i love

john hughes. yay for 80s movies.

reading: garfield minus garfield, which is actually far more entertaining than the actual thing.

horton

last night andrew and i went to see horton hears a who
everyone else was supposed to go, but they all backed out at the last minute
suspicious
i love that book madly, and the movie was just adorable
in fact, i love that book so much that i spent 26 dollars on a horton hears a who pop-up book at Liberty Science Center.

i found

this tutorial on making pasta dough really makes me consider [via AllRecipes]. once the herb garden comes up again, i’m thinking fresh basil-ricotta ravioli, and my mom’s wondrous breadsticks with herb butter. i have to get into the habit of making dinner again, and i think meatless fridays would be a great tradition. go with the old catholic ways.

though my beliefs are actually closer to protestant views, i feel it is important to try to keep up tradition. while i don’t see any value in praying to individual saints, i feel it is necessary that one day my children have a heritage to take tradition from. as a mutt, i can offer a very mixed cultural heritage, and a rich cohesive spiritual heritage would be a great gift to endow a child with.

speaking of gifts for the future; i am halfway done with the blanket for my hope chest, and i think that when i finish, i will embark on a gigantic project to make an irish crochet bedspread for someday. queen size. i’ve never undertaken a project so big, but my mom is currently working on one. this style of crochet, also called ‘fisherman crochet’ can often look very similar to a net or to cable knitting. i would like to find an intricate pattern to bring me amusement, since it will likely be all one color. i’m thinking navy blue or off-white. 

 yesterday, casey and i decided we would mimic the john green book An Abundance of Katherines and try to graph love. Neither of us has read the book, but i bought it online and am now waiting eagerly for it to come in. This video adaptation is amazing. we think relationships are quantifiable. once we figure out which values to plug into a function, i believe we could. this will take a while.

my favorite song

image via mstrione on sxc.hu

my favorite song at the moment is ‘her eyes’

now, every girl worth her lip gloss loves that song for two reasons.
first and foremost, we all have our weird little quirks, some of them mentioned in the song.
second, we hope that someday, someone like pat monahan will be enraptured by those quirks.

now, i am quirky indeed. i am not, however, the kind of girl who wants songs written about me. i don’t want roses, i don’t want chocolates, i don’t want romance in general. i don’t want poofy dresses. i don’t want prom. i don’t want a football player. i don’t want an abundance of abercrombie in my wardrobe. i don’t want fashionable.

I want whimsy.

i want daisies. i want fun. i want a guy i can trust and rely on, who likes children. i want jeans and t-shirts and dancing in the rain. i want fun and wacky and whimsical, because that is who i am. i want someone who can accept that, and the serious side of me too. i want to argue about religion and hold hands during nerd clubs and frolic for the sake of it. i want respect and hugs, not crazed flirting.

the guy i like does like me, at least i believe so on the word of his bestie. so i, the total cuddle bug, the girl who likes few things better than holding hands and giving hugs, will have to restrain myself until it is deemed appropriate.

i would like to clarify that i am not compromising my principles. i still don’t like the concept of prom. i still do not like dresses.
but i do like andrew.

yay for john bogosta for being the catalyst.

i must watch myself

phillip told me i must restrain my cuddlebug instincts.

he’s of course right, as always.

i love love love my gangsta.

phillip

i love my gangsta phil

he developed this quiz bowl oriented pick up line for me:

“Did you know in some cultures, holding hands means you are dating?”
ooh, here’s something else interesting….”Facts like that are referred to in spain as un indicio, meaning BIG FAT HINT!”

My random “Breakup Girl” maxim

Ladies, there are PLENTY of nice straight guys left. Though it would be helpful if they had some sort of parade.

how splendiforous a quote is that?

SPLENDIFOROUS. my word. after some searching, i realized i stole my word from ray bradbury. heh.

watts: a tribute

as far as 80s chicks i totally want to be, Watts is the ultimate. my favorite character in some kind of wonderful, her wry wit and tomboy looks are something i envied immensely.

Watts: It must be a drag to be a slave to the male sex drive.
Keith: It’s not just sex.
Watts: Oh, you want to start a book club with her?

loathing!

nerd wear

i sang the duet from wicked with julia today, and john decided to comment on it. here is how the conversation went.

me: i love and loathe you. loave.

john: this is pure loathing, hatred, that’s me. but that [points at andrew, walking away from us] is love.

andrew and i proceded to shush john. me, because i don’t like attention called to the fact that this is not a relationship. i was not asked out, just to a specific event, therefore it does not exist.

after knowing john for less than a minute, my mom made this astute observation [which i wished to tell him but couldn't because he didn't pick up and let it roll to the full voicemail box with the chick voice message]:
“he is annoying. he knows he is. he truly enjoys it. you can tell by his infectious smile.”
then she said of andrew, “That was andrew? i didn’t recognize him!” which i found funny.

i would like to clarify a matter of girl semantics for all those poor boys who don’t know the difference.

“would you like to go out some time?” That is dating. This also applies to when a specific date is mentioned. You ARE NOT together. This is A date. do not assume you are dating. If the girl is distant, she probably isn’t aware that you think you’re together.

“Do you wanna go out with me?” That is dating. In that situation, even if no one formally asked anyone out, people assume you’re together. This in-between sitch is very difficult for the gal, because she has no idea how to act. She doesn’t want to claim anything if you are not together, because this can lead to embarassment. she doesn’t want to ignore you if you are, so she settles for a medium between distant and cutesy which leads to awkwardness. if you can avoid accidentally asking someone out in this manner, do so.

“will you be my girlfriend?” little room for ambiguity. this approach, very direct, leaves a girl in no doubt as to where you stand. if you tried approach one and girl acts like she always does around you, even distant, this means she’s waiting for you to clarify with something more direct and ask her out. asking someone out is different from asking someone to go out. recall this.

luckily for you, the average girl will assume you are clueless. which you are. because you didn’t know the difference. she will probably hint by mentioning other couples and talking about relationships a lot. this is especially noticable if the girl is an ordinarily witty conversationalist. even if she knows you like her, and she likes you, and you already did #1 [asking for a specific date], she WILL NOT assume you’re together or even allow herself to consider a serious relationship with you until you ask. if you are too slow in clarifying, she may ask you what she should tell people. since your average girl doesn’t care how people brand their relationships, this means she is wondering herself.

 if a girl shows up no more in your life than usual, you did method one, and she gets annoyed by jokes made of you two, then she needs a clarification before she changes her mind! if she really likes you, she will put up with the vagueness, but she would like to know. because she really wants to hold your hand and doesn’t think that it would be acceptable until she knows you’ll be okay with it.

if this made no sense to you, you probably have a y chromosome.

my current favorite artist

i have known of peter callesen for a while, and i still love love love his work.