This is my party shirt

The New Year's Eve 2007 (last minute) crew

Yep, "this is my party shirt" ha!

"take a picture, take a picture!!!!"

well one of the cheesiest new year's eve parties yet....at a firehouse. Gosh, it would have been a 150-way tie for worst dressed. We had a fun time though AND there was hero!!!!

The Neville Brother

How could I have forgotten to post this pic??? I tended bar for the Neville Brothers at some uber-rich asswipe's house this past summer. Mr. Aaron Neville here insisted on taking photos of us with our camera phones. (I don't know what happened to the ones on his phone.)

Elf you

The geeks who dreamed this up are genius. Truly. Everyone I know who has played around with this has laughed out loud. Too too funny. Def try it out if you haven't already!

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1823987738

going back in time

Since it has been oh so long since updating this blog, here is a mini album of what I have seen, heard, drank, cooked, eaten ...

flying into Bahamas, Dec 2007

Atlantis, Bahamas
my awesome bathroom - coral towers at Atlantis
me and more fish
bahamas beach
dolphin cay

dinner with strangers at Fathoms
(unmemorable food, great booze :)
the morning after the dinner, 2 martinis,
2 wine, 2 rum and coke, wow

at Nobu, mmmmm
black cod at Nobu, yum!

eels in The Dig

wandering around Atlantis

what i came back to, brrr.

Terry Reid, NYC - Nov 2007

Terry Reid, onstage
Terry Reid, backstage :)

me and gramps, thanksgiving 2007.

turkey duh

terrible spice cake i made for thanksgiving

old pals again :) - nov 2007


flying into New Orleans - Nov. 2007
superdome, new orleans
St. Charles streetcar, just started running again, since Katrina
garden district
on the streetcar
first time for bread pudding, just insane.
my hotel in french quarter, nola
forsaking fashion for comfort at Cafe Du Monde
this guy must have started real early, its 11am on Bourbon Street.
"Pimm's I say" at Napolean House
oyster po'boy
awesome bar, literally a carousel that spins slowly.
(and leaves you spinning)
Eric Lindell in New Orleans, ya!!!
ahhh
Bourbon St at 3am
im doing ok at 3am though :)



Jackson Square


LF and me, haven't seen her in 5 months!

Bristol pals and v. drunk me back in NYC for marathon, Nov 2007.
silly drunk Bristol boys





London - Oct. 2007
pub fare in london

Big Ben, it only rained that one night :)
british library in london
cheese heaven at Harrod's
cmon, it's london

Tower Bridge, I actually made it across,
although it wasn't that high
somewhere in london
london pub with KC & her pal
Diwali fest at Trafalgar Square

leaving on that jet plane back to NY
and there is plenty of room in this Virgin bathroom ;)

wineries - august 2007



beach, october 2007


the biggest, heaviest, most amazing bday cake ive ever made

being silly with DD, aug 2007.

brownie platter for mother, aug 2007
blast from the past, look who i ran into labor day weekend, 2007.

an amazing house (castle) we worked at in Southampton

catering boss' bday at the Talkhouse

more catering staff

my catering "brother" and me

one of the three times i was in the sun, summer 2007.

Ricky Gervais, stand-up. hysterical. f-ing hysterical.

my 1st time at the barn, memorial day 2007

getting drunk at work for a sobriety field training, 9am.
later that night, 2am, Slick Rick at the Talkhouse, summer 2007.

strawberry bday cake for REM

Womanless Beauty Pageant fundraiser

me (the co-emcee for the night) and a very large contestant


bday "mud" cake for JCS

Library Geek confirmed, wearing the costume 6 months later though

bday cake for JZO - may 2007

karaoke - cinco de mayo 2007

Cinco de Mayo 2007

in the emergency room; after being "infected" by a drug addict during work
april 2007

My first librarian related job - archiving school documents in literally, a closet, with another chick.

birthday cake for SAK - april 2007

I'm back!

Don't get too excited though, I ve got much to say, of course, that it seems pointless. The camera took a swim, not by choice, therefore there aren't many photos to narrate my life lately. I am sad about this, I know I know, so is everyone.

that week did nothing

Opposite week worked for a bit but then I forgot I was supposed to be doing the opposite of what I would normally do and well, you know how it goes. I went to Florida for a week, saw Gramps, worked one day

(pre-tan) working on the beach in Florida in super high winds ugh!!

icky GIANT matzoh ball

me and Gramps :)
(post-tan)

got super tan, went to bars by myself, made friends, well kind of. Discovered I'm pretty darn good playing darts or cricket whatever the F its called. Re-discovered tasty beers. Spoke to my asshole brother, more than I wanted to.

