incommunicado

until sunday.

admit it, you'll miss me.

i'll be back with stories and pictures.

smiles and high fives!

birthdays all around

tomorrow (the 24th) is the birthday of two very special ladies in my life. (and dan dean, give him a shout) this is a good time to talk about how wonderful they are.

the first is my sister, alex.

she's turning 18 which means cigarettes, rock shows, and voting are all fair game. she rocks, literally and figuratively. i will forever be jealous of the talent and charisma that this girl possesses. president of her choir, soccer scholarship offers rolling in, homecoming queen nomination, she's pretty impressive. though i think i'm most proud of her social conscience, hippie inclinations, and feminist streak. that's my girl. stop on by her space and wish her a happy 18th.this is her present:

espresso maker w/ cups and a few t-shirts. i think she'll especially like the andy warhol one.

second in my blog, but not in my heart, is kaitlyn.

she's my bff's daughter and she's turning 3! no longer a toddler, i believe this officially makes her a big girl. she's way cooler than your average 3 year old. she likes penguins, jelly beans, gymnastics (which she calls "matchsticks") and rocking out. she does not like santa. and she has a british accent which makes everything sound cuter. "rubbish" is my favorite. and i think we should celebrate jackie as well today for raising a lovely girl to the age of 3 on her own, while in med school and having a job. yes, apparently she is a superhero. i'm tired just thinking about it. and this is her present: princess roller skates and kneepads, pink glittery skull t-shirt (which jackie tells me she will wear with her black skinny jeans, i'm dying from the cuteness), and harmonica (not pictured are the sweet tattoos i threw in at the last minute). and i sent a camera so i can see pics from her party.

top 5 things dudes said to me last night

these things were all said completely out of the blue by random guys. no context whatsoever.


5. "what do you think is the sexiest fruit? that guy over there said grapes, what a dumbass."

4. "so i was arguing with my friend about whether or not elvis is a good baby name..."

3. "hey. are you with me or against me?"

2. "do you like horses? no? cause i knew this girl in like 3rd grade and she liked horses a lot. and you kinda look like her."

1. "your necklace reminds me of fort knox."

weirdest dudes ever. if they weren't kinda cute i would have been totally creeped out. surprisingly, the guy who insisted that elvis was a good baby name shot down my idea of phoenix. yeah, because that would be crazy.

when we left julian said, "man, the dudes were all over you tonight."

yes, but.....

got a question for hance

have you ever been to casa bonita? you know, since you're from denver and all. i just watched the south park episode about it, and it's probably one of all-time my faves:



and while i'm on the topic of south park, alternate universe cartman is an awesome episode too:

starter bike

so i've had my eye on a beautiful green paul frank bike with a basket and a bell and a hefty price tag. it was pretty cool, but there are so many things i'd rather spend $300 on. let's see....rent, a plane ticket, these boots, etc. so i decided to get a starter bike and see how i like it. check it out:

i think it's pretty sweet, and it will be mine for the extremely reasonable price of $70. it's a cruiser, which is all i really wanted, and i can paint it (red or green?) and get a basket and a bell for it. then i will have a killer bike and everyone will be all jealous and stuff. yes, this is the bike for me. unless someone wants to go in on this with me:

i didn't think these were real! julian and lauren should get this since they are next-door neighbors. while i'm on the subject, congrats on the new place, buddy! i'm psyched for julian, but also quite jealous.

normally, i would make a housewarming cake for the occasion, but i think i've lost my cake making mojo. if you haven't already heard, hayden's 'welcome to dallas' cake was a cake-tastrophe. quite a setback, indeed. i almost killed my mom in the process. we gave the leftover cake to the homeless guy who "keeps an eye on the cars" in the parking lot behind meridian. he was pretty amped.

perhaps i'll go to the cake store for inspiration. i think i'm gonna give up on fondant altogether and start experimenting with frosting bag tips. and maybe i'll buy a new cake pan. a new shape to shake things up.

i went to happy hour at martini ranch tonight with my good friend rachael, really the only good friend i made in fort worth. she's amazing. and i finally remembered to ask her how much money she won on millionaire, an impressive $25,000. i was one of her phone-a-friends and she didn't call me, but it was still very exciting to be part of the process. her husband is oh so weird, and therefore she has the best stories. i may have convinced her to do stand-up comedy with me, we'll see.

like endless rain into a paper cup

i give you my pro/con list on a new movie:
across the universe
i keep going back and forth about whether it's gonna be great or crap.

pros:
-julie taymor! i've been a fan since the lion king musical (which i was just recently schooling julian about, forget the disney version, forget it!) for which she won several awards. she's a badass, she directs, composes, and does costumes. all extremely well, mind you.
-a movie full of beatles songs sounds like an ok idea. i like the beatles. who doesn't?
-it's sure to be aesthetically stimulating and that's a big pro.
-i think it's gonna make me cry, and i welcome a catharsis.
-this trailer makes it look really crazy and kinda cool:


cons:
-the main characters are called lucy and jude. groan. (i realize those links may seem unnecessary, but i can think of a few people that need them)
-it's a musical, which easily treads into cheesy territory. very easily.
-it looks a little heavy-handed and earnest. not necessarily bad things, but i have little patience for them.
-bono makes an appearance. fuck that guy.
-beatles covers tend to make me feel a little icky. i dunno, maybe because i've been listening to these songs since infancy. the only one i like is the fiona apple version of, coincidentally, across the universe.
-this trailer makes it look kinda lame:


anyway, it's out this weekend at the angelika, and i feel compelled to see it even though the con list is slightly longer. i'll give it a go.

on the horizon

there are a lot of fun things up ahead on the social calendar!

there's the balloon festival this weekend!
i haven't been since i was a kid, but i think this is the year to return.

also this weekend, i'm going to see airline at the cavern saturday night! i've never seen them live, so i can't make any promises, but i have a good feeling about it. you should join me. yes, you.

and then

i'm headed to missouri (kansas city) on tuesday to celebrate some birthdays, play with some babies, and watch my sister win homecoming queen! and we are going to t-rex cafe. uh-huh!

and then

i will rush back on sunday (the 30th) in time to make it to THE pub quiz! this is it, kids. if we don't win this time, we will never win. i really want to win.

then, before you can say "mini tootsie rolls" it will be halloween! i'm ready to start talking costumes. any ideas? so far lady sovereign is the front runner. i like costumes that you can get into character for and accents are ideal.

"i'm english, try and deport me!"

one last thing: now that it's cooling off i really want to have a picnic. i have a proper basket and everything. i would love to take a cute boy...but it doesn't look like that's in the cards.

eh.

zero to ten

i'm having a hard time. i'm pretty mellow by most accounts but for some reason, conversations with my ex really set me off. i get so angry. like cartoon angry, red face and smoke coming out of my ears. i go to the bad place. i don't like it.

i don't like that he reads my blog and makes condescending comments about it.

i don't like being judged or held to someone else's standards.

i don't like that he uses personal information against me.

i hate that we can't be friends.

i think we're at different stages of breakup/grief which only leads to frustration on both ends. i don't know what to do, but obviously i'm not handling it well. this is the worst. certainly a low point in my life. ah well, at least i'm young!

i'm already considering erasing this....

dude

i can't believe someone hacked my myspace and sent dirty videos out to everyone. what the hell is that anyway? who does that? it's incredibly uncool. it makes for a pretty awkward situation when someone i may not have spoken to in awhile suddenly receives that sort of comment from me. and i feel terrible about certain people that it went out to. angela's mormon teenage brother, sweet gals like amanda manning, ryan and other people that use their myspace for work.

what's funny is that a lot of people really thought it was actually from me. i mean, i know i can be pretty obnoxious and yeah, i'm known to post webcomics and youtube videos in comments.....but come on, two chicks making out??? that's not something i would send.

i guess that's just part of the territory and i shouldn't get mad. ugh.

stupid myspace jerks.

weekend recap

get excited, this is a good one.

friday

-movie night with a bunch of boys.

