1st Annual THXgivin in October!!!

Highlights:
• No water at my house, party moved to Sir Bretly of Brooksideshire's house.
(Muchos Thank Yous Bret!!!)
• Turkey started at my house, finished at Bret's
• "Baby Come Back" was the soundtrack to turkey carving.
• Argyle!!!
• Joshy wins for Most Effort....Adam wins Least Effort (seriously, you could have at least worn matching socks)
• Rachel - Turkey and cranberry salad
• Aaron - Sweet potato bake
• Bret - Cheesy potatoes
• Adam - Stuffing
• Joshy - Rice Krispie turkey
• Amanda - Creamed corn and green bean casserole
• Albert - Bread and berry shortcakes
• Casey and Lori - assorted breads
• Nina - mashed pumpkin pie
• Lindsay - Pumpkin custard
• Kristy - Mac and Cheese
• Mandy - Her sweet self :)


Man oh man, we are so thankful....

tuesday's with joshy!

Place: Skillet Licker Cafe, 6th Street, KC, Kansas

Rating: 5 outta 5 Joshys!!!!!

Highlights:

• Fresh donuts! Before your food comes out! Fresh frickin donuts!
• Joshy's tenderloin sammich was bigger than his face.

• Super nice waitress / owner?

• Old school juke box with fancy tunes

• Bandages held on by rubber bands (someone has been watching MacGyver)

• B.J. and Top Gun are tied in our 13 Tournament of Champions
• Bootsie pulled a crazy fast win out her ass. Probably will never happen again.

My Sweet Sweet Dream.

Here are the things my dreams are made of....

1. Abandoned school + just the right amount of drama + alpacas =  new home

2. Commune living + short taxi bus to and fro to hallmark + film crew = bazillions of $

3. Cash money from bank of LaWanda + covers from disco parties = mortgage

4. Sam Rockwell + Justin Theroux + me = good times INDEED :)

5. Good friends + green living + talent shows + potluck dinners + fully stocked bar + a gymnasium + boiler rooms with semi-legal activities = paradise

Pardon my blogstapation....

Ok, it has been a ridiculous month...hence the need for this flush of updates.

Tuesdays with Joshy: (where we've lunched...just the facts, none of the details)

• Blanco in Westport

• McCoys in Westport

• Jerusalem Bakery in Westport (this was a Tuesday with JUST Joshy...no amanda)

• 2020 in the Crossroads (this was a Tuesday WITHOUT Joshy)

• Sol Azteca on Southwest Blvd.

• Gates on Main

• Succotash in the River market

Misc. Happenings:

• Aaron turned a year older while bowling

• Bretly is a sexy sexy dancer....and i might be a liar...if you believe everything you hear on video. (couldn't figure out how to rotate the video. whateves.)

• Amanda and I went on a Burlesque Extravaganza

• Tailgating + Whiskey + 100 degrees + more Whiskey = trashy-ness

btw, dr. pepper plus whiskey is a magical combo. 

• I learned that Caterpillers each pizza (see below)

• Got a new, fantastic, beautiful, perfect, highly advanced for her age, tiny, cuddly NIECE!!!!

• Saw the world's worst movie at the east side of kcmo's best Drive-in.

• Played some Ewok Magic trivia.

• Saw some free movies.

• Became a design prof at KU. I am rocking the chalk again and they are paying me. crazy.

• Maybe I am the daughter of a spy...but maybe not....but maybe. hmm.

• Farmed in the rain...for 4 hours...at the butt crack of dawn...in the mud...voluntarily.

• Met 3 super duper awesome artists!!!!! 

• Totally got promoted! crazy.

Bands, bands and more bands:

• It's Over

• Bacon Shoes

• ACB's a few times

• Restavrant 

• Vampire Weekend

• White Williams

• Aaron Hale minus the boy detectives

• Wye Oak

• Albert's high school reunion

• Cut Copy (SO AMAZING!!!)

• The Presets

• A few more that I can't remember

whew! caught up just in time to get behind again. ;)

just in case: kinda cool but sorta lame super hero powers

1. Making change for a $20

2. Roller skate feet

3. Making people moist (non-sexually)

4. 2 left wings

5. Clapping really super fast

6. Making people itch (again, non-sexually) 

7. Spraying honeydew smells, skunk style

8. Xray vision, but only through shoes

9. Retractable cape

10. Swiss army toes

11. Giving people spontaneous Dyslexia

12. Being impervious to large amounts of caffiene

tuesdays with joshy!

