My Saturday night.

Not pictured: The Hunger Games, snoring dog, glass of vino, my worries and cares.

Mom & I in the summertime.

Happy new year!!

I’ve decided to go resolution-less. I have just a few things that I want to do in 2012:

• Find an awesome hat and wear it. Preferably a panama or a cloche. Or even one of those crazy British fascinator things.
• Go to a beer tasting (do those exist?) & find the beer of my dreams.
• Acquire and learn photoshop. So I can make my pictures prettier.

That’s it!

Art Nouveau

dad's office

I think I know where I get my penchant for collecting things and decorating with them.

So this is my dad’s office. This is where I used to do my homework as a kid and watch episodes of Monty Python and Mystery Science Theater 3000. How was I not distracted by all of the awesome stuff on the walls?

As I may have mentioned before, my parents won’t be in this house too much longer, so this office and all of its contents will be greatly downsized in the move. I wanted to get some snaps of the room before things start to get taken down and put in boxes. Some things will go to me (YES) and some will be donated and sold.

I really should get my dad to get a booth at Comic Con (or at least an eBay account) to sell all of the comics he has that aren’t even pictured. No joke, this guy has about 7,000 comic books in storage. Now you know where I get that love, too.

Happy birthday, dad. You are always a superhero to me :)

Spotted through a store window in Old Saybrook. Something I need very badly.

My Christmas present! Isn’t it beautiful?

It made some damn fine jasmine tea, too.

Just read a comment on this post that mentioned having a theme for a party be “come as you were (in a past life)." It’s a really marvelous idea! I do love an original costume party theme.

Prettiest thing I saw yesterday.

I can’t wait for my parents to move here.