it's another week

so there's another weekend. this time my weekend is extended - it's starting on wednesday night (that's tonight). even though i have to work tomorrow, i will be taking my sweet heiney out on the town!

wednesday:
allison weiss, who's a good friend of my friend rosie, will be playing at sidewalk nyc tonight. no cover. you have no excuse! allison sounded wonderful during her last show at sidewalk, so i'm looking forward to tonight.

thursday:
galapagos. that bar/art space that has little pods of places to stand/sit on water in brooklyn that sound really neat. they're having quizo at 7pm. after that is nerd nite. apparently it sells out, so you should get advanced tickets.

i think i will actually, in all truthfulness, be at the gym thursday night. but crunch is awesome, and they have that old fall back cardio thai box at w. 38th st at 6:30, some crazy thing called bodyweb where you act like spiderman at 6 at e. 59th st, hip hop at 6:30 at union square, or urban rebounding (bounce on a trampoline) at 7 at e. 59th st. maybe both bodyweb and urban rebounding? for double trouble?

friday:
possibly a house party at the mckibbin lofts. although whitney (from nc) LIED TO ME! and is not going to be there. i might go. it will be a Strange Famous Records showcase. i have no idea what this house party might mean, but it might be lots of fun.

saturday:
don't be blinded by the flier, but i hear that voodoo funk is supposed to be super fun. at union pool, $10, dancing to music you've never heard of!

public assembly is holding the 2009 beard and moustache championship. it's $15 advance, so i think you will find me at voodoo funk.

sunday:
the brooklyn st. patty's day parade is goin down. the brooklyn based tip sheet recommends the following:

starts its march through Park Slope at 1pm. Line up on 7th Avenue or along the west edge of Prospect Park, between 15th Street and Union Street, for optimal viewing.

now. if you dont' get the brooklyn based tip sheet, then you're missing out. a lot of what i do on the weekends comes from booklyn based. they've recommended some REAL DUDS before. like that dance show that i mentioned last week ... we left 3 acts in. but they've also recommended some really neat stuff, and i'm hoping this time it's no different. at the very least, they know how to recommend it!

it's wednesday.

do you know what you're doing with your weekend?

thursday i'm going to the badass brooklyn tweetup at the bell house (149 7th st, brooklyn) with my honey to stand around with what will probably be a bunch of other geeks twittering on their iphones. seriously, there will be many rad people there that i want to be friends with! sponsored by one of my favorite blogs - FIPS and @AllGrownsUp.

friday i'm thinking about helping to raise some dough! there's a non-profit museum in brooklyn called the city reliquary that's doing an event called brother can you spare some rent. there will be a fortune teller, depression-era movies, dj's, old-timey alkeehol, and other recession-themed fun. i can think of no better place to kick off my weekend.

on saturday i'm thinking about swinging up to my old hood to check out funky child at alphabeta. it's a pop-up market where you can get all kinds of fun things that i have no business buying. i'll be happy to indulge my "oh wouldn't that be awesome" bone by perusing the offerings of artwork, photography, accesories, and gifts while enjoying the live painting and music.

then to round out the weekend and get a little dancing in (cause it isn't a weekend without dancing) ... on sunday i'll be checking out something brought to me by the brooklyn arts council. the sixth annual folk feet traditional dance showcase will be goin down. it shows off the dances of brooklyn's immigrants. while i don't think i'll see anyone there reppin north carolina (other than myself, of course) there will be people from grenada, china, india, and korea gettin down at brooklyn college's whitman theatre.

these, my friends, are the reasons i moved to brooklyn in the first place. a whole weekend of fun! and it's almost all free!

water park!

so the water slides i like to ride are big and bad ass. i like to have the crap scared out of me. i've never seen one like this one to the left, and it looks pretty bad ass. check out that pool at the bottom. i'm thinking it has to be a photoshop.

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we went to a place called schlitterbahn in galveston while we were visiting db2's family over the weekend in texas. they have the bomb lazy river ... because you can veer off in your inner tube and be in the not-so-lazy river that is known as "torrent river."

they ain't lyin. it can be a bumpy ride. db2's sister swore up and down that she almost drowned after tipping off her tube. needless to say, the rest of us had a wild time.

this weekend we're off to wet 'n wild emerald pointe. while at schlitterbahn, we rode something that looks like this. this is the slide that is also at emerald pointe in greensboro. this is the slide that made me exclaim, "OH MY GOD I DIDN'T KNOW SO MUCH WATER COULD GO THERE!" and also almost ripped off my future sister-in-law's bikini top. i'm totally stoked.

this picture just does not do this slide justice. it does not show you just how high up it is. and you don't realize it until you're peering over the side and the lifeguard shoves you.

you're screaming, there's water going places it shouldn't, and then you're done. you get up, and water is coming out of you for much longer than you think is female-y possible. but you want to do it again.

and that's why we're going to the water park again this weekend.