Jens Lekman – Friday Night At The Drive-In Bingo

Jens Lekman – Sky Phenomenon

I would encourage everyone to dig deeper into his quirky catalog.  Especially the song “I Am Leaving You Because I Don’t Love You” Spoolwork Remix

But, I think maybe that’s a post for another day.

Right now, Andrew and I are just trying not to kill 2 plants out on our balcony that gets almost ZERO direct sunlight. Both these plants live on the half-wall of our patio. The patio faces almost exactly true north, so the only direct sunlight we get is REALLY EARLY in the morning and all the way over to one side. Just a tiny triangle for about 45 minutes.

Except that triangle happens to be right above the doorway of the people below us, so we’ve been asked to not put plants there …. Just in case.

So even less sun.

I was satisfied with not even trying and waiting til we have a house with a yard and more than an 18″ sliver to put plants in …

Andrew’s more ambitious than me, for sure ….

When we moved in, the Keegan Grosses brought us this GORGEOUS succulent plant…. which mean it has lived 4 months so far. Pretty impressive

A week or so, Andrew came home from his parents’ house with this basil plant.

I do love basil …. especially with tomato and mozzarella ….

We actually pulled off a couple leaves just the other day to use. It still seems a bit little, but as long as it stays alive I’ll be happy.

Any tips for us?

I love the breezy, lazy delivery of this songs, beautiful and delicate.

First, in June I photographed Kristian and Stephanie’s wedding down in Orange County at the Wayfarer’s Chapel. They came in from Oregon to get married in this glass chapel …. I only shot the ceremony and portraits, but it was so so gorgeous.

At the beginning of July, I joined Renee Bowen in photographing a wedding at Middle Ranch.

sidenote: This was the *first* wedding I’ve photographed only 45 min from my house. It was so nice to just go home afterwards, rather than go to a hotel.

sidenote #2: I love second shooting. I connected with Renee via Twitter. Twitter rocks.

Finally, last weekend I second shot for [b]ecker – an Orange County wedding photographer. This was a Catholic wedding with a Korean wedding as part of the reception activities. So fun!

If you want to see more images from these weddings, keep an eye on Teegan Photography!

Somewhere in storage I have a huge wad of all-connected keychains from any number of places. A lot from vacations (pretty sure there is a Yellowstone keychain and a Washington DC keychain at least), some I just liked, at least a few that I made (remember lanyards?).

But that was all before I really had any keys.

Now that I have to be responsible for locking things behind me, I just don’t have the pocket (or brain) space for fancy schmancy keyrings.

Andrew is even worse….

Andrew’s keys (above)

• 2 keys to our apartment (1 for the common-area gates and one for our apartment)
• 1 mail key
• 2 (or 3?) keys for our storage unit
• his car key
• my car key
• key to his parents’ house
• 1 whole ring for work keys (I think there are 4 or 5 different keys for his work)
• Ralph’s rewards card
• library card
• This does not include the entirely separate key ring he keeps at work for a different studio he occasionally works at.

My MAIN keyring:

• Ralph’s rewards card
• library card
• Border’s rewards (that I never use)
• 2 apartment keys (common-area + apartment)
• 1 key to Andrew’s parents’ house
• my car key
• 1 key for my office (I also have an access card for the building but I almost never need it, so it’s not on the keyring)
• ‘99 keyring given to my entire high school graduating class.

My secondary (never used) keyring (honestly, I only have a vague idea what these are):

• bike lock keys (1 or 2? I wonder where those locks are)
• I think one of those keys is to my parents’ house, but I have a vague memory of them changing their locks. So maybe not.
• Those (in the right of the image) *might* be keys to the storage unit. Or might not. I really don’t know.
• All kinds of rewards cards. Including to my college bookstore. And Fry’s (in Phoenix)
• Andrew’s childhood ID bracelet
• Amy and Andrew heart tag (made by Andrew on one of those dog-tag vending machines years and years ago)
• TFS (Target Financial Services) bone-shaped clamp keyring. From when I worked there.

What is on your keyring?

Yes, that says ‘Monday’ ….

No, this is not my WHOLE to-do list.

This is just the stuff that should have been done last week, but I hung out with Andrew in the mornings before work instead.

Which turned into an all-day-game-and-food-get-together.

Menu:

• watermelon (one of the reasons I love summer)
• tri-tip from Jim’s Fallbrook Market (Andrew bought about 2x too many)
• salad (always always salad)
• lots and lots of drinks (a week later, the only things in our fridge is leftover tri-tip and drinks)
• yummy lemon glazed cake that Julie made

Andrew and I downloaded Tetris for our Wii a few weeks ago ….

There’s a ‘Battle Royale’ mode, so we made everyone play   …. and duke it out!

My parents had brought over Kevin’s Settlers of Catan game, so we taught the family. The boys all like Risk, and this is similar …

Lucas kicked butt pretty much right away.

Later that night, when everyone else was on their 2nd or 3rd game of Catan, Andrew, Grandma and I watched X-Files via our Wii.

Yes, there was screaming and blood and fun stuff like that, but NO, grandma did NOT need to be rescued. She told us this was one of her favorite shows!

Fun for me and Andrew, since the rest of our guests just amused themselves and we got to do what we would have done anyway if we had had the house to our self (relax and watch X-Files)!

They played late into the night ….. I was exhausted on Monday.

Yes, I would like to get to all these. …. someday. But I have 5 back issues of Vanity Fair to read, my American History course I’m making up, along with every thing else on my to-read list.

But, just in case one of you all is looking for a couple books to read – from the internets:

(I’ve read a lot, but not all of these)

• TIME magazine 100 novels of all time (English language 1923-present)
• The Art of Manliness 100 Must-Read books for the Essential Man’s Library
• ZenHabits 50 Amazing Novels
• 30 books to read before you’re 30
• 40 modern nonfiction books everyone should read

BONUS: Read classic books online at Project Gutenberg

Any books you’d like to recommend?

Partly for Father’s Day and partly to see Kevin (who is leaving the country soon).

Strangely, I didn’t really take any photos … .

Weird.

Friday afternoon we arrived …. and went to dinner (Mexican food) ….

Saturday morning, Andrew and I made a big breakfast for everyone (scrambled eggs and french toast)…

Then the boys went to unload Kevin’s moving truck into his storage unit ….

And my mom and I went 2nd-hand shopping with Linda….

I got some goodies

When we got home, the boys were playing Settlers of Catan.

Which is pretty much what we did for the rest of the weekend….

No, but for real.

We played Settlers of Catan ALL WEEKEND.

I won once.

Kevin won, I think, 9 times. Or something absurd like that.

Sunday night we took my dad to dinner (his favorite: ribs) for Father’s Day …

… then home.

I don’t know if I can handle going to Phoenix in the summer anymore …. I felt a bit sick all weekend.

Oh well.

At least for the foreseeable future.

I reserve the right to change my mind at any time.

Basically, I just need the time back in my life. It’ll only add another 30-45 min to my week, but you might be surprised how that frees up my stress levels ….

So!

Those Crazy Schuberts – Tuesday-Friday mornings!

Be here!

xo

P.S. You can continue to find my wedding photography/etc at TeeganPhotography.com

P.P.S. You can continue to find my artsy/photography/blogging tips at LemonandRaspberry.com