Place: Dagwoods Diner, 1117 Southwest Boulevard

Rating: 3 outta 5 Joshys*

Highlights:

• Lotsa coke memorabilia

• Super faux wood formica

• Lotsa men, just a few teeth

• Bandages held on by rubber bands (someone has been watching MacGyver)

• B.J. has first win in our 13 Tournament of Champions(es)

• Bootsie is bringing up the rear with the least wins

• Parking lot full of ice cream trucks, draw your own conclusion

*Food was grease-tacular, but the atomosphere was a little...rough. Bring a buddy, just in cases.

minutes from potluck: 7.23.08

Host: Chateau Du Lamoreux

Meal: Turkey Beef Oatmeal Burgers and some fixins

Game: Lotsa random talking

Highlights:

• PBR and Sunny D!!!

• Cupcakes con fungi
• Ants on a log, leads to the Great Raisin Debate of 08

• Cat highway

• Adam's wild-n-wacky imperialistic mayhem dream (see above)

please to enjoy: videos i heart right now

She & Him - Why do you let me stay here

Solange - I decided

Vampire Weekend - A-Punk

minutes from potluck: 7.9.08

Host: Westport Flea Market

Meal: Burgers and contraband burritos

Game: Trivia

Highlights:

• Woodstone Principles pulled in at 4th place

• Won some smallish t-shirts (almost as cool as the cold hard cash)

• Joshy gave up magna-doodle duty

• Aaron mentally blocked his whole Australia trip  :)

• None of us foreigners know ANYTHING about the Royals! Or space. Or Southpark. 

things my dad hates pt. 3 (submitted by LaWanda, my mom)

In no particular order: 

32. LaWanda's cooking 

33. LaWanda's cooking smells

34. LaWanda's cooking sounds

35. LaWanda's driving

36. LaWanda's parking

37. LaWanda's parking spot choices

38. LaWanda's movie choices (all Canadian)

39. LaWanda's reasoning

40. LaWanda's gardening

41. LaWanda's sewing

42. LaWanda's  favorite TV shows (all Canadian)

43. LaWanda watching Jay Leno (Jay Leno is a "communist")

44. LaWanda's vacuum cleaner

45. LaWanda's dishwasher sounds

46. LaWanda moving his stuff around

47. LaWanda's stinky cat food

let's get to know: raymundo

Assorted Facts and Figures

1. California - Ray Ban - Top Gun

2. Super Secret Special Spot

3. Gin!!

d. Brazilian Wax Dance

5. "Why can't I have pineapple?"

6. Bears-n-Boots-n-Underpants

7. Nice tots

8. Trampy Psychos

9. Number 1 Softee Fan

10. Rides dirty (see above)

11. Sharpie on skin action

12. Keeper of the butterscotches

13. Flusterbated

14. Fellow lover of Rob and Big

15. Teal-ish nail polish

tuesdays with joshy!

Place: Grand Slam Burgers

Rating: 4.5 outta 5 Joshys

Highlights: 

• TOTS!!! (I like to nibble them, Joshy and Top Gun like to mouth them)

• Minor stint as beverage passer outters

• Top Gun shunned cream soda in all forms

• Official start to 13 Tournament of Champions(es)

• Joshy is rockin last place...no offense

• Bootsie LOVES chest hair

 

things my dad hates pt. 2

In no particular order:

18. ice crunching
19. tv volume over 5-6 bars
20. gossiping
21. gossipers
22. rushing around (rushing includes doing more than 1 thing a day.)
23. Minnie Driver
24. Diane Weist
25. smells–yes, ALL of them
26. noises
27. popcorn at the movies
28. people at the movies
29. the movies at the movies (I Heart Huckabees got 46 EMPTY stars, see pt. 1)
30. VW beetles that are not Turbos
31. Canadian TV shows (see pt. 1)

minutes from potluck 7.2.08

Host: Ghattas, Adam

Meal: Hoagie Extravaganza

Dish of the Night: Cut throat tie between Lindsay's Strawberry Surprise and Bret's Cinnamon? Cherry? Apple? Jello? Explosion

Game: Sitting around telling embarrassing stories.

Highlights:

• Midge!!

• Katie's brush with tortured homeless people

• Rubbing and stroking on the orange couch of love

• Flash floods, hail and crazy winds

please to enjoy: songs stuck in my head

1. Through the Roof 'n' Underground - Gogol Bordello

2. Riding on the Metro - Berlin

 

3. One Last Time - The Kooks 

4. Alala - CSS

 

5. Fernando Pando - The Virgins

 

8. Top Yourself - Raconteurs