good Time to roll on, good Time to roll on, good Time to roll on (and so on and so on...)

due to (a simply f-ing awesome time at) wefest last year, i missed TWO, count em 2!, kings of leon shows at first ave. this year, they shall not be slipping, sliding or shimmieing past me (nor you?). i have 3 sets of tix (psssst: 5 of which i won't be using!) for the nov 1 show at the orpheum theater. who's in?!
KOL looked, has looked for years, like this. very 90's!

but they've since upDated! yummers.well, when trying to directly post the video link from youtube it says it's no longer avail, but then i go there and watch it (a minimum of 12 times in a row, each time). meh - i'll just offer it to you Like This... as long as you're getting there!
you have to listen to the new single, too. it's called 'sex on fire.' need i say more?! no. so GO!

ok. i'm hooked

so i met her. let's just say, i will be putting more than 3000 miles on my car this year. i am in love. yup.

finally ... she's arrived! and just (not) in time, that little shit ;)

mya jo dahlstrom joined the not-in-the-womb, cold, harsh world thursday may 1 at 404 am.
awe....
unfortunately, this little lady was born just 3 hours before my plane left, so i have yet to meet her. that stinker - already messing up the agenda! suppose there is a LOT more of that to come - wheeeeeee.
as i was leaving derek&cami's abode tuesday evening, i asked, quite politely, if cami could just go into labor that evening so i wouldn't miss the big moment. well, she went along with the plan, just a little too slowly for my so OH so important schedule. i was allowed to stop by the hospital After cami got her epidural and was sedate/mellow/decently happy. i won't post the pic i took of she and i, even though i want to, as per her wishes/demands/deathThreats. lemme get to the point, the cutie, the Pictures:


i'm guessing this is napping? probably.



perhaps after a bath? we'll go with that.

i'll be consistent and suggest more napping. babies do this a lot i hear, so odds are!

eyes seems to be open, so this must be sitting-there-being-100%-helpless?

i'm off to meet the small tike in a couple minutes. wish me luck - first impressions can be killer if not pulled off flawlessly.

probably don't need to mention this, BUT:

More to Come on This Subject ;)

SUCK IT, Monkeys ... I'M Going RePublican!

dominican republican, that is.

enjoy your drizzly, drab high of (maybe) 60 degree week, bitches!

my all inclusive, cocktail laced week at a lovely 5 star resort shouldn't suck. too much.

fyi: there's still room in my bed for a +1. ah, i'll a cabana boy'll work out just fine...

i'm actually going here for a friend's wedding. shadia and i were roommates nearly 10 years ago, my first year down in minneapolis, my first year at the UofMN. while she's been in chi town for 7 or so years, we've kept in touch and i really wanted to make this trip happen. these types of resorts are 1. romantic, 2. expensive, 3. lonely, iffin you have no one to travel with. why am i going??? how am i going???

i'm so maternal and love children so much, so i'm part-time nannying two&a half year old twins!!!

i know, i know! you're thinking, those poor children - they won't survive a day, much less a week... well, let's hope this comes not to that. we fly in tomorrow and my duties are limited to helping out on the plane (which is Great cause i NEED distractions while in the air, as we all know, i'm terrified!), then i'm free for the evening. i get the lil rascals friday night (and 3 other nights of 7) for all of 3 conscious evening hours while maNpa do dinnerNsuch. the wedding is sat and i get to help out during the ceremony, since ma is in the wedding as sister of bride, then i'm free. 1 daytime round-them-up-and-don't-kill-them session will occur midweek. ...das it.

oh yeah, and (breaking all sorts of guinness world records) there will be nearly 100 in attendance for this crazy, unprecedented (size-wise) destination wedding. grandma will be hovering, aunts and friends will be doting, i will be surrounded by various assistants. that reminds me (as if it hadn't crossed my mind) F the cabana boy - groom jeremy has a ton of friends going... where was i going with this before daydreaming sidetracked me? ummmm i got it - all that said, breaking this down by the hour, i think i'm clearly a winner!

shall report on the week after it goes down :)

green bus

what is THIS coming down the road?
a hybrid metrotransit bus, it is!!! there's awesome stadium seating in there, it smells new and it's FREE!!!

thru the end of the year all fares are waived so Hop On.

these buses offer 22% better fuel mileage & produce 90% fewer emissions & are soooo very quiet.

what an initiative - good job twin cities!