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May 24, 12:17 AM
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Albert Camus
May 23, 10:29 PM

I can’t even handle the cuteness going on… (Taken with instagram)

May 20, 12:58 AM

Situated. (Taken with instagram)

May 19, 08:05 PM

Things you’d like to say to your boss - found on the ceiling lol (Taken with Instagram at Schmizza Pub & Grub in The Pearl)

May 19, 12:17 AM
Thought that actually just went through my head:

Why is there a boy angel emoji & not a girl angel emoji? And angels are religious, please separate church & emoji.

Friday is right on time this week.

May 18, 11:12 PM

Proof I still have a face. :P (Taken with instagram)

May 18, 11:04 PM

24 weeks, day 1 - 112 days to go. Yikes! (Taken with instagram)

May 14, 03:25 AM

That’s what’s up. #bbq (Taken with instagram)

May 13, 09:22 PM
Dear little baby girl,

This is our first Mothers Day together! Well, sort of. I’ve been calling it our “.5 Mothers Day”. You’re pretty active today, actually! Kicking and backflipping or whatever it is you’re doing in there. We’re now 117 days away from my due date, which means we’re 23 weeks and 3 days in. 

At 20 weeks we were at the halfway point and on that day (April 20th, to be exact) I found out you are a girl! That made me so happy! I would have loved you either way, but deep down I wanted you to be a girl so bad. I’m still trying to figure out what to name you, but I’m really glad I can at least call you “she” now, rather than “the baby”. The one thing I do know is your middle name will be Lily or Lillian after my grandmother, your great grandmother, who I’ve always had a special relationship with. I’ve got 2 names I’ve been going back and forth between, but I’m still looking. It’s your name, such an important thing! I want to be sure of it. I might come up with one more name I like and then decide when you are born, so I can look at you and you can tell me who you are.

It’s gonne be just me and you kid, but I’ll tell you what… gramma Lillian thinks you’re my lucky charm. This has been one of the most successful months of my career and things are only looking up! At first I was scared of how I was going to manage everything on my own, but after a few months of figuring things out, life has never been better. I’ve always been driven, but you coming into my life has made me more ambitious than ever. I want to be able to give you everything you need and deserve. So far, so good.

I can’t wait to meet you! You already have so very many people who love you. Our little family might not be the biggest, but the people in it are everything I’d want you to learn from and count on. 

By this time next year you’ll be almost a year old! You’ll be in my lap, you’ll be laughing and smiling and sitting up! I can already tell how fast it’s all going to fly by. You’re not even born yet and then suddenly you’ll be a grown up. I don’t want to take any of it for granted. I’ll savor every moment, I promise you.

I love you already!

Love,

Mommy

May 12, 05:30 AM
It used to be about trying to do something. Now it’s about trying to be someone.
Iron Lady
May 11, 09:30 PM

Out of Many, One

May 10, 08:16 PM
http://make-everything-ok.com/

Finally!

May 10, 08:12 PM

Explosive.

May 10, 08:33 AM
If freedom is "given" to you...

is it really freedom?

May 10, 07:17 AM

Mine! Hush. #grilledcheese (Taken with instagram)

May 08, 01:20 AM

So far. Loving this yarn! Light & soft: Merino superwash, cashmere, nylon. (Taken with instagram)

May 06, 08:11 AM

Cinco de Sober, enjoy your hangover. ;) (Taken with instagram)

May 06, 07:05 AM

Now. (Taken with instagram)

May 06, 12:55 AM

Hand spun, hand dyed, soon to be handmade #yarn (Taken with instagram)

April 26, 09:32 PM

Off track (Taken with instagram)

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  • jakefogelnest: Whitney Houston’s isolated vocal track on “How Will I Know.”
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  • I did this cover last year and decided to remix it a bit. Still feeling the learning curve of self-production and mixing. I like to use covers to practice. Flex a bit… Gotta say, much happier with it. Though it’s a double edged sword doing a cover. If people know the original song they will feel a familiarity but also compare your rendition without realizing they’re doing it. Well. I do hope you like it. The original of course is by Goapele. Such an absolutely beautiful song. I make a lot of things. I love art in all its forms and communication, equally. Where art, communication, and technology converge: that’s where I’m happiest. I know I can’t be “the best” at everything… but I can be good at a lot of things and do what makes me happy. I’m Alana, not Madonna… and I’m perfectly comfortable with that. That being said, the creation… and the sharing… is a vulnerability that I have pushed myself to face. The more I make to leave behind, the more I’ll linger in people’s minds. May your soul be naked. Close your eyes and see what you believe…
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  • Thank you. To my family, blood and otherwise… To the friends who have been there for me through it all… To 50,000 people who follow me for some reason on Twitter, Tumblr, and G+… To the lovers, the haters, and the instigators… To the new people who have come into my life and made it better… To the life and love I have yet to make: Thank you.
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  • Oh snap! New track coming along FEROCIOUSLY!!! Break beats, not hearts. Vroom!
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  • Don’t Make Me Destroy You: a little sample of what I’m working on… #music #breakbeatsnothearts
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  • ☞ Waste: Foster The People I know, I know… This is my third Foster the People song I’ve posted in the past like, week: but I’m admittedly obsessed. The more I listen to it the more “Pumped Up Kicks” seems like the unfairly favored child.
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  • I took a sip of something poison but I’ll hold on tight… Helena Beat: Foster The People
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  • ❤ Foster the People: Pumped Up Kicks Yes, please.
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  • Helicopter: Oh Land Like this one. A lot.
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  • Hold Me Now : Thompson Twins “You say I’m a dreamer… we’re two of a kind. Both of us searching for some perfect world we know we’ll never find…”
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  • The Only One: The Black Keys #stuckinmyhead
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  • It’s my BIRTHDAY! [Kings of Leon: Birthday]
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  • Hello! Oh uh oh oh.
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  • ☊ Common: The Light Exactly this.
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  • Jeremih: Down On Me feat. 50 Cent Confession: I like this song, in spite of myself. It’d be better without 50’s part though. Sars…
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  • Aloe Blacc : I Need A Dollar #hustle
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  • Third Planet: Modest Mouse I just realized that this song is now 10 years old. A freakin’ decade. I was 21 then, and I’m convinced that if you weren’t at least a teenager at the time, there are elements of me you’ll just never fully grasp. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the year 2000, I had been in Los Angeles barely a year. I blogged on LiveJournal daily. This is when I discovered Cat Power and Jeanette Winterson and myself. Turn it up, jump around. Remember yourself…
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  • Nantes: Beirut Well it’s been a long time, long time nowSince I’ve seen you smile.And I’ll gamble away my fright.And I’ll gamble away my time.And in a year, a year or sothis will slip into the sea…
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  • Hate to be so emotionalI didn’t aim to get physicalBut when he pulled in and revved it upI said, ‘you call that a pick up truck?’And in the moonlight I throwed him downKickin’ screamin’ & rolling aroundA little piece of a bloody toothJust so you know I was thinking of youJust so you know… [Kings of Leon: Pickup Truck]
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  • [@stereo13 w/me on the backgrounds: love u babe] let’s pretend to savor it restlessly little favors, they are stealin the best of me.. really feeling… this… today.
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