I am from the middle of fucking Iowa.

I'd love an email: corndujour@gmail.com
Tue Aug 19
Done. (I just found and immediately fell in love with Erika Pena. Click the ring to check out her jewels)

Done.

(I just found and immediately fell in love with Erika Pena. Click the ring to check out her jewels)

Cross your fingers for my friend, Ben, who is wrestling tonight. He’s a great guy, but I’ve heard if you face him on the mat you may have a different opinion! For the trials he made shirts saying “Putting the Chin in China” and by the end of the meet they were banning anyone wearing those shirts from buying alcohol.  Oh wrestling boys.
Cross your fingers for my friend, Ben, who is wrestling tonight. He’s a great guy, but I’ve heard if you face him on the mat you may have a different opinion! For the trials he made shirts saying “Putting the Chin in China” and by the end of the meet they were banning anyone wearing those shirts from buying alcohol.  Oh wrestling boys.
This new style.com blog is neat.
This new style.com blog is neat.
An infant’s rant during dinner last night reminded me of the hilarity of this video.
Today’s Lesson: The Fist Pound And the grade I received:

Today’s Lesson: The Fist Pound

And the grade I received:

(my cousin, Ian, is seriously cute)
(my cousin, Ian, is seriously cute)
(via -kristen)
(via -kristen)
Mon Aug 18

"Rubber Husband"

This morning, I was enjoying coffee, juice, and cereal in my undies while catching up on the world when our housekeeper came in. To put it nicely, she’s not anyone’s favorite. “Cleaning the piano keys” at 8 am and religious-based lectures mean that if we come home to her car in the driveway, we invent new errands to run. 

Anyway, this morning I was stuck, but she has been strangely nice to me recently so I sucked it up.  First unsought story began with rhapsodizing about her “rubber husband,” which is a rubber jar opener. “You know one time I was talking about my rubber husband and someone thought I was getting kinky.”  Dildo talk before 9 am from my mid-sixties, Jehovah’s witness housekeeper.  

Seriously.  After the next story linking my dog’s wet nose to Noah’s Ark, I threw my breakfast away and locked myself in my room.

This is Lauryn Hill Unplugged - Peace of Mind. I remember watching it for the first time and being quite moved.  I often recognize the soundtrack playing in my head during those life reckoning moments, heart exploding moments as the part where she sings while crying “what a joy it is to be alive.”
Sun Aug 17

Iowa sweet corn is so good its ri-goddamn-diculous.

CLP1305094
Sat Aug 16
Ummm. Good job Nike.
“ I don’t believe in sacrifices. I never believed in sacrifices. One a daily basis we have decisions to make to either go to the left or go to the right. We are not sacrificing the left to go to the right. We are choosing the right because we think it is going to get us closer to our goal.

Deena Kastor

An optimistic attitude that is particularly impressive coming from someone who has run 140 miles a week for years. She’ll be going for her second Olympic marathon medal tonight.
ineedtoo: corndujour: samreich: Lately I’ve been cleaning my email inbox out entirely, and it’s very theraputic.  Just the thought of doing this almost gives me a panic attack. i keep my gmail inbox clean as a whistle. having emails in there almost gives me panic attacks.  Some of us are holding on to more baggage than others. 

ineedtoo:

corndujour:

samreich:

Lately I’ve been cleaning my email inbox out entirely, and it’s very theraputic.

 Just the thought of doing this almost gives me a panic attack.

i keep my gmail inbox clean as a whistle. having emails in there almost gives me panic attacks.

 Some of us are holding on to more baggage than others.