a sappy post.

it's been 7 years since i was in college and ten days since i my birthday party guests left my house.


i live hundreds of miles away from some of my best friends in the whole wide world - like, say andi - but if we go too many days without creating a plan for Our Next Great Adventure, my skin starts to itch. 


it's totally rad to have friends who make it tip top priority to keep a friendship alive. and not like the minimum maintenance to keep it alive, but a vested interest. the 400 mile trek once a month/book a cheap flight for the weekend/g chat/text/email/updates on our daily lives friends.


i'm lucky everyday and i know it.


i hope i do justice to my friendships + keep up my end of the bargain because i so appreciate the caliber of people in my life.

pin.

of course i like this because it pegs engineers, but for real, i like it.

pin.

from mighty girl:

“you are what you learn. if all you know is how to be a gang member, that’s what you’ll be, at least until you learn something else. if you go to law school, you’ll see the world as a competition. if you study engineering, you’ll start to see the world as a complicated machine that needs tweaking. a person changes at a fundamental level as he or she merges with a particular field of knowledge. if you don’t like who you are, you have the option of learning until you become someone else. there’s almost nothing you can’t learn your way out of. life is like a jail with an unlocked, heavy door. you’re free the minute you realize the door will open if you simply lean into it.”

- scott adams {dilbert.com}

for some reason...

 ... i considered it so necessary to buy 1,740 yards  of bakers twine this weekend. that's almost a mile, people. 5,220 feet.

it all started with a friday morning phone call from a friend... asking me to swing by the restaurant supply store and grab a spool of red + white baker's twine.

... the same kind of twine that survived the great wedding of 2010.

and a handful of baby showers.

and every birthday present wrapping and christmas treat packaging and gift giving opportunity in the last two years.

so i bought it.

and was promptly re-paid. 

good planning, it seemed, as we stare straight ahead at a month of gift giving and package wrapping. 

but then we got looking.... 

$13.99 for string {it's STRING!} is beyond ridiculous... but totally the going rate for colored STRING these days.

until the magic fingers found this etsy site - where string is half as much as anyone else's STRING.

we especially like this deal.. the deal for the girl{s} who can't decide and have to have it all.

brown. light brown. green. light green. blue. dark blue. black. red. pink. yellow. orange.

i think that will do, don't you?

but wait.

then we found this other site.... with solid color STRING.

solid!

anyone can get their hands on striped STRING.... but who has solid colored STRING?

in all of these awesome colors!

for $1.35 a piece?!

irresistible.

and then some. there are 32 colors.  all of them equally delicious.

so i had her create me a custom listing for all of it.

two of them! one for me, one for my string lover's anonymous friend.

and by the end of the week, i had over $100 worth of STRING in my cart. 

very reminiscent of my days as a ribbon-gone-wild girl.

excess, anyone?