Halfway Hip

20th Friendiversary Gallery

This is circa 1988 or 89. We were bored and messing around at Kristen's house.

Here is our "before"

Here is the "after"

Who were we trying to be???

Robert Palmer's women, of course! Kristen's little bro, Davey, was such a good sport.

Here is us a year or two later, waiting for the bus, 10th grade.

Skip a few years, to sophomore year in college. Notice that I have the same hairstyle that I did in 8th grade!

Before my college graduation, 1995. Kristen's sportin' The Rachel. I wish I had more pics of this apartment. It was pretty bad!

1998, rockin' the MIA sandals:

1999, New Years Eve. God, this was a fun party.

w_r day 1

w_r day 1, originally uploaded by Halfway Hip.

Joining Flickr was on my list of 34 Things to do Before I Turn 34, and i've finally set up an account. I'm a little shy about it since I don't have good camera skillz, but it's all about learning, right? I have been admiring the wardrobe_remix pool on Flickr for quite some time now, so I'm going to post there first to get my feet wet. It reminds me of the high school calendar I found recently, on which I recorded in painstaking detail all of my daily outfits, complete with accessories. This particular outfit is pretty boring by w_r standards, where the girls are usually all dolled up in cool vintage stuff. Who knows? If any of you local types see me in some crazy getups soon, you'll know where I got the inspiration! BTW, if any of you have a Flickr account, please add me as a contact!

Like a big slice of fried gold

In more happy, frivolous news:

1. At the consignment store, I discovered that I had $70 credit! Amazed me b/c I still saw a lot of my clothes on the racks. I think it might have been the gorgeous B & Lu dress I bought last year that I never got to wear b/c I didn't go to the 2 weddings for which I bought it, and I lost weight. Anyway...the store has a new section of premium denim jeans. Brands like Lucky, Seven for All Mankind, Earl, etc. On a whim, I decided to try a pair of 32s on. I haven't been able to wear a 32 or even consider any kind of jean that is sized with a waist measurement like that in about 12 years, at least. These Paige jeans fit me perfectly, and they were only 30 bucks!!!! For a like-new pair of $200 jeans! I had no idea that these jeans were so expensive til I came home and looked them up on the internet. I took Paige's fit test, and as it turns out, these were the jeans that were the best for my body type. Living in a town with a disporportionate amount of sorority types and bitchy rich soccer moms can sometimes pay off! Speaking of sorority types...I was wearing these jeans while waiting for my to go order at a cafe that's right near campus and attached to a Harold's store. The sales girl from Harold's came over from the store to tell me how cute my jeans are. Score! :) The only problem I have now is that I can only wear them with high heels til I get them hemmed. I'm not sure that I want to get them hemmed, b/c then I won't be able to wear them with high heels at all. What to do?

2. We've had Shaun of the Dead for over a month from Netflix. I was really hesitant to watch it b/c I thought I had really had enough dead people for one month. We finally saw it on Friday night. What a hoot! If you haven't seen this one, please do, even if you don't like horror movies. Kristen, this is required for you since you're such an Anglophile.

3. Provided that I get enough rest this week and get some help for my health problem, I have tickets to go to Interpol in Dallas this Thursday. Doing stuff like this is getting easier and easier. Aidan is in school all day, Matt can shorten his day to take him/pick him up (since he's not flying), I can take Evan with me (after 10 hours to NM, 3 hours to Dallas is like nothing...we don't even have to stop anymore), and Kristen's husband will babysit while we go to the concert. Hopefully, Evan won't wake up crying at 10:30 like he did when I was at Arctic Monkeys. I do think he's old enough to know that I am coming back.

4. I think Aidan is at the age where he's developing internal thought. While playing with Legos the other day, he told me out of the blue that he has an imaginary friend. "Oh, yeah?" "Yes, he's in my brain and he tells me what to think about. He helps me do my thinking." Also, while going through his Friday Folder from school, I came across a cute drawing that I knew wasn't his. It was of a boy and girl holding hands, and it had the name Faith on it. When we asked him about it, he turned red and started stammering, "I don't know how that got in there! I don't know!" He didn't get angry, but he was clearly protesting too much. Faith is a girl in his class, btw.

5. The Ian Curtis biopic Control is set to come out Oct. 12 in the states. It might show here in OKC at the art museum, but I won't hold my breath. May need to travel to Dallas for this one b/c I really want to see it in the theater. I've been watching this trailer at least once a day. I'd like to reread the book, but I think I gave it away. I saw that it was for sale in Hot Topic recently. That just makes me smile.

6. The soundtrack drops Oct. 1st. It will include The Killers cover of Shadowplay, which is just awesome b/c I really enjoyed listening to their version at the concert. Here's one version, but I think the one they played at Nokia had more a more keyboard, new-wavey sound toward the end. Wow...how stoked and nervy those guys must have been to be playing Joy Division at the NME Awards in England with Peter Hook (the famed Joy Division/New Order bassist) sitting right there in the audience. (I am nursing Evan right now while typing, and he was clapping along to The Killers. Together, we're quite the little machine.)

Kewl new shoes

I have several pairs of new shoes I want to show, but here's one pair to start:

Apparently, everyone in the house had to get in on the foot photo action. We're missing a dog paw in there, though.

They're Skechers skimmers with Day of the Dead sugar skulls. Squee!! I love me some skimmers...I think I'm up to 4 pair now, but one pair from Old Navy will probably go in the giveaway pile soon b/c they are unbreak-inable. Here's a pair I've had for a while that I so love:

Purse Talk

The one I have, a very cool model from Vy & Elle, has been coming open at random intervals, spilling my purse contents on the ground too many times for my liking. I found a similar dealie at Target for 7 bucks! It's probably not made from recycled billboards, but it also won't pain me too much when it breaks a year from now. I'm so hard on purses and bags. I have crossed the threshold of be willing to pay more than $40 for a good pair of shoes, but I haven't done that with a purse yet. My diaper bag is a Kecci, a cheap knockoff of the Petunia Pickle Bottom. I knew a girl who knew a girl, and she got my diaper bag for me for less than $30. It's actually surprisingly well-made and has stood up to lots of abuse. I was obsessed with any kind of Mandarin print a few years back, which is why I wanted one of these bags in the first place. Now, I'm almost embarrassed by my bag, esp. since I heard that a friend asked another friend if I really paid over $150 for my bag when she saw the PPB bags at a local baby store. No way do I want anyone to think I'd pay that much for a diaper bag! (I know...crazy to even think about this kind of stuff.) So, the deal with the bag now is that the shoulder strap is way too slippery with my ugly green coat. I'm going to take a chance and make the Big Switch, one that every mother has to make at some point. I'm switching from a diaper bag to a big purse. I have a really cool big purse that I bought at JC Penney a few years back after Aidan was potty trained. The little purse from Target will go into this big purse...that way, I can take it out and sling it over my shoulder over the baby sling w/out having to carry a big bag in and out of stores. I also bought a very spring-ish bag from Target, as well. Haven't used it yet, though.