Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts

7.09.2010

fill in the blaNk fRiday: RaNdom


1. my favorite thing about this week has been having hours of self-reflection while driving back from my impromptu trip to nj for the weekend. i am in awe of what the next decade can bring, once i stepped back and took a look at everything that has happened in the last ten years. shit, the last ten DAYS have been pretty interesting!

2. the weather this week has been the same as everywhere in the northeast. i actually don't even want to talk about it. BUT, we just had a fantastic storm! the kind that really make me wish that i had a real, covered porch so that i could sit there and watch/listen to/feel summer thunderstorms.

3. the last (interesting) item i received in the mail was a birthday card from my friend's parents; totally unexpected and incredibly sweet.

4. the last movie i saw was uh... we watched so many movies last weekend!! i'm going to have to say that brick was the last one we watched? this was my second time watching it and i must say, it's  a pretty amazing movie (as far as my standards go).

5. if i could be doing anything i felt like today i would definitely be en route to a beach, no question.

6. as a teenager i was a freaking angsty nightmare. but also really headstrong and independent... to put it mildly.

7. i wish i could trade lives for the day with someone waist-deep in the fashion industry. i'd love to work at a magazine one day, or be backstage at a fashion show, or help a designer pick out fabric, or watch a great fashion photographer. i don't think i have it in me to fight to get into that world, but i'd love to just observe for a day!

(check out the original and many more over at the little things we do)

6.04.2010

summeR conceRt kick-off


today is the first day of the three rivers arts festival here in pittsburgh. as much as i love visiting the artists market a few times during the ten days of festivities, what really gets me excited is the music. where else can you see the likes of guster, dirty dozen brass band, ingrid michaelson, and patty griffin (eeeeeee!!!!! FINALLY i get to see her!) for free?? sounds like a really fantistic start to the summer concert season...

i'm also really looking forward to some later shows this summer, including sleigh bells, rogue wave (including my buddy/one time rommate from high school, cameron), beth orton, my morning jacket and kings of leon with the black keys. these, unfortunately, are not free... no wonder i'm broke! but so worth it.