just being honest, i'll tell ya
this has been a pretty busy week/weekend. i went to kcmo from last friday until early-early tuesday. it was a really good time. i had lunch with hesch on the plaza at buca di beppo. yummy. i really love their eggplant parmesan. if only i could learn to slice eggplant so thin and bread it so deliciously. awesome.
i called roger after that and went to his place so we could go to target where we picked up awkward gift combinations for the wedding couple of the weekend. joe’s mom had suggested an american flag and it just so happened that they had one on the list so we bought one of those and then a garden hose which was also on their registry. sweet stuff.
we went to steak and shake where we discovered the magnificence of the new bits n pieces milk shake. the advertising for the BNP milk shake is ridiculous. First, in its new regular menu spot it says that the milk shake includes Bits (and Pieces) of favorite candies. WTF. Then they brag on the roger’s placemat that they hand-dip them by hand. My placemat, however, confesses that they hand-dip them but actually they use a scoop. Roger and I pondered throwing a fit because we could tell it was scooped and not actually done with hands in the ice cream. Because you actually can taste the difference. They also have a bunch of random things on the placemats meant to advertise the milkshakes but all of it is completely bizarre. The ad guy was probably being fired during this and just went all out with terribleness so that someday he can get hired at a mcddonalds to design the graphics that become those big sheets they stick on the windows. what a clever career move. speaking of people who probably need to consider career moves, our waitress hated us. HATED US. MORE THAN ANYTHING, I BET. She had to pick up our table and she was really bitter about it. We both got the vibe that she wanted to knife us as we were ordering. I was pretty relieved that it wasn’t just me. Because I was convinced she wanted to kill me but if she hated us both equally it was probably roger’s fault or she was just in a bad mood. scary. i couldn’t figure out how i was ordering not to her liking. I mean all I wanted was a milkshake and a coke. freakwoman.
We also visited the kemper which was fun cos we got to see art by that Wyeth guy and it was all studies of this dancer and he was crazy and just followed him around and drew and drew and drew. it was semi-erotic. and then we found a picture of the dancer guy painted as a clown because wyeth was a toy collector and got this toy of a clown on a moon and the clown moved his head when you put a quarter in so obviously wyeth thought “Man i really like to draw this dancer.” and drew him as the clown. Creepy. There was also art there called Honky Spaceship which was this way pimped ride playing ice-t music. i wrote COP KILLA all big in the comment book at Roger’s suggestion. Then I bought some post cards of babies to hang up as Joe, Brandon and I. Prolly on or near the grandparents wall.
Roger and I assumed Joe would be showing up soon so we went back to roger’s house. it was about 6:30 or so and the rehearsal/dinner started at 4:30 so why would it take much longer? we hung out there and i met all the losey’s and then we decided to go ahead and leave for food. we went to westport and i had the most delicious papa keno’s pizza that joe finally called druing the order of (at around 9). i had pesto and extra cheese and garlic pizza. yum yum yum.
when we met joe we did basically nothing. We just drove to THE CITY by which i meant north kansas city with the top down. hawt!
the wedding was really pretty and i caught the bouquet at the reception because i was sorta drunk and really competitive. so i was walking around my boyfriend’s family with the bouquet getting all kinds of questions about the date and stuff. brandon has told me that the bouquet is always right as he caught it once when he was young just to fuck things up at whatever wedding he was at. haha.
the family reunion was also really sweet. it was nice cos i got to actually spend some time with joe and stuff. we had a good talk with his uncle chuck about things catholic and otherwise. i really like chuck a whole lot. just as far as people go. not only in joe’s family which rocks.
i’m listening to emo and being all bummed. this is all the blogging i’m willing to do right now. i’ll get to the ryla reunion fest later.