my buddy, mareesa, has a couple of great danes. man, just look how giant the man-dog, bronto, is. he's practically a saurus. lame joke. but seriously, he's pretty much the size of a pony. geez.

him and his wife, thandi, recently had puppies, and i really really adore this little guy. he's the cutest little pony-dog puppy-foal i've ever slapped my eyeballs on. if it weren't for the fact that i'm moving out to an apartment soon, i'd have stolen him.

when i say steal, i mean buy.

obviously.

i dont do crime.

this is my BFF-forever, mareesa, rocking my sunglasses. we had lunch at the relocated tony's in PTA on saturday, and seriously stuffed ourselves with giant half-and-half pizza's. the sunglasses are from bellbottoms, by the by, which is where we were mere moments before.

365 days later.

i miss you ol' benj.

this is a picture of my mom's second grade class. it was taken for a local newspaper. my mom, ruth, is the tall girl in the middle. i love this picture. the mountains in the back is part of breivika, where my family still lives. its the most beautiful place i know of. maybe you can recognise it from the photos i took there last year.

anyway, here is one.

this is ross's POV of our west coast story.

he was in all of my pictures, and i am in his.

see the rest of the photos at his blog.

ross and i went for a west coast adventure. these are some of the pictures i took. yes. it was as awesome as it looks.

kenichi hoshine via finally seeing.

i awkwardly googled, cut and pasted the 'montrose/ledner look' in this little number i call 'snoek'.

i dedicate this to ross. he requested it, and now he will probably request it on his plate with lemon.

snoek, 2009

catherine ledner.

x

all this time i'm still obsessed with m.ward.

i don't know how anyone couldn't be.

this is the song i love right now. reminds me of my grandpa who is still my favourite person in the world. actually i'm sure this song will remind everyone of someone like that.

its a good day right? so so good. found a wilco cover of woody guthrie's 'jolly banker'.

here is the original...

and you can download the wilco cover at wilcoworld.net

here is the wilco version

too bloody cool is what i say.

look how happy i am when i am listening to it. he he.

just found the cousin of previously mentioned sexypeople, the super funny awkwardfamilyphotos.

awkward, very.

i guess i should mention that this is what i look like now.

half asleep.

so, i've never been to lusitoland, but on saturday we spent the afternoon there. apologies for the rubbish cellphone photo's, but my camera let me down at the eleventh hour. literally,because we arrived at 11am and then my camera said no.

here is my experience of l-land.

1. first thing, i noticed it seems that in case of an emergency, one is advised to jump into a rubbish bin. or maybe its a portal to a safer place, i don't know.

2. the fleamarket was interesting. there was an abundance of 'paintings'. this one was the pearler of the lot. one can really get absorbed into how creative the 'artist' was with concepts like perspective, human form and even having a head.

and for R300, it can be yours.

this is another beauty. an epic sheep-scape standing some 2m tall. picture this baby in your faux tuscan palace.

3. remember dear little pippi longstocking?

first lets all sing along.

and then buy the t-shirt.

4. this is a skeleton motorbike helmet. its legendary, no? made ross look at the same time badass and anorexic.

5. while enjoying our 2nd to 3rd caipirinhas the mc announced that elvis would be performing soon. he took pains to assure us that it was the elvis, straight from memphis. he was obviously a dirty liar. anyone under 5 caipirinha's could see that this guy is only a fairly crusty impersonator.

7. the fairground equipment was pretty old. so there was definitely an element of danger and the risk of loss of limb. personally, i don't look too kindly on being violently shaken about at great heights. the ferris wheel is more my speed.

8. oh and this is a picture of ross.

9. on the street, busking, was this chap. i think he's a bit of a genius. he built this amazing music contraption thingie with all movable foot operated parts. we gave him money, and he played us a song.

there were two little figures banging the drums and tambourine and dancing.

and then there was this screen that scrolled around, and had several different hand drawn scenes on. this one advertises 2010 and cautions againts aids.

and then, if you look way close, you see this little figure brushing his teeth. pretty impressive, hey?

x.