macarthur park

as we were riding the subway on tuesday, brian noticed there was a stop for MacArthur Park, which triggered a Donna Summer song in his head. so that night, we looked up the song and sure enough, it was talking about the MacArthur Park that's in LA. so we went back the next day and spent almost two hours taking photos. brian than turned those photos into the video above.

yes, we might be the biggest nerds ever. we flew a thousand miles to go on a vacation where we went spent a chunk of our afternoon photographing a cupcake in a park. but you know what? we had so much fun. :)

LA: Day One

while the three-hour time difference currently has me wide awake at 3am, day one of our trip has been wildly successful. :)

blinding

quiet now

smiling

because some things just make me happy. :)

pros & cons

i re-read and re-read typed conversations. i love that facebook archives messages indefinitely, as i go back days, weeks, months later to re-read what was said. there have been e-mails that i've forced myself to trash so that i would stop re-reading them.

phone conversations do not allow the same revisiting ... but i think that's fairly replaced with instantaneous responses that haven't been written and re-written before being sent. i don't generally like phones, but tonight was good. i'm heading to bed with a million conversation snippets running through my mind, a smile on my face and warmth in my heart.

mushroom

his cap is so tall. like he's pulled it down over his eyes, allowing him to hide from the world.

... yawn

i planned to come home today and mow the lawn. and get the oil changed in my car. and mill around the red dot boutique. and buy eggs. and return some stuff i'm not going to need. but instead ... i'm thinking maybe i'll take a nap? and then crochet?

or maybe i should go take pictures ... the sun is especially shiny today.

it's all in the details

it might be ridiculous how excited i get when someone takes the time to put the apostrophe in front of my name.

and breath

i need to calm down. relax. remember that i made the choices that got me here, and i can make the choices that get me somewhere else. besides, where i am is not a bad place to be.

borderline guilt

i don't think i can be held responsible for people assuming i still do the same things i did ten years ago. but when they make those assumptions, should i correct them?

photo fail of the day

really, 'becca? you couldn't take two more steps to the left and get the entire statue in the picture? really?

that's multitasking.

i got an extra hour of spare time this morning before needing to head downtown, and i thought to myself, "self, would you rather spend that hour dying your hair or pulling out your autumn dishes?" so i did both. because i'm a multitasking master.

this is my first time using my new lemongrass fiestaware. i only bought one piece because i wanted to see how it jived with my older chartreuse pieces. the bowl (top/left) is lemongrass; the saucer (bottom/right) is chartreuse. not too shabs, homer laughlin. not too shabs.

on second thought ...

i don't know that i've ever deleted a post before. but if you happened to read this in the last five minutes, you read something that's now gone. :)

blasted anonymity

know what i don't like about the like, dislike, think you're crazy buttons on here? i have no way of knowing who's clicking what. it's like a guessing game where i'll never know if i'm right.