hypocrit

is it bad that i spent 20 minutes on the phone with a friend agreeing that, yes, marriage was way overrated, and yes, i am totally over it, and then 40 minutes looking at antique diamond engagment rings on the internet?

i can be a product junkie again...

i am pretty particular about what touches my body in the bathtub. this no liquids thing was killing me, because i also like to pack light and forget about checking anything at the airport. thank goodness for the sample size clause so i can bring my own everything with me. that being said, in dc i loved the bathroom soapie things that i usually completely ignore. enough to remember to look up the products when i got home, from lather.com.

these in particular smell so good (and didn't give my any weird infections):


yuzu bergamot moisturizer


mint thyme shampoo--err, hair wash


lemongrass soap

like heaven

guys, i got the internet! real true dsl and a wireless network. i just used a home phone for the first time in 2 years, and it did it while checking my email. i just hooked it up in about 15 minutes. the electrians were rude and loud, yes, but they did the job. happy birthday to me and maybe this means the landlord really will put up the satellite he's promising.

now i can post the picture i tried for 10 minutes to post earlier today on the stolen shaky-breaky wireless connection:

oysters

an interesting thing about boston is that when you order oysters you have to choose which kind you want. so different from new orleans where there is only one kind. so last week we got a sampler with four different kinds of oysters. now, i've said before how unsatisfactory the oysters up here are for a southern girl, but you know one of them was actually doable (even though they were $2.50 each!): well fleet. apparently, it is a town in cape cod.

i got this picture from woodbury's online where they say you can order dozens delivered next day. i love the way they call oysters "a taste of the wild ocean," so appropriate.

now if sake cafe would only open in massachusetts i would be a happy girl. the best sushi in the entire world (by far). we went about once a week when i lived there. if you are in new orleans you have to try their sake III roll. i would kill for it:

nothing

everytime i drive to work, the leaves are slightly different. they really are as pretty as they say. i keep wanting to talk pictures but when i have nothing else to do, i wind up sort of doing nothing. nothing that i planned that is, today i am baby-sitting the electricians that are supposedly hooking up our phone line. this apartment has been a bunch of crap. no cell phone reception (although there is a verizon store a block away -- there's no reception in the store either!), the phone and cable lines haven't been hooked up right even though there's a jack for each in every room. we've had no tv since we moved in (which is fine with me most of the time, but every once in a while you sort of want to flip some channels, it's the american way), and a leaky deck. the floor and baseboards are all warped, but i guess they fixed that too since there were carpenters hammering away the last two days. all in all, thank god it's a lease and not a mortgage.

we are looking for a nice little camp in texas hill country. we've been renting a cabin every other weekend to see the boys and would save money if we just bought an inexpensive house on a couple acres of land. that's fun.

bits

about me:

i am lucky. i'm realizing that every day. for one, i had chips for lunch and cherry cheesecake and am probably about to go have some delicious clam chowder and a few beers for dinner. i do some variation of that every day and i weigh under 120 lbs. and i don't exercise really (although, actually, i think sex and walking places counts).

i travel a lot. and i love my travel partner. i can't even imagine wanting to go to buenos aires by myself because he is the best travel partner. (not that i even want to go to buenos aires.) we returned from toledo bend late last night and on friday we are driving to manhattan. i'm looking forward to the drive this time, i feel like i spend too many days in the airport. i had only flown twice when i turned 21 and boy am i making up for lost time.

i missed my blog

i haven't blogged in so long, i haven't had any internet access at this stupid apartment, also no phone or cable or any-fucking-thing. but last night, mysteriously, a wireless connection came back to me. i don't know where from but thank god, so i'm just gonna blog randomly.

the library here rocks. it's a block from my house, plus you can order books from like a million other libraries right on the internet and they will get sent there to pick up. they email you when it's in. is that the coolest thing ever? i read a hundred photography books plus the unbearable lightness of being which i love and of love and other demons which was kind of depressing and the russian debutante's handbook which is weird so far.

also i've read every fashion magazine on the stands because i've been flying every freakin' weekend somewhere. really. this had led to thinking about fall fashion and since i have no style right now, i've decided i want to look like christina aguliera, which is impossible since i spend 3 minutes tops getting ready everyday and her "vintage bombshell" hair alone would take me an hour. i did let me boyfried buy me a fancy lowcut black dress which i love and i don't even feel bad about it. i've been working! at his office and it's so busy. just until they hire someone next month and i go in late and leave early, but still it counts.

i'm making tiny cherry cheesecakes in heart-shaped tins today. i need to send my sister the suri cruise vanity fair. what a cute little baby. i still love katie holmes. i'm listening to a cover of enjoy the silence from copy, right? (i love that site; i love covers period; plus, i still love mazzy star!). i also saw robert weingarten's palette series gallery in dc last weekend and his art was really cool. i'm inspired again to start painting and hanging shit up.