Ok, I sit down to write an entry and then I end up having much more to say so it doesn't get finished and I come back later and more stuff has happened so I add that and it *still* doesn't get finished and paging Zeno, we have a problem. Eventually all the wording is so out of date ('last weekend', 'the beginning of this month', etc.) that I have to reword everything and add paragraphs like this where I say, sorry it's so long!
The first part of August was pretty busy. But it's all been fun stuff. The end of it was more lowkey, with some catching up - cleaning everything, getting photos off my camera and my phone, reading all the everything about
#ferguson :/ - plus friends' birthday bbqs and some chilling at the lake. The backyard is full of ripe blackberries and tomatoes and life is pretty good.
We went to see the Doctor Who premiere in the theater, which is the first time I've done the theater experience for that, since timing didn't work out to go for the 50th anniversary special. It's a fun way to see it, although I expected there to be more people there. I'm used to Bay Area craziness, I guess. There were a couple people in costume, but it was pretty sparsely filled.
Also went to see Guardians of the Galaxy, to take advantage of the movie AC on the day it was supposed to be 101. It was good fun, although I wasn't quite as thrilled with it as everyone else seemed to be. For one thing, I'm getting really tired of the token woman role that proceeds completely predictably. 'Strong female character' doesn't just mean making them more violent, guys!
At home, we watched all of Community, which is pretty good, and then I made Shawn watch The Cape since it was referenced on Community. Also finally watched the last few episodes of Rome, and watched Tucker & Dale vs Evil.
My neighborhood had a street festival. I went to it briefly, but it wasn't really that interesting. It reminded me that I'm actually not *quite* enough of a hippie to live here. This is crazy hippietown, in case you didn't know.
The weekend before that was jampacked with my friend Sarah's wedding, helping the neighborhood group work on a mural, and Liz's birthday BBQ. I've known Sarah since high school, although we lost touch for a little bit. I happened to be up here looking for a place to live last winter when a mutual friend got a call from Sarah's fiance inviting her to a surprise birthday party so of course I crashed that and saw her for the first time in 15 years or so, and met her kickass fiance and saw some other friends I also hadn't seen in 15ish years. Anyway, it's good, and I'm so happy to get to see her get married to her awesome man. Her wedding had a 20s theme, and the guests did a really good job of delivering on the dress code. Unfortunately, silly me had put the camera battery on the charger and left it there, so I only got phone photos.
( Still, under here are 14 wedding photos of people you don't know or probably care about and 1 picture of a cow. You've been warned. But they're pretty!Collapse )The day after that I walked a mile or so down the road in the heat to help paint a mural to go on an ex-gas station on a nearby intersection that has the awesome bakery and a school. It was made on panels, so if the building it's going on gets sold, it can get moved somewhere else. This also had the benefit of allowing us to paint on a flat surface rather than the vertical building side. It's a kaleidoscope pattern, which is kind of dizzying, and meant whatever you painted one place you needed to paint roughly the same three other places, but it looks pretty good all done.
( mural photosCollapse )After that we headed to Liz's birthday BBQ, which was tasty and full of awesome people. Unfortunately Shawn had to work and I was beat from painting, which requires weird bending muscles, so we didn't stay terribly long.
The sun sets over the 'ex-girlfriend trailer park'The week before *that* was GISHWHES.....You know what, I'm going to do a separate post for that. BRB.
