lovefest-part one

so i am still trying to recover from our weekend in ohio for julie and liv's commitment ceremony.
it was just an amazing weekend. i got to see so many folks that i love, it was hard to leave.

our drive down on friday was fairly uneventful except for some traffic which made me want to scream a little.

we got to jasmin's house around dinner time. we hung out, drank some wine, ate some dinner and talked.
after dinner we went to graeters and got some delish ice cream. i got peach and jes got raspberry chocolate chip.
i almost couldn't handle how old jasmin is. first of all, she is almost as tall as me, and she just acts so grown up.
she plays soccer and softball, plays the guitar, does this thing called stacking AND writes songs. i mean come on! she is only 11 years old. i just feel so lucky to be able to watch her grow up. here is a picture of the two of us:



and here is a picture of jasmin doing this thing called "stacking." it's basically stacking up and bringing down tall stacks of cups. the point is to do it quickly. i am not sure how fun it is, but i think it could come in handy if she ever wants to work as a bartender.



we got up early the next morning, had a little tea and some toast and bid our goodbyes to jasmin and her folks. next we headed to the arena district to meet my goddaughter alix and her mom (and my friend) laura. I haven't seen either of them in years and alix is now 13 years old. i almost fell over when i saw alix. she, too, is almost as tall as me and has the most beautiful dimples, check out this pic of alix and laura:



aren't they both so beautiful?

we left alix and laura and headed over to the bbq that was taking place before the wedding. here we met up with alyson, nicole, and rowan. the best thing was when we were walking up there was a group of kids, mostly girls, discussing their families. one girl said "i have two daddies and a mommy" and then the other kid said "i have two mommies" and so on and so on. it was like i had died and gone to heaven. maybe some day this will be the discussion you hear on every playground in every city. dare to dream dt. dare to dream.

here is a very cute pic of the brides to be: liv and julie and some baby that was SO GOOD at the entire wedding. seriously.



so all the kids were running around the bbq eating way too many blow pops. they all had purple and red tongues and were bouncing off the walls. it was a good time. here is a picture of the future leaders of the world. amore is on the left (this is julie's niece, homey's baby girl) and then next to her is rowan. i don't know the other girls names. all i know is that they have two gay dads and they are adorable.



one of the gay dads told us two hilarious stories about his girls. a classmate of one of his daugthers found out that they had two dads and they exclaimed "man! they have TWO DAD's shoulders to sit on!" and then the other story had to do with one of the girls needing to pee at the park in new york so she took off her pants "pointed her vagina at the tree and peed" (that last part is a direct quote from the dad). we were all like "ooh teach rowan how to pee on a tree." things started to wind down at the bbq and we headed out to kim and dave's house where we were staying. before we got there, alyson and i wanted to see our old house on forsythe avenue in victorian village. jasmin's mom suzan had told me it was VERY different. for those of you who know what it looked like before, check THIS SHIT out:



after that we run a few errands and then went home and some of us took naps. rowan did the puzzle we got her (with a little help from jes). look how cute she is:



ok that is just a little nibble of what went on this past weekend. stay tuned for some lovely photos of the wedding.
good night.

ali party part three

i have never played beer pong, but i have to say, i can't wait to play it again.

jes, kim, glennda, b-e-c-k becky becky becky, and i played. mary knapp played for a minute and then left her team to talk on the phone.

here is how it went down.

the teams were as follows:

jes and kim and mary knapp (for about two seconds)

vs.

glennda, becky, and me

now i feel like none of us suppa clubbers had played this extensively, but i knew becky was an expert when she asked "so are we doing brackets" meaning are we going to have competitive brackets like the final four. i told her we needed to take baby steps, so instead we would work with teams and b/c we didn't have that much beer, only put a little beer in each red cup.

for those of you are not "in the beer pong know" its a game you play on a ping pong table. you line up cups of beer like bowling pins and you try and throw and/or bounce a ping pong ball into a beer cup on the other side of the table and your opponent drinks that cup. yes, we washed the ping pong ball.

long story short, my team KICKED ASS. jes and kim talked a gang of shit, but mostly, they drank. here is a picture of one of the MANY times they drank:




oh and here they are again:



our team didn't have to drink all that much, but mostly when we did, it was becky drinking. i didn't even drink until the third game i think. here's a picture of our MVP, becky, taking one for the team:



by the end of the game, kim and jes (i think) were pretty drunkadoozles. it was kind of hilarious. they were a great team.
here is the whole beer pong gang:



now as you can imagine, (b/c both glennda and jes were playing) there was a great deal of trash talking going on. this trash talking resulting in two defining moments for the game. the first, i call "the ringer."

