this weekend i also went camping. with a house. and a shower. and my laptop. plus a lot of games involving small rackets , balls, or horseshoes. and an overabundance of food. and then i went swimming with huge goldfish and their poo. and my brother shotgunned beers with 15 year olds. my cousin lacey called me ‘nasty’ (due to the tattoos and piercings). i bonded with a girl named ashley over braces. we discussed movies with a 10 year old named alex, (getting him in trouble with his mother who hadn’t known some of the movies he had seen.) i played the worst game of horseshoes with my mother that the world has ever seen. and i cheered triumphantly when james got 41 points at scrabble with the word ‘vex’.
i took entirely too many pictures with my brand new digital camera, (including some of my brother’s newest tattoo.)
My old Tweetie Bird collector’s plate –
I kept it on the whatnot shelf.
Not the one next to the t.v., the one behind the couch.
HA HA HA HA!!
get in the fridge, fat-butt.
Okay what’s up with the eye over the bandaid of your brother’s tatoo….it’s a little scary
it’s egyptian (thinks I) and is supposed to be a symbol of protection looking over the multiple injuries he’s done to that knee. yutaro came up with it. he was so gleeful about the whole thing too, it was adorable. he asked about you. i told him you were now a badass.
I had always meant to send him a little note with a picture of the tattoo to say thank you. I’m a bad tattoo getter….
eh. i’ve never sent him a thank you note. but then again, i keep going back in there. he’s really entered into this whole beard growing thing. AND he talked about his wife this time. it was fascinating since i’ve never heard him talk about her before.
i did tell him how much you looooved it and how people are always surprised that you have a tattoo since they misjudge you in advance. he was pleased. as he is pleased by everything. possibly the most laid back man alive, even more than friendly doug maybe.
More laid back than friendly doug? I’ve got to meet this man. Or at least observe him from a distance. I miss friendly doug and his constant quirky friendliness.
btw – the pictures of your cousins in the koi pond are too cute for me to handle. super adorable.
it was less adorable when it went something like this.
“michele! take my picture! take my picture! i’ll jump in and you take it on 3, ok! did you get me?”
and then after every picture, “let me see it!” and lacey would get out of the pool and come running over dripping on me to look at the picture, laugh hysterically, and run back into the pool yelling, “take another one, michele! take my picture! let me see it!”
that is less adorable. I would have left the koi pond area to take more pictures of adam’s knee.
but adam’s knee is creepy. i have to agree with nuala on this one. i don’t like things that can look back at me.
at least it can only look back at you like a cyclops. at least, after all, it’s only ONE EYE. (but see? i’ve only got one.”) then again the naked woman on his calf has two eyes. she’s slightly less creepy though. even with the whole claws and scales aspect. it comes down to the nudity element.
uncle lee: you’ve got TITS on your leg. TWO of them.
adam: at least it’s not 3, right?
uncle lee: and TWO nipples.
adam: uhhh…
uncle lee: TWO tits and TWO nipples. that’s a naked woman.