Flowers and Plants

Here are a few of the pretty arrangements/plants that were sent to my grandfather’s funeral last week. These were my favorite.

The picture in this picture is the last that was taken of my grandparents – at my cousin’s wedding in May. I think these flowers are just beautiful.

Albeit Jewelry

So it turns out Jenny Lu, an up and coming designer has a line of beautiful necklaces and I want all of them. I have recently fallen in love with delicate, feminine gold pieces and these fall right into that category. The name of her endeavor is Albeit.

I found out about this jewelry via mint.

But really, I want the M (for Misslissa of course!), the *, the +, the {, and the 8. I would also want the zero if she had one!

Through a different Lens

Lately I feel like I’ve had a different way of looking at things. After discovering the blogs of some amazingly visual people (designers, graphic designers, photographers, etc) I feel like I am looking at everything through the lens of a camera and spotting all the beautiful pictures.

Last week on the way from my grandma’s to dinner in the middle of nowhere Michigan I spotted two pine trees growing together and they kind of looked like one, except one was green and the other was slightly blue. I thought it was beautiful, but didn’t have time to take a picture as we were driving by and it was dark when we drove back home.

Luckily, my brother and parents were staying longer than I was and I asked my brother to take a picture with his fancy, expensive camera. He just sent me this:

LOVE!

Red Sky at Night…

The other night before I left for Michigan the sky was amazing. I meant to post pics, but then life got all turned upside down.

You’ll have to excuse my weird angle…I was trying to get as good a shot as possible.

Isn’t that awesome?? I’ve never seen anything like it.

I want these boots!

They are beautiful and perfect and I love them.

Too bad my calves are too big to fit into them the way they were intended to fit. I hate that about boots.

Michael Jackson Memorial Ticket Want Ad on CraigsList

This is by far the best thing I’ve seen all day.

People say bad things happen in 3s. Yesterday Ed McMahon died, then today it was Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. My dad just called and told me my grandfather died. For me, today, bad things happen in 4s.

Crazy Day

I can’t believe it. Ed McMahon.

And then Farrah Fawcett.

And now Michael Jackson.

Geeze. I’m speechless.

UPDATE:
Wow! Check out all the paparazzi outside the hospital waiting for confirmation…


(Obviously via CNN)

Princess Di

I love these pictures of Princess Diana.

Dancing with John Travolta at a party given by President Reagan.

I have 2 older cousins who loved her while we were growing up. Since they were too old for William, they always wanted me to marry him. Too bad I’m Catholic. And American.

Dryer issues in our new apartment

I don’t claim to know a lot about fixing up a house. I don’t claim to know a lot about electronics or appliances, but I do know a little. We moved into a new, bigger apartment about 2 weeks ago in the same building we have been in for a year to accommodate our boyfriends moving in with us. Right now it’s just one – but we’ll see how long it takes for the other to jump on the bandwagon – the wheels are definitely turning.

We have had problems with our dryer since the day we moved in. It doesn’t work. I know enough to know that it gets hot and it spins, so it’s probably not the dryer. I’ve been saying this since the beginning. Regardless, the dryer has been replaced 2 times. My gut feeling is that something was wrong with the exhaust. Maintenance said they replaced the exhaust tube behind the dryer. Now, if we lived in a house, that should basically solve the problem since from there that air goes nowhere else but through the wall and outside. In a high-rise building, however, there are tubes/pipes in the wall that this air is carried through. This is where I’ve been assuming the problem stood. The maintenance team said no way, no how – it should work fine. Well, should and do are different.

On Saturday maintenance came back – again. My roommate’s dad who happened to be in town pointed out an access panel on the wall in the closet above the dryer. Then he opened it up for the maint. guy. Inside of it we found a solid mass of lint and trash.

The maintenance guy acted shocked (come on – it was obvious this had to be in there somewhere) and removed it for us.

Can you see the Gatorade bottle and paper towel tube in there?

Stuff like this causes fires. One would think the maintenance team would be more concerned that this was there. When I made the comment that this could have caused a fire, the maintenance guy told me no, it wouldn’t. He’s obviously (in the words of Jared) an ignoramus. I can’t imagine if a fire had started within the walls because of that stuff. It would have spread so fast as all of the apartments are interconnected. It could have burned the entire building down.

We threw a wet hand towel in there and it dried it in about an hour. Then, for the real test we threw in a whole load of laundry. Still not fixed – wtf?! So, they came back yesterday, cut a hole in the wall and found a piece of insulation the size of the tube blocking it. Now that it has been removed we haven’t yet tried to do laundry. Here’s hoping it’s fixed. What a pain.