Mondo's Back!

And, as always, it's because of my good friend Adam's birthday. If I don't go to Mondo all year, I know that I will on that one special day. This Friday it's happening: mondo-nyc.com

Our conversation today:
me: just wrangled two more fun-timers for friday night

Adam: a yes yes yall, a yes yes yall

me: i'm workin real hard to make your birthday the largest

not necessarily the most fun, just as large as possible

Adam: hahaha

Adam: you're bringing several homeless people

me: literally dozens

Adam: "come on, I know somewhere where there's food and a warm bed!"

next thing they know, they are at mondo

having the time of their life

and no one knows they're homeless because they're technically dressed like they're from greenpoint

Toofless

Just got my wisdom teeth out! All four of those suckers! I've never been under general anesthetic before so I was almost more freaked about that than the yanking of the teeth themselves. Went into the office, the surgeon said hello and started asking me about what I did and all, I told him a little about having just finished school and starting a new job in a couple weeks, and he took my arm while I was talking and just got the needle in there when I was hardly paying attention and then next thing I knew I was being woken up and stumbling drunkenly into the recovery room! My mom said she'd barely opened up a magazine to read in the waiting room when they said I was done, something like 20 mins. Awesome. So now I'm at my parents' place in Jersey taking it easy, head wrapped in a cold pack to hopefully avoid looking like a chipmunk tomorrow.

Ice paaaaaaack.

I never would have thought to ask for the teeth. When Mom came to me in the recovery room the first thing she asked the nurse was if they saved my dang teeth. I thought she was a weirdo, but then just now my aunt - who is my dental hygienist, with my uncle as my dentist - called and said it was great to have those teeth because they have stem cells in them and you never know if later on some health issue could arise that would be aided by having those stem cells available. Who the hell knew! Also, Jeebus Christmas, can you tell how enormous those teeth are? 

Circumstance, sans pomp.

I can't for the life of me find my camera battery charger. So I've been taking pictures with my phone and they're shitty and blurry, but here they are! Woo!


Winter in the city. Walking from the subway in Brooklyn was positively picturesque. So I took a picture.


And then I graduated from beauty school! It's blurry, cause we were drunk-ish and I was excited, but if you blow up the picture and look real close you'll see that my "diploma" says BEST GPA.


This plastic wine glass is the reason I couldn't hold still. We had ourselves a grand old time waiting for our names to be called. When mine finally was, it was prefaced with, "My favorite student with the lisp, Caroline!" And I cracked up. Because earlier that day I'd been forced to give a 16-year-old a blowout since a whole school group came to visit, and while I was working the girl's little friends walked over and out of nowhere say, "You know you got a lisp?" What the eff do I say to that! "Uhhh, alright sure, you think so?" "Yeah, you talk with your tongue." "Ummmmm ok cool." And all the teachers overheard these little twerps jabbing me and were laughing from a distance. Thanks teachers.


Yesterday one of Wendy's friends celebrated her birthday by going to a place on Smith St. in Brooklyn called The Painted Pot which is one of those places where you can glaze a piece of pottery and then they fire it for you. Pretty damn fun. I made this mug, which kinda looks like I dipped it in chocolate. Delicious. Looks nothing like the colors I chose cause it hasn't been fired yet, but when I pick it up next weekend I'm pretty sure it will be a work of fine art.


I finished too quickly and everybody else was still painting so I grabbed the cheapest piece I could find and made it for Wendy.

In two days I will have my wisdom teeth removed. Please regale me with stories of your own experiences! Nothing I love more these days than hearing about how someone's face almost fell off after getting wisdom teeth out.