Some Things

2011-01-13T19:22:00.000-08:00

Hi!

Here are some pictures from the past few weeks that were on my camera.

Also, I have a tumblr for my Fun-A-Day project, if you'd like to follow along: http://whataboutrumphy.tumblr.com.

I'm going to Japan for ten days, starting tomorrow, so there should be some pictures to post sometime later as well.

Holla, and Happy New Year!

January 13th, Thursday

Some pictures of things I saw on my walk with Tucker today:

Dingleberries

Tuck didn't want his picture taken

Stuff

Things

I love this garage/grass/hydrant combination so much. It makes me happy each time we walk by it.

I could take 900 pictures of moss. But I try to refrain...it's so green!

Creepy roses

Mud

January 4th, Tuesday

Zoey woke up and started barking out the stairway window. She hates the Typhoon van.

January 3rd, Monday

Work was super slow so I went all OCD on the towels. This is one of my finest moments.

January 2nd, Sunday

Ringing in the New Year with Kinz

December 20th, Monday

Turds thinks she's a parrot.

Dad got a jackalope for Xmas

December 18th, Saturday

Michelle and I decided to decorate our tree with an Elvis theme. It was beautiful.

December 13th, Monday

This picture doesn't capture it, but there was a full double rainbow. It made me think of this dude.

December 12th, Sunday

M made cookies and we decorated them. My favorite thing about this picture is that some wayward icing makes it look like the snail has a trail.

December 6th, Monday

M and I shared her advent calendar this year. We couldn't tell what half of the chocolates were supposed to be. Here is my favorite:

Squirrel-tree hybrid? Sam the Eagle? A bunch of coral eating the Captain's hook?

THE BLOG IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE BLOG

2010-12-05T20:31:00.000-08:00

Wait, what happened?

A lot of things, I guess, but mostly just laziness and the fact that the pictures I take at work can't be taken home with me now.

Also, I keep falling into holes.

Also also, I am trying very very hard to learn how to climb out of holes, and avoid falling into them in general.

But maybe the most important: I am realizing that I need to change how I think of this project--from a need to feel accomplished in whatever small ways, to something else.

Also also also, my memory card filled up.

But what will it turn into?

I'm not really sure. Maybe it will die. Maybe it'll carry on at random.

In the meantime, here are the pictures on my camera from the past three months:

December 5th, Sunday

Where we left off: hanging with Mazyface

Her owners have this great picture-on-canvas of her now. Adorable!

November 18th

Zoey knows where the best seat in the house is.

October 31st

Punkin carvin

We couldn't find the pumpkin carving knife :/

Eh, good enough

October 26th

Staining done

Assembly

Great Success!

October 22nd

Goat Banquet

Yup

Hey frond

Excuse me

WTF R U doin?

October 17th

Staining project: cheap bed from Ikea

Start

October 16th

Sleepysmush

October 15th

I cleaned and reorganized the basement. I just never took an "after" picture.

October 14th

Zoey has taken over the Dingus Chair

Wut.

October 10th

Car ride with M!

October 5th

Sunny

September 24th

Zoey enjoys hanging out in the yard

and barking at anyone she can see

September 17th

Baby's first bath

September 15th

"That's just her face."

September 12th

Free boxspring for CL

September 10th

I adopted a 10 year old pug rescue named Zoey

Her face smells terrible

and she likes to eat poop

but I love her anyway.

September 4th

This one time, M and I moved all of this stuff in a couple hours. Now we live someplace else.

Slow down and live

September 3rd

One of the best things about Portland is that you can put any piece of crap type thing up for free on CL

and someone will totally come and take it

September 1st

These pictures make me sad

August 31st

For reals

Really sad.

Well, then. That's that, isn't it?

2010-08-28T13:04:00.000-07:00

August 28th, Saturday

Sleepy Kinz

August 27th, Friday

MazyFacey!

So classy.

August 26th, Thursday

The peas are done. Everything else is pretty excited.

Zucchini plant is finally working on some new zucchinis

Beans!

August 25th, Wednesday

At the beginning of the month, my room looked like this:

Now it looks like this:

That's most of what I've been doing lately.

The middle of the basement looks like this:

Yup.

August 24th, Tuesday

Sunny's been having a lot of feelings lately

She deals with them by freaking out indoors and rolling in the dead grass outside.

August 17th, Tuesday

Blue

August 14th, Saturday

M and Zoey!

Me and Zoey!

Card for Andres' graduation

August 13th, Friday

Before: I didn't get my hair cut for a whole year

After: My hair is always real excited after it gets cut.

2010-08-12T09:48:00.000-07:00

August 12th, Thursday

Blueberry pancakes!

August 9th, Monday

Zucchini bread! Made with monstrous zucchini.

