I need to get caught up with these picture posts before they get too old. I still have tons more to upload, but here are the ones from April at least!! April was definitely one of the craziest, most stressful months of my life. Can’t say it was all good or all bad, just crazy! Most of it is too personal to write about here, so let’s be shallow and make this a picture post! :-D
One of the good things that happened involves a certain Miss Roxy of The Epoxies. I LOVE the Epoxies, and by a stroke of pure dumb luck, Roxy stumbled across some of my work and liked it!! She contacted me about designing some stuff for her, so we’ve been working on that. I haven’t really had time to sew shit for eBay lately cuz I wanna make sure the stuff I make for Roxy is good. Cuz I LOVE her. L-U-V.
And I turned 25 last month. The Epoxies were playing on the night of my birthday, so we made it my “unofficial” mini birthday party. Needless to say, I got wasted (stupid Craig making me do shots, and random strangers buying me drinks after Roxy announced onstage that it was my birthday haha).
Jade and me

Kevin and Jade

Jen, Jade, me

What’s so funny!!


Gorgeous Roxy!

Me + Roxy

Hot Ladiez

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And last month, Orange got really sick and had to be hospitalized for 5 days. It ended up costing me $978!! She’s better now, thank god. Now she’s back to her usual… lying around the house doing absolutely nothing!

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My aunt went to Vietnam last month, so she asked us to take my cousin Andrea to her freshman orientation at Cal Poly. We stayed at the world famous Madonna Inn! Tons of celebrities like Courtney Love and Madonna stay here. I couldn’t capture all of its charm in these photos, but it’s the cutest place ever!! Each room has a wacky theme.

We stayed in the “American Beauty” room.

Bathroom (Hi, Sarah!)

Bathroom (Hi, Lisa!)

Hallway (Hi, everybody!)



Yes… this giant rock thing was an actual part of our room!!

We were trying to do that Beatles cover

Isn’t it gorgeous

My cousins Andrea and Ashley. My sister says, “Inside those pretty little heads lie 2 giant brains.” And it’s true!!! I nearly shit my pants when I found out Ashley’s cumulative GPA is 4.57 and Andrea’s is “only” 4.3. WHAT THE FUCK?! Back when I was in high school, 4.0 was the highest you could get. These girls go to a prestigious private school and are acing all their honors classes!

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We found these mosquitos mating outside my parents’ house. Get a room, you two!!


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Here are some pictures from my sister Sarah’s birthday! Our birthdays are only four days apart (April 20 and 24), so every year we celebrate together. But this year we decided to have 2 separate parties, which I think was really just an excuse to party twice in one day. Sarah got the day and I got the night.
Matt and Sarah

Sarah and Pei

Me, Kevin, and Big Van

Going home to get ready for MY party! Bye bye!

Dinner at PF Chang’s. Hands off my crab wonton, Matt!!

Kevin, Jade and Ryan


Lisa and Johnny. Great pose, Lisa!

Adorable Matt and Ellie


And most of all, I wanted to thank Colonel Sanders for coming out to my party…




Patrick and Colleen

Boozin’ it up at the Sofa Lounge




Me, Caroline, Sarah, Laine

This looks like it should be a poster for a new WB show called “Sistery Love!” Actually, what really happened is that me and Sarah think we have giant heads, so we make Lisa stand in front. Try it, it works! (Even though my head is still as big as Lisa’s, so I guess technically that means it doesn’t work)




I have the cutest friends in the whole wide world!

Denice’s boobs

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Crazy Event #23894938432 for the month of April. Daria got out of jail, and we put her straight to work modeling for my website! Isn’t she STUNNING?!?!?! Don’t be fooled by her cuteness though, you haven’t seen her gunshot wounds!

Patrick wanted to shoot her in mid air, so we kept making her jump off the porch. She broke my favorite shoes! And we didn’t even get the shot!! Haha!

You know you’re Asian when you reach for the lint roller and it’s covered in soy sauce packets.

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Here are some pics of Kevin and friends during the book signing for “Disposable” last month. Yes, I know it is dorky that I took sooooo many pictures…. but I am his biggest fan! :-)


Jimbo, Kevin, Sean (the author), and Stevie




part of the line




“I’ll be hanging out in the back with the bottle of wine! See you guys later!”




Mojo, Jim, Jimbo, etc.

Sean and Stevie





Hey Soozee, I took this picture JUST FOR YOU!!! (that’s your book)

Kevin and Brent. Brent is one of my favorite people on earth! He and his wife Lori LOOOOOOVE to eat. They can go to any restaurant in San Jose and the wait staff will know them by first name and give them special treatment!! A few years ago Brent even received a personal letter from the owner of Chilli’s, thanking him for eating there so much. Now that’s what I call dedication!

group shot

Kevin and Stevie

We were making fun of Kevin cuz he designed that logo years ago, and now it’s on clearance for $5!! Oh wait, correction–$4.95!

