My Name Day!!!

So jack attack just called me up to let me know that today is my "name day". Now that Nina is marrying into the Hieronymus fam, we are getting in touch w/ the old hieronimonain roots! In Bulgaria, and probs some other greek/bulgarian orthodox hoods you get to celebrate your name day, which is the saint that you are named after's day? or their birthday or something? the details are spotty, but nina has informed me that its like your birthday, but you get to just sit around and drink and eat whatever you want. boosh!

Well anyway this solves the the debate whether or not i should allow myself to order thai food for lunch. problem solved! spring rolls here i come!



yea thats right? you didn't know i was all saintly and shit? don't worry about it!

Out of order.

This blog post should have gotten done right after Halloween. As it stands it is almost x mas. Fail. However I would be remiss to not put my Halloween pictures up from Jodie's party, as i spent a LONG time getting this stupid costume together for like two nights of use. The glory will live on in my blog god damn it!

Here's my costume as a German beer girl/shirley temple in "blue bird"





hmmm. in retrospect it seems a little obscure of a reference for a Halloween party. but i needed to put fake blue birds in my hair and this was the most logical option! plus it was my favorite movie to get from the library as a kid. don't worry about it!

Here is Jodie cute as a button in her home made octopus costume. Those cheeks are just asking for a pinch!


At some point i put my sparks wrapper on my beer stein. yea it was like that.


Susan dressed up at a Siamese cat and ryan i guess was a civil war vet? support the troops!


here is the glorious table of junk food that was up for grabs. the combo of chips candy coors light and sparks is delightful. just so you know.



here is jenny dressed as nancy drew investigating how jodie got to be so cute!



then the night took a turn for the worse....jodie's octopus costume came to life and started attacking all the party guests! it was only a matter of time!

Ak! Micheal Phelps! look out!
lol. jk! i think the sparks just kicked in around this time!


then i came in all late and the cats were all. "yo girl! turn off the lights! some of us have a long day of napping tomorrow! respect that!"

TV Star.

Here are the videos of me on that silly animal planet show ACTING A FOOL. LOl, any way in true class clown fashion i offer up my embarrassing videos for your delight. don't say i never did anything for you!






tears of a clown.

Cranksgiving 2008!!!

So I realize this is a really old post but im starting to feel like a really bad blogger. hmm maybe if some sponsors wanted to give me some incentives aka gift certificates or other useful goods and services i could work some serious product placement into this little baby? i would be a little bit more motivated w/ the blogz! just saying. Anyway, the Cranksgiving race went down a week or two before thanksgiving, and Adrianne persuaded me to join her team. I had in true fashion woken up at 9 am and was looking to kill some time. I was in.

we stopped at that place next to egg in williamsburg for some pre-race fortitude. we needed all the energy we could store up for the adventures we were about to participate in.


i remarked to Adrianne that the restaurant was like a pretend French cafe in old pariee. our server over heard us and proceeded to speak in French way longer than we understood/thought was funny. but he was probably showing off. i mean thats his right. how often does a williamburg waiter get to bust out his conversational French stills?
far be it from me to hate on his paper...you go girl!

after we were fortified w/ carbs and a little bit jittery from a few cups of coffee, we decided to hit the road. we schleped over the bridge and GODDAMN it was cold. my hands and feet went numb on the way over. we had to stop at dave's work ware just to get better gear! we got some "deep freeze" socks and i got some murderer style leather gloves. once we changed our socks and got some feeling back into the old feet pieces, we were ready to boogs.



arg sooo cold!

we waited outside for a while...maybe like an hour or so waiting for the race to start. Adrianne busted out her iphone for maximum route planning and i stood back, and jumped around trying to stay warm. i wouldn't' want to cramp her planning style!



then it started!

our new socks and gloves served us well! it was pretty frosty out but once we were off it wasn't too bad. it was fun to ride around the city and pretend to be a messenger for an after noon. we basically rode around the city collecting canned goods to donate for a food drive for the hungry. it was super inspirational, and once it was over we did a group ride over to a church and handed the food over to this really nice family/priests/church people. i was basically radiating warm fuzzies for the rest of the weekend!

Once we got back to the bar trudy greeted us and everyone chilled for an after party!



(well deserved brew!)

jenny and jake met us too!


