From the Depths of the Carnie Art Vaults...

Check out some delicious, poorly executed Carnival art to liven up your Thursday morning. I like the dog walking human mural (pictured left) best. How about you?

I think this speaks for itself...

get your red hot mooncakes

Really???

Okay, seriously. Pregnancy is a very beautiful thing. But not plastered all over Facebook when you are 23 years old, have odd tattoos on your torso, and are wearing strangely sexy lingerie in the photographs. I am glad that people are proud of their fetus, but make a nice little baby album with that stuff and show it to your closest friends and family. Not half the world-including your coworkers, drunk former college hookups, random people that you met for 5 minutes then became Facebook "friends" with. I have seen 3 albums like this within the past 48 hours. Someone please scream at me if I am the one making albums like this in 10 years.

In Celebration as your last day being Allie B....Have a great honeymoon, Allie....C!!

wedding bells and cupcakes!!! congrats mlady

things i find while searching for stock photography...

search terms: grandmother & outdoors

Oshkosh-B-Awkward

quite possibly my new favorite site:
awkward family photos.com

spring is in the air

mondays are the least popular day of the week, but at least its better than the day this guy is having.

anti-semitic cats, a friday afternoon delight

Sir 'Kitler' taking a commanding stance

there is nothing more inspiring to view when one is stuck in traffic...

I am tired of being an adult!!

So does anyone else ever get tired of being an adult? I've absolutely loved it until last week, when I realized that I need to find a summer job, figure out housing for next fall in CT, figure out way too much financial aid stuff for school, etc etc etc. I think I hit a cracking point. The funny thing is, I know once this transition phase is over, I will love life again. But this week sucks! There are very FEW instances when I think this, but once in a great while I wish that I could go back to being 15 and let my parents do everything for me again. I mean honestly, the only thing I worried about at that point was getting my Dad to drive me to my friends' houses.
In any case, when it comes down to it, I know I secretly love all this responsibility, and I like knowing that I AM able to do all this on my own. If someone could just get me through this week, I will be able to get right back to that mentality. :)

google search "llama"

meet your match.

the only roadside memorial worth looking at...

And I present to you from the M'lady archives...

Exhibit A: 3 M'ladies, post mustache drawing and t-giving sandwich eating circa 2004

hilarious

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-different-kinds-ofpeople-that-there-are/Content?oid=1206006

I especially like the part about "People Who Claim to Be Afraid of Clowns" and the part about "People Who Let Their Cat Walk Across Their Kitchen Cutting-Board"...

le petit happy birthday's eve cait!

who said only the bride should wear white?

inspired thinking

classifying rare species of stray shopping carts....pure genious....

Check out that Coif!

The wonderful things you find when your mom and her friends are on facebook.

skip and char a.k.a. "chip" spotted in 1975.

skip was ron burgundy meets burt reynolds with a pipe! char just had big earings and a hairdo fall less voluminous than skips.

enjoy.

spaghetti anyone?

How to shame your pet

Now that I am all about sewing and have Tilly, I thought it would be a fun project to make my own kitty bed. So while googling sewing patterns for pets... i found these....

note the look of shame on the top right pugs face...

why is there enough of a demand for stupid dog hats and cat "suits" that these patterns resulted? and what sedatives are these animals on to be wearing such articles?

simplicity pattern makers: i spray my water bottle at you..."No!"

Meet Tilly!

Justin and I are the proud owners of a little sphynx. We named her Tilly and she is the sweetest cat. Now you all need to come to Buffalo to meet her!

Likewise M'Lady!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY M'LADY!
I wish I could celebrate with you! I missss you!

Why we all left Connecticut

CHIMPANZEE ATTACKS WOMAN IN STAMFORD

A massive ape lost control at his Connecticut owner's home today and mauled a woman's face before he was repeatedly stabbed by his horrified owner and eventually shot dead by police, authorities said.

Travis, a 200-pound primate, attacked the 55-year-old woman today in Stamford as she visited her friend and chimp owner Sandy Herold around 3:30 p.m, cops said.

When Herold saw what happening, she ran out of the house with a butcher knife and stabbed Travis numerous times.

Cops showed up and a bloodied Travis tried to open a door of the patrol car. When he discovered it was locked, he moved to the other side and ripped the mirror off. One of the officers then shot Travis. The 15-year-old chimp staggered back inside Herald's home, where he collapsed in a pool of blood. The victim was taken to Stamford Hospital with severe facial injuries.

"It was a very brutal attack," said Stamford police Cpt. Richard Conklin, adding that the woman's "hands were mangled."

In 2003, Travis escaped from the Herold car by jumping from her car in Stamford. He was corralled by cops a few hours later.

Travis was well known around Stamford because he rode around in the truck belonging to Herold's towing company, Desire Me Motors in Stamford, according to the Stamford Advocate newspaper.

Also in the 2003 escape incident, a man threw something in Herold's truck that struck Travis. The chimp unbuckled his seatbelt, opened the door and ran out after the man, but did not catch him, the paper said.

