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Kingston, Jamaica Island jam 2010!

2010-12-20T15:27:00.011-05:00

This year for Thanksgiving, we bravely packed up our sunscreen and boarded a plane down to Jamaica for Rodger's sister Leisha's wedding extravaganza. This was my first trip to Jamaica so I nerded out and took the most pictures ever. This is just a smattering of the pics I took but I hope they give you a little taste of our trip!

First things first lets start with the food. Rodger's step mom made us Aki and Saltfish for our first breakfast in town. This was the first time I had ever had it, but it is apparently the national dish, and very tastey. Rodger even got a special vegan bowl made for him.

Rodger mushed some up for his neice Charlize and she gummed some down. She is still working on getting her teeth but fear not! Everyone got to join in on the eating.

Of course it got nice and messy. BABY AKI ATTACK! :)

But she liked it. Also she is a fan of the hair and dangly earring pulling. No ladies are safe!

Later that night we went into town for Rodger's Brother in Laws birthday party at a club in a neighborhood called New Kingston. We had our money converted into Jamaican dollars, so we felt rich. We then proceeded to make it rain.

The club was pretty fun. Rodger's sisters told us that if we drank white rum, we wouldn't get a hang over. We were suspicious of this so we put it to the test. I can report back my findings that they are INCORRECT. WOAH! that stuff is strong. haha But then the rest of the trip we had a reputation for being all about white rum. Go figure! Just trying to fit in with the locals! That's what you get when you try to keep up with the big dogs!

BLAME IT ON THE AA-AA-AALCOOHHHOLLL!!

But we had a good time. Here I am with Rodgers sister Leisha. Pretty ladies stepping out!

This frowny face from the next morning summarizes the hangover. haha. But we had a good timem, the hang over just made the pre wedding errands the next day all the more brutal.

Here the the view from Rodger's step mom's house. She lives up in Red Hills, on a mountain that looks down over Kingston. It was really beautiful and gives my view of Spencer and Mytle a run for its money!

Here is a view of her house. It was really nice, and relaxing to be at a real live mom's house. VIP treatment! Here is Rodger and Charlize playing in Sharron's front yard, peeping out some foliage and dabbling in a little light adventuring.

We set out to go find Leisha some wedding sandals, so we went to Bridgette's boutique, where I got some sweet sandals. My heart wanted me to get these obviously. They were encrusted in charms for God's Sake! But there was no way I could comfortably step out in these hot little numbers. But they were AWESOME. Rodger said they would have made me the dance hall queen. Guess I have to pass on that title. But you can't deny these shoes.

I got these instead. I felt like the potential for crazy blisters was significantly lessened. I also felt like the risk of someone melting down my sandals for the raw materials was lower. Thus I wussed out and got the more sensible option. SO MATURE!

So the wedding errands pressed on in spite of the white rum hangover, and I got my nails done. ALSO! AMERICANS BEWARE! Jamaica is more Englishy than Americans, so they like tea instead of coffee. Like forreal, I spent the first 4 days in a, "where is my coffee?!" daze. Everyone thought it was so funny. They were like, "Americans really like coffee!" and I was like "Yo! The whole world loves coffee! We can't get trough the day with out it!" haha, but at the manicure spot, there was a fancy cafe next door where we got some coffee, in a fancy tea pot and everything with little crumpets. So posh! We drank it with our pinkies up.
So we got some fancy coffee treats and got our nails done. READY TO STEP OUT!

We did a lot of driving around and preparing for the wedding stuff, so I took a little video from the car. This is driving outside Kingston en route to the wedding location.

So we rolled out to this beach where they had the wedding. It was in Portmore, which was outside Kingston by the sea and they had a friend who had a house out there. The drive once we got outside the city was really pretty.

There was a little dog who hung out at the house where the wedding was. The flower girl was chasing him around rubbing sand in his already shabby fur. His name was "Gypsie" and she kept trying to get me to pet him. I told her, "honey he is named gypsie for a reason, you probably shouldn't touch him." #realtalk that dog was shabby chic.

Here is her mom following her around trying to keep sand out of her hair to no avail. Adorable.
haha apparently Gypsie wanted a pice of what Rodger had!

Here is a view of the wedding location, with me posing by the water. It was so nice to have the fresh air blowing in our faces!

Here I am posing w my new Duty Free Ray Bans :) #dutyfreediscounts! #thisishowwedoit!

Here is a picture of Charlize and her Dad. Look at that belly! So freaking cute.

This was another dog that was hanging around the beach. He looked really majestic for a pit bull, so I figured I would capture the moment.

So after the wedding rehersal, we rolled down the beach to go get Fish and Festival. We got to pick our fish out of a cooler, and drink beers on the beach while we waited for them to be fried up. This is fresh yall!

We hung out outside, and an old Rasta dude tried to sell us some carved piggy banks. He gave one to the flower girl bc it was her birthday. She was psyched on it.
We relaxed and waited for the fish to get fried, and watched the sunset on the beach. It was the closest thing to a Sandals Jamaica moment as we were going to get. Check out this horse!

Here is the "after" shot of the fish in the cooler. This meal was the JAM. I seriously ate so much fish and festival it was intense. Rodger had a meal entirly comprised of festival, which are fried sweet dumplings that are sort of like less sweet dougnuts. OMG these were the bomb.

The next day, we rolled to the price mart to get liquor for the batchlor/batchlorette parties. Check out this sweet Xmas tree! Just in case you forgot where you were.

Check out this sandwich of cuteness.

Then we rolled to the batchlorette party. Here is Rodger's other sister Laura. She planned this feast. And I was put to work making sandwiches. Rodger's Aunts liked my sandwich making style and I got props for being an efficient sandwich maker.
After the sandwiches were hand crafted, I ran off and got gussied up. Here is a pic of Leisha and I before the party gets started. Don't I look like a giant next to her?

Everyone bough a bottle so we had a serious bar. These ladies were ready to get CRAZY.

I basically followed the bride around the club all night trying to convince her to drink some water so she wouldn't be sick the next day. AKA her wedding day. #voiceofreasonrepresent! Here I am w my prop of the evening.

Here is Leisha letting her hair down. We had a really good time, and by the end of the night I had seen some next level dancing. My feet were also subsequently ready to fall off. Oof! I can't keep up w these real deal clubs! Give me sneakers and a booth at a bar anytime! We got in at 4am and I crawled into bed. Here is rodger the next morning w Charlize. It looks like I wasn't the only one who had a rough night! Somebody get that baby a cup of joe! ;)

Here is the Mini Bride. She looks like a little cupcake!

I think this is the only picture of Rodger and me at the wedding. We were all behind the camera at the party. But I snuck this one in at the bathroom line.

Then we tore up the dance floor. Feast your eyes on this next level cuteness.

This baby has some good moves!
Next morning, we rolled out to the country to visit Rodger's grandma's house a few hours outside Kingston. We stopped on the way for jucie patties :)

I also got a better picture of my new sandals. These sandals got lots of compliments btw. They have a good MIA vibe I feel like. HOWMANYHOWMANY!

The view from the road was crazy! There were lots of goats, and crazy vistas from the tops of mountains. There were also lots of murals painted on all the little bars and restaraunts along the side of the road. I tried to capture some of the magic.

I felt like the murals were pretty amazing. They probably thought it was funny how many pictures I was taking. But I had to make some memories damn it! Finally we reached Rodger's grandma's house. She lives on the top of a mountain in a little house. We basically turned off the main road and drove up this gravel/rocky road straight up! We finally reached and I heard lots of cute Rodger baby stories from his Grandma bc he used to live with her when he was a little boy. It was cute. Also apparently when Rodger was a little boy he was swinging around a machate, and when she told him he wasn't allowed to have it, and took it away, he got all salty, and said, "BUMBACLOT!" HAHA omg. Babies using swear words! Never fails to be cute. Also why does it not surprise me that Rodger was a salty baby that swung around a machete when he wasn't allowed to and generally causing mischief. #SOMETHINGSNEVERCHANGE!
Here is Rodger peeling us some Jamaican oranges.

Here is Rodger's Dads friend Arel, he was the owner of the sturdy SUV that made it up the mountain. He chopped up some sugar cane for Rodger's grandma.

She had some cute animals that lived on her farm. This muel was just kicking it w this bird while we were chatting.

Here is Rodger w his grandma.

We rolled back to town and crashed out. We left town the next morning. It was an awesome trip. Thanks to Rodger's family for the awesome hosting and making us feel so welcome! Can't wait to visit again.

End of year post!

2010-12-20T14:49:00.004-05:00

Hey friends! Alot has happened to me this fall and I had a really busy fall. Thus I have been the laziest blogger of all time. I now am sitting here a day off, sitting pretty with a fresh manicure, laundry laundering away, and a fresh bag of trader joes apple slices ready to bring you all up to speed!

Things that I did this fall:

1. I was laid off from my old job in August. At first I was scared I would be homeless and unemployable. But then I realized that as a freelancer I am making like drug dealer about of money, and I can work from home in my straight up jammies if i want to! pants w/ zippers are overrated.

2. Got a new computer (RIP laptop!) We lost the laptop to a rouge glass of breakfast wine. But the end result was a new 27' screen IMAC! SO GANGSTA! I used to try to use after effects on my lap top and I would hit command S to save, and it would be like, gimme a minute I need to figure out how to save this thing. haha it was the slowest ever. Now we are rendering out at top speeds! BOOSH! This also is allowing me to do said freelance work in my jammies (see #1).

3. Over thanksgiving we visited Jamaica to see Rodger's family for his sister's wedding. I'll put some pics up so you can have a vicarious island experience from the comforts of your laptop!

