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!

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: