Sunday, November 25

Ready and Willing

Thanksgiving was interesting. Nothing will ever top the day/evening BV and I had last year (speaking of that, Kevin Kinsella if you are reading this I really miss you!), but I DID have fun at the Riviera Country Club with Lily and some of her family. And I also particularly enjoyed the X-Files marathon with Cindy that night. It wasn't very holiday-ish, at least not in the way I'm used to, but I got to see people I love and that's worth everything.

I have very few friends that still celebrate Thanksgiving with their families. Is that weird? Maybe it's just because the majority of my friends are here in Los Angeles now and most of us are transplants. I used to celebrate it with my Dad's side of the family, and there was nothing wrong with that BUT it's kind of strange to sit in a room with people that know nothing about me just out of obligation. I don't really understand things like that.

What I AM thankful for is friends that scoop me up and welcome me into their traditions and their families and find secret places for me to pee when I've had too much whiskey at Seven Grand (Mike Cooper you wonderful man).

Speaking of Seven Grand, I rarely get the chance to go, but when I do I always leave wishing I lived next door. I wandered over to the jukebox at some point on Friday night, just hoping to put on some Led Zeppelin, and instead I found The Unheard Music by X and Tom Waits' Rain Dogs album. If there was ever a way to melt my heart...

Back to being thankful; there's so much to feel grateful for individually that I'll just sum it up by saying that I'm thankful for my life.

I'm obsessed with this photo and have decided that a clear coffee table is in my future:


(found here)

Finally, THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH to everyone who has been voting for me for December's blogger of the month on 20sb! Unless something crazy happens in the next few days, I think I might win it, and that's so exciting!

13 comments:

  1. Rain Dogs is one of my all time favourite albums! Kudos to you.

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    1. Ahhhh I knew I liked you! Nothing makes me happier than that drunken demented circus of an album

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  2. That's a good friend finding you a place to pee.

    I voted for you. I hope you get it!

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    1. Haha the best friend I could ever ask for! And THANK YOU for the vote <333

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  3. You always find photos that make me swoon. I'll take the pink couch, please. Mmmkay.

    This Thanksgiving, I was thinking a lot about what NEXT Thanksgiving might be like. If all goes according to plan, I too will be a transplant. :) :)

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    1. ....an LA transplant?! Because you know, if you move here we are GOING to be friends

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    2. That is my sincere hope. Depends on a few variables (and I'm being vague on purpose, 'cause I keep it hush-hush on the blog for now)... but yes. :) HECK YEAH we will be IRL friends.

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  4. I flippin love that table.

    Everytime I go on Pinterest I see another piece of furniture I just NEED.

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    1. same here. it's actually quite detrimental to my financial situation lol

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  5. That clear coffee table is actually so beautiful, and most importantly, timeless. You should definitely track one down because I bet you will have it forever!

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    1. I know! I'm starting to think more about buying pieces that I love enough to keep in my life/pay to transport if I move, instead of doing the early-20s standard process of buying all ikea and selling it on craigslist when necessary. It's taken me a while to really get a solid idea of my personal style (i like everything at the same time, it seems) but now that i know I'm excited to start buyin' pretty things :D

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  6. i love everything about that room! this is making me so depressed about my current tile floor/wall dorm living situation. LOOK AT ALL OF IT. i can't handle it.

    i'm glad you had a good thanksgiving! and that you'll be winning blogger of the month! i voted for you. :)

    katie
    a sowing season.

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    1. Hahaha you are speaking to my soul right now - it makes me LOATHE my empty, ugly living room that I can't afford to redecorate on one paycheck (immediacy is really my issue. when I decide I want something I WANT IT NOW.)

      Thank you so much for the vote!! Even if no one new visits my blog if I win, I had no idea people would actually vote for me to begin with so I feel warm and fuzzy and grateful to "know" such awesome people :D

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