My sincerest apologies for my absence these past few weeks. It was not my intention to leave all my loyal readers stranded with only two posts to look back on. I do have good excuses though, ready?
- I took a week long trip to my hometown to see my sister in a play; I flew in on Tuesday and got snowed in on Friday. Play was canceled. Didn't leave the house for 4 days until my flight out. Was never happier to get back to LA where there was NOT three feet of snow and the temperature was NOT 20 degrees. Flying back on Friday for the play's new date...
- I started 40 DAYS OF HEALTHY HEALTHY WOO! with W. For lent*, we gave up unhealthy habits. So now I am committed to 30 minutes of cardio per day, plus a strength circuit, plus no alcohol, plus no sweets, plus no carbs after 3pm. So pretty much, my life is hell. (Although I did lose 5 pounds in a week so I'm not complaining too much.) More about this later.
*Just to clarify: Lent is used for will-power purposes only, not for any kind of religious solidarity. Glad we cleared that up. Carry on.
- I've been working on some music! Which is kind of a miracle, considering my motivation levels in general. I've written a couple songs and have been committed to finally finishing up with the production. They're in mixing stages right now. Soon they will be done. Hopefully. (The one I wrote in 2009 has been in production for about 3 years so, yanno, we'll see.) But, as you can tell from that photo that W candidly snapped, we are working really hard over there.
Now on to the real reason I am posting today. One of these days I DO actually plan on posting something related to the title of this blog. Today is not that day. But for now, I have something cool to show you!
Some friends were visiting me a couple weeks ago, and they wanted to find some unique little shops so I took them to Silverlake!
For those of you geographically challenged, Silverlake is a hip little neighborhood with lots of expensive/adorable/tiny houses tucked in the hills with steep narrow roads and lots of bikes and mustached hipsters.
We went on the perfect day- the Farmer's Market was there so we tried oranges and Kombucha and enjoyed the delicious smell of tamales.
But we were there to shop, so we went in every cool little artsy shop until we were all tired out. We were just about to turn around when I remembered this awesome shop called Furthur. We had to cross over a bridge that was also a man's house to get there, but it was totally worth it because this store is AMAZING.
It mostly sells unique, and very affordable, furniture and home decor, but they also had a rack of supercool cards and I knew I had to get one.
They had a whole collection of horoscope cards so very spontaneously and without a plan for them, I splurged; $4 each for a Leo (W's sign) and a Libra (mine, of course.) They are SO WEIRD. Humans with bird heads? A lion king with a man-body?? Yes please! I'm really into the weird right now. (I mean, I did just place a giant ceramic stag head on my mantle. More on that later.)
And I was pretty sure W would appreciate being represented as the Lion King of the house. I was thinking I could eventually find some frames and make some cheap art out of them.
So my next day off, W had some work to do, so I did some solo shopping. And let me just say- the shopping center in my area that houses my local Target also houses the TRIFECTA: Michael's, TJ Maxx, and Marshall's. (Although TJ Maxx and Marshall's always have the same stuff anyway)
I originally went just for some yarn at Michael's (I had a giftcard that I used up in one shot thanks to a big new project I'm starting- but that's another post.) but of course I had to go to Marshall's too. And I found two totally different 8x10 frames in the clearance aisle. They were both cool looking and I'm not one to care about matching, so I grabbed em. And of course being the half-asser I am, I didn't care to measure anything, so I could only hope that they fit!
But they did of course, and it worked out perfect. I finally got around to finding the right place for them, along with this lovely Map of Boston print that my mom gave us for Christmas!
I think I can speak for W as well when I say that we left part of our hearts in Beantown, so it's nice to have this little reminder of our happy little city.
He arrived! It took me about 10 minutes just to remove him from his Styrofoam/Packing Peanut prison, but it was worth it. In the time leading up to his arrival, I thought I had the perfect name picked out for him. But then he arrived and I knew it wasn't right. So it took me a few days, but I finally landed on Oliver. W, however, truly believed (and still does, I might add) that he is Lorenzo. Which is why he made him this mustache. Every once in awhile, I get tired of looking at it and I take it off. Only to find W has put it back on almost immediately. I just think of Lorenzo as Oliver's evil twin, at this point.
Are you guys cheapskates like me? Have you ever made your own unique framed prints? I'd love to hear about yours!
Have a good week kids. Promise to be back in less than a month. (I'll try my hardest.)
-C
