Si! Si, it is nearly party time! Birthday party time, that is! We are just 2 short days away from my 35th birthday and it’s starting to be exciting for me! Dinner will be fun because my birthday is one of the few times I get to pressure people to drink tequila and they HAVE TO DO IT! Mind you, I won’t pressure them to drink crappy tequila. Oh noes.

As if for my birthday, Kate Beaton made this lovely comic. Ok not really for my birthday because she doesn’t know who I am other than some random emailer from Portland, OR. But still, a girl can dream right? It’s not important WHO this is for, just that there are others out there who find Mr. Darcy as dreamy as I do. Audrey?

Things you wish you had said, but didnt:

“If you’re lucky, nadmuncher.”

Fix Yer Bike Day 05/04/08 was a big success. There are a few pictures on my flickr stream, www.flickr.com/photos/heidimonkey, see them if you want to be jealous of the fun times that were had involving beer, grilled foods and bicycle dirt.

Here is a picture of Audrey working on her brake. Please to enjoy it.

RIDE BIKES!

This morning while listening to Henry Mancini and up to my unders in sewing, I decided to make a snack. Yes, Audrey, I decided to make flan because flan can be a snack if you are me, Heidi Lee Messer, who eats flan for a snack.

But short attention span Heidi just can’t do only one thing at a time. Dishes? Sure. Coffee? Absolutely. Oops, after waiting forever for the flan to boil, it boiled. Over. While I wasn’t watching. Cut to, “What’s that delicious smell? Oh, it’s flan burning all over the top of my stove. Damn.”

Good thing there are kitties who will help you clean up a flantastrophy.

Me: “Do you, Audrey, take this foot massage machine and this mint julep to be your lawfully wedded appliance and drink?”

Audrey: “I do.”

She has decided to hyphenate, Audrey Bekeny-Julep-Machine. She’s lucky that Charlene wasn’t around because she could actually make that shit legal.

–04/12/07 Update to the Audrey marrying/naming issue. She is now further hyphenated as Audrey Bekeny-Julep-Machine-Amore after the amore pizza we had at scholls last night.