all this beauty, you might have to close your eyes

the best thing of the whole wide world happened last night

the weepies at lakewood theatre!

love love love love love

our "this is real, people, this is real!" faces

i may have sat there beaming with huge wide open eyes the whole time staring at the wonderfullness and just-what-i-want-to-be-ness that is deb talan.

oh my oh my its very odd when i listen to her older stuff (maybe obsessively every day maybe possibly) and she uses the same exact imagery that gets stuck in my brain and won't leave and finds its way into my drawings...very odd. like looking in a mirror that makes you cooler than you really are.

anyway! concert full of adorableness and amazing music and cute baby stories! yeep! i think i may have reached the pinnacle of possible happiness last night!

300 days of beatrice

this is heart of flame's
300th post.

anyway, i thought that was kind of cool.
i sure have said a lot of stuff.

oh by the way, i retract my last post. no. i amend it. registration IS confusing and awful, but it is made much better if you have an awesome advisor that tells you to email her the classes you want and she'll put you in them. whabam! WIN!

yarrgggggggggg

oh good grief.

class
enrollment
is
the
worst
ever.

it's confusing and awful.

YAAARRGGG!

it wouldn't be make believe

dress up party in the garage with mackenna and hayden!
dan and caitlin's old couch was stationed in the garage over the weekend, so of course that's where we hung out. cause we aren't whitetrash. at all.

yes that is a tissue paper bunny tail

yes those are my pajama pants under my costume.

yes i painted hayden's face with chalk to turn him into an oompah-loompah!!!!!

while we can hold on to someone, we know life won't let us go

love and love and love and love and love and love and love

congratulations to


andrew + stephanie!!

i love engagements! especially this one! no... all of them... no, this one!!

andrew is one of the best ones of the world... and that's all there is to it. it has been such a joy seeing him find the one to fill his crazy awesome heart. its still insane that its happening, i'm just a fringe observer/person-inordinately-obsessed-with-other-peoples-relationship-adorableness so i can't imagine how much it must be insane for the ones legitimately involved in this relationship!

(by the way, stephanie reminds me more of an elfin princess than anyone ever in the world... she's so ethereal and darling good grief the world is going to explode)

HAPPY WEDDING MARRIAGE LOVE DAYS!!!!!!

from station to station

woke up this morning in a very bowie/80's/the smiths mood... which of course means that mixed denims, big hair, and a leather jacket were completely necessary.

my best attempts at the hair band look (as best i could portray from webcam-in-classroom):

sometimes i think i should give into the many signs telling me that i was meant to live in the 80's.

1) my hair obviously WANTS to be in the 80's
2) my adoration of all things molly ringwald/john hughes/brat pack
3) 80's british awesomeness that is all
4) hello, the smiths
5) legit arcade games (original pac-man, please and thank you)
6) the fact that the science of 80's sci-fi movies always makes total sense to me and never seems ridiculous in the slightest.
7) the karate kid!!
8) slap bracelets, off-the-shoulder-chunky-sweaters, wayfarers, nerd glasses, legwarmers, keds
9) moonwalk!!

ah oh well. there were bad things too i guess.
like drugs. and ...the cold war.

fine i won't rent marty's delorean and go back in time and form a cool garage band. bluh.

never fails to make my day

a few weeks ago this song came on the radio as i was driving to school.
instantly, my day was perfect. i could just see the incomparable joseph gordon-levitt doing his adorable happy dance with animated bluebirds... ah, life. oh yes.

500 days, i love you
JGL, if you're ever looking for a blonde with slightly-larger-than-normal-feet and a gnome collection... i'm your girl
zooey? there are no words. xoxo

grown-up, pt. 1

i feel so all-grown-ed-up tonight

i gave hayden a real honest to goodness haircut tonight

for dinner tonight? spinach salad with homemade vinaigrette, mozzerella, and soft-boiled eggs
and a glass of water. my fifth of the day. yeah! (also, i'm contemplating vitamins tonight)

man.

happy birthdays to you

today is the day the longest and most delightful friendship i have ever experienced became possible. it's Emily's birthday!

this girl is witty, sweet, opinionated, beautiful, rainboots-full-of-fun, charming, the best all-my-whole-entire-life friend i could hope for.

we met in mothers day out when we were babies, where we were the victims of hate crime. the hate crime being that all the other kids hated me. but emily was my friend. which made them hate me even more... because she was super duper adorable and they all wanted to be friends with her. but she stuck with me... making us the female shawn spencer and burton guster of our generation.

through many an easy cheese heist, dress-up party (no, i don't mean when we were little), ballet classes together, the world's most terrifying playground, high school football games, prom, being stalked (her, not me. always her), being heartbroken, doing the entire thriller dance at work before remembering the security camera, pretend funerals, real funerals... through thick and thin... we'll be there.

"Wherever a party needs to be saved, I'm there
Wherever there are masks
Wherever there is tomfoolery or joy
I'm there
But sometimes I'm not, 'cause I'm out in the night staying vigilant
Watching, lurking
Running, jumping, hurtling
Sleeping-- no, I can't sleep, you sleep
I'm awake, I don't sleep, I don't blink
Am I a bird? No. I'm a bat
I am Batman
Or am I?
Yes, I am Batman"

(abed - community)

(photos are mine, from a senior picture shoot)

win

my friend anna just sent me this amazing link.

WAIT

go go go. it's amazing. but follow these simple instructions.

open the link. dramatic pause. say something epic ("one small step ... mankind", "You'll hunt me. You'll condemn me. Set the dogs on me. Because that's what needs to happen." you get the idea.).

then... click the button.


INCEPTION'D!