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Reasons why my job is awesome

I’m a nanny and sometimes I get to take my girls to Busch Gardens for the day. It’s a pretty swell time and yesterday Jordan decided to film our adventure riding the Griffon. Quite a fun roller coaster if you like roller coasters.

Roller coasters are so silly and sorry for all the screaming.

Poladroid

So I just talked about this program in the last post. But I just went crazy and “poladroided” a bunch of my pictures. The whole application is really cute. The photos “develop” on your desktop and once you’ve done 10 of them you have to reload the program because the “cartridge” is empty. So cute.

I’m gonna share some.

Birthdays and beaches

This past weekend was pretty great.

Friday night was Becki’s birthday dinner at Edo’s Squid followed by some delicious chocolate unicorn birthday cake. I went over to Mary’s house a couple hours before dinner to help her with Ruby so she could get ready and stuff. That little girl already has me completely wrapped around her little finger. She’s completely amazing. She came to dinner with all of us and was quite the little trooper on her first girl’s night!

(I used Poladroid to make it look like this, so awesome!)

After cake and ice cream back at Mary’s place I went to Nile where Kenny was unveiling his newest DJ endeavor. Towards the end of the night he played some really great songs like Martha and Vandellas “Heat Wave” and other fun dance songs. It was pretty cute.

Saturday morning everyone got up early to make the trek to Virginia Beach. I drove separately because I stayed at my parent’s house overnight. It ended up being 11 of us on the beach after what felt like forever to finally get there. Saturdays in July at the beach are crowded no matter where you go. The southernmost beach you can go to was almost impossible. Once everyone got there and was settled it was a pretty awesome day. Phil took a ton of photos of all the Sauce ladies jumping, playing in the water and pretty much looking ridiculous.

photo by Phil Bowne

I got to hang out with my family on Saturday night, we grilled some burgers and just caught up. The next morning I took my little sister and her friend to the beach for a couple hours. It was kind of nice just worrying about one car down there and just our stuff. I’m feeling not as pale as I was before, and think I might go back next week. Let’s be honest laying on the sand is 100 times better than laying on a rock by the river.

Holy cow

This is absolutely amazing. The only one I can remotely tell is done from a ballpoint pen is the very first one. And that’s only because I know to look for it.

reblogged from bringonthetragedy:

31-year-old artist juan francisco casas creates hyper-realistic drawings using only blue bic ballpoint pens based on photos of his friends. the level of detail in these drawings is absolutely astonishing. each piece takes him approximately 2 weeks and he goes through about 4 pens.

wow.

here’s the full article.

thanks to sara at little lamb for sending me the link!

edit: i wrote a comment about this, but it’s worth blogging about, so here’s my edit. the sheer talent and skill alone is enough to be fascinated by here.. but another thing that interests me is this girl. i’m always intrigued when an artist does a lot of pieces featuring one specific girl. it makes me wonder what the story is. who is she? why is she such an inspiration to the artist? it just makes something already compelling even more so. awesome.

TCB

I love Captain Monterey Jack.

LIKE or DISLIKE

Unlike Facebook my blog posts are something you can “dislike” if you “dislike” it. But if you “like” it you can also “like” it. So “like” or “dislike” away!

People in pizza slice costumes becoming pizzas

This just might be my new favorite website ever.

http://www.peopleinpizzaslicecostumesbecomingpizzas.com/

Something I would totally do

Alex (yes another reference) just sent me this video of this wedding party’s unconventional way of doing the wedding entrance. It’s really cute.

You guys are crazy

I posted a link earlier to photos from last Saturday night at Cous Cous. It was the all girl DJ night Cherry Bomb and the first time I’ve had my camera out with me in awhile. When I posted all the pictures I only had about 400 something hits for the entire day today, now it’s almost to 3000. You guys are nuts.

Moustache cupcakes

The non-hairy kind.

via cakespy