All Over the Map

Making Mountains and Holes in Lace

Arienne — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:02:16 +0000

One of my 2012 goals: Learn how to make more holes in my knitting!

I love mountain and leaf patterns and hope to graduate to bigger things (well, scarves anyway), after I’ve made a lot of washcloths like the one above.

Filed under: knitting, yarn

Loving Right Now

Arienne — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:21:01 +0000

Perfume Edition:

Tam Dao (Diptyque). Just bought this from Scent Bar in Los Angeles.
Attrape Coeur (Guerlain)
Avignon (Comme des Garcons)
L (Lolita Lempicka)
Apres L’Ondee (Guerlain)

Discovering new scents, and wearing ones I’ve loved for a long time, is fun, pleasurable, and adds something ineffably profound to my life that I sorely need.

Filed under: perfume Tagged: cologne, eau de toilette, perfume, scent bar

What’s Great Today, June 8

Arienne — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:35:27 +0000

Fatburger (lunch!!! woo!)
Attrape Coeur perfume
my Kindle – I finally bought one

Filed under: books, food, perfume

5 Years Back and 5 Years Ahead – #trust30

Arienne — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 17:23:12 +0000

There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

What would you say to the person you were five years ago? What will you say to the person you’ll be in five years? (Author: Corbett Barr)

“5 Years”: First of all, that’s a song on the Ziggy Stardust album, which is now playing in my head. Bowie ear worm FTW.

I’d tell my 5-year-younger self 3 things.

First: She was right to have misgivings about the 40′s. They have *not* been as good as the 30′s for me.

Second: Make sure you continue to see your eye doctor. I may have glaucoma, and I’m so glad that I have always regularly seen an optometrist, since if I do have it, it’s been caught early.

Third: She was not imagining it when she thought that it was taking longer to heal and that we injure ourselves more easily. I hurt myself way more easily than I ever did. I really have to watch it when I walk/row/lift weights/work out in general, because if I overdo even a little bit, I do not bounce back like I did 10 years ago. It’s kind of a pain in my ass, frankly.

What would I tell my 5-year-older self?

Dude, I hope perimenopause is over for you – sheesh. My experience isn’t very problematic, but it’s still annoying. Finish, already!

About Trust 30

Filed under: health, trust30 Tagged: 30, 40, glaucoma, menopause, middle age, perimenopause, trust30

#Trust 30: Day 4 – Travel

Arienne — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:35:04 +0000

“Travel” prompt: Not everyone wants to travel the world, but most people can identify at least one place in the world they’d like to visit before they die. Where is that place for you, and what will you do to make sure you get there?

(Author: Chris Guillebeau)

Haven’t been there yet, but want to: Cairo, Istanbul, Morocco, Florence, Rome, Iceland, Cuzco, Buenos Aires, Mali/Burkina Faso (Timbuktu, Ouagadougou), Tokyo, South Africa. These are the top ones in my hit parade.

Where I’d like to live for a long period of time: Paris, London.

Filed under: travel, trust30