Me = oddly delicate despite all those emotional callouses
22 Jun 2008 In: JournalishPeople, I am tired. This weekend Dre and I drove to Missoula for his step-mother’s memorial. 16 hours of driving round trip with 36 hours of intense life and death and babies and memorials and hot solstice sun and all the stuff that comes along with family but, like, times 10 and with some PMS thrown in.
I’m also undergoing an experiment — my beloved Sidekick 3 is dying, and I’m trying a Tmobile Dash from work for a while until I decide what I want to do next. (First person to suggest iPhone gets a kick in the nuts. I need a tactile keypad, so please shut up already about the iphone. It’s awesome for you. It’s not what I want.) It’s amazing to me how switching communication systems (ie pda/phone) impacts my emotional state. I mean yes granted: I was in an emotional place this weekend literally and figuratively and hormonally. But I couldn’t help but observe how having an unfamiliar communication system only added and amplified my emotions — CAN’T CHECK EMAIL HOW I NORMALLY DO. FREAKING OUT.
God. I’m so delicate sometimes.
I think I just need some time at home, which may not be in the cards for a while. July has me going to Boston for work, probably LA for some offbeat bride development stuff, Montana again, and then our summer camput. BUH!? I love summer, but I sure do get tired…
Again with the delicacy.
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Ariel (if she were a Japanese tourist)
Originally uploaded by Andreas Fetz.
Last weekend Andreas took me to Victoria, B.C. for a late Birthday getaway. We had a great time being tourists and taking photos and enjoying the friendly Canadianess of the city. O Canada: It’s where everyone’s nicer.
Anyway, here are my pics, and here are Dre’s. Not captured: me barfing on the Clipper.
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Meet our new living room
13 Jun 2008 In: Homely
The magic shelves
Originally uploaded by .Ariel.
My outlaw mother has just about finished the shelves she built in our living room. I am in organizational heaven right now, just gazing at them and dreaming how all our books and plants and tchochkes will sit.
We are so blessed!
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Unplugged Night #20
11 Jun 2008 In: HomelyMy outlaw mother (Dre’s mom Nancy) is in town this week, building an amazing floor-to-ceiling bookshelf in our living room. Dre and I both had class last night (he: circus, me: dance) and I got home before he did to find Nancy still plugging away on the shelves. I was ravenous and made Nancy and myself a simple little meal of eggs scrambled with fresh green beans, and some salad topped with apples and cranberries.
Dre got home a half hour later, and found me in the kitchen cleaning up.
“Whatcha doin’?” he asked.
“I made dinner,” I explained.
He looked hungry. “Ooh, whatcha make?”
“Nothing you can eat — so suck it,” was my kindly response.
…Sometimes vegan vs. vegetarian makes for a cruel, cruel kitchen.
Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
