Two posts in two days? What? Wow, 2012 really is getting to me. Haha  But the reason I am here is because I came across this lovely article via this lovely blog. People keep asking me why I would cut my hair short again even after spending the past two or so years growing it, and this article kind of helped me put what I felt into words. I was tired of hiding behind my hair. Here's a little excerpt that I loved.

"with short hair you begin to crave pearl necklaces, long earrings, and a variety of sunglasses. and you brush your teeth more often. short hair removes obvious femininity and replaces it with style. when it starts growing out a little and losing its style, you have to wear sunglasses until you can get it to the hairdresser. that's why you need a variety. short hair makes you aware of subtraction as style. you can no longer wear puffed sleeves or ruffles; the neat is suddenly preferable to the fussy. you eye the tweezers instead of the blusher. what else can you take away? you can't hide behind short hair... you may look a little androgynous, a little unfinished, a little bare... but your face is no longer a flat screen surrounded by a curtain: the world sees you in three dimensions."

- joan juliet buck for american vogue, c.1988 (via the political quotidian)


(And sorry there is not picture of me and my lovely new short hair, realized I don't really have any yet. I think I need to work on that.)

I just got back from a lovely weekend visiting my friend in Virginia. Pictures of that will soon grace this page.

I've been thinking a lot about resolutions and I have realized that I have never been much of a resolution person. Yeah, every year I go along with everyone else and say I'll eat healthier and work out more and try to work on myself, but here I am still the same weight as I was last year. I am a different person than last year, but I think that change happened naturally, not just because I set a goal to do it. I have finally decided upon a goal that I think I can handle. I'll let you know how it goes, but for now, it's a personal goal for myself and I don't quite feel the need to share it.

I did come upon this and have decided I don't want to die with these regrets. So I guess that's another goal of mine, not just for the year though, but for the rest of my life. Care to join me on that one?

Merry Christmas! I'm too sad for words about the fact that there is going to be no snow for Christmas, but at least we have our decorations up to keep our Christmas spirit up.

Our Christmas Tree

Little Christmas Village. My lovely mother painted all the little houses

Great Grandma made this little delight. So excited to inherit it. And yes, this is the one thing I have requested to have when my mom dies. 

Our Santa collection, that the mother made. I have requested to inherit these as well.

To get a little more into the spirit as well, last Sunday the papa, brother and I went up to listen to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. We do this every year and it's always so great. This year we listened to Robert Gunn and Jane Seymour.

My dog is so weird. We put this jacket on him and he would not move. Even when we put his food in front of him he just sat and started and it, along with quite a few little whimpers.

I think that if my life were ever made into a movie, this song would need to be in it.

new song obsession. same artist.

Saw this and kind of loved it.