Dog Vs. Cat!

This is how I spend my time... Violet vs. Sadie!!

Sullivan Family Christmas

That's right folks - we survived! The Sullivan family Christmas in Philadelphia was a total success. As I type my stomach threatens to burst forth from my pants because of the amount of food I've eaten - but otherwise it was all good!

We attended the longest mass ever with a boys choir who sang EVERYTHING and had our own photo shoot in front of the Art Museum (Dad drove right up on the sidewalk to park with hardly a pause). Rocky's crotch is in the picture to the left, and the Art Museum's Christmas tree is below.

Now I've got tons of presents (including the knee socks I needed, thanks Andrew) and about a week of vacation to look forward to!

Mary's on the phone in the picture below...




...and here's a link to the photo album!

Violet is NOT Photogenic

Okay, so maybe not the BEST looking dog in pictures, but seriously she is awesome. She's learning how to walk on a leash and no longer has chronic diarrhea. We win!

Luckily, I look good with her.

Violet Viriginia Taylor-Sullivan

Holy crap. We adopted a dog.


Kathy and Vicki found this chihuahua wandering around outside of their apartment building at 5th and Cecil B Moore. She had a plastic zip tie around her neck, was super skinny, and was perhaps living in an abandoned building. Since Kathy and Vicki already have three dogs (three!) they were looking for someone to take the chihuahua. When Kathy mentioned her at breakfast (Honey's Sit-n-Eat - best ever breakfasts!) we thought we'd check her out. It was love at first sight and after a trial period with our cats (will they claw her eyes out?) she got to stay with us.

I have now lost my mind and am buying her clothing (like the above pink coat with hood) and making her shirts out of old socks. The dog is ALWAYS cold, as a mexican dog might be expected to be, so we pretty much keep her dressed all the time. What? A dog that is also a doll and accessory? The hell you say! So, anyway, here are pics of Violet Viriginia. We also call her "Shakes". And you can thank Adrienne for the Halloween shirt!

Oh! And to add further testiment to my insanity, here is a link to a group I just joined: Philly Chihuahua Meetup Group
Click and enjoy!

Atlantic City Never Saw It Coming!

It was a big day in Atlantic City for me, Andrea, my mom, my Aunt Nancy, and my Aunt Barb and Uncle Nick. It started with all you can eat seafood (a delicious buffet experience that started with a lot of butter and ended with piles of chocolate.) My full belly and $2 win on the lottery tickets my mom gave me for my birthday should have prepared me for what came next...

For the first time EVER I did not have a miserable gambling experience. I usually sit in front of the slot machines and get sadder and sadder while the balance on my little ticket thing gets lower and lower. I play the slots because they are the only ones I understand (and don't fear). In fact, I can only play the quarter slots, because the nickle and penny slots are somehow VERY expensive and the dollar slots are definately very expensive (my $20 ticket does not last long there). This time, although I didn't get an a-cha from my mom at any point during the trip, with the family there I played the big wheel with the dollars on it. Playing as a group is great, because no matter what number it lands on someone you know wins! So while Andrea played the table, I siphoned her winnings away and we walked away up a couple bucks (although I think Uncle Nick supplied the seed money so it doesn't really count). And finally at the end of the day I hit it big ($19 big!) on the slot machines. That's success right there.

Here's the photo album - aren't we a good looking group?

Atlantic City Trip

Pumpkin Carving and Star Wars

Today (Saturday) was a very busy day. We met friends for breakfast (Honey's Sit 'n Eat in No. Libs - so good). Then we went on Kendra's Harvest Day Pumpkin and Apple picking trip to Linvilla, which is crawling with kids but also has a ton of fried food (apple fritters, pumpkin funnel cake...) so is okay. Came home, took nap, saw a show (the MPiRP resident company New Paradise Laboratories - their work-in-progress BATCH: A BACHELOR/ETTE PARTY IN SIX ROUNDS at Drexel). Finally, we came home with Kendra to carve pumpkins, watch Star Wars and drink hot chocolate. Now THAT is a very busy, seasonally thematic, day.

PS - I carved the cat pumpkin... I rule.
PPS - I forgot that we also met a Chihuahua that we might adopt. Kathy found her in the street up near her loft and she is CUTE. She's young, and really sweet. We are going to take her overnight on Tuesday to see if the cats will be able to deal with her living here. How cool would it be to have a Chihuahua? Me Quiero Taco Bell!

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AIDS Walk 2006 with the cast of THE LARAMIE PROJECT

This year the cast of THE LARAMIE PROJECT joined the Department of Performing Arts team for the 20th annual AIDS Walk. The weather was perfect, the leaves were just turning, and 9 miles felt very long. We handed out a whole mess of LARAMIE flyers, and got in a little fun along the way. Click on the photo below to check out the album.

AIDS Walk 2006

Jessica Montello's CT Wedding

The lovely Jessica Montello married her longtime fiance Andrew in a CT wedding on October 1, 2006. Flo, Andrea and I headed up on Saturday and enjoyed dinner and drinks with Cecelia, Elizabeth, Ximena, Rafael and the kids that evening. As per usual I tortured everyone with photo-taking. Enjoy the photo album below - I used the google albums thing from Picasa. Not sure if I prefer it to yahoo photos, but I thought I'd give it a rumble!

