11pm.  i leave at 6:30am tomorrow.  what am i doing still up? well, waiting for my laundry to be finished to put this and the rest in a bag: chasing buggers like this on my floor to slay them: chattin’ on the phone with the sister in LA:

hello beautiful. hello wonderfulness. hello world through the eyes of the three year old nephew. hello crazy person. hello new colors waiting to be made into something. hello happy evening.

i went to bed at 10:30pm last night.  it was such a treat and i woke feeling so good that i decided i should really start doing that more often.  so, these daily picture posts shall [hopefully] be coming earlier in the day.  are you terribly bored with these silly little entries?  only a few… Continue reading regular life

want to know what i dislike most about myself?  my knees.  i dislike them immensely — always have and probably always will.  they’re chunky and lumpy and don’t even have the normal ugly knobs that most have.  my knees are just blobs in the middle of my legs.  so it’s only right that if i… Continue reading the fall

1.  eating a whole quart of strawberries.  oh, and that would be me eating a whole quart of strawberries — just wanted to clarify.  i guess i was trying to prove that there is truth in the expression, “too much of a good thing.”  my stomach disliked me immensely around 3pm.  a quart of strawberries… Continue reading what today consisted of:

every evening this week i leave my hometown by no later than 5:40pm to spend forty minutes making a few heads of hair look like orphan heads of hair from 1933.  it requires much teasing, tying of rags around pig tails, and no brushing.  i’m really not very skilled at the art of dressing hair… Continue reading little girls

i lasted two whole days.  two whole days of fruits, vegetables, and today a whole wheat tortilla with lentils and brown rice.  but when i arrived back home to a small tray of cookies with the words “To Louissa, From Lisa” written on them, i felt conflicted to the very core of my being.  should… Continue reading lesson learned

i fell asleep last night remembering her smell, laugh, and wonderfully goofy grin.  i wondered where she is and who she’s with.  i wondered why-oh-why we had to let her go.  and i wondered why there must be such heartbreak in life. you’re not supposed to have favorites but she was mine.

i’m too tired to narrate much so just two pictures.  be happy. 1) dream come true.  you better believe that’s me on a zamboni, baby. 2)  some of the people in the world that i love.  i’m not sure there will ever be one picture that holds everyone i love.