obiwan kenobi told me in the lobby...

CIBO MATTO!

i really never thought i would actually get to see them!  i got into them right after they broke up and have been crossing my fingers and toes ever since for a reunion tour.  it was with great joy and much shouting of "ivy smith! ivy smith!  CIBO MATTO is coming to town!!!" that my little dream was actualized.

so i've been pissing my pants with excitement for the last month waiting for the magical day.  there's been much talk of the show between grace, joseph, sally and juan and i.  juan has just two words for you: cibo. matto.

i went and picked up poops before the show to eat and do some people watching on crapitol hill because everyone else had to work until 8:30 or 9:30.

when we got to neumos it was with great happiness that the cibo matto posters were right by bill callahan's posters.  bill was playing the next night and as much as i love him, i just couldn't go to two shows two nights in a row in the middle of the work week.  don't worry bill!  i'll be there next time.  PROMISE!

we then waited a while in the line for will call:

i was super excited also to get some kick ass merch and the only letdown of the whole spectacle was the fact THAT THEY HAD NO MERCHANDISE!  i wanted stickers.  i wanted tshirts.  i wanted buttons.  i wanted posters.  i was going to spend money!  but nope, only one crappy tshirt that i couldn't bring myself to buy. *sigh*

that's ok...the show was AWESOME!  they totally ripped it up on 'birthday cake' and they played 'sci fi wasabi' which is my favorite song of theirs.  grace was extra happy to hear 'moonchild' and 'sugar water'.  

this was the first show of the tour and also the first show that they have played together since 2001.  they had a couple of new songs and i hope that means...NEW ALBUM!  and hopefully more shows in the future because i would loooooooooooove to see them again!

my camera sucks and people's iphones were taking way better pics than my camera so here is the best shot i have (and it ain't good):

that's yuka honda on the left and miho hatori on the right.  damn...those two look good for their age.  they are kick ass women!!

bling!!!

at the friday meeting at work it ended up with much giggling, office space references, wishes for everyone to have their very own red stapler and christine and i daydreaming about having some blinged out staplers.  then i quickly jumped in and offered to bling out her stapler for her since i have tacky fake jewels.  i wanted to bling mine out too, but i took far long than i thought it would and mine will have to wait for a later weekend.

it started out as your average boring ass stapler:

my tools for the project:

fake jewels, one stapler and super glue. also included: remote controls for watching 5 or 6 episodes of NCIS in a row.

i had originally gotten the fake jewels years ago when bubba and i both still had out vw buses and were making our steering wheels and dashboards awfully pretty.  i miss my bus. *sigh*  i miss bubbs too. *double sigh*

the first glues:

getting there:

my hot cup of white pomegranate tea totally helped.

and the final product:

awwwww...shit!  i hope she likes it.  i sure do.  i gotta do mine.  i need some more solid colors and then i'm gonna go for it.  the next crappy weekend here will see some stapler action for me.  and the way this summer is going, that will be next weekend.  of course, i still have a bunch of sewing to do, so maybe i should get that done first!

ok...gotta go do my nails now.

bill's in town!

bill and isabelle are in town visiting from georgia (it's warm there!!) so thanks to the wonders of facebook a bunch of people got together at snappy dragon for dinner.  i miss bill. it was super good to see him!

did you know that there is parking behind snappy dragon.  i had no idea. alistair let me in on the secret.

hadley took the ferry over and showed up for din din!!  HEY DUDE!!

there's bill to the right of hadley.

she brought her dogs, oscar and hazel.  she's only had hazel a couple of weeks and she is a CUTE GIRL!!

as usual i managed to take no pics of people but made sure to take shots of the food:

snappy dragon is awesome.  the handmade noodles are the shit.  just go eat there.

grace turned 21 for the 10th time!!

it was grace's birthday!!  

from the care package from hadley last month, i had 4 partially finished aprons.  grace likes to bake a lot, so i finished two of the aprons for her:

i really liked the sparkly yellow/gold rick rack on here:

some of us met up at o'hana's before we went to karaoke for the rest of the evening.

grace got a blue hawaii:

i think i took this right before vena spilled water all over herself (that was awesome...i laughed so hard i had to use my inhaler.  vena was NOT as amused...):

then we went up to the rock box in crapitol hill where grace had booked a room:

this place was pretty great.  you book a room for you and all your friends to karaoke in.  the sound system was great and it was way funner than being stuck in some bar listening to some crappy strangers singing:

they had a drink for hello kitty!!:

i really wish that i liked coconut...i totally would have gotten the creamy martini...and it was no surprise to me that vena ordered the school girl :)

vena got a new camera and took lots of shots:

it was a super fun nite and easily the most fun i've had sitting through karaoke:

look!  vena was waiting on us too!  awww...thanks vena!!

juan and joseph came:

the smoke got in the way of the shot:

juan and grace sang some madonna and started a freaking dance party:

and david cho channeled some morrissey:

this was great fun!  me and vena's birthdays are a day apart, we're thinking about having a joint bday party here in september.  what do you think?  discuss...

OH MY GAH!!!

look what was waiting for me when i got home today!!!

they're from grace!!  it's my pay it foward 2011 from her.  i had an earlier post about what i made for her...and this is hers for me!!

an adorable piece of sushi and a bag of chips!  out of felt!  handmade!!

it's so cute, it's painful...

and this fits in your hand!  adorable!

poops...this is aweseome!  YOU KICK ASS!  thanks so much, i will heart them forever!!

warm!!!

WOO-HOO!  this last weekend was the nicest weather we've had in 9 months.  at least that's what the weather said on the news and i believe it!  what nice weather!  it was 75 on saturday and 72 on sunday.  fan-fricking-tastic!

the weather was already nice on friday when i got home from work, so i decided it was time to set up the barbie and do some grillin'.  i pulled it out and set it up outside the kichen door in the backyard:

it smells great out there right now because the wisteria is blooming full force.  everything is blooming almost 2 months behind schedule...we moved in here march 15 of last year and the wisteria was already blooming when we moved in and this didn't start blooming until a couple of weeks ago.  it's made up for being late...the blooms are big and stinky!

we're not big meat eaters, so i got some veggies and veggie dogs to grill:

i made a teriyaki like sauce for the skewers and threw them on.

i'm quite serious about my chopping:

din din was good and we all stuffed our faces.

saturday morning woke up bright and SUNNY so i had my coffee on the porch and stuck my nose in my book:

i loooove summer mornings.

these cute little dukers were on the side of the house, they are TINY!!  they all bunched together and they were maybe the size of a dime all huddled together.

i got lots of yard work done.  i don't know why i tackle these huge weeding projects in my yard without getting a "before" picture.  you just really can't understand the amounts of weeding i did by the "after" shot. but before i started on this side of the house, you couldn't see the sidewalk at all.  it's like it didn't exist.  stupid ivy.

and the flowers are starting to bloom and are getting big in the front of the house...ahhh...poppies.  so happy and colorful.

and my tacky yard art!

i heart quail.  they are so cute!

well, it was a great weekend and i'm really tired from doing nothing but yardwork.  did i get any of the many other things i needed to do?  no....but, the weeds are somewhat under control.  next weekend = dig up spreading blackberry bushes in backyard.  will i take a before pic?  i hope so.  

now the weather can get HOT!  come on HOT!  let's crank it up another 15-20 degrees!  YEAH!