phontographs

another week went by too quickly. i cannot even say "i've been so busy" anymore. i'm always busy, you guys are always busy, we are all busy. what i do know is that the weeks seem to be flying by these days. lp left on thursday to head to austin for a bachelor party so it was me and the pup for a long weekend!!! my dad came to visit for the weekend so i played tourist. i hadn't gotten to go see a lot of the "touristy" stuff for a while and i forgot how fun it is and how cool this city can be. if you ever come visit, let me know. i'm a pretty rad tour guide.

i had to wear a blazer and boots. at the end of APRIL. come on, dc. get it together.

work. awesome.

rainy days=glasses (cool zit, meg)

when playing tourist, a visit to natural history museum is a must. dino bones!!!

one of my favorite dc shirts.

my little shadow

think i can make this for weebay?

bluegrass and folk festival

oh, jefferson.

cool beaded bug at the native american museum

really wanted to buy these stickers

fish at eastern market- i just want to squeeze this guy

my baby is growing

driving buddy

thanks for keeping me alert weebay

strangers with weebay

brooklyn, ny. we were trying to walk weebay really quick before sarah's shower. he was being cuckoo (brooklyn really freaked him out!!) so i was dragging him along to the coffee shop. sarah went in and he started making his freaky little gremlin noises. this little girl who was coming home from her soccer game saw him and freaked out. plopped her booty on the sidewalk, scooped up my pup and hugged him so tight i thought his head would pop off. she sat there for about 20 minutes. at the end, she discovered he had a bit of poo on his tiny booty that got on her arm and showed it to me (like i was supposed to do something-hello? you picked up my dog, i didn't ask you to). so moral of that story: watch out for poop. 

tunetastic

this week, the third album of the mermaid avenue sessions came out. if you don't know the story behind this, i'm going to give you a short (and probably not great) synopsis. let me start with the fact that you probably need to enjoy woody guthrie to enjoy this music. story goes that woody guthrie had all these lyrics to songs locked away in an attic (again, i am taking liberties with this story and i love to embellish the truth so take this with a grain of salt). his daughter had them and gave them to billy bragg, a british songwriter, who collaborated with wilco to record and produce the songs. now, what i also heard on a documentary or something at one time, was that woody had told bob dylan he could have the songs, which led to some controversy. but i could be making that up- like i said, lp always gets on me for "embellishing" (that's the nice way of saying it).

so, my favorite song is actually not from this newest volume that came out but from the first volume. if you haven't heard any of these, check them out.

i seriously love woody guthrie, and i really like these albums. on a side note, if you haven't heard much woody guthrie, you need to get on that. and townes van zandt. these guys are amazing and influenced a lot of the alt-country musicians that i love today. there are a few great documentaries on each of them. be here to love me  is about townes van zandt (if you need any more confirmation, imdb says it also 'stars' willie nelson, guy clark and joe ely) and i love ain't got no home on woody guthrie, which is a pbs documentary. sigh, i love pbs too. anyway, here's my favorite song from the sessions!!!

favorite things: jeans

i am always on the lookout for a good pair of jeans. sometimes, i feel like it's my life's mission. as one of the lucky people who can wear jeans to work, i always justify it with a "oh, it's like most people buying work outfits!' (although lp may disagree with me!). i go through cycles on a weekly basis. lately, i've been loving these super flared jeans by madewell. the waist is a little high- which is surprising, as i have no waist and try to steer clear of anything above my hip-waist. but they fit awesome, are super soft and comfy and i do love me a little hippie flare on my jeans. plus, they're on sale right now so i should probably go buy another pair. 

phontographs

 this week was as busy, as all the other weeks this month have been. i wore some things, i ate some stuff and we went to nyc on friday for lp's sister's baby shower. weebay loves being in the car, so it was his form of heaven. i'm exhausted today, but hopefully i'll bounce back tomorrow!!!

first short dress without tights!!!!

meg ring from when i was in middle school!! awesome. 

 one of my kids was wearing this rad devo shirt. we sang 'whip it' together

                                     tiny strawberry                                                lp's dinner of salmon and taters

new ring

rediscovered energy drink

i like yellow and polka dots......

