I Vomit Rainbows

This is my favorite new concept. It’s a bday card for my friend Rob. There are brads behind the tempura so they can swivel and fight. I’m going to make a tshirt of this.

I’m back from Arizona, where we went rivertubing… but one of the best parts of the trip was getting there. Jose rented a 15 passenger white van, and chris taped “FREE CANDY” and a bunch of candy to the side of it. Watching reactions of people we passed was really entertaining.

Saturday:  20 people and 20 tubes, plus a raft full of booze, snacks, and sunscreen, a keg of PBR, and another raft with an ipod and speakers. we floated down the salt river, where the common ammunition of choice was the marshmallow. I’ve never really done anything like that before, and it was really really really really fun. I absolutely recommend this as a cheap fun weekend trip.

Then I got super sick, sore, and sunburnt. Me and dave ran across a parking lot barefoot in 115 degree weather and crisped our feet. He’s worse off than i am though, and i feel pretty terrible right now.

Thursday at lunch, Rob took me to Nordstrom Rack so I could get my anti-bridesmaid dress, and after work me and Dave headed over to Via Tribunali, which is regarded as the best pizza in Seattle (by Italians). I got to see a bunch of my old raver friends who I hadn’t seen in a while- Bunny (Melissa), the bride, her fiance Dan, Colie and John, Jamie and Bob, Sumbry, and George, plus met lots of new people. We ate TONS of great pizza, and drank lots of excellent wine, then met up at a bar. Qwiki (Mark Zabala) showed up, as did my friend Adriano (antiuser). As we were walking down the street, we also ran into Wei, a friend of a friend who I met last time I was in Seattle.

Qwiki, Dave, and I crashed at my friend Goober’s (Josh’s) house, which was near the wedding site, and the next morning ran to the mall to get last-minute clothing stuff. Our crappy cab was 30mins late, so we were late getting to the wedding, but it was also running late. This was only the second wedding I’d ever shot. I took wide-angle pics and Dave handled all the closeups. The ceremony was short and beautiful, and Bunny was incredibly elegant in her dress and veil. It was in Dan’s parent’s backyard, with a bubbling river fountain in the background. I’ll post pics soon.

We then all migrated to a reception in a loft space. Dan made all the food, which included an entire roast pig, including head. There also were three amazing salads and some dips. Sumbry and Qwiki DJed and it was super super fun.

The next morning we went to Dan’s parent’s house again for a brunch. We chilled at Mike Merrell’s house after that, watching Ponyo on his projector. Ponyo was cute but really weird- it’s the new Miyuzaki movie. Adriano picked us up and took us on an adventure that included “Burger of the Gods” at Lunchbox Laboratory, the Fremont Troll, gyros, and Gasworks Park at 2a.

Sunday was ZOO DAY. Me, Dave, Adriano, Rob, Savannah, and Claire all wandered around the zoo and got to see the new penguin exhibit. We learned a lot about how guano harvesting is bad for penguins, and what fishes you can safely eat without impacting the Anarctica ecosystem. After that a ton of people met up at SLUG, which was a resteraunt.

Yesterday me and Dave mostly worked a bunch, and migrated over to Carl’s house. Adriano took us to Molly Moon’s for insanely good ice cream. I had honey lavendar on a handmade cone. We saw a beautiful night cityscape from Queen Anne, and went cheese shopping. Then, Dave and I played Settlers of Catan with Carl and Xt.

Today we telecommuted from Cupcake Royale in Ballard, which so far, has been my favorite place to telecommute. Lemondrop and Raspeberry Lemonade cupcakes for lunch today! Seattle has been awesome, though I wish I had more energy this time around to explore.

The Seattle Sounders have more fans than any soccer league in America, and last night they played Barcelona. Our friends are part of a club that parties and cheers and sings through the whole game, complete with their own drummer, and we got to cheer along with them from 4 rows behind a net last night. It was super intense and very very very fun. There was so much going on that half the time we’d forget there was a soccer game. And Chihuly the glass artist was at the game too!

After that, we went to Grey Gallery for a bit and then a really good Fish Fry place, with a bunch of friends. We crashed over at Rob’s after that.

I still need to really blog about ComiCon and DefCon but the two trips kicked my ass and I’m really behind work. We flew into Seattle last night, and Cheryl from Smore Travel and Cynthia from Login picked us up from the airport. We came to Rattus’s house and he baked us the best Ghiradelli chocolate chip cookies that I’ve ever had.