Got back and tried to do the opposite thing again. I'm doing it but its not really making anything more interesting, just feel like I'm wasting time doing things I wouldnt normally do. whatever. Im way too tired to analyze this shit anymore. On the upside, lost 2 lbs in 3 weeks and only jogged 1 day. Yea thats gotta change. Planned on jogging tonight but.....

Think I might go to Boston to see Bettye again. Good a reason as any eh? Also thinking of visiting cities and just going to see baseball games. Maybe just hop a flight to new zealand, that would be an opposite :)

Bettye Lavette kicks ass!

Bettye Lavette at B.B. Kings NYC on 3-24-07.

okay, so my pics arent the greatest.

She was amazing. Can't wait to see her again next month!

2007 St. Pats Parade in Montauk

St. Patricks Day on March 25, 2007

We had a fun time :)

me, cg, pa

in O'Murphys

Roo Teen Inspires Break Out

When we find ourselves in a routine, maybe we should try eating outside the box.

I have been feeling a bit bored despite being very busy lately so tonight I had 2 bagels for dinner. Actually that's not true, I had a bagel with tuna on it for dinner. I ate 2 additional bagels for absolutely no reason. I was not even hungry. I had and still have no reason for why I ate them. There is nothing in the fridge aside from a carton of vanilla soymilk and some old grape tomatoes. Its depressing for me and my tum tum.

This morning while driving from interview #1 (which was abysmal at best) to interview #2, I was daydreaming and realized that I am bored. I feel like im just this being in some unreliable routine. I got to interview #2 about an hour early so I ate the lunch (green beans and chicken with 1/4 cup of thai sauce which equals exactly 350 calories) which I was saving for later, in the car. With a spoon. It was all I could find in my bag. I flossed my teeth. I drank some water. I ate some gum, still in the car. I wanted to drive away but I went in, now 40 minutes early. The woman was not ready to see me so I wandered around the library. I used a public computer and noticed the man in front of me was on some sort of Victoria's secret-like website. He was just clicking around, clearly not shopping. It amused me and my bored mood lifted for the moment. The librarian told me they were ready for me, I was still super smiley and decided to do everything opposite from that minute on for the next week. The interview was nothing remotely close to abysmal. One woman loved me. The other, I'm not so sure she loved me but she likes me.

I remember being a kid and running out of interesting names to call my brother or parents and had to be nice but then say "aha! its opposite day!" Well folks, it's opposite day for the next 6 days. Although I knew how many calories were in lunch, I didnt log my food intake today. I cancelled my MD appt for today and didn't weigh in. I left work early. I smoked. I ate those damn bagels. With cream cheese. Okay, and one with peanut butter. I took the garbage out. I watched a dvd even though I didn't want to. at first. I wrote this. I hung up my clothes. All opposite. I just realized, I also have straight hair today. Leaving tomorrow and havent even packed yet.

Let's see what this week of breaking out of the box uncovers.

"take a picture, take a picture!!!!!!!!!"

Are you happy? I'll get around to posting the album and the trip review asap. "Yes I promise!"

Updated this for fun

create your own visited states map

new editions this year

Once again the original 3 will be headed to Key West to break up those winter blues although this year our usual trip coincides with Easter, those damn christians are always fuggin stuff up!

Alas, the dates have changed but our core group will survive and not only will we be adding a new 4th but a new 5th will also be rollin' with us. We are all very excited but based on past history, the 4th has been ex-communicated by the next year's trip so we will just have to see how this turns out. Coordinating 5 peoples schedules and flights has not been a treat but "Julie" persisted and it has all come together somewhat smoothly.

The two new additions can be quite reckless under the influence of alcohol, lets just hope this doesn't turn into another Hawaii disaster!

Feeling nostalgic now....


Just 42 days to go!

A birthday without cake hmpf!

So now there is a 2 where the 1 used to be. Well well, longislandlisa is a bit older than last year whatever will she do?
The birthday celebration started off with mother and an uneventful greek meal

and ended with no candle, which means no cake, which is no problem BUT no candle means no wish. hmpf!

