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It's About Darn Time
It was January when we painted three test swatches of gray on our dining room walls.
It took us just days to pick the color but apparently took us, yeah, um, FOUR MONTHS to finally paint the room.
I'm not sure what's more embarrassing – our painting laziness or my rockin' farmer's tan. Anyway, I searched my brain for some sort of an excuse for the dining room paint delay. Maybe we were too tired at the end of the day in January that we spent painting the living room and hallway the same color? Or we were too distracted by completing the guest room for Sherry's mom's February visit? Or we were too consumed with patio and party prep to take it on before Clara's birthday? Maybe. Or we just like to bounce around randomly and come back to projects after months of dormancy. Probably that. Either way, something got into us, and the room (finally) went from this:
To this:
I know, I know. It's not a huuuuge difference. Heck it might not look different at all online. But the soft gray definitely feels a lot more polished. And ding dong, the
witch swatches are dead! The color is the same gray that we used in the living room and the hallway (Benjamin Moore's Moonshine which we color matched to Olympic Premium No-VOC paint) so we already had the paint on hand (we got three gallons of it a while back in anticipation). You may recall that we wanted to paint these rooms all the same color to connect and unify the spaces (and then the kitchen, which is in the middle of all of them, will have a bit more color on the walls for interest). Maybe looking at the unpainted and then painted room shots side by side will demonstrate how even a subtle coat of paint can help things like crown molding and trim have a bit more emphasis. The room definitely reads a lot more crisp now that it's painted:
It still amazes us how much a coat of paint can do to make a room look finished – or, in our mostly furniture-less version, at least make it look a little less forgotten. Especially when it's covering up test swatches that have been there so long that we didn't even notice them anymore until friends would say "which color did you pick?" and we'd say "oh yeah… those" (it was the bottom one, btw).
Even this subtle addition of color to the walls has helped us notice a few things. For example, we didn't even realize how beefy the crown molding was in here until we painted (it's about twice as thick as any other room in the house). And the soft gray looks nice with the built-ins on the back wall. It lets them "be the star" (as Sherry would say) but still adds that light I'm-in-a-cloud vibe and makes the room feel polished and complete. Well, as complete as it can feel without curtains, art, entryway furniture, etc.
Since this room didn't have pesky wood-toned-molding that needed a bunch of coats of white paint (like the living room), it was MUCH faster to finish (the living room also called for beam painting, which we're thankful this room also didn't involve). So by comparison, this project was cake. We did one coat together during Clara's morning nap (Sherry cuts in while I roll) and then did our second coat in shifts after the three of us ate lunch (since one of us was on Clara duty while the other painted the day away). It was so relaxed that it further underscored how crazy it was for us to put it off for so long. Sherry even snuck in a phone date with her Katie B (her blogger BFF) at one point.
Oh and see those white tags in the photo above? Allow me to explain. Sherry's "painting clothes" may look like an ordinary black sweatsuit (yes, she's from Jersey and proud of it) from a distance, but take a closer look. It's an inside-out black sweatsuit. Otherwise known as her pajamas when worn the right way. What Not To Wear, here we come!
We also took – and then promptly deleted – a PG-13 version of the photo below. Let's just say I was putting the "moon" in "Moonshine by Benjamin Moore" (and my butt is whiter than my upper arms). Go ahead, I'll give you a few seconds to picture that calamity.
Ok now stop, you're creeping me out.
All tomfoolery aside, we're just glad to live in a test-swatch free home. But of course, now having paint on the walls is giving us the itch to do more in there. I mean, it'd be a shame to leave these nice blank-canvas grey walls totally blank for too long, right? Especially since we're dying to knock out a huge opening to the kitchen and hang curtains and add art and dye those off-white chair slipcovers…
Eh. Maybe we'll get around to it in a month or two… or four. You know how we roll. Have you guys painted anything recently? Are you a fan of inside-out-pajamas as painting clothes? Have you had swatches on your walls for over four months? Tell us we're not the only ones…
Psst- When it comes to how we paint, this post and this post and the video in this post will hopefully help you out.
Psst again- We're over on BabyCenter sharing how we made some swanky looking photo books for our moms (late Mother's Day gifts are ok when you're waiting on a book to be "published" right?).
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We FINALLY painted our baseboards (after having them in our home- unpainted for way too long) this past spring break. With 2 kids and a well meaning family who like to buy presents for our kids- we had started to accumulate a lot of STUFF… so the baseboard project was much more difficult than it needed to be. But it did lead us to go through each and every room- deep clean, de-clutter, and simplify… which felt really, really good.
p.s. You guys are very cute =).
Looks good, indeed very subtle. I did paint this weekend actually. And it was the worst of painting; colonial blue trim and doors. It was a pain. But Floetrol did help so much when we were painting with the latex. I officially love that product.
I just love the Moonshine color. I think your painting would look great on the left wall near the dining table Sherry, for the time being anyway, until you knock out the wall to the kitchen.
8 months!! I eventually hired a painter to finish the living room! We have 12-ft ceilings, ceramic tile, and my husband was living in another state for work. I was terrified I'd fall off the ladder, and there'd be no one around to find me. I also have a bum left elbow from a break and dislocation.
He's back now though, and we tackled painting our daughter's nursery together in December. We rocked it! Stripes, chair rail and all…
P.S. – I also do all the cutting in with my angled brush. Women must be more precise.
I actually did a lot of painting over the weekend! I painted an accent wall and hand stenciled on a pattern. I'm so happy with how it's looking, and I'd love for you guys to check it out!
Lovely! It only *just* shows up online, but I can definitely see that it makes the trim pop a lot more with the grey paint. The husband and I are moving apartments in a week's time, so I'm very much looking forward to all sorts of room painting projects (especially the new nursery and living/dining area!). I think the nursery will be the first big project, though…barring any decorating ADHD! :-)
Keep up the amazingness, you two!
I still cannot believe how well you guys paint without massive amounts of tape and floor coverage. We covered EVERYTHING when we just painted the kid's room light green and we still got paint everywhere, even after trying so hard to be neat. Even the cat has a paint drip on his rear end! (2 weeks later it's still there)
What is your biggest piece of advice for neat painting? (besides practice) I have read all the posts and watched all the videos and need help for the rest of the apt. What's the best finish for bathrooms/kitchen too?
I know I have asked a million questions now but I forgot to ask your technique on brush cleaning? HELP!
A final rinse with white vinegar works wonders after you wash with water. Somehow it gets just a bit more goop out even when the brush is totally clean. Maybe that's why it's such a good household cleaner :)
I started on a painting project this weekend as well. The kitchen and hallway… It wouldn't be so bad but I had to paint the trim which after 8 hours still isn't finished! :( The walls need a second coat too. I am so happy the wallpaper is gone though! Now that was the hard part! I like the Moonshine, I chose Bleeker Beige for the kitchen/hallway and planning on using Silver Lake in the bedroom.
You guys crack me up! I really love that color, it's sophisticated and cool, but comfy too … and when it's almost 100 here in DC, cool's good.
