Pining for Pins

To those of you that have a Pinterest: obviously the "thrill of the hunt" starts with the chase. Scrolling through pages, finding something inspiring/amazing/noteworthy enough to give up-to-the-minute updates with your friends (mostly on your phone...while you're at work.) But when is the last time you actually went back and surveyed your pin boards? Looked at the things that inspired you right then and there enough that you wanted to remember it for later? I urge you to go back and look, and remind yourself why you wanted to try a new outfit, or a new recipe, update your bedroom, or, you know, just look at corgis.

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Le Sigh

And now for your Wednesday...

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I think that pretty much sums it up.

Om Nom Nom!

Happy Friday's Eve! If you're having as much trouble as I am making it through your Thursday, I re-present: Puppies Nom Nomming Each Other!

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School's Out Forever

A solo trip to Country Estates was in order to check up on my throat this morning. It's a rare case but luckily it's nothing serious. When I called Viking to give him the update what I said was "there's nothing they can really do about it" but what he heard was "it's an untreatable fatal illness." Oops.

Despite going it alone, I made a day of it. Eating lunch Noodles and Co. which is surprisingly hard to get to on the north side with Ollie's for dessert. I also practiced what is quite possibly my favorite form of cardio: shopping at Target. I wandered up and down the aisles at my leisure with a minimum of screaming children because it must have been nap-time. I turned the corner and what did I spy?

The school supplies are here! The school supplies are here!

(From Ohio I can hear my mother the teacher: "You are sick.")

School supply shopping is easily one of my favorite pre-fall activities. The allure of an empty notebook, the thought of cracking in to a fresh package of pens, the smell of college ruled loose leaf paper, mmmm!

Of course I made out like a bandit: a binder and two pocket folder for the upcoming production I'm stage managing, and some sweet little notebooks for more writing on the train. How could you not love this? Those ice cream cones have bow ties, bow ties!!! And shall I sing thee a sonnet of finding the perfect plan-book? Something creative yet functional that doesn't have drab colors or an obnoxiously neon pattern. Plus it has space to make lists PLUS it has the same amount of weekly space for Saturday and Sunday, two days often given the shaft by plan books but are the days that I end up doing the most.



I suppose the best part is that these school supplies are for my own enjoyment. My dainty little ice cream cones will never have to hold the Pythagorean theorem or notes on a crap-tastic movie I had to watch in Geology lecture. Only my musings and rants and things that make me happy!

Girls and Their Dogs

 

 

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I can't wait to have a dog! Sometimes I wish that my apartment would allow me to have one, but with two jobs back to back almost every day and my long commute...I would never see the poor thing and that wouldn't be fair. So far the plan is to save up enough money and find an apartment with a little stretch of yard and put in the time at an animal shelter waiting for the right puppy-dog. Even now I'm always scouting PAWS and the Franklin County Animal Shelter websites.

Be patient Kiley, be patient...

A-Z Survey

I can't tell you how much I enjoy e-mail surveys, mostly reading other people's answers. The women of my family are expert e-mail survey takers, always coming up with witty and sarcastic answers. I'll be honest, they're so good I save them. I still have an e-mail survey my Grandma Morgan took when I was still in high school! Let's be honest, how often can you sit down and ask everyone all these random questions?

In any case I had Viking take this A-Z survey with me before he left for Russia. He seemed aprehensive of answering all these questions for me, but once I read it all back he laughed and thought it was "kind cool".

A. Age:
K: 23
B: 24

B. Bed size:
K: Queen
B: Full

C. Chore that you hate:
K: I hate any chore I'm too busy to complete, usually putting laundry away.
B: Dishes, should have said laundry

D. Dogs:
K: Had a Schipperke named Pippen...and I so look forward to having a dog in the near future!
B: Yes please!

E. Essential start to your day:
K: Breakfast and coffee: will not function without these things.
B: Wake up?

F. Favorite color:
K: I always say Green or Pink, lately a lot of turquoise, mint and coral.
B: Blue

G. Gold or Silver:
K: Silver
B: Silver

H. Height:
K: 5'8"
B: 5'10"

I. Instruments you play:
K: Used to play flute and saxophone, would love to learn the banjo or ukulele
B: Guitar, Drums, Base, a little Piano...not a "small piano"

J. Job title:
K: Freelance artist/stage manager/food service/customer service extraordinaire
B: Graduate Assistant, Student

K. Kids:
K: Some day
B: Not yet

L. Live:
K: Chicago, Illinois. North side!
B: Dekalb, IL

M. Mother’s name:
K: Pamela Lee, but you can call her Pam, or Mom.
B: Julie

N. Nicknames:
K: KMo, Kiley-K, Punkin', Whoops-A-Doodle, Copernicus (?), Ki, Ky-wee, Pook-a-saurus-rex
B: Bill. Billy. Billiam. Willy, Commissioner, Flash, (Bill said in any accent), Bubby

O. Overnight hospital stays:
K: Not since I was born (knock on wood)
B: Never, my gallbladder was outpatient

P. Pet peeves:
K: Mostly city customs, like people that stand on the left side of the escalator or people that try and board the L before people have had a chance to get off, rude!
B: Rubbing hands on carpet...so irrational

Q. Quote from a movie:
K: "The time to make up your mind about people is never" - Tracy Lord, Philadelphia story
B: "He hates the cans!" -The Jerk

R. Right or left handed:
K: Right
B: Right

S. Siblings:
K: One younger brother, Reid
B: One. Tom.

U. Underwear:
K: Lace top bikinis
B: Daily.

V. Vegetable you hate:
K: Iceberg lettuce.
B: I don't hate...raw broccoli? No, that's still pretty good. I like vegetables.

W. What makes you run late:
K: Public transit and poor timing
B: I don't run late...unfortunate circumstances?

X. X-Rays you’ve had:
K: Arm, spine, feet, left hand, collar bone...think I might have had a CAT scan
B: Little toe, gallbladder, teeth, big toe, arm(s), hand(s), skull, I think that's about it.

Y. Yummy food that you make:
K: Cupcakes and quesadillas!
B: All of it.

Z. Zoo animal:
K: Orangutans, Gibbons, Kiwis, Red Pandas
B: I like the tigers, penguins, I really like all of the animals I don't pick favorites! Next question!

Feel free to kill a little time on this lovely Thursday by copying, pasting, and replying in the comments!

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This Tuesday feels like a Monday...but for the most part puppies nom nomming each other makes it better!