The next day I headed out to Montauk for what was supposed to be a quiet weekend with nobody to bother me but Huggies joined in and we had a much more eventful meal at

where we also got 2 for 1 meals, yah!

and it was good. But no cake, no candle, no wish, hmpf.
Funny I didnt even realize that i missed out on a birthday wish until days later. Maybe it was happy hour before huggies arrived or the bottle of wine at dinner or the many drinks at O'Murphys and Shagwong, who knows...but after waltzing around town in the misty rain we were kinda getting silly

and helped to make the bar a bit nuttier and the DJ was the irish waiter who played all of our requests but i have no idea what was going on here

the night contined and Huggies had a memorable "slumber" while I continued to checkout the town after the bar closed and headed to Liar's Saloon which was a local scary scene but fun anyway. I would recommend the not too skanky,open all year motel


In the end, I guess I will have to wait until Independence Day for my half birthday and maybe then i can have my 1/2 birthday wish and then it can 1/2 come true!
Thanks for coming Huggies ;-)

There's a seven where the six used to be

8pm:


10pm:


Dancing into 2007 (well kind of):



Good times, good times!

the big payback

my dreams of seeing the godfather of soul on NY's eve were dashed today when i heard that the legend had passed on.....rip James Brown.

song for today: night train - JB

mood: disappointed. death sucks.

Not Maui or Wowie (pt.1)

I actually slept both flights to Kauai with no anxiety and arrived only somewhat stinky but was ready to hit the first bar, since it was nearly happy hour (and I started on the plane)! So the crew picked me up at the airport and we headed to Poipu. Marilyn (no nickname for that one) and I went to a groovy place

After one drink, we picked up the other fagbags and headed to the "condo" in Princeville which seemed like forever away but was probably only about an hour. After we cleaned up a bit we had a photo session

and went to Tahiti Nui in Hanalei.

While we were on our second drink, a local drunk, Jerry began to make small talk with KC. He was harmless enough. KC left for a pee and Jerry was hanging around Marilyn. THEN the the freaking bitch starts telling him to walk away and leave her alone etc. Ummm, he was barely talking to her! So....from what i remember KC comes back and Marilyn tells her to get the guy away from her. KC doesn't really see the problem either and is trying to figure it out but all Bitch can do is keep bitching! SOOOO...I throw some salt on the two of them hoping to break it up and give her something else to think about but that doesn't happen. She gets rowdy with me and then her and Huggies leave. Now KC is missing and I don't give a flying fug. So I continue to drink and enjoy the atmosphere. A while later I cannot find KC, she's freaking missing. I don't have a phone or her # so I ask for the phone to call a cab. The bartender laughs at me. "We don't have that here". Huh??? No cabs? Nope, only to go to the airport. OMG! So I wander around outside searching for KC, nowhere to be found. Could this get worse? Did i mention its my FIRST night?
So some local hears of the dilemma and lets me use his phone to call Huggies. Huggies says she cannot come and get me and that KC is not there. BITCH has the car and is not coming to get us. So sitting outside smoking butts with this stranger, he spots KC on a picnic table in someones front lawn. Great!
She wanders over, sits and starts to vomit all over the place. She is crying, its a fucking mess. Did i mention its my FIRST night? :)
So...the guy says he'll give us a ride back but he wants to drink for a while more and he'll be out in an hour. Ugh. Huggies calls KC and says they'll come and get us. Bitch arrives and bitches the whole time back. I am ready to get a hotel at this point.
Before:

After:


I guess she does have a nickname!

The greatest rock band in the world...

Before the big trip to Hawaii I was all freaked out about flying over water for five hours and the anxiety of all the school work that I had procrastinated in doing was building up so I cancelled my flight a week before.
THEN Huggies helped me down from the ledge and I booked ANOTHER flight, this time to Kauai and planned to spend the whole week there. I also made sure to book it a day late so I could go see my "secret" love slave, JB with Tenacious D at MSG. That turned out to be fun fun

but they actually weren't that great. Well the encore rocked but that was about it. After the show, the other JB and I went out for a drink after his friends split, we were silly and got stuck in the city until after 3am, ick!

The next 3am I was back on the train heading to Hawaii....

all alone. i hate to admit it but it was kind of spooky and scary...

A master?

Aha, I just hit send with my final research paper. Schools out!!! For summer? no, FOREVER!!! Let's hope that remedial bullshit paper was good enough to eke out a B. I guess now I wait for some paper to come in the mail that says I have a masters degree in library and information science, HAH! what a gas!

