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?

cup of ambition...(playlist for January 30 - February 5)

1) Confession:  I love Dolly Parton...many a bad day drive home has been spent singing a long with her (if you are looking for a back-up singer Dolly I am here waiting).

2) I cannot wait until March when I get to see this guy and Cary Brothers...he is quickly becoming my new favorite.

3) Awful video....amazing song (and artist)

4) One of my all time favorites...

5) The Civil Wars have been one of my favorite duos for a long time.  In celebration of their new album one of my favorite singles from them.

6) Sometimes I find myself liking artists that I would never have guessed I would have.  Marina and the Diamonds falls into that category.

7) I can't tell you how excited I have been for Adele's new album.  Since getting it I have been listening to it 90% of the time...

8) It's songs like this that make me realize that the gap between my generation and my parents' might not be that large...

kul ‘am wa antum bikhair! aka new year = new goals

although I am less than thrilled at my current prospects (in all aspects) I have decided that instead of moping I am going to

“wake-up and die right” as my father would say.

With that in mind here are a few of my goals for the new year…

1) wake-up after 1 “snoozing” session

2) blog more…(as I am not a very good blogger I feel like this post is already accomplishing this goal…)

3) read 52 books by the end of the year.

4) only go out to eat twice a week

5) try to understand the gospel outside of my own cultural context

6) find more amazing music (aka go to concerts more!!)

7) train for a MARATHON!!!!

These are all things that I have wanted to do for quite some time…and now that I am only working part-time and not going to school I have no excuses!

Dr. Hoo

(Click on the picture...)

LOVE IT!!!