house huntin'

wish me luck this weekend on my search for an apartment in an ok neighborhood that has hardwood floors and a washing machine!!!! or maybe i'll just plunk down the $2,595,000 and buy the historic gingerbread house.

m.a.s.h.

with all of these big changes coming up, i've been thinking about the future A LOT lately. and what better way to help figure out your future than by playing a good ole game of M.A.S.H. i must say that my future looks pretty good!

only 100?

tomorrow i'm flying down to savannah again to check out places to live. hopefully i'll be able to find a house that's not too teeny and still within my budget {ugh, a budget}. in order to make moving a lot easier i've begun purging my current collection of crap. i've got 6+ garbage bags full of clothes, shoes, tchotchkes, board games, books, records, etc etc...sitting around just waiting for the upcoming punk rock flea market to sell off. i'm selling my kitchen chairs and bedroom set on craigslist and i just really want to move as lite as possible. apparently david bruno is trying to whittle his stuff down too, to just 100 things. however, he's not counting; shared family furniture, books, memorabilia and other collectible and i think that that sounds a bit like cheating, but hey, it's his challenge. as for me, i'd like to get my 'stuff' down to less than the amount of one small uhaul and i'll be happy. my advice for getting rid of things: do it when you're in a semi-crazy non-sentimental mood and put it in the bag and never look back!

{found via swissmiss}

hair today...

tonight i'm finally gonna do it. i'm getting my hair cut. i'm a short haired girl at heart and ever since i was 16 and paid my sister $3 to drive me to the mall to get my long wavy {aka frizzy} locks all chopped off, having short hair just felt right for me. the past two years i've been growing my hair out as an experiment, just to see if, after almost 10 years of being a short haired gal, long hair would be a good thing for me. and i can tell you, it probably isn't. sometimes i do think that it looks alright, but it still feels funny to me. so in a few hours my 10" pony tail will be sitting in a zip lock bag waiting to be mailed in to locks of love, and i'll be riding my bike home feeling a lot lighter. i'm glad that i gave it a try, and someday i might go for it again, but as for now give me a jean seberg or give me death!

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saarinen slideshow.

slate has a nice slide show about some of eero saarinen's 'forgotten' works. it's a nice short read.