Friday, I'm in love....

Menorasaurus Rex. You should get one. Maybe, you should get two.

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Is there a Pumpkin Spice backlash afoot?

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Around here, uniforms are blowing up! You've heard about Matilda Kahl, who is a girl AND wears the same thing every day? I know! It's appealing. I'd be delighted to wear the same thing every day if I had a job. And even though I don't, I would wear the same thing everyday if it could be the outfit above.  Perfectly suitable for going into a fourth grade classroom and the fanciest restaurant in Livermore. Which is - admittedly - not such a big stretch.

Friday, I'm in love....

I'm not very gadgety. I'm the kind of  person who would make noises like: Why would I want a phone in my pocket? Why would I want a camera in my phone? Who needs to know their resting heart rate?
Then I saw this! And now I'm feeling like taking my phone/internet browser/heart rate monitor all the way out of my pocket to use it is way too much trouble. Dammit.

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Around here, it was my Daddy's seventieth birthday yesterday so I got to spend the weekend smelling jasmine, tromping up a hill, and making chocolate cake with my extremely gorgeous and talented family.
Time is flying and I feel like there is a area of high productivity on the horizon and a chance of adventurousness. Be your best self today!

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Is it Monday already? Around here, the year is going by at the speed of light. Someone told me recently: Busy is a choice. And I continue to choose it because I feel good about the things I've chosen to be busy doing. And I might be slightly more comfortable when I'm a little too busy, when my house and my hair are a little too messy.
Plenty of time for deep thoughts while stopped at a red light.

Friday, I'm in love....

Hey, design nerds! It's the Pantone Color of the Year for 2015 - Marsala! It's "hearty, yet stylish." Okay.

Workroom glimpse....

Look who made herself a pretty new website and pointed the what-sit to the right thingy and everything!

Workroom glimpse....

It's not looking good.
So that's what I'll be working on for the rest of the year. And all of the bookkeeping and the website update. In between wrapping and hugs, riding in the car, more hugs, champagne, and maybe some rest....
Thank you for reading, sweet pea.
I can't wait to see what happens in 2015, can you?

Friday, I'm in love....

This is how I feel today. Most days. Not in a bad way. By losilustrados.

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Around here we are falling back. I was recently on a ladder stringing fake cobwebs on the front of my house and wondering if that's more absurd than the fact that I wash my hair every morning and then apply products intended to make me look like I just rolled out of bed or arrived here directly from the beach. Later I heard that reading certain sections of Kierkegaard is like reading a blog written by someone who can't afford therapy.
This is where setting your clocks back will get you.

Friday, I'm in love....

Leave it to Burning Man to use a drone to make something beautiful.

Thinking about: growing up.

I celebrated my forty-fifth birthday last week with a gentle four-mile run, coffee with the middle school principal, the acquisition of some South African slang, and ouzo shots with the waiter. On my thirty-fifth birthday, I was pregnant with my second child. My boyfriend forgot my twenty-fifth. I don't even remember my fifteenth.
So, what changes over the years? Nothing. Well, Everything - of course. I'm married, I have two sons, I'm a homeowner.
But that's not what I'm talking about.
If you'd met me in my twenties, you would probably have described me as insecure and mercurial. If you met me now, you probably wouldn't but that's only because I'm better at hiding it. (Meaning that I have fewer pairs of Dr. Martens and more interpersonal skills.) Some things never change. My hair and my room are still a mess. I'm still recklessly enthusiastic. I'm still a sympathetic audience. A poor driver. A worse speller. I will never understand table runners. That's what I'm talking about. The immutable me-ness. The stuff that doesn't change.
And I think I would like a new pair of Docs.

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Omy, around here it's been a week of everything gone wrong and no one to blame but myself. And inattention to detail due to preoccupation. And maybe the alignment of the stars.
When in doubt, look up!

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Before you get all: Girl, your kids are amazing! Like you always do, I'd like to point out that 3 out of those 4 awards are for Participating. Which? Reminds me of my all-time favorite Generation-X rant.
ps. My kids are amazing!

Thinking about: Laterality.

How left-handed are you? I'm in the 2nd Left Decile (-45.00). Which is not very left-handed. Kind of in the middle. Do you think that left-handed people are less left-handed than right-handed people are right-handed because we live in a world where ninety percent of us are right-handed and because it's faster to learn to use the righty scissors than find a pair of lefty scissors? Me too!

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This is the time of year when the garden is full of lilacs and the catalogs are full of bathing suits.

1000!

Well, here we are at post number one-thousand. Joanna - did you ever think I'd be so verbose when you suggested I start blogging? Surely not. Pictures being worth 1000 or so words, here are a few of my favorites, in no particular order. Half of them are of my kids. Are you surprised? You shouldn't be. Click a photo to go back to the original post, if you wish, sweet peas!

Friday, I'm in love....

Hey graphic design nerds! The PMS color of the year is Radiant Orchid. Or Pantone 18-3224, as the real graphic design nerds call it. If they call it at all.

Workroom glimpse.

Ahhh, look at my newly cleaned and organized workroom! YES - this is what passes for clean around here. And it only took ten days....