...oh JOY! yes, it's been a million years (e.g., over a week) since i've posted, but i have a really good excuse...i've been terribly busy having fun! oh, it's true...our post-wedding pizza/karaoke party on friday night was a smashing success! i think we had almost 80 people pack out the leadway bar...brian ditchfield the bartender who's in charge of coordinating events there totally took care of us...and anthony (a.k.a. mr. moon) of full moon entertainment kept us belting out tunes for four hours...we were originally scheduled for 3 hours, but there were so many people still signed up for songs that we extended the time for another hour...
...the guests were from all our groups of friends...people we know from our high school days...people from work...people from the rock 'n' roll scene...people from wicker park grace...people we've gone to church with...our siblings and cousins...total strangers...their significant others...it was quite a potpourri of characters...i was esp. happy for the out-of-towners who made it...like josh & lielle who drove from CT to be with us...they're quite the karaoke fiends...lielle signed josh up to sing 'baby got back' without his knowledge, and the funny part was that as annoyed as he was when he got up there, he did it perfectly! and then there's our dear jozka...he took the train from ann arbor and treated us to probably the most heartfelt performance of the night singing 'brandy'...you can tell he's had a lot of karaoke experience...i dedicated motley crue's 'home sweet home' to charles and ali (ted's bro & his wife) who rolled in just in time for the party on their motorcycle...all the way from SEATTLE!!! they win the prize for travelling the furthest!
...teddy & i were coerced into starting off the night, which we did by singing the ramones' 'i wanna be sedated'...i may be singing this song again come mid-october...teddy isn't a karaoke-er, but he sure can play air drums & the air guitar really well...he accompanied quite a few singers throughout the night and got really into it, as you can see from this photo...all in all, it was a great night...we were exhausted by the time we got home around 2am...my feet were so swollen by the end of the night they looked like water balloons the next day...and i had a doctor's appointment first thing saturday morning...we basically rolled out of bed for that one...my doctor says i'm still a boring patient...OH!!! and while we were sitting in the waiting room, teddy had his hand on my tummy and he felt the baby kick for the first time!!!
...yeah, this is the newest exciting development in the land of eminent parenthood...the baby is kicking and punching and rolling around like a regular jackie chan!...or a michelle yao...i was sitting in a meeting on friday morning and i couldn't help staring at my belly button the whole time cuz that baby picked that time to do a workout and i would see various parts of my belly doing little blips and bleeps...i've taken to playing with the baby by poking at it down there and letting it poke back...now that it's moving around so much, it's becoming more real that there is a real live human in my tummy...
...saturday after the dr's appt., we all went out to yes!thai (my favorite thai restaurant right by the leadway) for lunch w/ josh & lielle, connolly & his fiance chris and her friends rapee and matthias, olarn, charles, ali & teddy & me...we ate good...then charles, ali, teddy & i went to the park by amundsen h.s. to fly teddy's two-for-a-dollar kites...it was finally a windy day, and the kites flew really well...charles was even able to tie one of the kites to a fence post and it stayed up by itself for a long time...kites are fun!
...now if that weren't enough for one weekend, we went to the eternals show @ the empty bottle saturday night...we got there a little after 10pm, and i basically sat on the couch while teddy played pool with ethan for over two hours...the eternals didn't go on until almost 1am, and boy oh boy was i tired! but it was good to see them play...their new drummer is pretty dope...and they have a new album out too...i like the way damon dances onstage...i just wish trenchmouth would get together for one more show...i suppose fred armisen is a busy man these days, but just one more show would be cool...
...sunday morning teddy & i had a goodbye breakfast at nookie's w/ josh & lielle...that was nice...lielle goes to italy the end of the month to perform, so she won't be around when we visit CT for caleb & kathy's wedding which is a bummer...but i'm super glad we got to see her this weekend...josh too...and we'll see josh again in july when we stay w/ him...
...sunday afternoon, we went to the cemetary to visit my dad's grave...it was kinda hard, it being father's day and all...visiting a grave is not the same as visiting a real live person, and i always leave the cemetary feeling a bit cheated...
...then we went to a party at ted's parents' place...i met more of the family, and it was a lot of fun eating really good food (ted's mom is a fabulous cook) and just hanging out...there were also four little girls running around, and it made me think about having a little girl of my own...in a few years, my baby will be running around with them during family gatherings...i wonder what that'll be like?
...so that was the big weekend...really fun overall, but totally exhausting...monday morning i was so beat that i could barely walk, and i called my boss and took the day off...it's been a more of a laid back day today...rainy...we futsed around home and then went to a couple brown elephant stores and then had an early dinner at kopi cafe in andersonville...now charles & ali came back to our apartment, and dave & lauren & ellen are here too so it's a party again! whew! i really need to go soak my feet...
