oh no!

Guess who is coming to town this weekend?


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The international tattoo convention...

This will be bad for my indecisiveness....

songs for a cold day

currently it is slushing outside...half snow half rain.  It doesn't make the situation better that the wind is moving the mix in a perfectly horizontal fashion...having to brave the mess outside on my commute home I decided to warm up my soul with some of the best classics (check out my playlist here).

p.s. my father hates Micheal Buble...and after listening to/watching these artists you can see why...Buble (or Mr. Bubble as I refer to him) just doesn't compare.


p.p.s aren't the pictures of these people fabulous? 

being a hermit

Dear Internetszzssszzszs-

I have been spending copious amounts of time with you lately.  Not you in particular...just one site on you...google.

Well not google...

 the Google Art Project  to be specific...

with it I can see images like this:

from paintings like this:

I can visit the world's best museums from the confines of my bedroom....and not just the museums...the artwork in them, in freakishly high definition.  I get to see the brush strokes on these paintings.

Google Art Project, you have proven yourself highly addictive...

I have to go now...(go meaning I will probably spend 1 more hour pouring over your artwork)...

Autumn

P.S.  but for realsies friends, you have to check out Google Art Project, it is the coolest thing online right now.  If you have any interest in art at all you will love this website.  While it doesn't replace the awe and wonder that you get when you stand in front of a painting, it is pretty spectacular...and it is free (unlike the traveling would be).  Additionally, you get the best view of the painting w/o worrying about crowds or "hogging" the best space.  I loves this (probably because I am half hermit).

who I want to be when I grow up

as children we are asked what we want to be when we grow up

now I am asked what I am planning on doing with my degree

and while I am still trying to answer those questions...I do know one thing

I want to do this with my future husband after we have been married for 62 years.

you couldn't do this in Utah

while perusing the website Hel Looks a couple of nights ago

I ran across a couple of images...

for those of you who don't know

hel looks is an assortment of pictures 

that capture people who have "unique" fashion senses

...

and while 30% of me wants to mock these people

40% of me wishes I could dress like this...

but you can only really do so if you live in a place like...

well...

Helsinki

flower prints...

...sometimes I think growing up in Utah has ruined me

...not in a serious dramatic way

...it's just that

...every time I see dresses like this

 or

and 

...I don't think

...ooo vintage

...oh the 90s are back

....the 70s inspired clothes this season are amazing

...

I think

they look like polygamists.

indecisiveness

for years I have struggled with a major case of indecisiveness...

not the big things like my major, how I want to cut my hair, what car to buy, no

I struggle with the small stuff:

-what do I want for dinner

-12 pack of diet coke or mt dew

-nail color

-what shirt to wear in the morning

-what eyeshadow

...

in high school it took me and my friend longer to decide on where to eat

than it took us to eat.

I have always viewed this as a negative.

until I wanted a 

TATTOO

if I could just decide on what I wanted to get than I would be there faster than you could say tattoo...

I'm not talking gross ugly things:

(insert your own version of a bad tattoo...I was going to post images but then I thought some people might get offended...)

I am talking about stuff like this:

or this one

all are done by the artist Amanda Wachob who started off as a normal artist...

this is probably why her tattoos look less like they are done with an ink gun and more

like they are done with a paint brush.

unfortunately (or luckily) she is in New York and I am still suffering a major case of the indesive...

am I alone in my longing for a tattoo?

under the covers (playlist for 2/6-2/12)

I believe that a good cover affords you the opportunity to re-discover, evaluate, fall in love, with long forgotten songs or the over worked songs of the present.  Many of the following covers actually "un-covered" songs that I thought I didn't like.  


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banana

banana, originally uploaded by wayne bremser.

I love this photo...for a lot of reasons. Can you believe that it was taken months ago?