4. Started running. I haven't done any running since before thanksgiving, but I got up to 3 miles and did my first run with the Bridge runners! This probably sounds like some small potatoes to you marathon runners out there, but this was the longest distance I had ran since high school, so I was feeling pretty good about it.

I think that about summarizes the high points of my 2010 fall. Im going to post some pics up so you can relive the magic with me!

New Baby Niece In Effect!

2010-06-12T22:42:00.001-04:00

Here is a new video of my baby niece! Talk about good looks!

Bike Shop Sexism Gets Smacked Down!

2010-05-28T09:04:00.000-04:00

Well its officially the first hot as balls day of the spring season, and given that I wore my only warm weather outfit yesterday, I cobbled together whatever I could find to wear to work. Having gone on weightwatchers after my brother's wedding last year, and subsequently getting way buff, all of my clothes pretty much look terrible on me. Everything is about 3 sizes too big and what is left of my wardrobe from last summer is totally crazy town. I got rid of most of my clothes in an attempt to look more age appropriate at work, and then due to recessionary saving tactics never replaced the items after i got rid of them. recessionary saving tactics quickly became depression style "going without". that combined w a much needed laundry day that never happened w the perfect storm to create a work outfit of a next level.

I was trying to keep up the momentum in the mist of my shopping trip that so far had yielded an unsuccessful trip to TJ Maxx and 95 degree weather. I walked out to retrieve my bike to press on to the next store. Before I was able to ride off into the sunset I heard a large bang and my front tire went out! Defeated and tooless, I walked over to the bike shop prepared to let them change out my tube and tire for me. I went in and tried to explain that I couldn't tell if i needed to replace the tire, or if the tube had just blown out. The man stated really slowly that the problem was that i had a flat tire. Um really guy?! are you also going to tell me what day it is and that im wearing red sneakers?! obviously. that is why i am in this bike shop right now?! it was so hot and terrible outside, and i totally would have other wise had them fix it, but as they seemed to think i was retarded, i now had to fix it myself DIY style just to show these fools what was up. I started to ask the man if i could borrow his tools to fix it, and he said, again really slowly like i was struggling with english, "you need to buy a tube and a tire to fix this flat". This might not be translating to the written word, but in real time, the way this man was talking to me like I had never been on a bike before, I was seeing red! So i managed to explain to him that i needed to borrow tools so I could fix it. He seemed skeptical, and tried to tell me what tools I needed. UGH this man was killing me. I went outside and fixed it in 5 minutes and came in and paid. I put my credit card down and said, "Satisfaction!' as all the eye brows were raised by the shop boys. haha then they all tried to kick it to me bc they were impressed by my skills.

Out of control. So crisis averted, sexism triumphed over, shop boys now in check, I was able to proceed with my shopping trip where I purchased 3 new summer dresses. But really what is wrong with people?!

NO!

2010-02-23T23:18:00.002-05:00

I was out to dinner w a few lady friends tonight and the topic of my blog came up. I basically described it as "really totally funny" bc I mean, you gotta sell yourself in the market place! The free market is tough out there for an armature blogger! Well all of the talk of blogging got me excited to write in my blog. But my boyfriend is out of town and he has my laptop. Unfortunalty for yalls, if I can't do it from the comforts of my bed, its not going to happen. Not tonight! I just rode my bike in the shitty rain for an hour in manhattan, picked up a dental gaurd, basically got frisked at century 21 bc i kept setting of the security sensures (i just found the security tag stuck to my wet sock. now i feel bad for yelling at the security gaurd) and kind of almost got hypothermia. So homegirl is not playing tonight! haha all salt aside, I made it in from the elements and would like to go on the record as feeling 100% like jzap and i are no joke! we both made it home safe and i got a hot bath, so aside from this brief fun-down (that started off as a typo) im just going to kick it VIP and listen to some This American Life, and mentally spoon w Ira Glass. When I get my laptop back I'm going to try chattroulette, and that will surely generate some hot blogging topics.

Boosh! Hieronymus out!

NYE keeping it locally epic.

2010-01-17T16:14:00.005-05:00

So for the winter holidays i always go to the midwest for chrismahanukwanzakah but i always make it my beeswax to get back to NYC for new years bc you know thats the best holiday! My favorite holiday was xmas when i was little. but now that im older, my brother works in the ER and has to work xmas now. So we like eat xmas dinner on boxing day, and for xmas i get gift cards. thusly xmas has been knocked out of the top ranking favorite holiday! now NYE is where its at bc it involves wearing a hot dress and getting drunk and dancing. Now that's something i think we can all get behind. This is what went down!

No one had any like big ragers planned (weak sauce people), so we just ended up going to 470 flushing for midnight. They had warm cookies and we had hennesey and tall boys for coors light!

Thusly, shit was about to pop off.

It was pretty rainy out and just shittsburg in general but we braved the elements and went up to the roof for the stroke of midnight. luckily there were lots of firecrackers and alchohol and i think we sufficiently frieghtened the neighboring hachidic community.

Jake had this big beer and was like, "this beer is huge! don't worry about it!"

Rodger was all popping bottles with models!

For some reason everyone was wearing black white and red.

Bonus points for red boots!
Oh you didn't get the email on the "black white and read all over theme? akward!"

we were going to go to rubelad and dance after bc we needed to rage! but when we got there, the fire trucks were there and there was a mass exodis. They told us it was "on fire" but more or less it just got shut down. so luckily we didn't get kicked out after we paid the 20$ cover. Unthwarted we walked over to sweet revenge passing around a bottle of champagne and wishing the local Hasidim community happy new years. some of the dudes were into it! Unity!

We got to sweet revenge Soraya busted out some of her Go Go moves. I was like, dang! I need to step up my dancing game! Srsly, she is so good at dancing! Feast your eyes!

Rodger set up this connect 4 game that never actually got fully assembled or played at all.

We danced all night and got drunk and made and lost some memories. It was awesome! We pretended it was webster hall and got up on the steps and danced like it was senior year!

One of the high points was when jodie and i had a "cute picture contest" in the corner. This is the end result.

It's a tie!

As you may recall, one of the major themes of 2010 was "sparkle vampires". This was to commemorate the sparkle vampires for posterity. Do it for twilight!

All in all it was a super fun night, and when we were leaving for closing time, the bouncer told us that we are hilarious and always welcome back. Thats like the opposite of getting kicked out! Hell yea! 2010 is going to be a good one yall!

New Hair Cut! 2010 Edition!

2010-01-17T15:48:00.002-05:00

My new edition is way bitchin! HAHA jk my hair was getting like fundamentalist length so I had meena kim give it the old chop chop. The end result is pretty sassy and now i look like a modern business woman of the day!

The only question is what am i going to do with my new abundence of time that i previously spent trying to untangle the dreadlocks that were forming in the back on my hair where the hair met the tag of my shirts. maybe learn i'll take up macrame!

Long story short.
i looked like this.

This much hair got the snip.

and now i look like this!

Short and sassy in 2010! Believe it!

The Three Legged Cat Of Hyde Park

2010-01-17T15:27:00.004-05:00

So I went home to see my brother in Chicago for the holidays. We dabbled in indianapolis as well to see my grandparents and other family members. It invovled a particularly heated scrabble game and lots of power walking at the gym talking on the phone as i walked around in circles w/ my headphones on for hands free chatting. My aunt remarked, that the people in the gym probably thought i was crazy and talking to myself. I remarked that its not my fault if these bumpkins don't know about using your headphones to talk on your phone. real talk.

But after the holiday, Jack and Nina brought me back up to their place in chicago to visit before i went back to NYC. We got back to chicago just in time for jacks' birthday! I had just got my new camera, so I documented the experience for us all to relive together!

My First picture i took on my new camera was of this little guy. He is just so cute! plus he was kicking in incognito bc he's black and he's next to the black sag bag (thats racist! jk).

So one of the high points of the trip was hanging out w jacks's little 3 legged cat Clint. He is pretty clumsy
so he fell off the balcony this summer and he lost a digit! We were pretty worried about the little guy. so I was relieve to find that he was in high spirits! Rolling around w his tripod waving in all its glory.
Plus its pretty cute to see a 3 legged kitty try to make it in the world. Inspiring even. Brought a tear to the old eye piece!
Well the kitty was in high spirits, and he made me think of "whiddle broddah" on homestarrunner. Little Guy is making it on his own! Well it was super cute bc he likes to have his belly rubbed.

Well he can do it on his own! haha cutie.

But enough about the cats!

In addition to it being cute kitty day, it was also jack's bday. So i took homeboy out for a breakfast steak!

This is officially a "taking care of biz pic". HAHA just making serious business moves on my phone while i eat my power breakfast. Not too shabby of a way to start off 27 if i may say so my self.
After that we just walked around and did errands, and goddamn its cold in chicago!
Living in Brooklyn, my family always plants these fantasies that I can like afford a mansion in Chicago, and eat deep dish pizza all day, thusly truly live the dream. As opposed to my savage NYC life where i have to share a one bedroom apartment in bed suty with 2 tabby cats and a rodger. So i have these day dreams where we are rolling around, eating chicago style food and living the dream (funny how most of my fantasies are food related and pretty vague) but then i go to chicago on occasion and im like GOOD GOD DAMN its the coldest ever there. and i consider myself to be a pretty hardy individual. Now i see why one slice of chicago style pizza is like a 1/2 pounder. you gotta put alot
of fat on to survive in those elements! Jeeze. Plus it snows there like everyday. Not sure if you have heard this, but it is also very windy there. yea believe that. But we were all bundled up so it wasn't too bad.

And as far as I'm concerned, as long as they keep that pizza coming i can manage for brief visits. I guess it doesn't really explain why i also want to eat that pizza in the summer. can't really blame the elements for that :)
So after a hearty breakfast we went and took jack to a hearty dinner at a Belgian restaurant for his Bday dinner. Special guest appearances by Effin' Dave and his lady Rachel.

