delight in life

and also.

During my obsessive-flickr-polaroid browsing today, i also found this.  Freaking incredible and brilliant and I love it.

today i bought a polaroid camera.

1. Drive-In Liquors by Target Corporation - Polaroid SX-70, 2. Grass Stars Polaroid, 3. Ashleigh Thinks, 4. imagine you and me, 5. LOVE, 6. polaroid 779. venice beach, ca. 2007

Ebay is a wonderful thing, people.  As is working lots and lots of hours for the last two weeks.

I can't wait to go make beautiful pictures.

add that to the List of Things To Do Before I Die.

68.  Own a horse named Two Sprinters In a Horse Suit.
(click here if you can't read it.)

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

Originally uploaded by Bah Humbug

- Thomas Huxley

(He was a smart dude.)

"catch me!" she said.

The Skulls blog is rad.  This cool trick proves it.

And that is all I've got today.

life is full of highs and lows.

I got a trial issue of Blueprint Magazine today.  I am now officially in love with fancy wallpaper.  When I think of wallpaper, I used to think of either the chickens in my Grannie's kitchen or the primary colored triangles in my bedroom when I was 8.

People.  The wallpaper world has come so far.  Two pictures into that article and I was ready to wallpaper every surface in my apartment, and then move onto my neighbors.  I wanted to cover my books in wallpaper.  I wanted to make wallpaper curtains!

Alas, it was not to be.

I made the fatal mistake of looking at the prices of those beautiful gold & turquoise paperes.  I saw that their prices were equivalent to two months of groceries.  And I shed a small tear for my Kingflower covered physics book that would never be.

But then.  But then.

I turned the page and saw this Home Depot paint ad.

Guys, paint is cheap.
Hope springs.

"Fact: Bears eat beets. Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica."

The Office = best show ever.  Dwight K. Schrute = funniest character ever.  I've now watched every single episode over the last 3 weeks thanks to Tony and his mad search and destroy...er..download skills.  If you haven't watched it yet, do it.

In case you're not convinced:
Future Dwight
Jim Being Dwight
Wallet in Vending Machine

Happy Monday.

it's done.

the harry potter series is finished.
i don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't finished it yet, so i'll just say that i am satisfied and heartbroken and ecstatic and crushed and jk rowling is

amazing, for severe lack of a better word.

it might sound weird to be so attached to a book series.  harry potter and the sorcerer's stone came out when i was 11, the same age as harry.  i grew up with harry.  neither of us knew what we were getting into with the first year at hogwarts.  the series is a tremendous story of good versus evil, an epic battle with great courage and sacrifice and love.  those stories grab my heart and don't let go.

i feel a little empty now that i've finished.  i wish the book would never end and i could read and and read until finally i could do magic myself.

how to make me love you in one easy step!

Embarass me in front of my whole office with a gorgeous bouquet of my favorite flowers for no reason at all.

harry potter is taking over my life.

sunday i went to the library and checked out harry potter six (the half-blood prince) to refresh myself before saturday aka best day of my life arrives.  this morning, i finished up the last couple chapters of it before work, and even though I ALREADY KNEW WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN, i still bawled my eyes out while i finished those last fifty pages.  i looked charming when i showed up to work.  i am so so so afraid that harry is going to die.  i am afraid that he is the 7th horcrux.  i am afraid that like in gladiator, and braveheart, and lord of the rings, the hero will have to die for the story to be perfect great [i cannot find a word that tessa approves of.  she says if harry dies it will be slaughter.  dumbledore and sirius and cedric died so he could live.  she promises that harry has to prevail in the end. that he has to stay alive to make babies with ginny.  if harry dies tessa will deliver a very strongly worded letter to jk rowling, as she will be in england very shortly (lucky lucky!).  so clearly my worries are for naught because tessa will not let harry die.] 

(i know frodo didn't actually die, but he went across the grey sea, which is essentially the same thing.)

in other news, this picture makes my life.

oh!  and today, i noticed that flickr is now apparently out of beta testing.  where "beta" used to be in the logo, it now says "loves you."  as in, flickr loves you.  i've been harboring a secret crush on flickr for quite some time now, so this works out nicely.