WHAT!?!?!?!

[photo via life, link via rubypr]

i LOVE this photo! marilyn in the park, so cute :)

what tree did you fall from?

[photo via flickr by veebruar]

this is a very cool website that my friend amy told me about recently - you look up your birthday and it tells you what tree you are, then the corresponding traits. she likes to type it out in a great font and put it in a pretty frame for friends and family which is a really fun idea that i may have to 'borrow' in the future. amy & her beau are getting hitched in august...i wish there were trees for anniversaries or couples!

so what does it say about me??? check it out...eek!

Jan 1st - 11th
FIR TREE (Mysterious) - extraordinary taste, dignity, sophisticated, loves anything beautiful, moody, stubborn, tends to egoism but cares for those close to them, rather modest, very ambitious, talented, industrious, uncontested lover, many friends, many foes, very reliable.

it's got hopps.

ok, how freaking great is this?? it's a green AND clever idea that would make great gifts for just about ANY of my friends! recycled glass bottles as drinking glasses & vases - absolut & red stripe & corona - oh my! but (for my crew, anyway) i think he needs to add:

- a set of heineken glasses for my lovely ashley
- a co-set of bud lite & bud heavy for kj & buntah
- gentleman jack vase/ice bucket for mr. e
- kettle one citron vase for sera
- set of vintage tab glasses & JD ice bucket for emilia & the captain
- set of dos equis glasses for dw

that would cover me for at least the next year ;) - check out what
he does have in stock though, it's fairly fantastic!

[image via nickpaul on etsy]

mirror image.

OK! whose the genius that invented the polaroid mirror??? colin o'dowd of course! i bet this little gem will be making the rounds on flickr immediately (and everywhere) soon, and i O-fficially heart it. plus, for $29 it's a steal for the sheer novelty and fun of it all!

found via sfgirlbybay

wanna play tag?!

how fun and great is this?!?! the lovely veiled vows (if you have not stopped over to her blog, do not walk...RUN!) has tagged me and i am just SO flattered.

10 random things:

1. i would eat breakfast for every meal of the day if it were possible and/or socially acceptable.

2. i can recite the movies 'you've got mail' 'when harry met sally' & 'my best friend's wedding'...pretty much word for word.

3. i like to sing carpenters' songs REAL loud when i'm alone in my car.

4. at some point after i graduated college my eyes changed from brown to hazel...most days they are green which makes me exceedingly happy for some reason.

5. my favorite song to work out to is 'damaged' by danity kane.

6. i buy books and never read them, but write my name inside of them so i can't re-gift them.

7. i looooove pumpkin ice cream.

8. i check my online banking at least once a day, just to make sure.

9. i enjoy grocery shopping WAY more than shopping for clothes.

10. i want to live in a farmhouse near the ocean with a big porch, an organic garden, an english mastiff and a little guy named joe.

now, the blogs i cannot live without:
do you wanna come up?
clementine
you are my fave
the lil bee
auburn & ivory
simply photo
m.a. belle
magpie & cake

[photo by kristy for thingsihearttoday]

high class problems.

"wealth is the ability to fully experience life."
thoreau

[found via madebygirl]

i am crafting and budgeting and getting in the holiday spirit...but where did the days in december go!?!?!? christmas is right around the corner and i find this receipt funny in a "if only" sort of way. season's greetings to all!

thursday fun.

this is a fun game that i have been waiting to do for a while (like 2 weeks!) i got this via auburn & ivory who got it via ali loves curtis, who got it via the scoop:


1. kristy., 2. PINK SUSHI WINTER05 LAUNCH, 3. My Red Boots, 4. I can see you!, 5. Nope, 6. Her job is to guard the gin., 7. Up Or Down, 8. Cupcake Pops, 9. بــحـط قــلـبـي بــيـن يــديـنـك هــديـه, 10. I'm just too Lovely Boy, Only, 11. death by drowning, 12. Technological failure.


FIRST...answer these questions:

01. What is your first name? kristy

02. What is your favorite food? sushi

03. What high school did you attend? leavitt

04. What is your favorite color? pink

05. Who is your celebrity crush? tina fey

06. Favorite drink? gin

07. Dream vacation? greece

08. Favorite dessert? chocolate cake

09. What do you want to be when you grow up? a mom

10. What do you love most in life? lovelies

11. One word to describe you. contemplative

12. Your Flickr name: things i heart today

SECOND...build a mosaic - type your answers link by link into a Flickr's search. Pick one photo for each answer and ONLY use images that appear on the 1st page of search results.

golden.

holy bea arthur! it's my favorite ladies of retirement - on a t-shirt...life is sweet peas & carrots today! kudos to hutchme for their hollywood squares inspired tribute that i'm loving.



