How Peculiar

who in the world is this child!?

(via allthingsalishan)

Shahim?

Brooke Shields just made me tear up

WTF I shouldn’t be watching this at work

Why aren't Janet and Latoya hugging John Mayer?

John Mayer? Really?

 Update: He actually looks pretty hot in that tie and vest.

Reader Email: "if someone needs help and you have the ability to give that help, you should."

juliaallison:

From: K.L.
Date: July 6, 2009 9:01:30 PM EDT
To: Julia Allison
Subject: Midwestern Nice

Hey Julia!
I totally agree about midwesterners being nice! I’m from Fargo, ND and people always say hi when passing you on the street or at the very least smile. When I was out in Denver visiting a cousin we had some car problems and had to pull over. It was snowing pretty hard out and it was obvious that I was having issues trying to get this car to work again. Not one person pulled over or even asked if we needed any help. If something like that happens in Fargo, I can guarantee that a few people would stop and try to help out. I don’t know why we are like this. I just think, at least up here, that you are taught to help your neighbors and if someone needs help and you have the ability to give that help, you should. I really love that about the midwest!

All this friendliness is making me nervous!  ;)  What’ll happen when I get back to New York?  I’ll reflexively smile at people and they’ll reflexively punch me in the neck.

I was walking around my neigborhood this weekend and every single person waved high or stopped to chat and say hello. I love Saratoga Springs…..it is like a happiness bubble in New York State.

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

allthingsalishan:

carolyns:

missleeding:(via nohalfwaycrooks)

Wedding inspiration...in shoes?

SO the wedding is now in less that 3 short months and I thought I would start sharing some of the details…..

When you read blogs all the time and have a zillion ideas running in your head as to what your vision will be for THE biggest party of your life…it can be a little daunting.

Somehow, I have breezed thru it by never second-guessing myself and going with my gut. I know it is very uncommon, but I am not a shoe girl. I never go shoe shopping and I rarely think about them.

That is why it is so funny that our whole wedding theme and color scheme was created around a pair of shoes that I fell in love with for my girls. They were the first decision and we took it from there….

Paired with knee length clover green bubble hem dresses they are just darling….My girls think so too…except for my MOH who when barefoot is  6 foot tall and my other bridesmaid who has never (NEVER!) worn heels before. But they are good friends and are rocking them out just for me

What do you think?

The biggest obsssion of my life (so far)

Yelp! I am going crazy planning our wedding. We have only had it booked for a month and I do have a lot accomplished. But there is so much left to do….and I am obsessing over every detail which is proving to be a recipe for insanity. I am willing to bet there is a direct correlation to people who plan a wedding in a short time to the onset of alcoholism.

Anyway- I am ALMOST done with our invitations- and dudes….they are freaking sweet. Concert style posters that will be tied with a satin ribbon and mailed to our guests in tubes.

Freakin Sweet

Pearl Jam: Black

emphasisadded:

2 observations about the song “Black” by Pearl Jam:

1. I really really love this song
2. I can not make out a single lyric that Eddie Veder is singing. Using a simple google search, I was able to determine the previously indistinguishable lyrics  the lyrics to this sweet jam

ps. And so I share:

“Black”
Hey… oooh…
Sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay
Were laid spread out before me as her body once did.
All five horizons revolved around her soul
As the earth to the sun
Now the air I tasted and breathed has taken a turn

Ooh, and all I taught her was everything
Ooh, I know she gave me all that she wore
And now my bitter hands chafe beneath the clouds
Of what was everything.
Oh, the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything…

I take a walk outside
I’m surrounded by some kids at play
I can feel their laughter, so why do I sear?
Oh, and twisted thoughts that spin round my head
I’m spinning, oh, I’m spinning
How quick the sun can drop away

And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass
Of what was everything?
All the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything…

All the love gone bad turned my world to black
Tattooed all I see, all that I am, all I’ll be… yeah…
Uh huh… uh huh… ooh…

I know someday you’ll have a beautiful life,
I know you’ll be a sun in somebody else’s sky, but why
Why, why can’t it be, can’t it be mine

Aah… uuh..

Too doo doo too, too doo doo [many times until fade]