better with booze: new years 2011

goodbye is too final,
see you on the flipflop
xox

the nicest things

staying up all night talking and sipping champagne
stopping at the gas station for treats
telling someone you love them for the first time and you're a little blistered and hugging a really long time
the dirty joy of Jackpot, Nevada
blowing very very big bubbles
people who come up to you just to say, "i like your skirt"
friends who always have the advice to bring you back to life
car flirting
sitting at the park until it becomes dark
softest cats bellies
when everyone knows the 90s song and it blasts and we all sing along
when a man describes another man as 'sweet'
eating popsicles in the tub
cooking a really long time and eating alone on the nicest plate with the finest glassware you have in front of reruns of the Cobsy Show
the way a pongolin walks
when you hear someone smile through the phone

xox

HEY COWBOY!

Michelle my bellie, my Micky Meeko, my beef, my babes,

I could probably write a whole book describing you. We share a telekinetic power that puzzles whoever we’re around. You know you’re my main homegirl, can you believe we have known each other over 10 years?! Holyshitsrsly! I know we haven’t always been the closest but I cherish and appreciate this last year so much we have grown a lot and learned a lot. I love you even more every day, I would never wish to change our summer spend alldayerryday together no matter what. You on the long couch me on the other; You in the green suit, me with the green blanket; You hording Frothie and Bean humping Bent. You are absolutely one of the funniest people I know. Big blk dong making you throw your phone in the Vegas toenail hotel room, queen lurking every page known, singing rock band with me in the most annoying whinny voice possible, fishing across the hallway, and sneaking in on me naked at Jefferson. I love the fact that we can do absolutely nothing and laugh our asses off doing it. I know I’m sometimes hard on you about painting your nails or coming out to do stuff, but I only push you when it’s for the best, promise (: plus you have my favorite hands, and they should look their finest right?! You have taught me in so many ways that it’s okay to be single and that regardless all you really have is yourself and you better fucking learn to love. I don’t always know if you intentionally instill these life lessons but you’re a damn good teacher and I appreciate everything I’ve learned. Michelle’s life lesson 101 “Not everyone’s a shithead, but most are.” Hahah you have a unique talent that can bring me up even when I’m in the worst mood, feeling depressed for days. You bring me back from the dead. Just thinking about you now brings a smile to my face. “I love you because we h8 the same stuff.” I can’t wait to see you tomorrow and drink a pitcher of mojitos maybe even a bloody mary! God, you sometimes blow my mind, you are so beautiful and 80 percent of the time you don’t even apprehend! My, my, you will make a great mother, biggest blue eyes and most caring evski.

Things I never did before you:

twit, tweet, twat-

want, have, own an IPhone-

long for oovoo dates-

eat the hummus at Bardenay –

think twice about hitting a car on the Cadet corner-

love all jean everything outfits-

eat nothing but broccoli-

wax taco meat-

check in-

drink pimp joose-

get roofied-

listen sex hip hop

WOW, you’ve really brought my life to another level hahahah jkjkjkjkj but in all honesty Michelle I love you like a sister and I would do anything for you. I hope you know that, I have your back before I even have mine. Committed to you and bbellion4eva, one day I hope you drive a Cutlass (SECRET: I sometimes use my 11:11 wishes on that) AND If you promise to call me verde then I promise to never face push you.

“Life is short, so don’t always follow the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh hard and never regret anything that made you happy at one time.”

I love you so much, so, so much,

xox your corndogcockonionsac

you are in my thoughts each day

Breana, Bron, Baumin,

Where can I even begin?! From this morning when I put on the cutest gold necklace you got me for Christmas, you are so ‘deer’ to me. Or last night hot boxing my car and giggling through that fucked up mini leg sex scene. To tonight, after spending the last 12 hours of my day watching a NY Ink marathon feeling completely useless I get the nicest nicest message ever, just because:

god.
sometimes i go to danielle vacca's page and read what people have said to her, and i just cry.
i don't know what i would do if you were to go. even if you were just to move away, i don't know what i'd do. i really love you. and i really admire you. you inspire me to be more creative, more spontaneous, more responsible and more respectable than i am. you make me want to be a wonderful person, someone to make you proud.
you are beautiful, harmony. and i'm sorry i don't tell you this more. you have lit up my life in so many ways, and i just feel an overwhelming sense of gratitude for you.
this is so random, but i just wanted you to know.

i love you.
love,bron.

My other half, down to the last period after your name, “bron.” I know I pay attention to detail just as much as you do and I admire that so highly. Ever since that note passing bus ride in middle school you have been the one who knows the most about me. Still now, 11 years later we can sit for hours swapping ideas, thoughts, philosophies, perspectives, values, goals, gossip...the conversation is absolutely endless with you. If anything ever feels bad or heavy we talk about it, clear the air. I promise to always try to remember to let each other feel conscious and never go through another ‘interruption’ in our friendship because I need you in my life. You are definitely one of the few people I confide in and look up to. I love the way you speak cursive when you’re excited or the fact that you always know everything about the news all the time, seriously you’re the most intelligent person I know. You have an opinion about everything and you aren’t scared to debate someone on their point of view, in fact I think you actually enjoy fighting.. even if deep-down you know they’re occasionally probably right (: You are the type of person who can relax and hang in on a Friday night in holey sweats and 5 day old hair, or be a beauty queen everyone admires that takes all the attention out of a room. You have presences unlike any other, something about you demands respect. Inspiring in every way possible, you always have an answer to any of my questions or problems. I know it sounds clique but you entirely have wisdom beyond your years my peach! Every single thing you do is thought out and done in a manner all your own, it never feels drawn-out or expected.. and it’s always just enough to leave me wanting more. The way you compliment me for no reason, “you’re the kind of friend everyone wishes they had.” You have changed me in an extremely indescribable way and I wouldn’t take it back for anything. You are the type of friend I will have and want to have when I’m 98. Permanently raising the standards of every person in our lives. I love seeing all the layers of your complex little bean, believing in you, loving you, watching you grow, discovering hand-me-down’s I gave you 10 years ago that you still cherish, all the little things you remember about life and love and us. You make all my days a little better; I can just picture you cheesing that big gorgeous smile! You are truthfully to be truthful soooo soo beautiful breana. In an out gurrlll. My sister I always wanted, my best friend that can spend 4 hours getting ready taking pictures listening to high school punkrawk with and never ever think twice about it. The girl that sketches little hearts and doodles on scraps of paper, and who can eat candy for a living. The girl who would rather drive 2 blocks than walk, and who puts three too many pumps of chocolate in her coffees , and most of all to the rainbow girl with a donk who sleeps with one leg on my bed.

You always make me remember to do things with passion.

I love you like the sun loves the moon.

whatever, forever xox hamron.

top 15 favorite opening lines to books

vintage book source

“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.” -The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.” -The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold." -Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S Thompson

"Tap-dancing child abuser. That’s what The Sunday New York Times from March 8, 1993, had called Vivi." -The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Rebeca Wells

“I wish Giovanni would kiss me.” -Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert

"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the riverbank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversation?" -Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Caroll

"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins." -Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

"The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn." -The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

"'Where's Papa going with that axe?' said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast." -Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White

“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." -The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger

"If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book." -A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket, Daniel Handler

"This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast.” -Breakfast of Champions,Kurt Vonnegut

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." -1984, George Orwell

"The first time I read the ad, I choked and cursed and spat and threw the paper to the floor." -Ishmael, Daniel Quinn.

"It was love at first sight." -Catch 22, Joseph Heller