life's a bowl of cherries!

yaaaaaaaaawn....

getting sleepy ;) random thoughts commence!

so i've been thinking about changing my e-mail. at first when gmail came out, i thought it was cool that i got a fairly common word (breeze) with no numbers as my e-mail... but i've since changed my mind. i get all kinds of genuine personal e-mails intended for others and i also get a whole lot of spam. although gmail is pretty good at figuring that out, i'm thinking about switching to firstname.lastname@gmail.com but we'll see! yes, i'm a big enough dork to write a paragraph about my choice of e-mail moniker. is that how you spell moniker?

in other news, nately and i have had a fun week :) we went to see superbad last week (did i blog about that already?) it was HYSTERICAL... although... if you don't have a high tolerance for extremely crude highschool boy conversations, i don't recommend you see it ;)

we also went to 'taste the nation' a benefit for second harvest (a charity for hunger). it was fun :) i got a new dress and we got to try food and wine from many of the area restaurants. they also had a silent auction on many items, but we didn't win anything that we bid on.

nate's also been hanging up several pictures that i framed so we finally have stuff on the walls! or at least more stuff-- it feels cozier already :) i'll have to take a picture of the living room, i think it can finally be considered finished!

this week's gone by incredibly quickly! very excited tomorrow is friday and that we're headed to arizona in the near future :) can't wait!!! sounds like we'll be spending most of our time up north since it's ridiculously hot in phoenix right now.

I Crave Your Mouth

by Pablo Neruda

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.

I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,
the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,
I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,

and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you, for your hot heart,
Like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.

the toilet saga continues (gasp!)

so if you read my below post, the story didn't actually end there, my post was premature ;) see the full story in pictures ;) and since the pictures could be considered less than interesting, i've captioned the whole thing for your reading pleasure.

http://FloridaIveys.smugmug.com/photos/sspopup.mg?AlbumID=3340993

my husband, the plumber

so when nate and i got married (and let me preface this by saying i love him just the way he is) i figured i was marrying a wonderful man, but that i'd be paying a repairman or specialist to fix most of the things around the house. because lord knows i'm not patient enough to do it, and nately didn't strike me as the handy type.
but lo and behold! since we've lived in our own home he's proven himself to be extremely handy and in possession of nearly limitless patience. he's done all kinds of little projects and is gaining skill with each one. his latest endeavor (if you will) was our leaky master bath toilet. 2 trips to home depot, 3 trips to ACE, and approximately 6 hours later- we have a repaired toilet! the man's skills know no bounds ;)

ah, home sweet home...

Angriest City in America?

"The winner -- Orlando, FL -- home of Walt Disney World, the so-called "happiest place on earth." Three other cities in Florida -- St. Petersburg, Miami, and Jacksonville -- make the top 10, with Tampa, FL trailing at 12th place.
New York City, infamous for its rude and angry citizens, ranks 57th.
Tha calmest city award goes to Manchester, New Hampshire. Portland, Oregon, the urban planning "Shangri-la", comes in at 96th place, just four above Manchester.
Men's Health magazine judged 100 cities on high blood pressure, traffic congestion, aggravated assaults, workplace violence and speeding tickets."

a collection of my favorite property photos :)

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
-G.B. Stern

new blog title, new obsession

so lately i've gotten more and more into photography and it's got me thinking. seems like i'm always trying to get into something artsy. well, maybe not always, but if you recall the previous title of this blog (think back really far to yesterday) it was 'beware of poetry.' but i find myself reading and writing less poetry and taking pictures instead :) so state of flux it is for now.

oh i also recently got photoshop 7 (thanks drew!) which has contributed greatly to the blog changes :)

happy birthday to a whole lot of decade turners and more!

off to PA!

and a photo from last week :) makes me want to go watch the movie!