New Blog New Blog

After being hassled by Mike's friends, Mike and I have started a new old married bags blog. I will continue to post on here, but I can't guarantee I'll keep this one up. For now, you can enjoy both blogs full of witty posts.


Enjoy!

My Top 25 at the Moment

To entice my readers back after my long absence, here is another post!

I was just looking at my top 25 most played songs on my itunes on my desktop. I think that its not totally accurate, as I think something of the Duke Spirit's Neptune should be on there. And Cold War Kids. But I dunno.

1. End of the Century -- Blur (43 times!)
2. I'm Shakin' -- Rooney (36)
3. Oxford Comma -- Vampire Weekend (34)
4. Wake Up -- Mezzanine Owls (30) (thanks corey!)
5. Subterranean Homesick Alien (unplugged) -- Radiohead (30)
6. Paint the Silence -- South (30) (that was during my OC obsession phase)
7. Unforgettable Season -- Cut Copy (29)
8. Far Away -- Cut Copy (29)
9. Time to Pretend -- MGMT (27)
10. Bryn -- Vampire Weekend (27)
11. Silver Thoughts -- Cut Copy (26)
12. Walcott -- Vampire Weekend (26)
13. Bodysnatchers -- Radiohead (25)
14. Campus -- Vampire Weekend (25)
15. Roundabout -- Axe Riverboy (24) (thanks again corey!)
16. House of Cards -- Radiohead (23)
17. Come Around -- Rhett Miller (23)
18. Midnight Runner -- Cut Copy (22)
19. Paranoid Android -- Radiohead (22)
20. She Moves in Her Own Way -- The Kooks (21)
21. Seaside -- The Kooks (21)
22. Subterranean Homesick Alien -- Radiohead (21)
23. You're a Wolf -- Sea Wolf (21)
24. Out There on the Ice Again -- Cut Copy (19)
25. Strangers in the Wind -- Cut Copy (18)


And after reviewing the list, I realized why its not entirely accurate. It's because my computer was in storage for 4 months. All of those songs were what was listening to in the spring. Most of them inspired by my husband and our first few months of dating. If you count both versions of subterranean homesick alien as one, that would be my number one song -- 50 times! That one was definitely inspired by my now husband. The first time I visited him in February at his house in Seattle and we were driving there from the airport, we drove down this long windy road to the water, and at the end of it was a sign "END OF COUNTY ROAD". I said to Mike "so you live on a country road, huh?" To which he replied with an outburst of laughter. Obviously I hadn't gotten enough sleep and couldn't read the sign well. Anyway, this became a joke between us and while listening to OK Computer over and over again between visits, we laughed at the aliens abducting the guy on a country lane late at night. We still have to steal that sign on his street.

Anyway, this summer I had the Duke Spirit on repeat, along with a lot more radiohead albums. And, as you can see, I listened to the whole second album of Cut Copy way too many times and I killed it. (I'm still looking for it on vinyl though, it is a must!)

Halloween, what?

It was a little surreal being in Hawaii on my honeymoon on Halloween. Not that I get really excited for Halloween, but it is the first holiday in my favorite string of holidays. I usually try and plan a clever outfit, I usually go to at least one Halloween party, and I usually eat some (if not a lot) of Halloween candy. None of that happened this year. I spent a quiet night with my husband on Halloween, which was perfect. The North Shore got as crazy as we'd seen it, no big raging parties, but lots of scantily clad girls. My favorite part of Halloween are the kids outfits going trick or treating. I'm glad that I felt like I didn't totally miss out on Halloween because my sister sent me this picture of her kids.




This just makes me miss them more.

It's a FIRE...sale

You know how I talked about restraining myself buying a ridiculously expensive bag that I really really wanted?

Well the day came when I got this in my mailbox:


And with a Nordstrom's gift card I've had for a while, I got this ridiculously expensive bag for a really reasonable price.



I am so excited to get it! Yay for sales!