My love is bigger than your love (SING IT!)

Stuff I am currently obsessed with:

Burt’s Bees Replenishing lip balm with Pomegranate Oil – it smells kind of like candy and makes your lips vaguely pinker and shiny and feels awesome. I like the minty stuff, too, but sometimes you just can’t deal with all that tingle, and this does nicely.

Curel’s Life Stages: first signs of aging body lotion – my elbows are soft. Seriously, I had elephant elbows previously, and now? They are smooth and baby-soft. This stuff is a miracle worker. And you can get samples! From the internet!! Who doesn’t love samples?

Books on CD – now I can read all the time instead of just most of the time. I’ve been so into them lately; I spend all day at work with headphones on letting someone read to me. It’s sort of cathartic. I’m thinking I might graduate to self-help books so I can Improve Myself while I work. That’s multi-tasking, baby!

National Poetry Month – Knopf will send you a poem every day, and some of them you will hate, and some you will be indifferent to, and sometimes you will love them with an unbridled poetic fire, but either way it makes you feel sort of literary and smart to get poems in your email every day. (some of those links are for last year’s poems, which I have saved in my email but can’t access online anymore, so they’re from different places and a little confusing, I think).

EDIT: This is over now. I wrote this post like 3 weeks ago and never put it up, so, yeah, April’s done. But you can sign up for next year!

The MGMT song “Time To Pretend” – we’re rocking all around the house to this every chance we get.

Spring. I am loving hanging my clothes out on the line and leaves on the trees and flowers and robins and sunshine and all that shit. Spring is awesome. Having a washer and a clothesline are also really, really awesome.

My parents’ adorable new puppy:

Doesn’t the cuteness just break your heart? He’s a sweetheart, too.