randoms from the homestead and real life

recently, trips home have come to been several guaranteed activies. i will inevitably eat at neato burritto, hit up the salvation army circuit for therapeutic treasure hunting, and drink wine while story swapping with my parents. convenitely, this routine also happens to be a combination of all my favorite past times. as an added bonus, i also got to reunite with the lovely jen and audrey (the cute little thing in the top picture, who is actually not so little anymore and is freaking me out. looking at her is like seeing time in a tangible way. scary. but also adorable.)

and to keep the good-time train rolling? came back to philly and boyfriend mikeyaz rolled into to town. and stayed for a week. it was wonderful. and busy- it happened to coincide with my first week of classes. but we did manage to sneak in a trip to honey's sit'n'eat and gorge ourselves on some delicious homestyle cookin'. shrimp po'boy sandwich for my man, and a raisin and pecan chicken salad sammie for muh self. oh! and friend pickles with homemade ranch to start us off. bliss bliss bliss.

in general, life is pretty bliss. really chaotic and consistently over-scheduled, but generally blissful and full of wonderful people and experiences. i hope yours is the same way.

EDIT: i totally forgot to address that picture of my dad in the middle. and you know what? i still think i'm not going to. i'll just leave that there for you to ponder.