nico the obscured

have you met nico? my LABF celine has two kitties, flash & nico. flash, as you might deduce, isn't much for having her picture taken. nico, on the other hand, is a man of leisure who will make love to the camera and then to your lap.

reunion aftermath

i got up early sunday morning after the reunion and went to TJs for flowers and brekkie fixings. jordan & marienne came over for pancakes and brought jordan's girlfriend monica. i wasn't sure if i knew who she was even though he told me we'd all gone to high school together. when they arrived, i recognized her from grade school! we had lots of fun cooking and making a mess. jennifer & her cool dude, alan, came by later to help us finish our mimosas.

that's jordan pictured above tickling the ivories. he's always had tremendous talent with regards to classical piano. i'm not being sarcastic.


a cat named mouse. she's our little alfa female.


the beautiful chocolate goose that is destined to never be eaten.


we all hung out long enough to digest brunch and grow hungry again. it had been a while since i'd been to oki's dog, so i had the pleasure of forcing my friends to go with me and watch me eat the signature oki's dog; chili, pastrami, and cheese on two hot dogs wrapped in a tortilla. it's under $4 and there's a signed glossie of en vogue on the wall you can stare at while your arteries cry. if you no longer have the will to live, have the oki's dog with chili fries.

10 years?

i headed to los angeles this weekend for my 10 year high school reunion. it was more of a mixer, very small and intimate; my old friend fredo organized it with a few other classmen in their spare time. it was very nice seeing those who could make it and daniel, one of my most prized high school friends, was my escort. we both went to different high schools and graduated a year apart, but we both had the same class song: in my life by the beatles.

collections

the house in scotts valley had lots of little random collections that i was compelled to document.

scotts valley

we got out of the shoebox and headed down to santa cruz where all kinds of my relatives were converging this weekend.

my aunt and uncle put us up with the rest of my cousins at a friend's house in scotts valley just north of santa cruz in the mountains. i woke up early on sunday and meditated for the first time in about a week. it was also my first time meditating outdoors! i thought it would be too cold, but it was actually nice and still. i brought my flea market ganesh, who is so cute and tiny. whoever made him even captured his broken tusk, no easy feat what with working in such a small scale. ganesh broke off one of his tusks and used it to help valmiki write the ramayana, one of southeast asia's most prized epic poems.

out of the closet and off to the flea

spent most of the weekend tidying the closet and going through tons of sewing stuff. it was exciting to be reminded of the fun projects i've worked on, partial and complete, especially this apple shaped pot warmer in progress for someone who can not be named because they read this blog and i would still like to give it to them some day.


after working saturday and spending most of my free time getting organizized, it was refreshing to get up early and leave the city for the alameda flea market, my first one this summer. my favorite find of the day was this little two year old version of carmen sandiego, apparently in hot pursuit.