It's been a while since I've seen you smile...

Do you have best friends? People that have known you...seen you at your worst...celebrated with you at your best...and always, always make you laugh?

Please let me introduce my besties Mandy and Jen!

The ladies came down from Missoula, Montana to celebrate...first and foremost, Mandy's 30th...
And second, a monumental hang with WEEN!

We surprised Mandy with a Birthday Waffle.

Post waffle - we hit The Fillmore. This was actually our second night of Demon Sweat with Ween.

We survived the first night dancing our asses off and drinking until we couldn't feel our hands. There is no photographic evidence of this though...

Ween was amazing! My only regret was that they didn't play 'Baby Bitch'...but otherwise...AMAZING!

I'm pretty sure I got goosebumps 5,000 times!

This was the point in the evening when the REAL get down started.


We took over a square and just busted it!


Benjamin and Ian found our square and showed us their moves.

When it was finally over we found James to pedi-cab us back to the car!


James had a hot ass.


DIRTY THIRTY!


After a stop at The Continental Club and The Lancer Lounge...we went into the closet and listened to music until the wee hours.


WE WERE DRUNK.

The next day we hit Pete's Kitchen and tried to heal ourselves with shopping and hydration.

Jenny Jen's looking pretty hurt...

And me...well, I was hanging on for dear life.

TO BE CONTINUED...

Yeah, what ya gonna do when the novelty has gone?

RHINOCEROPOLIS.

It's been a really, REALLY long time since I've been at a show like this one.


Packed to the gills with young, sweaty DIY kids making it happen!

We used to be those kids.

Little brutes and beasts in Skinny Puppy and The Smiths t-shirts. Girls that looked like they fell into Stevie Nick's closet.

We were there to see HEALTH.

Everyone was drinking out of paper bags and lovin' it.

The music seemed pretty amazing...experimental, noisey, surprising!


The kids were everywhere.


And maybe we're old, and maybe we've lost our wanderlust...

But we bailed for The Sputnick, beers, and the AC blowing at our backs.

See Me, Hear Me

HAVE YOU BEEN HERE?


If you haven't, do yourself a favor and visit this fine establishment!


This glass case is filled with a menagerie of carousels and trophies of by gone days...


The clientele is amazing! Kind, friendly, into you...if you're into them!


And the bar is phenomenal...the bar stools are like 2 ft from the ground...making it easy to wedge yourself in for a vodka tonic or two!

And look who's tending bar! This is Tom with his alter ego...
I'm pretty sure Tom is a contender for best bartender in Denver! He pours 'em stiff!

And then the entertainment!

This fine lady actually belted out a tune for the audience that had everyone enraptured!

Take it in...

GLITZ!

GLITTER!

LIP SYNC'D RENDITIONS OF FAITH HILL...or something...

Mark, in the white shirt, made us feel right at home and gabbed with us all night!

Partner in Crime!


A princess amongst queens!

Just Pretend There's Nothing Left To Do

TACO NIGHT! This time at Maura B's new pad!

Spencer pontificating at Mikey.

Remember these ladies? Sonia and Micaela!

And these two fine specimens are Sheena and Vivian...
Aren't they lovely!?

So, after much hub bub and discussion...Micaela's boss baked the chocolate chip bacon cookies.
Micaela's description seemed to represent everyone else's feelings on these sweet and savory treats. PERPLEXING.

But me...I fuggin' loved them!

http://neverbashfulwithbutter.blogspot.com/2007/12/experiments-in-deliciousness-bacon.html

Baby Spencer seemed a little hesitant...

After summertime, backyard hangouts...we car pooled it over to Patrick Carroll's for Geeks Who Drink!
http://www.geekswhodrink.com/blog/

Our team name you ask...TACO NIGHT. Um, Duh.

We killed it on the first audio round! And by halfway through the evening...we had managed to keep a firm hold on 3rd place!

Alas, the questions got harder...some of them about sports and wars which is not really team Taco Night's forte!

By the end, we found ourselves struggling...our nervous excitement from riding high in third place waned and in it's place disappointment!

Alright, whatev! We were psyched with 4th place and took this celebratory picture to prove it!

UNJADED SUMMER 2008 - Still in FULL effect!

RIP: CHAPSTICK COLLECTION 1992? - 2008

If you know me at all...you know that I have been and still am an avid chapstick collector.
Every flavor, brand, and color - I'd buy them all, use them all, and covet the ones I didn't have.
But on Saturday, I begrundgingly whispered my goodbyes to over ten years of chapstick.
Yes, I realize that it's a strange, mostly useless, and terribly juvenile thing to collect...but I don't care about all that!
As I dumped the bulk of my collection into some foreign dumpster, I felt the overwhelming urge to dive in and divvy up the faves from the rest.
As I got in my car and drove away, I sighed and contemplated how many apartments I had toted those greasy boxes around to.

I'm grieving.

Help me send off this vast and delicious collection to Chapstick Collection Heaven.

Becky
xox