my fin de semana

so before i post about my thrilling weekend, let me first post a few pictures of my cute friends from chicago.

here is a picture of alyson with nicole's belly that she got painted at michigan women's music festival:



how cute is that? apparently, ro ro got her belly painted the same.

here is one of the whole fam at michigan. how cute are they?



and here are a few of the next mia hamm, i like to call her rolita:





ok so a few highlights from our weekend:

1. we went out to our car on friday morning EARLY b/c we were going to get our licenses renewed before work and found out that our car (along with four other cars in the lot) had been broken into. they didn't really steal anything too valuable and we are not sure what they damaged (we bring the car in tomorrow). it was mostly just frustrating. we had a little pity party for two until we found out that our neighbor at the other end of our building got her car STOLEN. then we counted our blessings.

2. friday night we went a drag show at the southern comfort conference. it was outside the perimeter (OTP). it started pretty late so we didn't stay all that late. on the way home we stopped at waffle house and got us some hashbrowns and decaf coffee. it was delish.

3. saturday was my friend mary's birthday. she lives in san francisco, and on saturday morning, she and her friend tara swam from alcatraz to the coast of san francisco. here is a picture of them:



i think the craziest thing about her swim [apart from the fact that she actually swam from alcatraz (shark infested waters)] is that when you get out of the water, you have this seaweed beard. i mean who knew swimming in the bay would give you that? seaweed beard or not, i am hella proud of her for doing it. it takes discipline, spunk, courage, and some serioius strength.

4. today we got up, i FINALLY cleaned the bathroom (i am ashamed at how dirty it was. gross). then we drove back OTP and picked up sile and drove her to the greyhound station. then we headed to the coffee shop and did some work and i wrote a few letters. i did some more work, we chatted on a conference call with suppa club and now we are watching the emmys. they are incredibly boring.

so that is about it. the daily show with jon stewart just won an emmy. that's fun.
tuesday is my friend maria's bday. happy bday maria.

lazy sunday in crooklyn

kim and bams kickin it live one time in park slope

adorable awake:



and adorable asleep:



p.s. this is my 101st post!
p.p.s. da bears are winning against the san diego chargers right now. go bears!

sangria report numero uno

we have had a pretty quiet weekend.

yesterday we did some work then we had to head to the airport to get our tickets to idke fixed. this took several hours and after we got back i had to take a nap.

when i got up from my nap we went and got some lunch (i got a willy's burrito, jes got some enchiladas from mexico city gourmet). then we went to this new coffee shop in decatur called dancing goats. it's huge and so lovely, but they didn't have the air conditioning on, so it was a little bit warm. i like to call it "drunken goat" b/c that is this really good goat cheese that is soaked in red wine. kim introduced me to it when we were at the beach. good stuff.

after studying at the coffee shop, we came back here and studied some more. GO TEAM!
then jes played a little mario on her wii, and i talked to alyson and nicole on the phone.

because we had been inside most of the day (except for that enthralling trip to the airport-ugh), we decided to go out for a drink. i have been craving some sangria, so jes did a quick little search and we decided to try the sangria at raging burrito, a cute little joint in downtown decatur. we got a pitcher, which was kind of pricey (i think $19), but we knew we wanted more than one glass. now mind you, we were thinking the glasses would be small like for a mixed drink. in fact, they were pint glasses, so i mos def had my tipsy on by the end of it.

overall, it was pretty good. it was heavier on the red wine, but i think it had some brandy in it too. not too fizzy or sweet, which i appreciated. it didn't have any fresh fruit in it, but it was served with a lime wedge. this countered the lovely maroonish-pink color. on a scale of one to ten, i think i would give it a seven. i was pretty knocked out when we got home, so i went straight to bed. jes, of course, played a little more mario.

emily woke me up at 5am, and once my brain got started, i couldn't shut it off. so i came downstairs and got a bunch of work done. i just tried to get back to sleep for a few hours, and was unsuccessful. now i am watching tyler florence make some hella delish crab cakes. i think i like crab cakes, but i am not sure. i think i will ask sarah and kim to make them with me. i feel like they know how to make shit like that.