And his name is last on the flyer too, haha! Like, “Oh okay I think we have room for one more name, sure we’ll put Kevin on it!”

Anyway, it’s time for me to go to bed! I will upload all of this month’s pictures… in August or something.



Nice.
You going to Pink Saturday and Gay Pride this year?
I might run into you again if so!
^-^
I will try to, if I’m not too lazy! :-D
Who the HECK is that in your icon?!
Haha! It’s my lover, Ron Perlman!!!
Why have I heard that name… I think I’m thinking of Lou Perlman… the boy-band guy…
Oh my god NOOOOOOOOOOOO!! Haha, you are definitely thinking of the wrong guy!! :-}
^0^
Pffft!
What!
holy crap girlie
i had no idea your bf was a rider. My BF <3's Steve.
Re: holy crap girlie
Oh, Kevin’s actually not a rider! He was a skateboard artist. :-)
Re: holy crap girlie
awesome, happy birthday too!
I am SO funny.
I looked at your b-day pix & thought, “Bitch, didn’t invite me!”
So, I posted that to you.
2 minutes later I realized, YES YOU DID!
I am sensitive, hehe.
Haha You freaked me out for a second, I couldn’t figure out why you were mad.
Hey do you know where Sandy is? I haven’t heard from her in MONTHS. I left her a message and she never responded. Is she okay?
I want to see you before the wedding. What are you doing June 4th – 9th? Have a day you could spare? Actually, the week after that is cool as well.
I haven’t heard from Sandy either! Last I heard she was starting a job at Virgin Megastore. I messaged her on myspace, but I don’t think she responded. She DID fill out my wedding mail form though.
Nothing so far! What are YOU doing June 4-9? :-D
Nothing that I know of! I’m trying to schedule a shoot that week, but that’s about it.
Me and Jade are going to Trannyshack tomorrow nite. What are you doing?
Fugggg. I get booked for something every time I try to make plans with you.
I’m now working every week day this month.
SOON. okay?!
Aww well we ended up not going anyway! :-)
damn amy you are looking hotter than ever.
i still have pics of you with kato kaelin.
when you coming to la? i been here 3 years now we need to hook up
You mean… THESE?!?!
You have known me for waaaaaaaaaaaay too long, haha!
oh my god, fuck yeah!
ooooooooooooooh how i’m laughing.
oh oh oh oh oh oh that is so scary.
a long time, since 98 or so, eh?
Ooh baby you know you love Kato!!
Was it 98? I think it was actually 97!! The Toilet Boys lists! The photos! The gossip!! Man I miss all that. Where in L.A. are you? We go down there a couple times a year, but I have no idea when our next trip will be!!
i miss all that too. it was good times, wasn’t it?
i’m in west covina. you have to let me know when the next trip down is. MUST see you you kato lovin maniac!
HAHAHHAH Kato hit on you!!!!!!!!!! You are hot! Your friends aren’t too shabby either! Meow!
Haha! You know what is funny about Kato Kaelin? He is even dumber in real life than he is on TV!!
You are joking?!!! How can he possibly be any dumber than he is on T.V.??!!!! HOlY CRAP IN A PICNIC BASKET!!!!
How long did you talk to him?
Haha, I don’t even remember. He was standing in the lobby of a movie theater, and we KNEW it was a once-in-a-lifetime photo op. Probably 5 minutes, if even that!
lol. It looks like you got the guy in a chokehold.
crazy flix as always amy. nice. i esp like the one of colonel sanders.
Why are you awake dude?! And how’s your kitty? Sorry I couldn’t house sit the other day. :-( I had so much shit to do and was really behind on everything. :-(
its cool yo. i heckled my dad to drive up.
im awake, cuz my whole sleeping pattern has been royally fucked for the past 2 weeks. why are you awake? im on AIM, donerik@aol.com
kitty is resting and looking better…at least better than last week.
KFC?? you put that pic in there to see if we’re actually looking at all pics?? haha
I like all pics of course, the Madonna Inn looks so cool.
PS: I only look at pics and never read what it says above them. ;) ;)
Haha dork!!
i always luffle your post so much!
i just srarted a community,love it if you would join it<3
Oh cool! I’ll have to check that out later! :-)
wicked cool girl, i love your photo posts!
Thank you darling!! Oh and by the way, the panties fit perfectly this time! I just have to remember not to put them in the dryer, haha!
haha!
ohhh can I email you about something, cos I’m nosey and like gossip?
Okay!! amy@shrinkle.net
I need to check out that Madonna Inn. SO MUCH FUN it seems! :D
Poor Orange. He looks all sleepy and just lounging about! I love kitties!!
