woah.
yesterday was so super patriotic and fun. i love my roommates.
first we woke up late and laid around until around 130. then we got our acts together and went to the store to get things for my annual fourth of july pavlova and for our bar-b-que. we decided that we would roast up some corn, hot dogs and baked beans to celebrate. we ate them and talked about why we loved america so much. oh and also we drank pap's blue ribbon... out of a can! trashy, yes, but oh so american.
then pavlova was served by the bucket load and was loved by all. (side note. the recipe was supposed to make a giant meringue bowl that you make by spreading meringue over an inverted bowl, baking it and taking it off. but! it all got stuck on the bowl and i had to scrape it off and make a new plan... sideways pavlova. i made my vanilla creme chantille though and with raspberries you can never go wrong.)
then we watched 'semi pro' and as i felt the need to say yesterday it was very boring. i was so disappointed i almost died. laurel and jerry fell asleep and i laughed a few times. most memorable moment: "everybody panic! it's just the like the titanic but it's full of bears!!" - jackie moon. everything else was less than par. too bad, will ferrell you were on fire before this.
then we went downtown to watch fireworks. nano let us break in to his hotel and go to the roof to watch. we went through all the back rooms and then we were in the hotel. it was so super posh. way too posh for me, but i demanded that nano let laurel and i stay there so we could just walk around and speak french and look fabulous for a day. there's also an aveda spa attached... we'll do that too, we're that great. anyway we got to the roof and realized that we couldn't see hawthorne bridge because of a building so we had to climb this really scary ladder to the other roof. i was really nervous but i just looked straight ahead and made it. once on the roof we opened bottles of beer and crappy red wine and drank them out of plastic cups from carl's jr. ... classy. we made some new friends too. christina and cory were the most favoured by us. christina is really nice and i saw her at a timbers game once. cory is really funny and 28, weird. he spent the night, cute. the fire works were so great and from where we were... on top of portland... we could see so many shows at once. ones in washington and in the west hills. the one on the bridge was the best. and then we played with sparklers. we managed to get down after that and nano and cory took off on his motor bike and the rest of us went to ground control. (an 80s arcade and bar) i got the high score in 'bust a move' the best game every created. raul played tetris as usual.
the next morning (today!) we all woke up (all four of us ...nano was at work plus scott and cory- sleep over!) and made pancakes. so many pancakes. we ate like a family and talked about the amerio and the us, mexico and canada unionizing. i'm kind of down with it, churros will be easier to get and canada has some great health care. jerry said canada would never go for it because us and mexico would bring them down. but cory said that even if canada said no we'd just punch them and tell them to do it anyway and then canada would just be like, aw man, alright. that's probably true.
scott and cory left after a great banjo shesh and laurel, raul and i went downtown for shopping! i bought two dresses, a shirt and some underwear. i also got some new mousse and a foot scrubber thing....gross, i know, but i have to grow up and realize i have nasty feet and deal with it. then raul went out with scott etc to see 'dragon force' a ridiculous video game band that i'm still surprised raul paid money to see. laurel and i came home and had a fashion show for jerry who was less than trilled. then we had a makeover party and laurel made me all makeupified. tonight we're planning ice cream eating and the viewing of the classic 'spice world'.
life is good today and portland is fabulous. i'm still excited about it.
keighty
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