cute in a teacup

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love

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pretty as a swallow

via etsy via rarebirdfinds.

a thing for sneakers

i've got one. so i DEFINITELY have a hankering for a couple of these puppies. oh frye.... why oh why? but oh how on earth to pick?? forget the spending freeze, my indecisiveness alone could keep me from pulling the trigger on these.

"When the night meets the morning sun...."

This came on shuffle as I was turning the corner onto Division Street today and kept a-loopin' 'til I exited the elevator on the 19th floor....

"black and white horse"

"...marching among us."

another one... because it's so... damn... pretty. and b/c pma came out w/ a pretty damn good list of the best songs of 2010. so far.

"There is a love that sleeps inside"

"...the canyons of our deepest dreaming lives...a shelter that cannot be lost... a name that is so deep and so far across."

where i've been

by aaron huey

Dear Dan,

Thanks for the laughs...

Q What's the etiquette for having sex when you're a guest in another person's house? Friends spent the night and shared some passion. I don't have a problem with this. However, this was period sex, and I was left with bloody, sex-stained sheets. Am I wrong to be annoyed? Can I ask them to replace the sheets? —Hostess With the Menses

A Your guests had to know—if your sheets were a bloody mess, so were your guests—and they should have offered to replace your sheets. You're right to be annoyed. If you believe your friends are selfish and inconsiderate—if you think they didn't care about they mess they left for you—confront them, ask for replacements, and cultivate other friendships. But if you know your friends to be deeply sex-negative, HWTM, it's possible they were so mortified by the mess—evidence that they'd had sex!—that they were paralyzed by shame. If that's the case, let it slide, buy your own replacements, and cultivate other friendships.

The etiquette for having sex when you're a guest in another person's house goes like this: Polite guests do not leave a bloody, spunky, or santorumy mess for their hosts to clean up. Staying in the guest room and desperately horny? Sounds like the perfect opportunity for an extended—and tidy—oral-sex session. Staying in the guest room and want to fuck? Fuck on the desk, fuck standing up, fuck in the shower. If your partner is one of those only-in-bed, only-on-my-back types, lay a towel down on your host's sheets—or, better yet, a couple of your own T-shirts—and fuck away.

Thoughtful hosts purchase dark sheets and towels for guest suites. If guests leave a towel on the floor of the bathroom in a neat little ball, toss that towel in the wash—with extra bleach if the towels are white—without unfurling and inspecting. An unwise host who unfurls a balled-up white towel may find herself staring at what looks like the flag of imperial Japan. And if your guests are courteous enough to strip the bed before they leave, those balled-up sheets go straight into the wash, too.

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and anudder...

this is gonna be hard....

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pretty as a zip-up sundress

i've implemented a material item spending freeze for the month, which means more random items i'd love to own (but won't) might be finding themselves copied and pasted here.

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"All I Am Is A Body Adrift..."

"...in water, salt and sky."

was excited to be welcomed into gg's car last night by the familiar sound of Frightened Rabbit via an unfamiliar song. which could only mean one thing... it snuck up on me, but their new album is out! it only took me 2 or so years to become infatuated with their first album, so i suppose there's no rush on this one either. but from the sound of the songs i heard, it's gonna be a goody.