two days in paris, the end

It always fascinated me how people go from loving you madly to nothing at all, nothing. It hurts so much.

When I feel someone is going to leave me, I have a tendency to break up first before I get to hear the whole thing. Here it is. One more, one less. Another wasted love story.

I really love this one.

When I think that its over, that I'll never see him again like this... well yes, I'll bump into him, we'll meet our new boyfriend and girlfriend, act as if we had never been together, then we'll slowly think of each other less and less until we forget each other completely. Almost.

Always the same for me. Break up, break down. Drunk up, fool around. Meet one guy, then another, fuck around. Forget the one and only. Then after a few months of total emptiness start again to look for true love, desperately look everywhere and after two years of loneliness meet a new love and swear it is the one, until that one is gone as well.

There's a moment in life where you can't recover any more from another break-up. And even if this person bugs you sixty percent of the time, well you still can’t live without him. And even if he wakes you up every day by sneezing right in your face, well you love his sneezes more than anyone else's kisses.

via le love

happy sequential hump day!

at 12:34:56pm on july 8, 2009, the full date read 123456789, with some zero's hidden in there. cool huh? it's also what i like to call a "hump day" because it falls in the middle of the week, to which russel responds, "I wish it was a DRY hump day. effin rain."

good music, good friends

stop by BG friday night for good music, good friends and great shrimp tacos. download the whole mix tape here so you'll know all the words, and check out urban jacksonville and thought & theory now if you haven't already.

AIGA C&C + Bowling = This Thursday!

AIGA Jacksonville invites you to our second annual Cocktails & Creatives with BOWLING! You won’t want to miss this chance to meet and interact with Jacksonville’s local design community in a fun, relaxed setting! So dust off your ball (hey! get your mind out of the gutter) and aim for the pins with AIGA!

Games start at 7 p.m and you’re not going to want to miss our free door prizes and t-shirt giveaways. We’ll give out prizes for best team score, best personal score, turkeys and more. Teams will be chosen at random at the event. If you’d like to just come and watch, that’s allowed too!

Thank you for supporting AIGA Jacksonville and your fellow designers by attending events like Cocktails & Creatives.

Rates
Free Shoe Rental
$10 per person for the first 3 hours of Unlimited Gameplay!
(Please bring cash)

Drink Specials
$5 pitchers and $2 well drinks

Beach Bowling Center
818 Beach Blvd. Jacksonville Bch, FL 32250-4302
(904) 249-9849 Get directions

Registration
To register, simply follow this link »

We'll be there from 6:00pm till 8:30pm...

How do you find us?
Look for the sign with the AIGA logo.

You must be 21 years old to drink. Drink Responsibly.

LIMITED EDITION AIGA JACKSONVILLE T-SHIRTS WILL BE ON SALE FOR $20 designed by The Robin Shepherd Group’s Kendrick Kidd. Special Thanks to our T-Shirt Sponsors: The Grizzly Group & Vivid Images USA.

goop.com

i saw gweneth paltrow on conan the other night and she looked amazing. she's got the greatest body/look for a working mother of two. she was there talking about her website goop.com, which comes from her nickname GP - she said she wanted a word that could mean everything or nothing - reminds me of "google".

anyway, her website presents advice like she's sharing information with a girlfriend about health, beauty, taveling, food, etc. it's super casual and down to earth. the pics above are from a newsletter called "the uniform" about how you can add to a basic outfit to fit your entire day "from a winter's morning making pancakes to the school run to a meeting to homework to a dinner party." she also has a newsletter about simple style & beauty tips that i'm totally going to start using . . .

"I love Epsom salt baths to detox, revive muscles and de-puff skin. While in the bath, I use an exfoliating mitt (the kind used in Korean bath houses – you can get them at beauty supply stores, Asian markets or health food stores). The exfoliation stimulates skin and leaves it soft and bump-free. After the bath, I slather my skin with extra virgin organic coconut oil. It is sold in jars at health food stores and literally melts on your skin."

i love when celebrities turn out to be "real" people. i would totally let gweneth hang out with me.

jax beard meeting tonight!

if you can't grow it, make it! here are a few links for downloadable facial hair that you can print, color, and wear to tonight's jacksonville beardsmith society meeting:

mustaches x 3

big twitter beard

full beard with glasses

santa-style beard

meeting/social starts at 8pm at steamworks in 5pts tonight, and EVERY last tuesday of the month. don't miss it!

i <3 my grandma

this weekend i visited my grandmother in the hospital. she has been undergoing chemotherapy for cancer while dealing with congestive heart failure and other uncomfortable ailments. with all of this she was still in high spirits and making me laugh. i hope i can be as strong as her when i grow up. can't wait to see her again on friday for her 60th wedding anniversary. xoxo

new bed spread

just bought this fun tapestry from urban outfitters online. so excited to put it on our bed! they've got tons of stuff on sale + 15% off everything, including sale items, until 6/30. happy shopping!

my awkward family story

"One day when I was about 14, my dad and I went to get our pictures taken for the church directory. We were called into a room and the photographer arranged us for the shot, my dad sitting on one stool and me sitting on another positioned between his legs. I thought this was a little awkward, but it was only a headshot and I assumed the photographer knew what he was doing. So we go in the next room to give them our information and the lady asks "So, I will list this as Mr. and Mrs. Butsch, correct?" to which I said, "Umm, no, gross. He's my dad." She then explained, "Oh, I'm sorry. It’s just that in your photo you’re positioned like our married couples." Grrrreat. A month later the church directory comes out and every other father & daughter shot has them sitting shoulder to shoulder, and then there's me . . . sitting between my dad's legs. Awkward."

- submitted to awkwardfamilyphotos.com

rip michael jackson

August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009

rip farrah fawcett

February 2, 1947 — June 25, 2009

rip ed mcmahon

March 6, 1923 – June 23, 2009

i saw this today . . .

a baby racoon peeing on his own for the first time . . . all over the carpet of a chapel.

my june birthday girls

happy happy birthday to all of my june girls! we had a great time celebrating karen's bday (6/14) last weekend with pizza, beer and bowling & this weekend we'll be heading to melbourne for a joint bash to celebrate tara (6/23 - TODAY!) and gloria's (6/26) birthdays. i love all three of you so hard and hope you each enjoy your birthday to the fullest.

p.s. i love how the pictures i picked for each of you seem color coded - karen gets white, tara black and gloria brown. trifecta!

through tim burton's looking glass

i didn't even know tim burton was doing alice in wonderland, how exciting! looks like he has his usual cast of characters aka johnny depp as the mad hatter & helena bonham carter as the red queen + an always fun to watch anne hathaway as the white queen and the unknown mia wasikowska as alice. click here for a closer look at the images above in full size. can't wait!