-julian finally saw talladega nights so now i can quote it freely.

-george surprised me by returning a movie he borrowed from me three years ago.

-glorious weather for the ride home in the jeep. amazing.

saturday

-woah.

-art show/reception where no one paid much attention to the art.

-saw emily! she's ex-anthro. our numbers are strong, but especially at artsy events.

-saw a former design studio TA. one time he said my painting project was brilliant, which is why i often boldly declare that i am a brilliant painter. i believe my own hype.

-took several first-timers to fallout. the crowd could have been better...

-art show afterparty at suite which is what i imagine clubs in vegas look like. it may have been a little too cool.

-we were on the list so we got to go downstairs, and thank god because it was dramatically less crowded and the tunes were exponentially better thanks to the party.

-i danced my little heart out. that's where it gets a little fuzzy.

-had an awkward encounter with the cobra snake. i was left with an unfavorable impression.

-here are the pics. i'm in two, but you have to look carefully or you'll miss me.

sunday

-woke up to a rerun of home improvement and a pounding headache.

-my feet were blistered (curse those beatiful blue shoes) and mysteriously filthy.

-my polaroid is broken, but i'm ok with it. the novelty has worn off anyhow.

-a quick survey of my wallet revealed that i barely spent any money, which means i obviously owe you guys some drinks.

-at about 10 pm the upstairs hot water heater in my house kinda exploded causing water to flood the kitchen through an overhead vent and several upstairs rooms. hot water, mind you.

-i devised and executed a crude siphoning plan while my mom franctically called plumbers and my dad ran around making sure our house didn't explode and such.

-the only flashlight my family owns is one that doesn't have batteries and must be charged by shaking it vigorously. i was greeted with impatience when i asked why the eff they kept shaking the damn flashlight. it seemed like a reasonable question.

-this went on for about 4 hours.

-when a plumber finally arrived, my dad began the story of what happened with, "(sigh) well, it was a real comedy of errors." my family is oh so nerdy.

tcs: "hey is that a polaroid? take a pic."

i oblige.

tcs: "do you want me to autograph that for you?"

me: "uh, sure i guess."

he autographs it (sort of), puts a sticker on the back, and hands me a stack of stickers

tcs: (smugly) "you got more than you bargained for, huh?"

me: "uh, yeah....thanks."

who is this guy?

i think i jinxed myself

i was telling julian how i'm proud of myself for posting so often and how i'm glad something always comes up to post about. well...

i got nothin.

so here are some clips from my favorite tv show of all time, freaks and geeks:





even though i don't know jason segel i'm pretty confident that we could be bff. and i wouldn't mind making out with him either, you know, if he's up for it.

i can't wait for the weekend so i have some legitimate material.

don't read this if you don't know me

because you will think i'm crazy.

so a lot of strange, coincidental things happen to me. and it freaks me out. you see, i have an insanely active imagination. i get carried away. i'm (big time) afraid of the dark, and lots of things that aren't real. here are the things that currently have me freaked out:
(in reverse chronological order)

scenario 1: today i went to buy cigarettes to mail to england (along with kaitlyn's bday present) for jackie's bf, hass. i've been trying to get someone else to buy them for a week now, but it just couldn't wait. i have never bought cigarettes in my life because it was ingrained in me at a very young age that smoking is bad. if you smoke, you are bad. (maybe we had a really intense d.a.r.e. program at our school?) i can't handle someone, even a gas station clerk, thinking i'm bad. anyway, i'm totally anxious about the situation, but i buy the cigarettes and now i'm ready to mail my package. i run a few more errands and end up at a post office on the other side of town hours later. guess who's there? dude that sold me cigarettes. he jokes (loudly) about whether i'm mailing cigarettes. a) that's pretty random running into him, b) i was mailing cigarettes, c) why is it that the one time that i buy cigarettes (which i'm anxious and embarrassed about) it gets announced to a room full of people? wtf?