August 8th, Sunday

Garden update:

The marigolds are doing great

The pole bean plant grew four whole beans:

Ehh, it's better than nothing

Monstrous zucchini!

August 7th, Saturday

I got a train case from the vintage store for my painting supplies

Nice.

M bought an old lady couch and she, Sam and I rolled it home on a dolly. It's really beautiful, but covered in boxes in the basement until September. Here's the print until I can get a real picture:

August 6th, Friday

Ohhhhh jesus, it's the Enchanted Forest

Old man spider

The bear looked really uncomfortable about this kid's arm being around him

Miss Muffet

Old man spider in real life!

Cupcake house

For Mary Anne

Mary's little lamb actually didn't want to go anywhere that Mary went.

I still have no idea why there were dogs and bunnies in these giant flowers

But they were cute

Yup.

This picture makes me yawn

Awkward, stoned caterpillar

Wut.

Tea party

LOST

OMG

Happy stump

M sized house!

There was a lot of really blatant ripping off of Disney at the Enchanted Forest, but apparently they couldn't go so far as to take actual dwarves' names, so they made up their own:

Which were actually way better than their Disney counterparts

Srsly.

Mines

Rip Van Winkle

This was papa bear

This was a wombat masquerading as mama bear.

Intrigue!

PUNS

Crooked house

This creepy dude lives in the crooked house:

It was slanted in real life.

O hai. Here he is with four eyes, playing a fiddle. Because that makes sense.

Little Red

Gnarly wolf

Female oppression! Also, the pumpkin looked like a tomato.

There was a giant slide inside the shoe! We rode it twice. The second time a park worker sprayed Lysol on the track so we could go faster.

Tofteville

If your name starts with W, F or H, the Enchanted Forest has some windchimes they'd like to show you. If it starts with anything else...too bad.

This is something my dad would appreciate

Cowboy hats.

NO BABIES ON THE SLIDE.

Teepee

Fake matterhorn was way smaller and propped up by plywood.

Whatevs it was still fun. And the line was shorter than for real Matterhorn

We found Jennifer Coolidge!!

God I love Jennifer Coolidge.

I don't remember where this was

Miniature train stuff

This might've been the creepiest display of all.

Tiny town!

Mushroom town?

Tiny tree!

Eh, this dog reminded us of Sunny. And it was a dog, period. So we took a picture.

Architecture.

Ghost to Falco seemed kinda not into it all. Maybe because it was 5pm and there was no alcohol? Idk.

Wampire was a bit of a hot mess and totally amazing. I wish they would turn up their vocals, because I kind of love them a lot.

August 5th, Thursday

Orchid progress!

August 1st, Sunday

We went to the International Test Garden. Here are a million pictures of flowers for you:

III

Mmm butter flavor

Orange ones are my favorite

VII

Mischief

Lil Darlin

Mmm

VIII

These ones were insane.

Listen, Burnaby!

DINNYLAND!

Idk why this sign was so homemade. Maybe it's more viking that way?

XII

XIII

Rose pun!

So romantic

XIV

This was the closest we came to finding a blue rose

XVI

XVII

XVIII

XIX

I'm glad this is over because I don't really know many more roman numerals.

August 31st, Saturday

MOM AND ZOEY

OMG MOM AND ZOEY

(Zoey totally wants Mom to be her Grandma. She wagged her tail to tell us. She knows what kinds of treats and toys and homemade outfits it will involve.)

August 30th, Friday

Mom and Dad arrived, and Mom made me this awesome quilt!

(They are pinwheels, not swastikas. We checked before the sewing began, I promise.)

She worked very hard to make the front live up to my very plain standards. She took a few more liberties with the back:

August 29th, Thursday

I saw Kirk from Gilmore Girls at the Back Fence reading! And he told an amazing, funny, endearing story about his gf having a staph infection of the boob when they first started dating! It made me love him even more.

His gf was awesome, too.

Okay that took forever.

2010-07-22T20:59:00.000-07:00

July 22nd, Thursday

Great success!

If Olive and Bella were in a band this is what their album cover would look like:

This happened for a while today. It was pretty amazing.

If MuShu were in a band it would be hella emo.

In unrelated pugs: Bailey!

July 21st, Wednesday

OLIVE TIME

Which means MUSHU

and BELLA

3 2 1 Lisp Off

MuShu is not impressed by the many out of focus smooshface pictures

Learning dirty songs.

Willbert! Poorly lit! My favorite way to to photograph him.

July 18th, Sunday

Please meet Zoey, the newest love of my life.

OH MY GOD THE NEW LOVE OF MY LIFE.

She looks like Yoda and Kurt Vonnegut's love child and has a sassy old lady attitude. She is up for adoption through the Pacific Pug Rescue and I am wishinghopingpraying that she will still be available once we have moved.

Fingers crossed!

