nature is natural ...(tm)

so a great group of great friends went to big sur for four days to celebrate jeremy weiss' birth and i left my memory card at home.
doh!

so please look here

and here

my eyes couldnt believe how beautiful it was.

i love my friends.

remember me

a little late, but memorial day bbq at nathan and silvios.
always fun. always yummy. always warm.

hi i'm arianna, hi i'm julie

julie

teal. arrrrg

arianna cute

arianna annoyed i keep taking pictures of her eating

claire looking at

maybe the best cake ever?

nathan lighting the maybe best cake ever

jeremy

aw cute!

then julie, teal, and I went to see the pirate movie. eh, better than the second. keef was good. loooooooong.

almost heaven

West Virginia



Since it seems too daunting a task to post up all my pictures from my cross country road trip, i will post up some tid bits as I go, like these three from WV.

Reginald Bea Jenkins

Meet Reggie:

He is a baby opossum.
I found him in my backyard the other day.
He must've fell off his momma.

Those chirping noises he's making is him calling out to him mom.
I met up with Mary, a 70 year old volunteer from the Opossum Society of the United States, in the Carrows parking lot in Higland Park and handed him off. She will take care of him until he is strong enough to be on his own.
I only had him for a day and a night.
He's so cute and before I found him I didn't think there was another animal that I thought was more disgusting than an opossum.
I miss Reggie and I kind of wish I still had him, just for a little while.
Here I put hot water and uncooked rice (to help retain the heat) in a water bottle for him. i might sound like a crazy person.

I went bonkers over this little guy. Did you know that opossums are North America's only marsupial?
Fascinating isn't it? I'm just sayin'.

neat

Hey lovers!
Go get this:

and inside you'll see this:

it's about me! my first feature!
hooray

beach, balls

teal and i took our bikes to the beach today
it being the saturday of a three day weekend, it was crazy day.
at least on the bike path
one guy on a recumbant bike rode past me yelling, "i love poooosy, BIG TITS! BIG TITS!".
then another guy walked by me and teal mumbling to himself, "hilbillies and mexicans... two things i can't stand".
he looked like black shrek with headphones on.
we saw the big tits guy all day on the path. he really gets around.
then i went to work and it got weird there too.
after we closed big steve started cuttin a rug to side two of born in the usa

big steve doing his best brittney spears impersonation



then things got weird

ta dah!

that's all i can show you of that night, after all this is a family show

daylight comin in the belly of the whale

thank you to everyone who made my birthday this year the best ever!



i love you so much.

ash took me to the stevie nicks/chris isaac show


with vip laminates and i got to see chris isaac's tighty whiteys hanging on a pants hanger but didn't have my camera. i also think that i almost walked in on the gold dust woman cuttin a duece.

she looked and sounded so beautiful. i love stevie.

then i had a really great dinner at casita del campo with drinks at the other side after and i felt super warm and loved and happy and laughed a lot.

then on my actual birthday travis and i rode our bikes on the beach to the redondo beach pier and smashed crabs. but first we opened presents and he got me that green dress i was harping about. yay! so pretty. and two books. r-e-a-d-a-b-o-O-K!
travis cleaning the bird poop off my window

then he thought papi was being condescending to him and they got into it. those two, always arguing.

then, he flew away...:(

but all in all, really great birthday weekend.

thank you friends, i am so lucky.

happy birthday

claire's crayon bday party sat night

Thumbs up to you too buddy!



claire: drums, jen: ax, jovita: bass, me: keys and tambo. makes sense right? who fronts?

psst...yer cute

speaking of birthdays... now i know it's that time of year and youre all scrambling to figure out what to get me, well, i'm always thinking of others soooo, at this little clothing store next to the downbeat cafe on alvarado is a teal green silk dress with a deep v and ruffled skirt made by vintage soul in a size 1 (small) which just happens to be the size i am and fits me perfect and i love it, i mean, i'm just saying...

ack

frosted tips


ten more days!
6 weeks is a looooooong time.
my miss muscles are huge.
it's 4am and i just love procrastinating.
i was sick last week so i am majorly playing catch up
on my so late spring production.
that's what happens when you're a one woman show.
no back up sangers to take the heat when you're down.
oh well.
i still promise i will update this blog.
when i make the time to sift through eight thousand pictures.
i have so many pictures now all saved up.
don't you forget about me, don't don't don't don't
who did that song?:
i feel like it was simply red but totally not simply red.
or was it?
anyway these two are from travis' and my cross country all time most best amazing road trip

punishment teepee in tennessee

xo,
s

i love claire

i will update this dusty old blog soon, i promise.
but for now, i love claire. that's all.
xo,
s

january = fun

teal, edendale

julie and teal, coffee table

octopus, teal, zanzabelle

travis, ralphs

you'll never guess what he's doing.

penguin lap lady, highland/santa monica