Tuesday, February 5, 2013

NEWS!






AAAAYYYYY! 




WE'RE back! (for real)
AND WE HAVE NEWS! (no shit)

yours truly (kris) and my partner (justin) have agreed to a cooperative with a few local (bloomington) artists. swimminginjello will be the stamp on particular items, but for the meantime we will be selling designs under/with autumn carnival and ravenwood! 
if you would like a cheap card sized print stop into your nearest bloomingfoods and browse the card rack!





another note:
wedding plans are in the mix. more on that later. 

thank you for your ever enduring patience. 

here's a valentine for you losers. i love you all. 






Friday, August 31, 2012

this and that

hey folks. 
it's been a stupid busy summer, but i have some fixin to do on the site and then posts will come afterward including:
 -every place i peed my pants as a small child (requested)
 -another installment to the drunken debaucheries saga
 -a battle royale with the bloomington trash service
 -and a very scientific graph on the reproductive habits of the mess in my house 


sit tight guys. i promise i won't leave you high and dry. 

Sunday, May 27, 2012

are you lonely? do you want new friends?

are you a lonely loser who has no real friends?

do you desperately wish you had the ability to meet new people and not make an ass of yourself?

WELL TODAY'S YOUR LUCKY DAY!




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in no time you'll have a brand new haircut that came straight from the 80's, your very own mustache, and interchangeable cats!

Thanks CAT BACK! you're better than the new Grizzly Bear album i bought on vinyl!






Caution: Cats who are not declawed are not covered by our warranty. 










Have a good one guys :)







Wednesday, May 9, 2012

drunken debaucheries part 1

it's summer again!
i'll be honest; i am not any good at beer pong anymore. not that i was in the first place.

to kick off this year's festivities i thought i would chronicle some of my past drunken debaucheries.
most of them ARE NOT moments that i am proud of in any way. 
they just make really great stories. 



starting from the beginning of my drinking carrier you can see i was a total moron.


summer '09

my friend austin hands me a flaming shot of everclear, which is basically satan's sweat after jazzercising in a glass. 
i was so drunk i could not walk to the bathroom, thus i began wobble/stomp to the door. 
with my powers of deduction i began to believe i was godzilla smashing and imaginary tokyo beneath my feet. i thought i looked like this:
i thought i was being hilarious; but to everyone else in the room i looked like a crazed drooling drunkard. 

i still don't remember anything that happened after this point in the night. 




new years eve '09

began early evening drinking at 8:00 pm. 
hunger sets in at 10:00 pm.
friend in charge of ordering pizza is too drunk to figure out how the phone works and begins yelling. 
drunken picture are snapped throughout the night. 
shan passes out on mattress and leaves trail of barf from her face to floor; another friend barfed down himself while peeing in toilet. 

spring '10
i drink too much tequila with jorge and pass out with my head in the toilet in shan's house. i wake up (still blacked out), walk back to the party, tell a few people i'm tired, then fall asleep on the kitchen floor. 
meanwhile josh projectile vomits EVERYWHERE in shan's room and some how gets barf under the screen of her gps. 


summer '10

went camping. 
shan accidentally shoves me off the bench.
i lie on ground for three minutes refusing help.


summer '10 july 4th

while drunk at a friends party i become enveloped in the idea of taco bell and convince myself i will not live through the night if i don't immediately get to taco bell. 
while blacked out i convince my DD to drive me to taco bell.
still blacked out i give detailed instructions the entire way. 
still blacked out i held drunken conversations with shan and steve (though they hadn't been drinking, and it was really a one sided insane rambling).
even still blacked out i shouted my order at the small disembodied voice in the ordering box.

but like the previous time (and two more to come) i passed out in the back seat on the way home and didn't wake until i was being carried to bed. 
i then proceeded to roll out of steve's arms, flop onto the floor, and projectile vomit a circle of stomach bile and vodka around my head like an alcoholic halo. 


shortly after new years '11

shan and i have an ugly sweater party. 
cody gets wasted and takes off his pants; he then loses them. 
chubs later declares that he hears bacon sizzling: we all turn to look at the kitchen and spot justin in the corner peeing on the vacuum. 

spring '12

while visiting my brother we go bar hopping with friends.
after a few hard drinks storey and i have a serious conversation about vacuum sealing his fish,
and displaying them under his new lady gaga poster.

later that night i managed to inflate my air mattress after fumbling with the air pump for a good fifteen minutes. 

i was so proud of myself. 


but on a more serious note,
do not ever try to drink on the premise that the more you drink the better things will be (events, games, holidays). it's dangerous, and you WILL want to die when you wake up the next morning with SERIOUS shits. 




also, one night 
i finally got my taco bell.
it 
was
awesome. 


and the last time i enjoyed taco bell. 














Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Mom's Rock

My mother's 50th birthday was a few weeks ago.
Tonight's post is a tribute to mother and the many similarities we now share. 


Now I know all about the stereotypical: "OH MY GOD I SOUND LIKE MY MOTHER!! OH GAAAWWWDDDD!", 
or the "My ass is starting to look like my mothers!"
which is not what I'm specifically getting at (though my ass is starting to look like my moms...)


Most day's I don't feel like I've done a good job of being a bat shit, crazy stray animal collecting citizen if I haven't contributed my daily dose of crazy to my co-workers and friends. Sometimes I get asked where I get my major characteristics. 
Well here you go folks...
MOMMA KATHY: Park Ranger. 



For every birthday the ladies of the Park Department have, they come up with a theme and run with it. 
My mom's theme: Western Saloon Girls. 
I shit you not. 

My wily mom made a saloon dress and rocked a bright red wig while trouncing around town calling herself Fiona. 
Mom, and roughly six other women, dressed in saloon costumes and went bar hopping. 
There's a picture that wasn't supposed to get out. OOPS.

She's my hero. 

I aspire to that greatness. 




A few years ago I always wondered where my tendency to use expletives in abundance springs from. 
Then, one magical night, I saw my mom totally drunk, and she drops curses like it's no ones business. 


  
She's a wonderful mom, and I couldn't ask for a better one. She raised me to be a thoughtful and polite woman. I learned to stand firm in my beliefs and to work hard for what you want because single mom's don't have it easy. 

I also learned just yesterday that in her opinion shower caps are one of the best things on the planet.




There was this one time when I was a kid I tried to hide my report card from her.... and that didn't work. At all.

I didn't know anyone who used advanced math in everyday situations, therefore it did not seem like a valuable skill to 11 year old Kris. So I stopped doing my math homework. 

So Park Ranger comes home happy to get a fresh glass of tea, and asks "Hey honey how was your day? Did you get your report card?!"
And man when you get mom faced you know you're fucked. 

I believe there is a direct correlation between how great your relationship with your mom is and how scared you get when you get mom faced. 

It was crazy for me because here was this woman who just came home from cleaning other people's shit up because they didn't make it to the toilet, and then dragged road kill off the road to decompose peacefully in the woods; and I just pissed her off. BAD. 

I ended up with a fitting punishment and NEVER got bad grades again. 


LOVE YOU MOM!






  

Sunday, February 12, 2012