a picture is worth a thousand words...

...so if that's true, i should have to post about six pictures to make this a normal-length blog entry.

here's the dog's profile photo for her under-construction facebook page (we couldn't catch her tearing up the dance floor with her sorority peeps):






my brother and i were friends with a cabal of care bears as children. so, for our birthday party, here's the cake we got. i'm glad sarcasm and irony are genetic:


here's a close-up of the cake:


and according to hollywood, this is the woman i will end up marrying after being forty and single:


i only have thirteen years until i'm forty. FUCK!