party, pinata, puja

let it be known that carmen is a very kooky girl, and her 30th birthday on saturday was no exception to this general rule. the highlights of the party, in ann and dabney's opinion, were an interpretive dance (set to the tune of pat benatar's invincible) and a pinata. here's the woman of the hour, mid-move.



it took some swift kicks and a homemade cricket mallet for carmen to bust open the pinata. while everyone else was scrounging around for candy, ann made a beeline for the pinata shell.



just behind ashbloem you can almost see carmen's multi-tiered shrine to self, featuring real honest-to-god glamour shots (apparently everyone that grows up in texas gets them).

in a weekend of contrasts, ann and dabney also attended a puja* on sunday. dabney's friend brinda just bought a place in eggleston square, and couldn't have been more excited to move in this month. her dad performed the ceremony, then brinda and her mom passed around yummy food.



the puja was decidely more solemn than the rest of the weekend, but you can bet if there had been anything resembling a pinata there, it would have been on ann's head.

* a puja is an indian ceremony performed as a house blessing