AND OMG! I could not stop cracking up laughing when I saw your lint roller because that is what mines look like! Just the other day I was rushing out the door and I grabbed the lint roller and I am picking off all the soy sauce of the roller and shoving them in my purse! It’s a good thing too since I did use the soy sauce later that day!!
YOU ARE SOO MUCH FUN! Thanks for the picture posts!!!
Woman, we need to officially make a date to hang out. We keep saying we will, but it never happens! I wanna catch you before you move!!
omg, the lint brush made me laugh out loud.
Maybe I just haven’t had enough sleep.
So funny. haha
Dude, we have those stupid soy sauce packets ALL OVER THE HOUSE cuz I get take-out sushi like every day, haha!
I got take-out sushi the other day and they gave me 6 soy sauce for 5 pieces of sushi!
What’s sad, Linda?
Oh, it’s not that I looked through and read this whole post…nonono…
It’s that I laughed my ass off at the Kato Kaelin picture!!!!! What…the….fuck?!? LOL
I have TONS of pictures of me with weird random celebrities. Wait till you see the one of me with Macho Man Randy Savage!! Someday I will have to dig up my old photo albums and post all these weird pictures. They are soooo bad!!
You have to post them, then. I have *one* (count ‘em…one) picture of me with some tacky celebrity….and you’ve already seen it!! (The Bob Saget pic.) LoL
Cools pics, happy Birthday late Kitty… *Hugs*
Thank you Gleny!!!
Yo, lady! Happy birthday. April Birthday Girls, UNITE! AND uhhh…BREAK STUFF AND GET DRUNK! HELL YES! Yeah, I didn’t really break anything. I’m just throwing that out there, IN CASE.
I’m older than you. :( But only by one year and about 2 weeks! :)
Oh, you’re an April baby too? When is your birthday? Just curious cuz you said it’s 2 weeks before mine, and I have another sister whose birthday is on April 6!
Mine is the 8th! I have 6 friends with the same birthday as me. :|
Whenever I reach for my lint brush, there’s balloons stuck to it. I’m not sure what that says about me…
It means you’re a clown!!!!
Happy birthday!!! I wish I still look as cute when I’m 25 ;)
Awww thanks Molly! You’re so cute, there’s no way you’re not going to be the cutest 25 year old ever! Dork!
The Madonna Inn looks totally hott! I seriously want to be there now, but it looks waaay out of my price range :O I’m used to staying in cupboard sized rooms and sharing a bunk bed!
Haha, it’s way out of my price range too! My aunt paid for it. :-D
Oh, wow! You are so lucky that Roxy Epoxie adores you as much as you adore her! She is great and I’ve thought so for years now. Happy birthday, it looks like everyday is an event for you!
xoxo
JAYDA
PS, did you know it’s Asian Pacific American Heritage Month?
I love Roxy!! :-) Oh, and no I didn’t know it was Asian Heritage Month. I’m such a bad Asian!! :-}
I didn’t find out until two nights ago! bad asians ;[
xoxo
JAYDA
Adorable pictures! Happy belated birthday!
Thank you!!!
Your boyfriend is left handed. I am too.
Woot!!
Whoa, can’t believe you noticed that! :-D I think 99.999999% of artists are left-handed. It’s so weird!!
baha and the weird thing is that I’m kinda an artist as well haha
Happy Birthday!!!
It’s a new community, but you should join. It’ll help other people join too, I’m sure.
Thanks babe! I’ll have to check that out tonite! :-)
In the first few pictures I love yours and Jade’s outfits & Kevin’s shirt. And your hairtyes are awesome. ^^ Congrats on getting to design Roxy’s clothes, too. :D
Lol @ the picture of Orange.
The American Beauty room is gorgeous. Wow. oo; I want my room to look like that. :p
Happy extremely belated birthday, too. xD
Thanks, babe! I actually made the shirt that I’m wearing. :-)
Aww your boyfriend is so cute… and you’re so cute… you’re both just damn CUTE!
Thank you darling!!!
Happy belated birfday, my dear!! I laughed my ass off at Col. Sanders!!!! :)
That room you stayed is quite possibly one of the coolest rooms I’ve ever seen. LOL, I don’t get out of Florida much. ;)
I’m glad to see you’re doing well! oxoxox
Thank you!!! My bday was fun! :-) I will tell Colonel Sanders you said hello.
OMG it really is Colonel Sanders!!! Awesome pics!
Hahaha I feel kinda bad for posting the poor guy’s picture all over the internet, but dude!! It IS him!! :-D
thanks for sharing all these awesome pics .. i love your posts :)
i hope your kitty gets allll better :)
that room looks awesome .. looks like you’re always having fun ♥
dude you and your sister are SO hot! both are too beautiful for words ♥ ahh ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
