December 2011
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pre-new-years-resolution festivities
I, like most everyone else, try to start the new years on a healthy note… exercise more, eat better etc. Though my resolutions (yeah I make resolutions) usually consist of travel destinations and creative feats like novel writing, personal design assignments and photography submissions. We’re spending this holiday week up north, we had some visitors for the past couple days in which...
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audio books review
I couple years ago I went from being a total bookworm to not reading at all. I don’t know what happened but I couldn’t get myself to pick up a book. And this year I discovered the audio book (thank you Audible) and it’s re-ignited my love of reading - or more correctly being read to. Here are the books I’ve had the pleasure to listen to this year in order of best to...
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I just bought these four 12” x 18” prints made by Family Tree Design in Nashville. They are crazy adorable aren’t they? My holiday present to myself I guess.
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470-466 (Rolling Stone Top 500 Albums of all time)...
470. R.E.M. Document - This record starts out pretty mellow, pretty subdued… I can understand from the start why this band never had a number one hit but I don’t mean that as an insult. They’ve got a really distinct sound above and beyond Michael Stipe’s voice. You can tell from the music alone what band you are listening to and that’s awesome. But there...
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tonight I cooked!
I made my first ever slow cooker meal tonight thanks to Martha Stewart. It’s so simple and lovely and maybe one of the nicest homemade chicken broths I’ve ever tasted. Added bonus? There are naturally almost no calories in this. Unfortunatly I made a meal that could feed a medium sized family. Recipe here
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WatchDesign Process - (more) This one is awesome too… I am so mesmerized by these what a brilliant idea to make these little videos! I think I wasted about 20 minutes at work this morning watching these, of course I’ll pay for it this weekend. boo.
(thank you chris)
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475-471 (Rolling Stone Top 500 Albums of all time)...
475. Bruce Springsteen: Tunnel of Love - I am a huge Springsteen fan. A common thing I catch myself saying is, “I love seventies Bruce and nineties Bruce but eighties Bruce is crap”. Tunnel of love is from 1987, I wonder if I will be swallowing my words as I look at the playlist and see “One Step Up” and know that that song kicks ass and it’s from the eighties so,...
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480-476 (Rolling Stone Top 500 Albums of all time)
480. George Michael: Faith - Man I wasn’t looking forward to this album, I didn’t even like “Faith” back in the day when it came out but on re-listening to it… wow, there are some killer harmonies it’s a nice little song. Father Figure has too much of eighties synth sound for me. Easy listening music with racy lyrics - this doesn’t do anything for...