i call shotbun!
Don’t ride alone in some strange guy’s Wienermobile.”
— quote from a columnist’s husband, after she told him she was invited
to “meat up” with the driver of the oscar meyer wiener vehicle.
good advice. also, the best thing i’ve read all day.
edit: oh, it gets better if you read the whole article here. exhibit a: riding ‘shotbun’. exhibit b: ‘buckle your meat-belt!.’ wow.
mini-vacation: denver.
last weekend the boy and i had a minivacation in denver. we stayed downtown, at the magnolia hotel.
i can say that i love a hotel with free breakfast, free drinks at happy hour, and milk and cookies for bedtime. each day. the hotel was rather busy, but lovely nonetheless. the building used to be a bank, i believe, so the rooms are smaller but charming. and a big bathtub.
the elevators are original, and each comes with a plaque explaining that the original elevators are old, sometimes slow, and creaky – but regularly inspected and maintained. i found that to be pretty funny.
the lobby had this wood paneling, as did the bar (harry’s) and everything had this modern-retro feel to it. very warm. the lobby also came with a faux-office for the concierge, who was sitting and ready to accomodate your requests. oh, do i love a hotel with a concierge. in about 7 minutes, we had reservations for an italian restaurant down the street, at the time we requested, with dessert compliments of the magnolia.
we shared a six-course tasting menu. the menu apparently was meant for one person, but there is no way only one of us could have eaten the food. it was incredibly good, and i believe the mushroom gnocchi was the favorite, except for maybe the ravioli…and everything else 🙂
desserts. two of them.
shopping, movies, lazing about, barbecues with friends (his) and friends (mine), the new batman movie.
delightful.
praise, praise, praise.
Do you have doubts about life? Are
you unsure if it is worth the trouble? Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person’s face as you pass on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street, and the ball of fire underneath the ground: these things are for you. They are as much for you as they are for other people. Remember this when you wake up in the morning and think you have nothing. Stand up and face the east. Now praise the sky and praise the light within each person under the sky. It’s okay to be unsure. But praise, praise, praise.
yawn. read. yawn.
A booknap is not simply reading and then sleeping in sequential order. If you set your book or magazine aside, rolled over and slept you have not booknapped. The experience should be seamless. One moment you are reading sleepily, the next you wake up with messy hair and a strange taste in your mouth.”
i can’t tell you how many times i do this. sadly, though, my body doesn’t distinguish between reading for school or work (in which case a booknap is inconvenient) and reading for leisure (in which case a booknap is glorious).
m. kors.
even curvy girls don’t like fins coming off their butt.”
this was the best line from project runway tonight.
however, suede is going to have to stop referring to himself in the third person.
Watching: Project Runway
orchids.
oh, and in all the busyness, i forgot to mention that my valedictorian of boyfriends is the only one in the world who would send me bright orange orchids in the middle of summer…because it would match my outfit.
oh, i like him.
sara, darling. 