Saturday, May 5

the LOVE game: on a saturday.


1. i love not working on a saturday, sleeping in a little, eating a massive egg scramble and some cookie-dough almond butter.
2. i love listening to good music in the quiet place.
3. i love the idea that i won't have to wake up at 7 am on a sunday again for a very, very long time.
{male grackle}
4. i love the grackles and blue-jays and other little birds that flock around abilene. i don't know why they like it here enough to stay, but they sure are cute and pretty and nice to listen to in the mornings.
5. i love jean kilbourne and brene brown and the good done by researchers like them who are passionate about the safety of women and relationships.
6.  i love meeting my husband for dinner on my work breaks.  it's the opportunity to sit down, slow down for a minute and just be.
7.  i'm really loving the classic crime lately, specifically their album vagabonds.  it's stellar, really.
8.  i love the idea of going back to ivins for christmas.  no, it's not set yet.  but it's the thought i'm really loving - that i might get to still have that big-family sense with all the treats and traditions.  with all the games and movies and long talks late into the night.  yeah... it's really far away.  but the thought is really fantastic.
9.  i love whole foods recipes.  i'm getting back into the swing of it.  drooling over a dish with brown rice and chicken instead of crappy tex-mex nachos.  looking up desserts with peaches and honey instead of sugar and white flour.  it feels...nice.
10.  i love wearing real clothes - clothes that are not my work uniform.  i love not being covered in sticky yogurt.  i like thinking about the fact that my shirt is from anthropologie.  in it, i feel pretty today.

ps. grackles are the weirdest birds i've ever seen and i love them.  some day, i want a dog named grackle.

Tuesday, May 1

a change in the making

a haircut is coming. i can feel it.
lately, i've been daydreaming about myself with one of these:


leaning toward this one i think...


but then. i love this one more than just about anything.



and this is just awesome.


obviously, i have no idea what i want, yet.  but it's coming.  and it's coming soon....