My Keyboard is Broken, and Every Time You See an "a" in This Entry, it's Because I Hand-copied and Pasted It

I think it's pretty clear to everyone in the house that I'm Martha-obsessed and many a crafts project has been selected through hours of perusal on her website, most recently I've convinced my housemates to allot part of our shared food allowance into a 5 day dinner plan I found in the food section. Thats five days of delicious dinners and one 92 dollar shopping list (partly because roommate Jenna and I splurged on nearly 20 dollar steaks) beginning with steaks with balsamic mustard sauce, rosemary potatoes, and steamed green beans. Really the only thing I have to say about this project is fuck, why haven't we been doing this sooner? The steaks were delicious, the potatoes were perfect, and the sauce especially, was quite addictive. Pictures courtesy of roommate Dana:

Left-overs were devoured by 1:00 the next day.

i don't want to be 19 in 11 days

lost the charger to my phone

lost my phone

got my credit card stolen

adopted a large white wolf at an east-austin garage sale

gained three pounds

worked for probably 9 days, total

painted an amazing picture: the Bird and the Triangles

watched 1000 movies

nearly depleted my bank account, twice

breakfast at 3 in the morning

my computer is still broken

met up with three ex-boyfriends

and i still hate them all.

reading the celebrity gossip magazines with erik at some raucous teenage party.

Alexa Chung, I Love You

I've been back home in Texas for 9 days now and haven't managed to do anything productive (not even work, thanks to a glitch with the manager at my old store where I was supposed to transfer back to...) besides copious amounts of tv-watching, smoking weed, and throwing my clothes around my room.

However, I have:

-nearly finished East of Eden, by John Steinbeck. Trust me, it's even better the second time and I forgot there's a whole chapter devoted to competing whore-houses.

-cooked a pretty decent seared beef and noodle soup, thank you Martha and thank you Erik for braving the mushy white mass that was once called rice noodles and somehow still enjoying it (or atleast pretending to).

-cleaned ERIK'S fridge, for some reason, unearthing a deadly diet potion called "chlorophyll," several green watery bags full of herb and vegetable slush, and several meat products expired several months hence.

-created a few teacup beeswax candles in probably the most slap-dash unorthodox way possible; which basically means taking a dirty hammer to break up the beeswax then smushing all pieces inside a glass container and microwaving for 10 minutes until everything is liquid then pouring it both in and around the candles and on my hand. Then, in a fit of genuis I tied the wicks around little pencils to keep them straight and laid the pencils horizontally over the tops of the cups. I wish I'd documented the process but here is the finished product:

Also, in watching copious amounts of television I've collected a girl crush: Alexa Chung. I'm probably the last person to discover It's On With Alexa Chung but I don't care because look:

everything in it's right place.

all I want for Christmas

is one of these beautiful Sophie Blackall prints! Sophie is a Brooklyn-based illustrator who takes craigslist missed connections and changes them into beautiful artist interpreted prints. I'm lusting over all of them, but especially the bear suit...





You can find her etsy here
Her missed connections project here
And her website here.