craft challenge 1

Ok twins, you know what sound this guy makes - pa-CAW! You do it better than me, it being your noise and all... 

paddling on Lake Peachtree

JB had the great idea to rent a kayak that seats two - we'll use it a lot tomorrow but we just went around half the lake to see how it is. I want to buy one now - it was so easy to throw it on the roof of the Swedish Behemoth and go. We were in water that was only about two feet deep at times, but it held up just fine. A radio and a cooler is all we need to bring next time and it'll be perfect.

The lake cop came by and asked about lifejackets - what a great job. Cruise around and check for lifejackets and drunks, work on the tan. Where do I sign up for that? 

iTunes thing

How many songs? 2807
Last song played: Bone Machine - the Pixies
Longest song: Dark Star - Grateful Dead (I'm not counting classical or podcasts for this.)

Sort them A-Z
First Artist: 311
Last: Young MC
Top 5 played: Kitty - Presidents of USA
Just A Kid - Spongebob Movie soundtrack
All Alone and
Dare - Gorillaz
Bop to the Top - High School Musical soundtrack

(ok, that last one I'm blaming on B, the Spongebob is mine tho I'll admit)


search for the following words, how many songs come up?
sex: 22
death: 9
life: 36
love: 140
you: 259

Musical confession: you saw Young MC up there right? Bust a Move is such a great song and I refuse to apologize for liking it.

First 4 in shuffle:
Jivin' the Vibes - Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra
Opening theme - the Powerpuff Girls
Athol Brose - Cocteau Twins
Eighties - Killing Joke

Currently playing: Channel Z - B-52s

what I made today:

So the rules of the craft competition that me and Gnat came up with: it has to be done by morning, and we can't go buy anything to make the craft. So papier-mache it is!

This will be some kind of crazy bird, right now it's still drying since I ALWAYS make it too soggy. The dinner I made was SO GOOD. I got a Rachael Ray cookbook and made a pan of chicken/garlic/sundried tomato/basil meatballs that turned out great, but I was nervous about it since I've never used ground chicken before, so I made some regular beef meatballs as a backup. That's what you see in the bowl, along with just some Kroger brand frozen cheese ravioli and crusty bread. I'll come up with a cream sauce for the chicken meatballs tomorrow.

Anyway, that plus a mess in the kitchen and some brownies for dessert is what I made today.

What's up with the picture grids all of a sudden, you may ask? I don't know how to post more than one photo at a time, so this is my workaround. 

veni vidi vici and catfight

So Gareth and I went to see Catfight (supposedly the 'last show ever') at the Atlanta Brewing Company. They were doing a DVD release party, so while they showed the film we went in search of food. Our options: the Chevron station, a Subway (it was closed), and further up the hill an Einstein Bros. (also closed). So we went into the Veni Vidi Vici in search of takeout.

Now, this is a fancy schmancy place, people dress up nicely to eat there. The maitre d' looked up with a very nice 'how may I help you' face when the door opened, which quickly and comically melted into a 'crap, how can I get rid of these losers' face as soon as it registered what we looked like.

We assured him we only wanted takeout and were directed to the bar, so we flip-flopped on over there, fluorescent wristbands glowing, to order tapas to go. To the bartender's credit, he was very nice and the food was all excellent - so we scarfed down expensive appetizers while sitting in the back of the Trailblazer. We had to eat with our hands (what, no sporks???) which just added to the experience - excellent veal meatballs, assortment of breads, sausage and peppers, then wipe your hands on your jeans and get going!

Once we got back in, the show had started and it was FUN. Dancing sexy gogo girls, mistakes galore and even a makeshift limbo stick. On the way out, I had to put a glove on my water bottle on the beer conveyor belt (I'm Shirley, not Laverne).

Anyway, Gareth got to see his "next wife" :) on drums, I spent all my cash on a movie, and soem other stuff including a vinyl single (no, I don't even have a record player right now) and I got a free tank top. And a good time was had by all but Steph, who really should have come too!

This was the second best time I ever went out with Gareth, the first best involved motorcycle helmets and ended with us being surrounded by at least 4 cop cars in a Hardees parking lot. But that's a story for another day! 

Pathos.

