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saturday, august 23rd, 2008 :: 23:59
We spent our day with the beautiful Dawn, helping her paint a Dr. Seuss mural in her nursery-to-be. It came out super cute! She picked a great design. Danny helped pick the colors - he suggested the green letters (they match the green trim in the room, and the walls are a greenish-white). I taped up a ton of newsprint paper and sketched it all out before we went to the art store for paints and graphite paper. Once it was transferred, Dawn and I painted it all in, and I did the outline work. When we were all finished, we went out for dinner in Old Town Alexandria at Austin Grill. We got ice cream cones for dessert (sorbet for me) and wandered a bit. We had to get home though... The puppies had been home alone too long and had to pee!
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monday, august 18th, 2008 :: 14:21
Yesterday we slept in (~10:30 am) before getting up and dressed to head out to Nissan Pavillion for the Mayham Music Festival. Normally I'm to one to say yes to all-day festivals. Danny gets tickets all year for shows, and I always have first dibs on one. I skip the festivals because it is just too drawn out for me. But, this time I *had* to go... Disturbed was one of the headliners! We headed out at around 12:30 pm once Ivan got to our house. We met Tony in the parking lot and pretended like we weren't tail-gating for an hour or two (you aren't supposed to, but everyone does anyway.) There was a crazy long line to get in! Lots of Hot Topic kiddies (Hot Topic was one of the main sponsors, so I guess they were in the right place!) We had been hoping to see Black Tide - one of the first bands to go on, but it seemed like they skipped them. All of the band afterwards were slightly early as a result. Hmm. There wasn't anyone else we were interested in on the side stages, so we got a spot of the lawn of the main stage as soon as it was opened. The first band on the main stage was Mastadon. Their drums are riffs are pretty sick. I had been looking forward to hearing them just to be impressed. Dragonforce was after them. They played well - fast - but, their songs went on forever and weren't my taste. I think this concert/festival takes the record for the most people to come up and ask me about my hair. Seriously. Anyway, at around 8:30 pm the Disturbed set started. It was so kick ass! They sounded great and played a good mix of older songs and stuff off their newest album. At one point, David Draiman (the lead singer) stopped the show to announce that a little 9-year-old girl in the pit was the cutest thing he'd ever seen. He had her brought up on stage and told everyone she had been singing a long to every song. He was super sweet to her and told her to cover her ears when he said "the bad words". He let her watch the rest of the show from the side stage. The whole set was great and I was rocking out the whole time. Many devil horns were thrown and many fists were in the air. He had thousands of people yelling "Fuck!" in unison (cover your ears, little girl! yes, i like angry music.) The final band was Slip Knot, who I don't care about. We happily left early to avoid the traffic.
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wednesday, august 13th, 2008 :: 12:22
After reading an article and doing some self-reflection, I am curious as to whether people think differences in libido are mostly a male/female thing or a personality/individual thing. Myself, I fall into what could be considered stereotypical for a woman - if I don't get hugs, kisses and physical affection outside of the bedroom, I'm not going to be that inspired in it. I assume the "male" stereotype is that you think about sex and are ready to go. I dislike stereotypes, but this is one I fit into. Another is my astrological sign. It's hard to imagine everyone born in the same month having the same personality, but I very much fit the description of a Cancer. What do you think of gender/libido stereotypes? Is there truth to them? It does seem like there needs to be enough truth for a stereotype to come into being... Sorry for any spelling errors - I'm not on a computer. Sent from my iPod |
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wednesday, july 30th, 2008 :: 12:58
1. China, 2. China & Benny, 3. Enjoying the Backyard, 4. Enjoying the Backyard, 5. China, 6. China & Benny Yesterday evening, the puppies and I braved the swampy heat to have a little mini-photo shoot outside. It was so hot that Benny's tongue was a mile long in every picture. I've started redoing my braids... Maybe *I* need to think about a photo shoot... More later! |
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monday, july 21st, 2008 :: 13:30
Yey! The party was fun! There was a good turn-out. I was happily surprised to see a lot of my coworkers, in addition to Dawn & Tony making it after just arriving home from the beach. The only thing that went wrong was that our Xbox officially took it's last breath and went into permanent RRoD. So, no Rock Band. Dan got a 2 year warranty from Best Buy when he got the Xbox (the receipt says 8/26/06). It looks like you have to go online and request a cardboard coffin for it. I'm not sure what that means for our content on the HD. They warranty says it doesn't cover lost data. Hrm. Danny apparently does not care to play Rock Band anymore, so I don't think he really is motivated to get it fixed. I love singing on the game and just bought a year of Xbox Live which is now useless. :/ Back to the party! So, there wasn't any Rock Band, which left the boys to mostly hang out and watch Danny's Lamb of God dvd. Us girls dominated the craft table. I had set up 8 paint-your-own bobble-head dogs and 6 color-your-own fuzzy velvet jewelry boxes. We ran out of everything! The photo booth was a hit, and it didn't fall down, so I was happy. I hung paper clips on the outside of the booth so everyone could display their pictures in a "gallery". We ended up filling all of the paper clips before the last guest left. A lot of the girls were wearing dresses so they couldn't play Twister, but we did have one good round (that I won!) I had to excuse myself from the party for a little while around midnight when I got a bad stomach ache. But, it got a lot better so that I was able to go downstairs to clean up and say goodbye to the last of the guests. I was so, so happy that Mel was able to fly out for the party! She was a huge help setting up and decorating the rainbow cupcakes. She was with us until Sunday night. I miss her already! I wish Johnathan had been able to come too. Click here for all the party pictures - including the photo booth shots! |
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