July 17th, Saturday

Garden update

Zucchini flower

I am 99.9% sure this is a weed and not a watermelon plant, but I just keep watering it anyway, because nothing else is growing in that corner.

We are growing THE WORLD'S TINIEST BEANS

!!!

July 14th, Wednesday

Xmas in July!

Dumpling dynasty. It includes an owl stamp with the face of a little girl on the cap.

July 12th, Monday

This made me both incredibly nervous and incredibly happy.

July 11th, Sunday

Potted. Finally.

July 10th, Saturday

I've been very excited that one of my orchids has sent out a new arm full of buds and is about to bloom again.

I had previously accepted that my other orchid was just growing more leaves instead of shoots, and that maybe that was its appropriate life path and I should just support its decision. But then! I saw it was growing a completely new shoot from scratch:

Good work, team.

July 9th, Friday

I CAN EAT FRUIT AGAIN.

July 8th, Thursday

Present from the fam

Dozzling

Card, with embellishments from mom

July 7th, Wednesday

Sadly, Sunny was not that into the kiddie pool

Perhaps she was afraid of eye lasers and her head popping off?

That child has some seriously developed calf muscles, btw

July 6th, Tuesday

Sometimes you just need to calm down and watch a Tyra. And by Tyra I mean a Mr. Rogers episode where he wears an elephant head to show children that it's still him inside of the costume, so they shouldn't be scared.

July 5th, Monday

Nosy

BBQ!

JEN

Mmm

Jen wanted a picture of her salsa accomplishment

This is what the sky looked like

This is what the ground looked like

M + house

OMG you guys!

Grillin

I love artichoke!

2010-07-02T12:15:00.000-07:00

July 2nd, Friday

Ok, garden update: we had to take out the radishes and carrots for failure to thrive. Replanted some carrots in the bigger space and finally caved and bought some blooming marigolds (harharhar) to combat all of the bugs that are eating the lettuce and spinach:

The zucchini is really happy.

The peas are also doing pretty well

Pole beans are making a comeback

We also found this white board to try to reflect some more sun onto our box, but I'm not sure it's gonna help much :/ Wah wah, lame spring/summer in PDX

M got a chia pet, though, and it's pretty sweet:

July 1st, Thursday

Emily was born!

Great Success!

YAY

June 30th, Wednesday

Monika and Ben came to visit and took me to the Timbers v Sounders game:

(the Sounders were wearing their ugliest of jersies to help combat green-green colorblindness)

This is what it looks like when the Sounders beat the Timbers in overtime+goal kicks:

June 29th, Tuesday

Care package from Mom

June 28th, Monday

My high school bf texted me this picture at 3am even though my phone is incapable of displaying pictures and initially doesn't tell me who the pictures are from

I still don't know what it means.

June 27th, Sunday

Mercy gave me this crazy begonia cutting after writing group!

K has one and I've always really liked it

Crazy dino plant!

June 21st, Monday

I'm becoming even more of a hippie.

June 19th, Saturday

Finally having a day off means a clean house

June 18th, Friday

Some nice things in the kitchen: mystery hydrangea in barnacle vase

Cactus collection

June 14th, Monday

A four month old bulldog bit me a week ago and now it looks like this:

June 13th, Sunday

Game 1

My Mom gave me this book a long time ago and I finally read it. The actual writing was kinda meh but Fred Rogers was some kind of superhuman.

Game 2

Sam is such a creeper

Carly

June 12th, Saturday

Dog medication schedule:

Becky schedule:

Chups

Cap'n

Doggy medicine cabinet

June 11th, Friday

ASO ASO ASO [sic]

June 6th, Sunday

This wasn't nearly as good as Hello Dolly, but it had its moments

June 5th, Saturday

My Tender Loving Empire Birthday Name didn't win me any raffle prizes, but I still think it was one of the best names of the night.

Also they had gluten free cake, which made me feel like they're really ready to accept me into their Empire. And Y La Bamba. And this song, which I lovelovelove (also this video is bizarro/funny):

June 4th, Friday

Either god has a sense of humor or I will never be cold in the afterlife.

(I made so many others of these)

June 3rd, Thursday

It's been a few days since I've discussed my love of MuShu

Olive doesn't understand what the big deal is

But there's just something about how all of her face is squished at the bottom of her tiny head

and her little button nose that looks like it's the same kind used for Sifl and Olly

and that this is how excited she gets about everything in life:

that makes me want to take her home really really badly.

June 2nd, Wednesday

The roses are blooming!!

Dunkie and I found this supercool variety:

I think it was called About Face, but I can't remember for sure

Dunks isn't that into the roses unless someone else has peed on them recently

June 1st, Tuesday

Sahar was here and she and M got me this rad sloth card that turned out to be made by the dude who worked at the Reed offices. I used to deliver his mail and he was always annoyed about it. Weird.

