on my turntable...
Donna Summer
On the Radio: Greatest Hits - Volumes I and II
 
I remember my sister buying this double album for me when I was 8. The day she brought it over and I had to ask her who Donna Summer was. All of these songs, even the ones that aren't engrained in our collective disco consciousness are so a part of my childhood. I would play it over and over while I rollerskated in circles in the basement. Now I'm just left to wonder what happened to the *bonus* full color poster that was promised on the label.
 
on the page...
Douglas Coupland
Miss Wyoming
 
into...
the deck on a perfect sunny afternoon;
pink lemonade;
dwell magazine;
the perfect baked potato;
Howard;
spicy lemon grass soup
 
definitely not into...
District of Columbia Department of Motor Vehicles Adjudication Services
 
the boot...
It was bound to happen. I've heard that you're not really a Washingtonian until the day you walk outside to find a bright orange boot on your front driver's side tire. Luckily I use my car about once a month, so it doesn't really dampen the spirit. But paying up on all those parking tickets is dreadful at best.
 
girlie-girl weekend...
I'm rallying Noel and Krista for an old fashioned girls weekend circa winter of 1995, when we used to buy a few bottles of wine and dish some serious girlie dirt. Now it just seems so Sex in the City with Krista as the perfect married-baby-perfectly-healthy-dark-gorgeous-haired-Charlotte type and Noel with the whole sophisticated-sassy-Miranda-lawyer-thing going on. Which leaves me to supply the trippy (Brandon's word, not mine), neurotic Carrie vibe.
 
Definitely not a problem.
 
8 days- EIGHT DAYS!...
Todd and Hayley tie their long overdue knot in 8 days. Todd has yet to get a hold of every guy on his side of the bridal party and is panicked by the Jewish tradition of not having any rehearsal before the fact. Last Thursday he said, "I keep thinking about Jeanne laughing and shaking through her whole vow exchange and Jeremy forgetting his lines. And those were weddings that were REHEARSED. What kind of comedy we're going to provide with a completely unrehearsed wedding is anyone's guess."
 
My advice was to once and for all ditch the videographer. I mean, this is DEFINITELY not going to be the kind of embarrassment he will want to preserve forever.