My friend Holly alerted me to this news a few weeks ago and now, here it is- TOMS ballet flats are available for Pre-order on February 1st!
I love my TOMS for their comfort, easy wear/to pack, and ability to make me sorta feel like a hippie. Oh and the buy one, give one thing rocks my world too.
TOMS ballet flats…my feet are excited.
I am loving on chevron anything lately. Chevron is so perky- like regular stripes that got fun.
Since we’re moving in a few weeks (also known as can’t come soon enough), I think it’s time for new bathroom decor with a spotlight on some chevron, v-shaped lines.
Some inspiration:
Let me known if you find a chevron shower curtain…in navy. Or turquoise. Or marigold.
“For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don’t enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are that you’re not going to be very happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.”
Andy Rooney
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Apparently, everyone is obsessed with Downton Abbey. Now that I finished Season 2 of the Tudors (seriously, why are there more seasons after Anne dies?) and Downton Abbey won a few Golden Globes, I figured now was the time to be the last person to jump on the bandwagon.
Oh, man. Oh man oh man oh man.
It really is as good as everyone says. Get on it- streams from Netflix or free here)
John Steinbeck on Falling in Love
New York
November 10, 1958
Dear Thom:
We had your letter this morning. I will answer it from my point of view and of course Elaine will from hers.
First — if you are in love — that’s a good thing — that’s about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don’t let anyone make it small or light to you.
Second — There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you — of kindness and consideration and respect — not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had.
You say this is not puppy love. If you feel so deeply — of course it isn’t puppy love.
But I don’t think you were asking me what you feel. You know better than anyone. What you wanted me to help you with is what to do about it — and that I can tell you.
Glory in it for one thing and be very glad and grateful for it.
The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it.
If you love someone — there is no possible harm in saying so — only you must remember that some people are very shy and sometimes the saying must take that shyness into consideration.
Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another — but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.
Lastly, I know your feeling because I have it and I’m glad you have it.
We will be glad to meet Susan. She will be very welcome. But Elaine will make all such arrangements because that is her province and she will be very glad to. She knows about love too and maybe she can give you more help than I can.
And don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
Love,
Fa
I mean, it’s no wonder the man was a literacy genius- he could write.
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I just had to unfriend someone on Facebook for posting a status in which they declared that they must get a haircut soon because they get very bad headaches if their hair gets too long.
Did I miss a scientific study that linked “too long” hair to headaches? How is that even a thing???
Like I said- I had to unfriend them.
More snow in the last few hours than we’ve seen all year. Bring it, Mother Nature.
Remember my love for the Hubbard Inn?
With the impending snow storm and a little celebrating to do, Hubbard Inn seemed like the obvious choice. A delicious Negroni for me, an old fashioned for Ryan (shocker there) hit the spot but what we were really pleasantly surprised by was how fantastic the food was! A truffled cream ravioli, braised short rib and a shared flatbread later, we were basking in the old (ancient family stories), the new (dissecting all of the good things happening in 2012 for us) and enjoying a lovely, impromptu mid-week date.
Cozy, romantic AND, now we know, delicious. Home run, Hubbard Inn, home run.
Hubbard Street to home under a gorgeous Chi moon.