This (pending) librarian is getting ready to tie one on, no not a bun!

super super stish us

I am hoping I might have to change the url of this blog soon (shhh). Let's hope for the best and expect the worst, just to save face, ya know. My fingers and toes are crossed. It's making it hard to walk.

I am so tired of researching copyright law that I have just given up. It is so goddammmmnnnn boring, argh. The prof seems to think we are all complete morons for not having a law degree so I am hoping that my junior high level paper ekes out an A.

Maybe a week in the pacific ocean is just what i need to get through it all. At least I can look foward to well actually I am not looking forward to it at all. Sorry Huggies :(

TA and I had a winey time last week at our annual photo op

pod and satans tooth

why are you reading this? you should be at the cinema watching Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny!!!
Go! I said GO! Go NOW!! Its super funny and not long enough!

oh right happy thanksgiving too.

do you know who I am?

Ironic flashbacks

For anyone who knows me for a while this photo should bring back some delightful memories although it was taken this weekend...


Oh Happy Days ahead, I got a new digi!!!!

Floppy hats in November?

There truly are so many fugging weird people roaming this earth. I went on an "interview" (if you can call it that) today and the woman greeting the 3 of us (??) was middle aged, at best, wearing a knee length denim skirt, white socks, white walking sneakers, a purple, yes purple, tank top and a purple to match floppy bucket hat. I was thinking, what the hell is going on here. Well it is a part time job doing archiving work, snore, but I stuck with it. Then the "interviewer" comes in and I was made aware that we weren't exactly being interviewed but we were attending a training and then would be "certified" by the State to archive government and school documents. Strange. No mention of this was made to me when I was asked to come in. In fact the purple hat woman had made it seem as if this were an interview for real. Odd. Really fucking odd.
Then, the program director (!) sits us down and she's got on an orange sweater, a really bad brassiere which did nothing to help her out at all and super snug black jeans which should have been 2 or even 3 sizes bigger. But lets move on to the really scary part. The 3 of us candidates are on one side of a table and orange shirt is across from me. Purple fishing hat is off somewhere shuffling around. Orange shirt has a gap in her two front teeth about an inch wide but this is bad, her canine tooth had some sort of tooth bubbles on it. I kept trying to figure out what they were but I couldn't really stare since she was about a foot across from me and kept looking at me. What the hell were these growths? I tried googling tooth spurs but nothing came up . It was just the weirdest.
Of course I got the assignment.
That doesn't beat the interview I went on a couple of weeks ago at a hebrew school to run their library. Man calls me and asks me to come in for interview. It's on a sunday, ugh. It's $15/hr. double or even triple ugh BUT it might look ok on a resume if I can amp it up. So I get there on time, no one is there to greet me. Kids are runnning around all over. Finally I find the guy. A super dork who decided midlife to become a librarian, a cataloguer, UGH!!! Get some porn buddy. ANYWAY, he is attempting to chat it up and make it seem like they've got a good thing going on there. All I'm thinking is $15/hr barely covers the gas to drive to this joint. Then, Bitch comes in. I have no idea who she is, she doesn't introduce herself but starts grilling me right off the bat about being a probation officer. Umm Ms. Bitch, I thought I was here for the p/t librarian position. After enduring her nonsense, I ask about the position. She returns the question with a question asking what experience I have with children. Ummm again, Bitch, you are holding my resume, didn't you think of this before dragging me here on a Sunday? Well, Man is trying to help me out emphasizing the library stuff but she keeps shooting me in the leg. I feel like telling her to fuck off and walk out but I keep smiling and trying. Then the coolest middle aged hebrew school principal walks in and introduces herself. We hit it off right away. Bitch excuses herself abruptly and walks out. Oh, before that she mentions to me that "maybe next year after you have some more experience you can recontact us and see if you might work out better at that time." !!!!!!!! Like I would come back here for ANYTHING? Oh wait, you are paying a handsome $15/hr.
I can even recreate the insanity of this interview, oh did i mention that after she basically told me to fuck off, I was there another HOUR???????
I nearly lit up a smoke and blew it in her face right there in the temple library.
Argh!

Finally, I am finishing my internship on Friday, thank gosh! Being in the city so much really improved by public transportation skills and I got to do a lot of groovy stuff after work. I got to hear Gnarls Barkley (free from work and open bar!)

the Red Elvises (and split a shot with the guy on guitar ick)

go to some really rockin bars, eat really good meals, buy really overpriced smokes, meet weird people, run into college friends, get drunk with college friends, get drunk with other people, and for the culmination meet strange foreigners,

get really drunk, go to the empire state bldg and other assorted drinking establishments.
Oh of course the internship was a great learning experience and I met 3 really cool ladies.