i looooved your birthday outfit and makeup .. you rock!
yay for colonel sanders .. dude, that is SO him! haha ♥ weeeeeeee! :)
and last but certainly not least ..
H A P P Y
B I R T H D A Y
S H R I N K L E
♥ much love ♥
~t~
Thank you for EVERYTHING, pretty girl! :-)
Yay!! Wow, first of all, happy birfday, Amy!!
Secondly, wow — I am a huge Epoxies fan … that is such an honor, designing Roxy’s clothing. She is the coolest.
And congrats to Kevin on his book, and … and …
you have a lot of cool shit going on and I’m so happy for you!!!!
xoxo
Jules
Thanks Miss Julie!! I love Roxy too! Are you going to their show in Oakland this Friday? They are also playing Slim’s on July 19.
I think I’ll be at the Oakland show, so see you there!
OK… but you’d better not come up to me and introduce yourself again as if I wouldn’t remember your hot ass okay?!?!!!!!!
Maybe I’ll do it to you. “Julie! It’s me, Amy! Amy Doan! You know–Shrinkle from Livejournals, who lives in San Jose and crashed your company Christmas party and knows Anna and has 2 cats and was in line for the bathroom at Skinny Puppy. How are you?”
heeheee I am just teasing you!! ;-)
No, come over and yell, “IM TOTALLY FAMOUS ON EBAY!!!”
I was gonna say, I’m going to both shows and if you go too, I can finally buy you that BEER I’ve owed you since like, 2002!
Happy Late B-Day Amy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks Jela!!!!!!!
When are you coming up here again, foooo???
Soon dude!!!! I will let you know when I do.. so we can Party!!!!
HI!
Happy April! Seems like things are going great…birthday, new projects, cute as ever…well, except for the shoes. I’m sorry your shoes got broken, those were some kickass shoes.
Can’t wait to see what you’ve been up to in May…
Re: HI!
Thank you cutie!!!!
Re: HI!
you’re awesome…I can’t believe you go through and answer all your comments!
Re: HI!
Haha actually, I don’t! I’m notoriously bad at answering LJ comments!
HEY! I know where those sauce packets came from. They came from Chinese restaurants didn’t they? What would your Vietnamese ancestors say? Go eat some pho right now to make up for this disgrace.
Haha actually they are from sushi restaurants! I live in Japantown, so I eat sushi like every day. I’m so bad!!!
amy you 2 make thee cutest couple :) its nice to see people so happy!
Thank you!! :-) I am happy!! Yay!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AMY! :)
Thanks pretty!!
Colonel Sanders??? You lucky bastard! I went to Kings Island a month ago and I only got to meet Arnold and he was a lazy fat head:
You and Kevin look perfect for each other. :D And I wuv your :GORGEOUS: pink fluttery lashes! *dies* I think I’ll just go clone myself now and change my Ebay name to “Shrinkle2.” Oh shit, now that I’ve said that I bet somebody will actually change their name… ♥
Thanks Jenn!!
Haha I HATE those big fluffy character things at theme parks. I used to be so scared of them when I was little!
Well if Shrinkle2 is taken, you can always be Shrinkle3!! :-D
*lol* Don’t encourage me! ♥ There’s only one Snickers….uh, Shrinkle. ;)
happy birthday Amy :D
Thanks!! :-)
Designing clothes for the Epoxies?! Fuck that’s rad. Also your head isn’t large it’s just that it is always grinning and neon so its the first thing you see in a picture.
I know, I looove Roxy!! But uh… yes my head IS humongous!! I’ve just learned a few photo tricks. But if you saw me in person…. haha!
Your posts are so funny :)
I have one those $1,000 lumps too. I went through hell with my kitty Cee Cee when she was a baby. She cost me a bundle the first year of her life.
P.S. thanks again for the eye shadows. I purchased the flamingo pink & violet under my ebay name zalarose.
Dude, it’s youuuuuuuuuuu!!! I’m slow and never make the connection between peoples’ eBay names and LJ names. :-}
I’ve never noticed what a large head you have. In any case, it’s cute.
Haha thanks! I can never find sunglasses that fit comfortably cuz my head is soooo wide, the arms cut into skull! AHHHHHHHH
So many gorgeous sisters! It’s kind of creepy, to be honest. Something’s got to be wrong with that.
Aww thanks! :-)
hey! isnt that that girl whos ID I was gonna borrow for Maskara way back when? hahaha! thats hot!
Haha YES!!!!!!! You could totally pass for Jen!!!!!
I always love your pics. They amuse me greatly.
By the way, did you ever see this?
I graduate in less than 2 weeks, and hopefully I’ll cash in hella, so expect another eyeshadow order in the near future!
