the first step is admitting it

i have a Problem. it's a Blogging Problem. see, i'll go and do something exciting - like, say, travel to europe - and then feel like i need a sweet! awesome! blog post! when i get back, complete with pictures and links to finished flickr galleries. and so i'll delay posting until i get my pictures in order, for example, except we all know me by now and HA HA organized? not so much. so then i keep not posting, because it seems silly to post about a weekend in boston before i've even talked about europe yet, and then things just keep piling up more and more until OH GOD IT'S BEEN A WEEK AND I STILL HAVEN'T FINISHED FLICKR AND I HARDLY EVEN REMEMBER EUROPE AAUUUUGH also no blogs.

so! here is a brief rundown of my life lately:


1. I Had a Birthday Party:

the wife got me that cake. it was made of unicorns and fairy wings, i think. what i'm trying to say is that it was DEELICIOUS.


2. My Friend Liz Got Engaged:

OK, technically this happened earlier, but I hadn't seen the rock yet. it was purdy. :-)

3. It Was My Mom's Birthday, Too!

that's my mom! she's wee. the wife wrote about this too (and in a more timely fashion), but my mom's bday party for all her little friends was at a neat art studio in Princeton, where you can make your own glass plates. you design 'em and stick colored glass on 'em however you like, then they fuse the plates for you and it's all very neat. here's the wife making hers:

4. My Dad Got Drunk:

ok, this really doesn't have to do with anything, except i'd never seen him smashed before, and it was hilarious. note: he does not actually smoke.

5. It Was My Real Birthday! In Germany!

this is Christina and I at a bar in Frankfurt, celebrating my official Day Of Birth. She brought an adorable little cake candle which i held over my beer before blowing it out.

6. Oh Right, Also That Whole Europe Thing!as you may know, europe is pretty doggone awesome. this is the main square in a teeny little town called Rothenburg ob ter Tauber, which still has its entire wall from ye olde medieval days, and all the houses look like these ones here, and it's basically the most picturesque town i've ever seen. it's also a huge tourist trap, but i avoided the really obnoxious crowds by going in October when it was already sort of chilly. go me!

so far i have exactly one flickr album set up, and it's of my first few days in germany, including rothenburg up there. in case you have some time on your hands and stuff, it's here.

7. Then I Went To Boston: i went up with karl, approximately .0054 minutes after getting back from europe, so i was maybe a little jetlagged. it was really fun though, i got to meet a bunch of his grad school friends, and also accidentally put my head through the front window of his friends' house, which was less awesome. i was trying to close a window early sunday morning when we woke up to catch a flight, except that instead of the window closing, as typically happens when you push down on the bottom ledge, the entire window swung out of the casing and smashed straight down over my skull. it was loud. there was a lot of glass. and embarassement, mostly on my part. because there's nothing like meeting people for the first time and then flamboyantly breaking their house, you know? at least they'll remember me. eek.

so, anyway! i'll try to get more pictures up this weekend, but i have yet another full plate coming up with out of town visitors and halloween parties aplenty. what are you all dressing up as? this year i didn't put any thought into my costume until about, oh, yesterday.... so i'm being a snow bunny. as in, i'm dressing up like a preppy ski-logde gal, and adding bunny ears and a tail. HEY IT'S A COSTUME. ISH. SHUT IT.