Later that day, Travis then played at an intersection for two hours, causing traffic to stall. Police eventually sedated him with stun guns and got him back into the truck.

Travis took his own bath, ate at the table and drank wine from a stemmed glass. He also brushed his teeth using a Water Pik, according to the Stamford Advocate.

Aside from appearing in Coca Cola and Old Navy TV commercials, he appeared once on the "Maury Povich Show" and was in a TV pilot

I know what Mrs. M'lady Will Get From Me For a Wedding Gift

WHO CAN PLAY “CatFeats” - Any combination of 1-4 people and 1-4 cats.

CatFeats is a fun way to discover what motivates Kitty to perform. Experiment with cuddles, compliments, toys, gestures and very small edibles (including cat treats, moist cat food or tuna fish) to find Kitty’s favorite rewards. You and Kitty will both enjoy doing the tasks. Don’t play the game right after Kitty has eaten because she may be less motivated to perform.

HOW TO PLAY: Roll the paw print dice, pick a matching paw print card, get your cat to do the activity, enter your score on the score pad. First player to score 30 WINS! You, your friends, your family and your cats will have SO MUCH FUN!

The OBJECT OF CatFeats is to score the most points by getting your cat to perform fun activities in a designated amount of time.

wanna get lei'd?

Sooo I am officially going to Hawaii in April!!
Tom is getting out there the first week in April, and then he has this formal Submarine Ball that we are going to mid-April.
I'm going to head out there for about 2 weeks (most likely the 11th-24th), and obviously I will see a good amount of Mrs. MLady while I am out there. Anyone feel like taking a random trip to Hawaii in April?? We could have a mini-MLady reunion in Hawaii....

Dunkin' Donuts...the Waffle B'fast Sandwich...really!?

What were they smoking? Is this the evil twin of their svelte flat bread sandwiches??? I vote a flop.

P.S. I do however desperately miss D&D's as there are zero in the Boulder-Denver area. I have been in Philly for the past 24 hours and has resigned myself to the fact that I will likely be popping 17 chocolate glazed munchkins in my mouth at one time at the airport tomorrow morning...ughhhhhhhhh glazzzzze

stains

calling ALL mladies

this post goes out to a certain cat loving mlady - whom will remain nameless. this mlady has yet to post a single item. this is called my "four" m'ladies for a reason, seems to be my "three" currently. If you are out there and still reading this, get postin!

just because you live on a tropical island, does not mean you are freed of your mlady contact responsibilities.

-the management.

Brainstorm!

Had to share this. just our kind of humor

Kittens!

priceless.

CT-bound?

EGB life update:
As all of you know, I am accepted at UConn Law. Out of the schools that I applied to, UConn was second on the list...after CU-Boulder. I am currently wait-listed at CU, so until I receive a definite decision from them, I am planning on attending UConn in the fall. I am really pumped! It will be amazing for a lot of reasons- I will be very close to NYC and Boston (good for internships/jobs and visiting friends/family often), and I will be able to pay in-state tuition. This is a crazy, crazy time of transition for me, but I know everything will turn out just fine.
In a nutshell, I am ending my (current) job, my boyfriend is moving to Hawaii, and I am leaving Boston.
The silver lining to all of these things is that I will have the summer off and I am hopefully moving to Newport for the summer, I am taking a two week vacation to Hawaii in the middle of April, and I am going to law school!
I guess it's all about perspective...

all things tiny and sweet

so i've never sewed a thing in my life. justin's brother and wife are having a little boy and I really wanted to make something unusual and fun as a gift. I made these shoes and wanted to share.

so ladies when you have babies.... expect shoes!
no rush or anything.

making a stuffed animal next... more to come.

whats everyone else up to? we need to make use of this delightful little blog.

sidebar sidenote

as i was perusing the squirrel attack article.. which i must say is awesome, I spotted a familiar doggie/monkey team.

banana derby has gone international, proud to say ive seen it in person.

This Article is Just Too Hilarious to Not Share

In recent months, a number of National Health Service nurses making house calls in the rural United Kingdom have been attacked by the leaping rodents. They're now being told to walk in groups or at least carry umbrellas to defend themselves against kamikaze squirrels who have bizarrely begun catapulting themselves out of trees. One district nurse even suffered "reddening of the scalp" after being ganged up on by a duo of squirrels, one of which sidetracked her while another gave her noogies with all four paws.

This is not the first crazy squirrel attack to go down in England in the past year. Recently, a rescued squirrel named Elvis inexplicably attacked his owner, a children's book writer and squirrel aficionado. Before that, an inventor suffered whiplash when a squirrel leaped onto the head-mounted bird feeder he was wearing (we know -- he probably had that one coming).

Let us hope that -- unlike Coldplay -- the crazy squirrels will stay put in the U.K. and not attempt to cross the pond and inspire Americans to live in fear of leaving the house.

because everything looks better with a moustache

stick on mustaches... oh rapture!

I Think This Ornament Speaks For Itself

"Protect our troops - from the womb to the war. What if the fetus you were going to abort would grow up to be a soldier bringing democracy to a godless dictatorship?"