Haribos!

I accidentally gave a girl the wrong directions. She asked me how to get to Bond Street. I told her how to get to Bank Street. I feel bad. I hope she's not driving around the ghetto in circles looking for Bond Street.

It made me think of that show Quantum Leap from the early 90's. He traveled back in time to help people. I wanted to rewind 1 minute earlier and tell that girl how to get to Bond Street. Except on Quantum Leap he couldn't control where he leapt to or how far back he went. So that wouldn't work.

I had a Zombie Apocalypse nightmare the other night. We were all there. We had to live underground and be very quite. Derek was bad at that. And I had to live off of Haribo gummies. Which wasn't that bad. So it was a half nightmare-half dream come true.

This is a Canadian Squirrel photograph taken by Canadian Maili.

Sunday Morning

Drinking coffee.

More the Merrier

The lady at Au Bon Pain has three front teeth.

Last night the kids and I hung out in Mt Vernon. First, we met up at Brewer's Art for a couple Ozzys and some rosemary garlic fries. Then we went for Thai food at Stang of Siam where we scared the old lady away at the table next to us because she heard one of us say 'masterbation'. The we went to a bar in a basement and drank Nati Bohs, ate chocolate banana bread pudding, and ran into Neighbor Matt and his crew. Good times on the hill.

Take your vitamins

Walking to the gym, this old guy yells to this other old guy: "Well!? Did you take your Gingko Biloba?!"

Free Movie Night!

Last night we went to the Charles Theater to the City Paper Free Movie Customer Appreciation Night. It was really fun. We waited in the lobby for them to yell out a movie title and then everyone rushed the theater. Plus we got popcorn and booze. We ended up seeing Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - a british spy movie set in the 70s. It's one of those movies that you have to pay attention to or you won't know what the heck is happening. I was really paying attention and I still got lost at the end. We had to go across the street to the bar and discuss the details over a $2 PBR.

Steamy

The windows at the gym were super steamy. I felt like drawing Polios on them.

Derek threw his chonies on the floor. He wouldn't pick them up, so I told him I would put a picture of them on my blog.

Haha.

Ice Ice Baby

Yesterday we woke up and ice skated to the gym in our running shoes.

Then we met up with the Bank Street crew at the Beer Gardens downtown to celebrate Adam and Julie's 30th birthday. Cassie made a balloon sculpture of her vagina. I took a picture of a turd on the toilet seat in the girls bathroom. Adam got up on the table and danced, chugged, and cheered. Justin Russell rode the bull - twice. And Brett got the new nickname Boobies from our waitress named Scoobie. Overall, it was a pretty good night.

All of the lights.

On the way home tonight, I sneezed inside the collar of my jacket.

This is Buck's Appliance Co. on Fleet Street. They've had holiday decorations up since last year, but it looks like they put up more decorations after Christmas. And now they've added purple lights! So festive.

Face talk my face off.

Check out how beautiful my new computer is. And it has Face Talk! See my face? Who wants to face talk with me?! And did I mention that I got it on sale? I'm still learning how to use it and I haven't transferred all of my stuff over from my old computer yet. What do people do with their old computers?

I got my haircut short. I'm not sure if I like it but I guess it doesn't matter because it's already cut.

Sweet Beaver

My friends reminded me recently that I have a blog, and now that I have a new computer that works, I've decided to start up the blogging again. The past year and a half has been super. In the past 12 months I got a great job, became a licensed Landscape Architect, and got married. But best of all, last week I made a beaver cake for Matt's birthday! Because what guy doesn't want some beaver on his birthday?

Pause For Life Changing Events...

Chicken and Waffles - Vegetarian Style

All of the photos have a purple filter from my iphone case.

On Thursday night we went to a bar called ... wait for it ... Bar.

On Sunday, we went to the Farmers Market. It's downtown under the 83 freeway. It's really fun and has a ton of stuff, including a table of mushrooms.

Then we saw the Art Car.

I made really good leek and potato soup last night for dinner from stuff we bought at the market.

I also made Derek go to Bikram Yoga with me yesterday. It was really hard! I'm pretty sure it's impossible to hold your foot straight out in front of you when you're dripping in sweat. Can't be done. I'm going again today.

The washing machine tried to eat me.

Yesterday, while I was doing laundry, the washing machine lid fell and hit me in the face.

While ma and I were in NY, we saw a 'magnificent specimen' exhibit at the Chelsea Market. All these guys competed in a beard and moustache contest in Alaska, and this guy from Austin took glamour shots of all of them. The fox-head guy was one of my favorite.

We also went to McSorley's and drank some beers and watched the Laker game. Knuckle Sandwich? ha!

Acrobatic Manuvers and such

Side Note: You may think that sustituting a paper clip for a bobby pin is a good idea at the time but it isn't.

Ok, so let me tell you...

Thursday

The dirty old man, who owns the pharmacy next to my work and who is married and has children, kind of hit on me and bought me flowers. Sick.

Friday

I met up with some friends at the Tiki Hut for drinks and then we went and saw Gogol Bordello at the Rams Head. It was amazing. So fun. Then we went out to breakfast at 2am and I ate french toast.

Saturday

There was a Kinetic Sculpture Race through the streets of Bmore. It was sponsored by The Visionary Art Museum. People dress up in these crazy costumes and competed in various obstacles throughout the town and harbor.

Our friends Wally and Jillian invited us to go to Wally's dad's private island. His dad owns half of an island off the coast of Maryland, close to Annapolis. It's called St Helena Island and you can only get there by boat. Honestly. Google it. Before they were the owners, it was a rehab school for disabled children. Kinda creepy. There is all this crazy old brick structures. It's really awesome.

Sunday

Had a really good brunch with Cassie. Did some laundry. BBQ at Bank Street. Derek watched our veggie garden grow in our backyard. We have cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, spinach, lettuce, sweet peas, rosemary, basil, mint, strawberries, cilantro, parsley, and lemon verbena.

Photo Photo from Maili

I discovered the KCRW and MPR (The Current) apps on my iphone today. So now I can listen to the wonders of my favorite internet radio waves anywhere and everywhere. Genius.