during the car ride, weebay wither slept or sat up on my knees the whole time

traveling buddy

                     times square                                          cookies, wine and lp (well, his hat)= heaven

brooklyn hood

 

sweet rach loving on weebay (and vice versa)

                                               trip home always makes me a little stir crazy

music: sonos

yall should know this by now, but i'm a HUGE music fan and so is lp. in fact, that's definitely one of the reasons that we were initially attracted to each other. we both love music and not just plain old regular music but we love finding new artists and independent bands and all that. music is a HUGE part of our lives. now, what i'm sure i have also talked about is how amazing lp is with technology. thank goodness because i'm a technology idiot.

when we first started dating, lp told me all about this music system he was going to get. it was called a sonos system. the idiot version of how it works: you have one/two/three/a million "zones" in your house which plays music from the internet, your hard drive or, in our case, a record player. each zone can be connected to one another and play the same thing, or if you'd like, can be disconnected from each other to play different music. you can also turn zones off, so for instance, if you are in the bedroom and want music, but don't want it to play in your kitchen, you just disconnect the kitchen and you can play music in your bedroom. one of the best things about it is that there are no wires. so you can have all this music without wires running all through your house.

we absolutely love this system. we have several of their amps:

each of these amps are hooked up to speakers to play our music (of course lp has fancy speakers that i don't even know about!!). we also just got their new Play3, which is pretty much like a portable speaker that plays your sonos. we use it in the bathroom and unhook it when we have people over to take it outside.

with your sonos, you can use rhapsody, which is one of my favorite music services ever. you pay less than $20 a month and can play allllll the music you want through the sonos. or, if you get a rhapsody supported player (like the sansa) you can run around with your rhapsody.

overall, we love our sonos. it is seriously one of the best things we have ever gotten. ever. we play music everyday and love listening and dancing around our house to all the music we can play through our sonos!!!!

tunes

i was going to write about this band i've been listening to lately called bahamas. if you haven't heard of them, check them out! i couldn't find an actual video, but i found this weird video that someone made where it's just the cover of the album and the song:

then i got to thinking about what else i've been listening to lately and let me tell you, i never get tired of listening to beirut. ugh, i am obsessed with his music. a few years ago, i listened to the flying club cup nonstop. (totally had to look that up. again, i can recognize/sing all the songs and not know one song title or album title. worst. music. fan. ) anyway, i like to look at videos because you know you never see those things on mtv anymore. they're too busy showing spin offs of jersey shore and stuff about pregnant teenagers- thank goodness for youtube!! anyway, this video is amazing!!! love the music, the dancing, the costumes. beautiful. all of it.

strangers with weebay

last week i was out for a walk with my little man. all of sudden i hear, "oh my f*!%#ing goodness! you're kidding me!" it was a woman who was out for a walk with her dog and while i thought she might have been in trouble, turns out she was just another person who needed a little weebay to the rescue. she picked him up and cuddled on him and then held her dog and my dog together so "they could be friends." she also told me she wanted to eat my dog he was so cute (please don't). i asked her to pose for a picture and this is what we got:

phontographs

it was a crazy week. seems like this month is a crazy month, actually. i had tons of work stuff, lp went on a last minute trip wed-sat to rochester (woo hoo) and my weekend was packed. friday i worked, then hit up the mall for a bit before i came home. i cleaned the floors and picked up the house, then went to have a drink with shea. saturday i went running and took weebay to the park for about an hour before i ran to the store. then i picked up eileen, bought flowers and plants and planted them. that night i had to go to a work dinner at cava (yessssssss) and came home asap to see lp since he got home while i was at dinner. today i had to go into work for a bit then we all went to a puppy class for weebay. let's just say that although he has some work to do, he won the trainer over with his cuteness. i can't believe it's sunday. i am exhausted and the next few weeks are going to be just a crazy, so let's all keep our fingers crossed that we make it through.

morning cuddles with my little buddy

tuesdays outfit

thursdays outfit

i pulled two of weebay's teeth this week!!!!

weebay thought he was the bomb at the dog park

then he passed out

his favorite new spot since the weather is nicer

my saltwaters

plants at fragers

my backyard

pretty little flowers

going out for dinner

lp made me bacon pancakes. they are as good as they sound.

little buddy all pooped out

seriously. tired.