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Sunday Bloody Mary Sunday: road trips and alcohol are awesome diversionary tactics

Just in case you're wondering where I've been, which of course I know you breathlessly have been, I've been pinned under a pile of Get Your Shit Together, Girl. Reentry is such a tremendously whiny  little bitch. 

My little August adventure proved to be a fantastic distraction from my real life here in LA, but as I learned when I was taking Physics in college, if you ignore a problem (or 10 problems) long enough, they most certainly do not go away by themselves unless you bribe the TA. I was so hopeful then, as I am now, that the opposite is true because I never learn. Also because I seem to love the sound of my head hitting the wall or the palm of my hand, depending on the severity of my denial.

It's still hotter than hell here in LA. Not a turning leaf or a cashmere sweater in sight, in fact. But technically it is fall in this fair land of ours, and it is a very fair land, indeed, as I discovered on a little road trip this last week, a journey that I accepted in an effort to delay the getting out from under the Get Your Shit Together, Girl pile even further.

I was invited to tag along with a friend who was driving a car and her dog, a black lab appropriately named Demon, from Chicago to Los Angeles along with another mutual friend (we will heretofore be known as Thelma, Thelma and Louise)... 

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PostedSeptember 28, 2012
Authormelissa mcclure
Categorieslibations
Tagsthelma thelma and louise, fish sauce, cajun, recipe, tomato, cornichon, libations, bloody mary, bacon is best, demon dog, sunday bloody mary sunday, grand canyon, roadtrip, LA, soupapalooza!, my brother's prom date, piggy piggy piggy, Get Your Shit Together, chicago, facedown in a tray of fried, random hausfrau, horseradish
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quick pics: a cajun feast for Jenni Jihad's birthday

Jenni Jenni Jenni.​

I'm lucky to know you. And I'm also lucky that your roller derby name, Jenni Jihad, and the fact that I've propagated said name all over this blog has pretty much guaranteed us both FBI files. ​

Hola Department of Homeland Security, and welcome!​

Jenni, you make the world a better place just by being in it. You are deserving of every good thing I can imagine, most certainly the eight course cajun feast​ prepared to perfection by your boyfriend and the rest of our favorite zydeco-playing-chair-designing-robot-engineering-architect-and-master-chef, the Ragin' Cajun.

Happy Birthday to you, and here's to another trip stuffing our faces around the sun!​

Soup on!​

PostedJuly 31, 2012
Authormelissa mcclure
Categoriesquick pics!
Tagsquick pics!, birthday, cajun, oysters, Ragin' Cajun, eight course, Jihad Jenni
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