the hole in my heart when i have a sick baby is big
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Monday, May 3, 2010
Friday, April 30, 2010
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Pet Peeves
- Drivers who don't use a turn signal.
- People who drink directly out of the milk/orange juice containter.
- People who blame anything but themselves for THEIR failure.
- Noisy eaters.
- Going through the drive thru, then having to go back when they screw your order up.
- Using speaker phones in public areas at work.
- Finding a shoe and not finding its mate next to it
- People with bad table manners.
- People who read the paper while driving.
- Drivers who won't turn right on red.
- Couples that own a dog together and call themselves mommy and daddy.
- People who ignore yield signs.
- Being asked my telephone number/account number AFTER I already entered in using the keypad on my phone. I thought I was supposed enter that info to "better assist me".
- Not washing hands after using the bathroom.
- When your spouse/roommate uses the butter to put on their toast, and leaves crumbs in the container.
- Guys who leave the toilet seat up.
- Dining with a picky eater (they can never order off the menu without customizing every aspect of the meal).
- Men who insist on sitting with their legs spread wide like they got something there.
- When ice cream drips out of the bottom of a sugar cone.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Pet Peeves
- Dirty keyboards.
- People who don't cover their mouth while sneezing or coughing.
- Dirty dishes in the sink.
- When something I've been into for a long time becomes popular.
- People who clear their throats in a disgusting way.
- People who invite you out somewhere then cancel.
- Relying on someone else to take a picture because I want to be in it, and it ends up coming out off-centered and out-of-focus.
- When you order a salad at a restaurant and they bring it to you at the same time as your dinner.
- Hand prints on the windows in car.
- When you can't tell if someone is male or female.
- Sick people who cough near you.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Pet Peeves
- People who no matter what relate to something you have done and try to "one up" you.
- Rappers who thank God at awards cermonies.
- The noise styrofoam makes when you rub it together.
- People who blow their horn at you the nano-second the light changes to green.
- People who don't use deoderant.
- Ice cream with freezer burn.
- When you first meet someone and can't remember the person's name by the end of the conversation.
- People who take forever to leave a parking space while others are clearly waiting for it
- People on airplanes are using armrests on both sides of you.
- People sitting at a red light and continuing to sit there when the light turns green because they're on their cell phone.
- Grocery clerks that want to bundle the receipt with my change. Hand me the money separately so I can put it in my pocket, and then hand me the receipt or place it in the bag.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Spring walk
Went on a walk today.
It's just getting nice out, trees have some buds, grass is getting green, sun is warm.
Laying on the ground staring up at the sky.
Sasha fell asleep in her stroller.
Good day.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Pet Peeves
- Conversational High-Fives: High-fiving at any time other than when one is actively playing a sport
- When you are asleep at a hotel and the alarm clock goes off in the middle of the night because the person who was there before you set it and never turned it off.
- People who don't look at you when they are talking, or you are talking to them.
- When you're driving down the road and a cigarette butt comes out the window of a car in front of you and it bounces off your car.
- People who use the phrase "110%" (or even more % sometimes).
- People who put their feet up on the seat in front of them in movie theaters.
- People who say the time like "Eight AM in the morning".
- When people inturrupt you.
- Forks whose tines don't stand up in a perfectly straight line
- The sound of too much spit in someone's mouth when they talk.
- Athletes who point to the sky after scoring.
- Someone opening a cabinet door or drawer and leaving it open.
- People who ask "Can I ask you a question?"
- People who leave farts in elevators that I subsequently enter. Then the next person thinks it's me.
- Commercials in movie theaters.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Pet Peeves
- When the toilet paper roll is backwards.
- When you are hanging out with someone and they make plans to do something else right in front of you.
- When people scratch their fingernails on a blackboard.
- Wet, dirty, stinky, slimy dishrags left in a heap in the bottom of the sink.
- Walking into spider webs.
- When the cashier gives you the change with the coins on top of the bills and for a moment you look like a fool jamming a large wad of cash into your pocket.
- Waiters/waitress who put their fingers on the top of the glass (where you drink from) when they deliver it to you.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Pet Peeves
- Adware, spyware, popups, viruses and other things that download themselves and install automatically
- People who make you take off your shoes when you go into their house for a party.
