Friday Night, 1:30am.

34 police cars
with lights and sirens blazing
just drove by my home.

hope no one is dead.
i'm sure at least one is gone.
life in the east bay.

its supposed to rain.
no sun, no trips, and no fun
all freakin weekend.

homework by moonlight.
not sexy and not awesome.
i fear the future.

3EB and Butch
sing their songs in the darkness
wish i could be there.

But Its Better If You Do

I have had exactly 0.5 seconds to do anything crafty. But I've been doing school work like crazy and they're pretty craft-intensive, even if they're lame. So here's a site model and a shading for color rendering.

I'm very proud of the shading. Its the first I've ever really done and we weren't allowed to draw outlines for anything, so I think it did pretty well.

Its been raining like crazy and I got to wear rain boots today. I also am not working another day until March. Sucko.

Also, the love of my life got me a WiiFit and two books. Which is sufficient re-payment for making me read Angels & Demons.

Oh and one more thing: I want to get married here. The barn is awesome and they have a tent on-site. Also, the gardens are effing SWEET.

a dead tree covered in christmas ornaments >*


I love it. We can't afford it. Or anything. Patience. I'm trying to remember what MUNI taught me about patience.

Time To Dance!

Look!!


Rumor has it that it tastes like sweet tea, not like vodka with a little bit of sweet tea flavor. Shots go down smooth and its more dangerous to Southerners than Long Island Iced Tea. If we end up doing signature drinks instead of an open bar I want grown up Arnold Palmers!

Also, I've been obsessed with this song for too long. Don't get the rest of the album. It all sounds the same, but not as awesome.

Lights Out

Its been a strange day in the land of Me. We were up until 4 because my Love works the door at a club and he got off late. My cat, who was the picture of love earlier in the night:

Turned into the devil incarnate:
Those teeth dug into my wrist starting at 4:30 and he would not shut the hell up. I gave him food, he had water, I got out more toys for him. At 6 I had to get up and sleep on the couch so Love could get some sleep. Finally, a real benefit of not working: I can take one for the team without being grumpy and resentful.

My rainy, sleepy, annoying day turned out pretty well. Check out the afternoon sun and eventual sunset:


This one was taken in "sunset mode".

This one was no setting.

This was with the "Cloudy" light setting.

None of them are totally accurate. Its annoying, and I'm not sure how or if I can fix it. Its the same kind of frustration I have when they say something on TV is pink but it looks red or orange. They're professionals and they can't get it right, how am I supposed to do it?

Pour Some Sugar On Me

I just found THE bakery. They will be doing every cake I ever need or want for every occasion that could possibly need a cake. Birthdays, Weddings, Holidays, Sundays, EVERYTHING. They are exquisite. (and start at $600.)




I Dream of Cake

Happy Endings

Well, I'm officially jobless. It was only a matter of time, and I'm supposed to be re-hired in March or April, but in the meantime I'm trying to relax and enjoy having the time to do all the things I always said I'd do if I didn't have to work. So far I have gone to the gym a couple times and watched a lot of Ellen reruns. Not what i had in mind.

I wish we had a budget and date set for our wedding, but we don't, so I can't really work on anything for that. We were discussing options and I thought the San Francisco Zoo might be cool. I mean, it has a freakin' carousel for crying out loud!!


But my love says it will smell like the elephants and it is not romantic. Even after pointing out that the fees were a small fraction of all other locations he was not having any of it. He picked out this place:

It is exactly what I pictured before I started looking into fees. $7,000 for a Saturday wedding for up to 150 people. If we have a Northern California wedding we're looking at a guest list of about 200 people.

If we end up with a large budget for this thing (which i have wishy-washy opinions on) I believe we're going to end up at Disneyland. I KNOW, I know. I hated the idea at first. Now, I'm a little bit (ok, totally) sold. Please keep in mind that we got engaged in front of the castle in December.

We could get married in front of the castle. the CASTLE people (person?)!


Realistically, we're not getting married at the castle. No matter what. You have to wait until the park closes and then they need time to set everything up. On Saturdays the park doesn't close until midnight. 10 on an off day. And I am not going to pay off the park to close early. I'd rather elope. So more likely we're looking at the gazebo at the Disneyland Hotel.



Please ignore the flowers and massive wedding party. as our flowers will be better and our wedding part smaller. I don't even think I know that many girls...

And look what I would ride in!

The guys in the little outfits like in Cinderella crack me up. Then the reception we'd want to have in the Disney Animation Attraction since my Love is an artist and its his favorite location. In case you've never been, its a huge hall with screens of all different sizes and they play screens from different movies with music. Its way cooler than I make it sound.


I would also do rounds. I'm a little confused about how long tables at weddings really work.

There would be an Electrical Parade rehersal dinner ( my favorite party of Disney) and a Mad Hatter Tea Party brunch (my favorite Disney movie).

Its perfect in its cheesy, we're only gonna do this once kind of way. I also think it would be awesome to have a picture of us and our friends and family on the Tower of Terror in wedding clothes.

To top it all off, a Southern California wedding means that we could get the extraordinary Max Wanger without having to ship him up to us!