she’s the best kind of crazy.
that’s our child knocking back a shot of creamer at the bakery yesterday morning.
we don’t even fight it anymore.
house projects
two sets of houseguests this past weekend meant a lot of house projects completed in preparation beforehand. our newest developments:
ambient lighting. size doesn’t translate in photos. that thing has a 24 ft. circumference.
a reminders blackboard
new houseplant
hey little succulent buddy!
new curtains by grandma cece in darla’s room and some grandma saracen approved artwork hung in the spare room.
mike worked really hard this week getting the basement back in shape and getting all sorts of other projects around the house accomplished. i’m really thankful to him and all his handiwork he’s put into making our house a home.
thanks hubster!
and…
a gratuitous picture of darla and her latest beyond the thunderdome developments
project iron thighz
i kinda got back in the groove this week even though the weather was not so conducive. i got some mileage in there. we rode to dairy queen one night and to our favorite bakery this morning so that was pretty good motivation. probably not too good for any calorie burn off, though.
hubster has been an over achiever lately and logged 35 mi in one day this week. we be saving gas!!!
6/25 – 3.4 mi
6/26 – 1 mi
6/27 – 15 mi
7/1 – 5.2 mi
weekly: 24.6 mi
grand: 193.8
just over 8 gallons of gas saved by RuJu.
animals + rides + food + fun
equals the fair!
last weekend we squeezed in a short trip to the marion county fair. the set-up couldn’t have been more ideal: wonderful weather, barely populated fairgrounds, grumpy three-year-old.
whatevs. she came around.
oh, i love the fair! i inevitably hear templeton from charlotte’s web singing “the fair is a veritable smorgasbord, orgasbord!” anytime i just think about it.
indiana, you do you some good fairs:
i saved this photo for last because darla said she liked the extreme jump the best of all the rides. can’t say i blame her.
“good-bye charlotte, you old schemer.”
p.s. the franklin county fair is july 14-21 in hilliard, oh. will i see any of you there?
vintage shopping
while in indiana last weekend we went on a vintage shopping excursion at days gone by antique mall.
i had a small breakdown from insane happiness while we were in the store. i’m not joking. i was rooted to the ground for at least 2 minutes, laughing uncontrollably in sheer joy of all the goodness surrounding me.
it quickly passed and i was able to move on to full-fledged shopping mode. here’s what we found:
the most amazing vintage high chair
umm words cannot describe the ridiculousness of this bag. it was gold lamé with puffy painted words and bedazzled rhinestones. remember ladies, money isn’t everything.
mike purchased a lot of old postcards. this was the best one by far.
this was a gem of a garment. it was a 1940s dress and it was stunning on but, alas, i could not zip it up around the girls. i still think of it at night.
cousin tried on a fetching cape and reunited with some clogs she had met years before.
and now…
for the piece de resistance:
yesssssssssssss………….
oh yesssssssssss……..
that has to be the most amazing thing ever created. a jesus hot air balloon lamp with a scared clown dangling from the side. i call it “clown of little faith.”
i just want to meet the adult who had to look up at this every night during his/her formative years and thumb through all the complexes this person must have as a result. i mean, a clown hanging from the basket of a jesus balloon.
don’t go all crazy on me. i’m pretty sure if jesus were here i’d show this to him and he’d laugh. a lot. i wouldn’t try to talk to him about the meaning of life, or heaven. i’d just be like “hold up, dude. you gotta see this.”
here’s what i walked away with.
a blue sequins skirt, a pretty cool feathered fedora, and a wool poncho trimmed with alapaca fur with two alpacas embroidered into the built in scarf. plus, an elton john record and heeled cowgirl boots, not pictured.
i eventually just had to stop looking at stuff. it was all too good. i highly suggest days gone by antiques in fountain square for some good finds and cheap prices.
vintage fo’ life.
yeasayer
yeasayer is my favorite band. i love them. i have been waiting in anticipation for their third album for a long time.
i took the sequins vintage skirt i found on saturday as a sign from the universe that sunday’s concert was going to be AMAZING.
my sequins skirt tells no lies – except maybe the fact that it says it’s a size 4. i am not a size 4 – yeasayer sounded great. i’m excited to hear the new material in album form. it was slower than i had expected, a bit more trancier and synthier, but i liked it.
b/c it was still grooveable, shakeable and moveable. that’s pretty much all i care about in life.
i have a confession, in my search for the highly coveted parking spots, i almost ran over anand. and then when i was entering the venue i was pushing on the door while he was pulling and the door swung open pretty fast, almost taking him out. i am devastated that this man probably now thinks his biggest fan is trying to assassinate him ninja style. (my tactics were quite ninja-like, agreed? yes?)
so if my boys are reading this – thanks for a great show last sunday night. anand, i am NOT trying to kill you. i love you too much and i have too many future ticket investments for your shows to do a thing like that.
sorry.
ps. this was my first show at 20th century theater in cincinnati. i’d go back there anytime.
anyday.
project iron thighz
catch up from last week:
6/18 – 1 mi
6/19 – 3 mi
6/20 – 3 mi
weekly total = 7
grand = 169.2 mi
family fun fest
ok, so we’ve been doing a lot of living life instead of blogging about it, so, i’m going to try to catch up. a lot of cool awesomeness has transpired.
like many people, i have been blessed with a wonderful family. i mean, they are all REALLY cool. one of my cousins got hitched last weekend so it meant full-fledged family reunion. we made quite a weekend out of it.
the weekend consisted of: cousin reunion night out, great lake swimmers, late night karaoke, vintage store shopping, family fish fry & june birthday celebrations, the marion county fair, wedding wedding wedding, hotel party with a baby and sunday funday pool party. mike, darla and i then continued on to cincinnati for yeasayer on sunday night but that is all for another post.
pics!
looking forward to doing this all over again in 6 weeks. i love you, family!
fahder’s day
hope you all had a great father’s day. darla came back from her weekend at the grandparents so that made it a pretty fun day.
we started the day with a pancake breakfast and then met up with my parents for lunch and ice cream. it was nice to be around two pretty great fathers. darla is one lucky girl.
in other weekend happenings, we saw lindsey buckingham at the southern theater on saturday night and tried out the jury room for the first time.
hope you had a good weekend!
cleveland town
we spent the eve in cleveland town for destroyer. i’d like to spend some more time in that city. we had good eats, good drinks, good tunes and great times. we’re very lucky to have some very lovely friends who show us phenomenal places to sup.
we dined at momocho and then took in destroyer at beechland ballroom. i will return to both. hopefully soon.
1. signage 2. my new luchador profession 3. mmmmm momocho 4. pretty venue viewage
momjeanz 