LOST!!!!!

okay raise your hand if you're as pee-in-your-pants excited about the season premier of lost tonight as i am!!!

sunshine at last!

i feel like i haven't seen the sun in weeks... it's been grey and cold and wet and windy for what seems like the entire month of january. anyway today the sun is out and shining and it is so beautiful and bright and it makes me so happy!

photo from news.bbc.co.uk

bra hats

remember when you were like twelve and you and your best friends would burst into random ridiculous silliness which would inevitably induce endless fits of hyperactive giggles? my friends and i are like that now. i am one lucky girl. :)

happy birthday, kaity!

photographs

i am secretly insanely jealous of talented photographers. i love taking pictures, but i am certainly not any good at it, and half the time i forget to take pictures even when i remember to bring my camera. i love to look at beautiful photographs taken by others; to wonder at the many different ways that other people see the world. there is no better way to perfectly capture the absolute essence of a moment. what a wonderful thing to be able to do: to take something so fleeting and create something so lasting...

not trying to be cheesy or anything (i never have to try really...) but my favorites, of course, are our wedding pictures. every once in a while alan and i like to stretch out on the floor and relive the story of our happiest day ever, perfectly documented in a series of heartstopping and laughter-inducing moments. it absolutely never gets old.

photo by scott and tem juarez

fog

fog is so pretty... i'm glad i don't have to go anywhere today. hooray for lazy sundays!

sleeping in

it was a crazy week at work this week, and i have to say i was exhasted yesterday. the kind of exhausted where you get home from work and you don't even remember the commute because you pretty much drove home on autopilot. the kind of exhausted where you know you should get up and go to your friend's birthday party (i'm so sorry chelsea!) but you just can't imagine a situation in which you might actually be able to move. the kind of exhausted that allows you to sleep for ten (!) blissfully uninterrupted (!!) hours and wake up at 8:30 (!!!) on a saturday morning.

i'm guessing most people would not consider sleeping till 8:30 on a saturday morning "sleeping in," but if you know me, this is an amazing accomplishment.

for one thing, i'm an eight-hours kind of girl. any more than that and i usually feel like i am wasting precious daylight. i know, i am the most sickening type of morning person. for another thing, i almost never sleep past eight on weekends; it's nearly impossible (please refer to my "alarm clock" post).
but today is the perfect sleeping-in kind of day. it's yucky-looking and cold outside, and so very cozy and warm in my bed... so lovely...

ode to pink

i honestly don't know if there is a better color than pink. it's so perfectly girly -- it can be fun, refined, sassy, glamorous, calm, and flirty -- and it just makes me so happy! if there is a color that could define my personality, it is pink.

pink for thought (a few pink things that are perfect and lovable):

flamingos, hello kitty, pink floyd, grapefruit, my phone, chapstick, my barbie corvette from when i was 6, my favorite pair of boots... and my beautiful set of pink melamine mixing bowls that were a wedding gift from my friend chelsea, who shares my unconditional adoration for the best color ever invented.

happy birthday, chelsea!

photo from thisisloveforever.com

i heart office supplies

when i was a little girl i used to go to eckerd all the time with my mom. i would wander up and down the office supplies aisle, fascinated by all the possibilities it held: paper, pens, markers, pencils, stickers, crayons, glue, all brand new and untouched -- art happiness just waiting to be created. even now when i go to any drugstore or grocery store i am always drawn to the office supplies. i still love the idea of blank paper and empty notebooks, and i still lose myself in thoughts of the words and doodles i might fill them with. seems silly to find inspiration in an aisle of hi-liters and paper clips, but i suppose that's just one of my many silly-nesses...

"every child is an artist. the problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." - picasso

health

health is one of those things that you just don't appreciate until it's gone. you never realize how nice it is to be in good health until you are in poor health. well, i am healthy. and my husband is healthy. and for that i am thankful.

birthday month

today officially marks the beginning of birthday month. in the next five-ish weeks (so maybe it's a long month), there are eleven friends' and family members' birthdays for me to remember and celebrate.
it's a bit of a marathon, but it's also a great excuse for everyone to get together a little more often than we would normally be able to. i am blessed and incredibly grateful to have so many amazing people in my life, and it is absolutely an honor to celebrate their birthdays with them!

happy birthday, princess jen!