It's a yucky gray thundery day and I guess I should be knitting. I'm making this:which is going to be a throw pillow for my bed which is funny because I never never make the bed.

But first I'll tell y'all about my suicide prevention (birthday) weekend. It was spectacular. On Saturday everyone indulged me and spent $21 to go to this. It was gross, but not as amazing as I wanted it to be. Then we did a Burnet Rd. crawl: The Draughthouse, Billy's, Ginny's, The Poodle Dog, Lala's, Buddy's Place, Pluckers, and The Canary Hut Pub. Perfect perfect perfect.

Sunday we had a picnic at Pedernales Falls State Park, (if you're here in TX, they say "PERdenales"). My sweet JS made some badass T-Flo sides to go with the hot dogs, and we floated down the river. I know! A few photos exist but it's hard to remember the camera when you're having so much fun.

Monday night I finally went to "hip hop" night at Nasty's (a little bar that really lives up to its name) and while it was fun, Off the Wall is NOT hip hop, y'all. Come on. Not that I don't love Off the Wall. I do. RIP poor MJ.

Yesterday (my actual birthday) we went on a special birthday date to Uchi. Uchi is the "it" spot here in the atx so I was a teeny bit skeptical about it living up to the hype. It did. Everything about it was ridiculously fantastic. They bring you hot towels before you eat! The waiter was nice and explained everything to us without making us feel stupid, everything was cute in that Japanese way that I love, and the food! It is an injustice to even call it food. It's some kind of insanely pleasurable experience for your mouth. I can't even describe it. Save up. Go here. Plus I had the cutest date.

I received many thoughtful gifts and cards (thank you everyone!) but this one I've got to show you:

That's right, it's a paper doll ME! The accuracy of the drawing is upsettingly good:
Excellent work, Rachel!! You are incredible.

Know what else is incredible? The amount of time it takes to update this blog. Yikes, I have to get on with my day. Later!

Any excuse to make cupcakes...

So as you can see by the painfully self-indulgent header photo, it is my birthday week but these are not for me. K's coming home from her trip tonight and we're having a welcome home party (and by "we" I mean me and an apartmentload of teenagers...gulp...wanna come over? Please?) Luckily there will be cupcakes!!!I LOVE this funfetti frosting. A mix of big and small sprinkles. Cake makes me so happy.

I even got a special party treat for the cats:
Yes, I am THAT lady.

Yikes! Looks like a whole month has flown by. What's been happening? Well, aside from the upcoming world shatteringly exciting event, just the normal sweltering heat with occasional "movie rain", Fourth of JU-ly fun, working LONG (long) days, being eaten alive by mosquitoes,

you know. I took a little (working) trip to the coast, and last weekend we had a lovely (is there any other kind?) visit from the Starks. And...sit down for this one...I've been doing water activities. Yes you read that right. Going in the water for fun. Outdoors. I don't even know me anymore either.