A Secretly Fun City

A lot has happened since I last wrote. Ive finally managed to get the heck out of Ann Arbor, which, as lovely as it is, was driving me bonkers. I went to China (again). My parents have returned to the US of A, which means no more China for me anytime soon. Sadness.

I've made some strange major life decisions.

I went to a party.

I made bread from scratch.

Ive also decided that as much as I love and covet the 76 Pontiac Trans Am, I find the 63 Corvette Stingray to be justslightly sexier.

Anyway, the Bearded Man and I went down to Pittsburgh for a final hurrah before we peaced the heck out of the Midwest. People (coworkers) talk a fair amount of smack about Pittsburgh and cant seem to see why I would want to go there. Honestly, its a gas. Ive always had a great time there, ate some amazing food, and really enjoyed the city. Ive also pretty much never taken photos there because I'm having too good of a time. They should change their city slogan to "Pittsburgh: Way More Fun Than You Thought".

This most recent trip was at the very beginning of August. It was super hot.
We met up with A&A, who, as Ive mentioned before, might be the best people Ive ever met.
Ever.

We also spontaneously went to a classic car show.

I really should have been born a boy. Not that I'm complaining, mind, but I like cars and tools and building things and dirt and stuff...

Yeah. Ugh.

Anyway, I loved some of the more unusual hood ornaments- I think the ram might be my favorite. Sorry I didn't note exactly the year and make of each car, I was distracted by the shiny glittering lights...









This car was particularly awesome..
It was, I believe a 1939 Dusenberg, and was built entirely by hand by the guy who brought it to the show (Homeboy was rather elderly at this stage, but still so proud of this awesome car) .
Apparently if you wanted one, you just ordered the set of specs and fabricated everything yourself.
Baller.
















That's it for now. More fun still to come. Maybe more posts, who knows? Id like to make something of this little slice of technology, but its impossible to do everything.

If anyone has a old crappy Trans Am sitting in their garage or backyard or something that they want to give me, hit me up. Ill bake you a pie.

Everlasting Light

The Sun when there is none...

I'm rather obsessed with a band called The Black Keys right now...
Check 'em out if you (like me) have no idea whats going on in popular music and need something good to listen to.

Anyway...here's some much belated pictures from fall and Halloween.
Did you all have a good time?
I didn't dress up- for the first time in pretty much my whole short life.
I cant remember, but I think I had to work that day, or something boring like that.
I'm becoming such an adult. *sigh*

Fall was lovely in Ann Arbor.




This church makes me want to go to church.
But I don't think I'd like it once I got in there....
What with the Hound of God and all.




Went out to visit my friend Jack, who lives on a lake and has two silly dogs that are just gluttons for attention, which I was more than happy to lavish on them. We sat in the boat on the lake an watched the sunset, but, hilariously, didn't take the boat out onto the lake and instead, just left it tied up at the dock...




Railroad...somewhere...
I take lots of pictures of railroads.
I like the promise of them going somewhere...


Beardy Man and I went to an apple orchard because I wanted to pick apples.
Sadly, the apples were mostly done for the season, but there were pumpkins.
Here is the Pumpking, resplendent in his royal crown.


A few apples left!


A beautiful day...


Milkweed.


Artsy fartsy pumpkin pictures




This is not the same picture as before, I promise...










And as my first act as Pumqueen, I decree that fall shall last forever...


We bought pumpkins, I made pumpkin-walnut bread with cayenne pepper in it.
yum yum tasty noms gud...


For Halloween, we didn't dress up, nor did we get any trick-or-treaters.
We did carve pumpkins, though.


Here was my awesome fancy-pants pumpkin design that I was going to enter into a competition but apparently missed the entry deadline because I was so busy carving it, so I just took pictures of it instead.


Its supposed to be trees and the moon, I guess...


Goofy psychotic face with crazy eyebrows.


ooooo...spooky!
The teeth looked super cool in the candlelight.


Bwahahahaha!


Good thing I'm posting this after New Years, when its really relevant...
Haha, I sort of suck at being timely.
Anyway, I'm working on some photos from Christmas and general winter shots, so yeah. Check back soon. Really.
Hope you all are well.