Torry the Taurus

I knew the day would come soon when I would have to say so long to my Taurus I've had since 2005, and today was the day. Once owned by an older fellow who enjoyed croquet and fedora hats, I was aware from the outside, others may think I was a grandma. But in my mind, who wouldn't want a car like their grandma? The backseat is always super comfortable, there's always plenty of room to throw your beach chairs in the trunk, put on your sunnies, and drive to Florida. So I slapped a rilo kiley sticker on her bumper, tied a bow on her rearview mirror, and let her youth shine.

The gal has been good to me, and taken me on many many adventures. We spent four years in Savannah together, she took me to Disney World, took me to the beach, took me to Texas. We listened to a lot of great music. She gave me a lot of love, and in return I gave her lots of love back.

I give you away with love baby girl! Somebody else is going to open your sunroof and let that sun shine in on them. Mwah!


-Lexi Lou (and all your other best friends)

A song for our girl!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?nomobile=1&v=QbCEbM52guo

Super fille!

This adventure happened two weeks ago. We saw a very cool French pop singer "Yelle". It was a very exciting night. Yelle blessed us with her presence by walking out in a costume made of something that resembled felt, dog hair and dreadlocks..all over her head and body, only her arms and legs out. She just stood there, arms out, with lights shining behind her. She changed into a sparkly cheetah Mickey mouse looking 60s dress, and ran around the stage dancing the whole night and yelled "MERCI BEAUCOUP!!" at the end of each song. There wasn't a moment to stop dancing..I was so excited as we were leaving that I tripped down 4 steps. I loved it.

The words on this illustration are from "Cest Pas Une Vie" they mean "it's not a life, the life we're living, if we don't live the life we want" "super fille" is also underneath her which means super girl.

Shes not going to New York Jane! Shes going to Brooklyn.

Happy Thanksgiving! Its been a very adventurous week devoted to turkey, phones dropping in turkey, mixology, pizza, french cuisine, foursquare on ferry docks, Christmas window admiring too early, Christmas decorating too early, and much more. But, my gal Emily and I got a pretty good start when my Grandpa sat us down and mapped out our drive from Long Island to Brooklyn, on a 1972 New York map. Sitting through one of this Paladinos lessons, is like sitting down to chat with Albus Dumbledore at Kings Cross station after you may have been killed by the darkest creature on earth...your going to want to pay attention. When Grandpa saw Flushing on the map, he told us of a woman he used to date before he met my Grandma, who lived in Flushing, while Grandpa lived in Bellmore..and the words from his mouth "I'd go to the ends of the earth for that girl....but Flushing was TOO far!". Yes..it always is. 

We packed our drinks and our snacks, and listened to one of our old favorites Rilo Kiley. Tomorrow I'll be heading to the Archery range with my brother...absoluuuutely no sleep tonight.

The Pocket Lady

Today, Chase and I met the Pocket Lady at the Bay Shore library. She had crazy curly hair and was very excited..most importantly, she had a lot of interesting things in her pockets. Chase's interest peaked when she pulled a green bowl out of her pocket. She blew us kisses before we left.

-Lexi

Oh good golly miss Molly

I found this old post of my good gal Molly's, and I think its worthy of some shine time.

Molly my guru

Skee-ball

A good friend of mine from school has been asking me to illustrate moments of adventure I have, so I said Okay, I will do that Erica. And now this blog has a little bit of a purpose. So, thank you Erica! Im using paper lunch bags and thread, we'll see what else we can add along the way.

To begin, the weekend of 11-12-11 seemed to be all about skee-ball..and losing skee-ball. We learn the lesson that it is okay to lose.


Im excited.

-Lexi

Spreading the good word like wildfire

This is great news. A high school English teacher named Tracee Orman has created lesson plans for the Hunger Games and posted them on Scholastics website for teachers and teacherspayteachers.com. Over 4,000 teachers downloaded her material when it was first posted, and this was back in 2009. She was having trouble getting the boys in her classroom to get into the reading materials, went to her principal to get permission to buy the books for her classroom, and started the series. Its interesting to see the classic novels she compares each book with in her lessons, shes even drawn out maps of Panem. There is always so much to talk about, about these books. There is so much depth to them. Good going girl, get that revolution started.
http://www.hungergameslessons.com/

Another Earth

I came across this three part interview with this great actress and writer Brit Marling. I really like this girl because she seems genuinely moved and excited to be experiencing such a surreal moment in her life. I also find her story extremely real, and very inspiring. She cowrote the film "Another Earth" with a close friend of hers, Mike Cahill. I loved this movie so much, it is beautifully shot and very thought provoking.

I think it's a very beautiful way to look at acting when she talks about looking at it, as being a vessel for story telling. I cant wait to see what else she'll be working on in the future.