How did the "greyhound" make it back to the dining room? Did I miss something? Was Sherry able to repair it after all? -Did someone buy a replacement?Was there actually a post I idn't read? ( I always read your site while eating breakfast.) Hsppy dancing today ( We FINALLY) have an offer on our house ! – Dee
I sooo wish I would have done the color swatch thing. My son wanted 2 of his walls to be gray and we thought we picked out THE perfect gray to go with his "organic green" accent walls. Well, once the paint was up, it looks more like a light blue than a gray. Grrr… We spent so much time looking at the paint chip in different places in the room, different lighting, etc- it looked so perfect on that 2″ piece of paper. Lesson learned. Should have painted swatches in a couple key areas.
It was a painting MARATHON at our house this weekend. Saturday and Sunday I painted the hallway and all of the trim, all of the doors off the hallway and for the first time in 3 months we have door knobs! Then Monday we painted our bedroom and all of that trim. It's just so nice to have it done. And I love that gray, we've been thinking of something like that for our living room. Good job!
umm… is that a new dog statue??? Did I miss a post about him?
Truly LOVE the dining room color! It looks so calming and polished, especially with those slip-covered chairs!
Is it weird that I'm super eager to see the hole blown through the wall into the kitchen?!?!?!? :)
And we totally have projects that take months to start for no real reason… a bathroom shelf, the mirror for the gym, home office organization… ya, there's just a few!
Love that color! So calming. I put some test patches on the bathroom wall but those have only been up for about 3 days and hopefully those will get painted over in the next day or two!
We haven't had paint swatches on the wall, but as my husband calls it "Paint chip hell". We started with over 100. We didn't know which direction we wanted to go for our living room.. gray, brown, mossy green, muted blue… all were colors that would work with our furniture. We weren't afraid to go darker, because it has LOTS of light, and we wanted a cozy feel. We narrowed it down to our top five in each color category (still, 20 different colors!), and then when my parents came into town, my Mom and I would eliminate a few chips a day. By the time they left, we were down to 3 choices, and told my husband he got to pick the final. We ended up doing the living room & hallway in a lighter gray/brown, and the entry way fireplace alcove a few shades darker, and then our bedroom in the darker color too. We love it all, and those were the last few places that got covered up with 'builder-grade-nasty-peach-tan-orange' paint we had before!
This is totally unrelated to the post, but I just found John's movie star doppelganger. Check it out: http://www.kulthit.de/bilder/wir-sind-die-nacht/961/8273/
He's one of the stars of a German vampire movie called "We are the Night" that just came out in the U.S. Am I crazy or do they look remarkably similar?
Anyway, now you just need to find Sherry's celebrity look-alike and then you'll be all set for a YHL movie! Or, perhaps, sitcom?
I ALWAYS paint with my pajamas inside out- I always thought I was the only weirdo who di that =)
I had paint swatches painted in my guest bathroom for over a year and finally got around to painting it 2 weeks ago! Only having them up for 4 months would be a miracle for me haha
Woohoo I love that you guys joined the gray train. I've been in love with gray since I wore my favorite gray sweater every day in the 11th grade. Oh the gray sweater…
it looks good, i know you love it! i just painted our foyer for the 3rd time, i think i do it because it is a room I can actually accomplish during nap time.
I just painted my master bath this weekend after 2.5 years in the house – you guys are way ahead of me! I removed the cartoon fish border 2 years ago, the glue from the border 2 DAYS ago and rolled on a nice cream called "rice grain" maybe when I put up the towel bars, replace the light fixture and dust my new mirror I'll add some pics to my blog :)
We painted our master bedroom this weekend. We've lived here a year and are finally putting our touches on the place. The walls were a light grey/blue/green mix (depending on the time of day) to a charcoal grey color. We also swapped out the dark curtains to white curtains (hung higher and wider) and dark walnut bamboo woven roman shades. It looks a-m-a-z-i-n-g with our cherry floors and white doors/moldings.
Love the color! It's not a drastic change, but it really makes the moulding and built-ins pop!
Don't feel bad, we have paint on the ceiling and baseboards because we finish the walls and are too tired to touch up the trim!
The room looks great with its new paint. I'm going to use your swatches to test out colors for my living room. (And probably a dozen others.)
I am going on a month with green and blue swatches painted in our guest bathroom. I even bought the paint to finish it off, but I have been too busy with the "day" job to get started with the project :(
I love the grey color…we painted our whole downstairs a light grey..in different lights it gives off lavender hues… I love it!
I can't wait to see your chairs dyed in that space!
Haha! I love anytime "tomfoolery" can be worked into a post! Awesome!
Clara must be a great napper! So jealous of what all you guys can get done with a baby! My 4 mo daughter only naps 10 minutes at a time, barely enough time to get to the dishes…
I was painting this weekend too! I've spent a total of four months sanding my entire kitchen (I read posts that said to remove all gloss/shiny veneer, so I set out to literally remove every. single. glimmer of gloss that exists on the cabinets). I finally got a paint my pantry!!! SOOOOOO excited. Now for the rest of the cabinets, slap some paint on the walls, and move on the rest of the entire house :D
I love how the light grey makes the white pop! The accent wall in my room has been painted for a few years now, and the other 3 remain untouched. Also, the bathroom has had swatches for a few months now :/
You guys went ahead and painted even though you're planning to knock part of the wall out?
Love how this room all pulled together! So obsessed with grey.
Love the color!!! That is going to be such a fun room to decorate. Can't wait to see what you have up your sleeves!! Are you going to paint the office the same color gray? I am the same way when it comes to home projects – I always bounce around. I think I get "stuck" with certain projects and it helps to take a break and come back with a different perspective. Plus you have to do what you're in the mood for at the time.
Right now I am still dealing with my stair reno mess up. I tried to paint the treads and the paint is literally peeling off like a sunburn. NO idea why because I stripped and sanded just like I should have!! I haven't had the heart to strip them again and start over. We put new flooring in upstairs and still don't have quarter round in. I think it's because it's not exciting. No one is going to come in and say, "OMG, that quarter round is amazing!!" I like the more exciting projects!!! Which is prob why everything in my house is half done!!!!
Anyways, love what you're doing with the new house!!! Can't wait to see what you do for window treatments and art!!!
Someone may have already asked this but I've been skimming all the comments and can't find it. Did you guys skip the priming step? It seems like everyone always says you just CAN'T skip the priming step, but do you guys find color situations where it's no big deal to skip it?
I've been painting my (new to us) house for about a month now – the whole thing, ceilings and everything (yuck – ceilings are NO FUN!). Imagine my surprise today to read this post and find that we (out of all those grey's in the paint fan) chose the exact same shade of grey for our walls! I love Moonshine, I can't even begin to tell you the satisfaction of covering up the old nasty plum and brown colors that were on my walls. I paired it with "Dune White" for the trim and the pop against that white is amazing.
Your room looks awesome, and YES I can completely see the difference. Love it!
I wouldn't dye the chairs green, I really like them as they are! Just myhonestanswer…
Alright, I have a paint question (forgive me if you've answered this somewhere else). Why do you color match your Benjamin Moore colors to Olympic No-VOC? Does Benjamin Moore not offer a No-VOC option for certain colors?
Beautiful! I love the grey! We have some swatches up in the kitchen that I am secretly taking bets for on how long they stay up before we paint. Any takers? The sun keeps derailing my plans.
