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I've been unemployed a lot this year because that's just how freelancing lately has worked out and one of the interesting side effects of that fact is how much I have to cook. There's another post stewing in my head called 'habits of the freelance unemployed' but one of those habits is eating in. I've been in a food rut for a few years now with life in flux as it has been but nothing makes me want to shake the shackles of the mundane meal like a film about food. Here's my favorites. Ratatouille . Pixar's enchanting  and under appreciated film about a rat who dreams of being a chef. Or as Alison describes it: "It's about rats. And cooking. And acceptance." Julie & Julia. One of the rare films that I was able to read both books of (which Alison also told me to do). Watching this movie always makes me want to move to Paris and take cooking lessons. Chocolat . Just delightful. I haven't seen it in a long time but it found a n...

Alice is... ridiculously cute. But she's also really fun and funny and smart. And I'm totally not-biased at all, it's just a fact. She does some stuff that makes us smile like: - when she sees that we laugh at something she did, she repeats it, trying to make us laugh again - she figured out that a way to get something off the top of dad's head is to tilt his chin up so the thing on top of his head falls easily - when we go somewhere new, she prefers to stay close to us and observe quietly from a distance - she stomps her feet when we ask her too and she looks like she's dancing to 'she's a maniac' - she twirls around and laughs while doing it - she carries around stuffed animals when she's out of the house for comfort and security - if she hears music, she starts bopping her head and doing this elvis pelvic thrust - she gets the hand sanitizer and touches it and then proceed to pretend rub it on her hands and arms - she walks aroun...

A few years ago I bought this rug that was pretty everything. Only one thing. My dumb idiotic self instead of going for a 5x7 that I had in my shopping cart ready to roll went for an 8x10 that is just... out of control big. It never quite worked in the living room. It never quite worked in the nursery (the size of it made her small room so HOT), and now, it's in the office for lack of options. I had considered it going in here awhile ago but nixed it because of the cats but I just don't care anymore.  Of course the cats love it, it's soft and nice to nap on and it doesn't look too bad in here. The scale is pretty off though and I could have started it at the foot of the couch but that would make it almost hit the litter box area and that was too close for comfort. See the bottom edge of wood... that gives me about 2 feet of wood where the litter can fly before it hits rug. I need that buffer. The rug in here reminds me of how just freaking big the room is. I cou...

Copper is H-O-T Hot right now. I am often swept up with trends but this one is good because what else says 'farm' like copper right? Here's a few pretty copper scenes. This kitchen below is pretty close to dream kitchen status. The marble, the glass cabinets, the cool island, the wood stools.  And to think Michelle was ahead of the curve all those years ago.

We bought a few attraction posters on our last trip to Disneyland and framed and put them on this here wall. The walls in the living room had been bugging me for awhile but I never knew what to do about it so after this went up I just took everything down on all the walls and then started over.  The recent change for the better was that we moved the table that had been behind the couch to the wall instead because Alice kept reaching for everything and pulling things down and knocking things over but now... much better. It's a little cluttered right now and I hastily took the pictures but this is what reality is. Someday nice photo books may sit in that bottom shelf. Someday. What to put above the table right? I would like a big a$$ mirror. It would work well to bounce some light from the front door, a place to check yourself out before you go out the door, and I would love to use it as a white board for when people come over to write the menu, a greeting, or whatnot. I r...