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I scored some awesome fairy tale collection books at Half Price Books in Austin. They feature a lot of the original ones before Disney made them uncreepy. Before Disney, everyone died and there were no happy endings. Read the original Little Mermaid and tell me if there's a singing crab.

This picture is one of five or so. I haven't read it's accompanying story but it's simply called, "Oh," which I find very intriguing and amusing. Coulda been a classic, I'm sure.

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313/365, originally uploaded by britrosewhite.

One of my favorite things we did today was go to an amazing antique/resale shop called Uncommon Objects on South Congress. I don't know what I'd do with most of this stuff, but I like to look at it. I'd buy it if it weren't so expensive.


Wish I could work one of these...


These are old post cards with notes on them from the early 1900's. Like just about everything in this store, they're a little creepy.


Grover was hungry so Claire found a nook to feed him. I like her style.


It's sort of like a treasure trove of an attic with me in it.


It's creepy. I wouldn't buy it. But...I like to look at it.


These were sitting right next to some fairly inappropriate pictures...

I really liked the store. I wanted to buy a huge map of Africa from 1915. I like maps. It's pretty common to like maps, but I guess I'm pretty common in that area. I wonder how different our maps will be 100 years from now.

Before Uncommon Objects, we stopped by Pumpkin Patch, where Misti works. Grover tried on some hats.




Baby Transformer.

In other news, it's time for me to go to bed.

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312/365, originally uploaded by britrosewhite.

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!


Lauren left to go back to school this morning so we went to breakfast at Bailey's with these guys and my parents. Might be hard to believe, but we made a sort of scene trying to get these pictures. Seems to be a habit of mine.

I decided to go to Austin today. Ran a few errands with my parents after breakfast, threw a few things in a bag, and got on the road. Forgot about Thanksgiving traffic. It only delayed me about 40 minutes, but there were just a lot of cars on the road.

I screamed when I walked into the Gillen's apartment and Grover was not so happy about seeing me:



He started getting over it. I like the pumpkin pie on his nose.

We've already been to Kerby Lane for unlimited coffee and then stopped by Half Price Books where I picked up a retro copy of Mere Christianity and two Fairy Tale compilation books from way waaaay back.

Impromptu road trips never disappoint!

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Ooooh baby.

Some of my best friends in Brooklyn were Tim and Claire and Misti. Misti is Tim's sister and Tim is Claire's husband. Claire is from Austin. Tim and Claire had a baby. A few days after I moved. I knew him when he was the size of a blueberry!

And this weekend I finally met Grover in real life. He is so so so amazing and looks just like Tim AND Claire and NOTHING like a blueberry.

Tim and Claire (and Misti.....you best hurry up) are moving to Austin which pretty much makes my life. They came down this weekend to get an apartment and a bed and show me places like this:



And to drink lots of coffee with me:



And watch crazy freak people do stuff like this:



From this bridge:



(I'm going to jump off next time, I really, really, REALLY am.)



We also watched some weed lovin' beer chugin' crazy guys climb a tree and swing from a rope:



And target people like this:

Rope Swingers meet Innocent Drifters from Brittany White on Vimeo.

And this morning, we ate breakfast tacos at Juan and a Million, where they served chips and salsa with our coffee:

And this taco that kept me full until 5PM:

Tim went into a stupor:



And I....



have a big kisser:



Anyway.



These guys are great. I love them.

But let's be honest. The real reason I went to Austin this weekend?

Because I have a camera and they have a baby.

It's magnetic!!






LOOK AT THOSE RUBBER BAND WRISTS!


Grover Emmanuel Gillen, folks.

Get used to that face. He'll be no stranger to my blog this summer. I must document his rolling rolls sufficiently.

I know in my heart of hearts...it's just something that I have to do.

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97/365, originally uploaded by britrosewhite.

This picture in no way represents how awesome this day was, so I'm going to expound tomorrow.

But one thing that happened today is I had coffee for the first time since last month and it was at an awesome coffee shop in Austin with two of the best-ever Brooklyn-ites soon to be Austin-ites.

Stay tuned, but here's a preview of the day: hiking, wave runners, people watching, bridge jumping, rope swinging, weed, mexican food, sangria, coffee, coffee, GROVER, barbeque, banana pudding, beer, apartments, mattresses, and cliffs. Ponder that. I'm going to bed.