Look at these cute couples! Twas a delight to be their 5th wheel!

There was much feasting and butter and merriment, and all in all was a success. So Jack and Nina, thanks for letting me stay at your house and play with your cats!

Operation Kitty Condo.

2010-01-17T14:00:00.002-05:00

Well i am waiting for my pictures from xmas and new years to upload on the old photobucket piece, so in the mean time i am going to muse about the prospect of acquiring a new kitty condo in my life. The bottom line is these cats need an upgrade in the toy situation. Currently they are making due with a "cat tube" and a pretty sad looking cat tent from ikea. Dupree has also taken to using my whicker drawers as his primary scratching post. I have a theory that if i can upgrade their lives with a "cat gym/kitty condo" then they will stop terrorizing us in the middle of the night/and just improve moral in general.

The true DIY spirit that lies deep down in my heart says, to make one. its just sone wood/carpet/and rope. How hard could it be? Plus the ones at the pet store are no joke like 200 dollars?! i don't like ANYTHING 200$ worth. real talk. Plus there are some interesting DIY kitty condo suggestions on the internet. But then we were peeping amazon and some of these condos are next level! Like some of these kitty condos have maintenance fees and some of them are like gated community level of classy!

This one looks like it has a door man and a gym in the basement!

Some of the plans for DIY ones i have seen on the internet seem easy enough the but end result is kinda janky. that is not the desired effect. if i have to have a large structure in my living room that says to the world, "i sweat my cats and i have devoted a large amount of my living space to watching these little guys while out", then i at least don't want said structure to look like we purchased this real estate in shittsburg proper.

Whatever, you can think i'm a cat lady all you want but this is the shit i think about. but the bottom line is i'm just thorough and i take my cat adoptions pretty seriously. the city of new york has entrusted me w these little tabbys and im taking it upon myself to upgrade their lives in a serious way!

But I digress, will keep you posted on the end result. the ones on amazon are pretty cheap, but on the otherhand, i need to be saving money to buy a real condo for humans! haha or at least some sort of house for us humans. To be continued!

Living!

2010-01-17T13:26:00.000-05:00

So its 2010 now. and I haven't blogged for a while! So just thought i would drop a little blog bomb on your life, as I do enjoy the blogging, and i always go back and re-read these with no memory of their contents (much to my delight!) But in addition to that i have replaced my broken digi (w a g-11!!!) and my laptop w a new macbook so now we living! Back in blogging biz. Plus it s a rainy sunday and i'm sitting on my day bed with a tepid cup of cafe bustello listening to phill collins and i'm under the duvet. fuck it! lets blog yall!

IKEA mission

2009-09-01T11:36:00.001-04:00

on sunday, Roger and i went to ikea to get the final touches for the apartment. We got this awesome table and assembled it. We also got a new book shelf so Rodger could store his stuff, and we could finally get the apartment put into order. I think we make a pretty good team when it comes to assembling modular furniture. We operate like a fine tuned Sweedish modular watch. Here are some action shots.

Here is the finished product and a professional spokes model for the table. I mean me. And I'm holding the 2009 ikea catalogue.

So this table makes me really happy, but it didn't take long for Dupree to run all over it, and got litter on the table. I was like "GODDAMN IT DUPREE! BE COOL ABOUT THIS! CAN'T I HAVE ANYTHING NICE?" I'm sure he will respect the no cats on the table rule. He is so well behaved. (not.)

Saturday Night Social

2009-09-01T11:01:00.000-04:00

Last saturday, I had folks over for eating. Rodger and I moved into a new apartment and finally got it looking good. So I wanted to have dudes over for eating. The situation is good, b/c I felt like at my last living situation I couldn't really entertain due to the roommate dynamic. However now that I am all shacked up and its just old Rodger and me (not the movie), I can have people over as much as I want. Just like a real grown up! So I did, and I fed the people my grandma Flo's flank steak, corn on the cob, garlic roasted greenbeans. This was a big deal b/c this flank steak recepie is the BOMB and its what my mom and grandma always make me when they are hosting me in their homes. So this was a bit of a torch passing situation. And it turned out great. Check the fruits of my labor.

Finished product!

It was truly a feast indeed, except Rodger is on a fast and while we all sat around eating, he sat there and talked about how he couldn't eat and it was kind of a bummer. Its kind of like inviting your sXe to your wine tasting party and then everyone is like, "OMG this 1980s french aged merlot is blowing my mind" and your sXe friend is like, "wine is for suckers!" and the wine drinkers all go "I guess". It might diminished the festive mood but the power of Flo's steak prevailed, and it was good. Everyone got plenty to eat, and I got kind of drunk while I was cooking and then we went dancing at a Michael Jackson's Birthday dance party where Soraya was hosting. So we got to sit with her in the VIP section and got bottle service and it was totally fancy. We living!

Back in Blog.

2009-09-01T10:53:00.001-04:00

So I haven't really blogged about anything since the beginning of summer. And it is presently September 1st, so there's that. I went on a trip to pennsylvania, and rode out to the country in a big group ride. But, my boyfriend dropped and broke my camera, which has been a major technical difficulty in the blogging process. That mostly sums up why I haven't blogged. I will have to relive this summer through my foggy memories and other people's flickr.com accounts. So is life my children. But I digress, I got an iphone! so now i have a camera, that i can easily email pictures to myself with so I'm back in the blogging business, except I don't make any money blogging, so its more like a blogging not for profit. Which is good. I really cherish my time blogging about the hi-jinks in my life, and apparently one of my mom's co-workers enjoys the blog. I'm blogging this for you mom's co-worker!

So I have some fresh pics burning a hole in my photobucket.com account, so I'm going to retroactively blog, if that is possible, and re-create my fuzzy memories from this summer for your readying pleasure.

Sunday Morning Social.

2009-06-08T15:19:00.000-04:00

So after all of the delights that Saturday night beholden, we got up early and attended Soraya's open studio. She did a collaboration on some jewels w/ Natalia, and there were cupcakes!

Pretty as a picture!

Here are some of the items that Natalia and Soraya busted out for our open stuido pleasure!

I mostly chilled over by the grapes and water. B/C I was hung over :(

Cuteness!
So after the open studio, we rode bikes over to Jenny ways house and scooped her up to go to Ikea. I bought a wine rack, b/c owning a wine rack is truly adult and classy. It shows that you are mature enough and have enough restraint not to drink all of the wine in your house! Just b/c its there does not mean you have to drink it. Trust! Anyway, after buying that landmark house hold item, we were about to pass out from not having eaten anything but some open studio grapes! We went to karaoke brunch in red hook, and got really tasty food and practiced our padgent faces.

We biked back to the neighborhood, and i got my track stand down. Boosh!

Don't sweat the tecnique!

WTF.

2009-06-08T14:42:00.000-04:00

My blogger is freaking out throwing a wrench in my spokes while im trying to get my blog on! I don't need it from you blogger.com not today!

Weekend Recap.

2009-06-08T14:20:00.000-04:00

This weekend was epic in everyway! We had a new roommate move into the apt, and also had a house warming party for Rodger moving into my apt. Sparky and her friend Abby visited this weekend from Bloomington. We checked out Soraya's open studio and bought a wine rack from Ikea. Let's examine the weekend's events!

Since Rodger moved into the apartment, we decided it would be a fun time to have a house warming situation! We invited all the usual suspects over for some Sangria and snacks. As always hilarity ensued. Well at least some major snacking ensued.

This guy kept talking about how robots were going to take over the world and replace all of the humans

Naturally that made me think of that GM Commerical where the robot gets laid off the assembly line, and becomes suicidal.

The recession is affecting us all. Even the robots. Don't forget that.

Here is a picture of Hana keeping it classy her her Hooters tank top. I think that really set the tone for the evening.

There was a lot of alcohol flowing at the party and we were serving "super sized sangrias" so naturally the party degenerated into

jenny and i making "scene" , which we learned about while on google.

Ex. 1

Ex. 2

Sparky and I realized that we are only really photogenic when photographed w/ an upsidedown camera myspace style.

A good portion of the evening was also spent practicing our "baby beauty queen" faces. A la "Toddlers w/ tierras" and "Little Miss Perfect"

see the resemblance?

This party was totally classy and everyone throughly warmed the house. The best part, was how everyone one was remarking about how the sangria wasn't very strong. Yea. Two grown ass women fell asleep after
drinking that "not strong sangria!" just saying! Owned by the sangria! Trust.

Animal Planet Shoot = Rodger and Beans are FAMOUS!!!

2009-06-05T16:39:00.001-04:00

So when my boss told me that they were looking for "edgy looking people" and their pets for the new animal planet spot, I was like, ZOMG you need to cast my cat in your commercial! Listen, you need to respect the nepotism! She has star quality! At any rate, they ended up casting beans, Rodger and I to be in it, and here are the restults. Beans was terrified and hid under the chair in the green room all afternoon, but once she stepped on set she was the only cat that didn't freak the F out and run off set and hide in the sets off to the side. Once they put her on the couch she fell asleep! I was like, ZOMG this cat is too funny. Any way, beholden the fruits of her labor (and Rodger looking like an ignorant bald head) but admittedly a cute ignorant bald head.

They kepy jingling bags of cat treats and keys to get her to look at the camera and she was like WTF?!?!

Beans is a magestic creature and didn't appreciate her beauty being exploited. She was so salty she didn't even want any treats! Unheard of!

They had me take some pics w/ her too. Looking like a couple of matching cuties! (also the stylist didn't tell me you could see my underwear lines. Thanks lady.)

roawr!

