I will bring all my camera gear and take photos. Outdoor ones I mean. tonight we are eating steak and lobster and I will pretend that those things are good for you.
I don't understand the coffee thing at all. I've never been a huge coffee drinker. Some people here, they come through the door and beeline for coffee, before even taking off their coat or whatever. Fine, what I really hate is coffee humour, god kill me now.
I re-coloured my hair last night. I was sick of the rather large streaks, not me at all. This is more like it.
I'm pretty unfussy in my appearance and usually easily satisfied. But the hair colour was driving me crazy. I like to be dark and I don't think I like highlights. That's all. Growing out the bangs AGAIN. We'll see.
16 dirty hippies blowing your mind:
"I'm pretty unfussy in my appearance and usually easily satisfied"
okay, it's friday of a long weekend so i am gonna take this with a long swig of irony and refrain from comment! ;)
you know, i always look forward to reading you blog every day! i just thought i should tell you that.
Ha! I really hope you are not trying to imply that I am in any way high maintenance. Dude, I get out of bed at 7:50 am get ready and am at work by 8:30 am. It's a 15-20 minute drive. Darrick can verify this. I don't wear makeup 28 out of 30 days. To be honest, it's a big deal if I wash my hair more than once a week. Should I be admitting this? Sure, because I don't care.
I thought you knew me better....jeans and ponchos and green jacket with a hole in the sleeve are hardly the indicator of someone who spends much time on their appearance. Think about the girls who hang out in Hess before you consider that I might in any way require "maintenance".
On the other hand, perhaps I am so naturally beautiful that I give off the impression of spending time on myself. Yes, that must be it.
heh heh, that must be it. that IS actually true :)
sweetie, i know you are not high maintenance in a girly-girl way. i know it isn't all about 18 different shades of MAC eyeliner and hours in front of the mirror with the curling iron. but i do think you have a healthy obsession with how you look. most people do. i think this blog is testament to that, as much of it is about clothes and your hair and a lot of pics of yourself. don't get me wrong, i'm sure that is what your readers love about you!
and btw, coffee ... your loss, baby. that said, if your co-workers are obsessing over crappy office coffee then their obsession isn't coffee but caffeine. a true coffee connoisseur knows that good coffee is always ground from fresh and well-roasted beans immediately prior to brewing it. you don't get that with a standard-issue packet of freeze-dried Folgers or -- gasp -- these new single-cup insta-brew machines that use pre-packaged single packets. ugggh. good coffee is also NOT to be equated with Second Cup or Charbucks.
its like comparing a bag of Red Rose and a properly steeped cup of Teatopia loose leaf ... ya just don't do it!
I have caffeine issues.
i know you do, so does jan. a shame, caffeine is pretty awesome. i drink 9 cups of coffee (by the carafe measurement) every morning ... i am wired and wide awake until about 5pm! it makes me very productive!
btw, i never put it together before but you know who you remind me of? juliette binoche? not the hair, obviously, but the face.
can't believe i never saw that before.
Wow, that is way too much coffee for me. I'd have a heart attack or at least a hospital grade panic attack. Juliette Binoche, thanks but hmm...I think we have very different features, it must be the angle or expression of these shots? I've gotten different people over the years depending on my hair and whatnot including Demi Moore, Sandra Bullock, Winona Ryder and Jennifer Tilly. I've never really seen it but ah well...
What I meant by the way, when I said I was unfussy and easily satisfied is that I don't spend a lot of time working at my appearance. I don't need makeup to run to the store. I don't get my hair done to go out. I often just throw on a hat without brushing, dirty jeans, rubber boots and off we go for our day. And I AM satisfied with that. I don't imagine that anyone is looking at me or pondering my appearance as I peruse the candles at IKEA.
I don't exercise maniacally or take vitamins or deny myself any foods if I really want them. I'm not thin. I weigh about 160 LBS right now. See, I'm not afraid to say so. By all guidelines, I should weigh around 130. I disagree with that, but nonetheless, I am not toned. I wear a size 9 or 10, and sometimes, just sometimes an 8. Those 8 days are satisfying but why? It's not my guideline, it's the world's. So mostly, I don't worry about it. I really don't.
When I talk about wanting to be fit, it's for myself. Because I feel GOOD when I am active. I feel GOOD when I am not smoking or drinking.
I AM expert at disguising flaws by how I hold myself for photos. We all learn little tricks in that respect. We are raised to put our best face forward. Some days though, I am genuinely and honestly not in the mood for that. I just don't blog on those days or I don't post photos. Most of the time I think photos of myself ARE related to something I am talking about in the post. I don't often just post shots of myself for no reason at all.
So yes, I put photos of me on my blog because if I didn't, soon, nobody at all would read. And even though it's a personal blog, it IS fun to have comments and interaction. I don't write about tech stuff or restaurants or anything useful like that, it's a diary and therefore, people expect a glimpse. I give far less than most successful personal blogs do and maybe I'd have even more readers if I did do so.
But I'm too lazy. And some days, I don't even brush my hair.
seriously, you look nothing like any of those people with maybe the exception of jennifer tilly. and she is just a tad chubbier, by far.
seriously, you don't seeit:
http://www.gregvickers.com/tracey_binoche.jpg
i totally see it!!
I KNOW! I think a lot of the time, people decide similarities because of hair styles. In fact, for sure they do.
I just don't know about that comparison either....
well, i see it! and it ain't got nothing to do with the hairstyle. you both have high cheekbones and a similar thin-lipped mouth, plus light skin and dark hair. its probably hard to tell because in most pictures juliette is smiling and in most pictures of you you're smirking!
hey, that's how I smile!
i aint saying you are indentical or anything, just that you remind me of her.
ok, i take it all back. you know who you remind me of? DAVID COVERDALE.
i've seen you smile unguarded and unposed, and like everyone you smile with your teeth showing! you rarely photograph yourself like that, even in pics i've taken with you on vacation -- you are always conscious of keeping your teeth out of it!
I have super great teeth by the way, always been dead straight, no braces, nothing. I don't smile with teeth, it's not a conscious thing, it's really not how I smile. If my teeth are showing, that's a forced and faked smile, guaranteed. I laugh with teeth though.
i have never understood the obsession with teeth. i mean, i get where you would be glad you have straight white teeth ... but you know, this whole industry around "a brighter smile" and whitening and dental surgery ... all just for vanity's sake? what tha fuck is that all about?
anyways, i'm off for a walk to get some sub before it goes. have fun at the cottage this weekend. someday soon we'll see you again/ say hi to derek!
Again, you are lovely and you don't seem like someone who is hung up on appearance at all. There are many blogs out there written by such women and the differences between you and that sort of woman is immediately obvious if you read them.
This person seems to want to be very hard on you for whatever reason.
I don't detect a whiff of what we would normally call narcissism or vanity and I think your photos very nicely illustrate your writing. I've never felt you were showing off.
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