I really have to stop doing this. I just can’t bring myself to spend much time blogging lately because there is so much to do outside of the computer. Swimming! Parties! A two-year-old who won’t stop yelling at me! My days are full.
Anyway here’s some pictures of stuff. That I did. Uh, recently.
I turned 31. My mom threw me a party and my little bro Karsen cooked up some VERY tasty grub. It was great! My mom decorated and blew up balloons and made me wear a “Birthday Princess” hat that Zoey was soooooooo jealous of. I find it amazing that I have lived 31 years and only now have discovered that I have the ability to do this:
I knew I should have gone to Clown College. If only they didn’t scare the holy hell out of me.
Zoey looks… smug. This look makes me very worried.
Dude is CRAZY.
Okay, this is my cousin’s boyfriend. I took this picture and when I looked at it I offered to take another one because… uh, it wasn’t like we fed him some acid and set something on fire or anything. She assured me that “This is the face he makes in every picture. That is just his face.” I love it!
Aaaaaaand this is my husband’s face. But this one is special, just for the hat.
Some sort of Australian cake-thing my mom made. Very creative, that one!
Later in the week we saw Chris Isaak at Harrah’s Voodoo Lounge. WOW that was a great show! I had no idea he would be so funny! He did a lot of joking with the audience and even went out in the crowd. I think that is what this is a picture of but honestly we couldn’t get a good picture of him, it was like trying to photograph the sun with a phone.
I think the devilishly handsome man in the Red Suit with Golden Flames up the arms and legs may have been a figment of my imagination. Or possibly a figure skater.
Then Sunday we saw Neko Case at the Uptown. She was wonderful and charming, the music was interesting, beautiful and polished. Unfortunately we couldn’t stay for the whole show because it was putting us to sleep. After Chris Isaak this show was SO MELLOW that it was kind of ruined for us. Damn you Chris Isaak and your glorious hips!
It really didn’t help that we had to sit through the whole opening act, Jason Lytle. Ugh. Their music was boring and after EVERY song they had a “self-indulgent segue” of some classical piano music the dude recorded of himself playing at his mom’s house. The piano music was fine. The constant flipping back and forth of musical genres completely ruined the pacing of the show and annoyed me. We would have enjoyed Neko’s show a LOT more if we would’ve gotten there really late and missed the whole first act!
That is all for now. Nothing else terribly noteworthy has been going on, just the regular day-to-day nonsense of a high energy preschooler and a two-year-old who is THE DEVIL. And teething, did I mention? Send me good wishes, and luck, and winning lottery tickets if you happen to have some extras.
