May 2009
Just figured out why Lily Allen's second album... →
Mark Ronson didn’t produce it. She said:
”I just didn’t want to do it this time because Mark has a really retro feel to what he is doing.”
That’s fine and all, but now I know why all her songs sound exactly the same on It’s Not Me, It’s You.
Staycation Goals:
Watch more ‘True Bood’.
Library.
Duke Gardens to relax in the sun with Wicket and read a book.
See Pixar’s ‘Up’.
Try a new restaurant around town for date night.
Durham Farmer’s Market on Saturday morning.
Get to the pool at some point.
Go to the NC Museum of Natural Sciences on Saturday and maybe see the Chocolate Exhibit.
Concert Saturday night in...
Random book opening line
“They were supposed to stay at the beach a week, but neither of them had the heart for it and they decided to come back early.”
-The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
You're 25, time to grow up. →
This is an excellent list! I feel like I might be guilty of a few of these. Luckily I still have 2 months to improve myself!
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Random book opening line
“Suppose that you and I were sitting in a quiet room overlooking a garden, chatting and sipping at our cups of green tea while we talked about something that had happened a long while ago, and I said to you, ‘That afternoon when I met so-and-so…was the very best afternoon of my life, and it was also the very worst afternoon.’ “
-Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
7.5 hours of work down, 15 more to go this week.
Random book opening line
“I think that everything, or at least the part of everything that happened to me, started with the Roman architecture mix-up.”
-Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
Ok, finally broke down and added Disqus comments. Really, why not? Leave me some love!
Random book opening line
“My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie.”
-The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
All you can do is your best and that’s always good enough.
– Advice to remember during a difficult situation.
Random book opening line
“When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.”
-The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Weekend Goals: Memorial Day 2009
Date night Friday: All American Style
See ‘Night at the Museum 2’
Hike with Dan, Wicket, and family
Watch ‘Slumdog Millionairre’ on blue-ray in HD
Cookout milkshakes (etc.)!
Lay out and read by the pool
Bar-b-q with my family on Monday evening
Random book opening line
“I wish Giovanni would kiss me.”
-Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the...
– Albert Einstein (via emilyposts)
Today is going to be a good day- only five people in the office TOTAL. Me and three others just spent the last 35 minutes talking about stalking people on facebook.
Going to do a wedding cake tasting tonight!