Some Things I Wish I Could Wear

These are some styles that I think are fun and feminine or cute or classy. Whatever they are, I wish there were a place for them in the fashions of today!

1920s I think this is some seriously sexy underwear.
Cool suits. I like the one on the right. It's a little sleeker.
Great clingy flowy dresses! Again, the one on the right.
1930s I wish I looked good in hats.
SO COOL.


1940s Fun and flirty tea dresses! I love the matching shoes.
1950s Sexy undies. Cool garters.
GREAT tomboy look! Like Joanie!
Fun all-American summer blouses.


1960s I want some.
I really love that big cover-up.
Cool drop waist.
1970s I really love the Victorian wedding dress trend of the 70s.
So over the top.

SUCH a class act!

I love you Seattle!

In response to strong feelings I've been having for a long time, as well as Rachel's post about New York, I'm giving voice to how much I LOVE SEATTLE! I always love Seattle, but sometimes I go through phases when I love it sooo much that I think I'm going to explode!!

It has been really really beautiful here for the past week, with perfectly clear skies and crisp cool air. The mountains have been amaaaazing. Here's what I love: that there are mountains to the west and mountains to the east, Mt. Rainier to the south and Mt. Baker to the north. I love that there is water all around Seattle. Yesterday I went to THE SPACE NEEDLE with Kolin, Myke, and Louis G and it was fabulous because all of us were so excited to be there. We went around sunset and the water and the mountains and the city were glorious.

This is Mt. Rainier, and she is so wonderful. She is 14,411 feet tall. The Native American name, Tahoma, means "mother of waters." She has a wide influence over many Washington institutions; for instance, Rainier Beer!
I always feel really special when I think about how I'm a Pacific Northwest (PNW) native. There's something very distinct about the region, and how the air feels and how the water smells and how everything looks! It makes me want to explore all over the Puget Sound and camp and boat and hike and carve things out of wood.

Burritos!

I love them! I love that they are one good piece of food packed with a bunch of delicious foods! Yaaaay! What's your favorite Mexican dish?

Hey Liv, do you like this?

So Sweet

So my dad calls me honey and always has. That's not the point. The point is that when a nice big strong man says "honey" it's very very sexy. For instance, "Aaw honey, tramps like us, baby we were born to run!" or "Honey, love the one you're with," or "Honey, you can't hide those lyin' eyes."
Tonight "Lyin' Eyes" was on the radio, and you know, I don't know WHO you think you are if you really do hate the Eagles. I mean, come on! They have great harmonies, some touching lyrics, a nice country twang, and I think the guitar's ok. Anyways, when I was a kid I didn't really listen to any of the lyrics and so I didn't understand the context of "Lyin' Eyes". So I always pictured a really pretty exotic looking lady with orange eyes.


SERIOUSLY, THESE GUYS
ARE COOL!!

Really, there's no way any of us will ever be as cool as we would have been had we lived in the 60s and 70s. Again -- I was born in the wrong era.

Thieves Abound

I've been waiting or this. My bike has been stolen. This morning I was walking down the stairs of The Winridge and spotted through the large stairwell window that the bike rack was empty. The bike rack should have been occupied by my bike, and on several occasions, another bike with a very tall seat. I made a small moan in my throat and cried a little because I really love that bike. Here's its one and only picture, and what a special one it is:

It was navy blue and had a light brown leather seat. It had a type of gear-shift I had never seen before (Jake says it's called "friction shifting"). It was slim and had character. It was called the Centurion. I hope whoever took it took it because it was so cool looking, and not so they can sell it for parts or something weird like that. They've got my lock too. If I see some Ave.-rat riding that thing with their greasy poopy pants and their gross dreads and their mean dog, I'm going to chase them. And kill them.

WOW! We love WoW!

Liv got me WOrld of Warcraft for Christmas. Then she bought it for herself, because we'd been talking for some time about how fun it seems. We installed the games today, and created our characters. Liv is a human paladin, and I am a dwarf hunter. We are both females. Because Liv is a human female, she's a total babe. Because I'm a dwarf, I am short and fat. But I made her have cool red-headed pigtails, so she's kind of funny. This is the cool world we play in:



First thing first, I love maps. Second of all, I love maps of fantasy lands in which a completely new world has been thought up in complete detail. That's why I like fantasy books, even if they are dorky. They are smart.

Nico is Great!

Here's what I like about Nico: in a way, she's like all the stupid girl-celebrities of today who were models or actresses or simply dumb sluts (you know who you are, Paris) and then decided that they wanted to be singers too. BUT she pulled it off! I like how simple her lyrics are, how simple the songs themselves are, and how they're good even though her voice isn't actually good in the conventional sense.


Also, I've always respected and been really envious of gals that get in real good with groups of guys because they're cool enough to pull it off. Maybe The Velvet Underground just liked her cause she was a babe, but check out how cool she looks hanging out with all them guys.

Furthermore, she was more than just a pretty face. She was fluent in English, Spanish, French, Italian, and her native German. I so want to be bilingual.

Resolution -- Be Lovely!

Not really. I've been trying to think of a New Year's Resolution, which I never keep anyways. And I decided that I would take better care of my body. This is because I've never been someone who puts much stock in washing, showering, brushing, etc. This resolution includes: showering more often and thoroughly, brushing my teeth every day, washing my face at least every night, maybe in the morning, keeping my fingernails and toenails trimmed, and shaving my body when it needs it. This resolution does not include flossing; it's a resolution I've had before and have never kept successfully.


Part II of Blog: I found an archive of ads about hygiene that range from 1911 to 1950. I love them because they're all very clear about what a woman should want. I know it may be regressing into a mindset that put women at a "disadvantage" if you will, but I kind of prefer the effort that people put into their appearance back then, as opposed to the shit-fest that style is these days. I like how there was pride in looking feminine and put-together. Here are some funny ads I like.


I like thinking that husbands were totally grossed out by their wives' periods, because men probably didn't know about them that much back then. Because ladies were delicate and didn't talk about that.



There were a lot of ads for deoderant, and most of them revolved around women hearing "nasty whispers" about their B.O. I like that all of these ads are really trying to sell their shit. They write a whole book about the wonders of deoderant, or soap.

I was born in the wrong era.

Wise No Longer

Today I got my wisdom teeth out. I was scared to do it, but the doctor was very nice and there was nothing scary about it. They gave me laughing gas which I never really felt affected me, and then they gave me some "samples" of an IV to knock me out to make sure I wasn't allergic. He asked how they were affecting me, and I said "I don't know if they are, what should I feel?" and he said "We're giving you no hints" and gave me another injection and then I concked out, I guess. When I woke up I asked them how long it had taken and they told me a half hour. I told them it had felt like 5 minutes.


Then they took me to a nice dark little room where they put me in a bed with soft blankets and told me how I need to eat soft foods etc. Then I came home. At home I slept and ate yogurt, and slept and ate mashed potatoes, and slept and ate apple sauce and mashed potatoes. Now I'm going to watch Austin Powers (I'm so excited) and go to sleep.

I have gotten swollen at all, and nothing really hurts that bad (yet, knock on wood). With the gauze in my mouth I look a little swollen. I wore my glasses all day. Dana said I look like Eleanor (Li'l El). That made me sad. But I kind of do.

P.S. Those aren't my teeth. They didn't give them to me.