Things that I think are awesome (the sweet, nostalgic photos I found on my computer edition)

Sometimes I decide that I know what Bri needs to do with her life and I send her emails with subject lines like this.

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This just might be a perfect morning.  Breakfast tacos, topo chico, and my laptop (used for blog reading not studying) sitting at a coffee shop downtown, looking out the window (doing some serious people watching.)

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I used to have a hundred million pairs of shoes and one time I thought I'd document them all.  So, in the hallway of my house, I laid on the ground (to get the perfect shot!) and photographed all of my shoes just like the photo above.  I only still have a few of these shoes (I pretty much live in flip flops, cowboy boots and my old man loafers) but I do have all of the photographs.  And those are awesome.

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The Zilker Kite Festival is one of my favorite things to do in Austin.  The photo above is from 2008, I believe, and though you can't really tell, all of those dots in the air are kites.  Zilker park fills up with people and everyone is flying kites.  You've got little kids with their tiny kites a few feet up in the air and then people with their hardcore I'm-really-good-at-kite-flying kites way up, doing sweet tricks.  I haven't been in a few years, but I'm so there this March.  (March 4th this year, by the way.)

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This is part of a photobooth strip that Mel, Josh and I took forever ago, before they even started dating, much less getting married or having a baby (that's not even a baby but an adorable toddler that loves me so much more that Aunt Lala.)  I love the face Josh is making.

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This is my grandmother (Granny, as I will refer to her from now on) and my next-oldest cousin, Kelli.  I think we're at the courthouse for my uncle Chris's wedding, in about '88 or '89.  I love this picture because of the bratty look on my face (and hers, if we're being fair.)

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The incident documented in this photo spawned a favorite phrase for Chris and I during the end of our time together in Longhorn Singers... "Wha' happen?"  (What happened was that Chris and I were playing bartender and didn't think about why we should add Sprite to our cocktail until after we shook it up.  Then, it might not have exploded all over my sweet Olive Garden uniform. As as a side note, I'm proud of myself for working through college, but someone should have told me to change out of my uniform when I went to a party or hung out with friends after work.  I didn't do that, and so there are about 3 years of photos where I'm wearing a white button up shirt, black dress pants and usually that heinous green "Hospitaliano!" button.  In. Every. Single. Photo.)

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I don't work with these guys anymore, but the Texas Star crew from Trudy's is a damn good group of folks.  This is a shot from the company-wide Easter party, where all four stores come together in the park to eat barbeque, let the kids hunt Easter eggs, play kickball and drink beer.  All of the other stores bring chairs and their families and kids, but we would just lay out on blankets and soak up the sun and laugh.  The "hippie" store indeed.

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You're welcome for all of that.