Wedding Celebrations.

2009-06-05T16:19:00.000-04:00

So Rodger and I flew into Chicago for the wedding over memorial day weekend. Everyone was really stressed and on edge so we were off to a bit of a rough start. We ran around all weekend doing errands and being like wedding planning interns except we didn't get free lunch or a metro card, but once we got the ceremony over, the relaxation began! That was enough to scare me into having my dad pay to have some one do all that annoying wedding shit for me! Who would of thought that a little wedding planning would have been so epic? Anyway here's some pics of the big day!

For the rehersal dinner my dad got these dudes from mexico who work with him at one of his factories to pack up their "electric merenge" band and drive down to indianapolis to play the reheral party. We saw these dudes throw down at their Christmas party last year and ZOMG it was epic. They rocked out so hard, playing like Mexcian country music complete an entire lighting set up. It was awesome! We ate BBQ and drank good beer and danced all night! It was so fun!

The day of the actual wedding is a blur of preparations including but not limited to, eating an epic meal at "Shownies" which is Denny's lesser known arch rival sit down family resteraunt, tying identical tule bowes for the church, moving tables, going to target, picking up my mom at the hair place, driving all over Noblesville Indiana, dropping off flowers, etc. That shiz was epic. But I think it was worth it. B/c the ceremony turned out lovely!

So the ceremony was lovely, but make no mistake! Im such a high heeled rookie that i literally couldn't focus b/c my feet felt so crazy! By the end of the ceremony i was seriously like doing a crazy dance shifting my weight back and forth on these crazy shoes. but i looked nice damn it! respect that!

After the ceremony we went to go tear it up at the reception! It was kind of crazy being at the reception because it was literally a rec center filled with every adult i have ever come across in my life. But the food was the BOMB and Joan came to DJ the reception so you know the dance jams were banging! Lets just say that by the end of the night he was playing the "Pony song" by Genuine. Yea it was like that. Plus there were many bulgarians in attendance so we busted out some ethnic dances and got all funky gypsy style.

diversity!

Vinny came up for the wedding, so there was lots of "C walking" and the robot. Because he chills at home and practices dances on youtube videos as one of his main hobbies. This was his time to shine!

Rodger hit it off strangely well w/ my super proper Canadian relatives.

BFFS!!!!1!!

So everyone let their hair down, and got all funky.

(classic hieronymus)

then luis was all "IN BRAZIL WE PARTY LIKE 200% ALL THE TIME!!!!"
Because they do, and we are better off for it! The brazilians hold us to a higher partying standard.

If you like then you should've put a ring on it!

Joan was srsly playing all the hits! he was like, we need some jodycee up in here ASAP!!

HAHA WHUT?! OG BFFs :)

And on a final note: I leave you w this.

After that weekend of excitment, I srsly needed two weeks of rest just to regoup! I can't keep up w/ those hieronymus' they party 200% all of the time.

Jack and Nina's Wedding.

2009-06-05T16:10:00.001-04:00

So for jack and nina's wedding I had to think of a wedding present to get them. I was seriously temped to buy these buiscut heads a margarita-ville margarita maker. Jack is one of the more serious people I know, seconded by Nina, but in an unexpected detail in his personality he loves fruity "resort" style drinks. So I thought, margarita maker it is! Well my mother chimed in that my cousin Emily had made them a really thoughtful gift of a hand made cook book of her favorite recepies, and that I should make something sentimental as well. So i thought to my self, "Darts-Muray! I will not be shown up by you! I will not be left out in the cold w/ my margaritaville margarita maker!" So I found this craft online and make it for jack and nina w/ some pictures i had taken of them.

http://readymade.com/projects/article/photo_ops

The craft directions were easy to follow and the results turned out great. I got some wood grain frames so the finished restult. Will post up some pics at somepoint.

UpDatez.

2009-06-05T15:56:00.000-04:00

When I last posted in my blog it was April. Since then my brother has gotten married, my roommate has moved out, my boyfriend has moved in, and I have re joined weightwatchers.com. My laptop has died, and I also started doing hot yoga. My housing search has sort of stalled out b/c getting up early and looking at dilapidated houses is depressing at 10am on a saturday morning! At any rate I am going to Bulgaria next week, so when I get back from there my search will presume. I took a bunch of pictures at the wedding, and I'm going to do a blog post on the American wedding, then a blog post about the Bulgarian wedding after it happens. Stay tuned!

Hieronymus is Stressed the F Out!

2009-04-22T14:28:00.000-04:00

Listen: shit is getting real over here in Hieronymus Town! Ok, I'm sorry, I don't want to take this out on you, come back, I'll chill out.

Sorry for that outburst. No need for profanity on the old blog piece, but I'm trying to keep it real out there for the streets! I am 25 now, and with that new grown up number seems to be a miriade of grown up responsibilities that are manifesting into some physical problems. I wish someone would have told me that being "grown and sexy" wasn't all eating as much candy as you want and bieng able to jump on the bed in my free time. Thanks for the heads up mom! NOT! I guess the stress about money for the down payment and my new real estate search has manifested in grinding my teeth in my sleep, as well as neck spasms! OMG its so terrible! if someone had warned me that this was how 25 was going to be rolling, I would have skipped right over to 26!

At any rate, I have had to start sleeping w/ a mouth gaurd to avoid breaking my teeth (WTF SRSYL...that is messed up).

Srsly? A mouth guard?! I'm not playing pewee league hockey over here, I'm just trying to catch some winks! Since when did I need protective wear to relax and catch some ZZZs? This is no bueno.

Another casualty due to this stress has been my neck. It had been feeling more and more jacked up over the past few days, leading to way more icey hot/hot water bottle use/and muscle relaxers than I would care to have incorporated into my active lifestyle! Then this weekend after my neck got continually more stiff, I woke up on Monday morning, and I just couldn't do it. I had to call into work b/c I srsly couldn't comfortably move my head. I spent the day w/ a hot water bottle that Rodger went and bought me and I passed out til the early afternoon. Just in time to realize that it was 4/20. The worst day to call in sick ever! Now everyone is going to think I was over at my house smoking doobie joints on my sick day! I never call in sick, and the one day I do, its the national stoner holiday/white supremacists celebration of Hilter's bday. Not a good look. Aint that always the way? (hah spell check is confused by my use of the word "aint")

Bong Boy - video powered by Metacafe
(this is what comes up when you google "bong boy")

Well with all of this new stress, I have started doing positive visualization style meditations, trying to eat better, and a little stress shopping. Case in point: check out my new adidas that I bought myself to make myself feel joy again. (JK I often feel joy, im just being dramatic).

But wearing these does legitamatly make me feel joyous, so thats a start. Plus I think Rodger and I are going to start doing some hip hop abs bootleg dvd he has laying around somewhere. So until this passes, I shall use the Secret/meditate/and wear my cute new shoes. This too shall pass!

Housing Search 09

2009-04-22T13:30:00.000-04:00

M.A.S.H.

So what will it be? Will I live in a mansion, apartment, shack or house? Well I would like to cast my vote for mansion, but I'm afraid that i will land in the oft forgotten last option CBB (card board box). That's real talk!

Well maybe not CBB but srsly this task is getting daunting! There was this one house that I liked over in Bed Stuy, that was listed at 349k, it had a bunch of garbage in the font and back yards and a broken sky light, and some broken windows but needed minimal repairs. It was a distress sale with a bunch of leans on the house, and the man selling the house did leave immediately after the Sunday showing to go buy a tall boy of beer, but I was still feeling optimistic!

(how fitting, when I'm living on the streets b/c I can't find a house I will be right there brown bagging it along side this shadster.) No matter how many shady people I met in this life, morning beer is always unsettling to me.

Probably against my better judgment I called the real estate broker who was handling the sale of that house a few weeks later to see if this house was still on the market. He told me that there was a "slight change" to the property. He tole me that unbeknownst to the drunk gentleman that showed us the home. One of his partners had taken out a secret second morgage on the house, and that they owed 50k more to the bank than they had realized. SECRET MORGAGE?! Now don't get me wrong, I believe in The Secret, it has basically been responsable for every lucky aspect of my life, I also really like secrets in gereal, keeping them, telling them, etc. However I DO NOT condone SECRET MORGAGES! Thats just crazy town! And its totally indicative to what has caused our country to be in this economic pickle! Giving shady day drunk dudes free money and pulling equity out of homes that haven't been paid off at at, and are sitting empty over in the hood. So he told me that due to this revelation, they had to raise the price 50k over night to cover this secret mortgage.

Don't get me wrong, the house was a deal at 349k, b/c I was planning on using my schrewd bargaining skills to get him down to 320k. Now 320 would have been a steal. But at 400k, that house was FAR from a steal. NEways, the real estate dude was telling me all this at like 10am on a Monday morning over the telephone. He then told me about some fictional buyers who, before they had raised the price had make an offer for 390k but lost their financing. Which I guess was supposed to make me feel like some other suckers were willing to pay that amount so I should fall in line and pay that much. But who in their right minds would place an offer on a house that is 50k more than the asking price after its been sitting littered w/ trash for over a year on the market? I hate it when not sneaky people try to be sneaky. It ends up just being kind of pathetic. So I tried to politely ease my way off of the phone w/o calling anyone out on their failed shiestyness. I mean I don't get my jollies by trying to make shiesty real estate dudes feel bad about themselves, I just wanted nothing to do with this shady deal. So I told him "I would call Him." You know like, over the phone break up style, but he didn't take the hint and he was like, "Great! can you call me as soon as Wednesday to get a deal started?!" and then I had to keep it real w/ him and say, "Yea....um ...actually probably not. " Its not you its me! But he seemed to get the hint, and he let me off the phone w/ o too much further squirming. Some one needed to show that guy that "He's just not into you!" movie! But I digress, I will probably wait until it gets turned over to the bank and buy it for like a dollar. B/c ice water flows through my veins and I am a schrewd buissness woman of the 90s!

Maybe if I buy it off the bank for a dollar, they will give it to the day drunk guy so he can buy a frosty brew.
Remind me to wear my power suit more.

Anyway, that was a minor set back, and upon looking at other homes, I have seen other houses, with way more space in them so let the search continue! And I do plan on actively using "The Secret" and a "Hobo's pocket full of hope" to find me my dream home.

Hieronymus turns 25!

2009-04-06T21:01:00.000-04:00

Well my birthday was last week. I turned the big 25. I kind of wanted to just hide out and like go to a dive bar. Maybe drink some secret Coors Lights. To be honest I wasn't feeling too psyched on turning 25. I previously had thought that 25 was at least the year that I could rent a car and thus be a legit grown folk. but the someone told me that I could already rent a Zip car. So there went the one perk to the big 25. So I was feeling like 25 could b ea good opportunity to lay low and eat it off. But Rodger would have nothing of it! So we decided to have a little taco party/house old school birthday party! Plus there is a recession on (you maybe haven't heard about it, there hasn't been that much media attention about it). PSYCH! Everyone knows that we all broke now! SRSLY we decided to have a good old fashioned birthday party at the crib. So we decided to have a taco party and invite the usual suspects. Here is a blog post recounting it, so you can relive the magic! Won't you join me?

Rodger did most of the preperations/planning while I took a more hands off strategy. I made an old timey invite where I photoshopped a monical and a top hat atop my head. Wait. Photo shop isn't really old timey at all. New Timey? Never mind. I had to make an extra classy invite to match the extra classy party that was going to go down! So I basically photoshopped myself to look like an Anna version of Mr. Peanut. Which I think is the best version of Anna, if I had to choose.

Well Rodger was running around all day Friday trying to get the party ready so by the time the party actually went down he was all dazed and discombobulated. I spoke to him at a few different points during the day, and recognized the tell tale panic in his voice. Luckily he pulled out an awesome party with out getting too many gray hairs. Big ups to Rodger! Bup Bup Bup!

Its all a blur!
Poor Rodger! Luckily there was LOTS of sugar at the party to keep him fueled through the night!

ALOT OF SUGAR!!

But all the sugar in the world couldn['t turn this soup puss' frown upside down.

jk. we just caugh him in the mist of a personal moment!

The Food was great! We had tacos, vegan chorizo, ground turkey, chips and guac/salsa, lots of taco fixins, Maragitas (Hanna and Soraya held it down on the drink making situation).

Before:

After:

Plus we had lots of really good sangria b/c Rodger googled "best sangria recipe". Then all night everyone was like, "Dang, that is the best Sangria". Google wins again!

HMM....where could all of that food gone.....
Suspicious! Truch! (That can be Trudy and Zach's Brangelina couple name :)

So everyone feasted, and spirits were high.

And there was lots of adult classy conversating!

Mature socializing!

Not sure how sticking a party favor up your nose necessarily fits into the theme of having a classy grown up party but sure.

Then it was time for the party games! I picked out this ambiguously ethnic Pinata filled w/ delights for everyone to enjoy.

We used one of Danny's crutches and I got a broom stick to do some damage!

Damage to joan's balls! jk! but srsly, I accidentlly almost hit Joan in the balls! Joan really put a lot on the line by offering to be the pinata holder! ALOT! lol. Here is some videos of the pinata bash!

Then we cleaned up the BOOTY!

I thought that peeps would dive face first into the candy piles like second grade stlye, but I had to get the crowd hyped by doing a little of the gathering action for everyone.
haha Hanna looks displeased by my hoarding technique. Don't judge me girl! This sangria is making me tipsy! lol.

After the Pinata and all of the mature partying, no self respecting party would be complete w/o a fudgy the whale cake complete w/ trick candels that don't blow out! Now thats class! No seriously, I love me some ice cream cake. I was in heaven!

Fudgy! You are my only friend! JK, but we go way back, to two years ago when I first tastes the delights of my dear friend Fudgy. Next year Cookie Puss!

I managed to huff and puff all those crazy candles out. And then some trickster switched the 2 and 5 candle to say 52! Those jokesters!

Jokesters!

So after all of the fun and gmaes, we had to pack it in w/ a cray cray sugar coma! Thanks to all the doodz for coming out! Stay tuned for an upcoming blog post on my upcoming trip to chicago! cha cha check it!

Pre-Launch Upper Lip BCC Champagne Jam

2009-03-25T21:27:00.000-04:00

Jake and Chris Reed started up a hipster style blog called the Upper Lip (www.theupperlip.com), so they decided to have folks out for a pre site launch jam! Im not usually one to deny a party time siutation, so we decided to check it out!

A view from the Top!

Jenny and I make up quite the trouble making twosome. She busted out a really cute blazer (not shown :( )

Then Rodger and I took some cute pictures in the photobooth.

PDA!

Twas truly a classy affair. Beers at the BCC, technically Do translate to "Drinks at the Country Club". Respect that!

Hope to have some exciting events to report on soon. My birthday is next week, and I plan on having a party.But for now the excitment pool over here on Kosciusko st, is running a little low. I have been watching alot of TLC latley, wich is an activity that unfortunatley does not for an exciting blog post make!

still hungry.

2009-03-25T20:39:00.000-04:00

So I made a dinner of soy chicken nuggets and frozen french fries. I wasn't feeling full at all, so i drank a liter of smart water. Im still starving! WTF?! I present to you: a list of things I want to eat right now:

1. Doughnuts. I have noticed that for the most part, folks out on the east coast don't understand how important doughnuts are as a snack/dessert item. There is like one Doughnut spot in the city, but other that that its basically just some stale old soggy dougnuts at Dunkin Doughnuts. In the mid-west doughnuts are so important that there are entire restaurants devoted to the Dirty D (some slang i just made up for doughnuts) and peeps hang out there at all hours! Dunkin Doughnuts is over there trying to mess with some egg white triangle breakfast sandwiches!

2. White Castle hamburgers. I realize that White Castle hamburgers are really gross and crazy and square. But sometimes you gotta throw down on that action. OMG this bloggins list is building up to an epic snacking session. I can feel it.

3. A coors light tall boy. Coors light is the nectar of the gods. Im not sure if its technically considered a snack item, but something deep down in my heart says, Coors Light tall boys would def qualify as a snack. Coors light is the perfect beverage to chase down w/ an epi of Top Model (wich is what I am watching right now). Im having phantom tall boy holding sensations in my hand as we speak!

4. Sourpatch Kids/some style of Gummie. Easter is around the corner. My mother gave us so many Gummy style products in our easter baskets, that im trained like one of Pavlov's dogs to want to nom on gummies as soon as the weather starts to turn springly! Today I was riding my bike in the city and I was smelling phantom gummy aromas!

Alas, despite my tastey list of delights, I'm trying to be good. So I'm chilling and watching these freaky cute little girls on "Little Miss Perfect" on the We channel, trying to push through the desire to let the inner fatty out to go get mozzarella sticks. Yo Hieronymus! Your turn 25 next week. You are officially a grown ass woman! Officially too old to be sitting here wanting to clear out the bodega of all of their gummies and coors lights! Get it together woman!

A combination of my three favorite things: fat cats, NOM NOM NOM lolz, and birthday cake.

Blog Block!

2009-03-25T20:27:00.000-04:00

im feeling the stinging tinge of the old bloggers block! good thing i have some hot pics on the old photobucket burning a whole in my....account? NEway, I'm going to try to push through this bloggers block and bust out some blogs!

Needed these.

2009-03-16T13:29:00.000-04:00

So once I put my self on the no more shopping budgetary kick, I saw these.

Aint that always the way? I see these Bad Brains Vans old school high tops and i was like, "What budget?" lolz. so I bought them. I gotta live my life! What is the point of living in a baller ass house if my feet can't experience the joy of being encased in Bad Brains themed shoes? Thats no way to live your life!

Rastafarianism!

Saturday Queens Riding Adventures.

2009-03-16T13:04:00.001-04:00

So on Saturday, Rodger and I spend the morning riding around Bed Stuy checking out different blocks, debating where most of the crack is hustled, and the ups and downs of living on different blocks in the hood. After he went to work, it was so nice out I wasn't ready to hang up the bike quite yet. I went back home to scare up some biking partners. I called three people to see if anyone wanted to bike around w/ me, w/ the assumption that if all three were busy I would resign my saturday to watching Bridget Jones Diary again on the Oxygen channel. (not a good saturday look). Luckily Hanna and Joan were up for some ridin, so I hopped back on my ride and cruised up to LIC. We met up and upon realizing that hanna and i ride the same sized frame, promptly switched bikes. We rode up to Astoria Park and around her neighborhood for a while, soaking up all of the delights that queens has to offer before looping back to the LIC bar for a beer afterwards. They let us bring in outside snacks, so i took it upon myself to introduce hanna and joan to the joy that is "Popcorn Indiana" brand popcorn.

They helped me kill the snacks and we enjoyed some refreshements.

Hanna tried to say that my Nike hat would look weird on her. I personally believe that my Nike hat has the ability to flatter ALL girls, so we had her model it to disprove her theories.
At anyrate, Hanna's camera is SO nice, it makes everyone's mega pixles dazzle. Here is joan and hanna soaking in some saturday fun and being all young and carefree and in love and shit.
romance!
The day was awesome. I kind of got lost in greenepoint on the way home, and used my preternatural sense of direction to return me to bed stuy where i attended Meena Kim's grilled cheese party. All in all a nice little saturday.

Budgetary Cutbacks

2009-03-16T12:42:00.001-04:00

So when I decided I needed to get serious about my Real Estate plan I had to put myself on a budget. This is gernally now how I like to roll, as I have been known to throw down some cream on whatever retardedly expensive bike parts/cheap Forever 21 clothes/going out to eat all the time/general scoundralry. But real talk, my mom and dad taught me to be frugal but once I got some money, I started spending like a roughneck on payday. That needed to get checked at the door! There is a recession on after all, and if i continued to live high on the hog i clearly never would be able to make my dream of buying a place a reality.

Now my father is John Hieronymus and that means that I am genetically inclined to be ridiculously cheap. Once I took my self out of the dot com spending mentality and into recession 2.0 mentality I noticed that I started to get really into this budget thing.
Can I interest anyone in a cup of water soup?

At anyrate, the days of my shopping for fun have come to a close, but hopefully my efforts will be repayed w/ non stop BBQing in my own yard and the challenge of renovating a old brown stone in brooklyn (something I had always dreamed of but couldn't afford until the market ate shit) . Can't beat that w/ a stick! Plus in a worst case apocoliptic end of th economy as we now it situation, I can hold up barefoot in my gutted brown stone feasting on parnsip pie depression style. But I digress. Here's are come really cute youtube videos of this old lady showing you how to make depression recipes fom when she was a little girl.

I love the way she says "pahtatahs". adorbz.

Upstate Adventure.

2009-03-16T12:14:00.000-04:00

So last weekend, my Mom was in the tri-state area on a ski trip w/ my family. As my father secretly sold all of my ski equipment in a down-low garage sale (however refuses to admit this fact) i was left w/ no means of snowboarding. Since my mom was only an hour or two up state, I decided to take the Metro north train up to poughkeepsie NY to spend the afternoon w/ her. Rodger is a good boyfriend, and volunteered to escort me up to grand central station. It was my first time being in the terminal part where all of the trains leave, that is featured in many feature films.

it looked exactly like that. jk it looked more like this:

NEway, I was like, thanks! then I hopped on my train up to poughkeepsie. I wasn't sure what i was in store for, as i haven't ever been "upstate in NY. I had passed through regular new york state as a kid going up to Canada, but hadn't really considered Buffalo upstate, as "upstate" sort of provokes imagry of provencial country views.

For example: google image "Upstate New York" :

google image Buffalo New York:

glorious. At any rate, i was pleasantly surprised to find the Hudson Valley to be full of scenic magestic views. My mom took me and got some pizza pie, which is always going to skew a visit positively :) Then we walked down to "check out what poughkeepsie has to offer". we immediately saw these two ghetto dudes really day drunk drinking out of brown bagged liquor bottles trying to entice two hilly billy dudes into a street fight (much to the horror of the hill billy dudes). then the girl that worked at the coffee shop all disappointed in life and was like, " Its really not nice over here, don't judge our town on this". No judgment here! i did remark to my mom, that I live in the heart of Bedford Stuyvesant brooklyn, and we had just witnessed more street violence than I had ever seen in my hood. After checking out the sleepy town charm I had to pack it up and return back to the hood. Its always strange to leave NYC and to return to it. Especially in the same day. You realize that people simultaneously exist along side you in totally different lifestyles. And that is real. Real culture shock that is! Anyway, good to get out of the NYC bubble from time to time if only for an after noon to check out some street fighting.

blogging fail.

2009-03-16T11:27:00.000-04:00

so i was trying to be a better blogger, and then i got a new boyfriend. all of my free blogging time was promptly redirected to drinking coffee at tiny cup and spooning. so much for that. then last night i was hanging out w/ my friend casey and she was telling me about her blog. i chimed in w/ " i have a blog!" and she said, "i know, a blog you haven't updated since december 9, 2008". that is real talk! so just to shake some cobwebbs off this old bloggy blog i had to bust out a post. the blog might take a decidedly grown ass turn however. i am currently in the process of looking for a brown stone in bed stuy to buy and rennovate. if everything works out, lets just say i might be talking about a lot less coors light and a lot more spackle. yea, i said it. spackle. however if things don't work this blog might take a turn into cardboard box living home decor. it could go either way.

see more Lolcats and funny pictures

but i do have a lot of back blogging to do, as well as some fun rennovation/summer fun posts in the works! stay tunned!

My Name Day!!!

2008-12-09T11:27:00.000-05:00

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.

2008-12-09T10:49:00.000-05:00

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.

2008-12-09T10:42:00.000-05:00

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!!!

2008-12-08T17:47:00.000-05:00

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.

2008-10-13T11:34:00.000-04:00

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!

2008-09-24T15:34:00.000-04:00

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!

2008-09-24T14:57:00.001-04:00

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...

2008-09-24T14:50:00.001-04:00

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

Beach Trip Bonanza

2008-09-24T14:16:00.001-04:00

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.

Secret Japanther Show

2008-09-24T14:01:00.000-04:00

Last month I hit up that secret Japanther show on the Williamsburg Bridge. Followed by a roof top soire. The sparks were flowing that dreams were coming true! So we investigated this show to the extent of the law? wait that dosen't make any sense. eveeverythiing about that show was illegal. moving on! Here's some pics.

it was too crowded to really see the band and it was a miracle that we didn't get arrested! success.

Then people realized they could shimmy up the construction equiptment. this was about the time we decided it was best to bounce to the roof top party.

Then the cops busted up that party! WTF?! some kid we were with was sketched out b/c he has warrents, so when the cops came up to tell us all to leave, he started to shimmy down the fire escape?! way to call attention to yourself! then the cops were all "HEY YOU ON TEH FIRE ESCAPE! GO DOWN THE STAIRS LIKE EVERYONE ELSE!!!" haha. classic! Anyway that sparks gave me a tummy ache. Saturday AM fail!

The Hurricane Strikes Again!

2008-09-24T13:57:00.000-04:00

The Hurricane blew bean's house over, but she's decided to wait out the storm cause she's a tough cookie.

New Bike Alert!!!

2008-09-24T13:43:00.000-04:00

Spoiler Alert! This one's for the bike nerds!

So some of my old friends from pre-NYC timez may recall my Terry Symetry that I cruised around Bloomington Indiana on and turned some heads. I bought my fledgling young bike w/ me to NYC and rode it around for about six months before I got hit by a car! (see myspace blog for the details on that debacle). That was two years ago and that car accident JACKED UP my terry. But the frame remained structurally intact (dispite the disrepect is suffered at the hands of a AM New Jersey commuter). So I kept the frame and vowed that when I had a little bit of money to spare the Terry would be restored to her former glory and returned to the streets where she belongs! So a few months ago with some spare money and time I got the Terry the face lift/botox/tummy tuck she needed and dang she's a beaut!

I got the frame a hot new paint job at Chelsea bikes and built into a single speed. Yes thats glitter in the paint.

Very expensive toe clip straps. dang people will spend retarded amounts of money on stupid little accessories for their bikes if they come from japan. I am living proof of that.

The last thing i am waiting on is this Selle Italia LDY Gel flow White saddle and my steed will be complete.

The guy built me some wheels w/ surly hubs and velocity rims. You might not be able to see in the pic, but the bike has a 24" front and a 700c back wheel so it looks CRAZY.
I already splurged on the basket that perfectly fits a six pack of beer. Let the good times roll!

Bad Blogging.

2008-09-24T12:37:00.000-04:00

So I have been a really bad blogger, I have been slacking on the job! However while i have not been blogging I have reallocated my blogging time for other exciting activities to blog about. Let that blow your mind.

Heres a cute picture of me so you won't be salty! look at the cute pic and let it wash away your feelings of blogging abandonment!Let me just use the word blog one more time.....blog.
k im done.
let the blogging begin!

Bust 15th Anniversary Party

2008-08-26T14:03:00.000-04:00

(This is totally a belated post, but i just got the internet at my apt.) But i digress, SO soraya decided to take me out and show me a nice time GNO style for the Bust Magazine 15th Anniversary Party. We got totally dolled up and hit up a gypsy cab over to the Lower East Side. Our taxi driver was a Dominican lady, w/ starkly Dolce and Gabanna glasses. She was super rad and sassy. So she drove us over to the South Side Sea Port where they were having the party. We hit up Macdonald's before entering the party and had some value mealz. The whole Mcdonalds was full of teenage boys, and Soraya and I looked HOT! They were freaking out!haha, i was like, must be time for the kids to get back to schooL! they are acting like they haven't seen any pretty girls in months! After the fried fortitude, we rolled over to the party. As soon as we got there we couldn't really find where the party was, then i saw a girl w/ ironic bangs and glasses, i was like follow that hipster! luckily she lead us right to the spot!

(How pretty is soraya? OOC!)p.s. notice the empty glasses....that was the theme of the evening. Having empty glasses and getting them refilled.) NEwho, after we got a drink it was time to immediatly get into a huge line to get into the tent where they were having the entertainment. While in the tent we talked/hung out w/ SIA and JD Samson from LA TIGRE?! They totally were laughing at our jokes! So exciting! i can't take celebrity sightings let alone interactions! Anyway we were like gushing all night b/c we were peeping out all these really cool feminist celebs! Amy Sedaris was hosting the shin dig and that ironic sweater lady Lesie Hall was there w/ her rap group. It was pretty entertainting to watch, then (i think she might be soraya's idol? so we got a pic w/ her after!)

after all the celebrity sitings and merryment i was pretty pooped/totally drunk. Plus can i just say (this is a major achievment as a grown ass woman) i made it my first whole night out w/ my high heeled shoes on! YEA! don't worry about it!

all in all that was the funnest night ever and i totally woke up w/ a tummy ache and wore my make up from the night before to work the next dat! scandal alert!

IRONY!

GARDEN FAIL!

2008-08-26T11:09:00.000-04:00

So when i signed the lease to my new apartment, I was under the impression that we had access to the roof. However there is a grouchy old lady that has bought the roof? You can do that? And she won't let me put my plants on her roof (where she keeps her plants) DUh. So i had to move my plants down from the saftey of the roof down to the front of my house. Fast forward to one month later! All but two of my plants are fucking stolen! Im so salty right now about this that i can't even take it. I know i live in the ghetto, but seriously? I have to chain down my almost dead tomato plant and my def dead zucchini? Like someone please tell me what good that is going to do you other than to totally bum me out and make me loose faith in humanity. So much for my experiment in Urban Gardening, i guess if i want to have a nice garden im going to have to move again or get a plot at a community garden. Welcome to the jungle!

House Warming Party.

2008-08-12T13:13:00.000-04:00

Some serious festivities went down at my house on Saturday. We were warming out house/celebrating Pete's bday. Here's some of the highlights!
Here's come of the guests enjoying the snacks and dranks.

The party sort of took an interesting downward turn towards the end of the evening that consisted of eliot putting the kitten in different interesting kitchen items. hmmm not sure how i feel about the blender, but the oven mitt can't be denied!

(ESCAPE DUPREE! RUN AWAY!!! p.s. remind me to wash that out. ew.)

OH SHIT.

Here is dupree escaping out of eliot's pocket. but it was really adoreable before he busted out!

Overall the party was a total success! i scored a nice house plant, a broken home depot tote bag, and a bouquet of flores! not to mention frankensenze and murr. jk!

Kitty Cuteness

2008-08-12T13:10:00.000-04:00

Here's dupree updating his E Dating Profile.

(Busted!!

beans is disinterested in your texting.

Super Fun Bike Pal Adventures.

2008-08-12T12:25:00.000-04:00

So the bike gang im in called the Super Fun Bike Pals consists of me and eliot this gang mostly consisted of riding bikes to the video saloon in bloomington. However we reserected the NYC chapter and we decided to bike out to the country and to venture out into the dirty jerse. (We had been planning this ride all week however i still went out danceing until 4 am. EEK!) anyway, i got up at 8 and we got cracking! First thing in the AM: Here we go!

(looking fresh faced)
we stopped and got some snacks at the bodega and eliot got clotheslined by the Associated market by a rouge block party set up crew! WTF?! KIDS: take this as a warning that biking in brooklyn means as any minute crazy opsticals jump out at you. So wear a helmut! (look how cute we look in ours!) NEWAYS he suvided and we pressed on. It was a scortcher and pretty humid, (notice the ever present dewy film on our face pieces).

We took the west side highway bike path up to the GW bridge and the bridge over to the dirty Jersey. Interstatial biking...don't worry about it!
Here we are drinking in the sweet nectar that is the views of the NYC/Jersey Boarder!

Once we got over to New Jersey we went into this crazy park and rode bikes for ten minutes down this HUGE hill, knowing the whole time we would have to ride back up! eek! anyway once we got down to the bottom, eliot celebrated this way:

(Shirtless) celebratory push ups are usually required to signify the reaching of the destination of any super fun bike pals adventure!
(here we are looking reflective, a bike ride like that can often lead to serious revelations!)
(check my new cleats!)

Made it back to BK just in time to consume mass amounts of pizza and coorslights!
The End!

Harvest Time!!

2008-08-12T12:08:00.000-04:00

Here's the fruits of my labors, These got picked a few weeks ago, but shit has been crazy w/ all of the moving excitment! NEWAYZ Here's some pics of my tomato harvest!

Im def gardening next summer too! It for sure brings a sense of pride, and gets you back in touch w/ your inner crunchy! My crop also yielded one very small but suptle squash (so far) Stay tunned for further harvest details!

Some new shoes i scored.

2008-08-11T17:27:00.000-04:00

Peep out these shoes. i am going to look so grown up when i rock these shoes on the subway. dudes are going to look at me and def think im going to a business meeting. don't you think?

ok officially done spending money now.

Meet Dupree the Cat.

2008-08-11T14:16:00.000-04:00

Meet Dupree the cat. I got him to keep Beans company, she was starting to look really SALTAY with me when I moved her into an apartment w/o any other pets. SO this is the end result.

Another part of the plan is that dupree is going to shake up beans' world and get her to run around again and play. home girl is getting SLOVENLY. Anyway, thats it for getting new pets. Im officially stocked up over here, so you don't have to make any crazy cat lady jokes. my allergies wouldn't allow that sort of lifestyle...don't worry about!

OMG!!! cute shit going on over here!

LOL i made of beans.

2008-07-16T12:21:00.000-04:00

Back from vaycay...

2008-07-08T13:07:00.000-04:00

Oh man, I'm back from a relaxing country vaycay and I've cannon balled back into the city life by immediately looking for an apartment as i have to move out of my place in like three weeks. eek! good thing i am a young professional w/ good credit. hopefully shouldn't be too much trouble. Anyway, here's the recap of the country time fuN!
We started out in Chicago. Jack was supposed to pick me up from the air port, however i was left to my own devices and taxied into his hood. Then we went to get some deep dish pizza, and i rocked one of my more exciting flamboyant outfits. Here is jack and me looking pretty cute in true hieronymus fashion!

The pizza was the bomb! And it really kicked off the eating spree in true fashioN! It was the first of many heavy meals to come. Writing this blog is going to give me a phantom tummy ache i can already tell.

Bright and early the next AM we hit the road down to Indianapolis to pick up my mom's pick up truck and Sparky. We hit up a flying J to grab up some treats and some firecrackers. AMERICA!

I was giving this some thought and the real reason that the Midwest is superior to the east coast is our abundance of fried sweet breads. i didn't really think about it until i saw doughnuts for sale everywhere. i miss that shit!

Grabbed up some good clean fun and we were on our way down to the farm!

FACT: my cousin Sarah's genes mix perfectly w/ her husband to only produce Gerber babies. This is a strange and highly cute phenomenon and was the case w/ her first baby as well! They need to have a baby modeling agency comprised solely of their super cute chubby babies. I can help them count their money that they make off this enterprise.

Anyway, we spent most of the day down at the farm chillaxing and playing cards and eating. We hit up the Purple Cow diner in town, for some stick to the ribbage fortitude. I was trying to put ketchup on my hash brown, and it got all over my eggs! I was like WTF?! im not Canadian! This is not how i roll! Breakfast officially considered a fail.

The overall trip to the farm was a success, and as far as i can tell so far i haven't discovered any ticks that have hitched a ride /w me home. Lets keep it that way! After the farm we hit up some last minute breakfast w/ the old man and the grandparents...Here's me and my dad w/ him looking like a trouble maker.

On the ride home, i noticed these at one of the many gas stations we hit up.

didn't buy them though, tried to exercise some adult like restraint.
Had to stop back in bloomington to return my precious cargo AKA Sparky! Got some food at the upland brewery before hitting the road some more!

So i returned Sparky to her residence and hoped back on the road the rest of the way to chicago. The next day Jack attemped to school me in gardening tactics! And i hate to admit it but i got totally faced! His shit was THRIVING! I considered sabatoshing his garden in the name of good heathly competition, however i reconsidered and just helped weed instead.
Got my hands dirty and beautified the garden!

Any way as I write this I am eating a raw salad in a vain attempt to undo some of the damage that was done during my four day fat fest.

Post Script.
While in Chicago i got beans a golden collar w/ pink diamonds and a bell on it. Here she is adjusting to the new bling, i don't think she is super stoked that i have revoked her stalking and sneaking privalages, but its so cute to watch her try to attack her own collar! Here she is looking salty.

Anyway I'm all rejuvenated and ready to find a new apartment! Back in the swing of things...and taking care of business!!

Sad State Of Affairs.

2008-07-02T14:00:00.000-04:00

So i sort of been noticing that its taken a bit more effort that usual to pick up beans lately. I am a true enabler til death, and i'm aware of the fact that i'm very generous w/ bean's chow situation. So i asked my roommates for a straight up oppinion and they all agreed! home girl is getting FAT! So I had a little chat w/ jack and turns out i may have been feeding bean about twice the amount of food that she needs. So i gave beans a pep talk and the last of her treats, and the next day the diet was in full effect. Today is only the second day for the diet, but home girl is getting switched to diet food w/ her big old belly! As pictured below, beans chilling on my bed, looking slovenly and AINT DOIN SHIT! ha.

I'm just trying to be supportive of her healthy lifestlye change! I can't end up w/ some crazy diabetes cat! i can't afford to get her a kitty version of a rascal scooter! plus i feel like with her trouble making tendencies, that would just be dangerous.

Well beans has been dieting a few days now, and she's already looking slimmer (not sure if this is true or just how i see things). in no time she will back in the fast paced lifestyle of a cat model. b/c that was her job before. before the LBS crept on. then she can start paying her own bills again. NO FREE LOADERS!

What I Did on Saturday

2008-07-02T13:47:00.000-04:00

I was just going to stay home and watch the news, but Yeti tricked me into going to that ally cat after party. Then it was totally fuN!

The dj was off the chain and the dance floor was crazy!

Lazy Sunday

2008-06-29T14:52:00.000-04:00

Beans and I spent good portion of the AM w/ her trying to attack and eat my hair. so cute.

Engaged in combat!

AAAK! She got me.

Sweet Back Pack Score.

2008-06-29T14:45:00.000-04:00

Can i please tell you about my tripple five soul DJ back pack i scored from the buffalo exchange in williamsburg? i am FEELING this bag. i want a SAG back, so i got this to tide me over in my quest for the ultimate luggage. feast your eye pieces on this little beauty!

plus there is totally a cell phone holder. can you say upgrade?!