You can see/buy more of his stuff here

May 31st, Monday

I got taken out by some playing dogs in the yard last week, and the bruise has started to look like some kind of supernova or distant universe:

Also now there's a picture of my butt on the internet. We all knew it was only a matter of time.

Anyway somehow I managed not to post for all of June and miss a bunch of days. I blame work.

2010-05-30T18:26:00.000-07:00

May 30th, Sunday

Cuddle buddy.

We found a ladybug

ALL U need is Love.

Mazy why so sad?

We are going to the PARK, girl!

Garden is getting unruly

May 29th, Saturday

Ms. Mazy

What's going on?

May 28th, Friday

Today my boss at 2nd Work told me the pug I am totally, totally obsessed with (Ms. Geddy Lee) belongs to the drummer from Menomena. Which means there are pictures of her beautiful face on the internet!

(The dude's okay, too, I guess. Minus the headgear.)

Later I discovered that Geddy Lee has her own myspace where she has a song of remixed pug sounds. AMAZING.

M's barfday!

Presents

Dude. Bra.

May 27th, Thursday

This was a lot like waking up with your Renn Fayre bracelet still on and knowing you had to cut it off sooner or later because everything was done, done, done.

May 26th, Wednesday

This keeps happening. Because it won't stop raining.

This is what the greenroom at the Doug Fir looks like when filled with Andres, Steve and Dustin

Sticker wall.

Andres actually looked up whether or not there was a real band called "Douche." The search turned distracting and we never found out.

Working the merch

(My hair is the color of fine corkboard)

What's in the suitcase.

Pictures by Zan: groupies

Playing the Doug Fir

It was dark. There were a lot of people staring at me.

This is how it felt:

(You're welcome for the nightmares)

Mark Mallman was completely insane and amazing. I was afraid of him backstage.

(this picture is appropriately incoherent)

Done.

(Never felt so close. Never felt so all alone.)

May 25th, Tuesday

Today was a good mail day!

May 24th, Monday

I made lentils with rice. And BACON.

2010-05-23T11:05:00.000-07:00

May 23rd, Sunday

PUG CRAWL.

Up first: AstroPug!

Little buddies

Ketchup and mustard

3 Little Pugs

(My favorite part of this picture is the little buddy gumming front buddy's fake ear)

Thing 1 & Thing 2

The Safety Pug!

Pugs the Clown

Stripes. This one won the best gremlin-chin award, I think.

Hawaiian Pug

Pugrate

Pug butts in the Pug Pen!

Emo and a mastiff!

Hula Pug

Little buddy with a bandana

Lumberpug

Lobster Pug was pretty unhappy about his outfit.

Sigmund!

The Rose Princess

Lumberpug view 2

Pugpod!

Pugs on the farm

Pugnana!

Clan of the Cave Pugs

Little buddy's looking sad...

Aged Cheese. This pug was 14 years old! And so totally okay with riding in a weird cheese sack!

Aw Little Buddy just wanted love! And to come home with me...

Stupid leash :/

Superpug

Safety Pug view 2

Pug Rawk.

THE CHIA PUG!!!

Purple Pug

Pugasaurus

Slimer from Ghostbusters!

Even Jenny the Pug, of internet fame, was there!

CHIA PUG VIEW 2. He won first place in the costume contest.

Rose Princess front view

I saw this dino plate at the store and decided M needed it. She made sure I knew she was making good use of it:

May 22nd, Saturday

Today I ate Octopus. It made me weirdly sadder than eating any other animal. Would not eat again :/

(This octopus loves his Mr. Potato Head so much he gets aggressive if you try to take it away. Also, from Wikipedia: "Octopuses are also quite strong for their size. Octopuses kept as pets have been known to open the covers of their aquariums and survive for a time in the air in order to get to a nearby feeder tank and gorge themselves on the fish there. They have also been known to catch and kill some species of sharks.")

This was really good:

May 21st, Friday

Today I realized all I really want in life is to be a part of the Tender Loving Empire.

Really really really. That's all, that's all!

Also here's the Typhoon video. I couldn't find it last time:

Steve's Other Band!

May 20th, Thursday

The highlight of my day:

Other highlights

May 18th, Tuesday

Here's this thing we made!

(That feels kinda disconnected from me)

May 17th, Monday

See you later, kiddo

May 16th, Sunday

This

how

Ella and Shona

spent

their

whole

weekend.

May 15th, Saturday

M and Babs

Update

Other people's lives

May 14th, Friday

Hey Ella

Hey Shona

May 13th, Thursday

Quarantine

May 12th, Wednesday

Here are all of the clothes I wore in the span of my work day. If I never hear about Kennel Cough again it will be too soon...

May 11th, Tuesday

New kicks!

