Halloween pictures

Courtesy of J's camera --

Just a few pictures showing off everybody's costume. Enjoy!





Ahh, me as the St. Paulies girl. I'm glad I had my stein with me because that beer line was too damn long.

Kelly as Tammy the Used Tampon. Most popular costume at anyplace we were at.

Dave as Mysterio!! Do not under estimate him.

Jim as a creepy caveman. Or werewolf, whatever works. He was able to drink through that thing though, pretty impressive.

Kristen as Auraline - Pirate of the Skies!! I got her business card.

Justyna and Kristen. Justyna rocking the 70s swinger version of Cleopatra.

Kristen, Dave and Paul. I thought Paul was going as a homeless guy, but apparently he was the elephant man.

Say it loud, say it proud...

I'm proud of my birth state.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6888018,00.html

Ha ha!! One of my recipes have made it onto a recipe site.

Spicy Salmon Melt

Pictures of New Sculpture

Here are some pictures of a recently finished sculpture. As many of you know or may not know, I got burned out on painting and have now switched my artistic endeavors to sculpture. I also must thank my friend Yilmaz for taking there pictures for me. This is the first one I've ever done that has been clay built and fired. Some cracking issues, but I found out that was mostly due to a bad batch of high fire white clay.

Ol'boy here now resides at the residence of my friend Kim.

I'm a dork to the nth degree

So the other night I was watching one of my favorite shows, History Detectives, on PBS. On one of the segments they were researching whether a set of books once belonged to John Calhoun. Of course the books were Gibbons full set of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. As they were discussing this book and how many of the United States founding members had read it, I decided that I must now read it too. So of course I went out and bought a full seven volume set. Abridged versions are for bitches. I'll let y'all know how it was. It'll probably take me a year to read it all, but I could use what I learn from this book to take over the world.

The Innocent Shall Suffer...Big Time

Boston gets hit with terrorism threats!!

Goin' to Grandma's house!! Goin' to get drunk and start fires!!

So tonight I'm off to Iowa with my cousins Kate and Amanda, where we will be having our first annual older grand-daughters get loaded at grandma's house and lets start a bonfire fest. Because there are so many of us, we had to limit the group. I think to qualify you must be part of the Vanni clan, be a lady and at least 16. I'm leaving right after work today and didn't realize this morning exactly how heavy my bag would be. You see, I only need two days worth of clothing and all those who know me, know that I am a light packer. Well included in my bag is four bottles of wine and two bottles of vodka. And then my arm almost fell off this morning. But hey at least I can see again.

Yes friends I managed to screw up my eyes something good about a week ago. My allergies showed up early this year and all the nasty crust on my eyes scratched up my eyeballs, so it looked like I had been partacking in some activites that most would deem illegal. But, I took the day off yesterday. I took a vacation from sight and movement (because its not enough that my eyes got screwed, I twisted my ankle on the way to work too... I've been wearing quite the fashionable ankle brace for the last week).

Anywho, must attend to a meeting. I will eventually write again. I promise.