I think I need to buy a digi asap, this blog sucks without photos.

JB and KG are on Letterman tonight, gotta jam!

It's a small world afterall

Relax....

It was a Halloween costume.

Bridezilla, baby.

How shocking!

There are so many pics to upload and update my lame blog but I've been working 8 days a week and planning my shotgun wedding!



That's not a sight you see everyday! super scary eh?

song for today: house of jealous lovers - the rapture

Bad staff

Like cheese, some of us get better with age. Some do not. :)

yes dear, clearly you are so cheesy.

our 1st Anniversary

Eats yo...

Colston-Bassett stilton, yum!

Pave du Nord...not too memorable.

some gooey French muenster


Getting a tan on September 17th. Love that indian summer sun!

and can't beat it in Huggies' bimma!


This is the second floor kitchen in Brooklyn, you could smell the funk from the street. Authentic unpasturized cheeses esp. brie de meaux was present, ya!

Cheese Fest geeks


That cheesy ho' gotta kid now!

Signals

Thoughts become words.
Words become actions.
Actions become character.
Character is everything.

Whoever said this was quite profound that day.

Just one reason to make your friday brighter

Meet me at happy hour!

I have a boat load of social capital!

Bronzed and beat (really long post)

Las Vegasssss what can I say, the photos are in an album if you are truly bored. I really had a blast this weekend. The last time I was there I was not impressed at all. I nearly missed the flight on Friday because I had no idea about this no lotion or liquids rule so TSA tells me to check my bag but the line is about an hour long and everyone bitches at me and the guy tells me to get someone from TSA to allow this...long story short I dump the sunscreen, toothpaste and some hair crap and shove my lip stuff in my pocket and the expensive hair product in my shirt and I attempt to get through again on the other side. No problem whatsoever. Hmmpf. I'm *THE* last person on the plane.

Get to Vegas finally and get into some shuttle where I have to sit up front with the driver who proceeds to make small talk with me about god knows what, shut it man, im tired and hungry. Get to the Monte Carlo (not bad, low key casino, nice lazy river and wave pool) and check in early. Then headed over to Commander's Palace for the 25 cent martini lunch, do you see where this is headed? It started innocently enough with the lemon drop martini
then my british waiter, Allan, steered me toward the Cajun martini which was spiceeey


then the po boy came and I was very happy with the fried oyster portion, very happy with the sweet potato fries too


next came the straight up martinis and half through the 4th and final martini I realized that I had forgotten to take a pic! Alas here it is


Overall, 4*'s for the lunch. Good deal at $26 with tip for 4 martinis and the food. There was also some new orleans style jazz geeks who I opted not to take a pic with although the overly accomodating host insisted, he was a very nice man. If you are in Vegas def try and get to eat here.

At night I wandered around but was really tired because after the martini lunch I mumbled my way to the pool and layed in the sun a bit with a rum and coke, bad move. Of course, we all know "drunk me" must have arrived because I awoke many hours later in my bed and it was pitch black. I think I must've falled asleep around 2pm and it was 8:30pm!!!! Strange thing was that I felt super. Then I went to pee and saw why I felt fine. There was my lunch staring at me in the bathroom sink. Nearly all the way across this fine country and I manage to hurl in the sink. Classy Lis, real fucking classy. On top of it, the drain is clogged and I can't even fix this. I laughed out loud. So I walked next door to the next casino, NY NY. I had no interest in gambling or drinking anymore so I checked out some irishmans bar and a kooky asian lady was dancing like a nut the whole time. The band had this really groovy violinist chick unfortunately it was all of that irish (garbage) music, weirder was that the asain lady knew a lot of the words. Those tatts on her legs are painted on,
I didn't feel like asking anyone to take a pic cus then I would have to talk to them and although I was in a great mood I didn't want to ruin it by talking to dumbass drunkards so I shot one in the bathroom and managed to get the lovely toilet cleaner too!