The usual.

2010-05-10T20:22:00.000-07:00

May 10th, Monday

(Ok. Well. It's been a long, long week.)

May 9th, Sunday

Skye

Aran

Mr. Took

Garden update

This took forever and was extremely delicious.

Sunny's been spending a lot of time lounging around the backyard all Virgin Suicides-like.

I finally made Michelle watch "Hello, Dolly!" and we found our 1890 male counterparts.

This musical was more amazing than I could've ever imagined. 1:47 is a really good example of why.

May 8th, Saturday

Dog watching at the park

I like this weird picture of Sunny's face and M's butt.

Everything is progressing so well!

Sky's on fire.

May 7th, Friday

They replaced my bluetooth friend with a whitetooth friend that's all smooth like everyone's faces in that one episode of "Dr. Who." Which, incidentally, is the only episode of "Dr. Who" M and I have each ever seen.

(Don't you love when I take weird gross pictures of my mouth)

May 6th, Thursday

Have I mentioned my new duvet yet?

May 5th, Wednesday

Or my new juice glasses?

May 4th, Tuesday

Today I got a migraine in between my two jobs and had to park my car and lie down in the front seat for a long time because I couldn't see. But at least if that had to happen, when I could see, it looked like this:

Then this happened.

Have I mentioned I love my jobs?

Because they are pretty awesome.

May 3rd, Monday

I finally read "Breakfast of Champions." It wasn't my most favorite, but it was a good reminder of why I love Kurt Vonnegut.

May 2nd, Sunday

There was this really cool plant at Genie's that reminded me of the YupYupYupYupYup aliens on Sesame Street.

UhHuhUhHuh

May 1st, Saturday

The radishes are up!

Emily's phone :( :( :( Fortunately not Emily's face.

Then M and I went to see a really, really, really amazing show featuring Jared Mees and the Grown Children:

(myspace)

Point Juncture, Wa:

(myspace)

And Typhoon:

Again for good measure:

(myspace)

It kind of changed my life.

April 30th, Friday

I wore my Tank Girl shirt to the gym in honor of all of the Reed Seniors. Also in honor of how much I love wearing my Tank Girl shirt to the gym.

2010-04-26T21:45:00.000-07:00

April 27th, Tuesday

Tea and processing time.

April 26th, Monday

Unpacking leftovers: poster Dad brought from The Globe Theatre, $5 sunglasses, panda present, room key, toast outline, flask, moleskine, dress buttons, M&Ms with Mary Anne and Bryan on them.

Thom's looking esp. creepy in the background.

April 25th, Sunday

Mom unveils the awesome quilt she made for her brother

The newlyweds could use some time off.

Dad can't help but add commentary

Extended fam

My family rules!

The radishes have sprouted!!

April 24th, Saturday

Decorating

Mom+Dad

Swedish American Hall

Nolbs looking fancy

ICE CREAM AND CAKE

GAH.

Noel feels pretty.

Love love love

Colby's face here cracks me up. Like Colby in real life.

Bryan thinks it's maybe time to go get married?

Aww Mom and Peter

(Dracula's) Wedding

Ann!!

Keefers!!

Royal HLPs I

Decorations

III

Party like it's 1999!

Fancy shoes

CUPCAKES

A very dark picture of me giving a very enthusiastic toast:

Mom danced at the wedding!

April 23rd, Friday

5.5 hours of assembling decorations:

Sea of batteries

OMG

So beautiful

April 22nd, Thursday

Tiny plane to SF

Hanging out at SFO with Kim

New Format! Of pretzel! That's not the right term!

April 21st, Wednesday

Being a real person means wearing uncomfortable shoes sometimes

Kim Deal is done and ready to go to SF

For Mary Anne+Bryan

2005 v 2010

I am getting better.

April 20th, Tuesday

Last minute alterations

April 19th, Monday

Shrinkydink signs for the garden

2010-04-18T21:39:00.000-07:00

April 18th, Sunday

Sunny in her Sunday Sweater

M gave me some melon!

Then we planted out garden and tried to ward off the animals until it sprouts.

Map

M also gave me this amazing card

April 17th, Saturday

When life gives you misogyny and male privilege

Spend an hour fawning over instruments at the music store and buy yourself a tiny glockenspiel

A photo of a scan of a photo of my mom as a kid. Her shoes and socks + dress combo is so rad:

April 16th, Friday

Before

After

(can you guess how far the extension cord goes?)

April 12th, Monday

I see these two stop signs on my way home from second work a lot

And they always make my day

April 11th, Sunday

Hold me closer, tiny panda

III

Estimated taxes :/

April 10th, Saturday

Amazing hats at Michael's!

Vicious. Really.

