So I've been helping a friend of mine resource stuff for their wedding.

They've only been offically engaged a week but I have a lot of random ideas and resources to get stuff on the cheap thanks to my job.

The amount of money they have to spend isn't really a lot. It scares me and makes me think it's wasteful, the idea of even throwing that much money away on one day. The reality to me is also depressing because I haven't had that one day that's all mine, I tested out of high school, I never went to a graduation ceremony for college so I kind of do want a wedding someday but I don't have any family to help, I don't want to spend a ton of money on it or putting so much energy into it that I'm not thinking about afterward or the long term. That, and I don't want it to be lame.

So, I really think I ever go through this, I totally want to have a Wedding/Halloween Party. I'm not talking about keeping it classy because that's when it gets corny.

I'm talking super tacky, awesome fun Halloween wedding. Because how ridiculous and amazing would it be to ask your wedding party to dress as zombies??? Everyone is pretty much gaurenteed to have a good time too and if planned in advance and with a lot of creativity, can probably be done really cheaply.

I started to look around at this because I was just curious how much people drop on stuff like this and I found these:







Dia Del Los Muertos WEDDING TOPPERS

I love California!

California is awesome!

-Yesterday Sean and I went to Banjo Night and to Thrifttown!
-Today I went to go get a hot dog at a famous hot dog place down the street from Sean in Oakland on Telegraph.
-Afterward I started walking toward BART and instead found a awesome home shop with cheap antiques, a cafe with out door seating on ironing boards, and a hippie book store! I found a book on a counsel of 13 grandmothers from all over the world which is pretty awesome!

-I went to a thrift store and then stumbled upon to the East Bay Depot for Reuse store. Which is basically a junk store that save things from going into the trash and makes them available to artists and teachers super cheap.

-Sean and I went to Niles to go to all the awesome antique shops and I wanted to buy EVERYTHING.

-We went on a couple of drives on backroads through the hills and then went to get sushi and drank a bottle of sake.


Now we're on our way to cardboard car races through a gallery in West Oakland. Totally awesome!


For those who didn't see the Susan Boyle video, you're living under a rock. I've watched it like 3 times and I've cried like every time..

I don't really have much to say. I've been sick the last few days.

I've been dancing around my apartment to Matthew Sweet. I think I'm dating myself there. It reminds me of when Lizz lived in CA.

The carrots I've been growing on my windowsill are almost camera ready I just don't have charged batteries.

Instead, I'll leave you with this little gem:

"They want our way of life." They can have mine anytime they like because God knows, I know, I ain't living right..

 

I promise to post something happier eventually 

 

I've increasingly become concerned about the economy, the future, the environment, how our way of life is unsustainable and how my generation will not have a better quality of life than our parents, where my food comes from and generally all of the social/political/ecological problems that we face. 

 

I haven't been able to do much in the past two days because I've come down with a nasty cold and the extent of my activity is walking to the fridge to grab water or juice or lying in bed watching netflix movies or falling asleep to documentaries on corn and food production, and abortion and the fundamentalist christian movement (because I don't really like fiction).

 

So I've become increasingly paranoid and anxious about the state of things. 

 

I decided to check CNN.com (which has also fueled my increasing anxiety) and found out that North Korea launched their rocket which may or may not have a missile or warhead attached. Either way, it's really scary and I'm frightened at the possible outcome of this.

 

To make matters worse, there was an ad before the video for "clean coal" which really isn't a whole lot better than regular coal and isn't a viable option to replace regular coal or oil. 

 

Maybe, I just need to go back to sleep.. 

If I had roommates, and this was a reality tv show, I'd be voted out of the house for the way the apartment looks right now.