My first preemptive birthday email came today.

"Take my advice: use an oak. That advice is applicable to both hammock trees, and to making magic wands"

He makes me feel this way, this pure and this sweet, and he picks me up like I'm the nicest thing to ever have in his arms.

Texts from last night are cracking me up lately. I need to take a break.

My daisy dukes got a lot of attention from the internet community! Minimal attention from the real life community. Probably for the best. But on a brighter note, I got sushi yesterday! Just a 12 pack from the store for 5 dollars. It's not that good. I'm just sad I'm not going out today for sushi birthday date. :(

This silk linen sweater will be mine, thanks to bored window shopping going on in Greece.

Let me introduce a character named Steve Politzer-Ahles. I proclaim him bff4lyfe. He said he'd come see me in a little over a week. HE TOTALLY LIED. That's all for this edition of Steve.

Anyway, I understand that I clearly have the world's most breathtaking fashion sense (see jelly shoes, holey sweaters, and typical product (red) t-shirts), but you should know, it hasn't always come to me so easily. I have a fabulous purple dress. I also have fabulous red shoes. I have to stop myself some nights and remind me that there's a thin line between double fabulous and the Red Hat Society on a teenie bopper.

A super cute video that I'd like to make with a fellow dancer. I would be the awkward one, as usual:

I'm miles from where you are. from n'tima simons on Vimeo.

So, I'm going to clean my house today. It's pretty much a disgrace since post-move and me not returning folded clothes to drawers. Anyway, I wish I had a nice straw broom for the task. My parents are coming tomorrow to bring my bed and a rocking chair! And then I'm hosting a friend sometime or two this week, and HOPEFULLY someone on the 10th. Unfortunately, Stitch just convinced me he and I need hammocks. I'll need to figure out where to put a hammock in this apartment. I'm secretly thrilled.

Finally, a playlist! I was going to due a tribute Thursday of flaming gay music for some boys I know, but then I just went on with my life in today's continued scatterbrained fashion:

"Θα γυρίσω."

'I am wearing a shirt and tie and my gorgeous new deerskin oxfords, sprinting through the port and into the wild streets of Piraeus...'

I just realized last night that I want to get married on Bioko, either on a beach by the waterfalls, or overlooking Lago Biao. It can even be down at the water on Biao, I don't care. But I think a mountaintop wedding would be amazing. Realistically, if my lover didn't like this idea, I would understand and go somewhere safer/more accessible.
I also think it's time for a new language! I'm going to have to finish out French here to meet my requirements, but I'd like one of my last free electives to be Greek! Cyrillic alphabet is versatile, phonemic, and challenging. Hello, Rosetta Stone! I think it would be a funny surprise to a friend of mine, and a fun way to rejuvenate my interest in language.

It's time to spill the beans to all my avid readers--- my birthday is this Sunday. As is customary, I will disappear from the world for a bit, ignore all comments pertaining to the occasion, and eat Birthday Flan. But I will also make a small collage right now of things I would like.

To be in an exotic and cinematically charming happy-ending romance. A round-trip flight to Greece (Crete) for about a week, any time before August. A tall, bottomless glass of perfect lemonade.

A reasonable list, right? ;)

MY COMPUTER HAS CAUGHT A HORRIBLE VIRUS! Hopefully my friend Stitch will be able to resurrect it. The brilliant Casey insists wiping the hard drive is the only answer. I have this huge project due Thursday and I've already called in a "no-can-do."

Finally, I have a puppy, and we hang out a lot. He doesn't really have a name, but he's soft and wonderful.

Sunshiney weather? Sunshiney music! I am so ready for a lovely day in a lovely dress!

"Sunshine... on my window,... makes me happy... like I should be..."

"The words 'I love you' become nothing but noise. But that’s why we kiss. To say with our lips what we couldn’t before."

It's raining again... but the rest of this week is supposed to be gorgeous! Time for spring and pastel love! I almost bought one of those moulds to make giant cupcakes this weekend, but I couldn't find a price. I now realize it was $30. Good call on not just buying it anyway.
Because my life apparently revolves around everything being either disgustingly sappy or quaintly beautiful, I found the tumblr fuck yeah kissing pretty wonderful! It sometimes makes you jealous, but mostly you just think HOW FREAKING BEAUTIFUL AND HOW CAN I MAKE THAT BE ME?

On the topic of how obnoxiously into sweet, pretty things I am, I'm doing a really intense run in a month, maybe you've heard of it? The Tough Mudder is approximately 7 miles on a ski mountain, through lakes, and through mud, just doing a ridiculous obstacle course of pain. I thought it would be way more fun than a marathon, though I realize it will be more intense and tiring. I'm just hoping the fun and entertainment part of it will distract me from being too miserable to finish. Especially since a nurse told me this weekend I probably have cracked ribs from my extreme coughing. MY LIFE IS EPIC.

I really want sushi. I'm definitely too poor for it, but I had a sushi date planned with my friend Stitch this week as a joint birthday experience. He's out of town for the rest of the week, so it will have to wait. So will my personal-size cake with lots of icing from Fresh Grocer.

(dav english floral rain boots, yes please. )

I found this pretty version of Lovers in Japan, acoustic. Not quite the upbeat springtime feeling I was going for when I sought it out, but it's still lovely enough to share. A couple covers, a few slow songs, not at all a chipper Little April Showers playlist. Aim and miss, but some reminiscent old stuff for a smile or two.

I HAVE A BLOG

I tend to blurb too much on facebook, so I thought this would be a healthier outlet for my thoughts and things to share.

My friend Scott is in Athens and took this picture of the Acropolis from atop his hotel! It's the thought that counts, nevermind the noise.

My apartment feels super chilly today! But I refuse to take off my fabulous daisy dukes, and I do not have sweatpants to put over top of them. I suppose I'll just stay in this blanket all day.

Easter is coming! I have realized this season that Easter is the most fun holiday! It is colorful and familyful and the commercialism of it doesn't break the bank, just makes the day all the more wonderful! Eggs! I want them! So many colors! Creative chocolates! Rabbits! Colors!

It's rainy but I don't mind, but I do have a song or two on my mind. "Sweet Child o' Mine" covered by Taken By Trees (a lovely band), featured on The Last House on the Left, is gorgeous. Hauntingly. Beautiful.