Okay, it's not really an album review at all. Heh. I got my fancy schmancy boxset in the mail yesterday, and today I headed over to the L.A. County Arboretum. It's only $5 for students (or people who aren't students anymore, but are still poor and in possession of their old student I.D.), and about ten miles from my house. I thought, I want to make ( Read more... )

So... there was some thunder and lightening, which just does NOT happen here much. And I knew it was gonna start pouring soon, 'cause that's what happens. It starts raining and then it REALLY starts raining. Then I look out and it's not just rain. It's tiny pebbles of ice! Woooo. That happens even less frequently here. So my entire family ended up ( Read more... )

Dave and I were semi-crazy and decided to go up to Sacramento yesterday to protest Prop 8 at the state capitol building. It was something like a 6 hour drive each way. For those of you not in this state/country, LA is kinda at the bottom, and Sacramento is kinda near the top. It's a tall state. Heh. I'd never been to Sacramento before, so I crammed ( Read more... )

So... I'm nearly dead to the world. I got up at 8 to drive to Dave's in downtown L.A., met with him and walked to the L.A. City Hall. Met Court and Pam there and OMG it was so hot. I'd say... 90 something? Lots of people there, lots of speeches. Mayor Villaragosa spoke, and Ricki Lake, and Lucy Lawless, and that guy from Little Britain and lots ( Read more... )

I was kind of just going to ignore this, but then three people tagged me (needleandspoon, pop_daisy, and stateless) and I had a half hour to kill before lunch, so why not? These took me way too long to come up with and really aren't that interesting. It's this meme:

a. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself ( Read more... )

Ken and I got pumpkins today and carved them so she could take pics for photo class. I'm so pathetically unartistic, so mine is rather old school and uncreative, but I thought I'd share anyway. Y'all should reply with pics of your pumpkins if you have them! Two tiny pictures of my pumpkin under the cut (even you could load them easily, Barb!). We ( ( Read more... )

Okay, so I was super lazy and a big old procrastinator and never uploaded my Family Reunion pics. So now I've got like 17 of those PLUS 7 more that I took on a wee trip up the coast that my mom and I took over the last couple nights. The Reunion was from August 3rd to 11th, and we were in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Northwest Wisconsin and the Upper ( Read more... )

Last one, I swear. I know I said I'd do this days ago, but I'm lazy. So I've got about eleven pictures left and I finally managed to get a video together of the trip. It's choppy, dizzying, ADD, and random in places, but if you're interested, it's under the cut. Nothing fancy with the editing, since cutting out unessential shit and getting ( Read more... )

Okay, so I meant to do this a couple days ago, but I got a killer headache after that last post and have been super busy since. So here's part two of my photos. I think there are like 19? This post is going to be Cardiff, Dublin and Kilkenny, I believe. Now, ( onto the good stuff... )

I have a feeling that by posting these today I will be drastically cutting back the number of people who see them, but if I don't post them now, I never will. I'm going to be doing this in three posts (Ally style) with about 24 or 25 pictures in this post, 15 or so in the next and maybe a dozen in the last. They're gonna be chronological. I think ( Read more... )