Leather and jeans, garage glamorous, not sure what it means, but this photo of us.
Two weekends ago, I escaped to Wenatchee for the annual Apple Blossom Parade - it's probably not much to anyone who didn't grow up there, but it's special to me, and it was probably one of the best times I could ever have chosen to get the hell out of town. It was also one of my calmer weekends home, as evidenced by my 2 hour+ piano playing spree.
I sat with my aunt for the parade, as my uncle was judging the bands and my parents were walking in the parade. Here's this year's float.
The Grand Marshals this year were the local hockey team, the Wenatchee Wild.
Let's compare bands, shall we? Here was my rival high school, Eastmont. They haven't changed their outfits in probably 40 years.
And HERE's Wenatchee, with uniforms that we got my Junior year. And with far better precision!
Also appreciated: the band that played Bon Jovi as a parade song (YES. But not pictured). And a little current-hometown representation with Chief Sealth High School:
And a perennial favorite, the Clan Gordon Pipe & Drum band.
Here's the mascot for the local baseball team, the Applesox (dude, I can't make this shite up), and that trophy you can see around the shoulder of the guy in my way? The mascot was totally pole-dancing with it for the crowd. HYSTERICAL.
My parents are in the far right of this picture, walking with the Marysville float. They look confused because they knew my aunt and I were SOMEWHERE in the vicinity of the band-judging station, but they hadn't gotten to us yet!
Okay, enough about a parade that most of you don't give two hoots about. On to more interesting things! Like the scenery!
And the only thing I ate at the Fat Food Fair - my OTHER perennial favorite, Shishkaberries! Yes, it DOES say "Home of the Dingleberry!"
But I always get the Berry White with Sprinkles.
Maggie & Millie, right after they'd been scolded for destroying the skein of yarn I was using. Millie is clearly too ashamed to look at me.
And napping behind me whilst I tickled the ivories.
The dogwood tree in my parent's backyard.
Last weekend, we had a surprise party for my sister, to celebrate her achieving her Master's in Education degree. She is the first in our family to get her Master's, so it's a big for us! Her husband got it all set up, and it was a successful (read: complete!) surprise for Michelle! She thought we were just going out to dinner, and wasn't going to wear anything all that nice, and we all badgered her into dressing up a bit, and she was SO grateful, lulz. She couldn't understand why Brian (her husband) was so dead-set on her looking nice!
Hail the Conquering Graduate!
Here's my dad, doing his "I can entertain people for HOURS" shtick. He really can. Good lord, my parents are social!
This is where my mother presented Michelle with her graduation present - an antique pearl and diamond necklace that was a present to our great-grandma Ethel de Bord from HER daughters (my grandmother who recently passed and her two sisters). So naturally there were tears!
So Michelle was knocked speechless on all counts - which for someone related to ME, is saying something!
Increase of gorgeous sunsets have a proportionate increase of gorgeous sunset pix.
An recent outfit that I feel sure Miss Pillsbury would be proud of. A variation on my new FB profile pic.
A pile of fabric and chains - those that were used in the dance performance I just posted.
Another view of the fabric poi.
It was a Golfstravaganza at Trupanion on Sunday! Lady Godiva made some new friends when I picked up nicolemarieh for a ladydate with some pedicures!
Nicole had the pretty-in-pink toes and cute flippies, and I had the classic red with rhinestone-studded flowers. Ya'll should worship my beautiful feet. Also, I'm not over-reaching the edge of the shoe - I just have REALLY long toes! See how much longer that 2nd toe is than the big toe? And yes, my toes ARE the same color as my shoes and my car - why do you ask?
I haven't been around much, and most of that is why. I'll be least-in-sight for a long while, I suspect, both with posting and in person. Still reading, though, and commenting. Just not a lot I feel like saying, otherwise.
My upcoming schedule is pretty booked, as well. I'm pretty much booked out through the 2nd week of June so far, and looking at the rest of summer it will be quite busy as well. This week, for example, is insane - tonight is my only evening at home and I'm out every other night.
Tuesday: MAC party with teh_dirty_robot
Wednesday: Armida, a Metropolitan Opera (from New York!), as part of the Met Live in HD Series. Going with some SAI people, and eriksdb & Co.
Thursday: Dinner with frogger414 and misterkickass
Friday: Going to see a SIFF movie at the Admiral Theatre in West Seattle, K-20: The Fiend with 20 Faces with a small group, I don't think any eljayers are going. Unless someone wants to come?
Saturday: Christ, do I actually have the day off? Must find something to do...
Sunday: SAI Exec Board changeover meeting in Kenmore, to prep for the upcoming year.
Also coming up: A Girl's Night to see Sex & the City 2: Moar Mahnolos, Plskthx!, the PNB's premiere (opening night, no less!) of Coppelia, my 5-year class reunion at UPS, a Girl Scout day with SAI, hosting a Mary Kay party for some lovely ladies, and a ballroom dance presentation!
That is ALL just within the next 3 weeks. I'm on call for Memorial Day weekend, so I'm not going anywhere, although probably getting a mani-pedi with my LivingSocial deal with Gretchen!
Summer Plan contemplation: Road trips to Wenatchee and Oregon (for a Ren Faire at which my favorite pseudo-Renaissance British girl group is performing... wow, I am a weeeeird person with strange tastes...), Outdoor movies, local festivals... and so on. And then it will be fall, and ohmygosh I need to get started on Christmas presents LIKENOW :P
Well, it certainly can't be said that I don't have a life, can it?