I did manage to paint the guest bed recently (prompted by a guest of course) so it remains the only finished room in the house.
Sounds like some of the other commenters have me beat, but I've had paint swatches up in my living room for about a year now. I decided on the color over six months ago and even bought the paint. The only thing delaying me is that one wall is interlocking pine wood paneling that was previously painted and needs to be stripped first. Whoever painted it used some sort of filler between each board that was obviously not meant to be painted, and it caused the paint to crack and chip from floor to ceiling at each joint. I've used a heat gun to strip about half if it so far, but it's hot, hard, smelly work, so I keep procrastinating on finishing the job.
Love it! So much more polished and sophisticated looking without those swatches. :P
YAY! I have had plenty of Why-did-that-take-so-long-to-get-done projects. Looks great!
PS – Is it sad that I'm making your Clara Balloon banners for my own 30th birthday party this weekend??? :) They just make me so happy! Might even knock out a few tissue poms too. It's my party and I'll craft if I want to!
Thanks!! We're having a funny T-Shirt theme….gotta laugh at 30 right?
I have been so into gray rooms lately. I save images I like to an inspriation folder, and they all seem to be gray — even gray as a nursery color. It just looks so calm and sophisticated and fun (with added pops of color), all at the same time. What's not to like??
Oh what a difference it makes. It looks fabulous!
I can totally tell the difference! I love it! I may be partial because I love gray :) I recently painted my kitchen gray and people couldn't really notice a difference because it was so subtle, so when I saw this post I totally related :)
Here's the kitchen: http://myersmaison.blogspot.com/2011/04/indecisive-no-more.html
Oh my gosh, I totally feel your pain. If discarded paint swatches were money, I would be a millionaire (ok, a hundred-aire). Do you find that grey's are the trickiest? They always look 180 degrees different from the store to the house.
Thanks for sharing!
Question – we are building a house and I can't make up my mind on what trim color I want throughout the house. White trim has always been my favorite & I like how your white trim looks in your house. But, I was wondering if white trim gets easily dirty'd (yes, i just made up that word) up? Do you have to wipe down your trim often or anything?
love the new color!
Yes, I just painted my living room 3 doorways, one built in, two sconces, molding at 8 feet, and the celing at 10, phew. Thanks for sharing the procrastination in lieu of other projects to remind me how normal I am in the best kind of way. Before I even scrolled down to or read the part about inside out sweats, I recognized the tags and though….I"ll be she does the inside out thing too. Way to be hip and hot at the same time Sherry.
Looks great! You know what I would do for art? A big mural type thing, sort of like this: http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/176-3022909-4224300?asin=B001QWVPU0&AFID=shopping_df&LNM=|B001QWVPU0&CPNG=home%20decor&ci_src=13736960&ci_sku=B001QWVPU0&ref=tgt_adv_XSC10001
Not covering the whole freshly painted walls, though! :)
Love it!!! Glad to know I am not the only painter in progress..hallway is half sandfossil and half ozone and has been for 2 months. I am loving the grey.
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Inside a Tatami Suite at the Ritz-Carlton Kyoto
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That looks something like the above, and no, we didn't ask The Ritz-Carlton Kyoto to take all the furniture out of the room for the photo: this is the bedroom of a traditional Tatami Suite at the hotel, which means every evening your equally traditional futon-style bed (two singles) will be made up for you. We had a chance to look inside the hotel during a recent visit to Kyoto, four months after the hotel opened on February 7 this year.
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Whiteout Is Art at Palace Hotel Tokyo
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The painting isn't the only piece of art in the photo though, with the white wall behind reception revealing its secret as you get closer: it isn't just a white wall, it's a whiteout wall. More specifically, it is a mixture of artificial marble, crystal powder, and whiteout correction fluid (!) brought together to depict endangered species of Japanese flowers. Talk about symbolism – a close up just below.
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Above is what Palace Hotel Tokyo looked like in late 2008, presiding over its own moat in its second incarnation, after starting life as the government-run Hotel Teito just after WWII. The following year it closed and reinvented itself over the span of three years into something worthy of the theme "Before and After" – check it out after the jump.
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Even more surprising perhaps? By the time the film crews zoomed up to the 41st floor lobby and 52nd floor New York Bar & Grill, the Park Hyatt had already been around for nearly a decade too, which means this month the hotel is celebrating its 20th anniversary. To mark the occasion, you can sample the "Timeless Passion" cocktail (above) while taking in the consistently awesome views from the hotel. There are a number of events over the next few months at the various restaurants and bars, and while nothing is confirmed yet, we think there might be some more news on a refresh of the rooms in the works.
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Come February 2019, a brand new two-tower complex should be finished, which will increase room count from just over 400 to 550, adding office space in the process. Design will maintain "traditional Japanese aesthetics" while bringing in all the latest technological equipment – and looking at some of the room photos on the hotel's website, they look like they could use some work. Half of the hotel's grounds will be turned into a green "metropolitan oasis".
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One of the tallest structures in Tokyo, Toranomon Hills tower (the big one in the middle in the above photo, with a bonus appearance of Tokyo Tower on the left) dominates the skyline south of the vast green expanse surrounding the Imperial Palace. Andaz spreads across six floors of the building, with reception on floor 51, rooftop bar, function space and wedding chapel (yes, really) on floor 52, spa on floor 37, and 164 guestrooms between floors 47 and 50.
We had high hopes for our Andazm at Andaz no. 12 and we left pretty satisfied after a night in one of its rooms. Why? Here are five things that made it work for us.
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And where better to take the next step than Tokyo, a metropolis if there ever was one? We had hoped Aman Tokyo would have been open by the time we were in Japan, but pre-summer became post-summer as it tends to do for hotel openings, with the latest we've heard being sometime in September. We did walk over to The Otemachi Tower complex that the hotel will be part of to get a sense of its setting, so read on for a first impression.
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The fact that Andaz Tokyo is indeed very much open is something we can vouch for, typing this as we do in one of its rooms on the 50th floor of the equally new Toranomon Hills tower, with the above view over the city and the Imperial Palace stretching out in front of us.
We paid an opening rate of about $370 USD (39360 JPY) but we're clearly getting a lot of bang for our buck. From big views to small amenities (the minibar and WiFi are complimentary), there is lots to talk about, which we'll do soon.
In the meantime, here are a few shots to whet your appetite: from the lofty heights of the 52nd floor rooftop and expansive lap pool to old-timey switches on the nightstand, paper artwork in the elevators and bonsai trees in the lobby. Stay tuned for much more.
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The Andaz Tokyo Toranomon Hills will officially open its doors on June 11, making it the first Andaz in Japan and the 12th Andaz hotel overall. Here are a few words from the hotel's general manager:
"We are thrilled to introduce the Andaz brand to this exciting city to become a bridge between Tokyo's fascinating past and dynamic future," said Arnaud de Saint-Exupéry, General Manager of Andaz Tokyo Toranomon Hills. "We look forward to offering the boutique lifestyle hotel concept to both guests and locals, which is something quite new for the Japanese hotel market. The Andaz brand is deeply rooted in local culture, and we are committed to providing an unscripted, Japanese-inspired experience to guests that will help them feel truly connected to the heart and soul of Tokyo."
