Artomatic 2009

Having some fun at the Artomatic opening on Friday - the gallery installed our "handmade garden" there all made from recycled materials (orginally installed/built by the community at the Torpedo Factory & then transferred to this years Artomatic).

Farewell Susannah!

Mary hosted a cocktails & sparkles party in honor of Susannah...who is leaving us to move to Raleigh...but I think she will be back :)

Jail, Bail & Cocktails!

this month I have been raising money for the Greater Washington Area's Muscular Dystrophy Association. On May 20th we (myself & 2 friends from work Mary & Tara) are being "arrested" and taken to "jail" and fed "bread and water" which is really lunch at La Portas. We have to raise our "bail money" in order to get out of jail! The goal is to raise $3000 & all of the money goes to benefit MDA!

Here are some pics from our fundraiser that we had last week...

Allison's Birthday

We celebrated my 28th birthday Kentucky Derby style. A lot of friends came out & it was a lot of fun (oh and mint juleps may look pretty, but they taste awful!)

Claire's Big Race

Bagels & Mimosa's EARLY Sunday morning - check

Tacky head gear & beads - check

Cool poster made by moi - check

Claire Rockin her first 10 miler - priceless

Inside all of us is a Wild Thing!

I don't know if you know this, but one of my very favorite authors is Dave Eggers - he has written several books - and if you haven't read A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, then I highly recommend it! We went to see him speak at George Mason's Fall for the Book Festival a few years back, with our friend and fellow Eggers fan Eric, right before the book What is the What came out (seriously - must read these books, and also You Shall Know Our Velocity.)

Okay, all that said, my point is - Where the Wild Things Are, is about come out, directed by Spike Jonze - and it seriously looks so wonderful - and I am SO elated that the screenplay was co-written Dave Eggers. And to make things even better - Eggers is writing a full length adult novel to correspond with the kids book called Wild Things.

YAY is all that can be said!


also - the soundtrack looks to be great - thanks to Karen O from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs!

Twilight Obsession

so...I am coming clean...finally admitting to it

I read all 4 of the Twilight books in 1 week and I really loved them. I mean these books are not something I would usually pick up or even think twice about reading. Kevin and I had been boycotting the movie, but one night we decided to curl up and get a movie on OnDemand, Twilight was one of the only new ones...and we both actually liked it.

So I had a gift card to Barnes and Noble and spent a long time just browsing, enjoying an evening among books while Kevin had to work late. I picked up 2 already - Michael Chabons newest one, Gentlemen of the Road. The other book is Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.

I was about head out when I saw a display in the front for the Twilight books - I grabbed the first one on a whim. We had 2 friends staying with us, Brent & Erin and their baby Ander - so I thought that I would read Twilight first b/c it would be light and I wouldn't become too absorbed...umm I was totally wrong. I read the first one in 2 days, and then had to go back and get the next ones, one after the other, and 3000 pages later I was done. Kevin said I was completely obsessed and consumed by the books - and he is probably right :)

well...that's all i have to say about that. Oh and I snagged this great pic from a friends facebook page (her book club was reading them as well) - oh and now I can not wait to see the next movie, New Moon, which comes out in November (and yes I do feel like a 15 year old)