Thursday, April 29, 2010

old soul, new heart

as you may or may not have heard, good ol' syd mcgee's wife shea and her mother joined creative forces about a year ago to create old soul, new heart (their blog can be found here). they've gotten a bit of press online and if you look at their collection, they deserve it. the only thing i miss is the link to past seasons' collections...

now... i have been following the website and blog ever since then bc i am a modern romantic and thus am in LOVE with all of it. and ever since then, i have been eyeing a certain necklace over the seasons and tonight, with my recent promotion etc, i have finally found a reason (or excuse) to bite the bullet!


via old soul, new heart

this shall be mine in one week!


so, so, SO excited.

something i'm not as excited about? my short hair.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

long hurr don't curr


this is my hair



this is how long it is



tooooo long



this is what happened to it today


before/after picture(s) to follow after i wash it, because this is the shortest and straightest my hair has been in five years! five! years! i am not the slightest bit adventurous when it comes to the hair on my head... yet today i took off six inches; that is, ONE extra inch off of my usual twice a year haircut!

next up? some very subtle color to accentuate my natural (sun damaged) reddish, orange-ish tint. maybe. we're getting allllll kinds of crazy here!

and just for vanessa:


ta daaa! short(er) hair.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

a few things i am currently into:

1.
the new black keys' album, titled "brothers"

1. as a tie for first: using the PING!!! alert on people with blackberrys. my record: 40. in a row.

2.
enameled bangles (specifically these)

3.
sally hansen nail polish in "rockstar pink" (DISCLAIMER: no, this is not my hand - did you know people have entire blogs dedicated to nail polish, lipstick, etc?)

4.
documents to go for blackberry. bc i have a mac without the newest microsoft office, i can't open my company's expense reports bc they're in a new excel format that can't be read by any other version of office before 2007/8 (STOOPID). but with this program, i can open, edit, save AND send my forms without a computer! genius.

5. netflix streaming for the wii! even though the resolution is only 480p and looks like poo on a 1080p HD widescreen, i can now watch the movies and tv shows gary doesn't want to watch with me at his house on his HD xbox 360! guilty pleasures at my leisure = pure satisfaction... kind of, bc at the end of the day it still looks pretty crappy.

6. the new nordstrom at fashion island. before, there was only a snooty neiman marcus, a bare bloomingdale's and a faraway macy's... now, there's a bright and shiny new nordstrom with a fountain and courtyard in front perfect for break time! ahhh, we are so spoiled in orange county.

7.
round coke bottles. i got really excited when i saw the american idol edition today (i don't even watch AI) but now i feel a bit duped bc i thought it was a brand new concept that i just got wind of, but really, i'm a few years too late bc when i googled "round coke bottles," a bunch of pictures popped up, including this holiday version. man, that was a long sentence.

but to round off this gratuitous post, i have one thing i neither like nor dislike bc both extreme reactions balance each other out.

8. jet blue's $9 fares from LB --> or <--- SFO. you'd think this was a really exciting offer, and it would influence a normally cautious person to throw it to the wind and just go for it. well, it was and it did. i was so excited that i thought about booking a flight for me and G$ to go for his birthday (may 8) as soon as i heard about the deal. but when i went to the website, i slowly deflated. "$9/way..." "must travel on tues/wed april 27/28, may 4/5, 11/12, ...?" "depart mid-late afternoon one day and return early afternoon the next day?" "prices do not include fees totaling up to $30/person?!" "WHAT KIND OF A DEAL IS THIS?" and then i dropped the idea.

OH! another thing i like:

9. veggie grill's comment cards. when your birthday rolls around, they send you a postcard for a free entree... which means i am taking the VG virgin to nom nom on the meatless goodness soon bc i totally forgot i signed him up. besides jan's, mother's and a handful of vietnamese places, i really can't think of any other vegetarian place i would choose to dine at. big step.

Monday, April 19, 2010

just a moment!

there are a few things in life that i am certain of:

i love my parents,
i love my boyfriend,
i love my friends,
i must go to coachella next yr,

and THERE WAS AN EARTHQUAKE.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

1000s of wedding photos

looking through the photos of weddings i have been closely affiliated with (robert + alex [refer to this entry for photos], jenni + phil [no entry yet]), it makes me nostalgic for the beautiful, pure and unadulterated FUN that weddings were/are. well, that is, until i came across a photo where jenni tried to fix the bouquet toss by handing it to me but didn't quite think it through and threw it down and at my legs. to the far left of the group, one girl can be seen giving me what can only be defined as "a look;" one of a few i received that weekend, with a backstory that could make your eyes roll so far back into your head they would never return to their original position. but i digress.

promptly after their september wedding, robert + alex received their wedding photos and declared me "the perfect guest." why, i had no idea up until a week ago. going through their photos, it drummed up so many forgotten memories and events and frustrations and excitement that i had for that day/weekend i had been waiting on for months. and then i came across one photo that made me literally laugh out loud bc i knew exactly why i was LOLing in the picture... the musician groomsmen (the others were dancers/men of other crafts) and i were rapping lil wayne from memory w veuve cliquot in hand while alex's uncle or grandpa or some other male relative was giving a lullaby of a speech. another was right after i got sick and missed the slow dance to frank sinatra (leaving my poor boyfriend hanging), the garter toss AND the bouquet toss. i think. but my favorite? stolen straight off of the bride's laptop, in stealth mode:



THE POINT IS, weddings are great, and i would love to attend more. so, unmarried friends, let's get on with it, shall we?

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

things i need more of in my life:

- inspiration
- motivation
- lots of -'tions
- adventure
- ideas for design
- blogging