Kinkle Says...

For once I had a really action-packed weekend, probably the most action-packed weekend I've had since I've become a mom except for when we leave the child with the grandparents to go out of town. ANYWAY Thursday I went with the hubby to see Devo in McCarren Park which is the first show I've seen there. The Tom Tom Club opened which was pretty cool because I have only seen them once before. It didn't beat the show a few years ago in Central Park but it was good and full of a nice mix of olds & youngs and surprisingly empty. I'm thinking I'm going to hit some of those Jelly NYC pool party shows over the summer as well. After we had some drinks with a friend of mine and I was very hungover the next day. Consequently we stayed in Friday night and watched La Vie En Rose. Damn that girl really deserved the Oscar. It was amazing it didn't even seem like the same person, especially since i had only seen her looking dishy on the red carpet. It was a very disjointed movie but her performance was great and now I know all kinds of stuff about Edith PiafSaturday we couldn't get our shit together (running late, got lost, etc) but we went out to Long Beach to see a friend who has a beach cottage there and meet his new baby. Unfortunately by the time we got there it was kind of rainy but i wasn't exactly dying to put my butt in a bikini so I was fine with that. We never even touched down on the beach, we just stayed in and had a kind of weird vegetarian meal and got pretty drunk just hanging out with my friend, his sister and her friends. We spent a good portion of the evening watching my kid freak out to this album my husband just produced. He was jumping up and down and moonwalking and everything he loves that rock and roll. We didn't get home until like 2:30 am which is pretty late when you're dragging the kid home at that hour. SO Sunday I was invited to a screening of the Joy Division documentary. I've known one of the guys from New Order since the 80s and he was speaking then DJing the party after. It was at the New Museum where i had not been before but the general consensus is the art sucks there so I didn't check it out. We had some time to kill so we went to Cafe Habana and had a couple of bloody marys and a ridiculously quick meal because the service is so pokey then saw the film. It was really well done particularly if you are a Joy Division fan but I'm moving Control down on the Netflix list because I don't think I can handle seeing the same story twice. The Q&A was very funny and it was really nice to see my old friend even though I didn't get to spend too much time with him. They had an after party in Nolita at The Randolph which I guess is a hotel but it was a really weird set up...no speakers in the front of the tiny bar, a bunch of cold burgers and salad with no forks set up in front of the DJ booth.. weird! It was fun just hanging out though and the cocktails were free. We stayed til about 11:30-midnight then had to go home to relieve the sitter but all in all it was a very eventful weekend for me.

Mom Says...

Last weekend on Sat. I was invited to participate in the 3rd anniversary celebration of Barks and Biscuits, a Cottonwood, Arizona Pet Store. I had a small table outside of the entrance, set up with my new sign, "IMAGINE YOUR PET---painted by Linda," 3 prints of actual watercolor portraits of pets that I did for people, and my business cards. Met lots of pets. Jim brought Willy, our wire-haired dachsund, over for an hour or so. Along with being my ambassador, he got lots of treats from the pet shop owners.

On Sun., it was another exhibit day, when several artist members of the Northern Arizona Watercolor Society held an outdoor exhibit and sale. Yours truly was a participant.

Afterwards, Jim and I took Willy to the dog park.

Lisa Says...

Saturday night, after selling a balls-load of soap (here, I'm pimping myself out: http://whiteweaselsoaps.etsy.com/) I used some proceeds to take us out to dinner at Blossom. Delicious, although the appetizers are so good that the meals can't really beat it. Then we walked around and went to Counter for dessert. I highly recommend the raw pistachio tart and the chocolate tart- if i didn't already have a sex life, they would easily take the place of it- in fact, I'd rate those desserts higher than half of my former partners in terms of ability to please...

Sunday, my parents came over and brought me a little chocolate cake with marshmallow animals with big eyes all over it (you can say awwwww, its ok.) and we went to a middle eastern restaurant in Montclair, NJ. Then they gave me a wad of cash, some lotion, and a little note saying that my Ferret Nation Cage is in transit. Tomorrow I get to haul all 90lbs of it up the stairs. Yay!

