the mother monster
Lady Gaga played July 25th at the Toyota Center. We made sure to get VIP floor tickets for the up-close and personal view. And it was completely worth it.
She's an incredible artist with a wonderful singing voice. Costume changes, the flaming piano, the story telling... everything was amazing. I remember being emotionally moved by my favorite artists of all time in concert. And this... this show was just as ... amazing isn't a good enough word.
She loves her fans, her little monsters. And we love her back :) More of my pictures from the concert here.
Pamela got some great photos from the concert!
And so did I!
A great weekend that started out with a stinky flower... ends at the Monster Ball. :D
And we begin "TheWeekend"
Of course I told Pamlea about this crazy flower that's supposed to smell like rotting corpses and asked if she thought that maybe, I mean, you know, on the off chance they might wanna see such nonsense, they would like to stop by and check the Corpse Flower out....
The answer was a definite yes. Pamela and Michelle were all for it. For the week leading up to their visit, we'd stalk Lois on her webcam and Perry - another corpseflower, on his. The whole phenomenon was really quite neat. I learned a lot about these plants. Their horticulturalists were giving them personalities. They had twitter accounts. Really a bit much, if you think about it. Totally worth it to smell the smell of a corpse coming from a flower.
I literally kept myself up Thursday night, after spending the previous night at the museum till 2am, to watch the Perry flower bloom. That's the level of excitement we're talking about here.
So anyway - Friday night the girls get into town, we thought we might meet up for a trip to museum. We get our tickets for 3:45 in the morning - the earliest showing. o_O! We made our way to the late night sushi bar. Closed it down. Caffinated up at the 24hr StarBucks and made fun of the night owls in what I could only assume was their "party gear". And then stood in line at the museum to check out ... the corpse flower. Lois had bloomed early that morning. And for sure we thought we'd get a wiff of the rotting meaty goodness the news people promised.. Alas, it was only the aroma of day old garbage laying out in the sun. *sigh*
Totally worth it, though.
Lois!
Stank level 5!!!
Haa haa - our quick little arm's length photo turned out blury, but we captured what we needed to capture : nick, me and lois. Lois the Corpse Flower. She's apparently been growing right down the street from us - in the museum of natural science. We got there late Wednesday night after watching a news clippet between commercials. Stood in line for an hour. She wasn't smelly, but she was bigger than any 'flower' we'd seen.
Totally looked forward to smelling a corpse. Didn't happen.
And other things about makeup I didn't know.
So, thanks to genetics... and watching my mom apply moisturing cream everyday and night, I still get carded regularly. Every since I was in my teens, I'd sneak a dab or two of mom's Oil of Olay and delicately dot my face and massage in, just as she did.
Since then, my war paint has simply consisted of Oil of Olay, awesome eyeshadow colors, black eyeliner, lenthening mascara, and an array of lipcolor.
It wasn't until one of my best friend's weddings that I was sold on MAC products. My best friend's best friend* swore by it - and given just how natural she looked, I had to try it out for myself.
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CJ sent the kitties earlier this week... and they arrived today!! How cute are these?! I love the colors and how Peanut looks just as clueless as he does in real life... and how Vivi looks like he's in your face!
My dear friend CJ surprised Nicholas and I with these incredibly awesome portraits of Wilson and Colin! Love how she captured Wilson juicy juicy eyes!
Check out more of her work here: http://www.grendelsdj.com/cjpetportraits.html
The Austin Pug Rescue Group hosted an event this past weekend. Since we were going to be in town to hang out, we thought we'd stop by! Jenny and CJ brough Grendel.. and everyone had a great time...
With summer being half over, we made our way out to Galveston to play in the water before the tarballs washed up. Last year, Wilson was too afraid of the water to get in. This year, with Colin being water-friendly, Wilson willingly waded into the salt water!
Dad used to take us every weekend when we were young. And here I went nearly half the summer without taking myself! Obviously my priorities are skewed. This must be remedied! The boys and I hope you all had a fun and eventful Independence Holiday!
Left over holiday tinsel was thrown out at our apartment complex. One of neighboring birds recyled them into a nest just outside our front door. Nicholas captured this picture - he's getting pretty good with my camera :)
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