Things I (would) Love (for my birthday on October 7th) Thursday

Yeah, it's...a lot of things. People always ask me what I want for my birthday, for Christmas, etc. and I never know what to say. Of course I don't expect gifts, but it's fun to dream, and if someone I knew was a billionaire these are some of the things I would ask for...click through for where to buy these amazing products. P.S. My t-shirt/hoodie size is usually medium unless they fit snug, then it's large. And my ear gauge is 00g. Shoe size, 7.5-ish. Just sayin'. Just in case!

 

 

I would also like a custom shirt that looks like Sgt. Pepper wore it from Lady Hue. I also love pretty much anything from this website. I'd like a round-trip visit to Copenhagen, maybe with a stop off in Switzerland too, to visit some awesome friends.

Ten things I love about you...

1. You're a demon in the sack, hahahahahaha sorry everybody, that's none of your business.

2. You are the most caring person I know, and would do anything for the people you love. I know a lot of people say that about a lot of other people, but I honestly mean ANYTHING: Get zero sleep after a graveyard shift to do something with his kids, spend hours cooking a special dinner for somebody...you take a lot of time out of your day for others, and you never complain about it.

3. You're super cute, especially when you're tired and your one leg of your pajama bottoms gets all rolled up somehow. And you get handsomer each day.

4. You give really good, level-headed advice and always seem to know what the right thing to do is. I always feel like I can just rattle off my emotional crazy feelings and you'll help me work it out.

5. You've always been supportive to me, even when I'm being a weiner or making weird decisions. You stand behind your woman, haha! But really, this means so much to me.

6. Your stupid jokes that make no sense...well, they're growing on me. You have a weird sense of humor but you keep life interesting! You're full of surprises.

7. You throw yourself into things full-force. Everybody on the internet, I warn you now, if you meet a "Darth Skater" in any hockey pool you WILL lose.

8. You are not afraid to try anything and you never seem to get embarrassed. I think you're super brave and I admire that.

9. You've been so awesome with me and my ridiculous foot injury these last few days, I feel like with your strength and patience that we can rule the world.

10. I have one hundred percent trust in you and one hundred percent faith that you love me and that's the best feeling I've ever had. We're gonna be together for a million years.




xoxo

Happy Birthday.

If you're not following me on tumblr, you're missing out on things like this:

You know what to do: novaisawesome.tumblr.com

bubbles!

I think this last one looks like a weird snowman bear walking across our driveway.

Tank's cavernous maw, aka one million photos of a bulldog.

If you wrestle with this dog, please be careful. He can fit your entire knee in his mouth. Once he ran, mouth first, into my leg. I had bruises that looked like a shark bite for weeks. It was an accident, don't worry.

Here he is panting in the car. You'll see what I mean. Big ol' mouth.

Don't some of these pictures look like he's laughing? No? Just me, the crazy dog lady?


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One more thing. Have you noticed that lately like 80 percent of all girl bloggers have a half sleeve and it just happens to be in their profile picture? Like, oh, I just happen to be leaning to one side and wearing a shirt that shows my one tattoo, I'm a bad-ass? hahaha just sayin'.

Things I Love Thursday!

I love my lomography action sampler camera! And...

The future, according to films, + a couple tv shows.

When celebrities were young. Hello Colbert! Also, Trebek is in his '70s?

9 Things you might be doing that are making your life suck.

The NYC nomad.

An inside look at the fake barf industry.

World War II in photos.

Mario climbing a vine for ten hours.

Real life gnome shows off gnome collection.

Foodie face plates DIY - this looks so fun! 

Formal complaints at the office...so funny!

Mysteries of underground Paris. The fuck?

Tips on photographing kids.

These pictures of Hong Kong.

The final image.

How to make boxes from paint swatches.

Girls will be boys.

These photos by 16 year old Ann He.

 And last but not least...

 Zoe is giving these pendants away on her blog. And today's the last day to enter! 

Here's a link to her shop, I seriously can not choose a single thing I like more than the others.

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What do you love this week? Leave me a link to something awesome. I want to get to know my readers better, so if you want to just leave me a link to your blog I promise I'll come by and check it out! I feel like there's a lot of lurkers out there who say nothing, so I'mma come by and lurk you back.

3 Random photos from this morning.

My nest, as seen from the couch. Not pictured: camera, bracelet making supplies, television.

Why I usually don't paint my nails.

 Failed nail photo that looks more like a soy milk ad. Also, this is my hair color after two washes. Much oranger, no? I'mma add more red later today or tomorrow.

Good mail day!

First of all, THIS PRINT IS AWESOME. And the name? Well you'll see.

Thank you Studio M.M.E. Illustrations!

I also found this pretty pink envelope in the mailbox, LOL! Thanks Sarah!

This totally made my day. I love my blog friends.

True Love Tattoo Show

Here's ten episodes of a crazy Italian man getting ten (really nice) tattoos on one trip through the USA. Wow. Awesome! I found this via my friend Roberto's new blog. The subtitles and chatting is in English, and then, because it's for Italian TV the rest is in Italian.

Imagine how expensive this trip was for him. And how painful, haha.

1. Brian Bruno

2. Bailey Hunter Robinson

3. Eli Quinters

4. Bert Krak

5. The Gus + Martin Lacasse

6. Steve Boltz

7. Nikki Balls

8. Hunter Spanks

9. Chad Koeplinger

10. Todd Noble

 You'd be lucky to get tattooed by any of these dudes. How pretty is this guy's skin now? Wowzers.

Vines be creepin'

I just Googled "extreme ironing" for the first time, I encourage you to try it.

If you are arachnophobic you may want to skip this one. Sorry.

Aren't we cute? This picture makes Tank look like he's 800 times larger than he actually is. You can really see the ultimate redness of my hair in the sunlight in that reflection though. Man it's pretty! My friend Sarah took this picture of me at beerfest the other day, and between my red hair and my pink shirt I totally blew up her camera.

Anyway, enough about me, this is the real reason I'm posting today... it's SPIDER SEASON.

 These mother fuckers are EVERYWHERE right now, building webs all over the damn place. This is the worst thing about having a yard with lots of trees and stuff...uuugh. And soon, when the rains come, as they always do, these guys will try and move indoors. Which is a big fat HELL NO. I usually find a spider carcass or two in the strangest places, like my t-shirt drawer and stuff. Ugh.

This industrious spider had somehow built a web all the way from the trees on one side of our driveway across to our house. I always wonder how they get that shit started. Do they start on one side and then walk over? Do they jump somehow? Swing? Anyway I basically almost got caught in this guy's web as I was walking into the house. And, of course, the spider was right at face level. Ew.

 Rather than freaking out, I was like "I shall photograph the hell out of this spider." It was eating something during some of these pictures which was pretty neat.

 Doesn't its web look so nice until the middle, where it obviously started doing acid?

These last two are the scariest ones, I think.

And that, my friends, is one of the biggest downsides to living on Vancouver Island. Now you know.