Tue
Aug
26
26.style: Summer Appreciation Week
I am a distance runner as interested in food, booze, and dancing as I am in singlets and time chips. I love a beautiful cocktail dress, bright nail polish, and Asic Gel-Kayanos. I am an avowed and enthusiastic fan of Huey Lewis and the News. I will run a marathon in all fifty states by my fiftieth birthday.
This blog has less to do with 26.2 than it does with creating a life I love. Running, however, is a major part of that life.
My home-away-from-home is: caryrandolph@gmail.com
This blog has less to do with 26.2 than it does with creating a life I love. Running, however, is a major part of that life.
My home-away-from-home is: caryrandolph@gmail.com
After quiet contemplation...
…I have decided that, as KB put it so gently, losing my jat was a blessing in disguise. I adopted it at the Lake, I only ever wore it at the Lake, and now it has found its final resting place at the very house in which so much of our Lake debauchery took place. It was my Lake hat (my lat?), and it didn’t ever really belong to me. It belonged to whatever summer spirit kept bringing me back, kept replenishing the cooler full of Michelob Ultra cans, kept the jalapeno poppers popping and the dragonflies hopping.And anyway, it was a denim baseball cap. Why in hell did I love it in the first place?
“ Squeaky swings and tall grass,
The longest shadows ever cast,
The water’s warm and children swim,
And we frolicked about in our summer skin. Ben Gibbard
The longest shadows ever cast,
The water’s warm and children swim,
And we frolicked about in our summer skin. Ben Gibbard
Mon
Aug
25
SUMMER APPRECIATION WEEK!
From now until Labor Day 26.style will be celebrating the last official week of summer. The jams, the boys, the fash, and my favorite photos from this season and summers past. I’ll even throw in some recipes for my foodie friends. Style is seasonless, but summer won’t last forever. Let’s enjoy it will we still can!
“ When I look back now, the summer seemed to last forever,
And if I had the choice, I’d always want to be there.
Those were the best days of my life. Bryan Adams
And if I had the choice, I’d always want to be there.
Those were the best days of my life. Bryan Adams
I lost my jat this weekend. “Cried myself to sleep” does not even begin to describe the loss I feel.
We lovingly agree to disagree:
- KB: Go to teamsugar.com and search Jessica Simpson and look at the pics of her in white jeans shorts and a demin button down. Horrible.
- KB: I can't tell if she's gotten chubby or if everything she wears is just completely unflattering.
- CR: (finds photos) Oh Christ. Methinks both.
- KB: I mean, it's a bad variation on the "broom skirt and demin shirt with multicolored beaded jewelry" we wore in middle school.
- CR: Hahahahaaha, that was a great look. In middle school.
- KB: It's bad, but I still have to back her up. Hard times.
- KB: Hard times.
- CR: I can't agree. I think she is talentless and increasingly unattractive. HOWEVER, this is coming from the girl whose fave summer outfit involves cargo shorts with heels and a denim baseball cap.
- KB: You had me until "denim baseball cap."
- CR: It's true. I lovingly call it my "jat" (jean hat). It's hideous.
Girlfriend Potential Test
via aliexplainsitall
Some dude in Toronto created this standardized exam to determine potential mates, and the result is a study in hilarity. (And if this were graded like the SAT, I scored around 1550.)
Some dude in Toronto created this standardized exam to determine potential mates, and the result is a study in hilarity. (And if this were graded like the SAT, I scored around 1550.)
