My name is Andrea. I live in New Mexico with my husband and my cat. We just moved to Los Alamos from Las Cruces and are learning to live our lives without all our old friends nearby. I'm a Starbucks Barista and am working on loving being in a small town.
Here you'll find an amalgamation of my many passions and pursuits. I am an aspiring photographer. Please check out my SmugMug and what you think of my shots. You can even buy prints for a nominal fee.
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Spell your tumblr name with your tags. DO IT!
A is for “alcohol”.
C is for “camera”.
T is for “travel”.
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N is for “nixon? wtf”.
A is for “and I’m kind of a Rupert stan”.
T is for “TINY HARMONICA SOLO”.
U is for “united nations”.
R is for “Ron Swanson is an American hero”.
A is for “Arrested Development”.
L is for “Luke Skywalker”.
L is for “Lucille Ball”.
Y is for “yucca”.
(Source: demonicrosebush, via pitypie)
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She never missed sending me flowers on my birthday. And she was in the hospital that week and everybody was expecting her to be released. I got up the next morning and I turned on the morning news and there it was. She died on my birthday. And that afternoon … her flowers arrived for me. — Carol Burnett
The flowers came with a note that read “Happy Birthday, Kid. Love, Lucy.”
Two of the three greatest redheads of all time (the other one is Elizabeth I).
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I do.
(via lovelucy)
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Vitameatavegemin. It’s so tasty, too!
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Lucy and Desi at their second wedding on June 22, 1949.
Ahh! Just beautiful.
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High Res
“I am not funny. My writers were funny. My directors were funny. The situations were funny…What I am is brave. I have never been scared. Not when I did movies, certainly not when I was a model, and not when I did I Love Lucy.”
-Lucille Ball (Rolling Stone, June 23, 1983) (photo by Walt Sanders for LIFE, 1943, click to enlarge)
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I would rather be squishing grapes for wine right now!
(via lovelucy)
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Who is the next Lucille Ball?
The world’s greatest early female comedic actress was Lucille Ball, not only in her show opposite then-husband Desi Arnaz, “I Love Lucy”, but in the films that followed and her very quotable views on life. What has always been amazing about Lucille Ball is that, even during the throes of feminism, we were never afraid to laugh *at* her. In many ways, our society is afraid to laugh at a strong, smart woman- we prefer to laugh *with* them. A strong, smart woman deserves our respect, which is very true. Most humor led by women means we have to laugh along with them, cheesily, at jokes about the size of ex-boyfriends’ manhood and how useless men are. That’s not funny to me, nor is it that funny to the majority of society.
Only a few women have come since then who we feel comfortable laughing at. Carol Burnett, walking down the grand staircase in curtains AND curtain rod in her own variety show was one instance. We’ve had several admirable women on Saturday Night Live, as well, who have made us laugh. Unfortunately, they rarely play popular characters, and are more often the straight woman in a sketch.
Tina Fey, on the other hand, brings us back to feeling fine with laughing at her misfortune. In her current television show, “30 Rock”, she is a strong, smart woman with a series of hilarious mishaps and schemes which usually land her at someone else’s mercy. She also takes on jokes that are generally meant for men (Lucy had to dress up as a man a few times for this to work), making awkward rap references and uttering “Blurg!” as an expletive like a comic book character. It is refreshing for once to not see a woman struggling to operate in a man’s world, but to see her thriving and fighting alongside the guys.
“I’m not funny. What I am is brave.” - Lucille Ball
(Question/Answer created for a Facebook project.)
