my new roommate

i have a new roommate that is living with me in my room. she is ceramic, all white, kind of a baby with some sort of a chignon hair-do going on, a bit of an old soul. she doesnt talk about herself constantly and even asks me how my day was! wow!

seriously though. i love my little victorian girl bust! I got her for christmas from my brother. It's just what I wanted and is the perfect finishing touch to my crazy old lady shrine in my room. Another thing I added is a framed antique sketching of a Victorian woman in a billowing dress holding a bird on her hand. Art school really needs to start helping me figure out how to describe this type of art/decor. Victorian isnt cutting it anymore. I need specifics! I need to start asking. Sorry the pics are so dark & sad looking. My room is cozy, not a dungeon of dirty loneliness as it appears in these photos. Love ya macbook.

february 2010

Elle UK - Natalie Portman

SWEET PRODUCT TIME

I know everyone is banging down my door every day asking for beauty product advice & how to look FABULOUS AND RICH on a small budget. It's actually getting annoying how much people annoy me about this topic. I can't give away all my secrets! (imagine if I was serious?)

Anyway, I've always dreamt of trying dry shampoo since I really can't go a day without washing my hair (unless I wash it really late at night) so now that i have to get up at 715am two times a week, I really wanted to try dry shampoo. It literally works so good. I just got back from the drug store, sprayed it in my hair and within a half hour, it looked cleaner & fuller. Crazy! I read the ingredients of it and it sounds like something that would be used to make crystal meth but it's fine!

Also- lip smackers always rule, especially the dr. pepper kind because it tastes good & also gives ya lips a bit of color. Not TOO much though. Can't be lookin like some kind of an ice pop mouth!

joanna newsom is such a beautiful creature & i admire her style (and her choices in boyfranz)

woof dawgy woof

i'm going to put it out on the table, everyone. sometimes being in your 20's is lonely and weird! For the most part, it's the best thing ever but secretly it is missing a bunch of things that usually come later on in life. A steady relationship, a job, a home, a little family, money, etc. Those things are the safety that I'm missing as a 21 year old gal. Safety, you ask? I guess just knowing that you can come home to something/someone who needs you. No one really needs me right now, which is cool...but also lonely.

That whole whine fest is now leading me into the topic of puppies. I have never in my life identified myself as a pet person. But this past year, animals are slowly but surely breaking my heart. They are like little people! I go as far as picking puppies up now, holding them, letting them lick my hand and talking to them. That would have never happened in the past. Now I have this urge to own one, let it sleep in my bed and have a tiny companion. Since I do not have a hairy grizzly dream man in my life, i might as well have a hairy grizzly puppy dream dog! Oh right, I'm broke and also too selfish. Imagine if it got sick? Cried? Barked for long periods of time? Wanted me to walk it at weird hours when some trash tv show was on or I wanted to sleep? Reality is weird.

I always thought that if I held you tightly, you'd always love me like you did back then

jeff tweedy

well, you can radiate everything you are

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verdict- both are equally beautiful. This has to be my favorite Beatles song. St. Vincent's version is so great because her feminine voice gives the song a whole new feel. fuck, I want to learn guitar & sing! I'm forever jealous of those who can do those things with such confidence.