Showing posts with label critters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label critters. Show all posts

6.02.2010

go shorty, it's your birthday

yup, we were up in da club for baby cee's first birthday. ok fine, so it was at a lounge. close enough. and yeah, wan already blogged this in a much more timely manner.

as we stepped in, the first thing we noticed was the cute decor that had just enough whimsy so it was still very tasteful.


(i might have contributed the chesire cat cut-out.)






(mad hatter's hair was...challenging...to cut out of foam core)


a very late rabbit in front of a cute display of lots of baby cee photos.


i was disappointed how small i had to make the cut-outs in the end, but at least they were about the the right height for the young 'uns there.


and finally, a wall of patron.

the bear and i were a little early, so we watched/helped winnie set up the photobooth.

this was the original setup, in some nice open shade.
too bad it was SO windy that day--windy enough to pick up and rip the backdrop.


so we moved it in here.
i promise the photos actually taken in the photobooth are probably much better.

it was a nice party. a good mix of adults and kids, chinese food for lunch, cupcakes and madeleines for dessert, laid back, and with good company.


kids lounged and played.


some drank.


i ate pocky.


people posed.


birthday girl had her cake and ate it too.


some (wan's bean) lolled about on the ground while using an iphone.


some (the bear) sat about while using an iphone.


happy birthday, baby cee!
and congrats to lilcee and mr. cee for making it through the first year. ;)

5.30.2010

iphone dump

yep, it's that time again! but this time, it's been over a year since my last iphone dump. here's the past year according to my iphone.


about half the adhesives i have at school.


oxymoron.
(sorry, vegetarians! while i'm not a huge meat-eater and love me a garden or black bean burger once in awhile, i'm not a fan of meat substitutes when there really is no subsitute.)


you might want to return that ill-fitting hat.


yep, that he does.
(spotted while shopping for a 1 year old's birthday. i'm a nerd that always gives books.)


when it was our studio's turn to throw the weekly happy hour.
yes, you see PBR, tecate, mgd, miller lite, and even steel reserve.
we're klassy, obvs.


JC trapped by the adorable puppy.


jason mraz at the hollywood bowl.
the bear and i enjoyed the garden box very much.
probably mostly because of the chairs and food we brought.


ziggy the best labradoodle.


love the shadow on the juror's shirt.


my mexican wrestler banana.


an oh-nay-zee (onesie for the rest of you) that the bear and i "designed" for our angels fans parents-to-be friends.
please ignore the off-centeredness.


even dear old blue the long-haired dachsund found structures class to be boring.


thanksgiving pie shuffle at school.
school bought 500+ pies for every student, faculty, and staff member.
you could keep your pie or donate it to charity.


more pie shuffle pie.


building a bridge out of spaghetti.
yes, there are some limp noodles on the ground as well.
since we're mature grad students, we flung said wet noodles at each other while building the bridge.


part of my scaled figure army.


the night the bear and i found out that china is the world's largest beer producer. because budweiser has breweries there. don't worry. we didn't drink budweiser at father's office.
i wanted to try the "unibroue terrible" just for its name, but they were out.


two snuffly bulldogs at a friend's birthday bbq.


just chillin' in a hallway at school.
this is pair of random panties in a public place #2 i have encountered.
ick.


saw some of neutra's amazing drawings and forward-thinking work at the central library.


drank quite a few of urth caffe's green tea lattes.
although most were out of paper cups back at my desk.


this asian "tour group" was taking pictures of us WHILE we were in a crit. HUH?
we were puzzled. and felt like zoo animals.


so i took a picture of a guy taking a picture of us.


a city of the future, powered by potatoes.


library carrels transformed for the exhibit that the above potato stuff was in.
yep, life-size cut-outs of each of the architects' whose work was featured.


beautiful arrangement of california poppies my stepdad's boss brought him.
who woulda thunk those bendy, scraggly things often seen from the freeway could be so pretty?


one of the bear's work vendors gave him a $20 visa gift card.
so of course we went on a shopping spree at harbor freight.
no, we didnt' buy the huge wrench although i was tempted to buy it as wall decor.
we did, however, score two bagfuls of stuff with just $20.
the loot included 500 pairs of earplugs, a level, calipers, a telescoping magnet, and i can't even remember what else.


a lovely spot of tea (and ranunculus. and water. and maybe a warm goat cheese salad. oh and maybe a bacon and maple biscuit.) at huckleberry.

12.21.2009

a couple holidays behind

remember the welcome pauses i mentioned way back when? as promised, here's the pumpkin-carving party i went to.


red + soxfan first sketched.


others [gramps] just dug right in.


heads down, carve away.


kydrich and me working on ours--we named it "fatty batty."
although he didn't turn out quite as cutely plump as we hoped.


fatty batty again.


red and her single, snaggle-toothed creation.


cannibalistic pumpkin.


gramps and his really ugly pumpkin.


we were on the eastside,
so some killer pumpkins got their appropriate teardrop tats.


thug life.


even scarier when lit.


nightmare before christmas-like.


half of us.


the other half of us.


pumpkin heads!

the end.