M matches her hat

So fierce

So ridiculous

HLP with her horse friend

April 8th, Thursday

Working, working, working

April 4th, Sunday

ZOMBIE JESUS DAY!!!

My most favorite of holidays!

(my rabbit teeth really make this picture)

YAY.

Eggssssss

A+

Beautiful

Egg business in the front, egg party in the back

This one reminds me of Gene Wilder. Only less weird and creepy.

3 stooges!

You're a good egg, monstrous Charlie Brown

Egg party!

Peep War!

O, the peep-manity!

Blue wins, pink second, yellow third.

Survivors

M's final egg

Carnage!

Ill-advised

Bunny HLP!

So precious

YUM

Less yum

SUNNY BUNNY

Not into it

Really

Then this happened, in honor of the zombie jesus

April 2nd, Friday

Springtime!

March 30th, Tuesday

Unanticipated project: iPod pocket

Button

I am now where Will was four years ago, sewing-wise

Great success!

March 29th, Monday

Drying my socks with Mazy

Ehh lost some days to second work (where I take pictures of dogs, but they go home with the clients), and a project that isn't internet ready yet. Will try to pick up the slack, yo...

2010-03-28T13:12:00.000-07:00

March 28th, Sunday

Mazy is sleepy and misses her fam :/

(Don't worry, Mazy, they'll be home tomorrow!)

Working on stuff while watching Sober House.

March 28th, Saturday

Bridge up.

We look so tall!

Mazy gets a new bone

M loves the Snuggie because she can hold her tea without her arms getting cold!

M hates the Snuggie because it is thin and cheaply made :/

March 27th, Friday

Businessmen at the Japanese Garden

Flower

Green things

Well-manicured

Waterfall

Blossoms

They had really nice paths

And stone ornaments

Fence

Someone else totally brought this flower over to take a picture of this fountain. I snuck in after and benefitted from their hard work.

These guys like each other.

OCDC

More rocks and green stuff

Gourd and cup, I think?

The most amazing painting at the Kennedy School

March 25th, Thursday

I agree Mazy. It's a very busy week.

March 23rd, Tuesday

Mazy!!

Excited!!

March 22nd, Monday

This is what part of my days looks like now:

March 21st, Sunday

More amazements

March 20th, Saturday

Beautiful weather

This lasted for roughly 1.5 minutes before the barking took over :/

March 19th, Friday

Duke didn't want his picture taken

March 18th, Thursday

Delayed reaction

March 17th, Wednesday

A day of greenness!

2010-03-15T21:44:00.000-07:00

March 15th, Monday

I put something in the ground and some time later this grew out of it. I don't think I'll ever stop being amazed by that.

(My camera, however, is more interested in the refrigerator)

Done.

Sometimes I like to act fancy in really inexpensive ways

PICKLE ADVENTURE

(everything was pretty good except for the garlic, which was too smooshy)

March 14th, Sunday

Ms Samantha

Mr Cody

March 13th, Saturday

Sunny hole

Sunny, hole

Fancy boutique dirt, as Ian would call it:

March 12th, Friday

Smooooooshface

March 11th, Thursday

Emily made me this amazing box for my birthday, and it took me until now to photograph it.

Outside: Partly cloudy

Inside: FRENCH BULLDOG CORRAL

AMAZING

March 7th, Sunday

Not today, Gary.

March 6th, Saturday

Like we do.

Lanterns

HLPs

Michelle learns how Sunny feels all of the time:

More professional

Awww Sam+Michael

Awww Nicole+Andres

"We are taking a serious picture"

Ehh

Where is Steve?

Greenhouse

March 5th, Friday

Yard clearing continues. Before:

After

Apple blossom snowstorm in the driveway

2010-03-04T22:33:00.000-08:00

March 4th, Thursday

I love motivational graffiti

This is what Portland looks like right now

Sunny it's your BIRTHDAY

Aren't you excited, girl?

You get to lick the tuna can

Delicious

And listen to me practice the banjo

But then you get MEATBALLS

Ok now we're excited

Birthday hat

Her eyes are SO BIG in this picture

OM NOM NOM

All gone.

March 3rd, Wednesday

Thank you card

March 2nd, Tuesday

What's that you say? It's my BIRTHDAY?

Sweet belt buckle M got for me (it's even greener in person)

Present Tower!

Present face!

Pretty much all I need in life

So even though the blossoms come every year

And I remember them well

And look forward to them all year

It never ceases to amaze me how happy they make me

I also enjoy taking pictures of green moss a lot. I try to keep it to a minimum on the blog, though. For all y'all's sake.

Funfetti

Me: Hey Mushu, it's my birthday!

Mushu: O rly.

Me: Yeah, I'm having a party and you are invited!

Mushu: Sorry, I have to wash my hair.

We found our dino frond again! He was missing some teeth and his arms (!!)