though we were dominating by a GREAT DEAL, becky, being the amazing team player she is, switched up her technique to try and IMPROVE her shot. she stepped up and threw the ping pong ball and it not only WENT IN the cup, it went around the rim of the cup like ten times before it fell in. of course kim had to drink b/c of it, but when the ball fell in we all shouted with glee "NOOOOOOO WWWWWWWAAYYYYY!!!!" and "AWWWWWWW SHHHHHHIIIITTTTT!" it was so fucking hilarious i almost peed in my pants. seriously, what was more hilarious then kim drinking for the 9th time in a row was glennda (and my) re-enactment of it over and over. we were all crying laughing.

the second defining moment i like to call the "booty assist." whenever kim was shooting and glennda was up she shook a little cleavage or booty to distract kim from her shot. one time kim shot while glennda was shaking her buns and the ping pong ball bounced off her butt and into the cup. it was outstanding. we all cheered with glee. glennda drank with pride and joy. kim was on top of the world.

other highlights of the evening: sitting out by the fire and making smores (this is where the rest of the party stayed while we played beer pong) and learning how to make mojitos that made ali (and others) very happy for most of the night.

after beer pong we all crashed. jes and i had to get up and out pretty early b/c we had a long drive home. we ate some breakfast, packed up our car and said our sad goodbyes.

we can't wait for the next party!

ali bday part two

so after we got back from the kroger, we decided to go outside and play catch. it was pretty hot and humid outside, and jes found some poison ivy that the ball may or may not have rolled into so we went inside after that. but before we did, i took a pic of gt and kim in their catch positions:



inside we cooled off in the basement (it was like a meat locker down there at night) by playing ping pong and maybe beginning to drink beer (not sure when it started). as a warm up, kim spanked glennda a little bit:



glennda, in turn, tried to spank ali when she came downstairs to take our order for the bbq. gt was unsuccessful because of ali's ninja reflexes:



when our grilled stuff was ready we headed back upstairs to join the rest of the party. by then becky and kami were there as were kim and lacy (ali's friends) along with all of us, monique and mary knapp and some folks with kids whose names i don't remember (the kids OR the adults which is weird b/c i almost always remember the kids names). i do remember that the baby girl had a pink wonderwoman onesie on that ali got her. adorable. in all of the hullaballo, i stopped ali to take a pic with me. i call it the blue eyed picture. i am sure you see why:



after everyone sufficiently stuffed themselves with grilled meats (fake and real) along with delicious sides like fruit, chips, pasta salad, etc. jes, kim and glennda brought out the gorgeous and oh-so-gay ice cream cake we got ali from dairy queen. anyone who knows ali knows she loves black, so glennda even got her some black candles.



after cake we hung out on the gravel drive way and chatted some: me, jes, glennda, kim and ultimately, mary knapp as well. the folks inside were talking diapers and politics while us outside were talking downward spirals, career plans and starting schools in bali. we were also throwing rocks at various things: bigger rocks, benches, etc. as a joke someone printed out a picture of an iphone and taped it to a cardboard box. here is a picture of kim pretending she is talking on it:



as the sun went down, the bugs came out so we headed back inside to graze some more on food, get some beers and head down to the ping pong table once again to gear up for: BEER PONG. here is a cute picture of the bday girl laughing and running. not sure why, but i love the joy in her face, so i am going to post it:



ok that is that for this post. a good place to end. next up: BEER PONG 2007.

when the comments get pushy... (part one

we get a blogging YO!

so had a full day of work, not too bad, my boss didn't come in b/c his car broke and the student worker left early so i basically just sat and talked to myself during the afternoon. not really, i actually typed up some stuff and enjoyed the silence (how very depeche mode of me). after work i went and got my hair did. earlier this week i decided i was going to cut off all my hair b/c i hate it and all i do is put it up in a pony tail or bun. jes talked me down off the ledge b/c it may not be prudent RIGHT NOW so new in my job to cut my hair like a boy, so we split the diff and i cut it chin length. i have jes take some pics and post them soon. after hair we went to recycle and pick up fruits and veggies at the farmers market. then we went and got some dinner at this new mexican restaurant near our house called sol y luna. not outstanding, but not terrible. the glass of sangria cost more than my bean burrito, so i would stay away from it unless you are independently wealthy (and if you are that, can you call me?) now we are home and i am sitting down to blog.

