this is texas

this, the river, is fun:


this is driving, how i spend almost every other weekend, driving.


big skies, true, and here is my tower of vultures, they are always there.


it is a long drive.

and here is the city, mostly grimy, and very hot.


i like it, mostly, it feels closer to home, but not quite.

books

it's just a normal day, but i feel lonely and scared and sad.

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here's the top 100 books from the big read. i've read 26 out of the 100 (i'm counting on the road which i only half read because i didn't like it).

some of my favorites on the list:
tess of the d'urbervilles
alice's adventures in wonderland and through the looking glass

one hundred years of solitude

the secret garden

and, ya'll, my all-time favorite: if nobody speaks of remarkable things. i can't believe how much i loe this book.

i can read this from cover to cover, then start from the beginning again. or i can just pick it up and read my favorite pages again and again. read the first 3 pages - you'll be hooked.

dangerous angels is second.

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check out these wall hooks from saturday's shopping spree:


cool, right? i can't find them on the internets, but it turns out they are made by the same people who make my new timer. actually, i recognized a lot of stuff on their web site, including this little guy:


i bought him (from target) a few months ago to replace my giant coffee can of change.

i love

i love this little spot in my kitchen, grinder, coffee maker that doesn't suck at all, and especially the photographs picked up last trip to soho.

{i wish i had asked the photographer for his name, because i can't read the signature on the back. i wanted to badly, but for some reason i felt like it would be rude or something. i knew i would regret it. why am i so weird? being scared of asking someone that you are buying something from what their name is? truly ridiculous...}

anyway, in case you can't tell this is looking up at the stairs at the apple shop. so creative.

things i want to do

learn to speak spanish. so i'll be ready to live in mexico when the time comes.

make things! make a quilt. something like this - how lovely.


and this bag. already got the pattern.


maybe even a few dresses.

find an good online printer. these came in the mail today (to frame for the boys' room) and they never look as well as i expect...

months fly by

it amazes me how easy it is to remember passwords sometimes. like dialing a telephone number you haven't used it forever.

look who was back last night:


jack is out of town and this is what makes it bearable:

and although you can't see them: pride and prejudice, the other boleyn girl, and love and other disasters.

i learned that cooking is pretty easy. i still don't do it much, but it's nice to know i can. and it's fun. i love allrecipes.com. you can find anything almost, and the reviews let you know whether it's good. i bought a crappy timer from target, and just replaced it with this one from anthropologie:

guilty pleasures

cyndi lauper's time after time and pat benatar's love is a battlefield.


and random pictures (which still don't get me through january for 365):