We couldn't find a room online for June 11th (it said the hotel was sold-out) but we did find a special opening offer for June 16th for about $375 a night for an Andaz King. Remember, this is Andaz, so complimentary WiFi, minibar snacks and non-alcoholic drinks are included.
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"They may be the only images in existence of American prisoners in Japanese prisoner camps. And they sat unpublished for more than fifty years, apparently ignored by a U.S. government that seemed indifferent to the atrocities the images documented."--Fort Worth WeeklyOn the day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the twenty-three marines stationed in North China were at the peak of physical condition. They were young, brave men who were willing to die to defend their country. But on that day, they were forced to surrender to the Japanese and spent the rest of the war-all 1,355 days-as POWs. They didn't know the statistic that stated a marine was 17.5 times more likely to die in a Japanese prison camp than in battle-or that 38 percent of all Americans captured by the Japanese died in labor camps. But they were soon to find out on their own. The Secret Camera is the true story of how one North China marine struggled for survival. From his capture on Pearl Harbor Day, through the bombing of Nagasaki, Corporal Terence S. Kirk spent years as slave labor for the Japanese war machine. Watching himself and his fellow marines wither from strapping young men to mere skeletons, ravaged by starvation, abuse, and disease, he decided to make a difference-by recording the atrocities they all endured. With the help of a Japanese interpreter and a handful of other brave marines, Kirk managed to build a pinhole camera from scraps of cardboard, take a handful of photos, and then hide them away until the end of the war. These are the only photos ever taken inside a Japanese POW camp. A record of courage, faith, and ingenuity, his is a story of heroism, unimaginable adversity, and the will to survive.His photos sat unpublished for more than fifty years, ignored by a U.S. government that seemed indifferent to the atrocities the images documented. But Kirk would not let them languish, and this book is his legacy.
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hhh ok but sam going to bed, the day having been exhausting for all involved and he's curled up in his covers, facing the wall when he hears a soft knock at his door, a gentle tap of knuckle on wood
he tenses at first, arm posed to grab the knife he keeps under his bed, but then he hears castiel's voice, "sam? it's me." and sam turns over to see the vague outline of castiel in his doorway, and he sits up, rubs at his eyes blearily before reaching to turn on the lamp that sits on his nightstand when castiel steps out of the shadow of the doorway, sam can see his face illuminated by the moonlight streaming through his window - the soft light makes him look younger, softer. "i just— i don't sleep, as you know, and i find i don't really enjoy being alone out there. i thought i'd ask if i could join you."
the question gives sam pause, and castiel steps back a bit, obviously afraid he's made some faux pas, said something he shouldn't. "i'm sorry- i just thought- we… bonded, earlier, and i thought since we hugged, our being in close proximity does not make you uncomfortable, and i rather like it, so i didn't think you'd mind, but—"
"cas," sam interrupts, voice still thick with sleep. "slow down. you want to…," sam searches for a better wording, but nothing comes to mind, "sleep with me?" he winces a little at how it sounds, but cas doesn't seem to react to it, besides nodding
"yes. well, you'd sleep — i would just enjoy your presence while waiting for you to wake up."
sam smiles a little at that, and she scooches over to the far side of his bed, pats the space next to him. "well, what can i say to that? of course you can. i understand, it's unsettling being the only one awake in a dark house."
castiel steps toward sam's bed slowly, as if waiting for sam to take back his answer and send him away, but sam smiles encouragingly and pulls down the covers, lets castiel slip in next to him before pulling the blankets back up. sam's full size bed feels smaller now, castiel a solid warmth beside him, but it doesn't feel intrusive— it feels rather nice, sam thinks. castiel and him have been friends for a long time, but after the events of the day, they feel closer, an understanding that always existed between them finally put into words.
"are you comfortable?" sam asks when cas is laid next to him, and sam lays back down when cas nods at him. "i move around in my sleep sometimes, i'll try not to kick you."
castiel responds with, "don't worry, i know you won't hurt me."
cas does that a lot, sam notices; say simple things like that which strike a chord in sam's chest, the trust implied in the statement enough to make him pause, and he smiles into his pillow. "night, cas."
"goodnight, sam."
sam wakes up a few hours later, head pillowed by castiel's chest, his hand fisted in cas' shirt. for the first time in a long time, he realizes he didn't have a single nightmare.
tattoos 'nothing is worth losing you' on my forehead
Now's the part where you hug back.
ok even aside from this being everything that sets a lil ol sastiel shipper's heart a-flutter
the boy who's always believed in angels, even when the angels didn't believe in him, was told that nothing was worth losing him over. that his life was worth something, not only to the world, but to an angel. to his friend. he was told he was loved and that's something that doesn't happen nearly enough for sam winchester
i want vulnerable, needy sam going to cas for help and comfort
sam tossing and turning in his bed and his whole body hurts, he's got a headache so intense that he's nauseous, and a gaping ache in his chest that he knows won't go away until he sees his brother again, and cas is reading in the library, hands flipping through the pages incredibly fast, but sam has no doubt that castiel's retaining all he reads, cas amazes him like that constantly
and sam slumps against the doorframe, scrubbing a hand down his face and sighing, "can't sleep" when castiel looks up at him questioningly
cas puts down his book and looks at sam with concern (a part of sam aches at that, he doesn't deserve sympathy), asks, "i'm sorry. what do you need?"
sam shrugs, dragging his feet towards the arm chair next to the one cas is seated in. "i.. don't know, honestly. i don't know anymore."
cas nods, brows still creased in concern. "what do you want?"
and god, it's that that makes tears spring in sam's eyes, and he blinks hard against them. it's such a simple question, but sam can't remember the last time he was asked that. he's been making choices based purely on his needs for survival for so long (and so has everyone else in his life, he thinks bitterly, and feels a short-lived burst of anger towards his brother— he can almost still feel gadreel in his head, a phantom limb that won't stop aching) that he can't remember the last time he took what he wanted into consideration.
sam thinks for a few moments, keenly aware of cas watching him closely, and it's with a great effort he lifts his hand, places it over the one cas has sitting idly on the arm of his chair. castiel's hand is warm under his, and cas's eyes linger on their joined hands for a moment before turning his hand over, so their palms touch, and tangling his fingers with sam's. he gives sam a tentative nod, answering the "is this okay?" sam is asking with his eyes, and sam tries for a wavering smile.
sam doesn't know what he needs at this point, but right now, he knows this is what he wants.
You feel better?
A little, yeah.
sastiel with bottom!sam (。◕‿◕。)
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So do you think that suspected crimes shouldn't be investigated, in case the person accused gets distressed?
If someone reports a crime, it needs to be investigated. If someone like DLT (for example) has done nothing wrong, he'll be able to defend himself. He's always come across as having a strong personality.
I said way back on this thread (or one of the earlier ones), that false accusations are horrible and can ruin lives.
what about genuine accusations? If someone has committed a crime, shouldn't they be brought to justice?
In a responsible way, yes, of course they should. Not in this sensation-driven, drip drip drip of innuendo and sly and damaging suggestion that the media seems bent on. No one deserves to be associated with child abuse if that's not the crime they're being investigated for. The way it is, all those arrested/questioned to date seem to be tarred with the Savile brush and it's wrong and beyond irresponsible and the media should be ashamed of itself.