ALSO, while perusing, i discovered the infamous alcoholics flask series - just one question:

are you having a busey kind of day or a nolte kind of day??

[photo via hutchme on etsy]

i'm in.

[from outside the new museum in nyc]

creature comforts (known in my google reader as "the one with all the starred items"!) is turning 1 year old on june 28th and to celebrate ez has rounded up some friends for a giveaway bonanza! all you have to do is submit a quote...hmm, this sounds right up my alley! a winner will be chosen at the end of the month....so go! check it out! submit! ;)

p.s. my favorite quote that i submitted:

“Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
- Malachy McCourt

[photo by kristy for thingsihearttoday]

lil vacay.

randomly went to the mountains this weekend with my friend tara and her family. they have a cabin just outside of rangeley, maine and it is dubbed "the lodge" by people who refuse to call it "camp" because it is 4-star ready. it was a long weekend full of fun and food, YUM, did we eat and get stuffed to the gills. we also went on a kick-butt hike to the summit of saddleback mountain and surprise - There Was SNOW! how crazy?!?! needless to say while we did not contribute all of these wine corks to the jar above...we added quite a few, so today i am in recovery and laundry mode, will be back tomorrow with something new - MWAH!

last night.

so this is late, and so it is really last-last night, BUT i had an eventful day in various burroughs. to start off after the hammock latte, my friend brandi and i biked through park slope to the botanical gardens (beauty.) and then biked home through the park. then i jetted to astoria to get ready for a silly alumni event for bennington at the new museum. thank gawd for free wine! good to see some people though. then as soon as we had exhausted our wine limit, we cabbed over to hi-fi in alphabet city for drinks...only to cab to astoria at the end of the night. here are some images from my day...when i was brave enough to not care that taking pictures makes me look like a tourist...something i would have made fun of when i lived here!

(@the new museum)

(the taco joint...dinner)

(i'm sorry, i was @ hi-fi and this was on the wall, i unfortunately do not know the artist)

laugh out loud.

ok, so i am packing for my trip to NYC (!) and have major ADD...please enjoy something fun while i figure out how much luggage is excessive for a 5 day tour!

tidbit.

good morning! so this is probably only funny to my lovelies, but i had to share - last night on wheel of fortune, there was a phrase puzzle that read:

"I have an announcement to make"

more to come later today, MWAH!

food for sight.

i totally forgot to share! on sunday i went snowtubing with my niece & nephew at this very cool place. on the way home, i was talking to danica (while brody was asleep & snoring on my shoulder!) and she looked intently at me for a second and then declared that my eyes looked like chocolate covered cucumbers...i find her very cool & creative for this because upon inspection it's true! i have hazel eyes (a phenomenon that happened in my twenties, i had brown eyes for the first part of my life) and they are mostly green with more of a brown-ish border & brown flecks.

FULL DISCLOSURE: i should state that my mom always tells danica that she has warm chocolate chip eyes & tells brody that he has fresh blueberry eyes - so comparing eyes to food is a running theme, BUT still i was amazed by her thinking of something that doesn't exist in a processed and primary colors, mcdonalds and M & M's world. as a matter of fact, i was so interested that i googled it (did i mention that google is my middle name?) and i could find no such thing! so being in awe of an 8 year olds imagination (and wanting to taste test a chococumber someday!), i am hoping to be wowed by any & all information that you may have about unknown chocolate covered items/delicacies, so please post all ideas(known or imagined) here for all to enjoy! thanks;)

a break from the blah.