- I hate slow people walking in front of me...we call them mini-van drivers.
- People who stop at the top or bottom of an escalator.
- People who point at their wrist while asking for the time.
- Dog poop on the sidewalk.
- I know they have to do this, but I hate having servers recite the specials to me. Because I have never ordered a special, and hate having to feign interest in them.
- Men who refer to "babysitting" their own children.
- Pee anywhere other than in a toilet.
- How commercials are so much louder than the TV shows.
- When you get out of the pool and your bathing suit sticks to you and exposes your crotch.
- Double dippers.
- When people don't pick up their feet to walk and you hear the scuff... scuff... scuff.
- Trying to get assistance over the telephone, only to be directed to "press this number", umpteen times.
- People who say I can't, without even trying.
- People who leave their pets in their hot cars in the summer.
- Speed bumps.
- Dogs running around on a flatbed truck, which is going highway speed.
- Parents who have their children on leashes.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Pet Peeves
- Babies sitting on laps in cars.
- People who bring their babies to the movies.
- People who stick their USED gum just about anywhere (under a table or chair, on the ground, etc.)
- Dried toothpaste in the sink.
- Junk mail.
- People who talk on their cell phone at the movies.
- When someone blows their nose in your presence and then proceeds to look at what just filled their tissue/handkerchief.
- People who don't accelerate fast enough at a stop light, especially if you're in the left lane.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Pet Peeves
- People who stop right infront of you when your walking through town.
- People that do not flush the toliet in public restrooms.
- I hate people who have no idea what "personal space" is.
- Pants on men that are too short.
- Dirty restaurant bathrooms. It makes me wonder how clean the kitchen is.
- People who don't stop at stop signs.
- Air Guitar. Don't do it. You look like a dork.
- Dull pencils.
- Getting behind someone that will not drive up to the speed limit.
- I hate it when people tickle me.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Pet Peeves
- People who blow their nose at the dinner table or in the kitchen when you're eating or cooking.
- Things sticking out of drawers
- Using the toilet paper down to the last few squares without getting a new roll
- People who write on dirty car windshields
- When shirts shrink in the dryer.
- People who don't hold the elevator for you.
- When you're trying to walk in the mall and there's a kiosk and they hound you.
- People that say they don't like a certain food before they try it, and refuse to eat it .
- Barbecue restaurants with happy pigs on the sign.
- Hotel pillows.
- Pieces of fat on meat.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Pet Peeves
- Companies that outsource their customer service to India, but then those support reps don't have full access to all the needed info, so eventually they transfer you back to a manager in the US to deal with it.
- Speed Bumps.
- Drivers who drive slow in the left lane.
- People that fart in public.
- People who invade my seat space, like on airplanes or in movie theaters.
- Sneezing in your hand and shaking someone's hand afterward.
- Kids with baggy pants hangin below their ass.
- Women who use PMS as an excuse to be bitchy.
- People who constantly sniffle.
- People trying to enter an elevator when people IN the elevator haven't left yet.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Pet Peeves
- If you pee on the seat, wipe it off.
- Driveways that make cars bottom out.
- Barking dogs when I am trying to sleep.
- People who don't say "thank you" or even acknowledge you when you hold the door for them.
- People who bite their nails.
- When people cough in front of you without covering their mouth.
- Getting stuck at red lights, while nobody is going the other direction.
- People who whistle through their noses while just breathing.
- People that burp loudly in public.
- Wobbly tables.
- Chewing gum on the sidewalk.
- When someone tries to talk to you when you have headphones on.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Pet Peeves
- When coffee spills out of the top drinking hole of lids on to-go coffee cups.
- How commercialized the holidays are.
- People who pick their teeth in public.
- People who interrupt you and direct the conversation to themselves.
- People who make small talk with a cashier when there's a long line behind them.
- Spit flying out of people's mouth by accident.
- I hate when restaurant staff starts clearing dishes away when not everyone has finished eating -- leaving the one person at a table of four to feel bad they haven't finished yet.
- People who can't seem to understand that " red eyes" are possible to remove in photos.
- Waitors/waitresses with dirty fingernails.
- People who scrape their fork around the plate.
