The last time I was at my uncle’s house, I spotted this FRAMED and PROMINENTLY DISPLAYED photograph of me, my sister, my uncle and my cousins at Fenway Park in 1997. If you look closely, you can see that I am for reals you guys wearing a tamagotchi digital pet on a string around my neck. Could this be more embarrassing!? Who allowed me to go out in public like this? Total parental failure here. In my defense, I was 10 years old and tamagotchis were at the height of popularity, having just been released. I actually made my grandma and sister go to Toys R Us to get me one on the very day it came out so I could be the first one in fifth grade to have it.
In conclusion, I asked my uncle to take the photo off the wall and he said no.
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Monique- FACT. I WAS THERE. It was on our roadtrip. I wish there was a scan of this photo because it is much funnier. Also I am coming back to the states. Roadtrip III?
Here’s a awesome video of a bear trying to steal stuff. So tricky!
A bearglary!
Because we know you care
-I am still in Afghanistan and Caroline is still in Sweeden/ Denmark. I’m sure she will have lots of awkward photos when she returns. I know she knows a lot about the internet café’s in 7/11’s.
-I totally just fell out of my chair reaching for the tolberone hidden in my desk drawer and injured myself. It’s Ramadan here (and in the rest of the muslim world) and I am so hungry. I ate a bag of microwave popcorn for breakfast shortly after I visited the Kabul zoo to distract myself from the gnawing hunger.
Here’s some a1 reporting/googling about zoology in a war zone.
“The zoo suffered significant damage during the fighting between mujahideen factions from 1992-1996; the aquarium was damaged by shelling, and combatants took the deer and rabbits for food.”- THEY ATE THE ZOO!
The zoo’s wild boar is still alive - spared due to an Islamic ban on eating pork.
“Another monkey in the cage chews on a cigarette stub.”-TRUE! I saw it!
“Several animals have died after being beaten or fed narcotics by visitors.”- THEY FED THE ANIMALS DRUGS?
Afghanistan’s only known pig has been locked in a room, away from visitors to Kabul zoo where it normally grazes beside deer and goats, because people are worried it could infect them with the virus popularly known as swine flu. There are no pig farms in Afghanistan and no direct civilian flights between Kabul and Mexico.- HA HA
There was also a one eyed lion that lived there, he was blinded by a grenade and recently died of liver failure. There is a one-eyed statue at the entrance to the zoo. SO AWKWARD. MOST AWKWARD PLACE EVER.
I mean look. I’m all for non profit, and I really like this blog but their logo is so terrible.
could you throw down the extra two dollars to legally buy the istock photo?
did you have to use the same font as every bad greek menu/spa treatment?
please just let me give it a whirl
"I love eating pizza on the bus!"
"lemme just put it down on the SEAT"
This woman was a lunatic nightmare (as is nearly everyone I ride the bus with on any given day). She spent the entire bus ride screaming complaints into her cell phone while eating pizza. In between bites, she decided that the most convenient place to rest her pizza was on the SEAT next to her. I’m sorry, WHAT? The bus is so dirty that when I get off of it, I won’t even touch my dogs until I have washed my hands. Is this woman kidding me? I wanted to barf on her shoes.
(this is the first time we’ve used the new slideshow feature for displaying photos. Do you like it?)
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I spotted this in a Christmas ornament store yesterday, which is itself a totally bizarre, awkward place to be, but a Michael Jackson tribute ornament? COME ON YOU GUYS, NOT COOL.
posted by caroline
Monique:
so i’m going to kabul on friday. for election coverage. big story.
12:41
Caroline
eek
12:41
Monique
do you remember my facebook password?
if anything goes south?
12:41
Caroline
haha
****? or ****?
12:41
Monique
*******
that’s like #1 on my list today
and my friend works at cnn
so make sure only hot photos of me goes on the network
12:42
Caroline
oh ok totally
12:43
Monique
that’s totally your job
12:43
Caroline
good!
i can handle that
12:44
Monique
excellent
12:44
Caroline
you should spend the entire time in Kabul asking where their bloomingdale’s is
12:44
Monique
Haaaa
i literaly just spit out my wine
i’m going to blog that
This is embarrassing in so many ways. I especially like the unnecessary quotes around “facebook friend.” Being an old person on facebook is so confusing! Is it a type of email? Can you google it? Can you “friend” your teenage daughter’s friends? The New York Times runs a weekly column written by a mom who does stuff like join twitter and then write about it so my dad can understand it and then call me up and ask if I have “the twitter,” as if it’s some sort of disease. Link to the Mom Column below.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/07/fashion/07Cyber.html
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PS - Monique = Cathy
Monique- I totally am. I actually saw a turkish version of cathy the other say and ment to save it for this here website and I either threw it out or spilled sad lady coffee all over it. something cathy would do. but it was pretty funny, ack!
here is a terrible photo-montage from the place I went to. Nice MS Paint work!
So I just got back from a trip to the southeast of Turkey, it was cool except for these cats. The Van Cats are basically the ugliest thing ever but everyone in the region just goes ape shit for them. They have one blue eye and one yellow eye and like to swim.
This is a creepy statue in the center of town.
This is what they look like up close.
My driver wanted to take me to a farm where they all live in like a communal farm and I was like NO WAY! GROSS! and he couldn’t comprehend that these are the ugliest cats in existence.
See you around,
Monique
If you look up “clogs” on wikipedia, this is one of the images on the page. No further questions.
posted by Caroline.
M- why were you looking up clogs? doing some research on your fav shoe Crocs?
hey skanks,
this company that I work for, Bittersweets New York is having a sale on our best selling item, the baby vamp rings until August 15th. I bought a pair three years ago before I worked there and I just thought I’d do you all a service by introducing you to the cutest jewelry company ever, Bittersweets New York. Clickytown on the photo to see the website, which monique and I basically made what it is today.
posted by Caroline
Monique-
Agreed. While I don’t have the vamp rings ( yet!!! sale!!!!) the rest of the line is also amazing and absolutely unique. Check out the Lilly collection and my personal fav teensy ring with colored diamondz.
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