SO, another long day with some unexpected tasks thrown my way, along with a case of the sleepies! it is super junior tuesday in the world of politics and while i am obsessed (and therefore not on task), i just can't bring politics to this page - it's like a dinner party, don't bring up politics and religion! so while i am distracted by primaries and caucuses and preparing for yet ANOTHER snow storm, i took time out to let my brain laugh, thought a little 80's never hurt anyone, so have fun with this too:)

80's Survey

1. How old were you in 1980?
born january 11th!

2. How old were you in 1989?
9

3. Were you a Toys R' Us kid?
not really - it was expensive back in the day, i was a k-mart kid

4. Did you watch Transformers?
YES! but i loved thundercats more.

5. Did you see E.T. on the big screen?
not that i remember.

6. Did you own a Lite Bright?
no, just majorly jealous of people who did (like my friend lyla)!

7. Who is your Favorite Golden Girl?
ROSE! betty white is as funny as you get.

8. When someone says " Who you gonna call? " You think?
ghostbusters!

9. What was your favorite toy?
a battery operated 4-wheeler that i named "KIT", after knightrider, of course!

10. Did you have a Pogo Ball?
pink with turquoise!

11. Did you listen to New Kids on the Block?
did i listen to anything else? i also saw them in concert and we booed tiffany (the opening act) off the stage...

12. Which New Kid was your favorite?
donny...bad boy.

13. Did you play M.A.S.H?
i'm playing it right now! i loved that game, i think i always ended up in a shack with corey haim

14. Did you watch The Care Bears?
yes, i love sunshine bear.

15. Did you have Jelly bracelets?
yes and i could twist them to make them a chain! and i had jelly shoes too, but they are all fun & games until you get a rock in the bottom...

16. Did you have a charm necklace and/or bracelet?
i don't think so, maybe a best friend split heart with tara or chrissy!

17. Did you own a glo-worm?
yes, my favorite, i bought an identical one for my nephew when he was born

18. Did you ever own a slap bracelet?
i owned A LOT of them and then they were outlawed at school and were less cool

19. The Breakfast Club or Sixteen Candles?
breakfast club - i do a great molly ringwald in the library dance

20. Did you have a crazy hair style?
i had the white rain sprayed claw bang hair-do, off to one side, sweet!

21. What was your first bike?
huffy pink & white checkered

22. Name one thing you still own from your childhood?
i had my teddy ruxpin until this past summer, but i still have my stuffed little foot from the land before time!

23. Did you have a Cabbage Patch Kid?
yes! her name was essa - who thought those names up?

24. Did you dress like Madonna?
oh boy! i took outfits to school in my backpack and changed into them - sequins, leggings & all

25. Rainbow Brite or Strawberry Shortcake?
rainbow brite, obviously!

26. Did you watch Miami Vice?
no, was after my bedtime

27. Did you own a pair of Jelly Shoes?
yes, see #15.

28. Did you own a Trapper Keeper?
light blue with a tiger on it! i think that i still have it somewhere in storage.

29. Atari or Nintendo?
EEK! atari for pong, nintendo for super mario. my brother had both so i guess i just liked whatever one he would let me play!

30. Did you play Pac-Man?
not a lot

31. Which was better: Jem and The Holograms or Barbie and The Rockers!?
JEM! holograms are way better than rockers in terms of a back-up system as a rule!

32. He-Man or She-Ra?
She-Ra! how cool was she? BIG hearts.

33. What movie scared you the most?
wizard of oz, those monkeys and the trees freaked me out...now it's one of my favorites

34. Did you try to dance like Michael Jackson?
i did, with my switchblade comb in hand and my white glove...slight MJ obsession in my youth!

35. What Is The First Thing That Comes To Mind When You Hear "FLUX" ?
i have no idea! uh-oh, bad 80's child.

36. What other colors did Pepsi come in? Which is best?
clear, which is just weird! regular pepsi was best

37. Roger Rabbit Or Howard The Duck?
roger rabbit - i love jessica rabbit, "i'm not bad, i'm just drawn that way" words to live by!

38. Did you ever beg your parents to have your school picture taken with the 'LASER' background?
HA! Yes! and i got it once and then i wasn't even crazy about it, i always wanted the double silhouette (i just had to spell check this word!) too but never got that one!

39. Do you know what the Ninja Rap is?
if it has to do with four turtles - YES!

40. Do you know why people cringe when they hear the word BUCKNER?
no...

41. Can you name the family members from National Lampoons Vacation movies?
clark, that's it

42. WallyWorld or Europe?
WALLYWORLD!!

43. What was your favorite movie from the 80's?
can't buy me love...me and tara watched that movie till it wore out! classic.

44. Who puts Baby in the corner?
according to johnny - NOBODY!