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Rest, instead of being something passive, is actually an act of resistance. We live in The City That Never Sleeps — so resting may be the most countercultural and spiritual thing we do with our lives."—The Theology of Rest (via explore-blog)
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What's the fun in playing it safe. I think I'd rather misbehave.
What I wouldn't give to have a stare down with Jillian Michaels.
Have you ever taken a stroll down make-up lane to purchase a quality brush cleaner and wondered why your favorite companies sell pigmy-sized bottles of what should be considered liquid gold by that of a small nation?
As a die-hard make-up enthusiast and artist, it was hard for me to swallow the notion that anything could be better than my almighty brands. Budgetary concerns may not always be such a negative situation as they may spurn you into educating yourself and getting a bit more creative in your endeavors.
The most fervent of make-up groupies may scowl at my recipe for brush success and preservation however, in my defense, I have top quality brushes that have withstood 15 years of service. Take care of your brushes and they my darlings, will take care of you.
You will need 5 major things on this great quest:
A decent sized container (I use glass as I do not want chemicals from a synthetic material leeching on to the brushes)
An old clean hand towel (a towel that is not guest room worthy as it make incur stains from the battle)
99% Alcohol ( Usually purchased at pharmacy behind counter. See note below)
Ivory dish liquid
Warm water
Fill container with a decent amount of alcohol. Dip brush in alcohol. Make sure to not go past the ferrule (Metal fastener which joins the handle and hair filaments together). Dip brush a few times and strain excess alcohol by pressing brush gently against side of container. Wipe brush gently on hand towel in a horizontal movement going with the direction of the filaments carefully ensuring not to misshape brush by stippling or any other movement against the brush's natural filament placement.
At this point after your first step, depending on the amount of make-up in the brush, you may need to dump the alcohol solution, especially if it is a foundation brush. A golden rule, if the water looks like mud or you cant see through it, dump it. If you are opting to dump the soiled solution, rinse container with warm water and repeat the first steps again. Repeat this process until the brush bleeds clear alcohol with no make-up residue on the towel. Gently squeeze brush, reshape to original shape, and let dry. Brush should dry and evaporate all alcohol in the matter of a minute or so due to it's excessively high alcohol content.
This step most consider to be optional. I however, have had great success with it and my brushes have lasted longer than most car's lives. This step applies mostly to brushes that are soiled by thick and/or creamy make-ups such as lipstick, foundations or concealers. Give it a try.
Take same sized clean container, a couple of small squeezes of Ivory dish liquid and some warm water. Repeat steps above ensuring not to go past the ferrule. Blot brush as in steps above and rinse until water runs clear, blot gently with towel and leave to dry. If there is still sticky residue on the brush, take a small squirt of liquid and massage brush gently going with direction of filaments. Rinse. Blot and dry.
It is worthy to NOTE, that the purchase of 99% alcohol may be difficult to purchase in a drug store. Although I have never had a problem, there are several other places you may purchase 99% alcohol. These include:
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So what most of you will shortly come to know of me, is that I'm a tad eccentric. Probably the left-handed Aquarian freak in me. Maybe I was burnt at the stake in a past life for being an alchemist or something outlandish like that. I do joke rather frequently, however part of this is actually very true.
I do believe in natural remedies, and most certainly the benefits we can extract from old mother nature, barring the pesticides and all of the chemical nastiness that is currently available in today's modern marketplace.
While I do tend to agree that what mostly exists today is "bad" for us, I do not agree in the fear that circulates from such thoughts. You see people talk about these issues, yet where is the action involved in making things right?
There are some things that we can do in our daily lives to turn things around for our health and wellbeing by reconstructing the framework of our attitudes towards a more "natural" state of mind. You may be surprised to know there are many natural cures and applications for our daily needs. One of these applications is in the world of beauty and aesthetics.
Now, while I realize I just gave you a huge speech and you most likely thought we were traveling to visit Al Gore in Hollywood, we are going to make today's class trip to "Jenna's Emporium O' Beauty."
While most of you do not know my age, and no, I'm not going to divulge it, so don't even attempt to coax it out of me, I will tell you I will fight age to the death. I am determined to be the absolute victor. Yes, I will visit the medspa. I am definitely not condemning you to a life of incense and "Kumbaya" here, however, there are several ways to incorporate a more healthy beauty regimen while also pleasing the purse strings. Now, I know what you are thinking, when we start think about our beauty or fashion and incorporating the concepts of a budget, all of the sudden, we start thinking we will never receive the quality or results that a brand supplies, never in a million years. Well sometimes nature is a better source of our needs than Lancome or the laboratory. Our skin is our largest organ and it needs nourishment. Keep an open mind and try it on for size. If we attempt to venture outside of the box and think a little differently, we may be pleasantly surprised.
One of the things I've been doing lately (yes, I'm my own 5'1.5" Guinea Pig) is doing a facial oil cleanse. Most people may feel the desire to run away screaming and head for the hills at this bizarre concept, but actually in the eyes of science, it is not bizarre at all. One of the basics in chemistry, is that oil actually dissolves oil. While commercial cleansers actually strip our skin of essential oils leaving us with a horrendous cycle of the skin attempting to repair, then pumping out an oil slick to moderate itself, oil will actually dissolve oil and leave your skin with its natural barrier intact.
As a person who is acutely anal about my beauty routine, this one was a hard pill for me to swallow for fear of breakouts or something going completely and utterly awry. To my pleasant surprise, no breakouts, just supple skin like a baby's butt and more money in my purse. Here's the recipe if you care to try! Feel free to experiment with different and essential oils in combination.
Oily Skin: 70% Olive/Sunflower Oil to 30% Castor Oil
Normal Skin: 80% Olive/Sunflower Oil to 20% Castor Oil
Dry Skin: 90% Olive/Sunflower Oil to 10% Castor Oil
Directions: Apply quarter size oil mixture to face (Do not worry about make-up. It will be removed better than any make-up remover). Massage face for about two minutes. Apply a clean wet hot washcloth to face and lay down for a few minutes. Wipe off. You may repeat the hot towel again if desired. The hot towel will steam the pores and oil will draw excess oil and impurities. I do this routine every few days and my skin is amazing. I do not do it daily because Castor oil can be drying if used too frequently. I have also added Almond Oil due to having dry skin. Try adding and experimenting with your own combinations. Good luck!
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But it seems like one of the reasons for the huge success of the song is that it's not just a song about Loretta Lynn. It also tells a story about thousands of people with similar experiences, and their relationship to one looming fixture: the coalmine.
"Coal Miner's Daughter" means something because so many people out there know what it's like to live a life dominated by coal. Images of coal miners with coal-blackened faces and wearing headlamps are almost a cliché, representing everything from the story of industrialization to the power of union organizing in its hey-day. In Loretta Lynn's Kentucky hometown of Butcher Holler, coal mining was the only real job available, and almost all the men she knew did that work. In the time of her childhood, union organizers, coal bosses, and government regulators fought tooth and nail over the future of coal.
