valentine

Normally, this nightmare abhors hearts.  Due to its association with that pretender of a holiday, the heart is a pretender shape that I will always pass over.  But this was the exception.  It's green, has eyes and look like an alien...perfect!

baggage

Everyone has baggage.  This nightmare carries about 10 pounds of baggage whenever she leaves the house.  And this is the same no matter how big or small the bag.  When tiny bags were the norm, mine looked like a hamster.  With the big bags now, I have a tendency to keep adding stuff until my shoulder screams bloody murder at me.  Spring cleaning the other day showed my wallet, kikay kit, the for-all-possible-semi-emergencies kit, a Starbucks tumbler, cologne, alcohol, throat spray, Envirosax, 3 lip balms, brush, planner, notebook, 3 tech pens, 1 clutch pencil, 1 automatic eraser, iPod, shades, planner, a book and snacks...yes, I NEED all of that.

and I quote

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do; and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

- Dr. Seuss

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I’d began to realize that there was an unspoken prejudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seem to share; that life as we know it is an imperfect vision of reality, and that only art, like a pair of reading glasses can correct it.  They could never reconcile themselves to the idea that our lives don't follow the dramatic arc that a good author gives to a literary character.  Only in accidents of pure perfection does the world actually become a stage.  And that, they seemed to think, was a shame.

- The Rule of Four

Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason

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There is no sin except stupidity.

- Oscar Wilde

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The true method of knowledge is experiment.

- William Blake

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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue

- Voltaire

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So few things happen to us that we have to undergo
Most of the time, we're double, we can stand outside and see an event
- hope, fear, anticipate, judge
And then something happens where we have no room for though or imagining
- where what happens is real and all that is real.
We talk a lot about living fully, but the last thing we want is to live anything through
We think that sort of single-minded grief is insanity,
But is it only an acknowledgement of a factual truth; an intolerable truth


- AS Byatt
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guy shirts

This nightmare has a thing for guy shirts.  Not T-shirts.  We're talking oxfords, tuxedo, dress and polo shirts.  All long sleeved of course.  Don't ask why because we're still trying to understand it.  But we are collecting...and as of the last count, we have around 25...I think.  Show me 100% Egyptian Cotton and I'm sold...We have no impulse control at all.

shoes

I can't help it!  I am a girl therefore I love shoes!!!  Ok, slight generalization but it's mostly true.  Most of my shoes live in shoe condos and apartments.  Some live alone and others live with friends or family.  The Polaroid thing was too much effort so I stuck with Post-its.  Mental note: need to build additional housing for new arrivals to the community.  Also some members need to be exercised as they are gaining weight and starting to let themselves go. *crack whip*

ooh la la

I love this look.  I want to be her.  I want to look like this EVERY DAMN DAY.  This is more than wolf whistle sexy; this is lose-your-train-of-thought chic.  Dolce & Gabbana Spring 2011.  Italian sensuality at its best.  The Sartorialist has more on this...Happy 5th!!!

image from the sartorialist