Things I found on the internet...

...that I think are pretty. Ready? Begin.

Simple mugs with awesome color. Teal, blue, green. Love it.
{Crate & Barrel, via Incredible Things}

Grey striped towels. I love this color. (And yet somehow I don't love endless grey winter days. That doesn't add up...)
{West Elm via d*s}

Fluffy grey zig-zag rugs. I could decorate my whole bathroom in grey and white, apparently.
{West Elm via d*s}


P.S. Did I tell you that my nails are silver? I love grey! (Just not a grey sky all the time.)

I love the internet!

I have friends living all over the world right now and I am so thankful for the internet because it's so simple to keep in touch! (Don't get me wrong, I'm a real-mail advocate, too. Dave and I primarily wrote letters to each other while he was living in Zambia for six months.) I took these screen shots recently while chatting with Christa (who is living in Bangladesh) and Justine (Brazil) and Kari (Michigan). It's not quite the same as hanging out in person, but "snapshots" like these make me a big fan of the internet. :)

 

P.S. Isn't Christa so encouraging? I'm saving this picture for "one of those days" - you know what I mean?

On being distracted by technology

I read this article in the New York Times today on the distractions of technology and what it's doing to our attention span. With the onset of portable-internet-ready everything and gchat blinking away and new blog posts and incoming text messages and and and... everything else that fights for my attention (and I WILL give it my attention) no wonder sometimes at the end of the day my brain feels like it has been skimming across the surface (of everything) for hours but I don't quite have a complete idea of where I've been. It makes me want to turn that all down a notch.

Cue the timely demise of our internet connection and TV. We have new neighbors (and they're very nice!), but with the installation of their wires, ours got cut. So, I'll be practicing some un-wired home habits this week. Perhaps I'll make a good dent in my stack of library books? Hopefully. But then again, I'm sure I can find a way to get distracted...