so you know where to find me:

Yes please.

We should call Robyn 'Spanky'

Because she royally whooped JAN and BAB at Monopoly Saturday by buying up all the slumvilles, loading them with hotels and charging us $550 a stay!

Her only mistake was making a chintzy offer in attempt to get 2 monopolies from BAB; however ol' Spanky eventually got them because we were full of margs and hating the game we swore to love forever.

The lesson is to only play games of chance with Robyn.  

This little guy is JANandBAB.

Prince William of Worcestershiresauce

Do you remember that post from 4.28.2011 in which I voice my youthful rage against a poster of Prince William? (Incidentally, that post was our most viewed! Thanks, Willy and the ever dedicated Brits!)

Well, I was watching Malcolm in the Middle this week, and it was like a timewarp back to my room on the eastern plains of Colorado. THE poster! How many nights had I looked into those eyes before I went to sleep? How many times had the boy in that poster been jealous of my snubbery, when I so coldly shouldered my flirtations on J.T.T.!? 

It was like seeing an old friend again.

Oddly enough, I've truly come to adore his Royal Heinie. Isn't that the way life goes...

8 years running

I did it!  One more winter without having to go skiing.

I'LL give ya a light

Smokers are the most irresponsible people around and terrible sleuths. I don't understand how they can smoke a cigarette every day, if not every hour, and not have a lighter on their persons. Flame is key for your smoking success, but you can't be bothered to carry the manna? And, what clue makes you think the girl drinking chocolate milk and reading Harry Potter on a blanket in the park grass would be likely to have a light?  I'm going to start carrying around flint and see how well they handle that one. "Come on, monkies can do it! That's how you and I came to be standing here."

never winners

"Jell-O reminds me of college."

"Because of Jell-O shots?"

"No. We ate it a lot and always made it at 9pm, then realize it would be ready at 2am. It was so sad."  

oh God, I think we killed the bastard

Bab and Jan have been spewing brainthoughts as fact, once again. This time to the detriment of our Tiny lactose intolerant pal, whom we so assuredly informed chick-fil-a Icedream is DAIRY FREE. I'm not positive which of us thought up that fact, but today I was curious how true it was, and behold the first ingredient!

Not only is it not dairy free, it's like straight from the teat. Poor Tiny! It's a lesson one must always learn with ol' Jan & Bab.

Easter bunny

My fingers hurt from sewing that bunny, but oh man does this picture make it worth it. I forgive her for stealing my chocolate covered strawberry on Sunday.

Using the power of the 7 Chaos Emeralds to go Super Sonic

With that hairdo, Justise Winslow always looks like he's gone super sonic

Leave it to Robbie

to make us do the coolest thing we've ever done: secretly put our 3 beers on the tab of the table next to us! The ol' drink-n-stink!!

I have it on good authority the dudes and gal paid the bill and didn't even notice the extra charge! Suckers.

Nevermind that one of the boys was my ball & chain and another was Robbie's boyfriend. It was still sweet.

Hump

Sometimes when I feel the mid-week blues, I look at this picture of Kanye and say to myself, "At least I didn't spend $500 on a sweater

that looks like I got caught in a wayward 

kitten brawl."

Then, in general, I feel better about my life.

Friday!!

I hope you, too, get to hang

with your favorite peeps tonight.

Happy Friday!!

"Hey mister, what's your bracelet from?!"

"Yiiikes. Sorry about that. At least he got held up on the bikerack and isn't following us anymore."
"Yeah... What did you think he would say?"
"I thought he'd say, like, a concert! Or waterworld! Not the hospital. At least he was nice. I wonder if his recently deceased dad is actually from Israel? I'm glad he didn't burn me with that cigarette."
"It's like you've never been to the city before."

A more appropriately aged crush

The younger Eastwood.  


And while he's very handsome, to be sure, my heart still lies with the original.

The funniest Kimmy since Gibler

Janskel and Babert give it 2 thumbs up. But, not the theme song. That gets a "too long" vote.

What is a litmus test anyway?

If I had to set up a challenge for JAN and TJ to prove how much they love me, it would pretty much go exactly as Saturday March 7 went.

Take me for a walk, go eat sugary danish breakfast, invite all 7 of my friends over and make a sushi dinner with spring rolls on the side (the most difficult of all dinners to get to the table) and not even tell me that you're pretty stressed and got oil burns from frying food!  All while I'm obliviously drinking Lucky Buddha beers in the other room.

They scored a 15.800 (same score that got McKayla Maroney first place going into the Olympic finals, where she would make a small stumble and get 2nd overall, but we were all still very impressed)

 and next time we'll order pizza.

Be cool

what happens when you ask your nieces to take a nice picture?

Knock 3 times on the ceiling if you want me, twice on the pipes, if the answer is Nooooo

JAN and her childhood best friend used to have deep discussions about what was Now and what was Then.

