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I came across this coaster and loved it so much that I knew it had to live here on my blog too. In case you’re having a hard time reading it, it says:
Have ANOTHER drink,” he says, “for it
will make you more ATTRACTIVE, funny,
BEAUTIFUL and wise.”
“No,” say I. “For I am STRONG and SENSIBLE,
and drinking will not do those things you say.”
“Alas,” says he, “then I am surely DOOMED.
For if you do not keep me WET, it is my fate to DIE.”
So drink I do… and drink and drink and
DRINK. For NEVER would I have the
HEART to let a Little Person DIE.
I’ve shared my love of Edward Monkton before, but this print just takes the cake. My favorite one yet.
Don’t worry little person, I will never let you die!
Scene: Saturday afternoon. Kevin and I have just left a store in San Francisco, and I am hungry. We pop into a market across the street, which offers a plethora of processed foods, cheeses, and pizza. I decide to walk a block to an organic market I thought I saw, and buy something a little more healthy.
Me: In what world would I ever forgo pizza and instead choose to walk a block to get kombucha and a curried tofu wrap?!?!
Kevin: It’s awesome! I’m so proud of how healthy we’ve been eating.
Me: Me too! And I’ve been thinking that we should start to make our own granola!
Kevin: Oh for sure. And we should also throw out those eggs we just bought since we’re going to the farmers market tomorrow and they’re not organic.
Me: Definitely.
……..
Kevin: We’re turning into f***ing hippies.
Okay, so if you know us in real life, you would know that Kevin and I are not remotely hippies (at least my definition of hippie). But, lately we’ve been on a healthy clean eating kick, and we love it. We’ve been trying to eat a mostly plant-based Mediterranean diet, limiting the amount of dairy, gluton, and animal protein we eat, and it’s been great. The more I learn about food the more horrified I become by so many things I used to eat without thinking twice about. When you realize just how much shit goes into some of the stuff you’re eating, it’s a lot easier to turn it down. Don’t get me wrong… if I’m craving a burger or a piece of pizza, I’m going to have one, but we’re trying our best to make conscious healthy decisions regarding what we put into our body when we’re at home.
All of this new found knowledge (thank you Kris Carr!) has been empowering, but it’s also made us kind of crazy about food, and shopping, and where we shop. Our new favorite grocery store is your quintessential hippie health store. In this process I’ve realized that when you start to really care about where you shop and what you eat, you start to get the hippie label. Which isn’t a bad thing, by any means, but it cracks me up that caring about food and chemicals and parabens and nitrates, etc., we’re suddenly living what some people consider to be a hippie lifestyle.
But you know what? If caring about what I eat and trying to avoid chemical ridden carcinogenic products makes me a hippy, than peace out friends! I’ll take it.
Hello friends. Happy Friday! I feel like I say this all. the. time. but this week felt particularly long. My weekend in Tahoe was wonderful but it also kind of kicked my ass. Staying up late drinking into the wee hours of the morning really takes it out of me. I just can’t hang like I used to.
Lately I feel like my blog has been a bit… blah, and I’m not really sure how to snap out it this blahness. I’ve been feeling rather uninspired. I’ll have these random ideas for blog posts float through my head, but then whenever I sit down to write about them… nothing comes. So I apologize if my blog has been less than engaging lately. (and yes, I know I shouldn’t have to apologize for my blog, but since it is my blog, I can do what I want. and what I want to do is apologize for being boring.) (really I’m apologizing to myself.)
I’ve also started to feel really blah about my apartment, and I think maybe that is carrying over to my blog? That sounds crazy, I know. But I go home and I look around and I feel blah, and then I start to think of all the things I want to do to anthropologie it up and make it feel more “blogworthy,” and then I get overwhelmed and do nothing. I have lived in our apartment for three years, which is the longest I’ve lived anywhere consecutively since I was 18, and in a way I think being stationary for this long has made me feel… stagnant. I’m used to moving and purging and redecorating every couple of years. So now I want to paint a wall or redecorate a room or do… something.
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I want my apartment to magically look just like this. And by magic I mean I want Emily Henderson to come over and redo it while I’m sleeping and then not charge me for it.
Last night Kevin and I got into a little tiny stupid argument, (mostly) my fault, about our extra room. You see, our apartment is small, and because of that, our second bedroom tends to morph into that of a storage unit.* And last night I went into it and stared around and then dramatically declared “I HATE THIS ROOM! WHAT IS THE POINT OF HAVING AN EXTRA ROOM IF WE JUST USE IT AS A CLOSET!” When Kevin looked at me dubiously, I continued: “I’VE WANTED TO MAKE THIS INTO A REAL GUEST ROOM FOR OVER A YEAR! BUT YOU NEVER HELP ME!” This is pretty much the opposite of true, so Kevin was less than pleased. The truth is that he offers to help me all the time, but I am exceptionally lazy and often say “I don’t feel like it, let’s do it another day.” And then he shrugs and says okay. And then I blame him later. Oh, marriage! (And yes, I apologized).