ok i think i am going to eat something and then go do a quick grocery shopping trip before everyone gets out and/or while folks are at church. we are babysitting for dawn and gator this afternoon while they get brunch because its their ANNIVERSARY! happy anniversary to them! get yer love on.

there is something new about you...

did you get your hair cut?
are those different glasses?

try and figure out what is different about this blog.
oh, and it turned two a few days ago
stay tuned for the terrible twos yall

what's going on

good morning all. i know i owe you several posts, but life has been hectic, so i couldn't get to it until now.

three topics i would like to discuss:

1. my friends and family and their babies and things
2. school starting
3. the love for my friend mel who is in the hospital

so lets get started...

i have been gathering all these photos for the "next time i blog" so here they are.

first up is a picture from my sister's latest sonogram. in it you will see my future niece or nephew. she's due in february and i am very excited!



the little muffin is making my sister queasy and super tired sometimes, but other than that s/he is just doing hir thing growing and growing and growing.

another sweet muffin in my life is my friends tony and laura's son diego. tony and i went to graduate school together and he and his wife moved to memphis after he graduated where he started a teaching job and she started a counseling. here is a picture of their sweet little buddy:



and though i am no longer actually in the brooklyn bat cave, i can still report on my brooklyn suppa club friends. glennda and kim went up to "camp" (glennda's folks cabin in upstate new york) last weekend and here are some pics of them and their baby, bams:





how cute is that puppy? pretty cute yall.

and then lastly, and certainly not leastly, is ali and her new hybrid car. she moved back to columbus, ohio, bought a house AND bought this sweet ride. i am so jelly. thank god a black one was available:



2. school has started and this has meant more work all over for me. first of all, with school started back at my job, that has meant working orientation welcoming new students and their families and job fairs to hire more folks for the bookstore (part of my job) and then also hiring them all online, which is not hard, but there are many steps that you can screw up. this also means that our eight student workers are back in town and i am trying to coordinate their schedules for work. its pretty chaotic in the building i work in too b/c its where the dining hall and all the student activities are, but i am adjusting.

i have also started teaching my women's studies class at a local all women's college. we have only had one class where i just introduced the class and we got to know each other. i have 19 students and they all seem really excited about the class. i am thrilled to really get into it and start hearing their ideas and reading their work. i think its going to be a lot of work, but i am looking forward to it.

3. lastly, i have been inspired by folks here in the atl. see, this friend of ours, mel, got in a very bad motorcycle accident over a week ago and landed up in the icu. things looked really bad early on and they are still pretty much touch and go, but the overwhelming love and positive energy from folks in the community has really kept him going. that, and his unbelievable strength. like many folks in this country, mel doesn't have health insurance, so folks have been throwing fundraisers for him. on wednesday, log jam, this monthly party at this bar mary's in east atlanta, raised money for him. the theme was "beach/pool party." here are some photos from that.

here is a picture of the beautiful poster from the party. mel does drag and his drag name is pee wee hymen (how hilarious is that?):



and here is a pic of jes, katie and nikki (clearly katie dressed up for the party):



and here is one of jes and super blue eyed emma:



and then last night we went to eyedrum for the athens boys choir/katastrophe/team gina show. my crush on gina genius is still in effect. both gina's are hilarious and really talented. they are falling in love with the atl, so that is great, b/c i think it means they will come back and play here more often. this again was partly a fundraiser for mel. there was lots of love going around and everyone had their "i heart melvin" patches on. it was extra nice to see some of the folks who have been at the hospital day in and day out, OUTSIDE of the hospital just having a little fun.

yeah so that is that. i am thrilled to have today AND tomorrow off (thanks labor day). we have more house stuff to do today and some studying as well. i think we might go get breakfast now. happy sunday yall.

