me without jenna

My friend Jenna left for Europe on Sunday. She hopped across the ocean to do business with the Brits and the Germans. Yeah, she's cool like that. Check out her company's site: pangea organics.

Buy the product and experience the joy of watching your soap box grow into a basil plant. (Seriously.)

This is what I look like when I think about Jenna being oh so far away:

profound thought of the day

"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love." -- Charlie Brown

i love this girl

fun with photo booth

songs i loved in 2007

Last month, I created my annual "favorites of the year" mix.

Here's what was on it (click on the title to hear these songs on iTunes):

Better Than Love -- Griffin House

Cinder and Smoke -- Iron & Wine

Satisfied Mind -- Jeff Buckley

Wake Me Up -- Norah Jones

River Song -- Reed Foehl

3 A.M. -- Gregory Alan Isakov

Look at Miss Ohio -- Gillian Welch

Your Rocky Spine -- Great Lake Swimmers

Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground -- Chris Thile (White Stripes cover)

My Doorbell -- The White Stripes

Cocaine Habit -- Old Crow Medicine Show

Getting Ready -- Patty Griffin

Sea Lion Woman -- Feist

These Girls -- Ryan Adams

San Jose -- Joe Purdy

Born -- Over the Rhine

The Dark -- Ben Kyle (of Romantica) & Ryan Adams

Swept Away (Sentimental Version) -- The Avett Brothers

Gold -- from the Once soundtrack

** Please note that these are simply songs that I loved in 2007; they were not necessarily recorded in 2007 . . . but most of them were. :)

Also, while we're on the topic of my favorite songs/artists . . .

I found this photo strip tonight. Pictured here is my good friend, Gregory Alan Isakov (see above) and me. I should mention that I believe I may have been slightly intoxicated in these photos. I don't usually look like this -- at least, I hope not. But I do think this is hilarious.

(click to enlarge)

hello, 2008

So far, the new year has been fantastic, despite spending most of it coughing and sniffling.

I welcomed the new year with a few old friends and a lot of new ones at a random party just outside of Boulder. About 80% of the people in attendance were from the great state of Ohio, so though I didn't know them, I felt a special kinship with them, as they randomly shouted "O-H-I-O" in unison throughout the night.

New Year's Day was spent lying around, eating pork chops and sauerkraut (for good luck) and watching football.

This weekend I attempted to recover from my cold by relaxing and hanging out with some friends.

And today was surprisingly productive. I finally took down the Christmas decorations, said goodbye to our sad little tree, and attempted to make chili. In honor of Ohio (particularly Cincy), I added cinnamon and chocolate, and in honor of my friend Rusty who thinks everything should have beer in it, I added approximately 8 ounces of New Belgium's 1554 -- the "englightened black ale." And, of course, I made a gigantic batch of buckeyes for tomorrow night's big game. Go bucks!

I'm still trying to determine my goals for 2008, but I think it will involve saving more money and figuring out what it is that I would actually like to do with my life.

We'll see! Looking forward to finding out where 2008 will take me!

al gore rhythms