Showing posts with label Courtney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Courtney. Show all posts

May 26, 2010

Maker Faire 2010




One million little words could never accurately describe: a Sunday one-hour-drive to an annual adventure in a car named after a certain Russian psychologist, coincidentally rounded out with dogs (although with less salivation) in a best friends double-double take of last year's twinnery, and certainly a repeat of last year's fun, attention, in aweness of amazing creativity and potentiality, and of delicious sandwiches munched in mirror-image amidst clouds of compliment and Coke Zero mist, all eyes and hugs and smiles and steampunks with twirly mustaches and microphones, drinking blood without a vampire in sight but that doesn't mean no Mondo Spiders, raccoon girls and mushrooms everywhere, sassy towards lab coats and ascots but nonetheless making new friendleighs, seeing old friends and seeing old friends' faces on shirts with barely opened mouths full of ice, hutia mugs written in Chinese say "what a good day!" when they don't even know the half of it because they don't even know the magic of the table they're sitting on or the woman who painted them, two years running as the strongest twins at the mouse trap even if we didn't land that television spot, and unexpected Donald Duck warbling soothing sore legs and feet with accordion sighs, little children with jackets half-off just wanting to be friends and just good good good in every way to see people care so much and feel so much whether they're asking for pictures or sneaking them while we're very obviously looking.  Grateful for best friends, moms, best friend's mom, best friend moms, easy drives with the headlights on, the potential for new penpals no matter how old, an amazing little microcosm of a world where we are always welcome.  If only it weren't such a little microcosm of a world.

October 20, 2009

September 17, 2009

Another thing to check off the best friend's list


Spanakopita pizza from Symposium, and more spending time together every day (which, I think, now that I'm sitting alone in my room hearing distant shrieks and laughs and recess bells from the elementary school on our block, and Eloise curled up behind me purring, it is so nice to have someone to just be with sometimes and especially if that someone is Courtney). I almost don't want to be able to check everything off of the list of what we want to do together now that I'm back home and she hasn't run off towards a promising future in San Francisco just quite yet, because it would make going back to Santa Cruz feel so final (I know I don't even need to worry about that, but as ready as I am to rush off to the happy apartment brimming with new people to know, I've liked this time spent being known with my best friend).

These past few days have been luck and unluck, and lots of packages in the mail, drawing, sewing, taking a dress in four inches with back darts and I never never thought that was possible, for me, and really good food, and still not finished sewing, but hopefully today, with more good food, and green awnings, and warm hugs, and so bittersweet when you can and can't handle a distance between your heart beating just right in time with the people you love.

I think we're all trying to figure out how to not be so far away from each other. Because "every where I go, everyone I know comes with. Wonder how many more I can fit inside this crowded, crazy heart."

September 10, 2009

Less arachnid, more attractive

I want to be so good about blogging, but in the weeks of neglect:

Macarons in midtown with Poopie (chocolate, pistachio, lavender apricot!)

Very much missing Beardy and definitely going for a ride to the dentist tomorrow

Gooey perfect chewy corner brownie from this recipe

Eloise glamor shots

Homemade jungle curry with mom

Pins clumped on a tote bag

Stunned Baby from the orange light of the camera

Sebastian and Yuka at the 6%dokidoki fan party in San Francisco

Perfect little swirly zucchini slice on my pizza

Very lucky new glasses!

Here's to being better.