Saccharine Thoughts

...to my Dude. Here's to another kick-ass year to come! I'm awfully fond of you, darlin'.

From Dress to Kill: When people from the same genetic group intermarry... Hello-oo? Cousins marrying equals IQ down the toilet. Hitler was trying this. The first generation of Nazis - "Sieg heil!" The second generation - "Sieg heil." The third generation. "Er...Sieg... "Er...

Did you really think I'd leave you all alone through the weekend? Baha, right. <- More Etsy goodness for eager girly eyes!

I've heard New Zealand is an incredibly beautiful place, and it's at the top of my list of places to visit if I can ever steal away to take a vacation. This Etsy find gave me yet another reason to want to visit New Zealand. A teeny tiny hand-crafted robot charm with even tinier hinged arms to dangle from a necklace? Yes. Please.

Last week was the first time in a long time that I've been able to just chill out and waste some time. Of course, time that you enjoy wasting isn't really wasted right? Especially when it's spent introducing one's boyfriend to a favorite video game? RIGHT??

For those of you who may be curious as to why I seemed to drop off the face of the interwebz this fall, I thought I would give you an update. The fantastic job opportunity that I accepted back in April was a position in development with Arthouse at the Jones Center . Arthouse is a non-profit artspace whose mission is to create meaningful opportunities to investigate the art of our time through exhibitions, public programs and commissions of new work. We are located in downtown Austin in a newly renovated building at the corner of 7th and Congress. Our site is an incredible piece of history for Austin, as it has been through many iterations between its erection in the 1850's and 1998, when it became Arthouse. It has been closed for a full year for major renovations which tripled the usable exhibition space, and reopened on Sunday October 24th. Arthouse is currently running six exhibitions in the new space, and is open and free to the public Wednesday through Sunday. So in case you w