and it goes with EVERYTHING! I love it.
i'm not going to try to convince you too hard (HAHA, JK yes i am). it's not like facebook at all, it's not really a social thing although you can follow your friends posts. for me, i use it to keep all the recipes i find around the internet, or those projects you read on a blog that you want to try one day, to the paint colors i am thinking of, to the shoes i am saving up for..all in one place. if a website has a picture on it, you hit the "pin it" button you install on your browser toolbar and it saves the image onto the board of your choice. then at any time in the future you can click that image from pinterest and it takes you back to that site. it is like a visual bookmarking system or..a pin board. but the reason so many people are so addicted to it, it is is REALLY addicting because you can scroll down on the "everything" tab and see what everyone is "pinning" from everywhere. and it has given me and my sister and everyone i know a MILLION ideas for crafts or little things to improve your daily life. cool ways to do your hair or nails, shoving chocolate chips into raspberries and serving a bowl-full at a party, how to use toilet paper rolls for sculptural art, how to make lavender lemon spray, new gadgets, art, how to make a headboard out of a pallet.. for real. of course there are lots of dumb things that people pin too. but it's really easy to scroll right over those things. and there is never a lack of new content.
ReplyDeletethe only reason i suggest it to you is because i feel it was practically made for you. you are a crafty gal and i think it would be something you would really enjoy.