It's Going to Be a Thing - Lifestyle Edition.

So I don't know if you guys are as annoyed by huge, energy-consumptive houses as I am, but if you are, you will be very interested in what I have to show you all today. So I found this website (again from the blog A Continuous Lean, I swear I won't continue stealing posts from there), and it is just about the coolest thing I've seen in awhile. Now I think I had heard about it before but not really registered it, so maybe this will just be old hat for the rest of you. But if it's not....

Tumbleweed Tiny House Company. It's awesome! I think that someday, most likely a whiles away in the future, the housing pendulum will swing from the wasteful, greed-induced, monstrosities that we see being built today, towards smaller, compartmentalized, environmentally thoughtful houses like those that are featured by this company.

Now maybe the houses of the future won't be AS tiny as some of these, but you get the idea. So now for your viewing pleasure - check out the inside of the tiniest house they have - as shown by the creator of the company (who is honestly kind of cute - not that that has influenced me liking these houses). (B T Dubs, my favorite tiny houses are the Enesti and the Z Glass house. So cute!)

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The Big Day

I have to admit that right now I am watching Oprah. I never watch that woman because of reasons I won't get into here, but I decided-- what the hey-- and watched her election special. Well, it turns out that she's featuring election parties from around the country. And I have to say, none of them have animal crackers. Ok, ok, that's not the point. I really just wanted to express my excitement about this election day. It seems like everyone is voting. I feel like everyone on campus has voted, though I know that's probably not the case. Oh well, so here's a big cheer for all of us who voted to make a difference. Read More......

A Call to Arms!

Forgive me book club for I have sinned. It has been two months since I've read a book for the book club. I officially suck. I haven't even been able to finish Scoop yet, which I had hoped to do in the past two months! Sigh.... So I am deciding right here and now that I am not going to worry about reading Brideshead Revisited. I am still going to try and read it, but I won't feel bad if I don't get to it. I am just going to concentrate on finishing Scoop and being good from here on out! I think it will be easy for me to do that because this month is style month!!!

I am very very excited about this months books. Cary Grant my love - lead me back to the straight and narrow! King of kings, troubadour of sartorial elegance, sexy beast. I wish I could go back in time and be your first, second, third, fourth, or even your fifth wife. But sadly, I will have to content myself just with reading about you. And I have to come clean here - I was SO excited about this book that when I bought it early last month, I couldn't help but start reading it. But I was able to stop myself after the first couple chapters!



And Marie Antoinette, you're pretty cool too. But honestly I don't wish I could go back in time and be you. So really I'm happy to just be reading about you this month.

So let's all get excited about this month of style and hope that it rejuvinates the book club! In fact, I hope you all took the time to read to the end of this post, because here, in these last few sentences, I am going to propose a Salon event in which we celebrate this awesome month and watch Marie Antionette, and one or more Cary Grant movies. I have the feeling we'll want to anyway after reading these books, and then we will be able to discuss their style in an educated fashion. So let's do it! Viva la salon! Read More......