- Backwash.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Obscure Color Terms
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| aeneous | shining bronze colour |
| albicant | whitish; becoming white |
| albugineous | like the white of an eye or an egg; white-coloured |
| amaranthine | immortal; undying; deep purple-red colour |
| argent | the heraldic colour silver or white |
| atrous | jet black |
| aubergine | eggplant; a dark purple colour |
| aurulent | gold-coloured |
| azuline | blue |
| azure | light or sky blue; the heraldic colour blue |
| badious | chestnut-coloured |
| beige | light creamy white-brown |
| brunneous | dark brown |
| burnet | dark brown; dark woollen cloth |
| caesious | bluish or greyish green |
| cardinal | deep scarlet red colour |
| castaneous | chestnut-coloured |
| castory | brown colour; brown dye derived from beaver pelts |
| celadon | pale green; pale green glazed pottery |
| celeste | sky blue |
| cerulean | sky-blue; dark blue; sea-green |
| cesious | bluish-grey |
| chartreuse | yellow-green colour |
| chlorochrous | green-coloured |
| chrysochlorous | greenish-gold |
| cinerious | ashen; ash-grey |
| cinnabar | red crystalline mercuric sulfide pigment; deep red or scarlet colour |
| citreous | lemon-coloured; lemony |
| citrine | dark greenish-yellow |
| claret | dark red-purple colour; a dark-red wine |
| coccineous | bright red |
| columbine | of or like a dove; dove-coloured |
| coquelicot | brilliant red; poppy red |
| corbeau | blackish green |
| cramoisy | crimson |
| cretaceous | of or resembling chalk; of a whitish colour |
| croceate | saffron-coloured |
| cyaneous | sky blue |
| eau-de-nil | pale green colour |
| eburnean | of or like ivory; ivory-coloured |
| erythraean | reddish colour |
| ferruginous | of the colour of rust; impregnated with iron |
| filemot | dead-leaf colour; dull brown |
| flammeous | flame-coloured |
| flavescent | yellowish or turning yellow |
| fuliginous | sooty; dusky; soot-coloured; of or pertaining to soot |
| fulvous | dull yellow; tawny |
| fuscous | brown; tawny; dingy |
| gamboge | reddish-yellow colour |
| glaucous | sea-green; greyish-blue |
| goldenrod | dark golden yellow |
| greige | of a grey-beige colour |
| gridelin | violet-grey |
| griseous | pearl-grey or blue-grey; grizzled |
| haematic | blood-coloured |
| heliotrope | purplish hue; purplish-flowered plant; ancient sundial; signalling mirror |
| hoary | pale silver-grey colour; grey with age |
| hyacinthine | of a blue or purple colour |
| ianthine | violet-coloured |
| ibis | large stork-like bird; a pale apricot colour |
| icterine | yellowish or marked with yellow |
| icteritious | jaundiced; yellow |
| incarnadine | carnation-coloured; blood-red |
| indigo | deep blue-violet colour; a blue-violet dye |
| infuscate | clouded or tinged with brown; obscured; cloudy brown colour |
| isabelline | greyish yellow |
| jacinthe | orange colour |
| jessamy | yellow like a jasmine |
| kermes | brilliant red colour; a red dye derived from insects |
| khaki | light brown or tan |
| lateritious | brick-red |
| leucochroic | white or pale-coloured |
| liard | grey; dapple-grey |
| lovat | grey-green; blue-green |
| lurid | red-yellow; yellow-brown |
| luteolous | yellowish |
| luteous | golden-yellow |
| lutescent | yellowish |
| madder | red dye made from brazil wood; a reddish or red-orange colour |
| magenta | reddish purple |
| maroon | brownish crimson |
| mauve | light bluish purple |
| mazarine | rich blue or reddish-blue colour |
| melanic | black; very dark |
| melichrous | having a honey-like colour |
| meline | canary-yellow |
| miniaceous | colour of reddish lead |
| minium | vermilion; red lead |
| modena | crimson |
| morel | dark-coloured horse; blackish colour |
| nacarat | bright orange-red |
| nankeen | buff-coloured; durable buff-coloured cotton |
| nigricant | of a blackish colour |
| nigrine | black |
| niveous | snowy; white |
| ochre | yellowish or yellow-brown colour |
| ochroleucous | yellowish white |
| olivaceous | olive-coloured |
| or | heraldic colour gold or yellow |
