Ze Tattoos

Hehe...taken at the tattoo parlor, still fresh and bleeding a little. We've been wanting to get these done for a long time. It was awesome! I'm the upper one and Josh is the lower one. :o) We're both getting more next term.

Slice n Dice

Josh and I are getting our anniversary tattoos tomorrow! Pics to follow...

Nightmare in Tigard

We got the boys fixed today. Ciro, especially has taken it pretty hard. Even with the sedation from the anesthesia he's been walking from room to room howling as if to ask "Where are they?? What the fuck did you do with them??!!".

Poor babies.

We got the deluxe package with biofeedback, laser and 5 day painkiller shot. When Clio had her operation a few years ago they didn't give us any options...we just brought her home and she was miserable and tired/cranky for a week. The boys are only a little sleepy and angry I think. They didn't like the 1 hour drive out to the frickin' Westside suburbs, in traffic, or the 45 min. trip back (we were at the front end of rush hour, thankfully). All that to be tortured (weighed, and examed) by a stranger and then to be woken up to missing body parts. No wonder kitties hate the vet!

Oktoberfest, scary traffic followed by kick-ass dinner

Man!! Oktoberfest was a blast! I AM a little irritated about paying 22 bux for 2 beers, but I've learned from my mistakes and won't repeat them. The biergarten sucked...then we found this awesome public house near the heart of the festival w/ no cover and cheep booze. Fun fun! Also there was a live dyke band that sounded like Indigo Girls had a lovechild with Janis Joplin...pretty good! Getting to and from Mt. Angel was a nightmare though!! It's only 40 miles from Portland, but I think half the city was going down there at the same time as us. I-5 was a snarled mess as soon as we got to the 214 interchange in Woodburn. It took us an hour to move 1 mile. Oddly enough, once we got on 214 it was mostly smooth. On the way back (*&^@#) we hit a dead stop on hwy 99e, had to turn around and hop back on 214, which was at a stand-still...so we cheated and used surface streets thru Woodburn and got around it all only to find ourselves sitting on the I-5 parking lot. So we tried to take hwy 51 up thru Aurora and hit a dead stop there too....all roads leading back to the city were absolute crap last night...it took us 2.5 hrs to get home! We had dinner reservations at 7 and skated in at the last possible moment. Dinner was flippin' killer though!! We went out for Ethiopian (again...every few months) and there was a live band playing...and a dance troupe. Very sexy and hypnotic. We all had a great time. Yummy food, good service, cheap drinks and crazy music/dancers. Nice day.

And now it's back to school!!

Oktoberfest...Beertastic!

WHEEEEE!!!! It's that time of year! We're going down to Mt. Angel for the Oktoberfest celebration this weekend. BBBBBEEEEEEERRRRRR!!!!!

I'm super-excited to see what kind of delicious offerings all those crazy monks and nuns at the abbey have in store for us this year. I'm looking for something in a vegetarian "sausage" type thing and a mountain of sauerkraut and a gallon of porter to go with it. I plan on getting tanked. Muahahahahahaha!!! TTTTTAAAAAYYYYYYSSSSTTTTTAAAAYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!

I love beer.

Full of yummy garden goodness

Feeling mostly better about things. This has been a really stressful couple of weeks. Some issues have come up concerning our home and we are dealing with them...slowly. I'm leaving it at that, for now.

This is the most delectable breakfast ever imagined. Fresh Anaheim peppers, zucchini, onion, fresh basil and oregano and savory...oh I love to garden! Throw it together with some eggs and cheese and a touch of flour and *BAM!*, you've got yourself a crustless quiche inspired by the wonderful chile relleno. Pure heaven.

Just add coffee and a cozy spot on the deck and enjoy a warm late-summer morning....ahhhhhh

Greenery

Looking forward to Fall; the rain we get in the Pacific NW is kick-ass. We'll be able to go mushroom hunting in around a month! I'm so over Summer!

Can't find a rock big enough...

Or a hole deep enough to crawl into and hide. Having a shitty week.

Sorting Day

Meh.

Today we are sorting through our business inventory as we prepare to sell off what is left of our company to a lucky buyer. Praise jebus for this woman...I didn't know what we were going to do with all of this stuff that is just taking up space in the mancave. Money is nice too.

Cutest Corn Ever

This is from our garden. Since we're wooded, we don't get a ton of sun over the entire garden, so some plants got part shade when they should've been full-sun. Our corn is delicious...but tiny. It's demicorn...lol.

Unity

Wow. Clio doesn't share anything...especially with the 'new' kittens (we got them back in June @ 6 weeks old). This just started this morning...so proud! This is all thanks to the squirrels that live behind our bedroom.

Beware the Crazy

Rolling! This is the best seizure warning ever.

It's Alive!

Yeah, I'm a loser. I've been lost in the land of Facebook. Also, I'm a full-time student and have had way too much on my plate this summer. Sue me. Not like anyone reads this anyway!! Thought I'd share a mug of myself...Mr. Teddybear. Josh and I just got back from an OSA (Oregon Student Association) retreat. HARDCORE!! Josh is on the OSERA board, they help influence policy in the legislature for students equal rights. Anyway, it was 3 days of intense board meetings and many other non-retreat like events. There was really no rest, 14 hours of sitting, followed by nightly drunken (presumably, we only attended one for a few minutes) bonfires on the beach in Newport, OR. BEAUTIFUL, BTW.

Pics are Josh (on the left in the upper pic) and myself...also I didn't realize that James' butt was captured just to the upper right of my head, it's a good butt, I'm sure he would be pleased....lol)