I want my MTV!

Remember how awesome MTV used to be? I remember getting home after school and pumping The Grind while eating saltine crackers.



Or staying up late at sleepovers to watch The Real World (the awesome ones) and planning how you were going to live in gorgeous loft apartments with all of your friends.


Or watching Beavis and Butthead when your parents weren't looking.



Or learning the ropes of 90's hip hop from Yo! MTV Raps.


Or laughing your knickers off at the inappropriate sketches of The State.


Or how about just watching music videos? I mean, wasn't that the point of MTV?


So, here's my question: Has MTV fallen drastically in its programming quality since the 90s or did I just grow up? Will the adolescents of today look back with fond nostalgia at Teen Mom and Jersey Shore?

Probably.

Look what I made!

Chocolate chip banana cupcakes with peanut butter icing!





And then for my children: dog biscuits with peanut butter icing.


Top Chef Just Desserts, I hear you calling.

A show!

How often is it that you are as excited about the opening band as you are about the band you are going to see? Not very often. Here's the better question: Blaine, how often are you even going to shows these days? Oh, yeah, not very often. So, how fun and surprising to get the opportunity to see two great bands and with friends in town?! Mount Moriah


Crooked Fingers


Great night!

So Organized!

This is my new Moleskin calendar in which I will write down things and maintain an organized lifestyle.

The Long Road...

Here it is, the last 6 months of my life as a teacher in Durham Public Schools and I couldn't be more excited. For the past few months, I had actually begun to view my job as slightly more bearable with new administration and a new crop of wonderful students, and the sweet knowledge that it is all temporal. It's never been the students or even the administration that were so maddening. It was other things; programs, attitudes, and systems which I will refrain from mentioning specifically on the internet in case the spies are reading.
And now, knowing what I know and knowing that I will be leaving all I can see is a very long 6 month road ahead of me. I'm going to have to soldier up and endure for the end is in sight. Surely, it will fly by as the first half of the year did and the long road will be traveled and traded in for a literal long road that leads to Oregon.


Vamanos!

Bundle. It's a state of mind.

Coldness is usually relative to what your accustomed. So, when it's been in the 50s and 60s, 30s and 40s feel cold. Well today was 20s and 30s, and i thought my face was going to freeze off. I know this must sound quite silly to those accustomed to much cooler temperatures. Say you live in Montana where some winter temps drop below 0, 20s and 30s feel like a warm spring day.

What I'm going to try to do over the next few days during this cold wave, is trick mysf into thinking that it is warmer than it actually is. And if that doesn't work then I'll just do this

My new mug!

Thanks to Laura Farrow of Broken Tusk Studios in Hillsborough, my sweet sweet daughter is immortalized on a cup! Cheers!




I will drink delicious baby soy lattes from it all year.