Monday, July 23, 2012

Dream Big!














This weekend's benefit for the Children's Safety Center was a light-hearted and enjoyable event that raised more than $35,000 for the abused children of northwest Arkansas. Mr. Happy (the band shown above) was the entertainment for the evening, playing covers for an audience with some sweet dance moves.

If you're interested in giving to the Children's Safety Center, but weren't able to attend Saturday, the local botique Tesori has a promotion to benefit them, as well. Buy a shopping bag and the proceeds go to the safety center, while the shopping discounts go to you on purple bag days.



Friday, July 20, 2012

Birthday Shenanigans

My birthday began with a short and sweet trip with my family to the Botanical Gardens for the Sunday morning farmer's market, followed by a pleasant brunch at the Little Bread Company.

I got this goofy little card from my coworkers, with several comments of "they should've named you July!" and "skip the social media, go crazy in the physical world!"














Between meet-ups with friends, I took a nap on my birthday present.














It's a beautiful cherry wood four-poster bed with a wrought iron headboard.















In the afternoon, a couple of my friends from home drove in and we caught up over some lovely entrees and martinis at Bonefish Grill.

In a dual celebration of my birthday and Dr. Khadka's new research job in Germany, we celebrated with a delicious chocolate-covered chocolate cake.














Having been stuck living inside a GRE study book for too long, I didn't check which restaurants would be open on a Sunday, so our festivities at Theo's were cancelled along with the back-up plans for Bordino's and/or the Wine Cellar.

So instead, we hit up Brewski's, like the old days, and after some persistence from a certain friend, we spent an evening belting Tracy Chapman at Infusions.

Thanks to Zak for the following pictures.




Mitsi is a ghost, apparently.






Singing "I get by with a little help from my friends"

I don't know what's going on with Camilla here, but I like it.





The karaoke queen herself.





"Fast Car"




Infusions is in this narrow little cupboard of a place on Dickson Street. They have cheap drinks and crazy lights.




The pianist of Revolution Butterfly joined us and even took a solo himself.




Zak taking too much liberty with the camera.




Best birthday yet.

Little did we know we'd be back so soon for Camilla's birthday...

Thursday, July 19, 2012

misplaced contrition

You're done with him, then?
(he asked.) She looked out the window
and said nothing