After the bar I remembered that I wanted to go to House of Blues, by now I am drunk again and head out into the street I start walking and a few min later I realize that I don't remember which casino that bar is in but think if I am headed in this direction my subconscious must know and that is why I am walking "Ah, yes self it is in the Mirage". 1.5 miles later I arrive and ask where is the bar..."at Mandalay Bay" complete opposite direction, fuck me, wrong M!!! Cross the street and head back a mile or so then have strong desire for nachos. I go into this "latin" place and I am the only white chick in there, fine by me, the nachos are nasty with a capital N.
I would have been happier with pizza. So another few hundred miles later I arrive back at my hotel and I get the pizza, its around 3:30am but to my body its 3 hours later so I figure the pizza is like an early breakfast. Its sbarro and also nasty, serves me right. At the next table is some dork who keeps looking over his shoulder at me, why? I have no idea maybe because I am eating pizza with a fork and knife heh heh. Waiting waiting waiting for the elevator, door almost shuts and its the dork, ugh now I have to make small talk cus its 25 floors up. He is harmless but surprised that I am in Vegas by myself and I get the feeling that he is also but don't ask.

Next AM, I wake up super early cus Im all f'd up on time and I think the pool opens at 9am so I putz around the room and go to the pool at 9:30am and its freaking packed cus of course it opens at 8am, where do I find a chair? all the way in the back. who is at the next chair, the elevator dork. After I get off the phone with Huggies he makes small talk but I don't act like I remember him, kind of weird tho that in this huge hotel he is right next to me, not *that* odd though.

After a while, I am bored and think of going somewhere interesting for food, wind up at Paris and eat really bad omelet at their poolside place
I should have known it would not be good but since there are security guards at their pool I knew I could weasel my way in through food, although I hadn't come up with a plan to get a towel without a room key. Alas, I went to pee after the food and there was a towel someone left folded up outside the door. snagged it. I layed here for the next few hours
while Long Islanders were listening to wind and rain, heh heh. When the DJ started playing music at noon I rationalized that it was ok to have a drink. $16 later and I was enjoying this
and gazing up at the Eiffel Tower
Was a very lovely afternoon. After the pool I was warm and sunned and hungry, of course, and thought I could walk all the way to Mandalay Bay to go to Burger Bar which some foodie told me had a very good burger. I got to Excalibur and had to take the tram which induced much anxiety, since it was packed it was more of a roller coaster feel to me rather than a tram. I survived though and walking through the casino I see someone I recognize, of course duh!!! UNfortunately, it is EC, a probationer I violated (about 2 yrs ago) and if I rememeber correctly he wound up doing 6 months in jail due to his little cocaine habit. I kind of look away and figure he won't recognize me and he doesn't. It was fucking weird though.
Back to the food, the burger was great along with more fries of course.

After the burger and beer, had to drink more right? , I took a nap and woke up later than I wanted to. Managed to push myself to go out cus I mean it's Vegas but had very little energy and couldn't fathom another long night so I decided to walk until fortune steered me to my destination. Excalibur. No gambling and I'm not even sure there are bars in that place, it was not what I remembered. So I decided to go back and just go to sleep but some dorks talked me into going to NY NY again and went into some bar when they weren't looking where there was some singing and piano playing going on. I guess this dueling piano thing is popular in Vegas. So 2 duos switch on and off throughout the night. I get a drink. Some old guy is chatting me up oh he is pretty fat too. I don't mean to say heavy, I mean fat, like he is heavy and grody. Okay the next duo takes the "stage" and they each take a side of the room and try to get the crowd "pumped up". The one guido guy (in the background)

is working my side and I am not impressed. The guido says "my side is pretty loud and etc". The long haired guy says "I see that but what I like is look on this girl's face in the white shirt, she is not interested or amused by you AT ALL!".
Okay I'm the girl in the white shirt "it's just my face!", and now everyone is looking at me and it's pretty quiet. I am actually embarrassed for a second so I turn around toward the bar. The night gets better and they are actually a lot of fun along with the 2 other dueling piano guys. They have this gimmick where you request a song along with money, if you don't like the song you can pay them to stop it. One guy paid $80 to hear the theme song from Cheers, and another guy paid $100 to stop it! Fucking crazy people in Vegas. The singer, John Riedel, has this elton john thing going on
and he's actually pretty good. On the other hand, the guido partner did this beat box thing which was horrible and he should be embarrassed for even attempting it. Guess what, the kooky dancing asian lady is here too!
So after all this drunk singing, oh by then I'm about 8 rum and cokes in but luckily I did allow some to be bought for me cus I was running out of cash, I decide that I want to eat. I head back and I think I ate McD's fries and coke. Ugh. BUT I wake up sunday feeling fine, hmmm. Weird, maybe all the walking and sweating negates the bad food.
Sunday morning I waddled my fat ass to the pool then in the afternoon I got a cab to Hard Rock to eat at Simon (cmon you knew I had to go and I really wanted to eat this tuna app they have) but time was running out so I changed my mind, ticked off the driver half way and had him go to the airport where I had bad bad chicken taco salad. The plane was packed and i had to sit next to some trashy lady and her icky husband. They made me sit next to the window. I nearly had a full on panic attack but didn't. I couldn't sleep and I forgot my free drink coupons so no booze for me. I managed to annoy the couple by drinking a lot of water and getting up 3 times to pee heh heh biatch.
The flight was calm
and we got in about 45 minutes early, thanks tailwinds and mr. southwest pilot. Aside from some bad food, I had a mint time. I would totally travel alone again, it was fun and funny.

