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♥ New tattoo!! This was done on monday by _mike_
'Sweet Charlotte' is the name of the bell from my summer camp. It's now ten years since I first attended and the changes in my life because of the camp are immesurable. This design and placement popped into my head a few months ago, on one of those tossing and turning nights when I absolutely couldn't sleep. I took the rough idea to Mike and he whipped up this beaut!
♥ road trip! Irinka and I are heading up to Joshua Tree this Saturday! We are going to be meeting up with Lorelei and tonight we're going shopping to get stuff we will need. I am really excited. I have never been to Joshua Tree and it will be fun to spend time with my gal Irinka.
♥ My dad and brother were in town last weekend. They were only around for a few days but it was a nice visit. I hadn't seen them since March 2007 and they finally got to meet my husband (I have been married for 16 months or something like that). My dad got me a really beautiful silver bracelet with Sanskrit on it from the swap meet on Saturday. I think I might wear it today even though my outfit is an SG tank and capri pants. I just love it so much.
On Saturday, me, uproot, my dad and my brother all got sunburns. Mine is peeling quite attractively right now. Nothing beats a peely nose as far as sex appeal goes! Also, I think I'll post some of the visit photos in my next blog.
♥ Canadian Music Corner!!! Today is Old Man Luedecke. He reminds me of William Elliot Whitmore, except less tattooed and more Canadian.
Bear with this video, it's a clip from the East Coast Music Awards so it has a bit of a promo thing before the music actually starts.
As a little treat (because I love William Elliot Whitmore) here's one of his clips. Dudes playing banjos really get to me, I guess. I'm a sucker for alt-country. I seriously just want to live my life out on a farm, wearing cowboy boots and checking fences. Here's just a little teaser. This clip gives me the shivers. All his music is this soulful.
♥ I just finished reading 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' by Bill Bryson and it had the most beautiful phrase in it, that summed up the entire book: 'all life is one'. Reading the book made me feel so passionate about how beautiful and amazing and diverse and tenuous life is on our planet. Even though I live in the city, I grew up on a farm. I feel a really strong connection the the world around me, but it's easy to let that get dulled by the endless city. I've recently started birdwatching and last weekend I got a book to help me identify all the little creatures left behind in tidepools! Mostly I like smooshy things like anenomes and sea-bugs like crabs, but it will be cool to learn about chitons and barnacles and the like. It even has cross-section diagrams of what the inside of these critters are like! I was pleasantly surprised to learn about the little soft bodies inside barnacle shells.
So, yeah, it is pretty amazing to live on this planet. Now we just need to stop fucking it up so there's something left to enjoy . I hate people. I watched this Nova programme last night about women in Ethiopia who have had difficult labour that gave them vaginal fistulas so their urine just leaks constantly and they are shunned from their villages. It's a pretty simple surgery to fix it but not many women have access to it. One woman (who was 20!!) was telling about how her husband and a group of other men abducted her from a group of her friends when she was 15, kept her somewhere for two weeks, all of them 'used' her (in her words), then her 'husband' took her to his house where she'd live permanently, and soon she had a baby. The labour took five days and the baby died and she was left with her insides all wrecked! Stuff like this makes me despair.
But things are beautiful, too: a highschool friend just spent 4 months in Kenya, helping a community in need. He and a few others raised several thousand dollars to bring water closer to the town, to fix things that were broken and to build desks and chairs for a school. They fixed the school's toilet facilities and kitchen and are leaving with long-term plans in place, to help teach the people there how to upkeep things and funding and more volunteers in place to make these things come true. People like him are what makes this world worth living in. I am so inspired by him!! I want to do things like that in my life.
♥ New tattoo!! This was done on monday by _mike_
'Sweet Charlotte' is the name of the bell from my summer camp. It's now ten years since I first attended and the changes in my life because of the camp are immesurable. This design and placement popped into my head a few months ago, on one of those tossing and turning nights when I absolutely couldn't sleep. I took the rough idea to Mike and he whipped up this beaut!
♥ road trip! Irinka and I are heading up to Joshua Tree this Saturday! We are going to be meeting up with Lorelei and tonight we're going shopping to get stuff we will need. I am really excited. I have never been to Joshua Tree and it will be fun to spend time with my gal Irinka.
♥ My dad and brother were in town last weekend. They were only around for a few days but it was a nice visit. I hadn't seen them since March 2007 and they finally got to meet my husband (I have been married for 16 months or something like that). My dad got me a really beautiful silver bracelet with Sanskrit on it from the swap meet on Saturday. I think I might wear it today even though my outfit is an SG tank and capri pants. I just love it so much.
On Saturday, me, uproot, my dad and my brother all got sunburns. Mine is peeling quite attractively right now. Nothing beats a peely nose as far as sex appeal goes! Also, I think I'll post some of the visit photos in my next blog.
♥ Canadian Music Corner!!! Today is Old Man Luedecke. He reminds me of William Elliot Whitmore, except less tattooed and more Canadian.
Bear with this video, it's a clip from the East Coast Music Awards so it has a bit of a promo thing before the music actually starts.
As a little treat (because I love William Elliot Whitmore) here's one of his clips. Dudes playing banjos really get to me, I guess. I'm a sucker for alt-country. I seriously just want to live my life out on a farm, wearing cowboy boots and checking fences. Here's just a little teaser. This clip gives me the shivers. All his music is this soulful.
♥ I just finished reading 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' by Bill Bryson and it had the most beautiful phrase in it, that summed up the entire book: 'all life is one'. Reading the book made me feel so passionate about how beautiful and amazing and diverse and tenuous life is on our planet. Even though I live in the city, I grew up on a farm. I feel a really strong connection the the world around me, but it's easy to let that get dulled by the endless city. I've recently started birdwatching and last weekend I got a book to help me identify all the little creatures left behind in tidepools! Mostly I like smooshy things like anenomes and sea-bugs like crabs, but it will be cool to learn about chitons and barnacles and the like. It even has cross-section diagrams of what the inside of these critters are like! I was pleasantly surprised to learn about the little soft bodies inside barnacle shells.
So, yeah, it is pretty amazing to live on this planet. Now we just need to stop fucking it up so there's something left to enjoy . I hate people. I watched this Nova programme last night about women in Ethiopia who have had difficult labour that gave them vaginal fistulas so their urine just leaks constantly and they are shunned from their villages. It's a pretty simple surgery to fix it but not many women have access to it. One woman (who was 20!!) was telling about how her husband and a group of other men abducted her from a group of her friends when she was 15, kept her somewhere for two weeks, all of them 'used' her (in her words), then her 'husband' took her to his house where she'd live permanently, and soon she had a baby. The labour took five days and the baby died and she was left with her insides all wrecked! Stuff like this makes me despair.
But things are beautiful, too: a highschool friend just spent 4 months in Kenya, helping a community in need. He and a few others raised several thousand dollars to bring water closer to the town, to fix things that were broken and to build desks and chairs for a school. They fixed the school's toilet facilities and kitchen and are leaving with long-term plans in place, to help teach the people there how to upkeep things and funding and more volunteers in place to make these things come true. People like him are what makes this world worth living in. I am so inspired by him!! I want to do things like that in my life.
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wadewalker:
I was worried for a second your tattoo said "Good Charlotte". 
irinka:
yay! gmail them to me when you get them...im pretty sure i got the day off for ink and iron...should I try and get us presale tickets?