the last....week or so

I've been out and about lately. here's some pics, I'm too tired to use words.

barhopping with Spencer in Bend!


can you tell we're related?

Ween in Bend!


Auna Chris and Cori at Ween show in Bend!


Cori and Spencer at Ween show in Bend!


Raven and Jakes baby Liam in Portland!



Pulpshopgirl and Liam!

movin' and shakin'

one suv, one jetta, and one fully loaded truck. most of my possessions are now piled in a corner of Pulpshopgirl's garage, in good ol' PDX. It makes me feel like I don't really have that much stuff, when it all fits in a corner of a garage. but I am deluding myself. It is a HUGE garage.

here's Pulpshopgirls loaded truck, and Mt. Rainier


I packed my jetta so very full. this is my vacuum roped in between my seats.



after unloading everything we met up with everyone in the bar across the street from the hospital, hanging out waiting for raven to have her baby!

here's the soon to be grandparents


and some of the hot girls at the bar

packing

I'm packing up. packing for camping, packing for moving. packing heat, yo. My mom and sis are coming up tomorrow. I think they are going to save me. I am very very overwhelmed today with all this packing. thank jebus, help is on the way! and Pulpshopgirl is coming up on thursday with her giant truck. we're moving all my stuff into her garage in her new house in Ptown. the stuff that i am not packing in my car. so we've got a caravan of my mom and sis in an SUV, me and my Jetta, and Pulpshopgirl in a big ol' F250. if there is anything left that we can't fit in those vehicles I can send it down with Big D on his way to Eugene in his Dodge Sprinter. I am a lucky lucky gal to have such wonderful supportive helpful people in my life. I am eternally grateful. moving sucks, but help makes it suck much less than it could.
and you know what really sucks? packing tape. cheap crappy packing tape.

hemp waffles and soy sausage

thats what I had for breakfast this morning. with organic maple syrup.

last night I went over to Huck's for her birthday dinner. I got to hang out with her adorable nephews again. Some kids are just so dang cute they make me want kids. here is Owen wearing Huck's new leg warmers.


I have taught Rosie to tow me on my skateboard! I'm very excited. I've been meaning to try it for awhile and she caught on really fast! She runs next to me more than she really tows me. and sometimes we get going a little too fast when she does start pulling. Here she is running along.


we're skate punks now. only we're gonna spell it SK8 PUNX!

shopping day

today I did a lot of day off type things, like dishes and laundry. and I was abducted by khya and taken downtown to go shopping. Khya got some fabulous jeans at the Levi's store. I was witness to a jeans miracle. Not only do they fit perfect, but they make her butt look great. and AND they were on sale. (that double and AND is totally intentional)



we also went to Anthropologie. we tried on a ridiculous amount of clothes. I ended up leaving with a whole new outfit. lucky for me i had some tip money to blow! I got an awesome tank top (khya got one too, they're just so cute we each had to have one) and I got a really cute skirt. It's a wrap around style.....i wanted a poofy skirt and this fit the bill. I didn't realize until after I got it home that its a size 0. that is way way smaller than i usually wear. But it works with the whole wrap around thing. and I don't think I would like this skirt if it actually fit me how its supposed to. because i like it short.
Khya and jen and I drank some wine this evening, and khya and i did a wee fashion shoot of my new outfit on my porch.

this is my fashion shoot pose



and this is my paris hilton pose (cause I'm drunk and look skanky)



and this is a my arms almost look scary buff pose



I also went grocery shopping today....at a truly amazing grocery store in shoreline called Central Market. it seems that when you're leaving you always find the best things. or maybe theyr'e just the best things because you know yor'e leaving. but this was truly a fabulous grocery store. it was like PC market mixed with Sunshine market and everything you could ever want. the best and biggest organic produce selection and organic bulk foods....... *sigh* I stocked up. and prices were the best I've seen in seattle. It was amazing.

things i like, things i will miss

Today was my last day at the camera shop. It was a good day, but really sad to leave. I reallly really like the people there. sometimes the job was aggravating, the machines all turned against me more than once, but it was for the most part an easy laid back job. with great discounts. basically I sat in the back in cut off jeans printing pictures, listening to the radio (kexp or npr) and talking on my cell phone. I also had fabulous co-workers. really really great people. and I like the voyeuristic-tasticness of printing other peoples pictures. today I printed some other peoples pictures of things that made me happy:
1. a dog licking an ice cream cone
2. a ferret sleeping in a ferret bed in a drawer
3. a pregnant bride
4. the pregnant bride and her bridesmaids all wearing large dark sunglasses
5. Mt. Rushmore
tomorrow is day 17 in a row of working. i think that beats my recent record........... I am really looking forward to monday off!
Andie mentioned that the new issue of knitty is out, I have to call attention to this amazing Sock Monkey Hat. OMG.

born in the USA

for the 4th of july Big D and I biked to Wallingford to hang out with some peeps, and watch the fireworks from the middle of the street. It was a great.

it's too early

somehow my clock got set an hour ahead, so instead of getting up at 4:45 I actually got up at 3:45. I didn't realize it until after i showered and dressed and went into my kitchen where the clock said 4:15, and my phone said 4:15 and my computer said 4:15. so here I am.
anyway, i've got some fun new toys! my dad helped me buy a Pentax *ist DL for my birthday. (It's jsut a little early) It's pretty fancy for me. I've never had an SLR with autofocus. I'm still getting used to the whole contraption.
look, it's Rosie!


here is anatomist and I on our way to REI


this is my paparazzi pic of Big Daddy and anatomist, look! they shop! they're just like us!



I scored at the REI sale. I got an awesome tent and it was really cheap. I also got a few other camping necesseties, a good little stove and a camping french press! of course I came home and set up my tent immediately.




ok, it's almost time to actually go to work. i'm a little delirious this morning.

a whole new dog

rosie is now ok around kids. better than ok even! she's awesome. i took her to my friend Sharon's nephew Ethan's 4th birthday party. there was a puppy there and Rosie played very nicely with the puppy, but even more remarkable was that she played very nicely with the human babies. I'm talking little toddler babies. the kind that walk up to dogs and whack them in the face as a petting tactic.
this is Rosie hanging out with Ethans little brother, Owen. he's the one that walked right up to her and whacked her in the face.