pictures! proof i didn't make my sister up!

due to popular demand, i have located the cd my dad sent me of all the pictures of our family vacation to san francisco earlier this year which - yes - has pictures of me and my sister IN THE SAME FRAME! which may not dispel any notions of us being twins, but at least i can prove we're two different people. :-)

and look, we're entirely different-sized people:

i know, i know, i'm all slouchy and why am i sticking my leg out like that in both pictures? look, i don't know how tall you folks all are, but i seem to hang out with abnormally short people a lot. and at 5'8" i'm no amazon... unless i'm standing next to a bunch of people who are 5'1". so after looking like some sort of estranged giraffe in a couple too many photos, i started getting a little slouchier and tipping my head down towards the other people to minimize the difference. also i get yelled at by my short friends when i make them look like midgets in our photos togehter.

anyway. moving on. i have a penchant for forcing people to be involved in dumb photo ops. i think it's funny, and i think bizarre photos are more fun to look back on than the same 4 people smiling the same smile in front of different landmarks.

apparently i get this from my mom. this is a shot where she requested my sister and i pretend to use this random antique grain grinder thingy:

this next set are my doing, though. so, there's this nifty tower in sfo (airline-ese again! hi! dork! sfo = san francisco) called Coit Tower, which is shaped like a "fire hose nozzle" because, apparently, there was this chick Lillie Coit who was obsessed with the local firemen's.. uh.. nozzles. so she erected a tower shaped just like a ... nozzle.. to honor the firemen. (it's affectionately referred to as "the largest erection ever achieved by a woman.") anyway. inside the tower are all these neat depression-era WPA murals painted on all the walls. they were pretty cool, and a lot of them were lifesized... so naturally i made my sister start interacting with the mural-folk while i took pictures. i can't BELIEVE i got my mom and dad to do it too...

you can click on these and they get bigger! oh-so-blog savvy, am i...

so. there you have it! a. my sister and i are independent entities, although possibly identical, and b. my family is pleasantly insane. cheers! :-)

you know what makes a fairly mundane, relatively crappy thursday better? TWO POUNDS OF CHOCOLATE, that's what!! i was sitting at my desk yesterday when i received a package. to recap for those who may not know, my job consists of mind-numblingly financial crappiness which a french major should never, ever, have thought was a good idea, even if it was the only way to make rent. but i digress. there's been this nasty internal audit for the last 879,000 weeks here, and as a financial grunt worker, i've been required to locate and produce all sorts of tedious documents for people who need the approximately six hundred and forty-teen pieces of paper needed to fill the dreaded Audit Binder. so, i get this fedex box, and i assume someone has mistakenly mailed an actual audit binder to me for some reason. i open it up.. and it's not a binder... it's an ENORMOUS, beautiful, solid hunk o' chocolate, from one of the VPs i provided loads of stuff to for the audit. look. it's a thing of beauty, i tell you.

i took that picture to send to the boyfriend, to share my awe, then realized there was no scale to the picture. so i took these. you may notice some of the keyboard has already been consumed.

AND, i won a coke with that bottle cap. not a bad thursday, all things considered :-)