"Dinner Rolls"

There are several things Katie has taught me over the years. Some of these things are as follows:

1. The difficult skill of making raptor noises.
2. How to make a marvelous bruschetta.
3. Tips on tweaking photos

And today she taught me how to make a "special" kind of dinner roll that her aunt taught her how to make. I had already made dough when Katie came in and excitedly told me her Aunt makes amazing rolls for dinner and she could show me how to set them up.
So I did as she instructed and she rolled them. When we pulled them out of the oven we fell into a fit of giggles.
She swears it doesn't turn out that way usually, but unfortunately this time they ended up looking a bit phallic. I would include a picture here but I will leave that up to Katie.
Next time Katie tells me she is going to teach me something I may ask her to be a bit more specific.

Wild Women Night

One day out of every month I get to spend an evening with four of the most incredible women I know.
Wild Women Night, except that everyone says we are actually "mild" women. Its true sometimes (and sometimes not- hey, what happens at WWN stays at WWN) but where else can you sit and eat delicious food (French dip-esque sandwiches with a kick, caramelized onions, yummy cheesy homemade mac and cheese, asparagus wrapped in blue cheese and some sort of fancy bacon and Katie's famous chocolate moose.) and sing along to "Gay or European" OMG and feel completely comfortable and at home?

On a side note, tonight I was not "glad" I was packaging left overs and just like in the Gladware Ziplock commercials, all of my food fell right out of the bottom of the bag and onto Wendy's carpet. Ginger, the schnoodle, thought she had struck gold. Oops. Guess I should have used Glad...Sorry about that Wendy!

PD Weekend 2- Top 7

1. Staying up until 3am
2. Photography
3. Watching movies with Susan's Techno music instead instead of the movie's sound on
4. Watching fun movies with actual sound
5. sipping coffee and chatting
6. sipping drinks and chatting
7. proving to Katie that I can indeed kick her *** if she tries to goose me again...

My Favorite so far

Last night while working on Leahpeah's shoulders:
"I can tell you are really good at this."
It was like a weird pick up line you never want a guy to say to you but from Leah, it just sends you into a fit of giggles.
And today:
"But my question is this, Is your family a nudie family?" - Katie

PD #2

Tonight Katie and I will travel to Palm Dessert for our second PalmDessertphototakingdrinkinonehandjumpingthroughexpensiveartpiecesbrunchattheclub weekend with friends. We have no set plan for terrorizing the town yet but I am positive Susan will come up with something.
She has already threatened to take me to JCPenny's and Baker's Square for a grave mistake I made yesterday regarding age and the Snoop Dawg Language. Note to self: Susan is fluent in Snoop, fur shizzle.
Updates this weekend.
In the meantime in honor of Susan, Gizzoglize my page for some laughs.

Oh, right...sorry

Apparently, not only do I not know half the words on Katie's list
but I also have a habit of telling people that the words they are using are not actually words.
I.E.
In recent conversation I learned that "interpolate" is actually a word no matter how many times I protest that it is not. In case you were wondering it was used in the context of definition 3.

The Famous PD Weekend...

I was reluctant to write a blog about my Palm Desert Trip a couple weekends ago, number one because I was sick the whole weekend and still felt too fuzzy to make any sense by the time I got home, and number two everyone that went wrote these incredible accounts of the trip that are impossible to top. Not that I need to top them…they just wrote them so well!

But alas, Katie gave me the death look yesterday for not updating my blog and so I must write something even if it is out of fear for my life.

So without further ado:

I went on excursion to Palm Desert with Katie and four other awesome and talented women for a weekend of photo fun and otherwise havoc reeking on the citizens of Palm Dessert.

Here are a few of my memorable highlights:

• Arriving in PD with Katie and meeting Susan and Leah for drinks, or a drink that was actually named after Susan.
• Being a snotty, eye-watering, coughing, sneezing mess all weekend.
• Going to TWO art museums, which I LOVE doing but never make the time for.
• Convincing Aaryn and Katie to do a “running from the camera” shot of us jumping through a thousands of dollars art piece, and not getting in trouble even though we were on camera the whole time and did it more than once...
• Miles of Collagen filled lips and BMW’s
• Getting to know Aaryn and her amazing Photo SKILLZ, love for her adorable daughter, sense of adventure and last but not least, her equipment (photo equipment that is….see here)
• Getting to know Jessica and her incredible ability to look good in all hats and ALL pictures (even ones that she looks eerily similar to manikins), her zest for life, and her sweet, sweet demeanor.
• Getting to know Leah and all her artsy craftiness that inspires me to actually do something crafty sooner rather than later and her strong Character that has carried her through life. AND being on the receiving end of not one but TWO of her one of a kind, amazingshecancrochetethatfast hats. Yes, be jealous. Her Photo's here.
  
• Getting to know Susan, her hospitality, bravery for taking us girls out on the town and willing to show her face in that town again, her mad cooking skills and her genuine friendship to us all.
• Getting a reminder as to why Katie is a remarkable friend and amazingly talented woman from her photography to her witty writing and everything in between.

Thanks again Susan for such a wonderful weekend. Sorry it took so long for me to actually write this out girls!

For those of you who weren’t there or are ever so slightly computer challenged you can click on the highlighted lettering to be linked to various things through out this post. (i.e. pictures and blogs)