Many of you have e-mailed to ask about my leg. Thanks for your concern and well wishes. It still looks a fright. I managed to add a sickly yellowish/greenish hue to the gargantuan bruise sometime last night. It's definitely better but is still quite painful and a decided annoyance in the you-know-where. I can't sleep on my stomach because my knee can't take the pressure...of....the back of my knee??? And it feels all tight and just-not-quite-right on the inside. I'm crossing my fingers everything heals up on its own. I'd like to take up the running again soon, but I'm still having a time with the walking just now. I have been swimming some laps and that might have to become my main source of exercise for the time being.
That's what you get for being a klutz.
I spent last night sitting in the 103+ heat for two hours during football practice. Then I came home where Maddie hosted a late night swim party. And then Parker and I were up and at 'em for a 9:00 football practice...again, in the heat. The first week of football Sterling handled most of the practices. But since he's short a man at work, I'm on football full-time until we can find a new employee. This is inconvenient to me because of all the sweating. So much sweating. However, Parker is being a total trooper about practicing in full pads in the heat, so I have to keep my whining mouth shut and be all positive and cheery. I'm tellin' ya, it's not natural...the positive stuff.
When I was in Austin a few weeks ago I picked up a copy of Modern Vintage. I bought it because a) it's pretty and b) because I'm drawn to the modern vintage style. I'm not saying that my personal style is currently modern vintage...but that I want it to be. And look at that! I have a style to aspire to. Now that's something! Amen.
What I like about modern vintage is that it takes the clean lines and spare aesthetic of modern design and warms it up with vintage interest. I've already collected a vintage typewriter, cake keeper, and one seriously awesome paint-by-number from 1952. In Austin I found two more paint-by-numbers. Hurray!
(As an aside...the sporadic exclamation marks...that's how I lecture as well. When I feel the energy in the room waning, then I put in an exclamatory statment and shake my fist in the air. The students think I'm crazy, but it somehow keeps them with me. I think. Wait. Maybe not.)
The really fun thing about modern vintage (or at least my interpretation of modern vintage) is that there really are no "rules." The plates above? New...from Anthropologie. The plates themselves are a great mix of a modern graphic (the orange and red dots) with vintage images. And above the new-ish small subway tiles? Cool. Or weird. You pick. I like 'em.
And how about the paint by numbers?
I painted the blue frame (was oak colored before) and framed the dog paint by number above. This portion of the room is a pretty continual work in progress. I keep taking down and putting up stuff. But not the rhino. The rhino always stays. It's the only constant in our harried, modern-day lives. All hail the rhino head.
I'm off to press forward on this Saturday. I still need to brave the mob scene that is our grocery store on a weekend. Also, some laundry is in order. Jordan is having some friends over and I've promised queso. The glamour awaits...
Thanks, I'm going to have nightmares tonight.
Posted by: manolo blahnik | October 09, 2011 at 07:02 AM
I'd be interested in hearing. The TOS seems rather clear that it is not unless expressly approved by Amazon. I guess if the library got it in writing then they would be ok.
Posted by: LV Purses | March 15, 2012 at 06:58 PM