… now that Summer has been officially over for a few days.
First up — early July. Mark and I went up to Stillwater to celebrate Mark’s brother, Nick’s, birthday. They were doing a downtown Stillwater bar hop.
First up, dinner at Nacho Mamas — an AMAZING Mexican restaurant and bar. Mark and [...]
it’s been a month and a handful of days, and my friend Steph and her beau are still happily married.
and my friend Kelly finally posted her amazing photos.
That means it’s finally time for a recap!
We started off the day before the wedding with a fabulous bridal tea thrown by Steph’s [...]
So this song isn’t very good. I’m just going to throw that out there. What makes it good is the fact that the entire song aside from the new vocal track is Michael Jackson’s Human Nature.
Okay, so if I was a pop singer, what would the most obvious way to get a hit single [...]
My friend Kelly posted her pix from Prom 2011 on facebook. And here they are … note the amazing dancing skills. Mostly honed from the MJ Dancing game Mark got me for Christmas for the Wii.
It’s Sunday after prom and I am spent. Had myself some blueberry banana pancakes and bacon and now am doing some laundry.
Prom — for those of you who don’t know — is not high school prom. Prom in Ames is an awesomely fun night of dancing, drinking and debauchery [...]
Yes. I am SO blogging about this. I’m trying to hold onto it as if it actually happened and wasn’t part of my random sick and twisted dream world.
I met MJ. Yes. MJ. In my dreams (of course. the man IS dead according to popular belief).
I was at one of his rehearsals for [...]

Hi there. I'm Calee. Not Caylee. Also known as chimes or the chimes. I'm 27, a designer, a runner, a self-proclaimed fitness queen, a craftster, a foodie, a music snob — some might call me a hipster. Here's the unabridged version.
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