IM OUT!

2008-06-23T17:54:00.000-04:00

to go eat some...

!!!!!
p.s. go to pinkberry.com and listen to the super cute pinkberry song. its effing adorable.

Six Flags New Jersey Attempt.

2008-06-23T11:59:00.000-04:00

We were supposed to get up at the crack of dawn, and i ended up sleeping til noon. We thought that there were only two bus times to Six Flags, that would have left us stranded there for 12 hours. Too much fun = no bueno. However we were mistaken! Get ready for Six Flags New Jersey attempt 2.0 next weekend!

Funnest BK Weekend Ever.

2008-06-23T11:27:00.001-04:00

I had so much fun this weekend! I was out until almost 5 everynight this weekend! Luis Felipe rolled through town, so we decided to take him to the Royal Oak for some fun times and merriment. I also decided the time was right to do my hair up really big and wear a ton of make up. Sometimes thats how i roll. Did you know Luis Felipe is such a cool guy he has to wear his shades CONSTANTLY? The moonlight could damage his cool guy eye pieces.

This was definitely a sun glasses at night situation.

Here's me and Jenny looking GOOD.

These pop bottles contain the hard stuff if you know what im saying...(wink!)

G Train stands for Great looking ladies train...what...thats kind of a stretch but whatever moving on!...Hit up the first sushi place that came up when i googled "cool sushi place williamsburg brooklyn" and here you have it!

that was a pretty cool sushi place! google never fails me! Then we hit up the Royal Oak, b/c they don't have a cover charge and i felt confident that Luis could sneak in his Vodka. (This was actually a major deciding factor)

(getting toasty at this point)

Decided that we probably needed to hit up the taxi home due to the tipsy nature of the evenings events. DRUNKEN TAXI RIDE!

Made it home in one piece, and luis grabbed up his suit cases and went straight to the airport! Im endlessly impressed w/ his brazilian partying style. Now i gotta rest up for his next visit! That took it outta me!

(p.s. woke up w/ a case of the Lindasy Lohan voice... no bueno!!)

Close call...

2008-06-23T11:14:00.000-04:00

I had been srsly neglecting my rooftop plants for a few days last week, and by the time i finally made my way up there, much to my dismay this is what i found...SADDEST BASIL EVER!

not sure if you can tell how shriveled up my basil is looking, but i swung into action asap! i got everything all watered and back to health. Sometimes shit isn't pretty! Everything is back in shape now and i also stepped up my game by adding an eggplant and cucumber plants, plus two additional basils. Im on a hot roll w/ butter! Check out the ever expanding tomato plant.

Can't wait til harvest time! im going to dress like a pilgrim when i pick my veggies. P.S. i would have been sort of DEVASTATED if my basil had died. I take this shit srsly. WHEW!

Celebrity Sightings

2008-06-20T21:31:00.000-04:00

So before i forget i want to keep a running tallie on the celebrities i have spotted since moving to nyc (this is one of my BIGGEST hobbies). I will be updating this list as needed...

in no particular order: here goes!!!

1) Lindsay Lohan + Samantha Ronson (2 for 1 combo)
2) Terry from Vice Magazine
3) Mr. Jay from top model (tyra where you at girl!)
4) Heather Ghram (does "strip arobics" in my building at work)
5) Adrianne Brody (drive by)
6) Kiki Dunst (at La Esquina eating tacos in her SUV) come out and show yourself and your crazy teeth!
7) Richie Rich and Amanda Lapoure (not together)
8) Adrian Grenier (the goodlooking guy from enterage, seemed to be a bit of a grouch) your so good looking whats the problem?
9) chi modu (not that famous but if you google him you might be impressed)
10) that dude that plays Stiffler from american pie. i don't want to blow up his spot but he hangs out on the regular at the bleeker bar (that he lives above) i have seen him many times at this bar like in the afternoon on a sundays and often hanging out by the bar at an innapropriate hour. i feel like stiffler is really lonely. p.s his only friends seem to be the bartenders there. stiffler from american pie. what are you doing with you life?!?!
11) Kerrie Russel (Felicity from that show Felicity) she was eating sushi right next to me at this shitty sushi spot on Dekalb!
12) Rosie Perez (Fort Green resident)
13) Moe Rocca walking down 4th ave. in a cerulean blazer.

14) Chris Parnell

15)The guy w/ the crazy facial hair from Anthrax.
16) I have met Amy Sedaris a few times. This is hight exciting.
17) SIA and JD Samson from Le Tigre as a couple
18) Kelly Catrone smoking and hailing a taxi
19 Issac Mizrahi (i was on my bike so i gave his a drive by hollar)

p.s. i actually moved to this god forsaken city soly to see celebs! jk, like it here. what? do i? im not sure! haha
k thankz bai!

Broken Digi is Effin up my S!!!

2008-06-17T10:17:00.001-04:00

So i broke my digi at the beach a few weekends ago, so no new pics?! Im going to be picking up a new camera this week as to be prepared for:
1) Luis Felipe's visit to NYC and ensuing mayhem
2) Saturday night dance party situation
3) SIX FLAGS ON SUNDAY!!!

needless to say you are going to want to stay tuned for details, this shit is about to get hot!
blog it like its hot hot blog it like its hot!

Roof Top Garden Attempt

2008-06-13T11:17:00.000-04:00

So im trying to go green in 08 and back in touch w/ my country roots. so i decided to start up a little roof top garden situation. So far so good in that department, the little beauties seem to be thriving so far...

so far im growing sweet basil, zucchini, squash, and tomatoes. I have some more pics i'll throw up when i get home later. can't wait for harvest time, i see a lot of salsa in my future.

Thursday Night BBQ Sesh!

2008-06-13T00:59:00.000-04:00

So Vinny and I were left to our own devices for dinner and some how ended up w/a couple of lbs. of meat for dinner.

OOC
Had some dudes over for some good timez and we BBQed many meat and there was much feasting and celebration and merryment

Now i have tummy ache. Too much fun on the grill piece.

good clean fun!

in the end vinny got really saucy off bath tub gin, and proceeded to talk like an old timey southern gentleman from the days of yore. classic!!!

Heat Waves!!

2008-06-10T21:52:00.000-04:00

Beans isn't taking too well to the heat wave. she pretty much just lays around the apartment like its an opium den. when i finally put her the AC room, she sprawls out like a junkie! so cute!!!

beans chillaxing in the AC!!

dazed and confused!! feeling the buzz.

Friday Night Jamz

2008-06-10T13:22:00.000-04:00

hung out w/ some dudes friday night and did some damage! first i hit up an art opening at repop w/ j-zap and feasted on complimentary snackz and beerz where joan obviously let his hair down *see picture above*

then we drank some 40z on the roof piece.

then we hit up some crazy party in bushwick just as it was getting shut down. WTF?!

feeling pretty toasty!!

then went to another bar! OMG i felt crazy in the AM like some one punched me in the face. too much cheap beer makes excedrin mui necessario. got home very late and took this drunk picture which i actually captures my essence. hmmm.

Beach Timez

2008-06-10T12:57:00.001-04:00

Went to the beach on sunday w/ la pequena. we took the LIRR out to Long beach and got thoroughly sizzled. we had to sneak in a couple of coors lights to take the edge off the heat! saw some rad long island people looking VERY tan and VERY gelled (Gotti style!!) all was uneventful i read the paper magazine article about pharrell willaims and his penchant for "man bags". i also got incredibly sunburned and have been feeling the consequences all week since.
Here is the before shot so blissfully unaware at how burned my skin was getting.

we had to drink our beers on the down low so the broke down "bay watch" dudes wouldn't bust us up! here was my attempt at keeping my drink on the down low.

there were some dudes who snuck in some pbrs on a blanket by us. they kept making knowing looks at us b/c i think we were the only people ghetto enough to sneak in cheap beers at noon on a sunday. bad beer kindred spirits.

i also got sand in my digi and its broken now. it literally never occurred to me not to stick my camera in the sand. huh.

Urban Gardening Attempt

2008-06-10T12:32:00.000-04:00

So I have attempted to expand my two plant operation into a more impressive little window/rooftop garden. I have been tending to these flowers in my house, and then i have a little bucket vegetable garden on my room featuring tomatoes, squash, zucchini, with guest appearances by some sweet basil plants. So far so good, i have been keeping everything watered, but the effing 100 degree weather is not helping the situation. the tomato plants are already "fruiting" so im feeling optimistic about this undertaking. im just trying to stay up on the game so we can feast come this harvest season and i can pretend like its back in the day and i don't live in the hood.

on a side note, (somewhat related to gardening and plants) i think some teenagers threw a jack-o-lantern into the empty lot next to my apartment last Halloween and there seems to be some volunteer pumpkins growing in there. unfortunately there are signs every where around the lot warning of rat poison. yay! rat poison pumpkin pie! brooklyn is so wholesome. ill try to get some pictures of the roof top plants up soon for your enjoyment!

second side note: i found the wooden plant table (pictured below) on my street and i refinished it with some varnish. i think its looking pretty sharp, and made for a super fun saturday project.

(click on the images below to see the full picture)

please note that this cactus' flowers are super glued on. i bought it that way from the home depot and realized once i got home. SO GHETTO!!!

New Blog in the House!

2008-06-10T12:26:00.000-04:00

so i decided i needed to get my blog on so i can remember all the fun times that i had while living in my shitty sea foam green apt in bk. plus i do mad fun stuff that needs to be on the books. so feast your eye pieces on my little blog about fun events i attend/fashion statementz about town/the cat/my summer gardening adventures/junk food i eat/and various other projects im working on!
k thankz bai
anna