Thursday, July 28, 2005

BDAY BLITZ 2005

whether you're looking for this...
<--- synergy!
glamour!
excitement!
neon!




...or this

--->

sex!

drugs!

rock &

roll!

brit accents!

...then you must come to BDAY BLITZ 2005, on Friday, August 12; location T.B.A, but most likely it will be Trader Todd's, 3216 N. Sheffield (773) 348-3250 (or any other karaoke establishment that will accomodate large boisterous groups of serious singers)...I'm going to see about reservations, so stay tuned for more posts on Bday Blitz 05.

Among the celebrants/celebrities: Kate (July 3); Katie (July 7); Zach (July 11) Steph (July 19); Rudy (July 31); Melissa (August 10); Sarah (August 17); Ashly (August 19)--and if I've missed you on this list, let me know, and you'll be added to Summer Bday Blitz 05!

I'd love it if you could send me either your a) post address or b) your email address. I'd prefer to send out real, paper invites, but I know this is sort of unrealistic. I'll send out a mass email when I hear more on how many people might show up.

[read more about Babyshambles and Pete Doherty in an interview that mentions Donovan, the future of r n' r (not rest & recuperation though), and many other quotable quotes from the former Libertines frontman: http://www.interviewmagazine.com/images/PeteDoherty.pdf ]

posted by SES @ 12:34 AM 5 comments

Monday, July 25, 2005

save Labor Day!


Don't worry, I haven't visited Rosie.com too much and suddenly become a bull-dyke.

I want to have a Labor Day weekend up at my lakehouse, and I thought what better way to get peoples' attention than to 1) post my very first image, a war-time feminist symbol no less; 2) make them wonder what the hell this post is about; 3) give at least a month's notice so that "plans" can be made and schedules altered.

Here's what I envision for LDW '05 (Labor Day Weekend)...Sat 9/3: drive to Six Flags and spend the day there, making sure to bring bathing suits since I mos def want to hit the new waterpark, then drive up to Port Washington on Sat night; Sun 9/4--Mon 9/5: assorted activities in WI (beach fires, swimming, boozing, tubing [if we can get Le Chris to come], visiting townie bars and taking over their jukeboxes, hot-tubbing and lake jumping, tanning/sunburning, eating pancakes and brats, etc.); Mon 9/5: drive back to various suburbs and city neighborhoods

I will most likely be up LDW anyways, but I thought I'd extend the invite to have an end-of-summer get-together. I promise it will not be like last LDW '05. Plus Mulligan will be there, which is always a major plus in my book. As long as she doesn't get in a bull-rushing mood.

So save the date, if you don't have plans already. Katie makes a killer broccoli & cheddar casserole, and of course, Rog will be manning the griddle. Let me know if you're interested so I know how many people might be there.

I'm so excited I can put pictures in my wordy posts...probably not as excited as others are, no more uninterrupted billion word posts. Maybe I'll throw one in there every once in a while, just to keep you on your blogger toes.

posted by SES @ 11:28 PM 2 comments

sick on blogworld

I realized I've turned into a jerk blogger! I search for comments on other peoples' blogs, and then I feel this strange urge to comment too...it's a creepy obsession I'm not feeling okay about. I'm too wrapped up in blogworld--I have to get out, alive, while I still can!

I'm not going to stop posting forever, but I think I'll figure out www.hello.com (whoa, I just discovered that when you type in "www" the link automatically turns blue! and it's linkable! blogging kind of psychs me out sometimes, like right now, I'm not sure if I was the one who made my template accepting of links, or if blogger.com did...now I'm back into being-intimidated-of-computers mode) and post more pictures. Not enough time to write as much as I did in those early hyper-blogging days.

Went to the hardware store today with both K and R, the one in Hinsdale that is the most outrageously nice and furnished hardware store you'll ever see (two levels!). There was a super-deluxe kitchen on the second floor where they have cooking classes, and a guy from my high school who works there was making tacos for himself and an older female co-worker. [I think he was two years older and used to hang out with a friend's older sister...feel like I remember him with a Miller Lite can in his hand out in a field somewhere, maybe the Beefhouse, that weird party venue in Burr Ridge, which was essentially a wide-open field and a fire pit in the nearby forest.] The dynamic between he and his co-worker was strange, bc I was thinking beefhouse/drunk footballer while he was stirring taco meat and she was slicing lettuce, asking him about his girlfriend.

Then when my mom couldn't tear herself away from the garlic presses and designer handsoap, I sat in a comfy chair and it turned out this was the "wedding planning" section. I paged through a 12 month reminder to your big day (or some other haneous title) book and felt dizzy. Me and Katie saw a matinee of "Wedding Crashers" yesterday, so I was already a bit wedding'ed out but this was the icing on the cake. The book had a guide to securing a church, how to announce the engagement, whose who in the wedding party, and on and on and on.

I decided if I do get married, I'm never reading a book about it, let alone a monthly planner of what to do and when to do it. Ugh. The movie was pretty funny, there's this hilarious scene where Vince Vaughn gets jacked off at the dinner table, and Katie told me the girl who does it is actually Ali G's fiancee. Not a bad movie for the "hottest day in 6 years" but I still have to see: 1. "Hustle & Flow" 2. "Charlie & the Chocolate Factory" 3. "5 x 2" 4. "Howl's Moving Castle" and 5. "Lila Says" ( still undecided on that last one though)

posted by SES @ 6:35 PM 2 comments