Dreams & False Alarms

leilacohan:

Oh my god, Love Actually is on. Yessssssssssss.

How are you not watching Beyonce: I am… Yours on ABC?!?! It’s one of the things I’m thankful for today!

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This day in unemployment/gore

I just cooked some beets, but my counter, sink, dishes, and hands are more like “murder!!” There’s DNA evidence allllllll up in my fingernails and I don’t know how I’m going to make disappear…

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Okay, I know I just put Leila on blast for her love of organization, but this bulletin board? This bulletin board right here? IT NEEDS TO BE MINE.

In other news, how the mighty have fallen.

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this, however? Not who I am

Leila: okay
now i am down a spiral
[link to Container Store]
update
now i am just going crazy
and planning a whole new home office
Elsa: girl
stop it!!
snap out of it!
Leila: ELSA I LOVE ORGANIZING
Elsa: there is life outside of organization
Leila: FALSE

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this is who we are, part I-don't-even-know-anymore

Leila: have you ever been to paper presentation in chelsea?
Elsa: nope
Leila: OH MY GOD GIRL
it is the best store in the world
and we should go before candymaking
they have many boxes!
and stamps
and ribbon
and so many fun things
Elsa: ooooooooooooh
you had me at "paper"
all the rest is just icing on the cake
Leila: http://www.paperpresentation.com/
me: oh my god, those boxes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Leila: WE CAN HAVE BOXES AND RIBBONS

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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

“You Are My Sister” — Antony and the Johnsons

I met a friend from high school for a drink in Fort Greene earlier, and on my walk back home, I listened to Antony and the Johnsons and felt winter close in around me. Then I found $10.

No, really: then I found $10 lying on the sidewalk! The unexpected modest bounty plucked me out of my wistfulness, and when this song came on, I beamed at some guy with a briefcase, just because I am $10 richer and we were both humans on a leaf-covered Brooklyn street.

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“ Archi-sex-ture”… that is NOT how you spell “Buckminster Fuller”.

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-Ted Mosby

I am just now watching last week’s How I Met Your Mother. Best Bucky shout-out ever?! (Yep, best.)

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This is important

WHAT JANIE FOUND
Caroline B. Cooney
Delacorte Press
Fiction
ISBN: 0385326114
181 pages

Janie and her two families are back in WHAT JANIE FOUND, the fourth and last book in Caroline B. Cooney’s Janie series. Each of the characters is looking for closure of the kidnapping nightmare. Will they be able to find their way home?

Stephen Spring, Janie’s older brother, is a student at a college in Boulder, Colorado. He’s not sure what he wants to do with his life, but he knows he wants to be as far away from his family as possible. He wants to forget his whole life, which has been lived in the shadow of Janie’s disappearance.

Reeve, Janie’s boyfriend, isn’t sure he wants to stay in college. He loves Janie, but after he told her story to his radio audience, he doubts she will ever love him again. Brian, Janie’s younger brother, is getting used to living separately from his twin, Brendon. Janie’s sister Jodie will start college in the fall. Everything seems to be going well for all of them.

Janie’s life also seems to be moving along smoothly as she adjusts to her two sets of parents and learns to love her brothers and sister. Then her Connecticut father suffers a stroke, and Janie must handle the family finances. While going through files in her father’s desk, she makes a startling discovery. This discovery takes her, Reeve, and Brian to Boulder to try to find the reason why Hannah Javensen took Janie away from her family so many years ago.

Finding Hannah could mean betrayal and hurt for both of her families. Is it better to forget revenge and leave the past buried, or to try to locate Hannah? The decision she makes will affect both of her family’s lives forever. Can they handle any more? Moreover, can Janie handle dredging up the past, or is it time to forgive?

Cooney has written a thrilling and thoroughly satisfying conclusion to her Janie series, consisting of THE FACE ON THE MILK CARTON, WHATEVER HAPPENED TO JANIE?, and THE VOICE ON THE RADIO. Though each book stands alone as a complete story, I recommend reading them in the order they were published, so you will get the most enjoyment out of each of them.

I know it came out in 2000, which is both too long ago and too soon for me to have read it (or do I mean for me to have not read it?). Guys, The Face on the Milk Carton is as book-important as Clueless is movie-important.

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This day in unemployment

I made potato-leek soup for lunch and added tiny bits of bacon as garnish. That done, I started on my next project: apple butter, with Calvados instead of cider, while Out Of Time played very loudly in the background. My home is warm and smells great right now, and I am still listening to early 90s R.E.M.

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bitches are crazy and, as it turns out, lindsay didn't steal from herself

marielk:

“The Bling Ring is not a reality show. It is reality, with a wide-ranging cast of characters.”

As far as I can tell this (totally fascinating and absorbing) crime ring is basically just “The Hills”, underworld-style. Also, revealing! “A person familiar with the show the sisters are filming for E! said it is about growing up on self-help books like ‘The Secret.’”

It is hard to pick a single best line from this article.

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