Life as a 26-year-old? Well…
14-hour workdays, drinks with friends, long walks with the dogs, and dates.
Things are really good right now, which is frightening. I have to keep reminding myself to enjoy myself now and stop fretting about how long this will last.
Things have been busy! I’m working some seriously long hours but I’m also getting outside more now that winter is almost over.
Here are some shots from the last few weeks:
The roads in Uptown were a hot mess during the last snow storm. I actually got both parked-in and plowed-in on this street near the Spyhouse Coffee Shop:
Mud season is right around the corner which means dog walks are going to be a mess, …but at least I can run outside again.
The Stone Arch Bridge is already ice free:
In addition to working longer hours, I’m also getting a ton of new interesting projects. For example, this week I am working on my first RFP response, which is highly exciting and challenging. It’s shaping up to be a great spring!
The packaging of the product is really cool, which is why I think I am more likely to buy Ole Smoky for home use than request it at the bar.
Ole Smoky Moonshine party in Uptown Minneapolis.
After the moonshine party we continued the fun at Liquor Lyle’s and then had some gas station adventures in Northeast.
I ended the night at Lush with the Hot Mess Express team. I was an honorary member because I arrived smelling like ExxonMobil. At least the shoes were cute?
This week’s show renewed the debate over ballads in drag shows between my friends. I think ballads are the riskiest thing for a drag queen to perform, especially at a place like the Townhouse Bar.
It was two degrees on this morning’s dog walk, but skidding on the ice with the Rottweiler was hilarious.
This is Logan Park, in Northeast Minneapolis. I love that there’s no shortage of parks in this city – and nice ones too. Not like the First 48 parks we had back in Miami…
Winter is tardy to Minnesota. It’s December, 50 degrees and people are running around in flip flops. What is going on?
We recently went to the Toast of the Townhouse 2012 drag pageant. The Townhouse has a reputation as a dive bar, but the drag can be surprisingly good. The roster at the Gay 90’s is more static, so the new talent tends to appear at the Townhouse first.
This year’s winner was Brandonna Dupri. Pictures!
The Aquatennial fireworks started as I took off for St. Paul.
Grimes’ Oblivion played on the radio.
What a perfect way to begin a night.
It’s July 4th and I am on a dirt road in the middle of freaking nowhere.
This is on the tail end of a journey that started five hours earlier in Minneapolis.
So the group went to the 331 Club, which is right down the street from my apartment in Northeast Minneapolis.
It’s a very claustrophobic place. Hipsters are everywhere with crazy tattoos, backpacks, and scruff. I was surprised by how loud the music was and how pushy the people were. The hipsters just shoved their way through the crowd in a manner that would cause some Basketball Wives drink throwing at the Gay 90’s.
Kristin and I had brunch at the Lowry Diner, which is a new-ish restaurant near the Scottish Rite Temple.
I had my very first bloody Mary at brunch, which was way too spicy for me. Kristin had to finish it.
Another night at the Gay 90’s in downtown Minneapolis. Lawd. Paul got a workout when they played the Macarena.
We recently went to the Lyn Lake festival in Uptown Minneapolis.
The bands were fun, albeit way too loud, and I made friends with a charming bartender at the Herkimer. I also had my first Arepa, which is like a Venezuelan gordita. Oh, and chips. Lots of chips.
So HLP invited Eric and I to Mac’s Industrial Sports Bar in Northeast. It was my first time there and I was not prepared for the bathroom:
Yes, that is a Hello Kitty shower curtain as a stall door in the men’s bathroom. What the fresh hell?
Oh, and let’s not overlook the fact that someone took the time out of their day to scrawl graffiti on the underside of the toilet seat. Stay classy, Minneapolis.
