IKEA mission

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!!!

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!