Only Moments

July 20, 2012

Miscellaneous

after about fifteen minutes of thinking about jumping, she realized another day might be better. how i could relate the daily swim lessons to everyday life. . . but perhaps another day.
i was surprised to see these shoes so quickly awaiting at the front door. they are my favorite new old shoes.
sometimes a bubble bath is the perfect and only fix to a grumpy attitude and a stressful day.
being that camden has to work late more nights than not, it can seem a rare occasion that we get to eat dinner together. i think this makes me enjoy our time spent around the table that much more. the photo above was taken right after our dinner out last night, happy and full.
– have a happy weekend.

Current Obsessions

July 19, 2012

Miscellaneous

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i am always discovering new things to drool over and these are just a few my current finds. oh my heart just melts for those mary janes, they are so fun, and you all know my complete and overwhelming obsession with rugs. thankfully for camden, if someone hadn’t already bought that beauty, i might have splurged. i’m still secretly daydreaming of it in our house though.

The Little Things

July 18, 2012

Miscellaneous

as a side note: i have lucky clothing and clothing i will no longer wear because i’m sure it’s unlucky. i’m a bit superstitious i guess. 
on my way to work this morning i was in a rush as usual (6:30 a.m. will forever be my nemesis). i zoomed through a yellow light (almost red light) and not five seconds later i saw flashing lights in my rear view mirror. great i thought, what would mr. charlesworth have to say about this? not good things I assure you.
it has been almost three years since my last ticket and i was inches away from having my monthly car insurance lowered. i needed another ticket like i need another hole in the head, just to clear up any confusion i didn’t need one of those either. i didn’t have any cool ticket stories, they were all for really mundane things like five miles over the speed limit, running a stop sign on an abandoned street in the middle of the night, that kind of stuff.
i pulled over to the side of the road, dug through my purse for a license, and rolled down my window to await my unforeseen fate. the policeman, as policeman usually do, asked “do you know why i pulled you over today?” “um… no?” i said. i mean i was pretty sure why, but isn’t there some sort of don’t admit your guilt rule that applies to these situations? he continued to tell me that the light was red when i reached the intersection and asked if i had seen that the light was red. i replied that i thought the light was yellow which was the truth as the light probably turned red when i was under it and out of sight. he then asked the question again “you thought it was yellow?”. “yes” i thought that was what i just said anyway, “i thought it was yellow.”
i could see where this was going, many more unnecessary questions until i wind up with a ticket and arriving late for work. it was my own fault but in the moment you just can’t help but be bothered. as he was lecturing me, i’m pretty sure he thought i was very young as he kept mentioning my parents, i suddenly noticed a change in his voice and the direction of his lecture started to shift, like he suddenly decided to let me go and ride free. i was shocked, this never happened to me. i have tried every trick in the book apart from bursting into complete hysterics to try and avoid receiving a ticket. – and then that was it. he told me to have a nice day and sent me on my way. i couldn’t believe i was leaving empty handed, ticketless and free to go. i suddenly had an overwhelming sensation of gratitude and love for that man, this sounds a bit dramatic but i was suddenly filled with a warm fuzzy filling. besides the fact that i had avoided the hassles of all a ticket includes, i had managed to be pulled over and not receive that disliked little piece of paper. it was a first, and i was more than happy to experience this first. for some reason this cop had decided to let me off the hook, what on earth made him change his mind i don’t know, but whatever the reason, i was extremely grateful.
i think sometimes i forget the little things in life i have to be grateful for and sometimes i may not even know i have something to be thankful about until after situations like this. it’s little things like this in my day to day life that are humbling for me and i’m thankful for them. 

t.o.t. (thought on tuesday)

July 17, 2012

Miscellaneous

hat: j.crew . shirt anthropologie . vest: old navy . pants: target . boots: paisley pomegranate 
it was rainy all weekend here, which besides making my hair full-out unmanageable, turns out also makes me really really lazy as well. camden had to work both weekend days which we always hate. saturday i didn’t even leave the house, kramer and i just listened to the rain and thunder while we ate pizza and caught up on some reading, and watched way, way, to much t.v. 
one would think that all this rest saturday would have put me in tip top shape sunday but oddly enough i woke up with what felt like a sprained ankle (maybe not sprained buy badly bruised or tweaked or pinched?). i’m not even quite sure how this can happen, spending a whole day on my butt then waking up the next not being able to walk. however something still has remained to be done and we have come up with a few theories here. some overly whacky theories indeed but theories all the same. 
theory number one: all my laziness saturday; a.k.a. sitting, lounging, reading, t.v. watching, in return made my sleep cycles out of whack which then led to me sleep walking, resulting in a busted ankle and voilà, i have an unexplained injury awaiting the next day. this sounds bizarre but is not 100% impossible. let the record show i have sleepwalked a few times before, few being the key word, but none the less, i have done it. camden is an extremely heavy sleeper and has been known to say crazy things in his sleep which could explain for him not waking up during the incident. gosh, i can just picture it now, me walking around like a complete and utter zombie while camden mutters under his breath unrecognizable words and phrases becoming louder and louder until he is almost yelling them. quite the act we have going on around here.
theory number two or camden’s theory includes him spastically kicking me in the foot while we were sleeping “ninja!”. this seems highly unlikely to me however. on the contrary to camden, i am an extremely light sleeper and could almost guarantee a kick to the ankle of that magnitude would surely have woken me up. further more, no bruise or any sort of mark was found nor was visible where the kick would have taken place, but then again you never know.
my third and final theory and probably the most likely one is that i simply just had my ankle kinked some strange way for most of the night. simple and boring but somewhat likely.
the ankle continues to be in a funk and the mystery unsolved and unfortunately will most likely remain that way. we may never know how my posterior tibiotalar ligament (of course i looked that up) got this way but hopefully it will get better very soon. if not, i already have an appointment with the chiropractor for my back this week (man i’m crooked all over) and i’m hoping he might have some sort of clue to fixing it, because chiropractors can fix everything don’t you know.

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July 16, 2012

Miscellaneous

::lately in words ::
01// an unmatched outfit.
02// hot days.
03// outside swims.
04// sparkling water to quench thirst.
05// a little red rocking chair for a room i’m designing.
06// whole foods gelato . . so good.
07// finding some shade.
08// some fun new knobs from world market.
09// inside swimming lessons.
10// give me a break of that kit-kat bar.
11// old moccasins found hiding in the closet.
12// movie nights on the couch.
13// drives up the canyon to hike up the canyon.
14// hello world.
15// forever 21, what more can i say.
16// allergy shots for the kiddos.
17// little dogs like big beds.
18// feet, feet, feet.
19// flamin’ hot crunchy cheetos, my favorite swim snack.
20// baseball games.
21// foot loves all around.
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