the heat finally did me in. i had to cut my long (well, it was really just medium-length, but long for me) hair short again. so, the wondrous meg squeezed me in to her schedule and chopped my locks into a lovely new do. which i wanted to share with you. [i did not intend [...]
Posts Tagged ‘the boy’
scenes from a thursday afternoon.
Posted in 2010, tagged life, daily, the boy, picture pages on 15 July 2010 | 1 Comment »
things charming me today: summer installment one
Posted in 2010, tagged the boy, things charming me today on 21 June 2010 | 2 Comments »
so. there are things to be said about things. jobs and trips and weddings and locations and books and sights and people. but for now? let’s talk about more charming things. because it’s summer, and today it’s the longest day of the year, which provides ample time and sunlight to take in the things that [...]
[de]rose-colored glasses.
Posted in 2010, tagged summah, the boy on 7 May 2010 | Leave a Comment »
literally. they looked white online, but when they arrived, it turns out that they are rose-colored. the idiom “rose-colored glasses” means that you see things as more pleasant than they actually are. these are my new sunglasses for the summer, but i have this funny feeling that between getting married, a honeymoon and spending all [...]
not-so-subtle reminders.
Posted in 2010, tagged home, the boy on 6 May 2010 | 1 Comment »
this is the new rug the french boyfriend bought for our house: i tend to forget things going out the door. do you think he’s trying to tell me something?
cara mio.
Posted in 2010, tagged artsy, that wedding thing, the boy on 27 April 2010 | 1 Comment »
my love, my polaroid mio, my cara mio. if you have known me longer than 2 weeks, you know my affinity towards polaroid film. with this, i way live up to my hipster street cred. i own five of them, and a long time ago the lovely paradigm girls gifted me my polaroid mio. they [...]
nerd love.
Posted in 2010, tagged artsy, nerdy, that wedding thing, the boy on 25 April 2010 | Leave a Comment »
this weekend was the weekend of accomplishment. i completed one part of my teaching portfolio, which i have renamed the Time Wasting Suck, all 82 pages of it, replete with charts and graphs and student work and analysis and words, words, words. we registered for gifts. or, well, we registered for part of our gifts. [...]
i am a sucker for a play on words.
Posted in 2010, tagged nerdy, the boy, word snobbery on 10 January 2010 | 3 Comments »
as in, i would totally buy this, just so i could serve the french boyfriend a gin and titonic, and watch his expression when he laughed at me. and rolled his eyes. and shook his head.
the only conversation we’ve had all evening.
Posted in 2009, tagged conversations, the boy on 1 January 2010 | Leave a Comment »
boy (watching television): hey, isn’t this one of the godfather movies? me (looking): um…no. boy (pointing to one of the actors on screen): isn’t that guy in the godfather? me: yes, but it’s not one of the godfather movies. boy: are you sure? me: yes. sidney poitier was not in the godfather. neither are hardly [...]
locations.
Posted in 2009, tagged daily, the boy on 29 December 2009 | 2 Comments »
this week i am in sunny* craig, colorado and steamboat springs. my french boyfriend got a call a few months ago from a lady who used to show some of his work in her gallery about three years ago. that gallery has since closed, but she is working with two new galleries in steamboat springs, [...]
a diamond and a tether: the story in one exceedingly long act.
Posted in 2009, tagged that wedding thing, the boy on 6 December 2009 | 6 Comments »
this is meg. you should meet her for so many reasons, least of which are that she is an amazing hairstylist and makeup artist, has impeccable style, transforms her home into a crazy christmas grotto every holiday season, and has a delightfully british husband. she is also an amazing friend, the kind that would help [...]
