Monday, October 31, 2011

Happy Hallow's Eve!

Before

After

We get better at carving pumpkins every year..
I hope everyone has a Happy Halloween!

(kacey.ism 123)

Monday, October 24, 2011

Thursday, October 20, 2011

It's true.

Catherine thoughtfully sent this my way.
She knows me so well.

(kacey.ism 121)

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

It's a long one, but worth it.


Date A Girl Who Reads
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.
Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag.She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she finds the book she wants. You see the weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a second hand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow.
She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.
Buy her another cup of coffee.
Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent.  Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.
It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas and for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry, in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.
She has to give it a shot somehow.
Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.
Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who understand that all things will come to end. That you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.
Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.
If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.
You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.
You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.
Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.
Or better yet, date a girl who writes.

I am in love with this.
Thanks for sharing Maria.

(kacey.ism 120)

Friday, October 14, 2011

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Keep.

(kacey.ism 118)

Monday, October 10, 2011

Birthday 22!



I had the best birthday week!
Fabulous family dinner on Sunday,
Lion King in 3D and Mrs. Backer's Cake on Wednesday,
Park City for the night with the greatest girls on Friday,
Dessert party at the apartment on Sunday.
I have the greatest family and the greatest friends who called and texted and even drove all the way down to Provo just to give me birthday hugs.
I am so lucky.
Year 21 was great, and I know year 22 will be even better.

(kacey.ism 117)

Monday, October 3, 2011

purple pants.

Lately I am loving pants of every color.
My latest addition...purple!
I'm hoping to have a full rainbow of colors for the fall. 
I'm getting closer.

(kacey.ism 116)

Cath and Presto are married!

She is Catherine Wallis!
The wedding day was beautiful and perfect and unforgettable.
I am so happy for her and Preston and their new life together!
Can't wait to visit them in NYC!

(kacey.ism 115)