Finally, a Vegas recap

It's nearly an entire month since Anna and I went to Vegas, gees! Time does fly!! Wow I have been slack. It's harder to write about the trip in detail when so much time has elapsed so I will be lazy and make highlights, I might even throw in a joke!

Teetering on a pancake rock over the grandcanyon. Awesome plants. Anna by the Canyon. My fave photo of all, before boarding our tour bus, we took a snap shot of oursevlves from the reflection of the bus's shiny wheel caps!

Another cool jumping shot. I find these plants fascinating. I don't know what their name is!


I had wanted to take photos of his shoes, just his shoes but was too chicken shit to ask.



Anna enjoying her mimosa in the morning.

*If you go to Vegas for a buffet, make it at Wynns! It costs around $32 for lunch, it sounds alot but take my word, it beats Sahara's $7 buffet by whatever 32-7 is and alot.
(see a joke!)


Walking along the strip is quite an exercise but much needed after all the consuming of foods!
One of the oldies "Frontier" has been torn down, as has "Stardust".


The highlight would have been Sat night, hands down.

Adam's brother had tickets to the National finals bull riding champs and could not go so Adam took Anna and I, along with his wee 4 year old newphew Andy. (Andy is adorable but he did not like me. Some kids just don't jive with me even if they are cute as a button) If you have never been to a rodeo, yeah that's right, that's what they are called, you have to! It's absolutely amazing!! Full of cow boys and mexican families in their adorable cow boy hats and tight tight jeans (oooofff! Tight is bad) The stadium was jam packed and I've never seen any arena/stadium jam packed. It was insane and I fed off the vibrant energy. I tell you what, the mexicans know how to do the mexican wave right, it does not suck. Plus a tall pint of beer is NOT expensive! They don't guage you like they do at the Rose Quarter here in Portland. It was only 3 dollars for a tall plastic tree glass of beer! Wow oh wow! I'm in heaven!

After the rodeo, we headed to help Adam's boyfriend because his tire was flat and he did not know how to change it. I thought I knew but then it dawned on me we were in trouble. 2 gay guys and 2 asian chicks does not equals handy work. After 2 hours of " let me have a go!", we gave up and called someone who had AAA and the guy got the job done in 5 seconds flat. So what was there left to do but drown our sorry egos into tequila shots and delicious long islands at gay bars?! Exactly that.

I like getting kisses from Anna. Adam, Me, Anna

It was the first time in a LONG while that I called it quits at 5am, I can hardly make it to midnight these days! After sleeping for two hours, Adam drove us to the airport to get back to Portland. Wow, I think I slept as if I was in a coma for the next two days. It's official, I'm incapable of partying like this anymore.

Fin De Semana!

Rejoice! Two whole days of crafting!! (That is, if I don't have a huge hang over from tonight's Halloween party.) I'm even considering not drinking that much so I could have a sick free weekend! Boy, I'm getting old. I do, however have to come up with a costume and since I'm a tight wad, I'm going to do things the old fashion way: free and other man's trash.

That's right. Everyone knows that science labs are homes to treasure troves of insanely sturdy and new cardboard boxes from all those vials that we order and biotech companies package them into boxes 5000x their size. This I kid you not. Along with free great boxes, I have colourful tapes to use and discarded plastic sheets and boxes that the science world does not recycle. (At least not in our lab anyways) So before 10pm tonight, I have to come up with something scary that can be made from the above ingredients. Get that brain a churning!


This weekend, I want to, gulp, make a purchase. Not cords or buttons or anything for Muntedkowhai but for me, ME!! As you know, I must have done something horrible in my past life to not be able to find any decent jeans in this lifetime. I hate hate wearing jeans but love the idea of wearing them. It just seems so impossible. Everywhere I look online, I see jeans that is covalently bonded to the models arse or at stores I'd see jeans that are so unflattering, I might as well wear diapers. So wheres the inbetween? Can't a girl get some non tight, non inhale and button type of jeans? Can't there be a somewhat loose fitted jeans that also makes you look sexy?!

J.crew! Their pants always fit me really well but I have never tried on their jeans. This weekend, I'm going to go into a Jcrew store and try me on some denim.


Muntedkowhai:

Around 2 nights ago, Dana contacted me through Etsy. She's in Hong Kong but grew up in Scotland(what an interesting demograph!) and wanted to ask if I could custom make a piece for her using her grandmothers jade. She even sent me close up photos of the jade and I was so excited to get this challenge!
Dana wanted to use this piece in my store as a base:
Without the button and with her jade in the middle, somehow. It was hard to propose a logistic way of tackling it online and I understood how weary one would be to send an heirloom to a complete stranger! However, after a few conversation exchanges, I think we're both comfortable with the idea and the jade is now in the mail on it's way to Portland, Oregon. Dana sounds like a really neat gal! It's amazing how people can find you and I'm glad she did because I think this project will be quite interesting. Eastern jade meets Venetian lace patterns! Awesome!


Next Thursday, I'll be off to Vegas to meet up with Anna and possibly the world's greatest mormon, Adam. I have realised that the people I love alot has names starting with A: Aaron, Anna, ok well maybe not. That's it.