This picture makes me yawn

Delicious macaroons from Healy

March 1st, Monday

The Garden of Lost Souls.

JK JK just some crazy plants

Crazy fruits

Chinese Garden

Walkway

Bonsai!

Pretty stuff

These flowers smelled amazing

III

HLPs as foo dogs

Mine turned out more foo orangutan

These flowers didn't smell like anything

Heart

My fortune was a real stretch...

Feets

Red

Chili pepper

Upside down chili pepper?

COSMIC REFLECTIONS

More bonsai!

Bats

Fish

Trying to find the good smell spot

Still searching

That's the ticket.

February 24th, Wednesday

Today the reflection of my light made the outdoors look like one of those paintings where dolphins and albino tigers are just hanging out in space:

February 22nd, Monday

BooBoo

Clean up aisle 1

Ehh lost a lot of days. Mostly to pet sitting. Like you do.

2010-02-21T19:44:00.000-08:00

February 21st, Sunday

Construction

YAY

1/2 of the boxes!

February 20th, Saturday

The driveway trees are blossoming!

Yard before

We found an M-sized house at Home Depot. And then a 5 mo old English Bulldog and Mastiff. AMAZING.

Pre-construction

Mock up

February 19th, Friday

Crazy bush

Hopefully it grows fast.

February 18th, Thursday

De-vining: before

During

After

February 17th, Wednesday

ROCK

February 16th, Tuesday

Watching LOST with HLP and Smallface

Smallface doesn't think pictures are as fun as we do

February 15th, Monday

Even better

This documentary is amazing. Mr E is my hero x10 now.

February 14th, Sunday

Improved band practice space

III

February 13th, Saturday

Basement: before

After!

Basement tetris: before

After

February 12th, Friday

Unrequitters' first official practice

Thank you gift basket

Done and done

My dog-a-day calendar is really spcl.

February 11th, Thursday

My family rules. L to R: Vday card from my Mom, Wedding invite from my sister

February 10th, Wednesday

Rhinestone mailings.

Tender Moments: Soft and Delicious

February 9th, Tuesday

Other people's lives

Sunny loves helping with the laundry. By stepping all over it.

OCDC

February 8th, Monday

New running shoes. NEW RUNNING SHOES

Mail preparation

February 7th, Sunday

Haverchuck buttons. IDK why it took me so long to make these.

MUSHU

BELLA

OLIVE

February 6th, Saturday

The usual

Cuddle buddies

DONE.

Trial run

February 5th, Friday

A dog and a baby dog!

Have I mentioned how amazing Mushu is?

Because she's really amazing.

February 4th, Thursday

HLP and I found all of these trophies in the hallway of Steve's Other Band's practice space, which of course required this pose:

Dance Magic 1991!!!

We're #1

2010-02-03T22:20:00.000-08:00

February 3rd, Wednesday

Old news, but my yearly tiny Trader Joe's spring flower rules:

My life just got 15% more awesome.

February 2nd, Tuesday

New curtains: my room just got 10% less janky. And now Thom Yorke can lurk in the woods.

(also Max sat in on the sewing and actually sewed the left panel!)

February 1st, Monday

Cutting patterns

I sewed darts in some ill-fitting shirts and Max took this after picture. He was really amused because of the face I am making in it. It was like he'd never seen a picture of me before.

January 31st, Sunday

On our way back from the fabric store, Michelle and I met up with a herd (7? 8?) of Great Pyrenees puppies and their parents. It was more amazing than I can describe. One puppy rolled down a hill for FUN. I almost died. And failed to take any pictures because a puppy was gnawing on my hand with its milkteeth.

Fabric for a new bag

January 30th, Saturday

Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens

Monika visited and I failed to take any pictures of her pretty face. Instead I took a picture of this bizarro installation outside of the Lloyd Center. I think it was supposed to make us want to shop more but instead it freaked us out.

What does is meeeeean?

January 29th, Friday

This is becoming a trend in my life?

January 28th, Thursday

!!!

"WOULD YOU LIKE TO BORROW MY JUMPER, BOWIE??"

January 27th, Wednesday

Bella is so amazing because her face looks like Kurt Vonnegut and her ears feel like the tender center pieces of a delicious artichoke and she walks like she's always in a marching band.

Olive is amazing because she's Olive

They did this for at least an hour every night I stayed with them:

(Sometimes it got a little obscene and had to be broken up)

2010-01-26T19:37:00.000-08:00

January 26th, Tuesday

Sunny is wondering if I need help cleaning that tuna can...

