Killing the Blues

I love this movie!

My movies to watch on bad days:
-The Notebook
-The Go-Getter
-The Royal Tenenbaums
-Jennifer's Body

I watch these when I've been feeling really uninspired, lonely, frustrated or sad. (I also watch these movies on good days but it's rare.)
Tonight I watched The Go-Getter, I wanted the feel of Portland and simplicity. I wanted Zooey Deschanel sipping soda from a straw and dipping fries in ketchup (my all time favorite scene from the movie, can't explain why but it pops in my head probably at least once every two weeks even when I haven't watched the movie). To say I watched it is a bit of an exaggeration however. I watched my favorite parts. The parts I found the most inspiring and comforting. I didn't watch the parts that mildly distress me, I just wasn't in the mood.
I do this often with certain movies. The Notebook for instance... I don't watch the very end anymore. Mostly because when I want to watch it I'm desperate for a happy love story and don't want to cry. So I watch the parts of when they were young. There's so much I find inspiring about Rachel McAdams character in that movie, I'm just enchanted by her completely. And I'd be lying if I said I wasn't in LOVE with young Noah. So handsome and endearing how he goes after her. One day I want someone to love me as much as he loved her. I know it's a movie but a girl can still dream.

Two movies that will be added to the list when they come out:
-Going the Distance
-Easy A

Funny, awesome love(ish) stories. Can't wait. Seriously.

Last but not least, TV shows I watch when I'm feeling a bit blue:
- The OC Season 1
- Gilmore Girls (any season but the older Rory gets the more I like it, more easy to relate to maybe?)
- Desperate Housewives

What are your movies you watch when you're feeling uninspired or in need of a pick me up? Do you only watch certain parts of movies too?

Silver Linings

Today is better. There is hope in the air. I know I go up and down as fast as a roller coaster at Six Flags and for that I apologize but I do need to get it out somewhere and sometimes doing it in a blog makes me think a little harder about the situation and it forces me to do something I love which is look through pictures.

I don't know what is to come in the future, maybe a reunion if one party is ready and the other hasn't set her mind elsewhere. Maybe not. But I'm not the basket case I was yesterday and I can talk without tears pouring out of my eyes like waterfalls.

The good thing about yesterday was I received my lovely polaroid in the mail yesterday. I have to wait until payday to buy film and then have to wait until they ship it, but having the camera itself to hold (with a case and two flash bars to boot!) was definitely something that kept my eyes dry for a minute.

Sunday night I finished a book I had been reading for a couple of weeks and so I had some time after my crying to look at my bookshelf for the next pick.

As I was looking and looking I needed something inspirational and I happened upon my favorite picture book: A Year of Mornings.



While I am not the kind to get up early in the morning the pictures are so gorgeous and I get very jealous of the authors' eye for simple beauty. It wouldn't hurt to try my hand at something similar however, so I will be uploading random photos from my day occasionally.

I hope you enjoy what I come up with.

I just found my new favorite website to get lost in: Polyvore

I might be super late to this game but I accidently came across it while looking for the perfect picture of a specific pair of Lavin shoes that Jennifer Aniston is wearing on the new cover of W with Gerard Butler.
Normally I'm not much of a W freak unless my stepmom buys it and I steal it for the pictures later, but her shoes just caught me off guard.

Gorgeous. The shoes... well forget it, everything and everyone in the picture, let's be honest.

So while searching for the shoes I came across a different, equally eye dazzling pair. It led me to this amazing collage that I guess can be made on Polyvore... who knew?! Not I!

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I'm pretty sure the look on my face as I scrolled through some of the collages looked awestruck. I haven't found this feeling of inspiration in a while. It hit my heart.

I'll leave you with one of my birthday gifts to myself!


<3

YAY 24!

Great Birthday. Really great birthday. Still need to make the 25 before 25 list. Number 1 will be GET A TATTOO!!!!!!! Definitely. Here are my two ideas...

Style and colors of first picture, I like the pretty bow on the second balloon picture, I want to incorporate it somehow. This one will be on the inside of my left arm, one balloon above the elbow bend and one below. I want "such great heights" written above the top balloon. Favorite song!




These would be in a trail form as if they were blowing from my back, around my ribs right under bra line. Different fall colors. Again on the left side. For some reason I love the left side. I'm saving the back of my right arm and shoulder for a different tattoo idea... I want Kat Von D to do it, noooo joke.

Later I will upload pictures from the weekend.

Getting Inspired

So I've been putting off putting together my Valentines cards for the swap... not because I'm not excited but because I have so many ideas and I worry that I won't be able to bring them to perfect fruition. But tonight is the night, I will sit down with my pens, paper, magazine pictures and swirling ideas and create beautiful/fun cards.

One lovely valentine may get a version of this:

Frickin Cute!

Oh goodness!

I can't wait to go home and get started. I think it's going to be a night of champagne, good music and paper strewn across my room. Excited?! Of course!