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greasy food and tattoos

jessy — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:48:56 +0000

Well, I spent the first day of this year mostly lounging around in my PJs and then eating some delicious greasy food at The Anchor, Kentucky’s premiere greasy spoon diner. And since it’s in Kentucky, you can smoke inside too! And of course I have to mention the totally amazing mechanical band they have that “plays” when the jukebox plays a song.

"we may doze, but we never close"

On the way home we passed a tattoo parlor that happened to be open, so I decided to go in and get the little Ohio outline behind my ear I’ve been wanting. I am so excited to have it done, now I want my embroidery tattoo even more!

I now realize that I don’t think I’ve even mentioned my other tattoo. I really like it, but since I mostly wear high-waisted stuff, no one really ever sees it. It is a giant sparrow across my back. I had a similar image that I carried in my wallet for eight years, and on my 21st birthday, I decided to finally get it as a present to myself. My grandpa has two sparrows on his chest from his Navy days that I always liked, so it’s a bit of a heritage piece. Pardon for the odd cropping, it was done for modesty’s sake. :) Interestingly enough, the place I ended up getting mine at tonight is where Chris, the artist who did my sparrow, now works. And Brian who did my Ohio was a really nice, down to earth guy, and my favorite tattoo artist characteristic, a perfectionist. If you’re in the market, check out Mothers!

Anyway, it was a fantastic day all in all!

i'm really digging this purse my friend Jeni gave me. It has a TON of pockets.

WHAT: white flowy button-up, thrift

gray cashmere sweater, thrift

pocket watch necklace, chicken lays an egg

plaid skirt, gabriel brothers

navy tights, target

cowgirl boots, thrift

WHERE: the anchor and mother’s tattoo in covington

WHEN: friday, january 1

breakfast for dinner!

jessy — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:41:37 +0000

Apparently I’m really into looking down today. Almost as much as I’m feelin’ these glasses. I wore glasses from 4th grade on, but I lost mine almost 6 years ago and just never got another pair. Contacts enabled me to wear sunglasses for the first time, so I was really diggin’ that for a long time. But Orchid Grey has a really great way of rocking vintage frames, and she’s been inspiring me in that veil lately. Lucky for me, we have a wide variety of awesome frames at the store!

WHAT: vintage frames, chicken lays an egg

favorite gray scarf, target

bourbon necklace, homemade

white t, rainbow

floral dress, uo

black cardigan, found in the back of my closet

black tights, dollar store

leather combat boots, thrift

WHERE: work at chicken, grocery shopping, making dinner

WHEN: friday, decemeber 11

After a long day at the shop I came home to this….

How could any girl resist that?!

We were both feeling lazy, and who doesn’t love breakfast, so we made breakfast for dinner!

Almost there....

Tah dah! Breakfast for dinner!

thanksgiving and waffle house go hand in hand

jessy — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:40:00 +0000

Wednesday Addams pretty much summed up my feelings about Thanksgiving,

“You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from now my people will be forced to live in mobile homes on reservations. Your people will wear cardigans, and drink highballs. My people will have pain and degradation. Your people will have stick shifts. And for all these reasons I have decided to scalp you and burn your village to the ground.”

Not that I don’t love it when people give me hot, free, delicious food, especially since my diet consists mostly of cereal. I just hate all the running around. This year the boy and I had 5 Thanksgivings to attend, including one we threw for our friends, but it was all a lot of fun. It was really nice to meet the boy’s extended family too. For exactly that reason, I chose a pretty plain outfit by my standards so as not to completely weird them out on our first meeting. Also of course went for comfort with my jersey knit tent dress. No tight pants here! And my new tiny gold pocket watch, which I have worn everyday since I got it. Without further ado…

WHAT: feather headband, homemade

white t, rainbow

navy tent dress, gift from my friend nancy

gray scarf, target

teeny pocket watch, chicken lays an egg

brown oxfords, macy’s

leather saddle bag purse, thrift

feather scarf, chicken lays an egg

tan coat, gift from karma

WHERE: all the food fests

WHEN: thursday, november 26

Then, at about 2:30 in the morning, my brother and I decided that Waffle House was in order. So we drove over the bridge to Kentucky, land of Waffle House, cheap cigs, and smoking INSIDE! I opted for a little more casual outfit for that.

Here’s some miscellaneous pictures from the Thanksgiving some friends of ours had.

Thanks for reading, hope your Thanksgiving was good!

hurloween

jessy — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:00:00 +0000

I really wanted to make a Halloween post to show off some awesome costumes I saw, but I neglected to do so because I was too busy living the fuck it lifestyle pretty hard. This mostly entails hanging out with really fun people, riding around in a 1982 limo, and doing whatever you want (short of hurting other people or stealing from anything non-corporate). Mark Twain had the same idea, he just said it a million times more eloquently. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

And it lead to one of the most fun weekends of my life I’d say. My brother recently moved to Columbus to get paid to go to school, but then realized that being a college dropout is much more fun; an idea I stand behind strongly. So he bought a 1982 white limo and dropped out, (accepting his hillbilly tycoon fate by doing so) which enabled us to bring 11 people and my dog back to Columbus to live the fuck it life, at least for a weekend. We partied with some really good people on Halloween, and I was very impressed with the caliber of homemade costumes.

Best costume by far, and all homemade!

My brother, the zombie beauty queen (Miss Flint 1994)

Jacque Cousteau & Steve Zissou, best couple costume

My boyfriend as the Dude.

I was Walter, but I don’t have one of us together yet.

So the morning after this obviously high-class shindig, our resident fantastic chef, Carey made us a feast that could not be beaten.

And we spent the rest of the day recovering, watching It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, and the thrifting until we dropped. Here’s the best picture of the weekend, all 14 of us just after we all piled out of the limo behind us.

I highly recommend trying just a little bit of fuck it in your day today. See if it works for you. I bet it will.