you did that?
that’s awesome! i remember seeing that on myspace i think. very cool!
LOVE IT!!
Yep, that was me :) Thanks! I don’t like it as much as the other one I did (which is on her site)…I have a few others that I’ve started, but haven’t finished as they take me 4-5 hours a piece.
well worth the time girl!
Added it!! :-)
http://www.shrinkle.net/xoxo/friends/art/chivahnwilkens.html
Greetings!
You know, this has nothing to do with this post, but I just wanted to share something with you incase you didn’t know about it:
Because socks are love!
You make so many outfits that would go so well with these socks! I hope you already know about this place!
Re: Greetings!
Awesome!! One of my friends actually sent me that link a few months ago. Cute stuff! :-)
awww you have such a gorgeous family and all of your friends are all so pretty too! that is craziness.
my parents have gone out to eat at chili’s every friday for the past 4 years… they should get a letter too!
You should complain to the president!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-wow that all looks like fun. that’s too cool that you get to make clothes for the Exposies girl!
-your makeup and hair look fab
-yay for kevin and the book signing
-i’m gonna bet the package is lost. that blows. :(
Dork, no it wasn’t lost!! I was going to email you but figured a card would be more personal. Sorry I left you freaking out for days haha! I have barely been online all week though. :-(
dork?!
;P
haha it’s ok i figured it was just takin it’s sweet time, but i always worry things get lost. i also know you’re busy as shit!!
glad you like it all
xox!
Happy Birthday!!!
I’ve been looking at Inns and I came across the Madonna Inn last week, defiantly an interesting place. Esp. the Caveman room!
We actually wanted the caveman room, but it was booked! Boo!! :-(
I absolutely love your birthday top, it is sooo pretty!
The colonel sanders thing cracked me up too, the resemblance is uncanny! People in the background of photos are my favorite. I have a friend that will make a point to stand in the background of peoples’ pictures at clubs and stuff and make weird faces.
That hotel room is awesomely adorable as well.
Thanks gorgeous! I made the top. :-)
HAHAHA to Colonel Sanders…what did Orange have? I’ve seen a couple of cases similiar at the vet hospital that I work at. I dunno, just curious :D
We’re still not exactly sure what was wrong with Orange actually! She just stopped eating and drinking and was throwing up nonstop. She threw up 10 times in one day! When we took her to the vet, she was so dehydrated they had to put her on IV for 5 days. They took X-rays and did blood tests but it was a total mystery. They wanted to do exploratory surgery, but I didn’t want to put her through that cuz she’s already like, 12 years old poor thing! They said it might be pancreatitis or a tumor, but we’ll eventually find out. :-(
Call me crazy… but your boyfriend reminds me a little of Simon Gallup from The Cure…
http://www.gulfcoastvillas.com/thecure/Biography/simon.jpg
Hahaha! That’s a first! Everyone tells him he looks like Ben Stiller or some guy from Orgy.
Ben Stiller?! Wow…
Hey, I was going to bid on the black Kryolan eye pencil but I missed the auction! I was wondering if you had any I could buy directly from ya? Or if it’s going to be relisted?
Oops, nevermind, i found the listing :p
4.0+ GPA students go to Cal Poly??
Hahaha! Why, did you go to Cal Poly? My sister went there and it was a party school!!
oh man you have no idea how much i want that kitty dress that your friend that just got out of jail is wearing!!
and you look stunning as always amy, darlin!
and your cat is TOOOO cute.
Thanks Pretty Julie!
I’m a day late damn it! but happy birthday sweetheart.
<3
Thanks Martha!!! So Jenny says you guys might be coming to California soon? YAY!!!!
hmmm…when did she say that?
my mom met colonel sanders, like 30 years ago when she was a waitress at a fancy schmansy resteraunt. She actually ran into him when she was coming out of the bathroom. She said she used to walk watching her feet, so when she ran into him she looked at his white shoes… white pants… white shirt & jacket, and of course white beard/hair.
Are you kidding me?!??! That is soooo funny haha! I can’t believe he really wears all white all the time!
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY AMY!!
Love Vicky xoxo
Re: HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY AMY!!
Aww thanks Vicky! :-)