still hot in the southeast yall

you know its sad that you feel like it is "cooling down" when it is just in the lower 90's.
these last two weeks have been busy and, well, hot.
let me tell you a little bit about them.

first of all, last friday (like a week ago) kim, sarah, jes and i packed up kim's fancy new car with way too much stuff and headed down to gulf shores, alabama to a condo on the beach. for the first few nights we met up with kim's baby sitter kelly and kelly's friend jen. here is a picture of jen, kelly and kim on the balcony:



now you might be wondering why the photo is a little foggy? oh, that is b/c as soon as i stepped out of the air conditioned condo the camera lens fogged up due to the 300% humidity. good times. i know its hard to see it, but they are both adorable and they brough all these great dips and fancy wine. it was cool to meet kim's sister too b/c i have only seen pictures and heard stories.

it was real hot at the beach. i mean like 116 heat index every fucking day. so the first day we tried to go to the beach early and we could only handle it from about 10-11am. then we went to the pool, which was a little refreshing, but i started sweating my balls off there too, so i just went up to the room where it was divinely cold. i had a little lunch, watched a little tv and then took a nice long nap. jes joined me after she tired of harry potter 6. the a/c in the place got a little bit cold so we had to use blankets and wear hoodies. here is a picture of sarah and jes kicking it on the couch:



on saturday i also tried out a sangria recipe i got off of food network. the kids seemed to like it pretty much. if you are interested in it, leave me a comment and i will post the recipe. it was pretty strong, so i think in the future i will use a lighter wine. while drinking my sangria, we played apples to apples. the game got going and then kelly and jen needed a smoke break and we never really got back to it. we watched some more tv, talked a bunch, jes read harry potter and so did sarah and i tried to read back issues of the nation from last year. what little heat i was exposed to really wore me out so i think we turned in pretty early.

on sunday we went back down to the beach on the early side and stayed for a while longer. i put my chair right up to the surf and let the waves lap up on my feet. this made me very happy. i went up for lunch and then stayed up there just chillaxin. later, jes went out on the balcony and saw this:



all i can say is "america- FUCK YEAH"

the next morning we packed everything up and headed back to atlanta. we stopped and got a little lunch at the chik fila where everyone stared at us like we had horns and tails (good times!) here is a pic of us on monday morning as we were leaving the condo:



clearly no horns OR tails, and i think the variation in our skin tones is hilarious.

so this week flew by. jes had a few days of orientation for georgia state. she starts classes there TOMORROW! i had orientation on wednesday for my new teaching job. i *seriously* can't wait to get back to teaching. i am very excited to be teaching even if it is only one class. also i made a few new friends at orientation which is always nice. one woman i talked to has a son named azad. isn't that bonkers. who knew there was more than one azad in this world (i am sure there are plenty but really it is kind of weird that i now know of TWO).

last night we went up to see jes's folks for her mom's bday. as usual, her mom made a delicious dinner and i ate too much. after that, we headed to el myr to see emma and kristina and their out of town friend nicco (who was in the movie "boy i am"). he, of course, recognized jes from our times at cattyshack so they busted chats about that. i talked to emma about making syllabi and her and kristina's impending move. she was all worried b/c they have this ikea bookcase and she wasn't sure how they would move it and i told them jes has SKILLS taking apart and putting back together ikea furniture. kristina and emma were thrilled!

this morning jes and i got up and out early. we rode our bikes to georgia state so we could study at the law library (and so jes could clock the bike ride from our house to there). jes says that the distance from here to there is 6 miles but it felt like about 15. i had to stop twice to catch my breath and drink some water b/c i was so fucking tired. it was early enough that it wasn't so hot out, it was more that it was really hilly (lots of up hill) and i had a backpack full of stuff. i told her there was NO WAY i was biking home, so we took the marta to decatur and rode the mile back no problem.

i had hoped to do more work on my class tonight but i am not sure i have it in me. my back is KILLING me and so is my left hip bone. i need to get the chiropractor for rizzle.

