the farmer in the barrio

em loves to sing. she often mixes up books and songs in her lyrics. some would call this creative license.

it's no joke

at heb, 8am

tell your ride

slowly getting caught up on life.

jeremy and i went to telluride a couple of weekends ago for a wedding. some of our trips are serious disasters, we have both learned to "manage expectations".

the trip started with a delayed flight out of waco, which meant that we would miss the connecting flight from dallas to colorado. while we were going through security at the airport here, a tsa agent found a saw in jeremy's backpack that he forgot to take out. serious questioning ensues, and somehow mr charmer of the year gets it back and takes it out to the car. nice one tex.

american airlines puts us up in a super 8 motel, not ideal, but we did meet a triple phd petroleum engineer on the van ride over.

our room

 for whatever reason, i had gone the whole day without eating and i found this fortune cookie in my bag at 10:30p, when we finally got to our room. how fortunate indeed! aa did end up issuing us meal vouchers so we ended up going to denny's with a friend, armando from michigan, who we met along the way.

 we caught a flight at 6a, hopped over to denver, and took our final to montrose. here is jse enjoying the fresh air, waiting for his bag.

 everyone told us to watch the fence line from montrose to telluride, that suddenly it would become super nice for miles. this nice fence and the 20,000 acres inside belongs to ralph lauren.

our hotel and room was awesome. you get a lot more bang for your buck here than in nyc.

the trees are like charcoal sketches

 my outfit to the rehearsal dinner, which i pretty much thought was the coolest thing i had worn all 2014. jse, not so much.

at the wedding the next day, we were supposed to go to the top of this mountain but it rained heavily the night before so the ceremony was held at the hotel. but the view was still spectacular.

 

 we hung around telluride for another half a day before we headed to grand junction, where we flew out of the next day.

not hard to spot the cowboy in the airplane.

 ...or in the airport

we were anxious to get home, so we could see this nuggie

what's seven times seven

a college roommate and i used to watch two things ALL the time junior year: natalie imbruglia's "torn" music video and the movie clueless. clueless somehow became the anthem for our lives, a strange scope to view the world and it's still in our top 5 favorite movies of all time. she and i are still good friends, even though i am still in the heart of texas and she is a big time person in nyc. 

recently, she was working on the set of a show and jeremy sisto's trailer was nearby the place where the crew were having lunch. while she wanted to ask him to do the hand wave to "rollin with the homies", she restrained herself. in her own words:

So when I drove onto the base camp for lunch, Jeremy Sisto and I TOTALLY had eye contact.  As he walked to line up for lunch, he looked into my car and looked right at me.  It was totally "a moment."

And this is the lunch I shared with him [pictured below, she is the very excited girl wearing a scarf on the right, he is sitting at the table behind her].  I was clearly very excited to eat. With him.

And, in real life, his voice is that great.  And he's a nice, big, tall dude.  

xox

if it were me, i would have possibly asked him if he had found his cranberries cd. 

"don't you know who my father is?"

that year she really loved sublime, maybe i was going through my portishead stage. we both loved dave matthews and ate a lot of key lime pie. 

great american hero

my outfit today

 let's be honest, hair and pants look like lady jaye. minus the boobs.

update 9/2

currently in the stage when things look worse than when we started.

porch removed, trench dug all around the house

 plan b with foundation, and now we have to re-do the exterior. brick coming off...

 just in case you thought we were going to be without a 20 ft tall antenna, think again.

 roane and mouse are living here now

 not applying to be featured in elle decor

 kitchen demo

versus the weed

country living is not easy. em tripped and fell onto a stalky weed. country living is also not clean. she looks sort of tan but really it is dirt.