8-5-2010

Continuing the theme of nail polish, Nicole and I went wandering around a mall today and found a store with an array of tester bottles. I almost wish she had more fingers.

8-4-2010

I got to escape my closet-office and work in the studio today with my co-workers Billy and Mark. It takes lots of people to make a nail polish commercial. Look it's a model. Needless to say, I remained classy and professional at all times around the cute girl.

After work, we went running and found a broken butterfly and took it home with us.

8-3-2010

Immediately post run mugshots.

8-2-2010

He has risen. He has risen indeed.*


*See 7-23-2010.

8-1-2010

Sundays mean brunch (preferably in the shade on a patio).

7-31-2010

I started the day with this and it just kept getting better from there. I hung out under a bridge with my friend Steve and the homie above. Then Victor tattooed Steve and Joel put stickers on my brother-in-law. Look how happy they both were. It was smiles all around. Really, my niece Lily was getting tattooed by Joel.

7-30-2010

I saw a Transformer coming home from work. Then it was off to the wonderland of Erie, PA to see friends like Joel and the skateboard show closing party.

7-29-2010

It's really kind of gross how frequently I eat at Melt, but tonight wasn't my fault I swear. We were down the street and Nicole really wanted to get takeout...like I would ever say no to that. As soon as we walked in, I quickly remembered that we had accidentally walked into their Project Runway viewing party and the place was even more crazy than normal. There were tons of complimentary mini cupcakes, skeezy dudes trying to holler at wannabe fashionistas, and lots of people watching the premiere of Valerie Mayen on Project Runway. We went to the same college and she graduated a year before I did. I guess she was at the restaurant but I didn't even try to track her down since I doubt she would have remembered me and I would have felt like a creeper. The mini cupcakes were definitely more interesting to Nicole than the show was.

This is a pretty accurate double exposure of what bedtime looks like.

7-28-2010

I'm pretty sure they're building a pagan temple in the parking lot behind my office.

7-27-2010

Nicole and I eat like children left home alone with no baby sitter...except we own the house. Speaking of the house, we finished the cabinet that Nicole was spraypainting this weekend and put it in the fancy room. I quickly filled it with shrines to my cameras (and by it, I mean both the cabinet specifially and the fancy room in general).

7-26-2010

I think I caught insomina on vacation. I hope it goes away soon.

7-25-2010

We woke up bright and around noon, and Nicole put on her Sunday's best to go to Home Depot. Really, we were tipped off by my co-worker (hi Jen!), and went to brunch at Le Petit Triangle Cafe. We eat in this area all the time, but hadn't been to this restaurant before. As a connoisseur of crepes and breakfast foods in general, this is now one of Nicole's favorite weekend spots. I'm sure I'll be posting a lot more pictures from this patio in the future. This is totally just a "look what my lens can do!" picture.

Then we went sight seeing around places we go all the time. Look, there's houses, and stores, and industry, and stuff everywhere.

Then we looked a more antique things, and fancy stuff. We go to the same antique stores so much that we've become familiar with all the people and cats that work at the stores. This cat was even on my blog before when I took pictures of it with my Leica on January 31st (it's a very photogenic cat). Today, I was also interested in heads and manniquins. Then we went to the craft store in preperation for various house projects.

The first project was to launch Nicole's tough-guy graffiti career. Really she wanted to finish painting a cabinet I started months ago but never finished (note: she spraypaints with two hands and her thumb like a little kid). The big project was to replace the hooks and hang the stack of framed butterflies that have been piled up in our house since last year. We plan to grow the collection into a huge, asymmetrical, Barry McGee-esque cluster over time. We also put up the new cat song Nicole got this weekend. She also got this Italian phone this weekend. We're quckly on our way to having the girliest house in the neighbourhood.

7-24-2010

There was pretty stuff in the yard. Then we went to look at antiques. I found antique punk rock, and antique graffiti, but there's no such thing as antique vegetarianism. People back then weren't as considerate about animals. Nicole got her hair done. Then we saw this on the way home.

7-23-2010

Alright, who put Jesus in the claw machine? You guys know he doesn't like confined spaces. Someone better get him out before Easter comes around and he just lets himself out.

On the way to lunch we saw the movie Tremors but for real.

We went out into an eerie night and braved a monsoon to go to the second annual Ingenuity bridge party event thing. We went to the first one last year and really enjoyed it, but thanks to a tip from our friends we found out that this year's was way more fundraiser and way less fun. So we just went out to fun bars instead. On the way back to our cars at the end of the night, we saw this super creepy van parked down the street all by itself. In an overly excited rush of questionable judgement, we charged to van to discover what they were up to. This is what we found. An incredibly dedicated "cat lady" driving around feeding a herd of stray cats in a thunderstorm (there were tons more, but most of them ran away before I could take any pictures). I guess she has a circut and regularly visits various "colonies" of cats throughout the area. Needless to say we were excited beyond words about this...I'm surprised we don't have fleas now.