Who died and made you king of anything?

~Sara Bareilles, King of Anything




Sara Bareilles always has the best clothes in her music videos.

Look what I got today!

"The must-have guide to year-round fabulousness." - Vogue 

Foreword by Manolo Blahnik.

I've been looking for this book since I first saw it in the local bookstore (which was only a few months ago) and I've tried to sneak in an opportunity to walk out of the bookstore with it.

The opportunity came when I went to get my laptop from the mall and my sister asked my dad to drop by the bookstore because we were out of books to read. I also got me the Chicken Soup for the Soul: Runners edition, and a copy of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, which I will be reading this Christmas. And next Christmas. And the next.

Anyway, at first I thought the book was something along the lines of "So, I've worked with high heels for a year, let me write about that". Then I saw something about Samuel Pepys.

Peeps.

I also saw dates, and then I figured out why it was called "A Year In High Heels".

Is it just me or does that look like Anna Wintour?

Well, yeah, apparently I'm still one book away from having read all of Camilla Morton's books, but I'm making progress! Now to read it...

Where we love is home, Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr, Homesick in Heaven

Mom's homemade yummy healthy pasta puttanesca

Our obsession with pasta puttanesca strangely coincided with the release of Daniel Handler's The Bad Beginning under his pseudonym Lemony Snicket. I haven't read the last book yet, though, and I haven't read the accompanying books, but we have made pasta puttanesca several times already.

It's nobody's birthday today, but we decided to buy some spaghetti, tomatoes, tomato sauce, shitake mushrooms, parmesan cheese, green olives and anchovies. We also bought a sweet basil plant - yeah, the plant - and used some of our leftover sardines.

That up there is the result. Yummy healthy pasta puttanesca.

Also, I bought a poinsettia.

I love to love you baby.

Okay, first of all I don't own that picture. I just really really love Imogen Morris Clarke and her deep deep voice. I love her so much I'm devoting an entire post to her. And her voice.

That caught me off guard. I first saw her in this video of Ali Stephens interviewing Karlie Kloss, Hanne Gabby Odiele and Imogen. I expected her voice to be a bit like Karlie's or Ali's or Hanne's. It's not. It really isn't.

I also watched this edition of New York Magazine's Model Diaries where Imogen takes the camera backstage. It's really pretty funny. I liked the part where Eniko started singing (which no one pointed out to...weird) and "the doctor forgot to cut it". And the parts with Skye Stracke too. And Hanne making friends.

Or, you know, all of it.

Isn't she lovely?

And that Dsquared dress is lovely, too. I want it.


All photos not mine. I wish they were.

I always thought superheroes were a high school thing.

Today my sister and I watched this:

Fantasia!

No, I was kidding. Though I wish I did, instead of this:

I didn't hate it, I just feel that if I watched it in the theater I would have demanded my money back.

Okay no, I wouldn't. But it wasn't engaging enough.

The tesla coils were awesome, though.

That is all. None of the images belong to me.

Today I ran a mile.

I thought it would feel great to say that. It kind of does, but I want to run three miles. I ran with kids half my age today.

Oh, and yeah. I haven't gotten around to writing about this, so I will.

First off, the Alexander McQueen Spring 2011 collection. To be honest, I started out not liking McQueen. I kind of thought he's too over-the-top and sort of sadistic that he would send the models down the runway in 12-inch armadillo heels. He does grow on you, though.

This collection is the first one not personally designed by McQueen for reasons you and I know. Still, I think if I saw this and nobody told me who designed it, I would say it's by Alexander McQueen.

I applaud Sarah Burton for managing to create a collection that's both very McQueen and toned down. She managed to somehow go in a new direction while keeping the McQueen spirit alive.

Long live McQueen.

Secondly, I...don't have anything more to add. :)