happy birthday to my mom. i took a photo of her brand spankin' new "senior id" card, and just you wait. you would never guess this woman is a so-called senior citizen. like, never in a million years. but now she can buy a t pass for $20 bucks that cost her $59 back (yesterday) when she was 64.
birthday gifts for my mom: 1) a new iphone 2) the return of her prodigal german granddaughter, who we're picking up tomorrow!!!
Friday, July 10, 2009
Monday, July 06, 2009
baltimore loves us
the baltimore sun's environmental blog, b'more green, loves milo in maine! yay, cause we love baltimore right back.
Sunday, July 05, 2009
hey...
has anyone else ever noticed that itunes genius likes to group bands with animal names together? like i'm listening to andrew bird, and i click on the genius thing and i get
grizzly bear
deerhunter
animal collective
fleet foxes
the dodos
deerhoof
bat for lashes
(that last one could refer to an animal or not)
weird.
grizzly bear
deerhunter
animal collective
fleet foxes
the dodos
deerhoof
bat for lashes
(that last one could refer to an animal or not)
weird.
life
a whole bunch of random images from my life this week, for you to either scroll past rapidly or contemplate thoughtfully, as you prefer.
billy mays died, but his commercials live on:
enoch borrowed a projector, and for one blissful evening m, boo, and i were able to roll a ginormous katamari ball around on the wall of his apartment, until boo fell sound asleep on enoch's bed:
i saw a pretty dragonfly on the window. this must've been when the sun finally came out:
i'd been dreaming for days of this scrumptious meal i was going to make for independence day. and then i made it. and it was scrumptious. veggie sushi (my dream involved making a spicy sauce out of vegenaise and sriracha to put inside the rolls, and...yum):
veggie sushi, five minutes later:
my other dream, the dessert dream, was inspired by delicious strawberry shortcakes i've eaten recently at emily's and holly's houses. my version consists of vegan scones topped with local strawberries cooked a little bit saucy, and a dollop of vegan whipped coconut cream on top. oh. my. god:
later we hiked up the hill to watch the fireworks on the eastern prom (and very briefly crashed a party at our friend lincoln's house). they were spectacular. ooooh:
ahhhhh:
billy mays died, but his commercials live on:
enoch borrowed a projector, and for one blissful evening m, boo, and i were able to roll a ginormous katamari ball around on the wall of his apartment, until boo fell sound asleep on enoch's bed:
i saw a pretty dragonfly on the window. this must've been when the sun finally came out:
i'd been dreaming for days of this scrumptious meal i was going to make for independence day. and then i made it. and it was scrumptious. veggie sushi (my dream involved making a spicy sauce out of vegenaise and sriracha to put inside the rolls, and...yum):
veggie sushi, five minutes later:
my other dream, the dessert dream, was inspired by delicious strawberry shortcakes i've eaten recently at emily's and holly's houses. my version consists of vegan scones topped with local strawberries cooked a little bit saucy, and a dollop of vegan whipped coconut cream on top. oh. my. god:
later we hiked up the hill to watch the fireworks on the eastern prom (and very briefly crashed a party at our friend lincoln's house). they were spectacular. ooooh:
ahhhhh:
Saturday, July 04, 2009
mädchen
in one week and one hour, we will be at a certain hotel in northern virginia, jumping around in excitement, waiting out the last ten minutes before we're allowed to grab our world traveler and hug her...
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
mumble
can i just interrupt your day to announce that by my count, i've watched sixty-one movies so far this year?* i am pretty impressed with myself, actually. last night m and i watched hannah takes the stairs, my second official experience with mumblecore (i have seen the puffy chair too). we were both pleasantly surprised by it, although there's not much in the way of a plot and you have to get comfortable just kind of hanging out with hipster 20-somethings for an hour or so, watching them eat, play the trumpet, draw pictures and get naked.
*should you care to, you can glance over at the right hand side of my blog for a complete list of the movies i've watched in 2009.
*should you care to, you can glance over at the right hand side of my blog for a complete list of the movies i've watched in 2009.
sweeties
my california sweeties, robot and pink, came to visit us for a few days this week. it was so wonderful to see them - they fit very comfortably into our routines around here, and they are funny, smart, sweet kids. on sunday robot dressed up like a zombie with boo and they played kickball in the pouring rain at zombie kickball IV:
two of pink's favorite things are dogs and rain, and we were able to provide her with plenty of both (lulu was here, too, with my mom and dad):
on monday we had some hot chocolate at arabica, and then pink and i took a long, wet walk in the rain together:
now we've sent them back to cambridge for a day of boston fun (boo went too), and then my dad will deliver them to their other grandmother in new jersey.
also, have you noticed that it's july? the month in which we get our girl back??! TEN days.
two of pink's favorite things are dogs and rain, and we were able to provide her with plenty of both (lulu was here, too, with my mom and dad):
on monday we had some hot chocolate at arabica, and then pink and i took a long, wet walk in the rain together:
now we've sent them back to cambridge for a day of boston fun (boo went too), and then my dad will deliver them to their other grandmother in new jersey.
also, have you noticed that it's july? the month in which we get our girl back??! TEN days.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
the official theme song of june, 2009
"drowning, everything is drowning
go ahead and take the town
the town is yours to take
oh, let the rain fall down
and wash this world away
oh let the sky be gray
cause if it's ever gonna get any better
it's gotta get worse for a day."
Sunday, June 28, 2009
old friends
i have so much to say about this weekend, which i spent mostly* in connecticut with my dearest, oldest friend holly. we had recently gotten back in touch with two close friends of ours from high school (thanks, facebook!), and we made plans for a mini-reunion at holly's house, which is more or less a central meeting point for the four of us (i had the farthest to drive, but i also have the oldest children among all of us, so i'm pretty free and flexible in comparison to everyone else). i was a little nervous about meeting my friends karen and jen again after so much time (approximately - ahem - twenty years had passed since we last saw each other) - wondering if we'd have anything in common anymore, anything to talk about, even. it was a kind of magical surprise to see them, looking simultaneously exactly like themselves and also like beautiful, grownup ladies, and to realize as we hugged each other hard, with true feeling, and my friend jen even burst into tears, that we love each other, truly. that we share a history together, from a particular, strange time in our lives, and just how meaningful that really is, even after all this time.
we ate and talked and shared pictures of kids and siblings and we each summed up the last twenty years, and about six or seven hours flew by. it was quite amazing.
also, holly gave me a hair cut (seen above). i'm such a doofus that i didn't take any pictures except of my own head, in holly's lovely bathroom mirror. also, i got some cute kids to model those glasses for me. oh yeah, and here's a spectacular tree house that holly's husband val built in their back yard:
*on sunday, i raced back to portland to experience some zombie kickball in the rain.
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