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A short stop-motion video that my sister interesse made. (YouTube, 42 seconds, work-safe).

I wish I were that creative! And I love the music!

(Original LJ post here)

Check-out this little promo... my sister missalphabet designed the clothes!

Had a fun 4-day weekend in Vegas with my dad. We drove-up in his brand-new BMW (which he picked-up in Germany!) then stayed at the fancy new Planet Hollywood Hotel & Casino ($99 a night thanks to Priceline.) It was a nice chance to hang-out with Dad and get some R&R.

Hit a few of the hot spots... Caesar's, Stratosphere, and saw Beatles: Love by Cirque Du Soleil... which was awesome. We also managed to meet my aunt and uncle for lunch, watch the awful new Pussycat Doll knockoff pirate show at Treasure Island TI, etc.

No roller coasters this trip. Why:

• High Roller, the coaster on top of Stratosphere, has been removed. (It wasn't that great anyways.)
• It appears that Speed: The Ride (NASCAR Cafe at Sahara, a favorite of mine) is now closed.
• Manhattan Express at New York New York Casino sucks. And it's painful. And expensive to ride.
• Desperado (Buffalo Bill's) appeared to not be running.
• I couldn't see paying $30+ to ride Canyon Blaster (Circus Circus Adventuredome).

A 13-photo slideshow appears below. (Requires Flash, slideshow runs 1min 10sec, work-safe.)

• Once you click the play button, you can also click the expand icon to see the slideshow in full-screen.
• Mouse-click to advance the photos faster.
• If you can't see the slideshow, look at the photos directly on Flickr.

A mural of the family, as created by my uber-artistic sister JoAnne. This is on the living room wall at my parents' house now.

From left to right: Dad, Mom, Me, JoAnne (interesse), Amber, Suzanne (cooling1018), Elizabeth (missalphabet), Allison. (Plus dogs Cole, Casey and Roxy.)

It looks awesome, JoAnne!

(Click for more pics of it.)

Just got back from 5 days in San Francisco over the holiday weekend. My sister Amber and her husband DeShion invited me up for their 10th Anniversary Wedding Reception. Yes, they've been together for ten years, and because they only had a simple ceremony at City Hall, we never really had a chance to do a full-on party with family, friends, drinks and gifts. I was so happy to finally get the chance. The photo above is me dancing with my sisters Elizabeth (missalphabet) and Suzanne (cooling1018), and their friend Jenny.

Most of the guests came from the Bay Area; others came from all over California. It was great to spend some time with my folks and five sisters, as well as their friends and significant others.

This was definitely not your typical reception. Tables were set-up as stations where guests could contribute a page to a scrapbook for the married couple, make their own souvenir keepsake (complete with their own professional photo taken on-the-spot by the talented interesse), leave a tape-recorded message for people of the future, browse through photo albums, remember family members who had passed, and participate in a staring contest with other guests. Later (after some food, wine and music) there was a soul train, and get this--jump-rope and double dutch. In fact I think the music kicked-off with the classic 80's song Double Dutch Bus. (Have you ever been to a reception like that?)

Sunday night, the family headed to the beach in Pacifica and had a bonfire. It was cold and foggy but we had a nice time.

So over the weekend I spent time with family, saw a few friends, and got lots of rest and relaxation, which was much-needed. I didn't go-out much, but I did manage to catch-up with gibbo67, pharmbear, beefurjoe & John, p00kitty & Dave, Jamie, railguy, intoutdoors and an all-too-brief hello with bentwright. (Sorry about that Drew!)

Other than that I did a lot of walking, a lot of sleeping-in, listening to music and just being mellow. (On Monday I had quite possibly the best nap ever, falling asleep as my favorite music played in 7.1 surround-sound.) It was a great little vacation.

Here are some Flickr photos from the weekend... there are about 20 of 'em.

My sister missalphabet designs clothes and recently got to showcase her stuff on TV.

(Flash, about 8 minutes, work-safe, you might see a brief commercial first. Jump about 1/3 through the video to cut to the chase.)

(Ganked from my sister interesse.)

You rule, Elizabeth! (That's her in the front row of seats, far right!)


Direct link to the video if the embed code doesn't work.

So I had a great birthday week. Many THANK YOU's for the well-wishes!

It's been awhile since I had a full-on, name-dropping, show-n-tell, what-I-did-this-week narrative, and since it's my birthday, I'm going to take that liberty now.

Here's pretty-much how the week went down:
( Behind the cut )

OK I'm done.

OMG I love my sister.

I love my sister.

A salute to women in business
http://www.livejournal.com/users/interesse/61310.html