What a crazy week! A whole, crazy month, in fact! (proof being: when was the last time any of you saw me comment on your blog? Yeah....good thing a few months ago I never missed a day, so I think I had some saved up personal leave time :] ).
I laugh that so many of you were jealous of my vacationing mentioned in the last post. It's true--I HAVE done a ton of traveling since December, more than in the previous 10 years combined. But this particular coming vacation involves me loading the boy squad into the mom-van (in which the A/C only works when turned on high), driving 10 hours through the night so that I won't have to hear the "I'm bored" chant x 4, and then meeting up with about a bojillion other children for a week of messed up sleep schedules and refereeing fights!!! ***yaaaaaay!!!!!! *** Still jealous? :) I really am looking forward to it-- all the crazy pre-vacation prep is just making me say those things. It's also making me do some corner-cutting.....like hot gluing the patches onto my 11 year olds scout uniform. I thought that was at least one step above stapling them. I just may be the only interior designer around who is frightened by a sewing machine.
On another note.........................
While most of *my* dealings have been around home lately, my poetry has been out having all kinds of adventures without me. My professor/mentor/ friend is reading through what is quickly becoming my book in the works---and he leads a far more exciting life than I. Here was the letter I received today:
"i was carrying your poems with me around the east village this morning, in my backpack, they are soaking wet and drying on the kitchen counter in this apartment full of girl stuff. thought you should know. we will see if they dry."
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I think my soggy poems should at least bring me back an I {heart} NY shirt; wouldn't you agree?
Now I'm off to continue the vacation prep and dream about what it would be like to be stuck in the rain in the east village about now....
Just for fun: what was the best souvenir you ever brought back, or were given, from a vacation?
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I brought back an awesome black leather jacket from Germany, and an even more awesome case of "toilet fever" from Venezuela.... :)
The best sovenir I ever received was when Jared brought me back a ceramic pig from Illinois. The best one I ever got myself is alll the picures of us in the Phillipines.
I heart scarves... When I went to Italy with my choir in college I brought back several flowy silky scarves. I wear them for luck or when I have to sing for something. BTW I love hot glue and think it is a fix all.
I still have the butterfly pin that my grandparents bought me on a summer trip to visit family in Colorado. Lots of memories!
Wow! Not sure. The one that comes to mind is the one I just received from Lucas when he went back to Colombia to visit his family and break the news!! He brought back lots of things for the baby ~ including a paper mache zebra that his aunt and cousin made that will definitely be featured in the nursery!!
Well, I get a Christmas ornament from every vacation and I adore each one. But I think my favorite (well favorite probably isn't the best word) souvenir is my rock producing scar from Hawaii. (Still getting gems out of it to this day. If only they'd turn into pearls and make me some money.)
I just had to come see what you were up to when I saw your reference to the glue gun in my feed reader. :)
But you know, I can't think of any great vacation souvenirs. Not a one! I have a huge box of oyster shells from this year at the beach, but I'd hardly call that exciting.
Kimba
I've gotten and given my share of awesome souvenirs but my favorite will always be postcards. I'm easy to please that way.
My favorites are the Build-A-Bears my husband and I make on vacations. The best one so far is the lobster we got in Boston that we dressed in overalls!!
Of course, the alligator dressed in Harley clothes from Florida is awesome, too!!
We also got a cute picture from Worlds of Fun dressed in period clothes like we just robbed a bank!!(that has disappeared).
Now, the best thing I ever brought back for someone else was the Rick Springfield candle for my friend, Lindsey. That was a classic!!
My favorite prize from a trip were sea shells that I found on a ttip to the Florida Keys when I was 10. I still have them:-)
Mary Ashley ;)
Our summer has been pretty crazy too. So much for the leisurely time I was hoping for during the summer to stay caught up on all my favorite blogs. Now I'm hoping the more organized school year will provide more time for catching up!
I think my favorite souvenirs I got when I was little and my parents went (WITHOUT us) to France and brought back mini Eiffel Towers and sweatshirts with "Paris" printed on the front and tiny, hand-blown glass cats. I was five. My favorite thing was the sweatshirt.
I'm going to have to remember the hot glue gun next time Dan wants me to sew a buffalo with toothpick-thin legs to his scout shirt. I did figure out that you can iron them on so they don't slide around and then sew. But I let out plenty of choice words. I don't like sewing much--unless it's something I'm REALLY excited about. (Like copying all of Meg's cute shirt and bag applique ideas.)
As a kid, my favorite was a swatch my father brought from Germany. I loved it but Rocky Elliot made fun of it for being cheap plastic and not as cool as his calculator watch. As if that wasn't made of cheap plastic, in China. I hated Rocky for years because of it.
Of recent, I just bought a wrap skirt made of traditional fabric from Guatemala. Its so comfortable I never want to take it off.
P.S. I was always jealous of your leather jacket.
best souvenirs brought back from vacation = memories.
by the way, great Camera Obscura song! i need to buy that album. thanks for posting the song.
snow globes. i used to get them everywhere i went on vacation.
now i have a shelf of half emptied of water snow globes reminding me that i don't go anywhere anymore!!!
kids=expensive!
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