don't let them tell you the desert isn't bright

Look at the colors! The Navajo desert in December. Bone dry air. Cold, white patches of snow and ice. The blinding white sun. The silly stigmas of desert cliches melt away when we visit our land. Our footprints sometimes touch ground where no other human has walked.

Lunch at the church: turkey, mashed potatoes, fruit salad, tortillas, green beans casserole, veggies and of course, fry bread. YUM YUM YUM!

Let's play tag! Watch out for snake holes!

Those trees are beautiful. You can see shapes in them. Their trunks and branches look like petrified stone snakes. Underwater plant limbs. Sea goddess hair. It smells like fire before you even burn it.

Hahaha! That's my girl!

cutey patootey to do list

Hey guys,

Every single day, as soon as I open my eyelids, I try to stay as busy busy busy as possible so my brain doesn't atrophy. I look up part time jobs and clean up after the sweet kittens. I make library book lists and practice my french. I tutor Ahmed and memorize Paul Simon lyrics. I relearn my physical chemistry theorems (never forget!). ETCETERA! ETCETERA!

Well, now that I'm a fully developed 25 (!) year old, I should start making schedules and routines. I hereby declare Thursdays as my french and spanish practice day. Phew!

Anyway, did I tell you about Ahmed? I'm tutoring him in ESL so let me know if you have any advice. I think watching a few episodes of Gossip Girl and flipping through Martha Stewart mags may not be enough. Wait. Wait. Let's change Gossip Girl to Golden Girls and I think we've got a winning combo. Ahmed, please don't fire me ... mama needs le cash.

Love, G la fille

P.S. And because I'm a self-indulgent asshole and I buy myself birthday presents, I'll tell you what they may be:

• cool camera, whatever that means. I guess maybe a fisheye camera or one with a neckstrap.
• microscope with digi camera attachment - I found a child of the earth, so I wanted to dissect it and show you all!
• keyboard to compose cat songs on!
• tattoo - probably not, but I was thinking to commemorate my beloved dead rats, Victor Allen and Sunshine, R.I.P.

Considering I don't have any $$$, I may have to go with dollhouse versions of these lovely items. le sigh!

go shorty it's yo birthday

Whoa, mama, I made it. I'm 25. As in TWENTY FUCKING FIVE YEARS OLD. gulp. Is this the year I get gray pubic hairs? Somebody please tell meeeee! I'm super excited to be 25. G at 24 was fun and dizzying and untamed. Silly and wild. Unregretful! I highly recommend experiencing your reckless, pointed, traveling, eager 24th year! I will always have that unruly fabulous 24 year old brat in me. Now on to 25 ...
I know this is absolutely disgusting, but I always used to get a pimple where cindy crawford has a mole so I'd wait to get it and then not wash my face. Go ahead, barf if you need to, but I thought it was cute ... the placement, not the greasy skin sitch.
Look, we're Catherine Zeta Jones and Cat-onio Banderas in Zorro!
I think I uploaded these photos to show how much my hair has changed, but now that I look I'm like YAWWWWNNNN!
AWWW times a million!!! Baby Moshe! He used to be so tiny and babyish that he'd sit wherever you'd plop him, even the bathroom sink. Plus, he'd follow me around the house like I was his mama cat and cry when I'd sit on the bed bc he wasn't strong enough to climb it yet. TEARS OF JOY!!!! Also, this was back when he'd run away from some spiders because they were too big! Death from awwww's!
Yay! So far 25 rulez, dudes and dudettes!

fashionshow

I'm in the midst of applying and interviewing for a new job ... yay? Anyway, I've been all pins and needles this last week bc of this. I'll update about our big fucking weekend soon. Can you believe I stayed up for 40 straight hours? Here's a fashion show til then:

Sweet little dress from Target. They also had it in powder blue/navy blue. It's really fun to wear, I highly recommend it although you can't wear it sans panties, it's slightly see though.

Probably returning this white thing. I'm just not in a 8 year old going to church kind of way anymore.

Awwww, Baby was watching me model.

kiss me, kings me part 2

For some reason we moved our party into the bathroom.

What? Just normal sitting in a bathtub behavior. Seriously, was there a party going on somewhere in that house?

Three expressions I could have lived without seeing.

Notice how the shower curtain, in the background, is super crooked. aaahahahah!

weird pucker ...

whoa ... wait for it ...

wait for it ...

not that surprising. i kinda figured this happens camera or not ... wait for it ...

... so close ...

BAM! Are they tonguing?

Bill has morning after eyes.

awwww.

this next photo felt perfect for photoshopping:

See? Although the only way this makes sense is if Bill is riding the wrong way down the highway since we can see both his face and the mileage sign, but I wouldn't put it past him to actually do this.

Please play this song while looking at the pic below:

awwwww!!! "we'll get there fast and then we'll take it slooooow!" lol for eternity.

tres cool!

I feel like Bill is talking J out of his soul in these pics.

tickle fight!

??? lol.

THE END! phew!