seriously

our illustrious president just relaxed the laws, without congress' consent, to drill offshore. bastard.

thank you, starbucks god

i heard that they were closing the starbucks within walking distance to my house. i was very, very upset. i mean, i love aurora coffe; that would have been fine i suppose. and there's another little coffee shop that's even closer than starbucks, that is right off euclid. but like sinead says, nothing comares to you, starbucks. except san fran coffee, they rock, too. but i can't walk there.

could i be approaching adulthood?

thank you sweet baby jesus. i am out of debt!! i said i would be out of debt at 30, and i'm a couple months late, but i did it and oh, i feel free. well, rach and i have three houses that technically the bank owns, so i'm not out of THAT kind of debt. but everything else - gone. what will it be like to have savings? i don't know, but i bet FANTASTIC. From now on - strict policy of buying only what i can pay in cash. having to sell everything rach and i owned - things we spent a shit ton of $$ on - for nothing - really opened my eyes to how stupid commercial shit is.

That is, of course, not to say that we didn't have a fabu time of buying new things to decorate our new house with. but we saved up (from the enormous amount of shit we sold on craigslist), and we paid cash, and it looks amazing, like a real adult house. that feels good.

it's funny, i feel older, more responsible in general now, and i don't know if it's 30, being with the most amazing woman as my partner, buying a house, or what. i feel very, very settled, but not in the bad way, just in the being completely who i am way and happy about it (also opposite from the crazy, unsettled feelings of my early/mid 20s)....also feel incredibly grateful. it's possible that it's some hallucination. however, if it is, i don't want it to stop cause it feels f*cking great.

note to self: do not f*ck up again! do not, i repeat, do not go into credit card debt ever, ever again. the shit you buy isn't worth it. remember what this feels like and don't be a dumbass. for serious.

Fact

Pictures containing people are far more interesting than pictures of nature and buildings. This is fact people! One picture of a building will suffice you for the rest of your life when you look back on a trip. No one needs to take five thousand pictures of one building from twenty different angles. Who cares? In the future, even the person taking the photographs will wonder to themselves, "Why the fuck did I take five thousand pictures of this bridge?" A face, on the other hand, never looks the same in a picture. Even if you try to take the exact same picture you can't. The human form is just more interesting. FACT!!! Case in point...

INTERESTING


MOST BORING THING EVER


Girl, you know it's true.....ooh ooh ooh....landscapes are boring!!! So, by all means, take as many pictures of yourself as possible and as few of nature and castles as you can. Happy Europing!!!

Take it from me

do not, under any circumstance, put an alcohol pad on your sensitive bits. whatever it is you fear might happen is better than the feeling of a fire breathing dragon setting shop in your caves, people. bad idea jeans.

moors, take 250

Yesterday I was talking to j, and she said “there’s one thing I want you to do for me on your trip to euro.” i already have my list of must-gets for her (which are fabu, darling), so I wondered mildly what the new request would be. From my asshole best friend:

“please don’t take pictures of things that no one cares about. No one wants to see 50 pictures of a castle or a garden in paris.”

Slightly offended, I said that I didn’t take pictures for other peoples pleasure, just my own. Also, my girlfriend loves to photograph nature, so I’m sure there will be several mountainous, moory shots. Make that numerous mountainous, moory shots. If any of you saw rach’s old house, you’ll get what I’m saying (only one of said mountainous photos has made it up in the new house). Third, we are going to the harry potter castle and I sure as shit am going to take pictures of me in the owlery, me in the great hall, etc. I’m taking my harry potter armbands with me for effect. I expect lots of photos from this castle. Fourth, other than obsessions (harry potter, gardening) I don’t think I take pictures of static things that often.

I told Rachel about this, and she said did that count towards the hundreds of self portraits on j’s site? Indeed. So then I decided, just for you bestie, I will take about 50 self portraits on each journey, nay, maybe each day. Just for you and your flickr pleasure. Cheers.