Music Monday: Stalkers

Back before facebook making stalking acceptable, Jeremy Brett did it first.

Life in Chicago

Wanderlust: Europe

via Glut with Guts--My mark in Budapest

Last week, I went to the O'Hare International arrivals terminal to pick up a friend returning to the country. Being awake/at the airport on a Thursday at the ungodly hour of 3am was horrendous, but worth the wait, getting to see the faces of families and friends reunited after such a long distance apart.

I saw a mom run to her daughter, laden with a large backpacker's pack almost in tears seeing her mom. I saw nervous children cautious to approach grandparents, after what probably seems in their short lives, an entire lifetime apart. The flight, arriving from Central America, also meant there were plenty of stocky old men sauntering out in well worn wranglers, large ornate cowboy hats and friendly and familiar winkled smiles to match. No doubt, you could feel the immense ♥.

As the flight had been delayed I had a lot of time to reflect. While it was nice to see so many happy faces returning "home", I'd like to experience the foreign, the unknown again. Lately I've been feeling such great wanderlust, wanting another adventure, to take another risk, to feel alive again.

Missing the feeling of being abroad, reminiscing on my time in Budapest, Hungary.

via Glut with Guts--National Gallery of Budapest

via Glut with Guts--View of the Danube

via Glut with Guts--Buda Castle on an Amazingly Crisp Fall Day

via Glut with Guts--Budapest, Hungary

My life lately

via Glut with Guts (Instagram)

MY LIFE LATELY (aka what's in my purse):

- Quarterlife Crisis Journal (because this shit's going to be hilarious to read when I'm a wrinkled old hag)
- Marc Jacobs wallet ♥ (thanks, SHARX--ps. it's her bday today!)
- Stupid F21 Sunglasses (Figures the cheapest pair I own, NEVER BREAKS)
- Sharpie (the smell, the fine point writing... i love it)
- Binder Clip (I love these dudes, I use them to clip all sorts of stuff together, and use it to prop up my iPhone charger on my dresser. INGENIOUS!)
- Cannon Point-n-Shoot (b/c my Olympus faux-SLR is heavy, and I don't gots a man to carry it for me everywhere)
- Flip! (Still struggling to find a purpose for this one!)


HAPPY FRIDAY! (I'm spending mine celebrating Sharx and avoiding the sweaty hipsters of Lolla. ew.)

Wanderlust/Foodie Lust

These videos. BREAK. MY. HEART. Wishing this was my life, instead of being chained down.

MOVE from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

EAT from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

truth

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It HURTS. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.

-Neil Gaiman

Wine Tour 2012

M and I are semi-partially-sorta-eligible for an "academically and spiritually enriching" (most importantly, all compensated) tour of France. If by some miserable misfortune we aren't selected, we have a back-up plan--we're going anyways (P-man doesn't know it yet, but he's coming along too).

Below is MY suggestion for our tour.

via Glut with Guts

Stop 1: Portugal--Vino Verde to refresh our wine tasting palate 
Stop 2: Madrid--Pay homage with some Rioja Sangria!
Stop 3: Bordeaux--Drinking buckets of red, Bordeaux of course~
Stop 4: Paris--Anything that goes with crusty croissants
Stop 5: Amsterdam--Don't be mistaken, this is a wine tour! Frühburgunder from Gelderland

This wouldn't be a blog for gluttons if we didn't include a culinary overview of pairings for our wine:

via Dom Lane--click for full page view!

Saving my pennies and dimes until then!

Friday Flowers

via Glut with Guts

Friday afternoon, I came home with my flowers from work and entered the extremely sunny kitchen in my apartment. The light was so pretty I thought I'd take a picture of them (myself included)!

I don't know how other bloggers do it. Even though I was all alone in my kitchen, I can't even explain how immensely awkward I felt to take a photo of myself. Hence why I'm just peeping out behind the flowers. haha. Props to those who are not as photo-self-contentious as I am.