Beer Cocktails

Are you following the Backyard Bartender?  You should be.  I'm going to make this delicious cocktail very soon.  Note to self: must buy fancy striped straws. 

Redneck Mother
1 oz Rio Star ruby red grapefruit juice (fresh-squeezed!)
.75 oz sloe gin (Get the Plymoth, if you can. It's a bit hard to find, but completely worth it. If you can't hunt down the Plymoth, use a bit less, as other brands tend to be sweeter.)
Lone Star beer
Ginger beer

Add the sloe gin and grapefruit juice to the bottom of a pint glass (or mason jar). Fill the remaining portion of the jar halfway with Lone Star and top with ginger beer. Cheers. 

 

One Year!

My hubby and I just passed our one year anniversary.  We celebrated by heading back to the magical Devil's Thumb Ranch.  

 

As I enjoyed our superb weekend full of delicious food, relaxing massages, a brisk hike, and a much needed nap, I began to think about how glorious a day it was and how blessed we were to have so many friends and family members with us.  And then I reminded myself that all of that is secondary to these words.  These words made the day. 

I Geoff, take you Jen to be my wife.

my partner in life and my one true love.

I will cherish our union and love you more each day than I did the day before.

I will trust you and respect you,

laugh with you and cry with you,

loving you faithfully through good times and bad.

I give you my hand, my heart, and my love,

from this day forward for as long as we both shall live.

Geoff today I become your wife and you become my husband.

I will strive to give you the best of myself, and accept you the way you are.

I promise to respect you as a whole person

with your own interests, desires, and needs,

and to realize that those are sometimes different, but no less important than my own.

I promise to keep myself open to you,

to let you in to my innermost fears, feelings and dreams,

I promise to grow along with you,

to be willing to face change as we both change.

I promise to love you in good times and in bad,

with all that I am and all that I have to give.

 

happy halloween

What's behind that door?

I saw this photo on A CUP OF JO and I thought it was so sweet!  

Would you rather see your groom before the ceremony or wait until you walked down the aisle? This bride and groom managed to take pre-ceremony photos without actually seeing each other: behind a door. Clever!

tear off wallpaper

I love this idea...

Perforated “tear off” wallpaper from ZNAK.   Basically you can customize the design by tearing off the pieces.  Read more at Design Milk: http://design-milpaper-by-znak/#ixzz1SQ2GXr3Gk.com/tear-off-wall

Little People Project

London-based street artist Slinkachu is a small-scale installation artist.  Currently he is setting up miniatures all across the streets of London which he photographs...then abandons in the big world. 

Missed Connections

So, you've all heard of missed connections right?  No, no you have...from craigslist!  Missed Connections is listed under the personals section on craigslist.org.  Check it out.  Once you've selected your city you can view the creepy, kinda sad post from folks like a hopeful lad who exchanged a five second eye lock with a dreamy lady at the local Starbuck's and that's all it took to decide he missed the opportunity to engaged in conversation with his future wife.   Sure, the idea that these two get together and run off into the sunset is romantic, but...oh forget it, I'll save my cynical comments for another blog. 

Okay so what does this have to do with the topics I typically blog about?  Well, while attending NeoCon, I was introduced to the work of Sophie Blackall, an Australian illustrator residing in New York.   I love that she has taken these "Missed Connections" and turned them into whimsical illustrations.  I need to buy one. 

 Monday, November 23, 2009
-m4w
You were wearing a green dress with white buttons. We made eye contact at least three times on the 6 train this morning. All of a sudden you gave a little smile, and looked down at your lap, as though at some secret joke. You never looked up again and I had to get off at Bleeker. I wish I could have seen inside your beautiful head.

 Saturday, May 21, 2011
-m4w
Ack! 'Round 7pm or so... I was browsing the shelves and saw you on the other side. I swear I glimpsed our entire future together in that brief moment. It was beautiful.  And then someone asked you for the time. I mean c'mon, who doesn't have a damn time-telling device of some sort these days!
Oh, if only I'd thought of that.

 Thursday, October 14, 2010
My dreamy neighbor who plays obscenely loud music
- w4m - (Greenpoint)
Sometimes when you have played music late into the night or come home in the wee hours and turn it on, I knock on our shared wall or scold you the next day, but all along I am thinking how dreamy you are and how I just want to make love to you.