there are some other pictures to come from this wonderful weekend, but this is all for right now.



this whole big cutters family is just full of love, and that's the most important thing of all.

samantha.

Teddy's birthday bike ride was a great success. good friends, good times.

the list of go times for cutters' ITTS.
hilarious and so wonderful... no real names here!

had to resurrect this one... went on a SEARCH for it!

my brother, circa 2008. so good.

look at how wonderful linda and little teddy freddy are, cheering at quals:



the cuteness is just too much!!

i have so much to say about this recent barrage of awful and hateful comments on BVN... but i will refrain and instead direct anyone who cares to know how i feel about all of this here. that is all.

I went into the co-op the other day like i do about every other day for a cup of wonderful coffee, and, like every other day, they ask if i have a co-op member number. i don't, so i say, "no, i don't... one of these days I'll get one". Instead of just ringing it up, the guy says "oh man, one of these days, huh?" and i instantly replied "i know it, such a dangerous response to default to for your life". and right then, RIGHT THERE i realized that for the last 6 months, i've been saying "one of these days" to important things i want to do someday.

"one of these days" is now "today".

love this.

it's that time again.

the best time of the year.

little 500 season is now full blown.

i've always had good reasons to love spring in Bloomington, and i'm thrilled that I just keep adding on to those reasons every year.

qualifications were saturday, and although i felt like crap towards the end of the day, it was magical to see everyone i love all in one wonderful place. i'm going to skip a coherent review of everything and leave you with a list.
*nicks
*the fowlers!
*hipster glasses
*jimmy kisses
*"are you sure? hamilton LOVES you"
*revstrong!
*ZBT quals and calling their lawyers
*anything that was said in the pressbox
*"can we share body heat?"
*PATCHES!
*bennetti
*"osterman is my hero"
*"My quals run is 'Kilroy's, Nicks, Upstairs, Kilroys'."

it was just a wonderful day (and a wonderful night before) full of wonderful people.

so in light of my long electronic hiatus, i had to neglect the blog and photo editing... so this comes a little late, but here it is anyway.
remember my wonderful friend emily? well. i couldn't be more proud of her (as usual!).... she wrote a play that was so good, depauw theater decided to bring it to the stage. a selection of wonderfulness from afterwards:







she's just the best thing.

i'm returning from a major electronic hiatus.

major for me, anyway. i just... got into this horrible stagnant funk.

i turned 25, and started my quarter life crisis.

i made a realization that it had been 2 months since i left the state of indiana.

and after realizing this, i became mentally obsessed with leaving the state as the only thing that would help me; i think i actually had a downward spiral directly related to my lack of travel.

and then my dad and i couldn't go to the grand canyon, (poor guy had a disc in his lower spine degenerate!!) and i almost lost it!

thankfully, a couple weeks ago erik and i made the spur of the moment decision to go to knoxville and north carolina, our first "us" trip in pretty much ever.