today is my birthday

and I have never felt so fucking good.

we met one year ago today

hi, I love you 

this year has been the happiest of my life

living in love 

graced by the care and kindness of a good man 

bises

happy international women's day

thinking of all of the beautiful women in my life today 

I'm blessed with so many 

and you are all meaningful people in my life

keeping me grounded 

lifting me up

thankyou for everything

my grandmother, Natalie Arbuckle (nee Natulka Yarme), a few days before she passed. 

(June 2005)

Bobka you will always be in my heart and mind as the hell-raising opinionated hilarious and sweet woman you always have been. 

its friday! puppies kittens cute boyz cupcakes and sparkles for everyone!

happy valentines day babies

heart-strings, n.

Pronunciation:/ˈhɑːtstrɪŋz/

Etymology: < heart n. + string n. in sense ‘sinew, tendon’.

With pl. concord.

 1. In old notions of Anatomy, the tendons or nerves supposed to brace and sustain the heart.

1483 Cath. Angl. 177/1An Hartstringe, precordia.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 229/2Hartestrynges, ueines de cuevr.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xv. 272The head‥heart‥Liuer‥the Sinewes, Hartstrings, and Vaynes come from those parts.

1643 W. Prynne Romes Master-peece (1644) 34Stabbing [him] first in the mouth, next in the heart-strings.

1881 D. G. Rossetti Ballads & Sonn. (1882) 33Once she sprang as the heifer springs With the wolf's teeth at its red heart-strings.

 2.

 a. transf. and fig.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 30To seek out gemmes‥we plucke the very heart-strings out of her [the earth].

1652 R. Saunders Balm 72The heart~strings of‥his‥arguments are cut.

1659 J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. 537The Priviledges of this House‥are the Heart~strings of the Commonwealth.

1896 Daily News 4 June 6/2The engineer‥holding in his firm grasp the heartstrings of the ship.

 b. esp. The most intense feelings or emotions; the deepest affections; the heart.

1596 Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. vi. 29Her hart did leape and all her hart-strings tremble.

a1627 J. Fletcher & T. Middleton Nice Valour i. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ttt4/1,The falsest woman, That ever broke mans heart-strings.

1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. i. xii. 79A young Woman, whom he loved as tenderly as he did his Heartstrings.

1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. Introd. 3By his‥winning ways he made the heartstrings of his children twine around him.

 c. Often with allusion to stringed instruments of music.

1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus v. i. 1982[A fiddler sings] How can he play whose heart stringes broken are?

1878 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David V. Ps. cxi. 2Our heart-strings are evermore getting out of tune.

1887 Lady M. Majendie Precautions III. ii. 47,I will play on your heart-strings as I used to do.

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(from the Oxford English Dictionary) 

THE FEAR (but the excited fear this time)

Um Im like applying to grad school right now. Or whatever.
fhgbqpoeruyichmt wp9hywil5jersiu!!!!!!!!!dfkjshdfgjkhsbdfgisfhglfk

scary scary scary SHIT SCARY SHIT

might be moving even further west in 6 months and being like A GRAD STUDENT or whatever. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

please be sensitive around me this week has pulled me to the heights and depths of emotion and as my boyfriend once said while stoned + driving, I'm just barely clinging on to the edge

k thx bye
biz

Cairo you did it!

and I'm in awe. I wish you all a happy socio-political future, and I want you know that I'm proud of you for enacting change and being brave strong people.

stunning pictures here: x

mon petit couer, c'est ca

(soundtrack: x)

easy peasy happy kitten rainbow sunshine puppies and cupcakes

I woke up this morning with a fierce happiness ringing out of me loud

and everything is easy now, even the hard things

x

NEW YEARS EVE

it's almost the new year, and I have so so so much to be thankful for.

friends, thanks for being in my life now and tomorrow, this year and next.

I hope 2011 brings you all your wildest hearts desires, joy, happiness, love, gratitude, sunshine, good sex, good food, and an open heart.

xoxoxo
-A