January 2012
Watchkayfabe:
I have a fascination with abandoned places, especially amusement parks, so this video about Joyland peaked my interest.
Joyland Amusement Park opened in Wichita, Kansas, United States on June 12, 1949, and was in continuous operation until 2004. The park was founded by Lester Ottaway. In the late 1960s the park was sols to Stanley and Margaret Nelson. The park was showing its age with...
December 2011
Favorite Songs of 2011
TV on the Radio “Will Do”
Fleet Foxes “Helplessness Blues”
The Head and the Heart “Lost in My Mind”
Beirut “Santa Fe”
The Black Keys “Lonely Boy”
Bon Iver “Holocene”
Beastie Boys “Make Some Noise”
Gomez “Options”
City and Colour “Northern Wind”
Middle Brother “Middle...
[Insert obligatory 2011 post here.]
For me, it was a year of changes. Big changes. 750 miles worth of changes. A city full of changes.
By far, the biggest change was moving from Wichita, Kansas to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. To say that I moved away for a boy is to denigrate just how amazing said boy has been. Without Bruce’s patience and support, I would have been a big, lost ball of weepiness. All the blowies in the world really...
My Favorite Tracks of 2011: A Spotify Playlist →
Also, I wrote all that out to justify the three...
I win.
Numbers. Goals. Progress.
Writing down where I’m at and where I’d like to be is weirdly soothing. It helps reaffirm my resolve. When it’s cold and shitty outside and all I want to do is stay warm and be lazy, seeing how far I’ve come and seeing where I’d like to be helps make changing into my workout clothes and braving the cold and sweating my ass off and going to bed even more exhausted a...
A Kindle Touch and tickets to see City + Colour?!
I must have been a very good girl this year.
(Or hid my naughtiness very, very well.)
Make that TWO more good friends who got engaged...
Wowza. It’s gonna be a busy year.
Annnnd another good friend is engaged.
2012 will be the year of the wedding, apparently.
Also:
Yellow Dog has slept on my bed with me since I got back. She takes up 2/3 of the bed, but I don’t mind. I kinda missed that goofball.
It's strange
Today, Wichita, the city I’d lived in for 26 years, seemed almost foreign. New buildings popped up. Favorite places vanished. Neighborhoods I loved seemed less charming. It felt like being in a different city. Not new. Not better. Just off. Like a bizzaro version of my hometown.
Scrooged
Elf
Christmas Vacation
Love Actually
Gremlins
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