scenario 2: so a few weeks ago i worked on a habitat for humanity house in wylie. everyone there was from my dad's company except for one lady. she didn't know anyone so i ended up talking to her quite a bit. last week i'm in a hobby lobby in dallas and who do i see? habitat lady. she's checking out as i'm walking in and she flags me down. she's buying cake pans and a decorating book because i inspired her to bake cakes. and i show up at this exact moment! i don't know her. this is not my regular hobby lobby. what are the freaking chances of that?

scenario 3: in july i went to this play with my parents and sister. it's interactive theatre where you can talk to the actors and you throw popcorn at them as well as other audience members. usually feuds develop between tables. this one guy was picking on my mom all night. the next night i went to plano super bowl for alex's bday party. and who's there? popcorn guy. these are two very random, very different places in different cities. it's weird that i went to either of them in the first place, but to run into the same dude at both? creepy! (fyi, we are myspace friends now)

anyway, it's like my life is a movie and they couldn't afford enough extras or something. it freaks me out.

also, why do strangers talk to me everywhere i go? and why do so many people tell me that i'm "glowing"? that is a weird observation to be made repeatedly...

if there is a truman show-like thing going on, i'm gonna be totally pissed.

you guys would tell me, right? eh?

keep denton shitty

i recently went back to denton (where i attended good ol UNT in my youth, ha) to reminisce and hit up my old hangouts. i was 100% unsuccsessful. i knew that they had torn down a few things on fry street, but i was shocked at the changes all over town. i couldn't find anything! the irish store on the square is now a bath junkie (dear god why?). the used bike store is a gas station. my favorite vintage store is a lame comic book store. my second favorite vintage store just sits there vacant. mr. (or monsieur if you're feeling fancy) chopsticks was a pile of rubble soon to be an apartment complex. then, last week someone told me they were closing down rubber gloves rehearsal studios, and that was just the last straw. (it turns out this joker was ill-informed, but it was a good warning, because obviously it can happen.) this was really the only bar i frequented thanks to their giant $3 beers and excellent (very, very excellent) music. i would go there with 2 girls from design studio every week after class. i saw the shins there juuuuust before they were popular and that was one of the most fun nights ever. seriously, ever. the point is, denton overwhelms me with nostalgia and i hate to see it's character destroyed. sure, it was trashy and run-down, but you really didn't mind. it was almost like a mini-austin. kind of. if they're not careful, it'll look like frisco soon! so....

i propose a denton day.

ice cream (homemade) on the square, vintage shopping (i've managed to track down my fave at a new location), perhaps bike shopping, a trek over to the art building for the sculpture garden and student gallery, pizza at the tomato, coffee at brick haus (if it still exists), and finally giant beers and a show at rubber gloves. also, i will tell you funny stories all day.

this may be my last chance. who's with me?

*EDIT* so it has come to my attention that the tomato has gone the way of mr. chopsticks. fuck. this cannot wait till after football season.

blogger anxiety

i'm feelin it. i never realized how many random, unknown people would be reading my blog. and really, i can't understand why they are. my blog is pretty much just the alison show, and i cannot imagine this is interesting to someone who doesn't know me or anyone that i talk about.

anyway, my point is that i'm not a real blogger, and i hope these random readers aren't holding me to real blogger standards. i would imagine that an 8 minute pee wee video wouldn't pass as content for a real blogger. however, if you know me, you know that i am in fact a pee wee aficionado and talk about him quite a lot, and the post makes perfect sense.

i started this with two goals in mind: occupying some of my time and hopefully amusing some of my friends in the process. notice that impressing strangers did not make the list. i don't like the pressure of outsiders reading it. i feel like i should maybe edit my writing or use capitalization or something. but i don't wanna. i'm blog-pouting.

