i'm allergic to city museum

seriously, it is a cool place but i've been sneezing and runny-nosy STILL, even the next day.  i think they need to clean the place.  please clean the city museum!  here's andrew and kelley goofing around:

aren't they cute?

if you want daily workouts that are extremely challenging, go to andrew's nifty crossfit blog:

CROSSFITGAMBIT

maya café FUN last nite

lighthouse group (neil's awesome piece)

chris ("going nuts but telling the truth")

the AWESOME trombones (steve, jon, gerry)

andrew--soulful, passionato

beautiful becky (yes that's a banjo)

finishing with reich?  umm, no one wanted to be last...

jodie bica!

tracy and becky!

chris and hannah!

ANDREW'S NEW WEBSITE--get your WODS here!!!!

look no further--want a challenging WOD to spice up your day?  ("Workout Of the Day")
check out essigfitness
and you too can look like this:

sky's the limit/ you're not trying hard enough

don't get greedy, people!  i can't even use mascara!!
but talk about butterfly's-wings-fragiléeee... beautfieeeful
perhaps i will be able to wear them someday *sigh* after my eyelid operation ("sankapul surgery" for those who went to juilliard, or any conservatory really) and facelift -combo outpatient service in 압쿠종 .  i'm sure this exists btw.  cuz then you need to get your hair done and get to prada before it closes.
barf.

thank you andrew---you are so truly artistic, always noticing beauty and beautiful strangeness and unexpected beautiful strangeness.  thanx again for the alert.

paperself is itself really amazing; they're like origami gone picasso on crack hooked up to IV drip of creativity.  i'm envious of creativity.  i'd like to be creative. i'd like to see everything super-new again like a child.  can i just have a new spongy brain or something?

yeah that's like furniture and LIGHTING (fire hazard?)

look at this beautifully intricate array of fanciful-to-max styles:

"peach blossoms "

(i think it's peachBOY momotaro, right?)

"horses"

i say zebras.

"peonies"

huh?

anyway, so pretty and otherworldly.

this totally makes up for andrew's comments about my personality.

"you know, i live my liiife, like a ..book left open in the wind"

CROSSFIT!!!!----u can rest when youre DEAD/ strong people are harder to kill and are more useful generally

"YOUR WORKOUT IS OUR WARMUP"
SETTING:  st. charles, 2010 CrossFit Games sectional qualifiers

OUR HEROES:  ninja kelley♥ and ninja andrew♥

well-informed and super-fun companion:  ♥ BRITT!!! ♥

GO KELLEY! LOVE YOU!!!

GO ANDREW!  (btw ur upper-body is magnificent)

HANDSTAND PUSHUPS!!  C'EST IMPOSSIBLE!!?!?!

CAN'T SEE THE RED DOT CUZ... IT'S THE PERFECT WALLBALL

THE CROSSFIT CULT

hardcore, masochistic, see-no-limits, all-encompassing, oh and witty

did i say all-encompassing?

britt and i took a break from the mania and i stumbled upon Anti-Crossfit. 

britt showed her strength; i showed my weekness....

(haute cakes, in New Town, St. Charles) YUM!

SUNDAY-- after 2 days of intense crossfit atmosphere and staring pure determination and human endurance for pain directly in the face--  i went to work and played my parts all NONdivisi and as perfect as possible, while sitting up absolutely straight in my chair, core engaged.  YES, lisa's version of crossfit.  (i also went to work --it was snowing and cold-- with just a light gymnastics-team-looking jacket ('..and....representing Romania.....')----YES YES CROSSFIT AS LIFESTYLE (even my weeny violinist lifestyle).  i swear it's contagious.  you watch these ninjas and you feel like doing difficult things and doing them showing no exertion as well....  YES YES HUMAN POTENTIAL.  inspiring.  no more slouching and whining for me.  (how long will this last?  i need to watch crossfit competition like monthly, i think)

me doing my own version of crossfit:

MODELS NEED SLEEP solo acoustic version

seeing people in new context, very illuminating.  andrew is my gym sadist trainer, i am his lousy student.  last night trainer becomes rockstar, student becomes GROUPIE!

old/normal context: gym, torture, mild ocd

new context: ROCKSTAR, molto passionato!!

the groupies:

kelley, andrew's girlfriend, very cool and inspiring, with outta-town fans

nerdy groupie alert!!:

(do i have an astigmatism or WHAT?! )

my version of that dutch painter, whatshisname...

venue:

the misterioso artist formerly known as "andrew":

i also have video of one of the songs, but i cannot figure out why my computer will not download it...very frustrating....more later.  i'm late to see you-know-who (above)....