Hieronymus turns 25!

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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.