new boots and no camera!!!

tuesday was the day
i found the boots that i've been searching for
black
sleek
tall
no heels
hard to find
super cool
no photo

so i drew a picture....not actual size



alas my camera has a malfunction and has to be sent back to the manufacture for repairs....that's a whole other stupid problem.

if any one reading this knows me very well you should understand i've had the problem often and i never seem to change.

never remember where the "special place" is for my important things.
i have very many "special places". this time the special place was the box the camera came in with a special folder that the sales person stapled the receipt in......i didn't find it until yesterday.
i even had a duplicate receipt made by the store. it took a week to receive it.

well, no i have all my ducks in a row and i need to send off the camera to see if they will fix it............

i just can't sleep

november is here.
halloween is over.
four more years.

yesterday hands down was the saddest day that i've worked at st.marks.
people were coming in with puffy eyes from crying and long faces with deep sighs - i was one of them.
ohio.
ohio was the state that turned the tide to the republicans.
i hate ohio.
i think i hate most of america for being the red states. even colorado!!! we were red!!!!

what i don't understand is that we could all vote for renewable energy but we couldn't get all our asses in gear and elect someone other than bush?

i think i will not be able to sleep for awhile about this matter.

kerry? what a putts for conceding so quickly. should've been edwards as the candidate.
i yelled with others about this all day at work yesterday. i got home with a large bottle of wine to share with my roommates and proceeded to bitch and moan some more. and here i am at six thirty in the morning whining !!! i haven't even had a cup of tea yet....... ok enough.....

HALLOWEEN
the friday of halloween weekend a gang of us halloweeners went to a party hosted by the lovely bartendress of the thin man miss stephanie.
good lord did she have a lot of guests and liquor!
it was quite a good show of fellow costumed attendees at the party.

jocky men = fisher man gear, football players and some times dressed as ugly woman
bimboy girls = skimpy anything, angle, devil, eighties valley girl equipped with neon necklace
nerd men = some costume with deep meaning. "i am John J. Armstrong, now assistant director
of American prison operations in Iraq." sweet
and here's all of us

nils trying to make his way to hell faster


sam, he looks beautiful everyday of the year. babayaga


salior/frank sinatra gio and charlie chaplin nick. damn gio looks hot!!!


nils trying harder


mikey flander as once again panty hose ballon boy


gio's distrubed by my costum - ballerina clown


after this photo the camera went boom on the ground!!! hummmmmmmm?


and fun was had by all.......

halloween 2004

well we didn't start off with quite the bang we're used to.
but we having been doing a few things....

before vacation sam hosted a clay party. the theme of the party was to make scary skulls and other goolish objects that could be useful or not.

i made an ash tray for gio


last sunday we had some more people over to carve pumpkins. lots o'fun.
done by girl sam

this is mine

i'm not sure


last night sam, hazel and i went to the scream park in brighton. good fun. pretty scary.



it was the high tech scary that you'll find at primitive fear or over at elitches haunted houses.
it was the good ol' dangerous fun we all used to have during halloween - the halloween when mom and dad didn't check your candy!


there were two haunted houses, a fun house, a kiddy haunted train ride and another kiddy haunted house.

well if any one knows hazel you'll know that her biggest fear is clowns.
end count of evening = fifteen clowns ( some children size in groups),
two pint size scream masks,
several gools with blood,
several odds and ends people in the dark
one chainsaw guy,
one red neck boy on top of his trailer who would leep on to trampoline
and bounce onto another trailer!!!!! super cool

moving on

the rest of the trip?

i have waited too long and now san fran seems like a foggy memory.... pun not intended

napa......
at the last wine tasting were other older couples seemed amused to find out that we were biking around to the tastings. crazy kids!




the drive back was short and we stopped off at the golden gate.....



after we got back from napa there was only three days left before the drive home to denver.
we had not been over to the mission. we went in search of the brazilian market that we had heard of....we found a cute little italien market as well....



gio and i spent a beautiful late afternoon at baker beach.
this is the beach that cathy and darren used to live by when they lived in the presidio








over all the vacation was brilliant but to short.
the time i spent in the car driving was almost equal to the time in sf. but there were parts of nevada and utah that were breath taking: canyons, mountains, big sky.
it really should have been a two week vacation....
hard to pull off with the both of us at st.marks.

thanks again to my two wonderful sisters and super great brother in law using his powers for good!!! thank you for helping us see you all and have a great vacation!!!!

maybe soon we will all be able to go away to gether some where warm!!!!
not that i don't like the cold..... ocean city any time soon?

there and back again

vacation.

i want more than one big one every three years.....

the big question i heard from a lot of friends was: in your car?
what's wrong with my car? she not beautiful but her heart is good!

i have taken long drives before. my grandmother lived in florida and i would drive down with family and then later on being the driver (twenty-six hours dc to fla). the drive out to san fran i just wanted to get us out there....we took 80.

i don't think i'll ever drive on 80 again. large trucks, high speeds, salt flats all not good. 50 is good: beautiful scenery, not much traffic, gas stations at least every one hundred and six miles.

we arrived at heathers at ten at night....she and her roommate were asleep. heathers and her roommate thought we were arriving two days later....ooops

heathers home


gio and i spent the first day walking thru golden gate park - which is the back yard to my sisters!
(if you want to see more photos - www.zerogerman.com - photos)
we walked out to the height. this area reminded me of a hippy georgetown from the 80's. it did have a ton of thrift store - but i didn't want any stinky hippy crap! after the haight we made our way over to skippy's coffee shop to meet up with skip and go out for dinner.

skip took us to a friend's restaurant "bluejays". the resturant is soul food. the food was good but i was more impressed with the layout of the restaurant. it had the most beautiful u shaped counter with bar for more casual dinning. they even used old shutters as part of the lower wall treatment! supercute!

we also took a side trip to napa valley. we rented a room in calistoga and got to bike around and go to a few wineries. ah! there is the best italian restaurant there! they make their own pastas and had the best ravioli, i haven't had any pasta that delicious since the east coast with the di dio and their familie members. uncle joe's cousin marie reagan had a wedding for one of their three daughters- good lord they can that family cook!

food.
the trip had a lot of not eating at home. the restaurants that we chose we good but san fran never wowed me like new york could do. although we did go to an interesting vegi chinese restaurant the last night we were there. the hulahula? hua hua? hu ho? i can't remember.
they served items like vegibeef, vegipork, vegichicken, vegifish. it was interesting, but i don't think i could eat fake meat all the time.

activities:
love parade - a parade from germany that started by a dj that has turned into a huge event. this is the first year that the love parade was tried in another country. super fun! here's some pics







heather and her friend and german hiko


some freaks


some dj


some big boobies


super cutie


zen techno freaks


more cuties


crowded freaks


bridge freaks


dirty clown freaks


big balled freaks


thumpin' freaks




short bus freaks


numchuck swinging freak








super cool! painting the feeling of the parade


heather's so cute that a film wanted her to try out.....the movie's called drunk! they want people to come and drink as muck as they want and answer questions....will heather do it?
will find out later!

then time to go home....it looks like everyone thought that at the same time!!!! i was a sardine for an hour


more to come.........