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it was cold, wet and rainy. but awesome fun once the scotch kicked in and i bought my new blue, wool hat!

i’ve been having quite a fun time recently, which is why i haven’t posted in a month or so…but i expect to be putting up a collection of photos soon, showing you all the fun things that @krisatina, @astrogene, @janetdillon and assorted other @’s and i have been up to…you know, in case you don’t follow the twitter feed or facebook feed…damn slackers…

from this morning’s drive in. it was amazingly beautiful.

ps – all photos you see these days are from my lg vu phone, it seems to work well 90% of the time…don’t even know where my digcam is…weird…

oh, and if you have time, check out my company’s newest website: http://longmontledger.com/ – you can follow them on twitter or facebook…i’m hoping they do weekly reviews on the new @oskarblues’ restaurant named homemade liquids and solids. we went there for lunch on friday and it had some of the most amazing bbq ribs around…with the exception of the rib house (longmont/boulder, can’t locate their twitter feed at the mo).

cheers, peeps. i’m off to do amazing things…like work…on a monday morning, go figure…

it’s been an extremely productive weekend in the tofallfromgrace household. finished 98% of all packing yesterday, new tires on the car and a much needed trip to the library today (almost late books, almost BAD allison). wishing that it felt more like fall. i have so many great sweaters i want to break out of their forced hibernation.

ps, mom was happy that i posted last week. i know we’re all very relieved to hear that.

getting ready to catch up on a little “the soup” and “chelsea lately” before heading to FINALLY see “9″.

this is the first weekend i’ve had at home in a long time so i am feeling both relieved but a little like a tiger pacing around in her cage.

thanks for all the feedback via twitter, facebook, email and comments on the blog last week. i am so fortunate to have met so many amazing people in my 33 (yes, 33) years on this planet. although my aunt seems a bit out of the loop as she left me a vm message a day or two ago that made it very clear she hadn’t heard my non-engagement news yet…note to self: MUST call her back asap.

funny difference between my dad and i. dad doesn’t have a voicemail system on his phone, so i can’t leave him messages. he just sees that i called and then calls me back. i have a voicemail system set up but never listen to messages. i just see that he called and i call him back. two different paths with the exact same result.

these are the things i think about when heather, krisa, dino AND dad are all out of town and not here to keep me entertained. yep.

ps, so far bears have attacked cyclists, fallen into (and subsequently climbed a ladder out of) a skate park, interrupted a family dinner and just seem to be accidently falling into our world more and more. maybe it’s because we’ve taken over so much of theirs?

btw, life is good.

i realized (after prodding from numerous people, my mother included) that i had not posted for a while. a long while. now you, my dear readers, understand that sometimes i don’t post for days, weeks, months…you get the point. i’m not very consistent. when i’m out living life, i live it. when i don’t have a life, then i blog about what a great life i’d been having before starting to have no life again…

try telling this to your mother…

so mom, here it is, just for you, a new post.

(crap, REwatching the mtv music awards at this moment and janet’s doing her dance with michael and now i’m on the verge of tears. ah michael…)

so as some (most?) of you know, it’s been a tough month. but a good month. does that make sense?

let me explain. sometimes you want something but it’s just not the right fit…those steve madden shoes that are just a touch too snug…the pants on russell brand during the mtv awards (seriously, are you WATCHING this? yeesh)…the giant burrito from chipotle that you can’t seem to fit into your maw without it falling all apart into pieces due to the fact that it is, indeed, the size of a football.

well, that’s kind of how my engagement was. we worked well sometimes, but the fit just wasn’t completely there. and srsly, if you’re going to have something for the rest of your life, you probably want it to fit perfectly, like my black yoga pants.

(NO, russell brand, those trousers AREN’T delicious; but i’ll agree on the health care comment)

in any case, the engagement is over. i’m moving out in two weeks and life goes on. it’s like a band-aid, i just had to rip it off and say it, yeah? no regrets, kids. no regrets.

now, with that being said, life HAS gone on. i’m so absolutely grateful to my beautiful, loving and wonderfully freaky friends for being there to pick me up, dust me off, serve me a glass of wine and help me to go forward with the business of being alive!

(still not sure that taylor swift should have won over beyonce for the video, but still, kanye didn’t need to be a tool)

i don’t have much more to say, kids. i have to work and sleep and eat and pack and move and go to parties and museums and festivals and concerts and birthdays and watch the new season of curb your enthusiasm and just do all of these things that make our life so much FUN to live.

(and what the hell does iCarly girl know about the new york subway system, yeesh. i may have to stop REwatching this damn vma award show thing)

and thanks captain, you’ve helped make it so.

(i’m at the lady gaga poker face part of the vmas. i really need to sign off and leave you now.)

cheers, kids!

the black forest, a fabulous german restaurant in nederland…

sky over nederland on friday…

nederland has several pay phones, because they don’t believe in the power of cell towers (yet). and srsly, his shirt really does say “poop”, i didn’t ask…

today i found out that i won a t-shirt from @MrBillyBones and that made me very happy. you’ll see why if you take a peek into billy bones’ world

tonight i am hanging out at home while the boys went out to the broncos’ training camp or some such thing. yeah, i maybe would have gone but all i know is that it rained a LOT earlier and i didn’t want to venture out a second time (first time ended up turning around and coming home as the rain was torrential).

i’m giddy right now. even though twitter (and twitpic and anything apparently remotely associated with twitter) went away for a few hours today i was still able to function and even *gasp* get some work done.

i’m going to go make some tea and bask in the knowledge that soon i’ll have a new t-shirt (w00t!) AND that the twitterverse is back to normal(ish).

my mom’s birthday is in three days…seems to be the same each year…i turn another 365 days old and then two weeks later, so does she…crazy…

please think about supporting either (or both!) melissa and kathy in their courage classic ride!

the courage classic bike ride benefits the children’s hospital. i personally think this is a fabulous cause and support them with all my heart (and some of my cash!). the ride starts tomorrow i believe, so please donate NOW if you can!

kathy: http://trunc.it/zlzg

melissa: http://trunc.it/10ovf

apparently between the ages of 32 and 33 is when red wine on a school night is no longer possible.

one bottle of cabernet sauvignon shared with krisa while watching michael jackson videos (heather of course abstaining as she’s, oh, SEVEN months pregnant) and we both were a little off today.

via text she let me know she forgot to wear deodorant on her fourth day at the new job. myself? i learned how to put curse words together in altogether new and unusual ways – mostly directed at all the drivers around me who apparently forgot how to drive and were generally complete idiots this morning. although cursing was occasionally directed at the barefoot, homeless people asking for money and shoving their starving little dogs in people’s faces to gain sympathy.

will my new st christopher medal (a gift from hedo and krisa-tina for my 33rd birthday) protect me from all the craziness out there? *sigh*

want versus need:every project neil gaiman has worked on (thank goodness for libraries…)

want versus need: touch faucet

want versus need: apple keyboard