Oddly, neither of them went into philosophy.

birthday babby

Little BAB had a birthday bonanza on Saturday! According to the fortune cookies (that we secretly intercepted and rewrote) she has a great gift to offer the world. She is a perfect blend of love, sass, funny, precious, and best friend.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BAB!

dualing lobsters

Uh, were you guys even aware that it's Lobsterfest?! It's a festival of butter, and little expensive drinks that taste like vacation. I don't think there are any lobsters left in the ocean, though, because we ate them all. Us, and the 80 other old people who chose to dine promptly at 5:45p!!!

Happy Friday, blobsters!

Pretty fast for a turtle

Snoopaloop

We made it through the hump!

And if you had a rough go of it,

this should cheer you right on up:

Thumper

There's a bunny sleeping in this photo.

Awwwww.

o.m.g.

Michael Flately dances again!!!!

corn grass

"Now you got a leetle taste of what I do."

                              - Nacho

mockumentary

"I read an interview or something once

where Michael Jordan said when he played baseball, this one guy on the other team admired MJ so much he wanted his autograph for his kids and gave MJ hints about what pitch was coming next so he wouldn't strike out. Pretty cute."
"... Isn't that Space Jam?"
"Damn. You're right."

monday blues festival

 A simple cure:

knowing you'll get to see

your littlest pal tonight!

happiest of hours

Chilis!  We went on the one day they don't have a happy hour, but it was still worth it.  The glasses are giant and hilarious, the flavor, oddly delicious.

 they were out of coronita holders, and should look like this

which would be extra hilarious

JAN wins the lottery

on how she'll use her winnings as said to work people

"I said I'd write a novel and then buy a million copies of it and make it as bestseller.  Then I'd buy a subaru.  Oddly, the subaru got the bigger laughs!"

Dodged a bullet

There are some kid dreams that I'm glad didn't come true.
 
   Like starting a stamp collection.







(It started and ended with this sheet)

beauty and the beast

It was a thing of beauty. Then i decided to give it a bath and forgot about it for over 24 hours, and now it is shriveled and on the brink of death. Very Whitney Houston-esque. I am the beast.

Movie review as typed into phone memo

We have a firm divide among friends about the movie John Wick.  While the movie poster is pretty B.A. I can confirm our first impression was blurry and cryptic:



Keanu water balloons put bull he Rt how could he let a disease kill disease kill his wife if he's so tough?

exactly.  he shoulda shot that disease right in the face.

Bam & Bab

i matters.

This is the Valentine I made for my coworker who

 no longer sits across the hall from me.

And then this happened:

I exploded my eye. Making too many crazy-eyes and laughing at myself. I think it was worth it... I look like I should be a villain in a batman movie. 

v day? i think that's when the Nazi's gave up.

Do yourself a favor - go back in time to Saturday evening and get a large pho #5 to go (save for later), then head to the cheap theater and watch the best valentine's day movie ever (Interstellar), then come home late that night hyped up on the possibilities of space and love transcending the 5th dimension, and slurp your soup while musing over your favorite moments during the last 5 years of lovin on eachother. I promise, you won't regret it.

Love to some is like a cloud. - Johnny Denver

Denver's forecast:

Love is on the horizon

stomping on the grounds

BAB and JAN were back in rare form tonight at the Rio, where we reminisced about drinking 3 margs and what that does to a person. We were saddened when no waiter knew our faces, as if we didn't show up every hot day of the summer between 2007-2009 for the free air conditioning! Then we remembered how long ago that was. Plus, we're hangin' with a new groupie these days. One should expect to be forgotten.

Let's talk about the elephant in the room.

It's me.  

JAN's mom makes chocolate santa statues filled with pecans.  Because it's so delicious, you take a bite and then another and another until it's gone in 3 days, but you seem to remember it weighing about a pound?

  Same thing happened last year with Easter bunnies.  yeesh.

blondie

Most days I wish I could go back to being a blonde, mostly because of how much my parents hated it. But then I remember how my scalp was being slightly chemically burned, and I'm no scientist, but I think you can only chop the tail off a lizard so many times before it stops regenerating, know what I'm sayin? I don't want to be an old lady brushing her tail-less lizard.

giselle and tom

I think sometimes they sit at home on the couch and say to eachother,
"You're so pretty."
"You're so pretty."
for hours and hours.

The Great Depression is genetic

Bab says I would have made a great Depression era survivor. And I bet she would have let her family starve on ill-seasoned meat.

Ken says "Happy Friday!"

Anxiety

Hearing the leaves fall off in the middle of the night.

Knocking off a leaf every time you walk by or try to water it.

the view

My window view just looks into the hallway, so I use the ledge for my work-treasures. It changes, but right now I'm looking at (from left to right):
- a card I made for TJ and forgot to finish
- the rubber band ball I've been working on since I started this job 2.5 years ago
- a buckeye I found in the park on a walk. I usually find one randomly, once a year. They always feel special to me, reminds me of the people I loved who once lived in Ohio

not quite dali

A llama for you 

on a Tuesday.