wannabe bandit

and today i found myself in the library

my hands shaped like little guns

saying pew pew pew as i walked

and flicking my thumbs

like triggers.

miss diana

a couple of months ago, i found an old diana camera at my grandma's house. for years the grandkids have been using it as the toy camera. so i snatched it and took the following. at first the hot pink light leak was disappointing, but now i think it's kinda my favorite part.

sir edmund hillary

sunday naps

wedding

a sunday excursion

notes on LOVE: day 10 | best friends & blanket forts

this week we (meaning me, rebecca, courtney, and meredith) have decided to be best friends.

here is what we have done:

• eaten omelets
• gone to kneaders for their french toast
• eaten lots of cadbury creme eggs, m&m cookies, reeses bunnies,
• had a valentine's party
• gone to a catered dinner and symposium
• sang a lot of songs
• cut one boy's hair (it was a combined effort)
• giggled about padlock t-shirts, sweatpants, typewriters....what haven't we giggled about. nothing.
• watched lots of office and pushing daisies episodes
• gone to d.i. of course
• been to a cougarettes concert
• had two sleepovers
• watched this video prolly forty times:

• and most importantly, built this amazing blanket fort:

here's what you need to know about Fort: it is constructed of three sheets (all of which are color coordinated) and one lava lava (which is black). structurally, it is supported by an iron cord, two hooks, and one very long vacuum cord. it is really quite a feat of modern blanket-fort-building technologies. a perfect composite of household appliances and domestic linens.

we are currently welcoming new members into Fort. for full initiation rites, please contribute one sheet to the efforts. this will give you full visiting privileges and sleepover invitations (but only if you're a girl).

*special thanks to nathan (not a girl, but still awesome), without whom we could not have built Fort:

notes on LOVE: day 9 | and you thought these LOVE posts were going to end after valentine's day

silly you! february is the month of LOVE! (and i still have more to share on the topic, so the LOVE posts will continue...at least for a few more weeks.)

today i was cleaning out my computer. ACTUALLY cleaning it out. yearly i have this ritual of pretending i'm cleaning out my computer that usually only amounts to me watching several really great movies, blog surfing, editing photos, and so forth, but not actually cleaning anything.

well today it happened. mostly because a window popped up that said: "your startup disk is full. clean out your computer or die."

i really hand no choice in the matter.

anyways.

whilst cleaning, i found this little gem i'd forgotten about. i made it for my wonderful friend pyper about our summer teaching english in american samoa. i've been thinking about those islands a lot lately, and so i thought i'd share the love:

(music: "iuliana" by te vaka)

notes on LOVE: day 8 | valentine's love letters

a-hem.

dear red rosette necklace,

you were the perfect accessory for valentine's day. i love you for that.

dear safety pins,

i really appreciate that you were so cooperative this morning in securing a ribbon to my red rosette necklace. you make my life so much easier by not insisting that i handsew everything.

dear cute boy who said hi to me today on the way to campus,

i was walking up the ramp, you were walking home. you were wearing a gray and white striped sweater. your hair was parted handsomely. i think if one of us would have had the guts to stop and talk to a complete stranger (namely me (for you) and you (for me)), then maybe we would have found out we could be in love. and then it would have been me for you and you for me, like that beautiful ee cummings poem.

dear weather,

i love you today. today you made me feel like home. i wanted to be with you all day and when i had to leave you to go inside, i missed you oh so badly.

dear man who thinks i write poems about him,

you are hilarious. please will you be my valentine? check yes or no.

dear photography,

estoy enamorada. in a way only spanish can express.

dear reporters & miss stephanie,

thank you thank you for not sending me any assignments to do tonight, so i could go and sit on the lawn in front of the maeser building and enjoy the sun going down. thank you for sending me home early so i don't have to be in the newsroom by myself on valentine's.

dear brandon,

the fondu you brought was truly inspired.

dear dinner group,

even when we mess up, we rock the house. it felt good to be reunited after the three days without you. it is for reasons like this:

that i love you. individually, collectively, and conceptually.

dear valentine's day,

i love that i can use words like "charming" and "adore" on this day. and i love that all day i contemplated confessing love to various people in my life. that is a wonderful way to spend a day.

love, love, love,

me.

notes on LOVE: day 7 | things i don't like

things i don't like:

1) when people insist on carrying on conversations via text. seriously people?

2) having to call people back. which maybe is why people feel like they have to contact me via text? (sorry world.)

that's all i have to complain about today.

in other news:

1) favorite roommate quote from the day: "you know what i want to find? i want to find a soulmate, the way michael and holly on the office are soulmates! they were like, MADE for each other in the universe!"

2) tomorrow is valentine's day! as such, i have compiled a list of the songs that feel like falling in love. here they are for your listening/viewing enjoyment:

especially listen to the beginning of this one:

what songs for you feel like falling in love?