[3.4.13] i'm looking forward to...

1. my new nanny job. i'm keeping a sweet baby boy just a couple miles from my house through may. it was funny timing, and you all know i wasn't really looking to be a nanny again, but it's a perfect situation and i'm really excited about it.

2. new books. some inspiring people from my church wrote some inspiring books that were released recently. i love having new reading material. i might love it even more when i actually know the person who wrote it. check them out here and here.

3. a new recipe for "healthier" mac and cheese that i'm trying tonight. found on pinterest, of course. we'll see how it goes.

hope your monday is above average!


<3 jojy


[that's my friend amanda at stone mountain. she and some other cool girls just started a food blog. check it out!]

movie i'm dying to see

Anna Karenina. for so many reasons. first being, i love russian literature. i mainly hang out with Dostoevsky but i've always wanted to take Tolstoy out for a spin. this movie gives me the perfect excuse to indulge and spend all of my time enveloped in a complicated romance [in book form, of course]. second reason is that the director, Joe Wright, has previously directed two of my absolute favorite films: Pride and Prejudice and Atonement. both of them starring Keira Knightly. both so strikingly beautiful. third reason is because the score is by Dario Marianelli, the same composer as both of the previously named favorite movies. i love a good movie score and preferably one that doesn't feature that new cool indie song that everyone loves. give me something i've never imagined before, please.

basically this movie is begging to be my new favorite. let's hope it doesn't disappoint [but even if it does you could probably still find me listening to the score and reading the novel].


<3 jojy



[Photo by Laurie Sparham]