this blog is going to be all about nancy's 30th birthday party in the hills of ohio last weekend. last friday started out kind of shitty b/c we went to pick up the rental car and they didn't have any. 1.5 hours later we got none other than a motherfucking PT Cruiser- cream colored no less. But once we got into the car and got going we were kicking it. the sun was shining, the snacks were delish and we both got some good naps in. we got to the cabin around 7pm. the sun was still shining and most of the folks were there. here is a picture of nancy doing what she SHOULD NOT have been doing and that is checking her blackberry for work emails:



for the rest of the weekend, she was pretty good about not doing the work and focusing on the fun. here is a picture of the folks who were there on friday night and saturday morning:



we had these delish tacos on friday night and on saturday morning we made a yummy egg (and fake egg) scramble. i think the kids liked it. then jes, me, glennda and kim headed into town to buy some groceries and to get ali's (not so) secret ice cream cake from dairy queen. glennda drove and jes navigated, which meant that kim got pretty pukey in the back seat:



glennda, on the other hand remained pensive while driving through the cornfields of the midwest:



and here is jes and kim getting ready for kroger in lancaster, ohio. we really blended well there:



stay tuned to find out what happened next yall. its good times!

mondohomo 2007

so mondohomo went really well. it feels like it was years ago so i will do my best to remember what happened.
what is most important is i have some great photos. but they are all from saturday.
friday night was electro pop and homo hop and it was all great. it was hella loud so my ears were ringing by the end of the night. it also went really late so i didn't get to see it all b/c i was so tired even after a couple diet cokes.

saturday was my favorite mondohomo day b/c i was able to participate in everything. during the day there was an arts and crafts fair and these cute ass skater girls from the west coast taught folks (grown up and kids) how to skate. also my new favorite band team gina played.then at night there were all these bands: ex members, the shondes, rising appalachia, katastrophe, robosapien, and athens boys choir. we got to sell merch most of the night which was actually pretty fun. we could see/hear the music but we also got to chat with folks so that was nice.

allright i am getting tired, so i am going post the pics.

here is one of christina, she dates nikki. she makes DELISH cupcakes. here is a pic of her and her sweetcakes:



this one is my favorite pictures. its emma, the two ginas (gina bling & gina genius) and asha. fyi, i have a huge crush on gina genius.



my other crushes were on the skater girls. i love a skater girl as much as i love a sporty girl. i like to call this one "man grooves" b/c she had man grooves for days. luckily she kept her shirt off the whole afternoon so we got to see them A LOT.



i don't have a name for this woman, but i like how she is helping the little muffin learn how to skate:



here is gina WORKING IT OUT:



and another cutie skater helping a sweet little girl:



overall, mondohomo turned out really great. the panels that i helped coordinate at the us social forum turned out real well, (i was told-i couldn't make it to either), so that made me happy too. and jes and i bought like ten tshirts. not really, but we did buy a bunch. so many of them were so cute.

ok i need to hit the hizzay. TGIF tomorrow!

pride 2007 in the dirty south

ok yall if i have to use one word to describe pride last weekend: HOT!

and let me be clear, i don't mean it was hot b/c of all the lesbos with sports bras
and i don't mean hot b/c of all the gay men with hot pants and impossibly large bulges
i mean it was 95 in the shade oh my gosh i think i need to visit the medical tent HHHHHOOOOOTTTT

that said, i actually had a pretty good time.

friday night we did not do pride things. we went to an atlanta braves vs. detroit tigers game. drank a beer, ate some shaved ice and left at the 7th inning. it was fun. then we headed to kir and al's b/c al graduated with his mfa from georgia state. it was nice to hang out with them and some mutual friends and to see their cute ass dogs copper, sonny, and angel. then we went home and fell fast asleep.

i got up at the ass crack on saturday morning so i could pick up kim and we headed to the pride walk/run. we walked. it was great to get some exercise, to have an hour to chat with kim, and to raise money for youth pride. i am so glad i went.

