book worms.

have you seen this?  well, let's start from the beginning... have you seen Gilmore Girls?  you know how Rory is always reading a book?  this is a list of 250 books she reads during the series. 

Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

don't worry, i'm not going to list all of the books right now.  but i AM going to start reading my way through it. 

some of the books i've read before, so i probably won't read them again, but here's a selection of the one's i'm most excited about:

Anna Karenina  [Tolstoy]
The Art of Fiction  [James]
Autobiography of a Face  [Grealy]
The Awakening  [Chopin]
The Bielksi Brothers  [Duffy]
The Devil in the White City  [Larson]
Everything is Illuminated  [Foer]
Gone with the Wind  [Mitchell]
How to Breathe Underwater  [Orringer]
The Kitchen Boy  [Alexander]
The Polysyllabic Spree  [Hornby]
Rosemary's Baby  [Levin]
Snow White and Rose Red  [Grimm]
The Song of Names  [Lebrecht]
What Happened to Baby Jane  [Farrell]
The Year of Magical Thinking  [Didion]

i think John would really like some of the books on this list too, so maybe we'll tag-team it... that way we'll finish a little bit faster!

shelf-hanging skills.

I obviously have none.

Today was supposed to be productive, but so far I've watched two movies and made three pretty substantial messes.

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smelly couch.

um... this is awkward.  but, my couch smells like bananas.  it might just be the scentsy that i've got turned on.  or John might have had a banana in here after school [you know how the smell lingers...]  whatever's causing it, it needs to stop.

and, since this blog is essentially a record of our lives for posterity, here's an updated picture of John's bruised arm.  [you can go ahead and ignore my freakish monkey toes, thanks.]

i rode my bike to work today and now my knees are killing me.  i feel like an old man when i say that.  but it's the truth.  haha.  i didn't ride my bike for a while and i thought it would be really bad this morning, so i left a little bit extra early [in case i needed to lie down for a while when i got to work] but it wasn't really that awful.  which is a good sign.  one day i might even not complain at all!

on friday i'm going to work on projects for the farmer's market ALL DAY so i should have some pictures to show off next week!  be excited.

a little excited.

ok.  this is embarrassing.  but everyone has a guilty pleasure, right?

have you seen My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding?  because it is absolutely my favorite show.  ever.  some episodes are a little ridiculous and dramatic, but their dresses are freaking incredible!! and i kind of love trying to figure out what they're saying without reading the subtitles.  i also really love when they show little kids talking about being a gypsy... freaking hilarious.

i wont lie.  i pretty much love every single show on TLC.  even Toddlers&Tiaras.  right now i'm watching What Not to Wear, and i'm hoping that Sister Wives comes on later [because John's at work and i'm not allowed to watch it when he's home...]  BUT... have you seen the previews for their new show CRAFT WARS?!!  um... i may never leave the couch again once that comes on.  i'm beyond excited for it. 

i'm also beyond excited for my booth at the Rexburg farmer's market!!  yep.  it's official.  i'm a weirdy.  my plan is to sell tote bags and baby blankets and pacifiers with little mustaches on them.  i'm also working on a couple other things, but i don't know for sure if they'll work so i'm not going to get your hopes up... yet.


what else am i excited for... hmm... i know!  i get to meet this little stud-muffin next weekend!!

isn't he the absolute cutest person in the world?!  he's my bff's new little baby and i've only ever seen his picture.  sad day, right?  but not for long.  i'm going to go see him and smother him with more love than a kindergarten trip to the petting zoo.  poor kid doesn't know what's coming.  haha.

in other, less exciting news... John's vein was infiltrated at the plasma center.  he went in on thursday for his regular donation and it didn't turn out so well.  the needle ended up going all the way through his vein instead of just in...  this is what it looked like on saturday:

 i told him it would start getting better this week.  and i was wrong.  the lighter part is about the color of the big purple blotch on the side, and that part is a really disgusting purpley-brown color.  oh, the random dark line in the middle of it??  i have no idea where that came from.  it's just weird.

oh man!!  i almost forgot about my super exciting purchase from this weekend!!  no, not another bike.  i got myself an OttLite!  what is an OttLite, you ask?!  they're HD lights that mimic natural lighting.  i'm really excited to start using it for crafts and sewing projects that i start during the day and then never finish because the lighting in our apartment is so lousy... but i have to put up a shelf for it first  :/ 

alright.  that's all for tonight.  i have to go fold laundry.

success!

i did it!!  i bought my bike  :)  and you should be jealous.  because it's pretty dang awesome. 

at the end of my very productive thursday we hopped in the car and headed down to Intergalactic Bike Services in IF.  [yeah, that's really what it's called.]  they mostly just fix bikes there, but they also have a few for sale that they've fixed up, like mine.

it's called a volkscycle.  the people's bicycle.  it's blue.  and that's all i know about it.

and guess what?!!  i rode it to work!  yep.  lazy me rode all the way to work and all the way back.  twice.  haha.  the plan is to ride it every day.  unless it's raining. 
 

a very productive thursday.

every hour[ish] of my day in pictures.

eight thirty.  awake.

nine thirty.  ready to go.

ten o'clock.  dentist.

eleven.  hair research.

twelve thirty.  hair cut.

two o'clock.  hair style.

two thirty.  library.

four thirty.  buy a bike!!

in memorandum.

since my last post...

[-]  i joined instagram  :)  you can follow me @squydster or you can just click the friendly little instagram tab on the bloggy-blog here to see what's going on in rexburg.

[-]  we decided that we want some bikes for the summer.  i know, i know.  we said that last year and never followed through.  but this time we're for real!  my plan is to take my bike to work [save some money on gas!] and for me and John to be a little bit more active during the warm weather.  we've already contacted a few people on craigslist about some bikes, so HOPEFULLY we'll be cruisin' the town in style by the weekend!

[-]  my most loveliest bestest amazingest friend had a baby!!  Julia was a champion and spent basically an entire day in labor before having the studliest little future fireman ever.  seriously, Troy is such a cutie.  he's officially my favorite baby  :)

[-]  the momma came to visit!!  man, she's just the best.  she was here from thursday to sunday [memorial day weekend] and we just partied it up every day!  we ate delicious food, saw Men in Black 3 [awesome!], went shopping, ate more delicious food, broke my car, went shopping again, fixed my car, made our own tortillas, ate some delicious momma-made fajitas, had a sleep-over [without John], shopped, ate, had fun, got rained on, rearranged some things in my kitchen, and did i mention that we had fun??!  i love my momma.  she's the best.  she should visit all the time!  :)

[-]  i painted my fingernails.  i really like painting my fingernails.  i'm just really bad at it.  but practice makes perfect, right?  maybe John will let me practice on his toes...

that's all i can remember.  for now, at least.  John will probably remind me about a few things later... he's good like that.  but for now I need to go lay down.  i ate an entire bag of cotton candy at the movies today... and i might have possibly eaten an entire bag of cotton candy at the movies yesterday, too.  it's fluffy and delicious, you can't judge me.