Railroad Crossings

I miss Tucson, a lot. I miss going to church knowing everyone and having specific people to sit with. I miss having at least one thing productive to do everyday (school, work, feeling guilty about not doing productive things, etc.). I miss my roommates. I miss dance parties. But I think most of all I miss good Chinese food. The Mandarin Grill is probably the best Asian food in the world (except maybe Asia, but I'm not even sure about that). I never realized that I could crave rice before. Or that not eating there for longer than a week would give me withdrawl symptoms, such as losing my appetite for almost anything else and feeling it my right to judge anyone who thinks they can make good Chinese food. I miss Ma Pao Tofu Pork and mildly spicy Chicken Fried Rice. I crave it, actually. I won't lie, I've dreamt about that restaurant and contemplated more than once on driving down just to eat there. If I weren't so poor, I probably would have done it by now. Thank goodness I'm going down this weekend, cause I don't think I could last another week. I think I'll bring a cooler with me...

Does It Never End?

My mom and I have been repainting our house for the last forever it seems (okay, really only 2 weeks, but still). I knew that it was going to be a lot of work, but I didn't realize just how much time it would take. Why is it that whenever I start a project it always takes longer than I expect? You'd think I would've learned by now to over-estimate about everything, but I haven't. Maybe it's a safety mechanism in my head because if I could accurately guess how long it would be before I could make a butt-dent on the couch again then I would never want to do it. Nevertheless, the big front room is done and I'm really proud of how it turned out, take a look for yourself:

BEFORE:

AFTER:

Doesn't it look great with all that color up? My brother Isaac said that he now deems it acceptable to bring his friends over (yeah, he's kind of a brat). Anway, I love it! It makes our house so cheerful and warm!

Book of Possibilities, #2

First off, I just realized that whenever I go to start a blog, or a conversation, or really any type of situation where communication is involved I tend to start with saying, "So..." I don't know why I do this, or where I picked it up from, but I'm going to try to stop because I think it's weird.

Anyway (I probably use that word too much too, but I'll have to break that habit later), since moving home I've been decorating for weeks now it seems and have decided that there are a few things I would really like to have. The only thing holding me back is money, which, as we all know, isn't really THAT big of a deal... For now though I'll just have to covet them and share them with you people:

1. Sasha's house has these wall stickers and I thought they were awsome and haven't really been able to stop wanting them since. Here are some that I found on google and thought were cool:

2. I saw these wall tiles in the Philedelphia Art Museum and was very impressed by how interesting they were on the wall, I'm not sure if I would do the mural one but I really love the others:

Aaaand... 3. I want to put record labels on my walls like this (again, I got this from Sasha's house, what can I say, they have good taste in that house), except that I want an entire wall covered in them. I think I'll have to start scowering the used book/music store selections to achieve my goal (also, if you know my taste in music or find a really cool one you can gift it to me, just a hint):