Joolia Says...

Friday I woke up in Farnham, Surrey (south of London) and it was crap weather. My boyfriend Adrian and I both had colds and the heat hadn’t quite warmed up the guest bedroom at his Mother’s house. We were supposed to “Do London” that day. We lay in bed, hunkered down with body head and sniffles and read our books for an hour or two. His Mum brought us tea to the door…good ole Mum.

Finally we decided it’s now or never and we had to get moving if we were going to see any of London. As we started to drive in around 1pm, the clouds broke and the sun started to shine thanks to the ever changing English weather. In less than an hour we pulled up right next to the London Eye, parked and walked right on, barely a wait. You could see for miles through our egg shaped pod. Big Ben kids, Parliament.

We then walked over a bridge to the afore mentioned clock and gov’mnt building. It really was beautiful. Then we swung by Westminster Abbey as we were heading to Buckingham Palace by way of some really beautiful gardens. By the way, swans are freakin’ everywhere in England. Who knew?

Snap snap, smile smile everywhere, quickly. Just past Prince Charles’ crib there is a changing of the guard ceremony. Then we hop a London black taxi off to Cheyney Walk to see homes where famous people lived and because it was nearby to our Gordon Ramsey dinner extravaganza. I saw where Oscar Wilde used to live. Speaking of Oscars, the name of the restaurant…Foxtrot Oscar…for those who don’t know Gordon’s proclivity to profanity it means F*ck Off. It was one of the best meals I’d ever had. A beautiful bottle of English Rose + Wild boar pâté for apps and lamb in a béchamel sauce = Perfection.

We then took off to the Tower of London where we witnessed a 700 yr old ceremony of the locking of the Tower called “The Ceremony of the Keys”. It has only recently been shown to the public and has been exactly the same for all these years. It was just about one of the coolest things I’ve ever witnessed.

Saturday we got on a plane and came home. *sigh*

Amber-Lea Says...

I had sex four times, gambled with two Mexicans and played nine games of Big Buck Hunter Pro.

It Runs in the Family

Kink- your kid is a drummer already?! Get him his own drum set- yeah right like you would stand for that!
Rum pum pum pum!

Nicole

Kinkle Says...

Usually by Friday I am so fried from the corporate work week that I'm ready to get up to no good and last week was no exception. My husband is working with an Australian band producing their record so we had a big dinner with them at Dumont near the studio in Williamsburg. It's the first time I went there and their back room is great for large person parties.. a nice cozy little nook where you rarely see any other customers. I split the Dumont salad and crab cakes with the hubby, then had ravioli all of which was delicious. I also had two pomegranate martinis and a glass of red wine before the band, managers and assorted friends were ready to go back to the studio and finish. At that point I was like, "I don't want to go home alone!" so my two year old and myself repaired to the studio and hung out with the Aussies. There is nothing I like better than being the only girl in a pack of guys even if you do eventually get ignored. We all talked and drank and talked and drank, and the lead singer played a few songs for me on his guitar then the two year old passed out (from tiredness, not drinking!) but we kept talking and drinking then when the toddler woke up and gave us all a look like "WHAT's GOING ON?" we figured it was a sign to finally go home. I hope he won't have horrible memories of mom and dad being so irresponsible. But you know what? Sometimes you just have to do stuff like that or you would get no socializing done whatsoever.
Saturday I was pretty alcoholically injured and it occurred to me that the guys we were hanging with didn't SEEM like they were in their 20s but they were in fact and that was why they could hang out like that and I no longer can. We stayed in, ordered pizza and I watched the season finale of Nip/Tuck Season 3. I'm totally obsessed with that show and am working my way through the past seasons. It's so over-the-top and ridiculous I love it!
Sunday we went to my husband's brother's place on Long Island for an Easter Egg hunt for the kids. They have three kids, his other brother has two kids and we have one so it was a total kidfest. I was still kind of hurting so i ate the Easter feast (lamb & Greek salad) & had a few glasses of red wine to try and just feel normal again. All the kids had a blast and we left after the baby jammed out on their drumset for an hour or so, ready to do the long, drawn-out work week once again.