Bluebonnets in Austin

SXSW Weekend Round-Up

Other Lives at Maggie Mae's

Bike parking on Sixth Street

Haircut from the future, anyone?

Bike parking on the East Side

Big Freedia @ the East Side Drive In

Scars on 45 at Maggie Mae's

Hanna Turi on the roof

View of Sixth Street from Maggie Mae's

Partying with the Swedes

First trip of the season to Barton Springs

Weekend Round-Up

I just got back from Washington, D.C. If you're there, I'd highly recommend:

Taking a tour of the Capitol. I've been to D.C. four or five times, but never had the opportunity to step inside that majestic building. The rotunda was stunning! I also met my Congressman in person and he gave our group some gallery passes so we could check out the action in the House and Senate chambers. (You should have seen my excitement... I was giggling like a five-year-old.)

MatchBox -- great pizza and other munchies in a three-story brick Chinatown building.

The Spy Museum was okay, not great.

A few other things that caught my eye this week:

Beautiful confetti garlands on Etsy.

Mmm... potato & rosemary pizza.

I think my favorite show on television is CBS Sunday Morning. It's part of my weekend ritual.

Look for some more blog postings soon; I just got over a crazy work-life hump and things should settle down every so slightly...

Here's to a good week!

Well?

Via Slice of Pink.

Weekend Round-Up

Goodness, things are REALLY BUSY around here. Usually I squeeze in a little (okay, a lot) of time on the internet, reading my favorite bloggers, catching up on the news, and exploring. Alas, this week I was chained to my desk. Hello, 12-hour days. Is this what session is always like in Texas? Whew.

Fear not, I still found some fun things this week:

I could buy everything from this store. And I mean everything!

Ever loved a film so much you wished you could live in it? Design Sponge gets pretty close with a few of my favorite movies. Oh, and this one, too.

Cold outside? Make this dish. Instant comfort, and it's got veggies in it, too!

Speaking of cold... a history of snow in two places that almost never get snow: San Francisco and Austin, TX.

I find this amusing, delightful, and, for some reason, a little bit creepy.

Hope your weekend is wonderful.

(Credit: picture borrowed from Dinner: A Love Story.)

Weekend Round-Up... again!

Amazing -- two weeks in a row! I'm on a blogging roll.

Egpyt's been on my brain. What an amazing victory for the Egyptian people. My favorite source is Mona Eltahawy, whose tweets and interviews provide an excellent perspective on the revolution. Yalla!

This is an amazingly fantastic idea. Movie marathon, anyone?

One of the best things about being in love? Going on adventures.

I wish I still babysat, because then I could take advantage of some of these delightful craft ideas.

Eek! I love these fruit valentine's stickers!

Of course, I'm opting for sweets of the baked variety this Feb. 14th. The photo above features my friend's heart-shaped red velvet whoopie pies... I ordered two dozen for my office. Yum.

Happy Valentine's!

Yalla, Egypt!

"Thanks to the people of Egypt for being an example to the world

of the power of peaceful reform.

May their journey into democracy breathe new life into ours!"

--My aunt

Protestors in Cairo's Tahrir Square reacted to the announcement on Friday.

"In the end, it seemed that the most useful thing that I could do was simply try to echo the demands that have emanated, so clearly, so articulately, and so bravely, from the protesters on the streets themselves. Perhaps this is the most worthwhile solidarity that can be carried out from here right now: in addition to following events in cyberspace and signing petitions, it seems crucial, while this story manages to maintain some staying power in the American mind, to help the demands of the protesters to be heard in all their eloquence and all their necessity. They need to be understood for what they are: the only meaningful version of democratic reform in Egypt. In all their non-negotiability, these demands refuse to be silenced. In whatever way we can, we owe it to the people in the streets to help their voices to be heard." --Samer Shehata (Photo: Jadaliyya)

"Christians protecting Muslims during their prayers in Tahrir yesterday. Their turn to repay the favor after Muslims turned up to protect Coptic churches on their Christmas Mass after the Alexandria bombing. In the darkness, we find the meaning of light..." --Maryam Ishani