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here are photos from two parties that happened in may. belated but not forgotten.

sangria, spaetzle, speck, und schnitzel

oh! and chris’ fried sauerkraut balls.

while watching inglourious basterds.

these cats are lazy.

cousin jamie organized a surprise 50th birthday party for aunt laurie at buca di beppo. she really was surprised! it was fun.

ooh! and delicious!

happy 50th, laurie! i hope the first month of it has been stellar.

Decided it would be a good idea to leave the house tonight, so Kristi and I planned to visit Block E for a movie. Invited Ellie, too. As we were headed there, Jen called and I invited her, too. We saw a confusing chick flick, Friends With Money. I liked it (especially “Reese Witherspoon will knit me a sweater!”) except for the end. It was kind of a downer. I’m not sure.

Um, so we visited Applebee’s after for $1.50 imported taps (9pm–close, $1 domestic taps, and half-price appetizers). I got silly off of three 10oz mugs and that is ridiculous. I guess tomorrow at Legend’s I’ll be drinking water so I can properly throw myself a going-away-from-Nordeast karaoke party. Don’t want to be ridiculous and singing bad. You know.

I’m going to miss Nordeast. But I’m going to love downtown, too.

I’m saving all of my energy for Drawn to Nature events on Thursday and Friday. Will be busy, fun, long work days. Full of socializing, happiness, and being pleasant. A perfect way to end March (my month of antisocial, miserable, crazy, delusional paranoia) and ring in April (will hopefully be a month of sunny, productive, chipper love for all — similar to January and February, which were good, care-free, charmingly experimental months).

Since I haven’t really left the confines of my house for the past week, I have watched movies.

1. The Exonerated
2. Yours, Mine and Ours
3. Capote
4. The Matador

I also saw Failure to Launch when I was in Vermillion, but I had to be out of the house for that one. It doesn’t count. I could tell you what I think about these movies, too, but all I will say is that with the exception of Yours, Mine and Ours, they were all good and worth watching. Yours, Mine and Ours might have been worth watching if it was Cheaper by the Dozen instead. Because I like Steve Martin.

I’m not completely reclusive, by the way. I went shopping on Saturday. And bellydancing and brunch with sister and dinner with Mom’s friends from Vermillion and brunch again on Sunday with Jen and Kristi and apartment-looking with coworker Mary. But other than all of that, I’m homebound. Except tonight! When I venture out of my house to the Spring Street Grill’s “Club Underground” to see Plastic Chord play.

I’m really babbling. Katie, who recently left the Bell and who had been the leader for Drawn to Nature, sent very fresh cookies from Tank Goodness and I ate two with a glass of milk. Now I have chocolate all over me. I was ravenous for cookies, I guess. Which is completely ridiculous. But they were ridiculously yummy — and arrived within 45 minutes of having left the oven, they were still warm.

Saturday night I invited my sister over to eat fancy cheese, drink not-so-fancy wine, and watch a movie. Kristi and I had parked near the cheese store at the Mall of America and got samples on our way into and out of the mall. Since we stopped by Surdyk’s on our way home, I decided to buy excessive amounts of cheese (thus wanting to share). I bought a pound of Leyden from Holland and a half pound of Porter Chedder from Ireland. I still had Mona Lisa Gouda left over from Cait, Kelsey and Elizabeth’s visit, too. Karyn brought over Scarface, tropical fruit, fancy crackers and a pear mustard. Kristi was with us and not too much later, Jon joined us, too. It was a nice evening.

Ok, I don’t actually have time to be updating but I need a little break. It is amazing how busy I am at work these days! It’s kind of awesome. It makes my really boring evenings at home seem much more necessary for my mental health.

Last night I brought my gals, Kristi and Ellie, to the MN Zoo’s IMAX theatre for Deep Sea 3D. A coworker gave me one of his admit four (for free!) passes for the special screening. Director Howard Hall and executive producer Michele Hall were both on hand, signing posters and answering questions. Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet may be one of the best Hollywood-produced acting duos (they both have such great voices). Mola molas are the weirdest fish ever, symbiosis is awesome, and I LOVE SEA TURTLES they are so cute. It was like Finding Nemo but real life. It was all 3D, of course, so the jellyfish and squid scenes totally freaked me out. The ocean is strange and exciting!

Of course I received my new pink RAZR and I’m all way too excited and I bet everyone is sick of me talking about it. However, I’m sending all of my photos to Flickr so you can see my excitement via excessive camera phone photo taking, too.

Alrighty, back to work for me!