Now the future has arrived, and coal is still the cheapest and most important energy source in the United States today, generating over half of the nation's electricity. The U.S. also produces about 35% of the world's coal, more than any other country. Coal is also still dirty, and still dangerous. Coal is not a thing of the past—and the debates surrounding it are as heated as ever (no pun intended... or maybe it was).
Take just a few examples. Now that global warming is widely accepted as a problem, people are arguing more and more fiercely about how to reduce the environmental harm associated with burning coal. Coal miners are still in serious danger of injury and death as a result of mining accidents and black lung disease, despite attempts at government regulation. (This makes the 2010 rescue of 33 miners in Chile, who spent 69 days trapped underground, all the more miraculous.) And in Lynn's homeland of Appalachia, some are trying to stop the bulldozers of mountaintop removal coalmining, a practice that strips all the trees and surface rock off of coal-rich hills in order to dig shallow mines. To continue with the obvious cheesy pun, the coal issue is only getting hotter.
To try to understand the utter dominance of coal mining in Loretta Lynn's world, let's start at the beginning (or at least closer to the beginning—the real history of coal mining began over 10,000 years ago in China). Anyhow, in the United States the story of the massive coal industry begins back in the 1800s with the Industrial Revolution, when changes in technology and production led to a sea-change in how European and American societies produced and consumed their most basic needs. Factories replaced individual craftspeople, large farms with single products replaced family farms, and railroads and steam engines made long-distance transportation much easier, which in turn supported even larger-scale industrial production.
Coal was the fuel for many of these changes. By the end of the 1800s, electricity was a household word, and it was coal that kept the trains running and the lights on. Urbanization and a slew of new inventions meant that whole cities were being built whose operations depended on those little black pockets of energy. The Appalachian region, ranging from southern New York State all the way down to northern Alabama (click here for a map), was the center of coal production, and whole towns (called "coal patch towns") grew up around coal mines.
Coal production soared, doubling every ten years from 1850 until 1918, when it peaked at 680 million short tons per year in the U.S. due to the demand created by World War I. But a gradual decline in the twenties became a steep one in the 1930s. The sudden economic changes of the Great Depression cut coal production to 360 million short tons in 1932, just over half of what it had been at the end of World War I. (A short ton, by the way, is 2,000 pounds. A long ton is 2,240 pounds. Go figure.) At the same time, increased mechanization of the mining process cut coal-mining jobs, in some cases replacing almost 70 percent of human work with machines that could mine, load, and transport coal.
Entering into a second World War required coal for industrial production and transportation. The industry in Lynn's region of Eastern Kentucky got enough of a kick that her father gained regular employment as a miner during the early 1940s. Everyone likes a steady job, especially after a recession, right? Unfortunately, by most accounts, mining was a harsh life at best, and a lethal career path at worst.
There were a million reasons to dread working in the mines. Mines were dark, dirty, and cramped. Miners could look forward to lousy wages based on how many tons of coal they produced, which meant that if you were sick, tired, or slow on the job, you could make less money or even no money at all. Mining bosses could easily cheat workers by under-measuring the weight of the coal collected, or refusing to pay for cars of coal with too many rocks in them (even though this coal could still be used). Coal dust entered the lungs, leading to illness and death, and in the 1940s there was still no such thing as workers' compensation or disability payments. Miners who got sick were kicked to the curb with no benefits, which is precisely what happened to Lynn's father in the years before his death. Mining disasters such as fires, explosions, and collapsing mines have also claimed thousands of lives and are still a risk for coal miners.
These nasty conditions spurred plenty of pushback from the large and well-organized labor unions of the earlier twentieth century. The United Mine Workers of America (UMW) was founded in 1890 and grew to be one of the most powerful members of the AFL-CIO under the leadership of John L. Lewis. Unionized miners fought for an eight-hour workday, fair wages, health and retirement benefits and safety protections. But unionizing could be risky: miners often lost their jobs as a result of getting involved with unions. Mine owners hired private guards who beat up and intimidated union organizers and their families (and since mine owners often ran the governments and police forces of tiny mining towns, it was nearly impossible to stop them). Some of those who did organize strikes were murdered in incidents like the 1917 Ludlow Massacre and the 1927 Columbine Mine Massacre in Colorado. Both involved the fatal shooting of striking miners and their families by national guardsmen. Not far from Lynn and her family, Harlan County, Kentucky, became known as "Bloody Harlan" in the 1930s because of ongoing violent clashes between miners and the bosses' henchmen.
Loretta Lynn's dad, Melvin Webb, probably benefitted from some of the victories won by union organizers. But by the time the federal government passed the first ever Coal Mining Safety Act in 1952, Webb's career was nearly over. More comprehensive bills were passed in 1969 and 1977, mandating regular inspection of the mines for safety, and compensating workers who got sick from inhaling coal dust. By that time, Lynn's coal miner father had died of a stroke at the age of 51, unemployed, infected with black lung, and lacking even basic health care.
Without a doubt, coal mining work isn't what it once was. It's safer, more tightly regulated by the federal government, generally less fatal, and at least a bit higher paying. Even though the U.S. produces about twice as much coal now as it did in the 1950s, fewer people are employed in the mines due to changes in technology. But miners still contract black lung, and as recently as April 2010, 29 men died in a mining explosion in West Virginia. The Upper Big Branch mine explosion was the worst U.S. mining accident since 1970, and the tragedy called mining safety and regulation back up to the forefront.
In addition to the health and safety costs of mining, the reality of global warming has been putting pressure on the coal mining industry for a couple of decades now. One of the by-products produced by burning coal is carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that traps heat in the atmosphere. Coal emissions are also linked to acid rain and respiratory illness, and coal mining can destroy ecosystems by tearing up the earth's surface and polluting nearby rivers and lakes.
Coal these days is all about electricity. In 1950, only about 19 percent of the 560 million tons of coal produced went towards producing electric power—the rest of the coal went to steam engines and industrial uses. By 2003, the measure of coal production had almost doubled, but about 90 percent was used for electric power. Coal mining fuels our laptops, lights, cell phone chargers, machinery and appliances.
With a dozen options for cleaner, renewable energy sources, why is coal still such a big thing? The long and the short of it is that coal is cheap. As long as the demand is there, coal corporations will keep up a steady supply unless government regulation stops them. And despite health risks and environmental devastation, many are dependent on the mines for their livelihoods. In Appalachia, where mining jobs have declined due to mechanization and the western migration of the industry, lots of people still favor mining in the region simply because it is their livelihood.
What is the future of this dirty, dangerous, and powerful industry that is literally keeping our lights on? Will renewable energy overcome nonrenewable resources like coal, oil, and natural gas anytime in the near future? Obviously Loretta Lynn can't tell us all that, but "Coal Miner's Daughter" paints a clear picture of a tough lifestyle that might become (but is not yet) a thing of the past.


