Baby, I’m bringing back fun or I, very officially, launch The Fun Project

There are some great things about being an adult. You can eat hot fudge sundaes for dinner if you want; you can have parties for your friends on week nights (not that anyone does, but you could); if you want to watch a “Mad Men” marathon and then spend the next three days of your life searching every store in San Francisco for Joan’s necklace, you can (H and M has them, by the way).

And there are also some things that suck. Tutus are not seen as appropriate office wear (lame); rarely do people ask you what you want to be when you grow up; you don’t get to have “reading parties.” (What?!  You’re honestly telling me you didn’t invite your friends over to read? That you wouldn’t have a gal or two drop in so you could all sit around in complete silence for hours on end, reading side-by-side, occasionally enjoying a Butterscotch hard candy while mildly chuckling at the antics of Anne of Green Gables?  I’m sorry, but that’s just weird.)

Today, dear readers, I propose bringing these two worlds together. Because I’m ready to start having fun. Real fun. A lot of fun. The kind of ridiculous fun that makes you tear up and hold your sides.  Fun that takes your breath away and stops you in your tracks, forcing you to look at the world around you.  Fun that reminds you there is more to life than errands, emails and a never-ending to do list.

So here’s the plan. I’m going to do one fun thing a day for a year and then tell you about it.  This is going to be FUN CENTRAL, I tell you. And, I have to admit, I’m really nervous about this because 1.) a year is a long time and my blogging track record is spotty and 2.) what if I can’t find fun stuff to do? And then I tell myself to get a grip.

Obviously, I’m not sure how this is all going to look or what the “fun things” actually are; I’ve decided, in the spirit of enjoying the moment, to roll with it and see what happens. I have no doubt that there will be changes as we go and Big Lessons Learned, but, frankly, I’ve been sitting on this for weeks now, waiting for the “perfect” day (preferably a Monday) to launch it and it hasn’t showed up so I’m just going for it. I’m going to stop planning the launch and perfecting my Web site and get off my duff and do something fun.

I’ll report back tomorrow on how it goes.

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It was like the whole world was saying, “Happy Six Month Wedding Anniversary”

Last Sunday was our 6-month wedding anniversary and so, of course, we celebrated. Here’s the way I look at it – we have one year to milk “our love” for all we’ve got. For one year we get to be newlyweds and have people introduce as the couple who was “married last April.” For one year people will politely look through our wedding photographs, and watch me perform my modified wedding dance, and smile indulgently when we do things like celebrate our six month anniversary. Now, I’m not sure what happens after we hit a year. All I know is you don’t hear a lot of couples talking about their 18 month anniversary.

So, as long as we’re NEWLYWEDS we decided to do it up right with dinner out and flowers and the whole bit. The coup d’ etat was that we each planned an activity for the other person that we thought they would like (aren’t we adorable? We’re newlyweds!).

Now, I don’t know what my activity is because it wasn’t happening last weekend (weird because Zara is open every day…) but Chris’ Lovefest Event was to go to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, this huge 3-day free music fest in the park. Honestly, I didn’t know many bands that played, except Lyle Lovett (whom I adore and I was going to say is third on my list of singers I’d most like to marry but I won’t because that is a totally inappropriate comment for a newlywed to make) but it was all in the Name of Love and they were selling Kettle Corn so, no matter.

And then what can only be described as the Most Fantastic Thing I Have Ever Seen in a Park happened. We turned a corner and there was this guy, sitting at a typewriter with a sign that said, “Pick a topic. Offer a price. I’ll write you a poem.”

Of course, we did it!

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Three minutes, one phone number and an eye-rolling amount of flirting from a scantily clad pair of ladies later (seriously, this guy is like the Sensitive Poet’s answer to George Clooney. It didn’t matter their age, the ladies love Lynn Gentry…), we had our poem.

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I love being a newlywed.

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Shop update! New posters for lovahs of wine, beer and caffeine

Well, they say write about what you know…

New posters are up in my etsy store!  They’re all 11″x14″ so you can slip them into a standard frame and be done with it.  Gotta love that, right?

yellow beer

Also available in brown.

blue coffee

Also available in red.

red wine

Also available in green.

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Little Girl Big Glasses Goes All Incogneato on Me

Good Afternoon Readers!

Today I’d like to introduce you to a dear friend of mine, Penne.

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Look at how lovely she is. Such shiny hair and…

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Holy hell!  Where’d she go?  We were just talking about her and suddenly there’s this person with… Wait a minute.  There she is.  I just didn’t recognize her because she went all incognito on us with her new Incogneato Mustache!  Phew!

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And here she is again! Always the master of disguise, Penne uses her mustache to portray someone thinking very, very hard. Perhaps coming up with a catchy name for How Fab’s mustache?  Why yes she is!  The Incogneato it is!

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The Incogneato can be used for a variety situations  – hiding from your boss, unexpected run-ins with your ex, merging seamlessly with barbershop quartets.  And, with its handy, fold-up feature, you’ll never again be caught out without your ‘stache.

Want your own Incogneato Mustache? Of course you do! Send me a quick email with your address and I’ll put it in the mail to you (free!). Offer is good until October 31 and then, well, you’re on your own. *Sorry, I can only send to US addresses at this time because, well, I’m not rich. If you want to find me a sugar daddy though, we can talk.

(Yes, Penne thought up Incogneato, which is quite possibly the perfect name for a mustache. Check out more of Penne’s wittiness here.)

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I walked into a coffee shop and there you all were

You know how sometimes you run into a friend at a coffee shop and you totally meant to call her (you really did!) but then life got all busy and you forgot and now you’re standing there in front of her and you’re genuinely excited to see her but at the same time kind of embarrassed that you said you’d call but you never did and you know that if you can just get over the awkward first few minutes then everything will go back to normal and you’ll be great friends and this time actually remember to call?

That is how I’m feeling about you, my little babushkas.  I totally meant to call…

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