also, it turns out tons of people want to make quidditch cakes and their google search leads them here. sorry, guys.

because NO ONE remembers the breakfast machine

..or the mr. t cereal, of which i was a huge fan. i totally remember what it tastes like.


sad but true, i have the sheet music for that song on piano. actually, a large portion of my repertoire is made up of tv and movie themes. i'm such a sellout.

also, normally i don't really like family guy, but this made me almost pee my pants:


oh man, the secret word. that never gets old.

weekend recap

though i'm not sure why i bothered....

friday

-several times it struck me that we could very easily be in an episode of that 70's show.
-my towelie impression was a little too convincing.
-we drove out to frisco for frozen custard.
-interpret those statements as needed.

saturday

-knitting, how cool am i?
-made nutella & banana crepes, and i will make some for you if you like.
-spent the evening alternately struggling to breathe and being tweaked out on allergy pills.
-lots of daydreaming about an nyc trip.

sunday

-job searching.
-got a call from jon jon saying he hurt his foot and there were bits of his teva stuck in it. sick!
-cut out pattern and material for an apron i'm making. that's right.
-wondered whether enough time has passed to dye my hair, i want to be a redhead again!

my first weekend of self-inflicted grounding totally sucked. staying home is boring. no hangovers, though. i feel sorry for people who don't have lots of cool friends and have to do this all the time. yes, i'm lucky.

tate tracks

so if you're not familiar, the tate britain and the tate modern are some pretty sweet museums in london. in fact, the tate modern is my favorite museum of all time, and i'm a huge museum fan/snob so that actually means a lot. i spent 5 hours there once on rainy january day. anyway, check this out! tate tracks! they've brought in musicians to choose a work that inspires them, compose a song, and then they play the song alongside the work that inspired it. very cool. i was especially psyched to see that someone chose a franz kline, since his name popped into my head immediately when i read about this project. good choice, graham coxon! i have so many questions about this. i wonder if they really do let the artists choose the work on their own. does the museum educate them about it or are they supposed to just be inspired by the aesthetic? do they get guidelines on writing their song? i wonder if it's different writing a song when you know the audience is not your typical fanbase. my only complaint is that i was hoping for more energy in the songs. the headphones logo is a little misleading in that way. it makes you think you're about to rock....not so much. ah well.

it's amazing that the tate was able to pull this off. museums are always trying to think of new ways to show art and ways to attract new patrons. unfortunately, bureaucracy (ah-hem, board of directors) usually waters down any good ideas until they're nothing special at all and nothing ever changes. at least that's my experience with art museums. indeed, european museums put ours to shame.

BUT...

there is something amazing going on at the modern in fort worth. there is a ron meuck (a "hyperrealist" sculptor) exhibit that is truly the best thing i've seen in years. i know my opinion doesn't mean much, but trust me this time, it's great. even if you're not into art, it's very accessible because his sculptures just plain look cool. here's an example:

this one isn't the best, but i don't want to ruin it for you by showing you the best one. duh. the exhibit is on through oct. 21st so you have some time. wednesdays are free, so i would recommend going on that day.

sorry for the pretentious art-kid post.

top 5 things to do before my 26th birthday

which is jan 10th.
i have about 4 months.

5. move out of my parents' house. this is really an asap kind of situation but if i'm not out by january, kick my ass. then help me find an apartment.

4. i really need to make it back to england. it's been way too long. and hopefully i can catch one of hasan's gigs.

3. the half-marathon, of course. training is coming along nicely, especially since julian just gave me a huge hip-hop anthology to be envied by many. i can totally run to that.

2. i want to make a huge, tiered (possibly with columns...) crazy cake. i just need a reason for such a large cake. give me a reason!

