here comes the sun

playing with my new favourite toyenjoying hawaiigetting some sunshine
going back to iowa seeing my famblycuddling with my best friend
and playing with my dear twins

those friendly little links

Collar City Records linked to another of my reviews.

Check it out my review for Matthew Loiacono's Penny Riddle EP and also take a gander at Derek's interview with the man!

what a guy, what a guy

So, remember my post about Sean Rowe? And seeing a link to my review posted on his record company website?

Probably not.

But the nicest thing happened a couple weeks ago: he sent me an email thanking me for the review!

What a nice guy!

More reviews and another interview coming soon! In the mean time, check out what everyone else is writing!!  http://www.inyourspeakers.com 

the knower and the know cannot be separated

doing a little post-positivist theories in my nationalism class

Karl Popper and squishy knowledge.

He says every branch of knowledge requires a degree of faith. Knowledge changes your world view, your reality. Everyone has different experiences and connections that mix with said knowledge to shade reality. Therefore, everyone's reality is different. Everything is relative.

What do you think?

happy happy joy joy

Why have I waited this long to post this?

My dear sweet wonderful roommate Katie is getting married! To my super friend Nate!

The other night I was sleeping and then I heard Collette screaming and then I saw something shiny on Katie's hand. And then we all screamed and stayed up really late. I'm very very very very excited for them.

This is a picture I took from Nate's blog. See more here.
Read a snippet at Cup of Jo. And read the whole story at Glamour's Smitten blog.
Oh how seeing other people so happy just makes my heart so happy! Seriously, congratulations you two!
Love,
erika

living rooftops

Latest National Geographic has a sweeeet article about living rooftops.

They cut back on storm-water runoff
increase energy efficiency by reducing heating and cooling costs

provide a home to friendly little insects, birds, and small critters

have the capacity to nourish vegetation, replacing land we've lost on the gound

"Think of the millions of acres of unnatural rooftops around the gobe. And now imagine returning some of that enormous human footprint to nature -- creating green spaces where there was once only asphalt and gravel. If a certain sum of human happiness is the by-product, who's to complain?"

really

how many times can life turn upside down in a year?

entering panic mode