We all want to be Detroit Hipsters but with less robbery.

The night before my sister's wedding The Hipsters showed up. When The Hipsters show up you better go to the bar with them and watch while they drink all the Miller High Life in the entire Upper Peninsula Of Michigan. Or at least all the Miller High Life at the bar that night.

I do not recall fighting with my sister in law but the pictures say otherwise. I think she was asking me if she is a hipster.

Please note Logan's index finger behind us pointing at that lovely curly haired Hipster.

Now look below and note my sister in law and I acting like feral cats readying for a fight. It looks
as if I'm limbering up my knuckles, but rather I'm considering my sister in law as a hipster.

Meanwhile, behind us, Curly Haired Hipster and Logan have come to terms with each other. He's quite handsome isn't he? My goodness when will Logan be home?

The next day we were at the reception location helping to hang about a billion paper cranes and scissors were hard to come by. My sister in law ran to her car and grabbed her emergency office supply kit. When she came back she said, "Do you think The Hipsters have emergency office supply kits in their cars?"

"Well, no....but they should. You're a new kind of hipster. One so hip they don't even know you're hip yet. You've got #2 pencils in there don't you? Next year all the hipsters will have emergency office supplies in their hipster jeans."

As we drove home, my sister in law text messaged me, "Your brother says I can't be a hipster if I have monogrammed beach towels. Is this true???"

I'm thinking we were definitely fighting about my sister in law's hipster-ness in the pictures above.

Comments

[baseballmama]

LOVE your necklace! Where did you get it?

[Ashley.B]

I know this one! I wanted to buy one for my mom. It's one of the Superhero necklaces at http://www.superherodesigns.com/jewelry/ .

And ... embroidered towels, no. Well, maybe if they were embroidered with something delightfully ironic and/or avant-garde. They would've also had to have been found in a thrift store. For fifty cents, marked up to $50 once they were moved out of the "old used stuff" section to the "retro" section. But she would've had to have bought them just so she could say she has retro towels. Even though that idea is pretty gross and they probably smell a little bit. Okay, so back to no.

[Sharyn Essman]

I've been lurking at your site for a while and I just today discovered that the chestnut-haired character in the top photo is YOU. I must say, I love that picture -- I love the withering expression on your face. I aspire for that attitude but it's difficult to emanate aloofness with two kids hanging from my arms as if attached by Velcro.

[Fenicle]

You are one hell of a SIL with all those cranes!!! That is madness!!!

The pictures are great. Kind of one of those - "I don't remember" moments :)

[SueFromOhio(nowfromSC)]

Is your SIL sucking up a spaghetti noodle in pic #2? Just askin'...

Also, your expression is precious...as in, "Don't you be suckin' that 'scetti noodle up at me!"

sorry the south is getting to me....

[melbs]

My friend told me to check out your site and, I've been doing it every day since! It is a riot! I am enjoying it tremendously!

[Tootsie 3019]

Hipsters drink Miller High Life? My Mom who is 57 drinks that. I thought Hipsters were only allowed to drink Fat Tire or some other obscure micro-brew.

[Laurellee]

Somebody referred to me as a hipster recently, but I don't even know what that means! I am a socially inept tech nerd with 50 extra pounds on my frame. I have no fashion sense and own no cool shoes. How can I possibly be seen as a hipster?

[cce]

I'm not sure...haven't been a true hipster in years but I think Tootsie may be right. MHL is not the drink of Hipsters. A Dark and Stormy or an Apple Martini or a Yellow Bird may be the drink of choice these days.
Fat Tire probably doesn't make the cut for one simple reason...gas. Hipsters avoid flatulence at all costs. Flat Tire is out.

[avrilcoxe]

I am so not a hipster that I don't even know what you're talking about-is this drunk blogging? Funny still......other reasons I'm not a Hipster: subscribe to Martha Stewart Living, listen to Dave Matthews, own monogrammed jewelry, believe in devotion to a china pattern. Wait a minute-does this eliminate all Southern women from being Hipsters?!?!

[Amy]

This has nothing to do with your post and is totally embarrassing, but I had a dream about you last night. I was staying at your house, which was a big old Victorian and the guest room had these gorgeous tall windows and funky old wallpaper. You kids were charming, you were lovely, and Logan talked nonsense the whole time and I didn't understand any of his jokes.

[TeriLynn]

Fancy beers and cocktails are not "hipster."

Seriously.

Musicians (AKA hipsters, in Detroit) all drink cheap beer - High Life or PBR.
Unless they have Celiac Disease.
Then they drink rum.

[BOSSY]

Bossy is Post-New Hipster.

[The Other Laura]

Officially delurking...

I really enjoy your blog. I'm so not a hipster - mostly I'm just wanting a nap.