Tribute

I found out yesterday that a friend of mine committed suicide.

Never will the tulips
forget the moment
you sat among them.
Neither will the tree
let go of your memory,
like how I cannot
forget how you looked
so happy in that photo.

UGH

This is WAY too many. What ever happened to replacing yourself and conserving resources...?

This Is Giving Me Ideas

Here is another example of how being skinny can get you places...

HEMPSTEAD, Texas — A man charged with murder escaped from jail early Saturday by climbing through an air conditioner vent, authorities said.

The vent was less than a foot wide, and authorities said Darryl Layne Norris had been losing weight since arriving at the Waller County Jail in April.

The jail noticed the 6-foot, 160-pound man was missing after performing a routine head count.

Norris, 26, and another man are charged with murder in connection with an April 17 convenience store robbery.

Unending Week

The past couple weeks have been soooo busy.

Forgive the sparse posting. I'm basically swamped.

Pretty Sweet

Lifesaver.

Very Interesting

It Involved A Fire Truck At One Point

My birthday started out much like any other ordinary day. I ran errands and went to the magazine office. Afterwards, AJ and CH came over to drop off gifts for me that were too big to go the the restaurant.

We went to Lucy's Table for a happy hour dinner. I had goat cheese ravioli which was really good but tiny, so I also ate prosciutto-wrapped asparagus. Joining us there were LT and my sister (who technically got a ride with us). Once we finished dinner, we decided to go to Blue Hour for dessert. Three of us ordered different things and we all had different opinions of which was best. Mine was a panna cotta type dish with blueberry sauce over the top. Whatever my sister got was the best---I have no idea what it was though.

After dessert I felt like I just wanted to walk around. I wasn't in the mood for more drinking because I'm not much of a drinker. We ended up at the previously-blogged about Jamison Square park where we noticed two unattended fire trucks. Everything else went out of my mind but posing for pictures with those trucks. It was...HILARIOUS. We were making quite a big deal of it until two firemen appeared as if from nowhere with ice cream cones.

They asked us what we were up to. We told them we were posing with the truck and asked what they were doing. They said they were getting ice cream. My sister then offered up that it was my birthday and they offered us to take pictures IN the truck. Then my sister told them they should take us for a ride, so they did. There are pictures to prove it. After it was over we finished out the night at Olive or Twist. We shared a couple drinks because I think we were all done for the night but we used the time to reflect on the occurrence.

It might be a birthday experience that is hard to top.