Thanksgiving at Mikey’s

2005, Gatherings, Holidays, , , , , , , , , ,

Lindsay is back, Patricia’s in town, and Mom gets to see all her girls! We invited Jeaux to Mikey’s as well and had a Thanksgiving feast.

Thanksgiving Prep!

Thanksgiving Prep!

Patricia in the kitchen

Sister stack

Sisters

Sisters

Family girls

Family girls

Family girls

Mom’s Spongebob pants

Loving to see the girls together

Sitting down to eat

Sitting down to eat

Jeaux is ready

Corny girls

Jeaux enjoys

Lindsay enjoys

Mom enjoys

Patricia photographs food

Ivy enjoys

Lindsay accepts pie

She’s impressed

Jeaux has pie

Feelings about cleanup

Exhausted P, cuddly dog

Halloween 2005

2005, Cosplay, Gatherings, Holidays, , , , , , ,

I had to work on Halloween so I made it interesting at the bookstore.

Witch at work

Couple more poses before I changed out of the work outfit.

Dress I wore to work

Witch Hat

Then my friends arrived. Brendon was Space Ghost, Jeaux was a ball-playing cowboy superhero soldier pirate, Mikey was Aragorn, and I was Galadriel.

Brendon as Space Ghost

 

Brendon as Space Ghost

 

Jeaux

Jeaux as a ball-playing cowboy superhero soldier pirate

Mikey as Aragorn

Galadriel costume

Galadriel costume

 

Galadriel costume

 

Ivy as Galadriel

 

Aragorn kissing Galadriel’s hand

 

My trick-or-treat boys

Halloween Group!

 

Jeaux’s candy hoard

 

Brendon’s hoard

 

Ivy hoard

 

Candy hoard

 

Mikey’s hoard

 

Don’t kill Jeaux

 

Don’t fight over Jeaux

Fred Visit! Day 7

2005, Vacations, , , , , ,

Got my comic posted in the early morning before Fred got up, then I made him an Ivy shirt and he wore it to Kanapaha Gardens, where we looked at wonderful plant life and stuff. I love it there. It is so cool. We saw these lilypads that looked like gigantic serving platters, and these loofah plants that looked like gigantic hanging zucchini or something (Fred pretended to eat one), and we saw a couple snakes and lots of bugs and some birds. And trees. I like trees.

Butterflies

Butterflies

Kanapaha Gardens

Giant leaf at Kanapaha Gardens

Fred pretending to eat a plant

I paused for a nap in the clubhouse and then we went to Beef ‘O’ Brady’s for food–I got a macaroni kids’ meal for the 12 and under crowd. Hey, I wear kids’ clothes, I take children’s dosages of medicine; why not eat their portion sizes too? It was great.

Mac N Cheese

We went BACK to the Gardens and moseyed, and when we came back we watched another Shinobu after making quiche crust dough to chill. I napped and he went to the pool again, and then he came back and showered and we made the rest of the quiche together. After we ate it, we called and harassed Jes because we wanted to find out what she was doing that night and be part of her night o’ weirdness, and so that was cool ’cause we actually got her. After that I read Phred some fun stuff from my secret character files and then we started watching The Dark Crystal. He got to see why some people have pointed out my resemblance to Kira. Har. I’m a muppet.

Kanapaha Gardens

Kanapaha Gardens

Kanapaha Gardens

Kanapaha Gardens

Ivy at Kanapaha Gardens

Ivy at Kanapaha Gardens

Fred Visit! Day 6

2005, Vacations, , , ,

Good off-work day. This was our campus day. We took the bus onto campus and walked around and repeatedly got lost due to my genius at navigation (though also we were both up for a bit of a walk and weren’t in huge hurries to get anywhere in particular–we were just kinda doing it to do it). We browsed the Music Building and I saw my old theory teacher who looked exactly the same–since I haven’t changed either I think he recognized me. After MUB we wandered around, got on a bus, found the Reitz Union, and ate Wendy’s in the courtyard (I had a fruit cup, Fred had a chili and hamburger combo thing).

School!

Picnic

Picnic

Picnic

Fred on campus

Ivy on campus

I found a weird floor to sleep on in the Reitz Union and tuckered out, and then we got up, played bowling (I didn’t do too bad!) and DDR. I played with a boy who really knew what he was doing, but I kept up with him okay. It was fun! We looked at the poster sale, it made me nostalgic because I did that when I first came to Gainesville and decorated my apartment with some posters from that, which I still have. I stopped browsing when I realized I brought no money.

Fred Bowling

I saw three people I knew on campus, besides that teacher. THREE. ALL from my work. I saw Erica, Cliff, and Sara (but Sara doesn’t actually work there anymore). Different times. Strange! After the walk around campus and coming home, Fred swam in our pool and I wore my swimsuit but decided not to go in because I was not hot. I decided to stand on the side and get bit by ants instead. Yeah.

Fred swimming

Fred swimming

Ivy bathing suit

Ivy loving the sun

We ate at Farah’s that night and I discovered I LIKE FALAFEL (woo!), and when we came home he dropped dead asleep and I finished my comic.

Fred at the Hookah Lounge