About last weekend.....

Well it happened. Oh boy it happened. So the weekend happened.

Yeah.

So more valuable than the return I earned was the experience and knowledge I gained. I know that now is definitely not the time for me to be running my own business. I’m better off working for other people, I think, at least until I have some more business experience under my belt.

But I can’t let the Virgin Lips Project die. Sobriety is too important a subject to me and this community for me to let it completely go. So I’m in the process of revamping it. Instead of focusing on making money, I want to focus on why I’m creating the Virgin Lips Project in the first place.

I’m creating Virgin Lips because of people that I know well and are dear to my heart and are having trouble kicking some nasty addictions. I want to create an alternative social scene that is interesting and stimulating without the hard controlled substances. I want people to stop focusing so much on themselves and to start giving to others. I want to do things like Angelina Jolie is doing: focusing on people that have a greater need than herself, serving them, raising awareness about them.

I admire her attention to world issues and her charity. She said that when she was fourteen and dropping acid, what she really needed at that time was to be dropped in the middle of Africa and be told to help people. It completely transformed her, and I admire that so much.

Please add the Virgin Lips Project as your friend on myspace. Friends and I will be thinking of ways and finding ways to serve our communities, and to raise money by having parties where mocktails will be served and money will be raised to donate those who are in greater need than us. I want to make it a point to teach people about the international humanitarian work force, and get more people out there. I want to make it a point to make service to my community, my living space, my neighbors, a sacred habit, a ritual, integrated into my life. I want to be able to effortlessly find ways to serve people the way Christ did.

When we are in the service of our fellow beings, we are in the service of our God. Charity never faileth.

So um … who’s with me?

BIG FREAKIN' DEAL

Come to studio 600 next weekend! As I will be there offering my services as a dry bartender to a large public audience for the first time, all night Thursday and Friday, with me coming in and out on Saturday night. Drinks will be around $3 a pop. Come, dance the night away, and enjoy some delicious drinks!

We're getting started guys, and it's so gosh dang exciting!!

fresh ideas

another reason to be horribly excited to be a graduated individual: graduation presents.

voila "the party girl cookbook", a gift from auntie carolyn and uncle dale. they rock. and so will some more of my parties, thanks to them :)

this is what happens.....

.....when a bunch of guys who've known each other since jr high show up to a party and have lots of sugar in their system. and fire, no matter how small, is somehow involved.



(as you'll notice, these videos don't make much sense, nor are they perfect, but they're fun and i like to sneak peeks at them at work and remember good times.)



this is what happens...when the camera is sideways.



this is what happens..when you try to take a picture but the camera's left on video. silly, silly us with big smiles.

....for taste bud memories, our menu......

~Menu~

Secret Stolen Margaritas: Mango, Coconut
Explosion of Mango or Coconut with a hint of Lime. Ssssh! These recipes were stolen!

Sparklers: Pomegranate, Peach
Try some Bubblies in elegant Pomegranate or delicate Peach.

Martini
Lotsa fizzy Lemon.

Fuzzy Navel
Blend of Peach Nectar and O.J.

Brandy Alexander
Like Chocolate Milk in a tux.

Mai Tai
Shaken, not stirred, blend of Pineapple, Cranberry, Lime and Grapefruit.

Citrus Twister
Feast on tangy Orange, Grapefruit, and Lime concoction.

Bahama Dream
Everybody loves Strawberries, Bananas, Pineapple.

Blue Mermaid
Exotic splashes of Passion Fruit & Pomegranite mingled with Blue Raspberry.

Laughing Buddha
Sip this Pineapple mix & ponder the sound of a one-handed Clap.

Sober Hippie
This chilled blend of *Decaf* herbal chai tea latte with chocolate will have you ready to throw the establishment.

hipsters party sober

we're all revelling in the appearence of evil.






my team, brooke c and 'spen.


"this is what happens when you get a group of guys who have known each other since jr high."


sipping secret stolen mango margarita


j-stuff and tawn-tawn




what i like about digies is it's hard to make a photo not look cool.




too cool to not share


likewise


tawni and i could pass as sisters. sam is our superfriend.




mark, you're awesome. what a gentleman.


card sharks.




check out that action.


....like i said about that revelling part.....


don't worry ma, gma, we're all sotally tober.




cheers!


anela, the man MAGNET!


peace.

village voice

Read. This. Article. Now.

http://www.villagevoice.com/nyclife/0622,romano,73365,15.html

This is what I'm talking about. This is part of my goal.

thank you

danke shein, gracias, merci, dank u, grazie, σας ευχαριστούμε, obrigado, thanks man!

i thought i'd take a sec to thank my buddy joel for the interest he's taken in my idea and do some work on it all by his onesome. he also came up with the name for my first invented drink recipe, which has since been christened "pirranha spit". his encouragement is inspiring me. and it really couldn't have come at a better time.



thanks dood for being a friend, which helped me feel cool again. you're rad! and you'll need to be down here when i propose my idea to others in business.

PS. announcement: i'm having a party on the 14th. if any of you in readerland can get here, y'all should come.