lalalalala

June 26th, 2008

Originally uploaded by regina:rivera

That’s the sound of denial.

Kerri hit the road Tuesday, ~~aBANDoning me~~ leaving Santa Barbara forever, moving to Boston. It’s still not real to me yet, so I’m not going to discuss it at this time.

Anyway, I sent her a text message at 1:55 PDT today, asking her take a picture of where she was at that moment and send it to me. She responded with the above. I dunno… She was in Utah last night… Not sure where these big fluffy clouds are drifting over.

All this talk is hammering the actuality into my brain a little more. Gotta stop this nonsense!

lalalalalalala

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UPDATE from Kerri, about 4 hours after her first pic above:

Colorado :)

snow:)

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LALALALALALA!!! :’(

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Stupid raisins and other gibberish

November 21st, 2007

Randomliciousness abounds! Let’s get started.

An email today from Junior Society tipped me off to Threadless.com’s $10 sale. For those not aware of Threadless, it’s basically an ongoing t-shirt design competition. Anyone is free to submit a design, and a few are chosen each week, with winning designs available for purchase. Random, fabulous indy t-shirt art for men, women, and kiddos is to be found at Threadless.

(I don’t know about you, but I’ve had t-shirt design aspirations since I was a teenager, continuing to this day.)

Anyway, Junior Society highlighted this t-shirt of profound awesomeness:

Alas, by the time I made it over to the product page, they were all sold out of grown-up sizes.

While you’re at it, check out Junior Society. It’s where the super nice (and very cute) Robert Mahar of Mahar Drygoods hips us to both modern and retro goodness for kids as well as adults who act/think like kids.

(This particular cookie design reminds me of this inspiring piece of photojournalism from El Chavo!. Hmm… question: If the ! is part of El Chavo!’s nom de plume, then does a sentence ending with El Chavo! still require additional punctuation?)

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I totally agree with John Mayer’s assessment of Justin Timberlake.

Back in my crazyintense month of September, one of the brighter moments was going to see Justin Timberlake at Staples Center in LA with Patricia. She’s, like, a rabid fan. I was, like, whatever. But it was my birthday present to her, and I’m always down for an adventure, so away we went.

We rented a room at the Westin Bonaventure for the night so we wouldn’t have to worry about driving home after the show. (And so we could leisurely make our way back the next day via IKEA and Loehmanns.) It also made for great pre-show activities, like lingering with martinis etc. in the rotating Bona Vista Lounge on the 34th floor.

(Thanks to Tim for Sofiesitting that night. <3)

Our seats were fabulous: I was able to score VIP premiere seats, which gave us access to both a special entrance and entire floor accessible only to VIPs. We decided to take advantage of this opportunity and ate at the restaurant there. (Again, only accessible to VIP ticket holders.) It was an elegant and yummy buffet.

Gotta say, having now seen him, I cannot deny… JT’s totally hot and can REALLY sing. (And he plays piano, too. Who knew?) His voice was strong - and real. He tore up the floor with his dancing.

You were right, Patmo. You were right. :)

Timbaland performed with him for practically half the show, in addition to a 20 minute interlude of his own material. (Don’t even get me started on the awesomeness of Timbaland. Another man who SERIOUSLY delivered the goods.)

I was also impressed when JT gathered his crew around him, announced to all of us that it was their 100th show that night, poured tequila shots for everyone on the stage and toasted them, also giving a hearty shout out to the tequila drinking Latinas in the audience. And being brown and all, I gave a hearty “whoop whoop” of appreciation.

Good Charlotte opened the show. Neither Patmo nor I were all too familiar with them beforehand. We left the concert as fans. They were really good… Great live performers, groovy tunes… We enjoyed them immensely.

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MARK YOUR CALENDARS: May 30, 2008.

Carrie. Miranda. Charlotte. Samantha. SO! CAN’T! WAIT! What day of the week is that? Do I need to put in a request for a vacation day?

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In light of upcoming seasonal shopping activity, you may be interested in signing up for email alerts from the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) for recalled products.

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Okay, ciao for now!