It’s Friday!
My day has been filled with estudiando Español, reading Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, and a little 30 Rock. Looking forward to a jog this afternoon and a cold beer después de cinco. Tonight, I have high hopes of hitting the town. Maybe throw on some heels, lipstick, who knows?! The world is my oyster.
I hope your day and night are magical.
Well, yesterday was another hard day at the office– 3 full hours were put in, nose to the grindstone. Rough life, I tell ya.
In truth, I feel monumentally lucky to have landed this graduate assistantship: my hours are beyond flexible; I have the greatest boss, ever, of all the times; and I get to work on a project that I feel really proud of and have come to enjoy immensely. The poetry magazine, Illuminations, is teeny-tiny, but attempting to emerge with a larger, fresher voice in the land of contemporary poetry. I have had such a great time sorting through submissions, learning about people who just want to share their craft, and being a major part of the team.
Issue 28 will hopefully be released in May, June at the latest, and if you feel so inspired you should definitely subscribe. I know poetry isn’t everyone’s favorite genre, mostly because people find it intimidating, but I believe it is completely worth investigating. The poems included in this collection are very reader-friendly and have inspired many an introspection, though nothing to hurt yourself over. For a mere $15 for two issues you will not only refill your creative reservoir, you will also get to see my name in print next to the title, Assistant Editor. Whoa! Hey-o! Big time.
So, subscribe here.
I promise, it won’t hurt.
It’s Monday, I feel a little kooky and have a stomach ache from all the little smokies, Rotel dip, Mexican Roll-Ups, chicken wings, and beer I ingested last night.
Listen to this song.
p.s. I really wanted to post James Blake’s Lindisfarne II, but couldn’t find an appropriate video. That’s the real song I’m listening to right now. The above song is really good too, though.
Adam alerted me last night that my original link to Courtney’s new blog was wrong, and he was right!
The correct link is now HERE. And you can always go to cupspintscourt.wordpress.com for all your Courtney and food related needs. Also, I have a link on my Blogroll that actually is correct so you can get there through that avenue as well. Can you tell I want you to read her blog?
Have a great Thursday!
Despite what I thought were subtle requests no one got me what I really, really wanted for Christmas this year: a house. I know, you’re like, Kristina, that is ridiculous. How could someone NOT get you that?! And all I can say is, ::speechless::
Really, the reasoning is simple: I want to decorate a house. Badly. In my quarter life I have never had more to decorate than a room and I am ready to tackle the whole dang house. It feels like everywhere I look (Pinterest, Etsy, storefronts, HGTV) there is inspiration. How can there be so many great ways to decorate and design a home and I don’t have a way to implement them? Can you feel my frustration oozing through the screen?
Enter Pinterest, where I design my future home on with a frightening frequency. According to my “Board” I have about nine living rooms and seven walls with photo and art galleries, but so be it! I recently read somewhere that websites like Pinterest are actually helping people save money because they don’t feel the need to buy all the goodies they see online. They can post them to a board and feel some sort of ownership over the item or concept, therefore curbing their case of the “I wants”. Neat!
You may have noticed a few weeks ago I went on a bit of a home-buying binge and fluffed up the apartment with some new accessories. The budget and I decided to pump the breaks a bit on the decorating, but then all the sudden Etsy has to come along and foil my plan. Blast you! (See what I’m doing here? Deflecting ownership of the shopping problem onto inanimate webistes? Real classy.) Ugh, if you haven’t been to Etsy you are missing out, let me tell ya.
So I’m just cruising around, minding my business and BLAM! I get hit with a jillion volts of electricity. I see these beautiful prints from a 1936 British gardening book. Yeah, you heard that. I was crackling all over for some sexy ink and color illustrations. And they are amazing. Like a dutiful little saver, I put them on my Pinterest board and went to the grocery store.
And then I bought them an hour later.
Should be here today!
If you think these are great you should check out the rest of her shop– AgedPage. She has some great images of not only botanical prints, but also advertisements, birds, fashion, maps and more.
The life of living stylishly…such a burden.
