These are all the pictures I took while hanging out at Mel's house for a week. We had both finished work for the summer and were pretty much just happy to lie around doing nothing. I did a lot of origami. At first I just did it because I need to be doing something with my hands while watching TV, but then Mel told me how Sketch, a friend of ours, suggested making more origami Katamaris and selling them at cons. So since my origami book was at Clark, me and Topaz managed to extract the information I needed out of the Google print version and Amazon.
The other main event of this batch is our trip to Burger King where we ate the monstrosity that is the Quadruple Bacon Cheeseburger. After we finished that heart clogging experience, we discovered that Mel's car wouldn't start. It turned out to be a fried computer chip, and everything's OK now. We had some fun trying to get it started and watching it be towed away. Oh well. Thanks AAA!
The last set of pictures are from our attempt to shave Mo. Mo's fur is all gross and knotted so Mel finally couldn't take it anymore and started cutting fur off of him. We got a lot off him before he got sick of us and ran away. Oh well, it's a start. |
Mel hugs the completed buckyball
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Hmm, this pose seems familiar..
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I'm glad I decided to use some color
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With the Coke bottle for scale
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We decided to play catch with it!
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Mel has turned into some sort of origami zombie!!
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Trying to strike a pose while it's in the air..
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Mel can make things float
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Mel hides behind her teddy bear
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Can you tell they're related?
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I had some extra pieces so I made an origami shoe
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The katamari, before spikes
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Another angle of the spikeless icosahedron
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A huge inflatable dinosaur
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Mel checks out the whiteboard section
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I forgot to take after pics, but whatever. Before haircut, hair down, front
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Before haircut, hair down, side
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Before haircur, hair down, back
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Before haircut, hair up, front
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Before haircut, hair up, side
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Before haircut, hair up, back
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Our gross order on the computer
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Behold... the quadruple bacon cheeseburger
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The quad stacker, half gone
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Mel seems somewhat... not surprised
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Truly the king of burgers..
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The one is the ad looks way better!!
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Waiting for someone to help us out
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Is she over there? ...no.
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Margaret will wait with us
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Margaret has some jumper cables!
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Yes, time to open the hood
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Nothing looks really bad..
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Or does it? I have no idea
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Mel's dad tries to get his hood open
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Mel's battery. Note the pieces of mouse nests
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Don't touch them together!
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Uhohes, the cars are too far apart
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Mel and Margaret were very helpful
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Derrick, a mechanic, happened to be passing and helped us out
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Hooking up the cables again
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Derrick helps Mel try to start the car
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Mel and Margaret hung out in the car
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Mel's mom checks out the engine
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Mel's dad is having a blast
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We took up a lot of spaces at Burger King
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AAA is going to come and tow it!
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Waiting for the tow truck
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Mel is used to this kind of stuff
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Cables. Serious business.
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Writing contact information
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The car will be towed to his garage
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Everyone's having a blast
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This guy had car troubles too!
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Talking to the tow truck guy
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Mel through out some trash
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I keep accidentally typing "toe struck"
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The claw thing comes down
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Mel watches the car get towed away
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Pretty much the same picture..
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I kept some paper behind them
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I went outside to get a clearer image but they rand away
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Spikes for Topaz's katamari
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Mo doesn't know how to feel about this
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Bailey wanted to make a pillow
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Bailey holds him down in case he freaks out
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Bailey is having fuuuhhnnn
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He struggled a little, but not really
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We almost gave him a bath
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Empire chinese buffet! Good stuff!
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We ended up paying with a bunch of ones
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Bailey gets her head pulled off
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Mel gets struck with some sort of photon torpedo
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Bailey is in no mood for pictures
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I guess they're always open since they can't change the sign
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They're eating that baby!!
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I took this by accident but it looks pretty cool
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This is how we're rolling up the millino roses
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Mo is all pakced and ready to go
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Old people make good drivers...
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A big X in the sky! Neat contrails
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H E L P me... make...this sign
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Doughnut Inn II, the sequel
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This is how I move my stuff, in trash bags
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Mel has replaced Elizabeth Rogers as the new RA
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The view from Mel's window
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The view, with exposure set for clouds
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You can see people in Maywood...
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..and some goo coming off Dana
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Mel's window seat but something's missing..
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There we go, the seat is complete
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No bed frames are necessary
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I like how Mel stores her detergent
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The car hooked up to the truck
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