Mr. Vintage Reader told me the other day that he was trying to come up with a way to explain the area of Tulsa we're moving into to his co-workers, mostly female librarians fairly close to our age who understand our pop culture references. It occurred to us that we're moving square into the middle of the area that The Outsiders was about: the Will Rogers school district. It's not as run-down as the neighborhood in the movie—we're a little west of there, I think, although since we haven't actually SEEN the house we're renting, who knows? I wonder if I need to worry about the socs and the greasers rumbling in the street or, y'know, doing cartwheels across the yard? There is a park with a fountain in it just two blocks away (although it's not the one in the movie).

I wouldn't post this if it didn't actually look like I feel right now, having been awake since, like, 1:30.

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Gina from Feather Your Nest stopped by earlier today, and I'm so glad she did! For one thing, she's based in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, where Mr. Vintage Reader and I were married (...and for the last time, no, we are NOT cousins). I've always thought Eureka Springs would be a great place to live year-round; as a matter of fact, the aforementioned young adult novel that my friend Steve and I wrote in 8th-grade science class was based on a quaint resort town that bore a striking resemblance to Eureka Springs, since we both spent lots of time there in our youth.

But also, Feather Your Nest has all kinds of nifty vintage goods, like these awesome cookbooks. I'm pretty sure I have one of these in its original form; these appear to be reprints, but I'm sure they're as full of vintagey goodness as the originals. I also particularly like this scale and these gorgeous tablecloths. Just yesterday I washed all my vintage tablecloths, which had gotten a little musty-smelling, and hung them out on the line to dry. They looked beautiful on the line, but up close you could see the small spots and stains (although—and here's a great vintage homemaking tip—by the time they were dry the sun had bleached out some of the spots so that they were barely noticeable). For my next house, I definitely want a couple of these reproductions, sans stains! And hey—even though I could order them online, I'll take any old excuse to visit Eureka Springs.

Also from starwars.com: Build Your Own Dagobah Terrarium.

...I wouldn't have had to use the dorky book covers with my school's logo on them; I could have had Chewie or Luke covering my books. I don't think it would have made me hate math any less, but you never know. Maybe if there had been Star Wars book covers I would have discovered a love of science and the requisite math, and today I would be a space physicist instead of a homemaker. Unfortunately, starwars.com wasn't around yet in 1978, when I started junior high (and neither were Yoda, Darth Maul, Anakin, or Padme).

Interestingly enough, however, these were.