here is a picture of us before the walk:



and here is a picture of us after the walk:



after the walk, kim and i got a delicious breakfast at ria's bluebird cafe. then we headed home to shower and get ready for pride. we got to the park and it was hot as fuck and all we had done was walk from the car to the park with the cooler and our bags. all three of us paused under a tree and contemplated whether or not we could really handle the heat. we decided to forge on and found a spot in the shade. here is a cute picture of sarah and kim chillaxin at pride:



we hung out mostly, did a little walking around and i sat with sarah at the atlanta lesbian health initiative (ALHI) tent. at around 6pm, jes and i headed over to the dyke march. it was fun. lots of boobs with their nipples covered. no major arrests or anything. we marched with mondohomo folks and wore matching tshirts. check it out:



on saturday night we worked a raffle at sisters. there was burlesque and drag going on there and we sold a few tickets here and there, had a couple of beers, and then headed wafflehouse for some greasy hashbrowns. i thought that wearing my booty shorts might help sell tickets. it didn't really, but they will hella comfie and kept me pretty cool. here is a picture of me with my other mondohomo shirt and booty shorts on:



sunday morning we got up and headed to the pride parade. again it was pass out hot, but we worked it out. we marched with mondo homo folks. jes held the banner with some other folks while i chanted and passed out mondohomo flyers to all the happy gays and allies (i did not give any to the religious folks telling us we were going to hell, i didn't think they would show up at a queer performance festival). i felt really happy at pride b/c we were marching and chanting with folks from the us social forum and the other group called the feminist outlawz (yes they spell it with a "z"). so it was great b/c we chanted about mondohomo, fighting homophobia, being a feminist, and the importance of the social forum. and the folks watching just seemed so happy and high energy. it just felt good. we headed home pretty soon after the parade to shower and get ready for dinner with jes's folks. i almost fell asleep at the table b/c i was so exhausted from the heat. after dinner we went home and i think i passed out on the couch. it was a long hot weekend.

this week has been busy with mondohomo stuff. jes went to the kick off last night. i stayed home b/c i didn't feel great. tonight we met up with sarah and kim at piedmont park for screen on the green. they were showing E.T. i can't tell you how excited i was to see this movie. we got there pretty early and it was packed. we ate and drank and chatted. it was so nice. and then the clouds rolled in. and with them came the lightning and the thunder. and then they cancelled the movie. i was so sad we didn't get to watch the film, but hanging out and munching on some treats and chatting with kim and sarah was so nice.

i am still real tired, but i need to buck up. tomorrow night is homo hop and electro pop and then saturday is the craft fair and all kinds of other stuff at mondohomo. sunday we might go for a bike ride in the morning and then more mondo in the afternoon. oy. i need a vacation.

all kinds of cute

so this is a bit of a hodge podge, but the connecting factor is CUTE:

1. davis the dog gearing up for gay pride:



2. emily loving some ice cream:



3. baby cade kickin it in his swing:



4. bailey and dawn playing airplane:



5. bailey's glee:

more cute kids

here are two pics of my friends ara & stephanie's little girls.

gus is jumping and jo is sitting. adorable.

suppa club in the hizzouse

so its seriously a month later, but i wanted to post some pics from when our supper club friends from new york came to visit the atl.

but before we begin with that, take a look at this sweet buddy:



almost makes you want to be a yankees fan, doesn't it? nah! just kidding kim!

so the ladies got here on a friday night and we took them first to el myr. everyone loved the food (how can you not?) and i think we were all feeling our adult beverages too. we just came back here and then hung out until we crashed.

on saturday morning jes and ali went to the atlanta aquarium while glennda, kim and i headed to the pool. it was lovely. then when they got back to the house from th aquarium, they joined us as well. here are some pictures from that:





here is one of ali and glennda jumping in the pool:



and here is one of the lovahs:



that weekend we also went to the mall, i think they liked it. ali REALLY liked that they had a Limited.

on sunday night we went to mondohomo's teaser party at eyedrum. there was art and performance and pbr. here is a pic:



we also went to dairy queen twice (there were here three days). i am pretty sure kim fell in love with blizzards.

here is a picture of supper club right before we took them to the airport. triple cutie sammie:



i know we did other shit but i can't remember b/c it was so long ago. maybe they will read this and comment about what else we did b/c seriously, i am at a loss.

ok so this weekend is pride so i am sure i will have a million pictures and a million stories from that. stay tuned.

spiderben

here are two cute ass pics of my nephew: