Sweet Sunday

Sometimes I forget that Lexington has some really awesome and unique places. Places like Coffee Times and Street Scene; a combination coffee shop and vintage shop. This past Sunday I met a girlfriend for some very delicious cups of coffee and some much needed catch up time. I'm always envious of all the California bloggers I follow that recap all the cool stuff they find at open air flea markets on Saturday mornings. But after 5 minutes in this store I realized I have nothing to be jealous of, it was like having the Rose Bowl Flea  in my own city. Street Scene has everything a girl, or guy, with a love for everything funky, girlie, and little granny could need. They stock a great variety  of furniture, kitchen stuff, clothes, jewelry, and miscellaneous knick knacks that fill up lonely bookshelves and countertops. Perhaps poking around for vintage treasures while we sip our whip creamed topped coffees might have to become a Sunday ritual!

Street Scene: 2575 Regency Road, Lexington KY 40503

Coffee Times: 2571 Regency Road, Lexington KY 40503

Just Wink

So I have to tell you guys about the funniest and cutest app in existence right now: just wink. It's an app by American Greetings that lets you create your own card greeting cards that can be texted or emailed. And not only does the app itself have a quirky sense of humor to it, the cards themselves are hilarious. But what makes me really want to brag about the awesomeness of these cards is a good friend from high school helped create this app! (I'm so proud...it's like he helped create post-its!)

They have a variety of categories, and then fun sub categories within them. What you can't see in this picture is card topics on Bromance, fml,  and yay, new human!

See what I mean about clever humor with the thought bubbles that say, "perv", "you're drunk", and "yay carrrdssss!!!"?

How can you not love a card about friendship and pirates?!

 You can even add your signature to your card when you're ready to send it. 

And if you weren't already convinced that just wink is the most genius and clever creator of cards is paper versions exist too! I found these at Target, but I think you can find them other places too. So download this app and treat your friends to some thoughtful and funny sentiments.

The Movies

Last week I didn't have a Flick Pick and this week I don't have one either. Even though it's summer and big, entertaining blockbusters are coming out every week, there hasn't been a constant release of movies that I've wanted to see. Or movies that I thought looked good until I started catching wind of some bad reviews and then completely wrote them off (best regards to Abe Lincoln Vampire Hunter and To Rome with Love).

So, today when I normally have my Friday Flick Picks I fully intended on giving my apologies on a lack of movie watching lately and have a post on something else. But I was going to throw a glimer of movie watching hope out there because the final Dark Knight movie came out today and I definitely wanted to see it soon.

But then I read the news this morning.

At a midnight viewing of The Dark Knight Rising in Aurora, (a suburb in Denver) Colorado, a man opened fire on the patrons viewing the movie; killing 12 and injuring 50 others. In todays society I think we're all used to the excessive amout of security and screening processes at airports, concerts, sporting events, amusement parks and the like. Having my purse checked and metal detectors don't phase me anymore when I know I'll be in a setting of over a thousand people. But it never occured to me to think about how unsafe you are in a movie theatre. It's a dark place, you're usually surrounded by strangers, and you have this very loud, large, and usually entertaining, distraction right in front of you. This is a scary thought to me, because one of my favorite places in the world to be is inside a movie theatre.

The other week I tweeted a link to a humorous flow chart depicting how seating in a movie theatre should be laid out. And now I'm wondering how, realistically, going forward they should be laid out. This won't stop me from going to the movies, or from seeing The Dark Knight at some point; I love movies too much for all that; but an engaging movie won't be the only thing keeping me on the edge of my seat. At least for awhile.

My thoughts go out to the families of those who lost someone today in Colorado. Stay safe guys!