| pavonated | peacock-blue |
| periwinkle | a bluish or azure colour; a plant with bluish flowers |
| perse | dark blue or bluish-grey; cloth of such a colour |
| phoeniceous | bright scarlet-red colour |
| piceous | like pitch; inflammable; reddish black |
| plumbeous | leaden; lead-coloured |
| ponceau | poppy red |
| porphyrous | purple |
| porraceous | leek-green |
| prasinous | leek-green colour |
| primrose | pale yellow |
| puccoon | blood-root; dark red colour |
| puce | brownish-purple; purplish-pink |
| puniceous | bright or purplish red |
| purpure | heraldic colour purple |
| purpureal | purple |
| pyrrhous | reddish; ruddy |
| rhodopsin | visual purple |
| rubiginous | rusty-coloured |
| rubious | ruby red; rusty |
| rufous | reddish or brownish-red |
| russet | reddish brown |
| sable | black; dark; of a black colour in heraldry |
| saffron | orange-yellow |
| sage | grey-green colour |
| sanguineous | bloody; of, like or pertaining to blood; blood-red |
| sapphire | deep pure blue |
| sarcoline | flesh-coloured |
| sepia | fine brown |
| sinopia | preparatory drawing for a fresco; reddish-brown colour |
| slate | dull dark blue-grey |
| smalt | deep blue |
| smaragdine | emerald green |
| solferino | purplish red |
| sorrel | reddish-brown; light chestnut |
| spadiceous | chestnut-coloured |
| stammel | coarse woollen fabric, usually dyed red; bright red colour |
| stramineous | strawy; light; worthless; straw-coloured |
| suede | light beige |
| sulphureous | bright yellow |
| tan | tawny brown |
| taupe | brownish-grey |
| tawny | brownish-yellow |
| teal | greenish-blue |
| terracotta | reddish-brown |
| testaceous | of or having a hard shell; brick-red |
| tilleul | pale yellowish-green |
| titian | red-gold or reddish-brown |
| topaz | dark yellow |
| turquoise | blue-green |
| ultramarine | deep blue |
| umber | brownish red |
| vermeil | bright red or vermilion colour; gilded silver |
| vermilion | bright red |
| vinaceous | wine-coloured |
| vinous | deep red; burgundy |
| violaceous | violet-coloured |
| violet | bluish purple |
| virescent | becoming green or greenish; of a greenish colour |
| virid | green |
| viridian | chrome green |
| vitellary | bright yellow |
| wallflower | yellowish-red |
| watchet | pale blue |
| wheaten | the golden colour of ripe wheat |
| whey | off-white |
| willowish | of the colour of willow leaves |
| xanthic | yellow; yellowish |
| zinnober | chrome green |
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Pet Peeves
- Eating in bed and leaving crumbs
- Spammers.
- People who call but don't leave a message.
- Wasting food, like when a person takes a full plateful of food and then eat two bites.
- People who don't vote and then complain about the results.
- Tables at restaurants that are next to or in the direct line of view of the restrooms. I don't want to look at and think about people going to the bathroom while I eat.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Pet Peeves
- When people put (sp?) after words when the spell check button is right in front of them.
- Piling up clothes in the corner of the room instead of putting them in the hamper.
- Hair on the soap.
- People who are stingy with money when they clearly have a lot of it.
- People who cook for you, and use the same spoon multiple times to taste what they are cooking while cooking it, like for pasta sauce or soup.
- Shopping carts with a broken wheel.
- The sound of somebody playing with silverware on a plate.
- Going out to dinner with a big group, eating $10 worth of food and having to split the whole bill and ending up paying much more than you ate.
- Sitting in the movies and hearing someone eating popcorn.
Monday, January 11, 2010
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Pet Peeves
- Having to use more than one remote control (one for TV, dvd player, cable box, TIVO, etc.)
- People who throw cigarette butts on the beach.
- People who leave shopping carts in the parking lot instead of taking them back to the corral.
- People who go the wrong way in a parking lot.
- People letting their dogs use my yard as their toilet.
