2008

My grandmother is a talented painter. She prefers oils, but...

Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey is a book that belonged to...

My new apartment has a wood-burning fireplace! Roasted...

onemoretimewithfeeling: allthingspixar: Wall·E progression...

Reading Gabriella’s blog makes me to want to cry…and then give her a hug.

I’m working part of the day and then going to look at...

“My son only calls me when he needs decorating advice.”
— Co-worker Yesterday as I was...

Re-blog this statement if it applies to...

jessicagoldharalson: “I am a straight woman, and I am confident about my appearance and happy with...

Vanity Fair - Waterboarding

One of my favorite photos of Molly and I.

My soon-to-be mother-in-law calls me the “second great white hope,” and my fiance the...

I need help...

byerinb: Ladies, what is your favorite perfume?  What do you like the most and what do you get the...

“Solitude is something you choose. Loneliness is imposed on...”
— Psychology Today: Solitude vs...

I need a vacation. I want to frolic in some tropical locale...

bellavita: change order

Playing nurse.

Tomorrow my beloved (for some reason, I can’t stand the phrase “my fiance,”...

I got this ape-shit crazy spam e-mail in my work inbox. It...

“Sometime during development, I started looking at the Wii...”
— Takao Sawano, Wii Fit lead I...

kiamatthews: You know what I appreciate about this picture?...

Reading glasses.

I’m starting to notice my eye strain returning from so much reading and computer time. My eye...

With a small fire pit, marshmallows, a good book and a cup...

My maybe-new apartment come the end of July.

It was like the running of the bulls. In the Old Navy near...

“Its like my life except I don’t have a cockroach friend.”
— - Me during Wall-E before he...

Man Accused Of Killing Pr. George's Officer...

Soldiers march in Toronto Gay Pride parade

“Nothing is more beautiful than you wearing only the...”
— Unknown (via jeralyndwile)

Is it a sign of my romanticism or of my anti-social...

“Have you seen 300?”
—  Gerard Butler’s best pick-up...

WALL-E was great. Everyone seems to agree. I highly...

carolynannahall: Oliver and Anneliese, New York BFF’s…. (via...

Can you get the frogs across the pond?

Snowboarding on Wii Fit is hard. Really freaking hard. via...

Traffic makes me crazy!

“Wear underwear?”
— Mary Kate Olsen’s advice...

Ooh! Aah! Where to Watch the Fireworks in...

“Every instructor assumes that you have nothing else to do...”
— anon. WHY IS THIS ALWAYS THE...

The Ever-Malleable Mr. Obama -...

It’s Friday. Yay. Black dress from T.J. Maxx Red...

I'll never tell.

Me: It's strange talking to you about Tumblr in person.
[redacted]: Yeah, I know. Hey, guess what!
Me: What?
[redacted]: PeterWKnox and SoupSoup are following me now.
Me: You're so excited!
[redacted]: I know! I think they're cute.

via www.gapingvoid.com

Heat makes me irritable. It’s 97 outside. It’s about 88 or 89 inside. I want to throw...

Dear Nintendo,

marco: Congratulations on your success with the Wii. Really. Despite my doubts, it continues to...

“Consider that today, solar panels are one-tenth as efficient...”
— Bjorn Lomborg - A Better Way...

Brandon directed me to Marry Our Daughter yesterday after...

“Any idiot can face a crisis — it’s this day-to-day living...”
— Anton Chekhov (via the Message...

One word describes the joy I feel at it being Thursday:...

“It turns out that a woman’s physical appearance is the...”
— Psychologist David M. Buss,...

Teen site helps girls find which stereotype...

Teen site helps girls find which stereotype...

The other evening...

…I stopped into our local 7-11 to grab an energy drink. As usual, there was a contingent of...

danhacker: jeralyndwile: This is really the scariest...

“Perhaps only sex, sports, music, and religious...”
— The Creative Personality by...

My boss said to me today, “You’re always so...

My best friend Lisa is in the DC area visiting her aunt and...

Spotted here. This is what passes for news in the metro DC...

I hate AT&T's online account service.

It logs me in and out sporadically. They are always “down for maintenance.” Sometimes my...

Cyclist Rights, Cyclist Wrongs

Perhaps he’s discovered what the masses already know: most of the deeply religious and...

So discouraging to go from a rock star last night to a 9-5er...

“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no...”
— The Dalai Lama (via...

List of songs in Rock Band - Wikipedia

Obama backlash

jessicagoldharalson: It’s starting. Discuss. I think he hit his peak too quickly…around a...

Calorie calculator - MayoClinic.com

(via hydeordie)

My most recent blog on the Tastemaker...

“Perhaps the threat that brand-smart young people really pose...”
— Rob Walker in Buying In (via...

I woke up an hour late this morning and threw something...

Going green(ish).

I’m writing an article that will hopefully be practical advice for middle- to upper-middle...

I was gone on a work-related trip on Friday and Saturday, so...

mundos: rehash - i.thefairest

Sometimes I feel like Nylon tries a little too hard to be...

