they go and you stay

you're going to be so jealous when you see our collection of...plugs.

and what household couldn't use ten old cellphones?

 


















amirite*? with the boys away for the long weekend (well, the boys except for my loyal compatriot dog), i am organizing things that probably don't desperately need to be organized (again with the tea shelf, etc). if i could gather and photograph every cord of every sort that lives in my house, you would be tempted to call hoarders and book us on the show.

this poem, oh my god. by fay zwicky.

i could live very happily for a long time on coffee, kale with tahini dressing, and roasted potatoes.

*my sources predict that this will be an actual word in the dictionary one day in the not-too-distant future.

imaginary friends

i never thought i'd become one of those bloggers with pretend friends in the blogosphere, you know? but somehow i have accumulated a bunch of new imaginary pals, and they're really not as "pretend" as i might have guessed. in fact, a couple of them have morphed into real-life friends recently, which is kind of awesome.

i've never actually met erin in the real world, but that didn't stop her from mailing me some junk!




















i love getting mail. and i love surprises.
























especially surprises involving silvertone earrings - one that says "NEW" and the other that says "KIDS."
























i could only model "KIDS" cause my other earlobe was pretending it had never been pierced.
























thanks, erin!! i have a place where i keep special little things, and these are going right there. it's basically a teeny tiny collection of very tiny, odd things (example: my human tooth collection). i'll show you sometime. but i have to admit, i'm glad my junk was a pair of earrings and not a human tooth.