ok have a great week yall! and tomorrow is my friend julie's bday (the newlywed). happy bday julie!

lovefest part three

who knew this post would be a threequel?

so jes is chillaxin on the couch with me reading the 6th harry potter book.

i got all my cleaning done and i made a delish dinner. we had some (organic) chicken that i marinaded in a little italian dressing and then we grilled it with a red jalapeno (the only one from our garden). then i put a little of the red sauce i made today *from scratch* on top and covered that with some parmesan- threw it in the broiler and it was divine. on the side we had some green beans from jes's folks garden sauteed with a little butter and garlic. SO GOOD. jes also made homemade lemonade with all the lemons she did not use when she quit her master cleanse. it is very good as well. after i finish posting i am going to take a shower (i need it so bad its shameful) and then we are going to watch The Last King of Scotland. i love me some forest whittaker, so i am excited to see it.

so to finish my lovefest report: jes and i got up pretty early on sunday so we could head back south. we bid our goodbyes to alyson, nicole and rowan (and to kim and dave's lovely house and their horse of a dog named casey) and got in the car. i think we hit some traffic on the way to the brunch in kentucky, but arrived right around 11:30a.m. This brunch was put on by some of jenrose's friends as a way to end the weekend of music and mayhem she organized. her band "jenrose and the kentucky bootleggers" put out a new cd and they had a little jam session with another osu alum kelly and some other local kentucky folks. we couldn't make it to that, but we were able to see some of the people at this brunch.

we were only able to stay for a couple of hours b/c we had to get back on the fucking road and drive another 7 hours (through all kinds of traffic that made me very very sad). but we did get to chat a bit with jenrose, helen, kelly, dave and kim (whose house we stayed at in ohio) and a prof we all had at osu named nancy (she is now at RPI in troy new york). anywho, while i wish i would have had more time to talk with folks, at least i got a picture. here it is:



in the back row is: dave, me, jes, and nancy (can you handle her gorgeous hair?)
in the front row is: kelly, jenrose, helen and kim

it was great to see them all and i can't wait to see them again SOON. like i said our drive from kentucky to atlanta was a bit trying. we had to take a very beautiful but kind of long detour through chattanooga b/c there was some traffic hold up. we stopped at jes's folks house in marietta (north of the city) and picked up all kinds of great veggies from their gardens (many of whom i have written about earlier today).

ok before i go wash the filth off of me, i thought i would post something cool. back when i used to write in a journal (before i started blogging) i liked to look back and one year from when i was writing to see what i was doing and maybe how far i had come in life. i still do this some when i blog, but not as much as i used to with my journal. well here is a "head shot" of me from August 2006 in front of the pea green wall of our bedroom in the brooklyn bat cave:



and now here is a picture from a week or two ago. i am in front of my bookcase. if you look hard you can see layli's "womanist reader" over my right shoulder and "this bridge called my back" over my left. i had to take head shots for my new adjunct teaching gig:



i very rarely like photos of myself, so i won't comment except to say i am glad i am not wearing the same thing in both photos since they are a year apart.

lastly, here is a photo of the most beautiful tomato that came out of our garden. i loved it on my sammie:



ok yall. have a lovely weekend.

lovefest-part two

today has already been an outstanding day. here is why:

1. i woke up on the couch (it was TOO FUCKING HOT upstairs) with emily laying on me. divine.

2. we drove over to sarah and kim's and kim joined us for a wonderful yet somewhat difficult bike ride around peoplestown, grant park, and chosewood. we saw so many cute houses and a few not so cute. we also rode up about twelve million hills. my thighs are going to be hurtin for certain tomorrow morning.

3. after our ride we came home and made a nice big brunch/breakfast. we both had scrambled eggs (hers were real, mine were fake) with cheese and jalapeno, and then we put it on a tortilla (hers flour mine wheat) and covered it in avocado, salsa and spinach. seriously so good. and then we got some "simply potatoes" which are these breakfast potatoes in a bag. these were cubed with onion. jes added a little rosemary from the garden. so good.

