THERES NO PLACE LIKE HOME

NO SLEEP TILL DETROIT.

so im going home in 4.5 days and i couldnt be happier. i miss the tobester already but he gets it. its been two years since i was in michigan and that should be a crime considering how much i love the mitten. i also get to go to my recently deceased grandfathers house and pay my proper last respects as well as enjoy the house i spent some of the best days of my childhood in. saying 'up north' in suburban detroit is the equivalent of saying 'on the cape' in boston. everyone has a summer house there and you dont quite get it unless you are from there. home! home! home! as geena davis said in beetlejuice to get the hell out of the model that alec baldwin built i will make the most out of the roughly 72 hours i have with my family.
for now i will play catch up because its been way too long and its almost the holiday season which is my fave! lets thank tobi for this new computer and the ability to bbbbblog again.

true story judy.

BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY.

so its americas birthday and i am possibly in the best city ever to celebrate it (boston) and im not working so i have the day free to sparkler and firework it up with the tobester and our manimals. good times. my head however is in michigan due to some news i received that my only living grandparent, my grandfather seffens, was just diagnosed with blood cancer. for those of you who dont know i loved all of my grandparents fiercely and i really dig old people in general. if you are jerky to old people you really shouldnt have breathing space, they have seen everything and lived through it and we are going to be there someday hating life too. so respect fool.
grandpa seffens is a veteran of world war II. he doesnt like to talk about it, the one time he spilled to me he just said "i went to italy with all my friends and i was the only one who came back. i dont know why i came back and no one else did. why me and not them?" that sums up his opinion on his time in the war.
he is 86, lives in an old farmhouse in northern michigan and he used to take me to the legion hall when i was young. it was awesome.
this fourth of july is dedicated to my grandfather louis seffens whom i love dearly. i want him to get better.

my grandfather. hes amazing.

where i spent my childhood.

160 acres of woods. 

the farm house. i need a sabbatical. 

michigan.

imagine a psychedelic summer camp photo shoot here. anyone?

FAREWELL MY DARLINGS.

as everyone already knows because its headline news and so many parties have already been thrown and tears been shed, my roommates/best friends are moving to london this evening. i will miss kate and david more than they probably know but it is inevitable there will be many visits going both ways across the pond. here are just a few of my favorite kate and david and slum castle moments. le sigh.

i think the pictures speak for themselves. loveliness. and davids creepy hand!

gorgeous kate.

love

im bad they are good.

best. ever.

over dressed is the only way to be.

               

one of the places we looked at before deciding on slum castle.

the biggest best liz taylor hair EVER.

a very handsome david and greg.

and this is how i always want to remember us.

thank you.