All in all the race/afternoon was a success. We got to gather some food for the hungry and got some good physical fitness/fresh air in the mean time!
After Adriane and i got in from the race we decided that we owned it.


Cranksgiving race = owned!

Weekend Excitment.

This weekend my friend Jessica got us on the VIP list for the Diesel 30th Anniversary party. This was a very exciting prospect as I am a bumpkin and am not used to such posh treatment/excitement! I also had no idea what this party ment when she told me we were going so I figured I had better bust out my nicest duds and the make up for a beatutification session! However I was pleasently suprised to see that it ment an evening of delights featuring performances from MIA, TI, Chakachan (SP?), Franz Ferdinand, and NERD. Plus it was a welcomed occasion to bust out my eyeliner and high heeled shoes which rarely happens.
please note that I have taken two Excedrin migraine pills this morning so I am going to try to keep this blog post some what restrained as when i take excidrin I'm usually rattling out of my chair in a hot hyper mess from all of the caffeine. That said, lets take a tour of the evenings events!


(this screw face kind of shows how i feel right now. aka. a little bit crazy)

Here is our friend Cynthia. She was the "Ring master" of the evenings events which is how we got our special VIP status! P.S. Whenever we informed any bouncers of this fact they all gave us the "whats this VIP doing rocking an outfit totally purchased at forever 21" look. Classic! i was like, yea some VIPs are "recessionistas" don't worry about it... I'm on a budget!
(extra points for the use of "recessionista" in this blog post.)
MOVING ON!
Anyway, the theme of the party was "rock and roll circus" so here some really buff dudes doing crazy tricks on ropes. but I must say the wow factor is sort of lost when really buff dudes are working the ropes. It just seems more impressive to me when like a 100lb.lady is doing it. Just sayin.

But I digress, the party planners were really big on the confetti, they shot it out like three different times. we were like, k we get it, we are supposed to feel festive. Geesh!

We get it!

then TI came on a like a secret guest or something, and everyone got really excited! i only know of TI b/c i like to watch that show sweet 16 and i feel like he plays all those birthday parties. haha. anyway, so yea im really out of touch. here he is in al lhis glory!

Jessie and i were dressed to the nines in true oberlinian fashion. OB!

The a really pregnant MIA came out ans was like "howmanyhowmanyhowmanyhowmany" a bunch of times and every one got all excited.


Paper planes!
p.s. she def got the memo that people are into that whole paper planes "gun shot" sound effects, they just kept randomly playing it like while they were hyping the crowd. i guess if it aint broke don't fix it!
her "hype girl" was super cute

after we stuck around long enough for MIA to play it was pretty late! it was totally fun, but i had been standing on these high heels for a few hours at this point and i was OVER IT! plus by this time all of the people who had taking hard drugs had elevated to another level and were beligerantly rolling around/falling over/on us. seriously I was like, I'm curious how these people could be so ridiculously fucked up right now! it took me about an hour in line at the bar to get one cup of bud light! WTF?! haha jk they weren't drunk. they were on E. NEwayZ, we took this as the cue to bounce. leading up to the best part of the evening...

going on the red carpet that everyone had long since abandoned and pretending to be famous. haha. so good! I took Jessie's picture and this guy tried to jump in, and I scolded him like, "hey! get out of there! your not famous!" then he got totally sad and was like, "well, maybe I will be someday... :(" all frowny face style. and suddenly his bar tender/day job/out of work actor status revealed its self. buck up out of work actor! your big break could be just around the corner! Dreams come true!!

Here's some youtube.com girl's VLOG about it, i feel like i was there! oh wait...


Stay tuned for a new post about the Harvest Festival! I can't wait!

Smile w/ your eyes!

Doesn't this picture totally look like beans has been watching America's Next Top Model and "Practicing her angles"?! HAHA here's Tyra kitty in action!

Oberlin Trip!

So last weekend I took a little weekend jaunt home to ohio to see Tammy and Matt's new crib and officially warm it. They were having a big house warming party so I stopped in to help out/ eat perogies/ soak up the festivities. Here's how it went down!
Here's Dupree begging me not to go b/c then he can't fuck w/ my weekend bag.




Here's me on the plane w/ my BFF a mid-western business man (jk). I travel w/ a professional photographer, its called the "self timer" propped up on a hard back book. Class all the way!

So here's the thing. I feel like I haven't been away from ohio that long. And when I left my god son Solomon was def still a baby. I don't know what the heck happened but he grew into this?!

A real life little kid who is totally big! WTF?! That shit sneaks up on you. The strange thing is that he could grow up so much, and I literally look the same. um. yea...lets not get into it. Moving on!

This is an insect puzzle I got him for his bday, put it to good use!
Here is a little bean bag brother/monster Jessie made for solomon. Its part of a set of two bean bag brothers.

Here's some cheeses I used my skills to arrange beautifully in a beath taking display of crackers and cheeses. Drink it iN!

Here's tammy assisting on the prep!



Here's some legit home made perogies sitting in a pool of melted butter. Thats right. Mashed potatoes wrapped in noodles, sitting in a pool of butter. My stomaches still feels crazy! (regular readers of this blog will see this is a major theme of my life).
Once the Festivities were under way spirits were high! Everyone was in a really good mood and soaking up the ambiance.


At some point Joey picked up a guitar and started freestyling songs. He serenaded his mom with a song thanking her for letting his live w/ her even though he's 23 and how she makes him grilled cheese sandwiches when she totally dosen't have to. Classic.

Here's the grilled cheese maker herself pre-serenade!


This is what no nap + too much fun + candy for dinner will get you....a very tired and grouchy kid with a ripped super hero jump suit! You have been warned!



I feel like I look like a real grown up girl in this picture. That should be noted.

After the party we went into cleveland and caught Matt and Lee's band play at a total BUTT ROCK show at a bar called "now thats class" in Lakewood. I got made into the official photographer as I am a girl, and I wasn't willing to carry heavy equipment. Dems da breaks!

Holdind down my post by the bar.

Gotta watch rock shows in Cleveland! I heard a little rumor that it "rocks" there!
The next day I got feve breakfast w/ Zoma and Schimmy. Im srsly kicking myself i didn't get picks w/ them?! I even brought my camera! I forgot. I def wanted to get some pics of amanda as we share sister blogs and she is the country to my city mouse. Next time! Oh well- after a leisurely breakfast I rolled back to NYC. Here's the happy family in their sufficiently warmed home.

HAHA i just actually looked at this picture! They look so skeptical! Well let me put the critics to rest! That was the best house warming ever!
The end.

Thoughts...

Do you think that my cat might be a manga illustation? Sometimes this thought occurs to me.

Beach Trip Bonanza

This was probably the last trip of the season unless I decide to start up a polar bear swimming society. However that being very unlikley, Soraya, Shusaku, Jake, and I rolled out to the Floyd Bennet Beach. It was about an hour and a half bike ride out and like two and a half hours back into civilization due to technical difficulties. We met a few people out there and spread our blanket out. We got there a little bit before high tide so just as the relaxation began we couldn't help but notice the tide was definitely threatening our snacking situation!
One of the girls we met out there was thinking on her feet, and started the construction of this moat.

This moat totally saved the day/the snacks/and blankets/etc! It was all good! it did take some steady up keep as the day progressed, party from the water washing it away, and partly from rouge beach visitors walking right through it not paying attention! Luckily the girl who manned the planning and construction of the moat had lots of aditude and yelled at the careless moat treaders. This pleased me and was highly entertaining to watch. While making some moat repairs I realized that there are so many really rad sea shells just chilling everywhere on the beach!
This may seem really obvious to most people but my previous beach experience has always been on "beaches" off of lake eerie and various other great lakes in the mid west. Not exactly tropical isles. Anyway, once this realization went down I ditched my efforts to repair the moat and set off on a full fledged shell search! they are free. i wasn't going to miss out on this opportunity for free shells! So i got about 2 bodega bags full :)

Note to all friends and family, expect googlie eyed shells for Xmas. don't be disappointed. You have been warned.

After the shell search pretty much just chilled w/ Jake talking shit and drinking Coors lights.


Shusaku and his roommate got drunk and they were arguing about philosophy. AKA time to roll home! So we rolled home w/ the most technical difficulites ever! Listed in the following order:
1. Crank fell off josh's shitty mountain bike.
2. Shusaku fell off his bike
3. Jake got a flat tire
4. WTF?! i really thought we weren't going to make it back to civilizatioN!
but we did. other than the technical difficulites over all a success.