Check out the saddest video in the world at my youtube page. The ironic thing about it is that I put the stupid snowglobe on the bottom shelf so the cat wouldn't break it, and the dog got it.
I was going to film when the song was reeeeeallllly slow and died, but that would have actually made me cry for real. Why is music box music so SAD? You could put that Mötley Crüe song Girls Girls Girls in a freaking snowglobe and it would just sound like a lament for the forgotten girls of days long gone. Those girls died, man...they died.

http://www.youtube.com/user/atlgirljj

 

what the hell is this all about?

So this was on the back of a menu I mailed out. An Asian lady ordered the menus, and I know for a fact that Asians printed it. So what's up with the buck teeth etc? Are they maybe Koreans making fun of Chinese? Or is this an ironic kitsch thing, sort of like the black people who collect old 'mammy' looking dolls? ??? I don't get it. Yikes.

the candyman can

Sean was singing the candyman song.

Forgot the lyrics, so they became "who can make a monkey/out of cottage cheese..."

The boy ain't right.

posterboys video

Hi, go on over to youtube.com and search for atlgirljj - you can see the Blacklight Posterboys, my pets, one of my cute nephews, AND MORE!!!

so pretty

 


I love where I live! This guy was on a tree in the backyard - JB got this picture. 

  

heaven on Earth?

I don't know if you can read the sign on this store: Books & Chocolate.

If they have a big lazy cat in residence there, and said cat will sit in your lap while you eat chocolate and read, then I say this is the perfect store in every way. 

Bird Nest

So one day at the Post Office, I was dropping off some work around back where the bulk mail office is. The clerk there was worried about a bird' s nest in the stack of trays, and since it was empty he decided to throw it away. A few days later, I went to the pile of empty sacks and noticed this nest - it has 3 or 4 little light blue eggs in it! Right before I took this, mama bird came exploding out of the hole in the nest and almost made me drop the camera. Today I went and checked on her, and she was glaring out the front of the nest like "back off, lady - I mean it!". I'll post more pictures after they hatch. Update: Man. I went today and the nest was gone. Jed wouldn't say what happened, except that it was "a tragedy". He wouldn't elaborate.

hamsters in Ikea

I wish for cinnamon roll dlivery, too. (comic from hamster city, the Awful link of the day)

Beauty Queen

I remember the day I won the pageant. It was so great, beating all the other girls. I rode down the streets of Tyrone that hot summer day, waving proudly at all the little girls who wanted to be me. I felt bad, knowing I had deceived everyone, but until the end of the day when my title was rescinded (after my tearful and wonderfully dramatic confession) I was on top of the world!

Turns out you can't be "Miss" anything if you have a husband and two kids. Who knew??? Well, technically, I did, but I just had to see if I could win. And it turned out I was great at the whole pageant thing, from hair and makeup down to my "Won't everyone please think of the forgotten animals in shelters?" speech. For the talent portion I sang, of course: Wind Beneath My Wings is a bit of an obvious choice, but it didn't get to be a classic for no reason! The harpist was rushing the tempo a bit, but I made it work. Anyway, enough about the pageant! I just wanted to share. Here I am before they disqualified me. Isn't the tiara to die for?!? 

Recipe for Stephanie

Taken from the 1967 "Osterizer Spin-Cookery recipes for two-speed models" cookbook. Original price: $0.35

I don't think it's trans-fat free, though.

This is what I think of when you start telling me you made banana bread with oat flour and soy chips and wheatgrass extract and honey or whatever it is you put in your healthy cooking stuff :)

I know, I know it's not actually like that. I just think it's funny that now Gnat told me she baked the same thing! 

mosquito hawk

The mosquito hawk or mosquito eater (or skeeter eater if you're a little bit country).

I was sad to read today that they're called crane flies and don't actually eat mosquitos at all.

I guess the only thing they're good for, then, is dying in my house and leaving a bunch of legs and wings all over the kitchen floor. We've let them in and let them fly all over the house a bunch of times so that they could kill the mosquitos - I feel a little bit stupid now :) 

wow.

I got this back when I tried to send my incarcerated friend a letter. Apparently, the picture of her kid and his friends being silly, doing a 'yo, we're cool' sort of pose, was a gang sign.

Either that or the number of candles on the birthday cake that was sitting in front of him was some sort of sign? Too many black kids in the group? I don't know. Oh well.

SO, now my mailman thinks I associate with gangsters.