casual ultimate » 2008 » June

well were just over two months out and things are coming together. witness the groomsmens shoes that came in this week. team romance ftw! they cant front on my shoes though… some hot pink louboutins. and after buying no less than 4 dresses we finally found ‘the dress’ two weeks ago. its much more traditional bride-y than i envisioned but what can you do? its a lovely carolina herrera number. id post it because i am in love with it but the groom reads this blog so itll have to wait.

we spoke to the cake lady who is amazing. tasting cake should be our national passtime. also we hired a photographer im really excited about. check out her work here. im wondering whether the new dress will allow for the trackstanding photos in our wedding gear that we wanted….the rings are bought and the flowers are.. well flowering i guess. the invites went out today even so its official like. our calligrapher did an amazing job with the invites. you can see them here on her blog.

as we try and use advanced calculus to decide how much beer to buy for the wedding i daydream about how this will all come off. im sort of envisioning it very preppy but in a ‘jcrew meets andre 3000′ kind of way. bright and modern but definitely a bit ghetto. hopefully the future mr. casual will get my name written in his fade for the wedding but well see…

now its on to fun stuff like picking out songs for the ceremony and our first dance. i kind of want to walk out of the chapel to something like the jackson five but nothings definite.. thoughts? heres our new color board with some revisions. still a work in progress but exciting nevertheless.

ok sorry ill stop.

it’s been so long i almost forget how to blog. i definitely forget how to illustrate blog posts, so please forgive the fact that all the pics i have are of trees in muir woods. they’re pretty though.

Last week I thought all the talk about summer in san francisco being cold and overcast was really just part of an elaborate slander campaign to keep out newcomers. Every day was sunny, 78 degrees with not a cloud in the sky. This week though things have taken a turn for the worse, with a high of 60 predicted through the weekend. Easy come easy go. At least I got nice weather while I was exploring the city, and starting my internship today means I’m inside 9-5 (literally 9 to 5, actually, which is kind of amazing to me given I’m used to the 8 to 6).

Last week I landed at SFO as was picked up by one of my roommates – they are so nice, they actually picked me up from the airport. It threw me off given the SF subletting nightmares I’ve heard, but so far they’re the real deal. And, as mini and friend were excited to discover, one of them is a product manager for the company that’s launching a “revolutionary” new video game from the maker of sim city. Regular readers of the blog will know that misses casual and ultimate do not like to actively engage the TV or computer while sitting on the couch (besides updating this site once a month…ok, every six weeks), but mini’s friend was pretty astounded to discover my a-list connection to the gaming world.

Anyways, I spent last week exploring the sites and sounds of SF, which are largely made up of pride flags, homeless people, b.o. and burning cannabis. Just kidding, it’s a lovely town with much to discover. I live at the corner of market & guerrero, which seems to be smack in the middle of the city and makes getting around easy. I’m kind of between the mission and the castro, and below the lower haight if that helps anyone.

One thing I discovered quickly is that this is a city for food lovers. Last night when I was coming home from muir woods we saw a big crowd in the ferry terminal; turns out they were awaiting to grand opening of an artisan meat artist’s first retail outlet. This was about 6 pm on Sunday, a time when most Chicagoans I know would be at home eating leftovers or ordering six dollar noodles. There are fancy meat, cheese, bread, etc. sections every other block – artisan, I mean, not fancy. Clearly it’ll take me a few weeks to fit in.

In addition to eating, I visited noe valley, fisherman’s wharf, haight-ashbury, the mission, golden gate park and lovely muir woods in marin county. I was approached by a charming gentleman named bear while sitting in GG park eating my sandwich; he wanted to know if I wanted to buy drugs, hang out, etc. but there’s a medical marijuana dispensary across the street that seems much more trustworthy. Bear told me that my name would be chitown from then on, so please feel free to call me that if ultimate is getting old.

All in all things are good here, and starting a desk job for the summer is putting me back in the blogging mood. I miss new haven as well as Chicago now; it was so great seeing everyone while I was back. Oh, and other news is that I got into the business school at mi Universidad, so I’ll be on the east coast for an extra year getting my mba. Interesting. And actually last but not least, I thought I missed the SF summer league signup but turns out it’s tomorrow, so I may even post about ultimate. Crazy, I know. Just when you were getting used to the new all-bike format.

im pretty sure this is a post about nothing but here it is anyway. so guess what? swimming is frickin hard! i went swimming for the first time tonight in preparation for the half triathlon in july with the cnd ladies and.. yeah. at least during the running part you can stop and walk if you are tired.. if you are beat and in the middle of the lake i don’t really know what you do. float? lets hope so. i hope there are some lifeguards. also i am going to try racing at the velodrome soon. which should be terrifying. i hope there are some lifeguards there too.

in other news.. ms. ultimate was in town for the last couple of weeks and it was wonderful. we went out on the town last weekend with the viking and t-brizzle.. just like the old days. drinks. dinner. ice cream. criticizing the outfits of everyone in lincoln park. seriously though.. we saw some lady wearing black and white leopard print shorts and black suade boots with fringe on them. this prompted our new category ’signs of the coming apocalypse.’ also in this category would be the appearance of an intermix on damen in wicker park. its getting dangerous out. fer realz. also we went and saw the ’sex and the city’ movie even against our better judgment. it was good but im glad we brought small pink cans of champagne.

the wedding is coming right up. best thing? we get to go taste cake this weekend. yeah cake. i love cake so much i want to take it behind the middle school and get it pregnant. um… anyway. its exciting. 3 months to go before im mrs. casual.