Riot and Frolic

– while perusing pictures for a post last week, I discovered a few people are very confused about what Patrick Swayze looks like.

this makes me laugh… george clooney

maybe he's in the car?

– sometimes you have to dress up like a princess and do some swivels with your tongue sticking out.  She definitely gets this from her dad…  Except the dressing like a princess part!…  Oh, now I'm in trouble. 

swiveling with tongue-styling, like The G

– yes, these are the things I have to make text shortcuts for on my phone.

use it every day

– how badly do I want the blue and red running outfit?  As badly as I'd like to run the 2013 SeaWheeze in beautiful Vancouver, BC.  

1. runners got lululemon shorts as part of the registration 
2. the run is in Vancouver, which has always seemed like a cool, active, pretty city
3. the band fun. played at the post-race party

find this for me

– I did this to myself.

there's more in the car

…Maybe I should go grocery shopping more than once a month?  

– making lemon vinegar, which is supposed to be bomb for cleaning

it's lemon zest… in vinegar

– who does their hair two days in a row?  Not this girl.  Because my top knot looked JUST AS AWESOME the second day.  Even after salsa dancing (OMG, I went social dancing and didn't die… or elbow anyone in the face) and sleeping.  And who needs to wear a sweatshirt when it's 70 degrees outside?  This girl, who really should live in San Diego, where one doesn't have to deal with these Midwestern things called temperature fluctuations.  And whose middle daughter told her to wear an apron while cooking?  This girl.

what IS in the fridge? EVERYTHING

– another trip to Irish  Fair MN at Harriet Island.  Broken Spoke, formerly known as Highland Paddy and winners of the 2012 Irish's Got Talent battle of the bands, were booked for a highly-anticipated spot Saturday afternoon.  Unfortunately, the band was sequestered in a weird, hidden building that was charging a $20 cover.  Nobody puts Broken Spoke in a corner… of the Irish Fair. 

Except someone did.  After an unsuccessful attempt to make EVERYONE A V.I.P. by playing on the patio, the powers-that-be herded the band inside where a few very lucky ladies (and a dude or two) got serenaded by some good looking laddies (and one hot lassie).  

Fortunately, the band was begged to come back by the lovely Claddagh Coffee Cafe, and got to play a show in the evening.  

Here's a flirty baby, who is the offspring of one of BS members.

just got done waving

– this beer is all the rage.

i was drinking it while making birthday cakes

– have you seen these neat prints in the cement around St. Paul?  I especially love this one and took the anonymity of my night run to snap the photo.  I also used the darkness to practice my ninja skills by practicing my army roll after I stepped off a curb oddly and fell down.  There was blood.  And laughing (by me, thank GOD no one else was around to POINT and laugh).  Yeah… It wasn't even one of those curb curbs, where you have to step down.  It was one of those slope-y ones that are meant to make the transition to the street very simple.  

street poetry

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