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Capital Fest 2014, a concert for Catholic University students featuring the band Walk the Moon, was held Sept. 27 on the University Lawn. Program Board, the University's student-run organization that plans undergraduate events, put the concert together. The band Coin opened for Walk the Moon. (Photos by Ed Pfueller and Rachael Salamone)
The 2014 Dean's Vespers on Sept. 25 at the Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine of the Holy Family in Washington, D.C., gathered the School of Theology and Religious Studies community together as well as people from across the University community. The homily by Very Rev. Mark Morozowich, interim provost, accentuated the intimate connection between the academic life and living up to Christ's call to love one another as a sign of the deep connection between God's love and our actions. He concluded by thanking God for the gifts already bestowed and asked God to bless the students, faculty, and the staff as we begin this new school year. (Photos by Ed Pfueller and Rachael Salamone)
The University stepped up its recycling efforts on Sept. 23 by placing new receptacles in the Edward J. Pryzbyla University Center for food waste and other compostable material as well as recyclables and landfill waste. Student volunteers wearing "Go Green" shirts were on hand to help members of the community learn what materials belong in each bin. The new receptacles are part of an effort by the Office of Facilities Operations to expand recycling and further decrease landfill waste on campus. Compostable materials include any food waste and paper napkins. Materials that can be disposed of in recycling bins across campus include not only paper waste, but also aluminum, glass, and most plastics. (Photos by Ed Pfueller)
At Catholic University's annual Convocation, held Sept. 10 in the Great Upper Church of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, first-year students were formally received into the academic community. Andrew Abela, dean of the School of Business and Economics, delivered the Convocation's main address, titled "One Small Change." Todd Lidh, assistant dean of undergraduate studies and director of the First-Year Experience, President John Garvey, and Provost James Brennan also spoke at the ceremony. (Photos by Ed Pfueller and Rachael Salamone)
The first Cardinal Tailgate of the 2014 football season drew a big crowd Friday night, Sept. 5, to the Raymond A. DuFour Athletic Center parking lot. Students were invited to load up their cars with food and drinks, and to use the grills provided by the Department of Athletics to cook hamburgers and hot dogs. The event was organized by Custos and The House, whose members provided face painting, corn hole, and food. The CUA football team lost its home opener to McDaniel College by a score of 34-31. (Photos by Ed Pfueller and Rachael Salamone)
On Sept. 2, students enjoyed free food, giveaways, and games at Fall Fiesta, an annual celebration held in conjunction with the Student Involvement Fair. Officers from every student organization were on hand to invite students to get involved in the campus community. The event was sponsored by the Program Board and the Office of Campus Activities. Fiesta-style food was donated by CUA's Dining Services.
The Catholic University of America community received a message of inspiration and a call to action during the Mass of the Holy Spirit Aug. 28. The Mass, which is held annually at the opening of the school year, was celebrated by Cardinal Donald Wuerl, archbishop of Washington and University chancellor, who asked God to invoke the gifts of the Holy Spirit on the University community to strengthen and guide students, faculty, and staff throughout the 2014-15 academic year.
On Thursday, Aug. 21, new students arrived to their new home at The Catholic University of America. Students and their families spent the morning moving into residence halls before attending other Orientation events, such as alumni welcome events, an introduction from President John Garvey, Orientation Mass, Real World CUA, a picnic, and a "House of Cards" casino night. Orientation ran the four days before classes began on Monday, Aug. 25. (Photos by Ed Pfueller)
Approximately 100 people gathered on the sidewalk of Monroe Street on the morning of July 28 to witness the opening of one of the anchor stores of Monroe Street Market — Barnes & Noble at The Catholic University of America.
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) delivered a policy address on the nation's values at The Catholic University of America on July 23. Titled "Strong Values for a Strong America," the senator's speech was delivered in the Edward J. Pryzbyla University Center and was co-sponsored by Catholic University's Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies (IPR) and the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. Sen. Rubio's address was followed by a panel discussion of analysts and scholars who analyzed the topic and the senator's remarks from different perspectives. Moderated by Stephen Schneck, director of IPR, the panel included Russell Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention; Penny Nance, president of Concerned Women for America; Richard V. Reeves, a fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution; Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project; and Sister Ann Patrick Conrad, associate professor of social work at CUA.


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Sep 27, 2010
"The C.D.C. recommends that people 19 and older receive immunizations against as many as 14 infectious diseases. (Not all adults require every vaccine.) Yet most adults rarely think about getting the shots — until they step on a rusty nail or begin planning travel to a developing country. Only 7 percent of Americans over age 60, for instance, have received the herpes zoster vaccine, which prevents shingles, a painful nerve infection. Just 11 percent of young women have received the vaccine against the two types of human papilloma virus that cause 70 percent of all cervical cancers. Why are adults so behind on vaccinations? For one thing, the shots can be expensive (from $20 to $200 a dose for some, and some require three doses). But a bigger part of the problem is a lack of awareness." But "[t]he new health care law should help get more adults to roll up their sleeves. Under the law, group and individual health plans, as well as Medicare, must provide preventive health services, including immunizations recommended by the C.D.C., free of charge. That means no co-payments, co-insurance or deductibles" (Alderman, 9/24).
Related, earlier KHN story: Health Law Expands Medicare Coverage Of Preventive Care (Andrews, 8/10)
This is part of Kaiser Health News' Daily Report - a summary of health policy coverage from major news organizations. The full summary of the day's news can be found here and you can sign up for e-mail subscriptions to the Daily Report here. In addition, our staff of reporters and correspondents file original stories each day, which you can find on our home page.
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31724"Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final." by Rainer Maria Rilke (via vechernyaya)
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125"The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a tellar but for want of an understanding ear." by Stephen King, Different Seasons
309"I don't know you. The only thing I know about you is, you're reading this. I don't know if your happy or not; I don't know whether you're young or not. I sort of hope you're young and sad. If you're old and happy, I can imagine that you'll smile to yourself when you hear me going, he broke my heart. You'll remember someone who broke your heart, and you'll think to yourself, Oh yes, I remember how that feels. But you can't, you smug old git. Oh you'll remember feeling sort of plesantly sad. You might remember listening to music and eating chocolates in your room, or walking along the embankment on your own, wrapped up in a winter coat and feeling lonely and brave. But can you remember how with every mouthful of food it felt like you were biting into your own stomach? Can you remember the taste of red wine as it came back up and into the toilet bowl? Can you remember dreaming every night that you were still together, that he was talking to you gently and touching you, so that every morning when you woke up you had to go through it all over again?" by Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down (via vvolare)
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1118"When I like people immensely, I never tell their names to any one. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it." by Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via larmoyante)
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16"Maybe he was as mad as he said he was, but she could see only a species of miserable fright. Suddenly, like the thud of a boxing glove on her mouth, she saw how close to the edge of everything he was. The agency was tottering, that was bad enough, and now, on top of that, like a grisly dessert following a putrid main course, his marriage was tottering too. She felt a rush of warmth for him, for this man she had sometimes hated and had, for the last three hours at least, feared. A kind of epiphany filled her. Most of all, she hoped he would always think he had been as mad as hell, and not, not the way his face said he felt." by Stephen King (via aigla)
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23"And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean. I think it would be great to have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote one of them, I would be very proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope they feel it's enough. I really do because they've made me happy. And I'm only one person." by Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower (via introvertir)
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1602"She was still waiting for him to come back to her, even though he wasn't going to. She was still holding out for something that wasn't going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at." by Ann Brashares, Girls In Pants: The Third Summer Of The Sisterhood (via larmoyante)
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280"I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived: I've loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough." by The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks (via torace)
1637"When you meet someone so different from yourself, in a good way, you don't even have to kiss to have fireworks go off. It's like fireworks in your heart all the time. I always wondered, do opposites really attract? Now I know for sure they do. I'd grown up going to the library as often as most people go to the grocery store. Jackson didn't need to read about exciting people or places. He went out and found them, or created excitement himself if there wasn't any to be found. The things I like are pretty simple. Burning CDs around themes, like Songs to Get You Groove On and Tunes to Fix a Broken Heart; watching movies; baking cookies; and swimming. It's like I was a salad with a light vinaigrette, and Jackson was a platter of seafood Cajun pasta. Alone, we were good. Together, we were fantastic." by Lisa Schroeder (via atomos)
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We adore Keith Wallace's brand new cookbook and got him to share a few of his most mouthwatering recipes with us - including aromatic pork chops with sage and white beans.