1. i want to do standup comedy. just once, at an open mic night or something. i like to compare it to skydiving: it'll be terrifying and horrible, but worth it for the experience and the lifetime bragging rights.

pic-tastic!

mostly because of a lack of content....

here is something that i made to fill wall space and to do something with my stack of polaroids that has been gathering dust on my desk:

it's no masterpiece, but hey, i threw it together during the commercial breaks of ace of cakes. the one cool thing about it is that the pics are attached with scrapbooking brads, so that i can switch them out later when i take more pictures. clever, eh?

do you watch ace of cakes? holy crap, it's fucking great. it's a bunch of hipsters running a bakery making over-the-top awesome cakes. the best thing is that they do things that are so original and unorthodox that they always have to improvise and get really creative with their tools and materials. i'm pretty interested in the creative process in any form so i get really excited over this show. nerd alert! also, i think i may have to bump someone off my freebies list to make room for geof, the executive sous chef. uh huh! here are some examples of the insane cakes they make:

that last one is a quidditch field, in case you're not into harry potter. a quidditch field!?! i'm so pissed that this cake is not mine. anyway, this show is the reason that i'm never satisfied with my cakes. if only i had about 3 ovens and a team of workers.....

i am making a cake this week to welcome lauren's bro to dallas. it's a pretty ambitious endeavour for me so i hope i can bring it to fruition. come to meridian next wednesday if you want some cake! you should come anyway though, meridian wednesdays are the best days. if julian will send me the pics from last night, i'll show you.

one last thing: pub quiz on sept. 30th. assemble the dream team and take no prisoners.

hipster olympics

i may be a little late on this, which would make me a pretty bad hipster if i was one (which i'm not). watch them search for the perfect ironic tee ("it's so un-ironic that it is ironic!"), have a music collection brag-a-thon, and heap scorn upon a square competitively. i cracked up watching this, because i totally see myself in it. i even have that gray american apparel shirt that one of the competitors is wearing. it's actually my favorite shirt. and i'm always saying something is the new something. and i scoff at squares. i'm not really a hipster though. hipster-ish at best. anyway, this is funny.



oh and special thanks to alexander for making me the best mix cd of all time. i just got it yesterday but i'm playing the heck out of it. maybe, if you're lucky, he'll make one for you.

i judge you when you watch entourage

So…Entourage is a really shitty show. Really, it’s very bad. Usually when I say that my opinion is dismissed because “it’s a guy show and you just don’t understand.” This is pretty insulting because you’re assuming that I’m either too immature or too unintelligent to evaluate something with the slightest bit of objectivity. How dare you? Also, have we met? I like lots of “guy" things. I can certainly admit when something is good or cool even when it’s completely not my style or something I would never partake in. Video games come to mind….I don't get it but I don't put it down. Also, my dislike of the show is not a knee-jerk feminist reaction to the distasteful treatment of female characters. It’s bad, to be sure, but also pretty typical.

No, no, I hate Entourage because it sucks. I guess I'll start with the characters and the acting. It’s the opposite of seamless, whatever that is. Seam-full? Anyway you can see them struggling, and it’s bad. Vince may be the worst, his character has no personality and that’s exactly how Grenier plays him. He gives you nothing. I don’t get it, he’s the main character, right? Turtle and Drama might be ok characters if their lines were actually funny, but they’re not. They seem to be making the same long-running jokes from the first season. Ari used to be kinda cool and funny (I like asshole characters), but now he just runs around throwing temper tantrums. That’s not interesting or funny. He’s apparently run out of zingers. The only good character at all is Eric (fuck you, hollywood, I’m not calling him E). He does and says real things and appears to have a brain and a personality. See, now was that so hard? Maybe they’ll surprise me and turn Eric into the main character…..

The story isn’t very good either. I use the singular “story” because there’s really only been one story line the entire length of the series. Sure the details change, but basically it’s the same thing happening all the time. I hadn’t watched it since the first season and I was able to jump back in without skipping a beat. In fact, I had to double check to make sure they weren’t just replaying the first season. Indeed they weren’t. It’s so formulaic that it’s like watching a Scooby Doo episode. If it weren't for that meddling director.....

And all the celebrity cameos? They are always terribly cheesy. When Kanye West made that joke about flying the jet it kinda felt like I was watching Full House. It's ok guys, he's only joking! Super lame. Unbelievable. This is an Mtv-quality show on an HBO-sized budget. What a waste.

The real reason it irks me that Entourage is so popular is that I really don’t get why people are watching. Do people think it’s funny? Are they actually interested in what will happen to these lifeless characters? Do they want to live vicariously through Vince? Are they impressed by the hollywood glamour? Some say it’s like the male Sex and the City (don’t get me started on that show) and I get that comparison. Unfortunately, it similarly reduces men to these absurd gender stereotypes the way that SATC did to women. "Me like girl. Car go fast. Money good."

In conclusion, Entourage is a bad show because it is stocked with static characters played poorly by mediocre actors, with regurgitated, badly-written storylines. Their attempt at humor yields meager results. It is ostentatious, cheesy, and sleazy (the rhyming there is an unfortunate coincidence). It pretends to be a good show, while it is not.

I say this out of concern. Watching Entourage is a step down a slippery slope. Next thing you know you’re wearing striped, button-down shirts and drinking domestic beer at your reserved table in Addison. You’re a douchebag. Who will help you now? Not me, I warned you.

Relax, this is all in good fun. I don't really care about Entourage. I watch some terrible shows too, Degrassi probably being the worst. But at least I don’t go around talking about how cool it is. Or watch it in a group with all my buddies. Sigh.

weekend recap

"i could have had six! i only have one!"
-lauren's reaction to her $7 beer

friday

-we skipped ryan's b.y.o.bling birthday party in favor of martinis and beer in uptown.
-it turns out martinis are delicious.
-far too many dudes approached us, so annoying. they all liked my cardigan.....i dunno.
-it's a pretty nice cardigan. sarah gave it to me.
-lauren got drunk and told everyone her name was "buddy"

saturday

-central market! amazing sandwich, real sugar dr. pepper, and creme brulee. ah yes.
-jon jon was on tv at the UT game, which led to a lot of texting.
-worked on some art projects that had long been abandoned. (pics soon)
-fallout again. kinda busy but not friday busy. no dancing because lauren hates hip hop.

sunday

-did you know that liquor stores are closed on sunday? me either.
-people came over. the most random group of all time. friends of mine that span decades.
-i think the star of the day was chris berry. hadn't seen him since vail.
-jonesy could not have been wearing more green. no way.
-i made snake bites! you know, cause its sunday.
-i did NOT make a cake. there can't be cake every weekend, dudes.

now i have some bad news. i'm grounding myself. i'm not going out anymore for awhile. just meridian wednesdays cause those are too hard to give up. please don't give me shit about it. i'll be back.

top 5 reasons i can't wait for fall

5. windy, chilly, rainy weather. it's exhilirating. and there's no sweating. perfect weather for lounging around with a blanket and a book.


4. all the best holidays are right in a row: halloween, thanksgiving, x-mas, my bday. good times.


3. boys in jackets and scarves. yes.


2. pumpkin-flavored things appear everywhere. beer, lattes, gelato. i love it all.


1. oh the fall wardrobe! sweaters, jackets, boots, scarves, etc. i have lots of new stuff in my closet just screaming to be worn. it may be awhile....


i've already started knitting in anticipation. i should be pumping out scarves by mid-september, anyone want one? let me know what you want: color, skinny, long, fluffy, etc. i'll also be attempting a hat for alexander, but i'm gonna see how i manage it before i offer to make more....

yay fall.

my best friend is better than your best friend

see? i told you. my package arrived from england today jam packed with goodies! the cds, tons of candy and a postcard. how psyched am i? notice how the jelly babies are already torn open. i couldn't wait. they are quite possibly my favorite candy and their deliciousness is exceeded only by their elusiveness. i probably won't share them. try me.