“My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of...”
— Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Urbandictionary.com + Search term:...

sarazucker: yeah, basically all of that is true. thanks for the tip, jessica. Urban Dictionary has...

“The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to...”
— Dr Martin Luther King (via...

“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon…the two most...”
— Henry James

Brandon surprised me with Wii Fit yesterday evening. I...

summer cardigans

“There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who...”
— G.K. Chesterton

Show your Harry Potter pride with blank journals featuring...

jhongosh: Lowercase Scarf | Little Factory DO WANT.

This book belonged to a former professor of mine. He has...

There have been some bad forest fires in my native land of...

dude.

A sampling of the comments I’ve gotten about this hat...

“Indeed, jealousy, more so than many negative emotions, is...”
— Jealousy and the Threatened...

“Actually, packaging is one of the only consumer touch points...”
— Allen Adamson, Advertising...

Julia Allison Fired?

Hope you found what you were looking...

Did my blog fulfill your search requests?

Innovative!

onemoretimewithfeeling: The woman that sits in the cube next to me is gone for two weeks. Several of...

I wore jeans today. Haven’t worn jeans in about a...

Last night’s errands and spending time with friends...

carolynannahall: via www.michelleimbach.com

Facebook's Compare People

So, apparently my friends have voted me 149th Most Likely to Win in a Fight. Listen here bitches. I...

“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or...”
— Milan Kundera (via...

Sleepless in Seattle

Dr. Marcia Fieldstone: Tell me what was so special about your wife?
Sam Baldwin: Well, how long is your program? Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were suppose to be together... and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home... only to no home I'd ever known... I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.

“There is nothing new under the sun. It has all been done...”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Is this...

I saw a feature in Domino magazine about Rick of...

“There are people that fall in love with not getting what...”
— Greg Behrendt, author of “He’s...

I call this my Ellen Barkin dress, although I find it...

jessicagoldharalson: via Jezebel Ladies, if you need to...

DC Mayor Adrian Fenty drives his new...

“Water use restrictions have been lifted in Montgomery County...”
— Washington Post I drank about...

“For the first time, I could see the relationship was over....”
— Honeymoon with My Brother

jeralyndwile: I braided my bangs for work today and I...

Haha. I blame this post on the paint. We heart it

Honeymoon with My Brother is like Eat, Pray, Love, but from...

An office down the hall is repainting their walls. (I...

missbrightside.tumblr.com, otherwise...

Megan: this is why you don't do tumblr relationships
Megan: cause they just...TUMBLE
Megan: HAHAHAHAHAHA
Me: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Me: blog that.
Megan: ooh i should. but then people would tumblrhate.
Me: maybe i should do it so it doesn't look like you are quoting your own cleverness.

I'm excited.

www.jaclynwile.com.

I wanted to wear boots today. Striped buttondown from...

I wore the fruits of my Goodwill spree last night to see The...

edatrix: zoee: I want to be back in bed. (via...

I love going to Goodwill near my parent’s home in...

To the man who wished I was a boy (kidding) and nicknamed me...

I went to the restaurant in Virginia where my sister works...

“Being aware of your crap and actually overcoming your crap...”
— Sandra Oh as Cristina Yang in...

I had a crisis yesterday. I couldn’t find a dress I...

So, let me see if I understand this: You CAN take a train on...

Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken

You can watch most of the movie on Youtube.

Attention all women:

If that’s the case, here’s Planet Earth. Enjoy. :)

Giving Up or: How I Learned to Stop...

peterwknox: From this NYMag post about this NYT study What Women Want (Maybe) (anybody get my post...

The “Diving Horses” of Atlantic City. Remember...

Unidentified woman at the beach in the...

Sweat.

The building in which I work does not have working air-conditioning. It is 90 degrees outside....

courtneyc: The “mobile lounges” at Washington Dulles Intl...

“I understand that my basics don’t scream trendy; they aren’t...”
— Mary Rambin in this post. I...

No matter how many times I read The Year of Magical Thinking...

The wrong side of the bed.

Everything that could have gone wrong this morning did. Every hope I had that the A/C in my office...

“If I am not mistaken, the issue most directly concerned your...”
— Librarian of local university...

big or small?

Boss #1: [points to her coffee] Is this a big one or a small one?
Boss #2: [redacted], by your age you should KNOW what a big one looks like.

WTF! HELP!

“Every shadow no matter how deep is threatened by morning...”
— Rachel Weisz as Izzi in The...

Doris Day and Cary Grant. (via Not Goth)

A little reminder about product...

Dear SATC producers, You may have noticed the recent hubbub regarding that book in your film that...

My favorite color is grey. Err, gray. My Canadian roots tend...

“Marriage is no longer about the rest of your life…it’s about...”
— -Ricky Gervais on KIIS this...

“I don’t want to walk behind you because you are SO...”
— Some insecure...

britticisms: Via NYLON: “As much as we love all the street...