Off to Dallas

I'm taking a trip to Dallas this weekend to visit some friends and to promote the Parable anthology that I worked on last year. More details can be seen here: http://www.parablecomic.com/

We were supposed to sit at the booth at Dallas Wizard World and get the word out with them, but some mess up with the printers happened, and now there's no book or booth. Ooops. Oh well, even if we don't end up going to the con at least I'll be able to visit with good friends and get some of that good ol' Texas sunshine.

Girl's weekend 2008!

The Santa Cruz weekend in August reminded me and my former college roommates how much we missed being together and causing trouble, so we decided to get together for a quick weekend in Chicago.

The Girls!

The Chinatown Hotel, where we stayed.

Chinatown Square.

We ate tons of good food.

Saturday morning = cupcakes for breakfast!!!!

Then, on to the city!

The Art Institute Museum was the first stop.

The girls ponder strange modern art.

Saturday night = We hit up 'Howl at the Moon', a great dueling piano bar. Jen ponders life over a bucket of bud's.

We literally drank buckets of alcohol. The buckets say 'the most fun you'll have with your clothes on!'

Chicago at night.

Sunday morning before boarding a long plane ride home - on the Shedd Aquarium, where giant octopi live on the ceiling!!!!

The end!

Last day on Coraline...

It's my last day working on Coraline...it's been a wild ride and the movie looks great. Catch a sneak peak here!

Wedding weekend

On the weekend of August 16th, Joe and I traveled to Santa Cruz, Ca for the wedding of one of my roommates from college and one of my best friends in the whole world. Congrats Lisa ('Bunny') and Ib!

Some pics from the weekend:


All set up for the ceremony!



Messages in a bottle! These were the programs.

Tiger lilies were perfect beachy looking flowers.

Here comes the bride!!!!


:)

Maid of Honor Amber looked so pretty....




The best man looked pretty good too!



So happy!


Sister of the Groom read a really touching poem...made me and my girls cry like babies.

Photographer extraordinaire Amy Binnie Martin!

The fabulous Jen Price, Superstar.


Mmmmm....cake...

Best bride picture EVER.


View from the beach house we partied at! We saw whales spouting off in the distance.

My girls and I all tired and sunburned after a great day.

Best Jingle picture...

EVER.

This was taken mid-yawn when we lived in Dallas.

Cherries!!!!

There's a very pretty cherry tree right off of the corner of our porch. It gets beautiful blossoms on it in the spring, but last year we didn't see any fruit. This summer, there's a whole bunch of little red cherries growing on the branches within reach! Oh boy!


I was really excited to see cherries growing, and even more excited to be close enough to pick one. I'm a cherry fiend in the summer (I get really excited about road-side fruit stands with fresh cherries), so I brought one in to try. OH CRAP...SOUR. Extremely sour cherries. I'm a bigger fan of sweet cherries, so I think I'll let the crows have these.

I also got a few funny pictures of the stupid cat this week. Here's a very satisfied Jingle in her basket (close-up on those fuzzy paws).


And here she is freaking out over a crow's feather I found while on a walk.

New Phone

Decided to finally trade in our 5-year old phone for a new model. Here's the old one. People like to make fun of the fact that I still have to pull up the antennae to get reception.



Here's the shiny new one. Went with a virgin mobile pay-as-you-go plan, because I really don't talk on my cell phone too much and I have a home phone plan. Good for just using it for emergencies, pretty crappy for a real cell phone plan. Customer service over the phone was pretty annoying too. Oh well, as least I have a phone that doesn't lose all battery power after being unplugged for 15 minutes.