i want one.

a dry erase fridge? im so for it.

fashionnnn.

my lovely friend from FIDM, Swapnali Ahire, is an amazing fashion designer who is from Columbia also. love her. love her designs. she did charleston fashion week and was awesome and is now doing dracula's costume for Dracula by the columbia city ballet which you should all check out.

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color-it-yourself ray bans

these are different. a single lensed windshield for your eyes. by martin margiela

daniel sannwald for dazed & confused

dictionary additions

my mom's texting slang today: mpressed

words im going to add to the dictionary:
yesternight
platonicy
trafficated

i miss downtown l.a.



"we are each of us angels with one wing. we can only fly embracing each other."

water balloons and street art.

splitting a single second into 2000 consecutive parts, allows us to see that for a few thousandths of a second, the water of a water balloon is able to hold its shape without being dependant on the balloon structure.


doris salcedo's art installation

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i will let you down, often unknowingly. i will fail you, graceless and with epic splendor.

look, i dont want to wax philosophic, but i will say that if youre alive youve got to flap your arms and legs, youve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you`re not alive.-mel brooks

my house is going to have a yellow door. i think.

when it's grey in l.a. i sure like it that way...

ohh, how i miss it. how would i not miss it? to preface, i love the south, born and raised my heart will always belong to the south and i will always refer to myself as a southerner. however, l.a. was the first place i ever lived on my own. it was my first real, substantial, home away from home; far away from home. but it was mine and i came to feel ownership there and comfort. absolutely, there are those "l.a." types where all the girls want to do is tan and bleach their hair and all the guys want to do is become some amazing actor, however, and especially living downtown, there are some of the most amazing and diverse and artistic and creative people in the world living there. one of the things i miss most about l.a. is the fact that people were themselves on purpose. they truly didnt care how odd you thought they were; they were just happily fulfilled being themselves. which was so refreshing. often times i feel that "the south" has this mold that they want to stick to. and i know i sound so very generalized, but in all honesty this is a generalization so dont think im attacking you personally. however, in the south, and absolutely with exceptions, its like people are occassionally accidentally themselves. i just love how deliberate l.a. is about showing how diverse they are. and obviously there are also some in l.a. who dont fit this scenario either. so dont judge too much of what im saying, just enjoy it.

with all of this being said, it is nice to be home. its absolutely taking some time to get settled back into things and i know ive changed, absolutely. you cant live somewhere for 6 months and not change to some extent. but i like who im becoming. my grandma has moved into the lowman home and is soon going to move again into the assisted living area. and everytime i go to see her i am more and more convinced that i made the right decision. and ella. that beautiful precious angel baby. i cannot even to begin to imagine how much i am going to love my own children. i just dont think i could love a child more than i love her now. and i must say, that when i came home and she ran to me with open arms all while screaming "aun ane!" through her smile, nothing has melted my heart like that did.

:)