Day 160

The Happy: Sunday Lunch

We went to Kaile's for lunch after church - she's leaving on Wednesday to serve a mission for the LDS church.  We're so proud of her and excited for her to have this opportunity!  Love ya Kai!

Love, Happy Girl

Day 159

The Happy: Getting Take Out

You're probably wondering what in the world the Mayflower has to do with Chinese food.

Nothing but the fact that Mayflower is the best Chinese take out restaurant in Moco.  I have no explanation for the name - like I couldn't even formulate a good guess.

Crispy beef, General Tso's Tofu, General Tso's Chicken, Chicken Chowfun, Combo Egg Foo Young.

Don't get the egg foo young if you think fried eggs and gravy sound weird.

But get everything else!

Love, Happy Girl

Day 158

The Happy: Beating Pinterest

Look, I love Pinterest - it's a fabulous resource.  I'm not here to chastise anyone for clawing its soul all weekend long (that I even blog is testimony to the body I could have were I to give jogging and salads equal time).  I just want to encourage a level head, because it makes me sad to hear my friends talk of being inadequate in juxtaposition to the domestic goddesses that rule the site.

That we might continue our affection for Pinterest with an added measure of sobriety, I have compiled a number of photos that affirm even the grossest things can be made to look attractive.

^ Like what is that?  No.

So that was my big breakthrough on Friday.

Love, Happy Girl

Day 157

The Happy: Healing with the hounds

Snapshot with Sasha while house cleaning yesterday

I woke up with a stabbing neck pain this morning, then got my mom up and cried in her bed for an hour because I'm 7, not 22.  Nine hours later I am still in her (now desecrated) bed with the canines, making charcoal drawings and watching My Big Fat Greek Wedding.  I heal up fast, so I'll just enjoy this day off and try for minimal movement.  My brother has taken it upon himself to drive my car everywhere now that I'm home because it's "not an embarrassing car."  Funny teenage thangs.

Love, Happy Girl

Day 156

The Happy: Coming home to Lilly

Ah, Lilly Pulitzer catalog, Summer 2012.
Going in the collection of fashion catalogs I've saved for my future little kidettes.
I would have loved access to my ma's lookbooks from the 60s and 70s.
If you've returned to the east coast and you know it, clap your hands.

Love, Happy Girl

Day 155

The Happy: Kentucky

 

Lexington, Kentucky has officially stolen the 2nd place red ribbon for cities I'd most like to marry and have babies with (Savannah, Georgia in 1st).  We also went to Keenland to see the horses and racing track.  I love how everything in Kentucky incorporates horses - even the street signs.  We found Bella Rose, too - a boutique full of Kentucky Derby hats, amazing designers, sundresses, and everything preppy south.

 

 

 

We stopped at Ramsey's for dinna. She had the Cajun Catfish and I, supersaturated fat.  A Hot Brown is essentially an open faced sammich topped with turkey and ham, topped with gravy, topped with tomatoes, topped with Parmesan, topped with the cheese requisite to fill a sleeping bag, unnecessarily garnished with strips of bacon.

Kentucky was perfect.  That is all.

Love, Happy Girl

(we stopped in West Virginia, too...)

WV in a picture:

"Miss Nude US."

...Unrelated, but my mom just suggested I join PPBP (PenPals Behind Bars).

Day 154

The Happy: Wildflowers for my Mama

I picked these on the edge of some farm in Illinois while we stopped to get gas.
We were as classy as all of West Virginia, using a trashed McCafe cup as a vase (pronounced here as vahzz).

Love, Happy Girl

Day 153

The Happy: Berry Breakfast

Mangos, straw-black-and-rasp-berries.

The best.

 And we got to visit Tanna and Luke!

Love, Happy Girl

Day 152

The Happy: Lunch with Ma at Thai Basil

This is where my crush on big hair stems from.

Pineapple curry.  Beyond bueno.

Love, Happy Girl

Day 151

The Happy: Bright Fabric Season

My goal was to sew one skirt a week, but after revisiting the plan, I now see myself chucking the lot into a gasoline-drenched pit and lighting a flame.

Sewing in excess = go insane.  Sometimes I would honestly rather die than re-thread a bobbin. 

Death.  I choose death.

New goal: One skirt every two weeks

Love, Happy Girl

*Majority are Amy Butler fabrics

Day 150

The Happy: Sleepover with Blife (FAMOUS PEOPLE CAME OVER)

Blife got her feet cut off.  She is confined to a wheelchair ("you mean Black Beauty?"). 

 I felt it was my duty to sleep over.

We watched Overboard, reaffirming my decision to name my daughter after Goldie Hawn.

I also made Gracie come with me to Walmart to get puff pastry and these awesome bubbles.  We made Brie En Croute and read Coco Chanel books with Mama Beecroft.

Loving on Grace.

And then......

ROBERT AND THE CARROLLS  CAME OVER!  They performed for Blythe to make her feel better.

"I feel like I'm a patient asking the Make a Wish Foundation to let me meet Justin Bieber before the cancer takes me..."

They were awesome.  They even played Call Me Maybe for us.  Buy their stuff on iTunes.

I came up the basement stairs to find Blythe sweeping the kitchen floor.  In a wheelchair.

Love, Happy Girl