- People throwing trash into a recycle bin.
- Movie sequels that are unnecessary.
- Drivers who tailgate.
- Anyone male or female- who says "We're pregnant." Are they sharing a uterus?
- When you have an itch on the bottom of your foot and you can't scratch it because you have shoes on.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
blessed and thankful for this...
☆blessed for the safety and security of our family☆blessed with being together
☆blessed with having a hard working husband
☆blessed with health
☆blessed with knowing that I am loved
☆blessed with waking each day to see the sun, blue skies, and white clouds
☆blessed with intelligence
☆blessed with spirituality and peace
☆blessed with every experience I’ve had in my life to share the lessons with others
☆blessed with not ever spending a minute living in fear
☆blessed with the funny feeling I find a great vintage treasure
☆blessed with
☆I’m thankful for my husband, who every day inspires me to be a better woman
☆I'm thankful for my extraordinary children whom I love more than all the breaths in the world
☆I'm thankful for that I have the greatest, most supportive parents ever!
☆I'm thankful for my old and new friends
What are you thankful for?
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Nothing Better
zs : Nothing better than laying in bed with kids on a day off watching Sponge Bob.
zs : Nothing better than being excited for Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow night.
zs : Nothing better than listening to my kids imaginary conversations.
zs : Nothing better than opening up the windows and letting a crisp breeze into our home.
zs : Nothing better than booking a trip to Denver next week to listen to Andy speak in front of a room full of investors and Breckenridge to ski.
zs : Nothing better taking a deep breath.
zs : Nothing better than dreaming about my next house.
zs : Nothing better than procrastinating on projects by reorganizing my studio.
zs : Nothing better than the feeling I get from cleaning out/purging/organizing my studio.
zs : Nothing better than the price of gold at $1183.80
Monday, November 23, 2009
Monday, November 9, 2009
i {heart}

Lilia
from
flea market studio.
So gorgeous.
I love the wings, love the lace, love the polka dots.
Her work is so beautiful, shabby, vintagy layers of love. I've looked at her etsy shop and it's filled with such goodies- run and check it out!
I loved looking at her art journals that were made with her daughter in mind. They are filled with pages and memories of her little girl growing up surrounded by pink, blue, lace, and feathers. Lilia has preserved the memories in such a sweet way...get's me inspired to try and organize myself to do the same with my children.
Oh, here's her blog fleamarketstudio.typepad.com when you are done with looking at her etsy shop, check out the blog.

Pictures of family, beach, pumpkins...it's worth stopping by after a long day of working, grab a glass of wine, cup of tea, or a sparkling water and check out the works of Lilia.
Friday, November 6, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
i {heart} Clothbound Penguin Classics


Coralie Bickford-Smith is the designer behind these gorgeous clothbound books. Coralie Bickford-Smith is a senior cover designer at Penguin Books, where she has created several series designs.They are classics that I have never read BUT will now...
Here are some of the titles but there are so many more
- Sense and Sensibility
- Emma
- Oliver Twist
- Jane Eyre
- Sense and Sensibility
- Crime and Punishment
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
GO TO
the
WEBSITE
to
PURCHASE
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Daddy's shoes
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
What does Lola ♥ {heart}
"Gykie"
iCarly
Jonas Brothers
Miley Cyrus
laying in bed with mommy
my sister
Monday, November 2, 2009
i {heart} monica bellucci
This is an old photograph that I found on one of my favorite sites for inspiration...http://nickdrake.tumblr.com/page/30. It's Monica Bellucci and she is an Italian actress who has been in several movies. She's 45 years old and STUNNING! Her most memorable movie (i think) was she was Mary Magdalene in The Passion of the Christ (Heavy). I love this photograph and I wish I knew who took it or what year it was taken in.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
i {heart} sweaters by Seema Sudan


Lia Molly is a sweater collection for kids that is Designed Exclusively for Anthropologie. They carry it for children until 18 months...WHAT????? Hand knitted with eye-popping threads, the droolicious details of fabulous appliqués, over sized buttons, and velvet ribbons add to the charm of each piece.
Interview found on http://www.sheckys.com/designerlounge/48/liamolly

















$1599.00
