Lo-fi Laziness

Forgive my poaching from Instagram for the majority of this post; November is a busy time of year. This one started with an election-related dance party:

 

Then there was a trip to California:



Since I was in town to be a bridesmaid in my high school best friend's wedding, I decided to let teenage Caitlin out for a while. Here I am demonstrating my favorite high school pastime - loitering in front of the city's only Starbucks during the Thursday night street fair with a surly look on my face:



However, it's hard to look surly when you're petting a pot-bellied pig a few blocks later:



Don't let this next photo fool you; it was actually unusually cold in Palm Springs that weekend. Still, it made me think of Arcade Fire's "Sprawl II" with its mountains beyond mountains. Dead shopping malls not pictured:



The night of the rehearsal dinner, my order for a "very special vegetarian meal" - because I totally love being the center of attention when it comes to food [sarcasm] - was demonstrably absent, which resulted in my being a much cheaper date than I'd intended. Oh well. I made a speech, I behaved myself, and my mom picked me up when it was over. I'm not always good at remembering to take photos, so I pilfered this one from the bride's facebook wall. I figure it's fair game since I was tagged in it. That's me in the back on the right, holding my liquid dinner:



There are many photos from the actual wedding. Professional ones, even. But this one, taken by Karla, is my favorite by far. It's Mircea, Jennifer, and me, laughing like crazy and being our younger selves. It was the theme of the weekend, really:



Back at home, the universe thought it would be funny to schedule Bobby's birthday, a work potluck, and Thanksgiving within two days of each other. Here's the cake I made for work. I didn't have the necessary brain cells to take a photo by the time I finished Bobby's. Imagine a similar cake, but with red icing and some aliens and a Mars Curiosity Rover sticking out of it:



I did think to get a photo of Bobby appreciating his birthday present, which was drawn by a friend with significantly more talent than I have:



The party was pretty low-key, but we had a good time. Chris (I think) was kind enough to snap this photo of us around 2 a.m. when the festivities began to wind down:



The next morning, Thanksgiving, involved quite a bit of kicking. We were both pretty tired from the night before, and in no mood to fulfill our holiday responsibilities of preparing cranberry sauce and fake turkey. So there was about a half hour of, "You get up." "No, you get up." We pulled it together, though, and the cranberries were as popular as ever. They had to be tossed in the freezer to cool them down in time for transport.

As is my tradition, the super tacky Christmas decorations were hanging in my house before noon the next day. I may dislike the actual holiday, but I love to decorate for it! I am a mass of contradictions:



Saturday brought our friends Rob and Elise's brilliant idea of hosting a leftover party. No Thanksgiving remnants will linger in our fridge this year! Here I am with their dog, Tom, who is the goofiest, nicest, most cat-like dog in the world:



Lastly, we spent the majority of Sunday shooting this year's holiday card photo, which I hope to have selected and sent to the printer by sometime next week. Apart from the universe deciding to jab me in the eye with every possible annoying thing yesterday, you are now caught up on my mundane goings-on. Lucky you(?)

I leave you with the latest Gossip song, because it is currently my jam: