dinner with friends

here's what i'm wearing. 

i like wearing the same color in a different tone.  

fur hood - urban outfitters - gift from husband

knit blouse - vintage (borrowed)

skirt - vintage

knit tights - urban outfitters

trench - vintage

shoes - vintage

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anywho - apparently some depressed/deranged fella set the roseville galleria mall on fire.  seeing the video and photo footage, i can't help but feel really sorry for him.  not an excuse for what he did of course, but i have a heavy heart for the guy.  ugh!  modern kids!

lift

that's what we did with the color of olya's lovely little roots on tuesday.  oh the joys of blond up keep :)  soon, it'll take less and less time, crow.  i'm taking notes on how your hairs behave.  

i finally hung the hound dog rug.  it does not belong on the floor with the dust bunnies and the little ladies using it as traction.

done with school - but still keeping busy.  state board is in LESS THAN TWO WEEKS.  i keep feeling sick to my stomach a little bit.  and then feeling too lax.  two extremes.  what can i say - i'm an extreme kind of a gal :)

off to b-e-d.  here's noodle.  being sweet.

rearranging -

very glad i managed to make it to the crocker art museum compliments to my mary lou yesterday.  i think my favorite piece by far was this video animation/projection titled "rapunzel" - and it's the first one you come across too so it pretty much stole the show for me :)

after i came home from that i went nuts with re-organizing every nook and cranny at my house and getting rid of a bunch of stuff.  i like to pretend like we'll be moving soon so that i'm forced to get rid of stuff.  otherwise, i'm my papa's daughter - i kind of hoard.  such an ugly word considering some of the things i keep - treasures from a long time ago and then the clothes!  should i wait around for the trend to come back or no?  lol.  sad.  the rule is DON'T THINK TWICE.  if you're done, you're done.  

so ya - if you could see the types of decisions i had to make yesterday, you know it's been a long yet productive day.  not to mention we, (as in my dear crow, mary lou, and i) finally purchased tickets to go see my fabulous sister in the end of january 2011.  her little bebe stella - my first niece ever - will be two months by then.  this is katya - preggers (i stole this pic from her facebook - hope you don't mind.  you're on my blog - you're famous! fist pump for you)

it was so funny because when i came back after coffee and purchasing plane tix with olga, i had to check some of the cupboards i redid just to make sure i wasn't dreaming that i did all that.  

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anyway - today (as in sunday) - october showed up!  thank you lord!  and i am in a state of euphoria.  first, it's re-organizing part deux.  then i make the trip to goodwill donation - and try to sell some clothes at freestyle. 

THEN, if i have time, i can post new items on my sad etsy.  that is if i don't start redecorating - i mean might as well since i'm on a roll.  we'll see. 

ok - that's it.  if i switch some things up will share :)  keep it real. 

i'm finally functional

time to clean house.

this is noodle stepping out for the first time - we've been meaning to make her collar tags that has one of our numbers on it (in case she runs off like a spaz) which is what kept us from letting her out for so long.  anyway - for the time being, i put on our late kitty sylvia's tag which, yes, we still have.


it was so cute - penny was such a big sister looking out.  in the end - she definitely felt safe seeing the doorway open just in case she needs to dart back in - which she did when she saw the mail man.

one more thing before i blast my music and go cinderella.  SUN BOXES.  as featured on design milk - it's an installation that is made of a solar-powered series of 20 speakers, each continuously playing a different guitar note in a looped set. Together, these guitar notes make a Bb chord. Because the loops are different in length, once the piece begins they continually overlap and play some truly beautiful music — all from nature.
so magical!



peace

tsbeen a while

since i've been this sick.  after reading a bit and even studying for state board (not to mention the shot of vodka), i found myself on youtube and surfing the web - normally surfing the web overwhelms and stresses me out in a sense because of how much there is to see and know and yet there's so much you can covet/look at/listen to in a lazy lethargic state.  ya know?

anyway - i've taken an ear to kid cudi's sound and am loving it.  here's a performance he did on conan very early this year called pursuit of happiness ft. mgmt:



and a cover of the very song by lissie (un-censored version, fyi) which i thought was pretty lovely as well (i don't promote drunk driving, though - it's in the song a bit:)



sorry - one more.  this is 'canadian girl' by the walkmen.  it makes me want to dance, unreservedly.  i only do that at concerts, and MAYBE weddings if i had a drink or two. the song actually starts at exactly 50 seconds if you want to skip through all the talk:



on another note - i would seriously appreciate it if the cold got here already?  i have purchased a couple of vintage coats over the last couple of weeks, and would like to wear one.  and as if i hadn't had enough to keep me warm, i sense a strong urge to purchase this blanket coat from uo:

i'll sell all my other ones if i have to, haha.  i'll prolly sell them anyway - then i'd be left with no choice. and that is my plan.

that's it for now.  i need to stop looking at screens!!

love ya

oh dear blog

i will have more time for you this coming monday.  when i finish my program, thank you very much!

there's still state board on 11/2

anyway

i finally sold this - i just came across a cute denim jacket today and thought to myself, "nah, i have an even better one at home with fringe and everything - way better.  it's not like someone's going to buy it anytime soon".  haha.  who knew - good bye old friend.  so glad you're going to a good home!

you know that means i have a mad new set of items to post.  (if you're still following).  

well, for now.  good night.  i'm going to go OCD on our closet right now.  wes is at a bachelor party, and i want to organize our closet.  our whole house actually, but the closet is a start.

prolly won't get far.

birthday weekend

today at school: biolaged a low-light for one of my older clients.  such gorgeous results for such an easy technique.

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ok.  weekend.

well, for starters, we were all (as in my family) relatively disappointed to find out that vincent van gogh will be featured in de young's second installment of 'birth of impressionism' series, not this last saturday like i had originally blogged.  however, it was still nice to see the work of monet, seurat, manet, and renoir (in other words, the ones i recognized from french and art class).  still impressive (im.pre.seeev-uh).  anton was greeting everyone with a delightful 'salut' just to get a reaction.

coupla shots from that event.

we convinced him that he didn't need a tie dye shirt - he can make them better himself :)

antony shooting people from the window

me and montana (anton) being obnoxious.  drunk by art, i like to call it :) 

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on sunday, my actual birthday - wes took me out to breakfast at fox&goose where i had my favorite scone (second of course to olya's spelt ones).  can ya tell?!

where he also presented me with my new iphone by actually calling it.  i was so confused because i heard my ringtone in my purse, but i was looking right at my existing phone on the table.  he was laughing because as he often says "i could just see the mice spinning the wheel in your head".  i know - it took me a while to figure it out.  so ya, the rest of the day i took pics with it.  

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capital park, where we spent a good chunk and saw a quinceniera (sp?).  

 

only in sacramento

we also walked to weatherstone coffee where we spent another chunk.  caffeinated twice!  in one day.  encouraged by husband.  that's a birthday :)

basically - an entire day for us to be together.  we thought about going to sf AGAIN, but then i realized we were going in that general direction for labor day too.  how much SF can one get in one weekend people.  a lot actually.  if we could afford to stay both nights - then a lot.  but driving?  nah.

which leads me to monday, which was my 'twin' cousin timmy's bday (same year, just one day behind me).  so we all made our way out to good old stinson beach and had us what a good ol' day at the beach should look like (minus the obnoxious crowds).     

that is all.  goodnight y'all!