All of this is to say that I think I need to spice things up a bit, here on my blog and also in my apartment. A spring cleaning will do me some good. Purge and clean and update. And maybe then the inspiration will start flowing again.
Or maybe I just need to stop reading so many design blogs?
Probably the latter.
Anyway, how are you all doing? What’s new in your neck of the woods? Any of you feeling the same blah as me?
*Our friend Jesse refers to this as our “room of shame,” because 95% of the time when he comes over the door is shut and I tell him not to go in there. It’s like Monica’s secret closet.
Print available at WickedPaper Etsy Shop
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Today is the first day of Spring.
Considering it’s raining cats and dogs outside, and it is my idea of freezing, I had no idea Spring had sprung until I saw it come up in a tweet.
But… today is another exciting day as well! While you might have already known that today marks the first of spring, you probably didn’t know that it’s also the first annual International Day of Happiness!
A day dedicated just to happiness… I had no idea such a day even existed!
But apparently, it does!
The day, which has its own website and hashtag (#HappyDay) was created last June, at the suggestion of Bhutan (a country who takes happiness very seriously) and once decided upon, the U.N. General Assembly declared the following:
“Conscious that the pursuit of happiness is a fundamental human goal,[…] Recognizing also the need for a more inclusive, equitable and balanced approach to economic growth that promotes sustainable development, poverty eradication, happiness and the well-being of all peoples, Decides to proclaim 20 March the International Day of Happiness, Invites all Member States, organizations of the United Nations system and other international and regional organizations, as well as civil society, including non-governmental organizations and individuals, to observe the International Day of Happiness in an appropriate manner, including through education and public awareness-raising activities…”
The happiness day is hoping to encourage us all to ACT, as in
- Affirm the happiness pledge to bring more happiness to others
- Cheer the Happy Heroes who bring happiness to others and tell us why
- Take part on the day by doing something at home, work, school or in your community to bring happiness to others.
(the website has lots of ideas and events)
Kind of awesome, right?
To learn more and jump on the happiness bandwagon, head on over to dayofhappiness.net!
Happy happy day friends! What are you going to do today to create some happiness?
Are you taking the pledge? (I am!)
P.S. I think this happiness day is already working, because today at lunch I forgot my wallet,
and the restaurant told me I could come back and pay tomorrow!
And that made me very happy.
My blog friend Stephanie and I have put together a small
Bay Area Blogger Meetup
on Thursday, April 11th, in San Francisco!
Care to join us?
My most favorite thing about blogging has been developing relationships with other bloggers.
A handful of the bloggers that I read happen to live in the bay area as well,
and for a few months I’ve been thinking to myself
how fun it would be to meet some of them in person.
To finally put real people behind the stories and photos
whose lives I follow along with online.
Because while I feel like I know these people,
I’ve never actually met them.
It’s like You’ve Got Mail!
But with friends.
I figured that I couldn’t be the only one
who was ready to take our cyber friendships to the next level,
so I asked my blog friend Stephanie if she would be interested
in putting together a little bay area blogger meetup with me.
And she was!
So we reached out to our other blog friends,
and now we’ve got a pretty awesome little group of SF bloggers
all getting together on April 11th.
An official blogger meetup!
Woo hoo!
It will be like our own Alt Summit!
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Ha! Just kidding.
This is a very casual meetup.
As I mentioned in my invite email,
there will be no crafty name tags or Bash Please type party decor
(although that would be awesome, I am just craft handicapped).
Instead, it’s just some girls getting together
for boozy beverages and tapas and conversation.
(Well, I don’t know if they’re all planning on the boozy part, but I am!)
This is no way an exclusive event,
so if you’re a blogger in the bay area and want to join us,
please email me (or Stephanie) and I’ll send over all the pertinent information.
I was going to post all the details here,
but then a fear ran through my head…
What if a crazy person reads this
and because we all so fantastic and fabulous,
decides to show up and stalk us?
I know that’s absolutely ridiculous,
but hey, better safe than sorry, right?
So instead I’m leaving you with vague info,
and if you want to join us,
just leave a comment below or shoot me an email
and I’ll get back to you with the details.
Who: So far a small but awesome group of bay area bloggers!
What: SF blogger meetup!
Where: Email me or Stephanie to find out.
When: Thursday, April 11th, 7-9 pm.
Why: Why not?
Happy Monday friends!
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Haha this is too cute!
As soon as I saw the title of this post, I knew I was going to love it. And I do- that’s hilarious!
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