TiLT: A Merry 2009

Via We Heart It

It’s the final Things I Love Thursday of 2009!  It’s been a rough year, a tough year, one of hard work, taking chances, and jumping in to new situations.

• A gracious sweet kitten, who has been so patient and adaptable during the past two months of transitions and hoping from home to room to room and soon to a home again!
• A darling boy, who is finally wisening up after all of these years.
• The kindness of friends and “family” during the holidays, and ensuring I don’t spend holidays alone.  They pump me full of good food, fun times, and Wii activities!
• Reconnecting with old friends, catching up on lives and stories, and drinking too much in the process!
• A home! A beautiful and wonderful home, that I will be spending the last days of 2009 and first days of 2010 moving in to.  Serendipity?

Clothing grab bags; goodies from the Miss Malaprop shop; an increasing taco count; caipirinhas!; receiving a leopard print snuggie for Christmas (my friends know me too well!); bags of undeserved treats from friend’s mothers; holiday wine & poinsettias from my new colleagues at work; reorganizing my suitcase (that I’ve been living out of); planning how to set up and decorate my new house; So You Think You Can Dance & some of the amazing performers on it (Legacy! Kathryn! Russell!); coque au vin, crepes, chocolate croissants, delicious coffees, beautiful salads, and an increasing taco count (Kate Moss is wrong– plenty tastes better than skinny feels!  She is just eating the wrong things).

Inspirational Words:

You are beautiful like demolition. Just the thought of you draws my knuckles white. I don’t need a god. I have you and your beautiful mouth, your hands holding onto me, the nails leaving unfelt wounds, your hot breath on my neck. The taste of your saliva. The darkness is ours. The nights belong to us.

Everything we do is secret. Nothing we do will ever be understood; we will be feared and kept well away from. It will be the stuff of legend, endless discussion and limitless inspiration for the brave of heart. It’s you and me in this room, on this floor. Beyond life, beyond morality. We are gleaming animals painted in moonlit sweat glow. Our eyes turn to jewels and everything we do is an example of spontaneous perfection.

I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch. The time I annihilated while I waited like a man doing a life sentence. Now you’re here and everything we touch explodes, bursts into bloom or burns to ash. History atomizes and negates itself with our every shared breath. I need you like life needs life. I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.

- Henry Rollins

‘I went to New York to try acting when I was 21 years old. In my second year there, my manager fired me, and a casting director called my agent and said, ”Never send her back here, she’s terrible,” – all on the same day. I started running down 23rd Street in the snow, crying, and thought ”I’m not supposed to do this.” Suddenly, I saw something in the snow – it was a gold-coloured shoe. I sat down on the sidewalk and tried it on it – it fit. In that moment, I understood I was being looked after. I believe that you have to look for miracles because they’re all around us. And that was my miracle. I put all my wishes on that shoe and it has sustained me for all these years. Until recently, it sat in my bedroom, (but) I realised all my dreams had come true. So, I took the shoe back to New York – I got a piece of cardboard and wrote ”Miracle shoe. If it doesn’t fit, please leave it here, but if it does, open this card.” In the card I wrote about my experiences and how the shoe created a miracle in my life and, if you find it, you’re going to have whatever you’ve dreamed of. I left it on the sidewalk and walked away.

I believe in inspiring others, and that you have to let things go back into the universe to be fulfilled.”

- Maria Bello, Actress (via Frock & Roll)

Stories to Share:

• Bakerella’s Candyland. I want to live in this girl’s house, year round.
• Amelia Arsenic’s back to it again, this time with a great Basic Makeup Q&A on Foundation.
• A Century of Cinematic Movie Styles over at the Secret Society of List Addicts.
• Dark Night of the Soul, a collaboration between David Lynch, Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse as explored by This is Star.
• The Courage to be Cliche at Feministing is an incredible read about how we struggle so hard to be anti-cliche that we’re not ourselves.
• Why James Chartrand Wears Women’s Underpants at Copyblogger– this was a fascinating look at the steps women have to take in order to succeed–including writing as a man.
• Neil Patrick Harris and Christina Hendricks. ‘nuf said.
• Yes, No, and Consent at Sugarbutch Chronicles is an intriguing look at saying “no” in our lives, developing our abilities to say so, and recognizing that when your partner says “no” that you should be happy that they choose to say it.