a little drunk...jesus knows how to party

merry holidays everyone!!! i just got back from christmas dinner with my parents and not only was it fantastically yummy (yay gramercy tavern!) but quite possibly the funniest display of parental drunkenness ive ever witnessed. i give my parents a lot of shit but those two are a party when they're hammered. our waiter was so enamoured by them and their "holiday cheer" that he kept bringing glasses of prosecco on the house, a very nice but misguided act of kindness seeing as they had already gone drink for drink through 3 bottles of wine and my mom's "drunk face" was turning into her "pass the fuck out face" at an alarming speed. so thank you santa, because the best gift of all is the gift of seeing mom and dad obliterated and stumbling through the doors of their classy hotel like two kids after junior prom. ew. ewwwwww.

and onto the presents.

i asked my parents not to get me presents this year. mainly because i've been having some serious anti-consumerist sentiment recently and because i knew they would anyway. and they did not disappoint.upon arriving at my parents hotel yesterday morning, my dad handed me an envelope containing THE BEST GIFT EVER!!! a pretty hefty gift card to...THE STRAND. so yeah, i'm a woman of loose morals and weak character. whatever. now i'm also a woman who owns taschen's complete library!

after the strand, what was left of my shaky values went out with a blaze of glory at Bergdorf's and FAO Schwartz. side note: if you're in ny you should really try to check out Bergdorf's holiday windows. they're always creepily incredible but this year, they have a few windows that blow my mind. especially the ones in front with the insane perspective (see second pic below).

really though, you have to see them up close, these pics don't do them justice. my friend edwin and i sat in his car for ages the other night trying to figure them out. amaaaaazing. and you know what else is amazing? my NEW SPIROGRAPH!!! at school we always joke around about how we're going to use leggos for our site models or etch-a-sketch ourselves a nice little stair detail but this is for real. this spirograph WILL make its way into my next design project. air flow diagram? facade? i'm already knee high in little pieces of paper, gleefully drawing away like an artistically prodigious autistic kid. joy! in fact, i think this post is coming to its end...i have hours of new music to dance around to (muscles and the young punx, check them out!)and a spirograph thats been giving me "fuck me" eyes since i've walked in my apt.