2:30 pm NE Broadway

(I'm still kind of sad it wasn't yellow)

Making a new belt hole with a hammer and nail

Blue sky + bird's nest

Stamp progress

Sample buttons

January 25th, Monday

Carving

January 24th, Sunday

Preparing the linoleum dino stamp (w/ M's original painting)

Alone

January 23rd, Saturday

It was nice so M and I walked to the Velveteria, past the cemetery where we found a weird tree-stump face

Michelle with Clint at the Velveteria

A mural we saw on our walk

January 22nd, Friday

Holden's got the cone of shame on again

January 21st, Thursday

A note I found on one of my walks that reminded me of my mom, circa 1998

I wanted to get a video of Olive running but could only get this scampering-ness here. I wasn't going to post it until I realized I could pretty much watch this on repeat forever.

2010-01-19T21:58:00.000-08:00

January 19th, Tuesday

This is what M and I used to console me after today. I'm putting it first so there isn't a giant picture of my messed up mouth at the top of this thing forever.

Fucking FUCK, man.

On the plus side I made myself a ton of soup to survive on until it heals.

January 18th, Monday

Today I ran 3 miles in 31 minutes. This is awesome because: A#1 I am a really slow runner, and B#2 My short term goal is 3 mi in 30 min, which I'm pretty sure I could do if I tried (and didn't count my 2 min warmup walk in the total). There is no good picture of this accomplishment, though, so here is Sunny sleeping on my bed:

January 17th, Sunday

Back to writing group

I am going to learn to use this thing if it kills me

January 16th, Saturday

Today was a really strange day that ended with me going to the movies by myself at the last minute to see "Zombieland" for a second time. Whatever, it's still an awesome movie. And has renewed my desire to buy some kickass (asskicking?) boots.

January 15th, Friday

I stole this from Emily. Note that it was raining so much I had to put on my rainpants (which I hate doing). Good thing for French Bulldogs to cheer me up.

January 14th, Thursday

Even (especially?) my hair supports Conan.

Newly arrived Xmas sweater: Mr. Rogers chic!

January 13th, Wednesday

I have so many pictures of these guys

But still there can't be enough

To adequately capture

Their amazingness

January 12th, Tuesday

Taxes :/

January 11th, Monday

100% of the pictures on my walls involve Dingus

Getting all the banjo tabs organized

2010-01-10T22:54:00.000-08:00

January 10th, Sunday

Willbert was in town! And we went to this crazy estate sale filled almost entirely with xmas paraphernalia. (The look on Will's face here is a direct result of realizing that he was completely surrounded by mannequins and representations of Santa.)

We also saw this on Peacock Lane:

Willbert, reunited with his favorite chair, which happens to compliment his fashion choices nicely:

January 9th, Saturday

We were in the studio again, but I was too busy getting hella exhausted (and trying to hit on some random, oblivious dude) to take any pictures :/

January 8th, Friday

We played the Twilight cafe but I also failed to take any pictures. There will be some eventually. See a pattern developing here? I'm going to try to get better at this again...

January 7th, Thursday

New strings (feel amazing)

January 6th, Wednesday

Bluetooth (I've had it with my mouth)

January 5th, Tuesday

New life's resolution

January 4th, Monday

I joined the gym today. It's amazing. But creepy enough without pictures.

January 3rd, Sunday

Home. Sunny was very excited about and overwhelmed by her xmas present:

January 2nd, Saturday

Denver Aquarium

This guy was my friend

People

There was some really nice indoor-outdoors

Seahorsey

This guy was also my friend

More people

Starfish

This guy was just hanging out in his rock like this, looking pissed:

Jesus!

Turtle!

This fish reminded me of the Crackle squirrel

Turkey

You're welcome for the nightmares, HLP.

Jellyfish are the craziest animals

Dad with Mom and Spongebob

January 1st, Friday

I love rebates!

December 30th, Wednesday

Going through my old life, getting rid of uselessness

Tchotchke central

2009-12-28T18:09:00.000-08:00

December 28th, Monday

Puzzle II Complete

December 27th, Sunday

Rumphius was still really mad about being stuck in the back and kept booping Mary Anne.

1/2 price dress

December 26th, Saturday

Roxborough

Going snowshoeing

Looking sporty

III

Snowshoegazing

Mary Anne and Bryan in front of some red rocks

The visitor center had a fine etching of some coyote scat:

December 25th, Friday

Present bed

Mom tried playing the tuba one of the neighbors left on her porch:

December 24th, Thursday

Outdoor xmas tree

Indoor xmas tree

Mardi gras rave

Fred gets fancy

December 23rd, Wednesday

Rumphius was really mad that he had to sit in the way back. He let us know.

Mary Anne got a delicious pastry

December 22nd, Tuesday

Boodle

Wrapping presents

December 21st, Monday

PDX to DEN

December 20th, Sunday

Full hair

Eyebrows

December 19th, Saturday

Half hair

December 18th, Friday

Full pomander and french buddy

December 17th, Thursday

December 16th, Wednesday

December 15th, Tuesday