Eating and drinking have always gone hand in hand—but that doesn't mean finding a perfect suppertime match for your prized Pinot Blanc is easy. Luckily for you, in Keith Wallace's book Corked and Forked: Four Seasons of Eats and Drinks, the secret to stellar food and beverage parings is broken down and explained through original, seasonal and beautifully put together menus.
Hailing from a family of teetotaling New England ministers, Wallace, now Director of the Wine School of Philadelphia and columnist for The Daily Beast, was not raised amongst culinary and wine snobbery and makes a point to not fill his book with highbrow "mumbo jumbo." Instead, he focuses on in-season ingredients that are easy to find at the local grocery and wine selections that are widely accessible. We love his Sunday supper menu of pork chops with sage and white beans paired with a red Tuscan wine. Lavishly photographed, this savory autumn meal embodies his simplistic outlook by containing only nine ingredients
— By Emily Arno
This amazing vegetarian stock is comparable in depth and flavor to a demi-glace.
Pork Chops with Sage and White Beans
A touch of lemon adds vivacity to the earthy flavors of pork, fried sage and garlic.
Spicy Chocolate and Gingersnap Tart
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Comment posted Opposition evaluations of three year council budget by Simon.
Well, despite dire predictions, sniping from the sidelines and the rubbing of FA's hands after yet another budget article – guess what??
The Council's much-maligned budget was passed almost unanimously. Only Geo Freeman 'Im my own man' and big Robert McIntyre and 'I didn't know anytthing school closures when I was Education Spokesperson' Isobel Strong voted against Tricky Dicky and his pals' budget.
The SNP group? Well they voted with Tricky.
Argyll 1st? – well they too voted with Tricky.
Robb ? he voted with Tricky.
And as Geo Freeman's 'group' don't opersate a whip system Geo's vice-president, vice- leader thingy also voted for Tricky.
Did no one tell these clowns the purpose of opposition is to oppose?? Or come up with better proposals?
ps Mike Russell also agreed to shut yet another school under the SNP s 'flawed legislation'
Simon also commented
- Scruff – interesting post and therefore quite removed from the stuff the 'usual uspects'* normally post on here.
"The current administration has put the 'noose' around its own neck" – whilst I'm not best placed to make any kind of political prediction that covers Argyll and bute as I'm not a member of any political party – I'm not convinced that apart from the 'usual suspects'** many people in Argyll and Bute give a monkeys about rural schools!
It's never the main point of discussion in the circles I frequent and on the odd time it does arise most people are of the view that some of these expensive schools are little more than private education on the rates and that they should be closed.
I think the ARSN folks might get one Councillor in. But, I also think that the electorate are too mature to be fooled by a vociferous but essentially single-issue self-interest clique.
As to who will the elections – well, we'll see what we'll see. Let's be honest here is no real leader in the ranks of the mongrel opposition who has done any real damage to Dick's coalition – they whine, mump and moan about him – and then the numpties end up voting with him!!!.
But at a very local level perhaps ARSN should put up a candidate against Dick Walsh and then watch their candidate lose their deposit.
* copywright Mike Russell
** copywright Mike Russell
- Fairly lengthy but predictable post from Integrity.
If it's clarity you're after Integrity here's some; "details of the budget are kept under lock and key to a ridiculously late hour" – this happens at UK Govt level, Scottish Govt level and as far as I'm aware in every other Council throughout Scotland. You might argue it shouldn't but it does.
The opposition and their lap dogs – and I do incloude Newsie in this – have been banging on about the budget, how important it is and the significant impact it will have have on the area. And??? Words, just words. Empty, rhetoric from a bunch on sheep bereft of any cogent, comprehensive alternative to Tricky's proposals.
Where IS the Leadership amongst this rag-bag collection pathetic collection of supposed opposition?? Where is the forensic ( ) anaylsis that brings forwards a radical alternative budget?? Mmmm???
Well there WAS McIntyre/Strong with their childish-pathetic-token-gesture-politicking to Bute….but apart for that – Pffftttttt.
Gawd help us all if these muppets ever actually managed to actually get into power.
- No response from the SNP lap dogs?
Tsk, tsk, tsk.
- What a hoot. With a typical FA Nelsonian eye Newsie makes NO comment on the real stories of the budget.
Is it not true that that the much-maligned budget was passed almost unanimously?
Did only three voted against it – Geo Freeman, Strong and whatever the name erstwhile leader of the SNP is called?
Did the SNP Group overwhelmingly reject their erstwhile leader's advice and voted with Dick Walsh and the Coalition?
Is Anne Baird (above) part of the rumoured split in the SNP Group and lack of confidence in their lkeader just a few months ahead of the elections?
Why no commment on all this from FA?
Recent comments by Simon
- Planning permission for Ulva School Community Association Housing project
Well done Ulva for getting off their bahookies and doing something positive about rural depopulation. It's just a pity that other communities with expensive rural schools and a declining population don't do something similar.
- United Kingdom devolution: a dog's dinner to herd cats
I had macaroni cheese for supper last night.
- Out of control Salmond scores own goal on poll-tax
The nonsense above at 9. is of course from my stalker the pathetic Simon-wannabee.
- Argyll and Bute Council administration's gagging clause
TTT – "I do not understand why a new protocol regarding the rules of membership of the new administration had to be enforced internally".
I don't know why either – but as I've said elsewhere on here there is nothing unusual on here about group rules being established to govern group activities. Every political group and alliance does exactly the same and to suggest that this is somehow a 'gagging clause' is naïve in the extreme.
- Argyll and Bute Council administration's gagging clause
Malcolm "however there is still plenty going on here to warrant exposure" if you have one scintilla of evidence to back this rash assertion – you really should either publish it or go to the police.
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Props to Sean Stout from Terroreyes.tv on this flawless piece shot in a bus in Oakland, CA. If you have 11 minutes to spare, fill it with this stunning video. Religious Girls, when you first hear them, sound like some guys just messing around on their instruments, and maybe that's all you'll hear (which sucks for you). However, if you really focus in, you'll appreciate how much energy these guys put into riffing consistently on the same wavelength as they switch up rhythms, swinging the mood of each song back and forth like a pendulum. Some moments find your ears fighting the harsh, yet complex sounds only to be eased into a much more palatable moment where the rhythm steadies. Also, make sure to catch them live if ever you get the chance. It's a mind-shatteringly good time.


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