"The Bikini Question"

This article is great! It totally captures the best reasons to wear more extensive swimwear.

http://madeinhisimage.org/the-bikini-question/

Matchbook Magazine

So Matchbook Magazine  is a recent discovery of mine, and I'm totally in love with it. This is their description of what they are doing: "LAUNCHED IN JANUARY 2011, MATCHBOOK IS AN ONLINE LIFESTYLE PUBLICATION CELEBRATING CLASSICS - SHAKEN AND STIRRED.
 Our monthly issues cover past and present fashion, decor, the arts, travel and culture. Brimming with intriguing interviews, stately homes, captivating memoirs and swoon-worthy fashion spreads, matchbook seeks to inspire women around the globe to design a life they adore. From lipstick to letterpress, gelato to grosgrain, and Paris to Peru, consider us your field guide to a charmed life."

It's totally true. They are awesome =)

'the matchbook girl': VIEWS THE WORLD THROUGH ROSE COLORED GLASSES •
 loves to throw dinner parties, but has been known to burn the roast 

• VALUES ECCENTRICITY OVER CONVENTION •

 is the first to laugh at her own bad jokes 

• KNOWS THE CHA-CHA, THE CHARLESTON, AND THE TANGO •

 paints her nails bright coral when she's feeling blue 

• IS INFINITELY CURIOUS •

 could happily live off of red velvet cake 

• PENS HAND WRITTEN NOTES TO HER GRANDMOTHER •

 has a signature shade of lipstick 

• SECRETLY THINKS SHE MAY BE BABE PALEY REINCARNATED •

 received an ipad for her birthday, but will never give up her library card 

• HAS A BUCKET LIST A MILE LONG AND DREAMS A DIME A DOZEN •

 is smart, but never a show-off 

• LISTENS TO THE DAY'S FORECAST, BUT TRUSTS HER OWN INTUITION •

 never says no to a sunday matinee at the theater 

• IS QUICK TO BLUSH, BUT NEVER SHORT OF A WITTY REPLY •

 has a skip in her step and a twinkle in her eye 

• ALWAYS SHARES HER LAST PIECE OF GUM

This is half totally me and half exactly what I want to be like.

So yeah I'm a little bit obsessed with it.

If you've been reading this blog long you've probably seen something like this before

This is my record player (aka Genevieve) well her plug broke a while ago and so she's just been sitting on my bedside table out of commission while I continued buying records at the thrift store hoping that I would be able to fix her. A little while ago I told Scooter about it and he said that I would be able to just replace the plug and my problem would be fixed and that the plug was pretty generic and I should be able to find one at the thrift store. Well I haven't been able to =(. But today when I got on the computer I found an email from Scooter asking what voltage the plug was. What the heck? I responded and he said he had one! He's not sure what it goes to so I probably won't be able to have it, but my family and I are going over this Saturday and I'm gonna bring Genevieve so we can listen to Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra while we swim. This is gonna be awesome =D.

Thanks Scooter!!!

Update! I tried plugging Gen in "one more time, just in case" and she worked!!!!!! I've been listening to my jazz all afternoon. It's been wonderful.

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Summer

It's here! SUMMER! Only for about a week and then I'm back to the theater grind, but then it'll be back for a few months. I'm very excited. I'm even enjoying the heat. Last night on my way home from pinkberry after we closed at Three Stages I glanced in my rear view mirror and saw the most breath taking sunset! So I pulled over and went up a hill by the Catholic church for the view. It was amazing. I sat there on the trunk of my car, with jazz playing on the radio and wrote and watched the color drain from the sky for half an hour or so,'till I saw the first star come out. It was beautiful, and driving home with the windows down and the warm wind through my hair, it really did feel like Summer. And then I got to sleep 'till 11:00 today...which also felt like Summer =)