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4th Anniversary Staycation

I wish I could hate the word staycation. But it's what we did.

For our fourth wedding anniversary Erica and I kicked around a bunch of ideas and decided to make an evening out of it at Hala Kahiki. Hala Kahiki is a tiki-themed bar in a very-near suburb, but just far enough away from our house that it would be a rather pricey cab ride both directions and we planned on drinking it up on fruity, rum-filled drinks. So we decided that we make it into more of a get away by staying at the nearest motel, a Super 8. Fancy!

On the way out of the city we stopped for dinner at one of our favorite bar-restaurants—Cleo's—how can you go wrong with star-shaped tatertots?

Star Tatertots

Cleo's is just down the street from Rotofugi, the awesome vinyl toy store, and so of course we had to stop in and grab a couple blind boxes. While we were there, I asked to use the bathroom and made a fun discovery: the bathroom walls are covered in doodles by artists who have visited the store and its associated gallery. Rotofugi is about to move to Lincoln Ave and so I suppose these artworks will be soon painted over by whoever moves into their old space.

Jay Ryan in the Rotofugi bathroom Kozik in the Rotofugi bathroom

Then it was out to River Grove to check into our motel. When I was making the online reservation I was going to pick a King-size bed but saw that they had a "Queen-sized bed with Jacuzzi suite". I figured it could be fun to take a soak in a bath with jets. As we were checking, the woman at the front desk kept making weird faces at us and then solemnly told us, "I have to be honest with you… the bed in that room is round." And indeed it was. The bed was round, there was a Jacuzzi tub/shower/pod in the corner. And otherwise the room was decorated in sterile corporate/clean hotel room style. It was the oddest sort of "honeymoon suite" I've ever seen.

Round Bed! Jacuzzi shower pod thing

Let's not even go into how the Jacuzzi pod had a tiny (non-functional) TV embedded inside.

So, off to Hala Kahiki! We decided to start at the top and get the Volcano, a drink for two or more people that's served on fire. Well, with fire in the middle. Still, fire.

Volcano at Hala Kahiki

After the Volcano, we were feeling not so much drunk as full of sugary drink. We thought we'd get one more and then check out the gift shop. I chose the Suffering Bastard because the description "Brandy. Gin. TART." intrigued me. Bitter was more like it. I'm well-used to bitter, but still. It's right there in the name—poor choice on my part.

Hala Kahiki also has a gift shop, located at the rear of one wing of the enormous bar. The woman staffing the gift store evidentally rarely has human contact, as she spent most of our visit following Erica around like a puppy and pointing out every price point of every category of item in the store.

Light-up tiki at Hala Kahiki Light-up tiki at Hala Kahiki

Our whole experience in the suburbs was kind of weird (our waitress at a breakfast place in Forest Park the next morning almost dropped our waffle because she seemed to forget that she was carrying it) but really, in the end, it highlit why I love Erica so much—we were cracking each other up the whole time and there's noone I would have rather gone through the weirdness with.

Erica and Fuzzy Erica and Fuzzy

Posted on July 30, 2010, 05:49 PM in the category Fam, The | Permalink | Comments (0)

Anymal #2

Anymal. You like that? I swiped it from Emmy Blotnick's post over at Urlesque. Any animal = anymal. I tried to leave a comment over there thanks her for the neologism, but their system ate it. Anyhoodle.

Erica and I made our animal-drawing videos to prank Steve, but if we were mentioning websites, I might as well get the domains and put them up, right? And if I'm putting up websites, I might as well put up actual Order Now buttons, right? So I've sold two whole animal drawings and order #2 has blogged their general satisfaction with their purchase ("Artistic ability aside").

Posted on July 29, 2010, 08:03 PM in the category blahblahblah | Permalink | Comments (0)

Four Years Ago

Bride hailing a taxi

Four years ago I married this one and for the all the crap life has thrown at us in that time, it's been the best time of my life. Happy Anniversary, sweets.

Posted on July 29, 2010, 02:01 PM in the category Fam, The | Permalink | Comments (0)

Animal Draw-Off

Perhaps you're confused between all your options of having an animal crudely-drawn for you, what with I Want to Draw a Cat for You, May I Please Draw an Owl for You?, and I'll Draw Any Animal You Want. Well, thank goodness urlesque is here to break it down for you: It's an Animal Drawing Face-Off, Because All These People Want to Draw for You.

Posted on July 27, 2010, 02:20 PM in the category blahblahblah | Permalink | Comments (0)

Safety First!

Safety First!

So, likely I deserve this gentle ribbing I found on my office door yesterday morning. I did biff both knees while learning to wear bike shoes that clip onto the pedals and then bonk my head with a pellet gun sight at Schützen Verein and then scrape both (recently healed) knees up pretty good and twist something in my foot from tripping while running. But hey, at least I'm out there biking and shooting and running. If I survive my training, I'm going to be incredible!

Posted on July 21, 2010, 09:42 AM in the category blahblahblah | Permalink | Comments (0)

Cats, Owls, Whatever You Want

So our good friend Steve started a web-based service where he'll draw a cat for you (he wants to draw a cat for you), whatever kind of cat you want, doing whatever you want, for $9.95 a drawing. He's doing pretty OK -- he's just shipped his 105th cat drawing.

But what if you don't really like cats? What if, say, you like nocturnal avian predators?

Or what if you can't stand to be limited like that, and want whatever animal you can think of?

Schmoxy!

Posted on July 19, 2010, 08:04 PM in the category Hey, I'm in a Movie | Permalink | Comments (1)

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