A Thousand Times and Your Sisters Too - A Thousand Times, a Girl Like You

This is my sister.
My baby sister that I've just been given the blessing of knowing in recent years.

She came to visit earlier in the summer and stayed with me.

The funny thing about the two of us is...we're both, essentially, only children.
But we want to be sisters...always wanted to have a sister.
Now we do...

Miriam gets it.
She's a tight lady friend and she has a sister...
She's a blast too - so, I drug her along on a sisterly adventure.

We brunched at Parallel 17 and flirted with the adorable waiter...

Borrowed a bike from the Denver Bike Share...
And by borrowed, I mean my sister ALMOST paid $130 to have one of these things.

Totally not worth it, but that's a discussion for another day!

Our bike ride took us down Broadway to Barry's on Broadway where they have a new skeeball game!

Miriam kicked our asses repeatedly!



Cute!

Yes. They DO give you a free shot when you get over 30,000 points!

I was on a mission.

We tore up the place...

We're sisters!

Later, we headed over to Governor's Park for some food and camaraderie!
LeVar joined us...
He's a dreamboat.

I told ya...

And spirit animal forever, Tim was there too!

Even good old Marcelo showed up!

And Dustin with his awesome t-shirt that I covet.

We snacked...

laughed...

and just generally looked good.
HOW WE DO.

Told ya.

And I realized something...
I love my people and when I'm surrounded by them I feel safe and comfortable.
What better an environment to introduce my sister!

When all the people you love are in one place...it makes it hard to imagine being anywhere else.

And I'm lucky as hell.
Lucky times a bazillion.
For all of it.

BOY/GIRL REVOLUTIONARIES YOU AND ME

Just some musings, thoughts, sweet faces...

Does this mural remind you of anything?
Am I the only perv?

Oh, hey...look! It's my new BFF, Jacob Reed McDonald!
Look at those sweet little features!
What a handsome babe, right?!

My super co-worker A-Dawg is a Papa!
And he looks good doing it, right?

OMG...my other BFF, AJA!

Any chance I get to hang heavy...I take it!

She's a laugh and a half!

She totally took this picture.

Sometimes I see things like this...and I don't want to forget...how much I hate birds.
Just jokes, it's sad.

Even this tattooed baby thinks so.

Here I am eating an egg salad sandwich and showing off my first bruise from my new skateboard.

Basically, I got too big in my britches...felt too confident and did something I shouldn't have.
I got a couple of ugly scabs on my elbows too!

I'm being careful, I promise, but I'm fairly certain there's more where this came from!
Is it wrong how much I love this bruise. I'm in love with it.
I admire it far more often than I should probably admit.

That's part of the drill with skateboarding though - gotta take the rough with the smooch!

My boss. Sleeping on the floor of his office.
How awesome is that?
We ate a giant pizza and it must have put the hurt on him because he put his feet up and he was out like a light.

I feel like I've been a little MIA...and I guess I have.
Have been super sick for the past two weeks and am just now finding my bearings, getting into the swing of things, seeing things fresh.
But what about you out there?!
What are you doing?!

Tell me about it in the comments...tell me a story, tell me about an adventure, tell me about a meal you ate that made you want to hump it.
I'm into all of those things...I'm into you.

Oh, Golly, Where Could That Girl Be?

Just living the awesome life.
Rad hangout with Tim, delicious dinner at La Loma, beers and deep discussion, laughter, more friends, piano bar - people, I'm talking serious heavy hanging!

Thanks Tim - you're my new spirit animal!
xox

You're Free To Be Always, Always Already Gone

Have you ever just thrown caution to the wind and met up with a bunch of people you don't know?
If you haven't...I suggest you do.
And what I hope for you is that you'll meet people like the people that I met when I took the risk.

Initially, I was nervous...and forced Spencer to join me.
Here's the deal: a handful of the people in these pictures are from Twitter. Now, I was corrected numerous times, by JBrick, that this wasn't an official "TweetUp", but it was something close.

Spencer & I hemmed and hawed, we drank several beers, were on the verge of cold feet - and I had almost convinced myself that we should just go get Chinese food and bail on the whole idea.

Thankfully, we didn't. Tim, who you'll see below - choreographed this whole meet up/Taco Tuesdy, walked straight up to me and dragged our tentative asses into the fray.


I met Grant.
This guy is fucking funny.
Seriously - I was laughing the whole time we sat next to each other!
I love a gentleman with a sense of humor.

Familiar faces.
So, JBrick is a new Twitter friend too, but I've recently learned that I adore her...so, hopefully, she'll be around a lot more often!

Of course, Baby S was there keeping me grounded.

Shaun and Amber!
Amber is a new Twitter friend too...and what I've gleaned so far is she has a razor sharp wit and a pretty formidable dirty mind.
Psyched to learn more, clearly...

Everyone turning away from me.
Weak.
So, from right to left: Bill (?), Evan, Chelsea, and Tim!

That's better!
Chelsea insisted that she pose like this! I would have liked to see her smiling face, but I'll catch her again, hopefully!

Tim - super rad and outrageously hilarious Twitter friend! We have a date to nosh on some serious La Loma green chili in the coming weeks!
Can't wait for him to carry me out of there because I've eaten myself into a gluttonous coma.

Girly and Iliana...
I think! I hope I got your names right! I didn't get to spend a lot of time with you because Grant was hogging the view!

Dustin! New friend - rugged handsome...right?

Oh, by the way, it was Grant's birthday!
He's was out of control - in the very best way!

So, yeah...we hung heavy.
We got to know each other...

We drank margaritas...

We b0nded...

And we laughed our asses off.
Clearly, my kind of get down!

Apparently, at some point, Grant's going to show me some Zelda themed tattoo he has on his ass or something...

Seriously...HOW CUTE IS DUSTIN!?

Okay. All my friends are pretty damn cute.

We ate at Benny's...by the way.
It was it's normal awesome!

And as the whole thing wound down, I realized how grateful I was to Tim for yanking us from our tidy uncomplicated corner of the bar and forcing us into this insane good time.

Yeah, it was that kind of party.

My only regret? That I didn't get a pic of my sister from another mister Sandy!
We share the same last name...and she's R to the A to the D.

Bring on the next Taco Tuesday, bitches!