Books are better than boys

I live in Chicago, IL. I enjoy reading books, sewing, and riding bicycles.

You can contact me at dommelr (at) yahoo (dot) com.
This guy is leaving Chicago today.  He’s my good friend, and he’s one of the smartest, funniest, most caring, handiest (seriously he can fix anything), guys I know.  He had a hand in getting me to move to Chicago, and he also helped me get through my first, very rough, year here.  He stuck with me through all of it and trust me, I was not the most fun gal to be around then.  
I don’t want to get all sappy, but this guy…knowing him as has made me a better person, and I feel exceptionally blessed to count him as one of my friends.
Olympia, you’re one lucky town.
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This guy is leaving Chicago today.  He’s my good friend, and he’s one of the smartest, funniest, most caring, handiest (seriously he can fix anything), guys I know.  He had a hand in getting me to move to Chicago, and he also helped me get through my first, very rough, year here.  He stuck with me through all of it and trust me, I was not the most fun gal to be around then.  

I don’t want to get all sappy, but this guy…knowing him as has made me a better person, and I feel exceptionally blessed to count him as one of my friends.

Olympia, you’re one lucky town.

(via sister reba)

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I'm going to bed,

heymikewaskom:

and I’m taking my books with me.

That’s the way to do it.  As soon as I’m finished with this seemingly endless take home exam I’m doing the same thing.  

Tonight it’s Henry Miller for me.  What’s your bedtime book?

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Yesterday.We had a modified Albany Park Restaurant Patrol, with special guest neighborhood Roscoe Village, and breakfast at Victory’s Banner.  Walking around afterwards we spotted an amazing house that was all decked out for Halloween.  Unfortunately I didn’t get home from breakfast and related adventures until four in the afternoon so I had to skip the Halloween festivities.  A quiet night in, studying and watching the Time Tunnel episode of Pete and Pete for me.
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Yesterday.
We had a modified Albany Park Restaurant Patrol, with special guest neighborhood Roscoe Village, and breakfast at Victory’s Banner.  Walking around afterwards we spotted an amazing house that was all decked out for Halloween.  
Unfortunately I didn’t get home from breakfast and related adventures until four in the afternoon so I had to skip the Halloween festivities.  A quiet night in, studying and watching the Time Tunnel episode of Pete and Pete for me.

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South St.  Philadelphia.I used to go by this shop every day on my way to work.  Never once went inside.  There’s  a sick (read: horrible) mural on the side of this building. 
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South St.  Philadelphia.
I used to go by this shop every day on my way to work.  Never once went inside.  There’s  a sick (read: horrible) mural on the side of this building. 

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I want a pretzel from Pretzel Factory.  
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I want a pretzel from Pretzel Factory.  

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one hundred things in the world I love

1. Sunday morning
2. listening to Cat Power when it’s snowing
3. crickets
4. walking in the grass in bare feet
5. laughing/smiling so much that my face hurts
6. my family
7. grilled cheese and tomato soup
8. the smell of summer camp
9. buying a shot for a stranger across the bar
10. boys with glasses and beards

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Oh, the ever expanding list of things that would be lovely to have, but I honestly do not need.  Please add this Cityscape Stamp Set from Yellow Owl Workshop.  Click through to see the other sets they have available (Winterscape, Landscape, Seascape).

Oh, the ever expanding list of things that would be lovely to have, but I honestly do not need.  Please add this Cityscape Stamp Set from Yellow Owl Workshop.  Click through to see the other sets they have available (Winterscape, Landscape, Seascape).

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My usage of jawn has severely declined since leaving Philadelphia.  I plan on remedying this at once.
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My usage of jawn has severely declined since leaving Philadelphia.  I plan on remedying this at once.

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“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. there is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.”

Pep talk courtesy of Henry Miller (via Stand Still Like the Hummingbird).

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