4. then while jes did the twelve million dishes including the brita water thing we use AND the cats automatic fountain waterer, i made a homemade red sauce from all the tomatoes jes's folks gave us from their garden. a little olive oil, garlic, red pepper flakes, and onion then add the tomatoes and simmer. then i finished it with a little salt and pepper and some basil and parsley from the garden. it is going to taste so good over our (organic) chicken cutlets tonight.

now i am blogging while jes is looking up prices for Wii. Our friend Glennda got her sweetie and our other friend Kim (suppa club fame) a Wii for her bday. She said her arm hurt so much from playing she couldn't raise it over her head. they have a name for that: Wii-itis. Jes is figuring out how long it will take her to come up with the funds to buy one from babysitting money. fucking hilarious. after i finish blogging i will either clean the bathroom or the litter boxes or both. i also have to clean the kitchen but there are so many dishes drying i sort of can't handle it.

jes just said "i have Wii fever." Thanks Kim, Glennda and Ali. This is what I have to deal with now. Her new obsession.

Ok, enough about me, lemme tell you about the lesbo wedding we attended last week. My friend from OSU (we did drag together) Julie and her partner Liv had a commitment ceremony last week. It was really lovely, and a bit unlike the other lesbo weddings I have been to. They didn't get super dressed up like most weddings-you know like gowns and suits. they both looked gorgeous and happy and comfortable (which is very important to me). and they came in on a fucking vespa scooter. my favorite part was when liv pulled down her skirt after it had been hiked up to ride the scooter. sexy. the food was really good and so were the drinks! jes started us all off on cape cods, which are apparently vodka, cranberry and lime juice. very refreshing. here is an adorable picture of nicole, alyson and jes with their drinks. nicole's, of course, is alcohol free since she is with child:



i cried a lot at this wedding. actually, i cry at most weddings. i sort of hate it b/c it seems so scripted like "you are supposed to cry at weddings" and so i do. but really the part that gets me is the outpouring of love from friends and family. i think the love b/w the two getting married is special too, but to see parents and family (especially at the gay weddings i have been to) support the people getting married, i just get choked up. here is a picture of the blushing brides BEFORE they got married:



and here they are AFTER they got married:



they each had a preacher from their childhood do the service and one of them said this whole thing about how important sex is to a marriage and how his church knows that and is proud of it. then the other one was like "hold up partner, my church knows sex is great too" (that is not what he said, but my INTERPRETATION of what he said). i was like "oh my god, these two preachers just keep talking about sex so now we are all thinking about julie and liv and how they have sex." julie turned about four shades of red during the whole discussion. i also liked when julie's sis homey just kind of gushed with love for her big sis and started crying a little bit during her speech. i cried a lot then too. homey's daugther amore(H?) was a flower girl. look how pretty she is:



don't let the scowl fool you, she is a dollbaby. you might also notice that i don't have any pictures of rowan from the main part of the wedding and that is because she was running around (literally) with her girl posse for most of it. they were moving to fast to capture on film. instead, here is a picture of me and jes:



she looked so handsome and even beckygirl and christie commented on how nice her butt looked in her pants. what can i say? i am in love with a fox.

after dinner we were all kind of sitting around and talking and i was experiencing deep bliss after eating this DIVINE chocolate and raspberry mini cake they had. so good. the baby in nicole's belly was doing a little dance and i was trying to feel it kick. of course whenever i put my hand on nicole's belly, baby would stop, so i was talking to him/her to try and coax it to move around. here is a goofy picture:



soon thereafter, things started to wind down and we were all exhausted so we headed back to kim and dave's house for a wonderful night of sleep. before leaving though i took a picture of this triple cute sandwich of liv, beckygirl and christie:



all in all, we had a great time on saturday. it was so nice to see everyone and to join in the celebration of julie and liv's love. stay tuned for part three- the brunch on sunday morning in kentucky.

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!