smile girls

last week/weekend we were in the mitten celebrating. we hardly slept and still didn't have enough friend-time.

last wednesday afternoon, while frantically driving around collecting bachelorette party supplies, i drove past the former site of our neighborhood kroger. and once upon a time, a mcdonalds, too. they were both gone. well, mcdonalds had been gone since my freshman year of high school, but i was sad to see see the building without the blue kroger letters. it was a terrible grocery store. the kind where you buy rice and a week later it hatches moths. but it is where jeff bought me my first jug of carlo rossi and where we stole "regal rump" stickers during that one night we slept in the car in high school. anyhow, i stopped to take photos.

thursday henry met chopper the pug at the duncan's house then there was a bon fire. it was quiet [minus the drunks] and you could see stars and it felt like camping. friday was the rehearsal dinner. i cried. saturday was the wedding where i cried some more. then got drunk and danced. it was great. anyone who says they hate weddings is lying.

sunday we played with the dogs in the backyard and had a bbq. my parents made lots of yummy food and we had family chats.. weird family chats. monday we bought a buttload of wine and beer, had breakfast with cal and val then drove home. then we were zombies. then peter left for PA. then i played my first lasertag game[s]. i sucked bad. now peter's back.

i've got no patience to write this nonsense. i must note for posterity that, yesterday while working at goodwill, i had to clean up vomit from the fitting room floor. boozy, cocktail fruit vomit. the end.





1. my old kroger
2. bachelorette party
3. my old bedroom
4. the boys dancing at the reception
5. petey and drunk face post wedding

i've been working a lot for no money and it has been keeping me on the Internets but away from blogging. my google reader has also been neglected. we leave for MI in 2.5 days for 4 day of wedding festivities and family dinners and [hopefully] outside drinking. we don't get to do much outside drinking here.

last weekend we went to honfest and saw lots of hot pants and big hairdos. and a band named garage sale that i enjoyed very much. we also found charm city cakes and i took a photo.

last week i found out i'll be working at goodwill for a while longer. and that's fine.. i don't mind a three block commute on foot, but i do miss drinking coffee in a cubicle and sitting instead of standing all day. ahhhh jobs.

here are some photos..







wild strawberries in little lithuanian park
charm city cakes stalking
butt walking at honfest
this takeaway was in the movie pecker
i made father's day cards for my two dads
this is what crack viles look like
petey and henry and umri siki

vintage graphic design goodness

while searching the internets for hawiian-themed inspiration i found arkiva tropica. if you get all nerdy about 50s/60s/70s graphic design i highly recommend it. there is a collection of scanned restaurant/bar menus, matchbooks, etc. from "exotic" theme restaurants, mostly polynesian.. and this is all the collection of a lady named mimi payne, of whom i am very jealous.

c/o my new friend Danr0k

roof sitting + reminiscng

this weekend was a bust. spent all day saturday deciphering html/css and then most of the day and night sunday doodling web banners. and i am not done. i now have wordpress rage. make sure to NOT ask me to do a website for you because apparently i lack the skills.

we did get to roof sit on saturday night and have chats. it smelled of roof tar and gave me anxiety but beers help.. and we found out our friends are having a baby! now i've got baby on the brain. i can't stop thinking about tiny thrift store kid outfits. and starting a collection of glass baby bottles. and the increased urge to pee my mother always spoke about.

the countdown to vacation/wedding time/our MI visit is underway and i keep reminiscing about fun old friend times. like when we saw the 4th of july fireworks at freedom hill and tried to have a KFC gravy chugging contest and then tried to knock over cones on south blvd on the drive home, circa 2001. or when we played catch in kelly's backyard for far too long because we couldn't decide what else to do, circa 2001. or when we played "extreme" volleyball with the giant, pink bouncy ball at firefighters park and i made rachel, kelly and alicia spell out letters with their bodies so i could photograph them, circa 2001. or when we got drunk in the parking lot then went to see the ring and AD fell asleep then i got lost on the way to ram's horn, circa 2001. OR when kelly's mom paid us to paint their house that one week and we went to kmart to buy yellow paint from peter [but we said it "the diary of anne frank" style], then to seema's open house to eat pizza.. then moms decided to hire pros to repaint it all, circa 2001. what a productive year that was.

learn about man-size tissues via the peep show.

and just watch the first 20 seconds because there is some fabulous dancing.. AND the high five @ 2:20. rofl as kristen would wisely say.

cava crazy-talk

so how is it june already?

i have this weird thing where i don't like to miss out on any social gatherings. i also used to hate missing school for the same reason. i like to think that if i'm not there, nothing is going to happen.. but just in case, i'll always be there. i blame that quirk for not keeping in touch with friends. i'm hopeful things will just pick up where they left off when we eventually reunite. so i'm sorry - to the three friends that read this - for not writing letters like i said i would. don't worry, you didn't miss much.

lets continue this philosophical binge.. being married is great. if you're in you're drunk in your underpants and don't want to take the dog out you have a backup. same if you need a straw to drink your wine while lying on the couch.. there are other, non-alcohol related benefits as well.. they can feed the cat after she wakes you up by nudging your face with her paw in the night. it is just real handy.

- people have been cooperating so nice lately. even if that if that is not a real sentence, it is true. thank you friends for your cooperation and bartering of talents. it is like we are real grown ups.
- i got these elf-toe shoes today, only minus the elastic strap and in navy. they were $3 at goodwill. i wore them to the grocery store
- can't wait to see the hangover w. andy from the office. i like that mike tyson has a cameo
- i like to find baltimore and detroit related statistics
- we'll be back in the mitten in 20 days!

this post was brought to you by refreshing and delicious spanish cava

slacking + sowebofest

i have been busy-ish for the past few weeks and slacking. it is a nice change of pace. hopefully a lot of good things will be happening soon.

two weekends ago was sowebofest. it was hot and we slowly drank beers all day and marveled at how the neighborhood looks with hundreds [or thousands] of people in it. at night we celebrated with mexican food kindly made by neighbor friends, smack talking and a margarita nightcap at zellas. here is peter pouring beers:

check out my awesome mc friend charles. you can download his album for free here. i highly recommend it, and not just because we're friends.