my 17 year-old self is totally crushing...
i may have to fight the crowds at summerfest
to catch these hipster hotties in person
hold my gun & watch the door
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Sunday, June 19, 2011
#weddinginjune
sorry ross, rachel & co. but i have the coolest friends.
it's been a week since megan and sundeep got hitched... twice... in one day. and i'm still floating from all the love and joy that radiated from everyone. the celebration last saturday has been 10 years in the making and it was worth every minute of the countdown. dubbed, #weddinginjune from tech savvy sundeep, guests and the wedding party were encouraged to tweet/facebook/blog during the ceremonies. the dichotomy between simultaneous ancient indian rituals and iphones was astonishing (but seemed strangely appropriate during mass). i don't have a tweet machine yet, so i took as many pictures as possible. the day was simply unreal. (also, long and required a mid-day rockford bar stop and nap) but mostly unreal and incredibly powerful. i was so proud of all my friends and so honored to be a part it.
ya know, just riding in on a white horse
and a dance party in the parking lot
...the usus.
breathtaking
walk around the fire aaaand...
...hindu married!
i was totally at the cool kids table
we ate good food then there was lots of this..
she hit the floor
call on meeeeeeeeee
next up:
#weddinginoctober
Monday, June 13, 2011
swiss family robinson
dear june,
you're shaping up to be pretty awesome. promotions, sunshine, weddings, road trips, playing house and long-awaited reunions. it's always a treat when i get to spend time with the family robinson. the generosity, the compassion and the zest for life that oozes out of this one family will astound you. not to mention i have laughed (& drank) more in the last 3 days than i have in the last 3 months.
with siblings like these, what could go wrong?
typical.
ugh. seriously! ... my abs hurt!
is this what it feels like when people do sit ups?
my other set of parents
we snuck her into bars when she was 14
and we did it again 5 years later
father robinson: don't you sometimes feel that this is the kind of life we were meant to live on this earth? everything we need, everything right here, right at our fingertips. you know, if only people could have all this and be satisfied, i don't know there'd be any real problems in the world
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
june hymn
here's a hymn to welcome in the day
hearolding the summer's early sway
all the bulbs all coming in
to begin
the thrushes bleating battle with the wrens
disrupts my reverie again
pegging clothing on the line
training jasmine how to vine
up the arbor to your door
and more
you're standing on the landing with the war
you shouldered all the night before
and once upon it
the yellow bonnets
garland all the lawn
and you were waking
and day was breaking
a panoply of song
and summer comes to springville hill
a barony of ivy in the trees
expanding out it's empire by degrees
all the branches burst to bloom
in the boom
heaven sent this cardinal maroon
to decorate our living room
and once upon it
the yellow bonnets
garland all the lawn
and you were waking
and day was breaking
a panoply of song
and summer comes to springville hill
and years from now when this old light
isn't ambling anymore
will i bring myself to write
'i give my heart to springville hill'
and once upon it
the yellow bonnets
garland all the lawn
and you were waking
and day was breaking
a panoply of song
and summer comes to springville hill
~colin meloy
Friday, May 27, 2011
the black keys
UGH! it's bon iver all over again!
how have i NOT jumped on this train?!?
how did this great band slip through the cracks?!?
excuse me while i rock out all memorial day weekend.
must put this video on repeat!
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
rummage-a-rama
helping my brother clean out his basement has its perks.
it was like my own personal free rummage sale.
the bargaining went something like this:
me: can i have this?
erik: yes.
snagged some pretty sweet pieces.
i tried not to get too ahead of myself before i got to work.
so here's a pic right after i took the drawers out
almond
with oregano drawers
and a new tv brought to you by my federal refund check
(not my bro's basement)
the old tv fell on me... but that's a story for another day
Sunday, May 22, 2011
here comes the sun
"raarrrrmeowraarrrrrrr"
aka
"it's about f-ing time we have temps in the 70's"
happy spring milwaukee! after the entire month of april being caught in a limbo of frost advisories and sunny skies, it's finally here! this weekend was beautiful! i spent yesterday volunteering at GROWING POWER and today was the first day of 2011 that it got above 75 degrees! i spent the day running errands to our coop and home depot with the windows down, enjoying the sunshine and most importantly... making happy birthday phone calls to a (newly relocated!) very good friend. also, my dad got a chance to set up the rain barrel we got my mom for her birthday last august. i snagged the barrel from lakefront brewery for $5! it used to house brown rice maltose and will now house rain water to be used for the backyard gardens... raspberries, strawberries, blackberries, tomatoes, rhubarb, and lots and lots of pretty flowers!
hurray for rain barrel installation!
and hurray for multi colored tomato cages!
today was also a good day to bring my worms up from the basement. i added some table scraps from a fruit salad i made, stirred 'em up and added some more friends. and yes, that is a frozen strawberry lemonade on the table ...from mcdonalds. don't judge... it's delicious.
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