Jessica Montello's CT Wedding

Sep 30, 2006 - 172 Photos

1st Annual Beer Olympics

If you missed the 1st Annual Philadelphia Beer Olympics, you missed a pretty killer time. A time in which my team was victorious in 90% of the challenges undertaken. And boy am I sore. Click on the link below to check out the rest of the pictures. I'm hoping that soon there will be some video on YouTube to point you to as well.


Prizes were awarded to best dressed, and if I were smart enough I would think of some way for you guys to vote from home. Feel free to comment with your choices. Our panel of independent judges awarded Cristina's wrestling outfit with the top prize last night.













Man am I pooped.





PICTURES!

!!!Adopt These Kittens!!!!

These are the kittens that live in our back yard - we've finally managed to capture them on film. Well, Andrea actually stalked them for a day and took all of these fabulous pictures. But let's be honest, they are just the cutest things ever. I'm sure we could capture them and deliver them to you. They don't even seem to outdoors skanky. They need your love.

Here's the link to the pics: Outside Kittens.

My friend Fennel.

Cantankørisms. Read it. Hilarious. Stanky. Just wrong. But SO right.

Hiking for your Birthday? Who does that?

Dorilona does that.







On August 5th Kendra and I drove out to, okay, a far away hiking farm place that I can't remember the name of. It's a PA state park. If you like the pictures so much that you want to go, let me know and I'll find the right info. If you have spent any time with Kendra and I, you can imagine how our car ride up there went: "Oh! Look at the little farm houses! Isn't that a beautiful church? I love the way it smells out here. We're just leaving the city behind...!" You could pretty much insert any gay "yay nature" phrase in there and you would capture our entire 1.5 hour long journey (it's not really that far away, but there was traffic on the miserable Schuykill).

Anyway, the hike itself was awesome, we watched some ancient iron forging, and had a little picnic lunch. It was a delightful, sometimes buggy, sometimes exhausting wander in the woods with a really great group of people. And although I thought a Birthday Hike was pretty crazy (picture Andrea on a birthday hike with me...) I had a great time. And I will be hauling my fat ass on another hike sometime very soon.

As always, here's the picture link: Dorilona's Birthday Hike.

Desiree and Maison's Wedding (Finally!)

On Saturday, July 29, 2006 our friends Desiree and Maison finally tied the knot and made their two children legitimate. Friends and family journeyed to Mohawk, New York and witnessed what they told us would be a "White Trash Wedding". In truth, it was a beautiful ceremony in Des' Mom's lovely home, covered with rose petals and threatened by a tornado and flash floods. However, we got our fill of the toothless locals when we went to the Raging Rocket Lounge later that night to get our drink on. Fortunately, we were kicked out and forced to return home (it's the only bar in town).


Here's the link to the pictures from the ceremony and party:
Desiree and Maison's Wedding Album

Madonna Concert Brings Crazy Fans

Recently, my friend Desiree, her mom, and her sister Kamika, came to Philly to see Madonna. On the way to the concert Desiree cried. Here are the pics from that really fun visit. As soon as I can, I'll post the pics from Des and Maison's wedding this past weekend.

Desiree's Madonna Visit

Cape Cod - Daaaammmmeeeee!

Woo hoo! Home from Cape Cod and have a whole bunch of pictures to share, from both my camera and Kristi's. I had an awesome time and hope to see everyone again sometime soon... Next stop is the Firehouse reunion next year!

Okay, here's the important stuff:

The below is hopefully video (and not just a picture) from the recent trip that I took with some friends to Cape Cod. A couple of us created a little synchronized water handstand/cheer routine that we worked, reworked, and performed for a captive audience of beach-goers. My favorite moment in this, other than Rachel's stellar ballerina twirl followed by cheerleader lift, is when I, mid-routine, come out of the water and have no idea where I am. And Juan's jazz-hands.



Also, if you click on this link to my yahoo photo-site you can check out 300 photos from the trip. Feel free to leave comments here with links to your own photos - I'd love a copy of the group shot from Wendy's camera.

Seafood Night at Our House

Andrea and her creation... or what was left of it.

Kendra, full & demure.

Rachel and Kendra with a big bowl of goodness. 

Pinhead Replacement Post (as if one can replace Pinhead)

Well, it's been awhile since I've done this. Mostly I just need to replace the pinhead picture on my MySpace profile and blogspot lets me host my pics for free. I am that super lame. Even more lame is sitting down at my laptop, checking each of four email accounts, and then wondering what it is I'm supposed to do now. I know I sat down in front of this thing for a reason, and then I remember that it was to read my email. And I didn't get any, unless you count Victoria's Secret. That bitch sends me something just about every other day.
I am also supposed to be doing my homework right now for my hardest class ever. Guess what I'm not doing?

Okay, here's the pinhead replacement pic. It's a menu from a restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky. Pretty much representative of my entire experience there.



I aspire, by the way, to the Hallmarks of a Lady blog on this site. I'll never get there, but I can aspire my ass off.