To have ambition is my ambition

You all must really subscribe to this daily horoscope. I just read mine for today.

Capricorn
(Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Your pioneering spirit is required in order to get things moving, and that's just jim-dandy with you. You love being the first to explore a brand-new territory. Those who are too timid can hold up the rear.

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Song for today: Call and Answer - BNL

Vegasss baby

I need a tan, I am tired, really fluggin tired, I don't want to work this weekend. It looks like rain here. The summer is nearly over and next week starts hellish stuff so I think I'll go to Las Vegas by myself tomorrow morning cus its the only place in the country where the weather looks fantastic.

The other night I hung out with the Bulge and we reminisced about college for hours. Trippy stuff. He wants the nudes I took of him so last night I looked around for them and came upon my college journals and WOW...13 years later nothing really changes. My mind still works the same way. Was such a mind fuck to be reading this stuff and I don't remember all of these little details and conversations that occurred in 1993. It was like reading someone else's diary.

Life is going to keep on whether I am in it or not. If I don't do something of importance every day it's a waste of a day. Why not go to Vegasss for 2 days. I want to eat some good food anyway and it's the theme for this summer so there you go. My first solo vacation. I just clicked on 'confirm'. I'll be fine right? I actually prefer to hang out with myself lately and have been going out a bunch on my own. I am a bit wary of being in a hotel by myself though. I do need some food recommendations though.

The grilled cheese theory is working out well.

Another "theory"

Anyone who does not enjoy a grilled cheese sandwich has real probelms. I have set out to prove this theory. So far I am correct.


Really now, it's melted cheese between bread slathered in butter and fried up golden. How could anyone not like this? Crap, now I'm craving some.

Searching.

I am searching for authentic fortune cookies. The ideal cookie would be with a hand written fortune. I had another freaky "coincident" but thats all I can say about it. I am really really really really fluggin tired.

Don't laugh! My job is dangerous!

I was off from work today doing some baking for Huggies belated birthday cus she wanted black forest cake but I mixed it up so I made Black Forest Brownies, this is them with the chocolate glaze and the whipped topping

*No* that's not the dangerous part....As I was glazing them she called to tell me about our fellow P.O. who was involved in a standoff today attempting to execute a warrant. Read about it HERE!!!!

I attempt to execute a couple of warrants each month AND I don't always wear my vest. That's pretty fucking dumb of me.

An interesting 4 minutes, really.

It's not nearly as lame as it appears.

Liver in the pool

Just another reason to love your library!

And a reason NOT to love your library but ironic for me!

Do you ever wonder?

Do you ever wonder why we all exist?

sometimes I think about how great peanut butter is also. things that make you go hmmm.

I just had to make the super come out at 2:30am to help me into my apt. how much could they be paying him to be on call 24/7 and no o/t either. somehow the lock busted and my key would not work and had to emergency page them at 2am. sucks because i really wanted to eat nachos with melted cheese or even that fake electroyellow cheese i luv so much. alas, i had to resort to peanut butter chips and fried eggs. don't laugh! but i didnt eat em together yo.

pennies been done rainin from heaven too. twice i got free money at a bar in two weeks, more hmmm.

Simon says. And I'd be glad to!

Hey hey now. Somebody had their site updated and it is spectacular!

To the victor go the spoils and I get to be victor today!

My feet are sore and I worked 11 hours today. I know, I hear the tiny violins but today may be the most cash I have made at once. Since I was "bartending", which I really wasn't since I was pulled to other things nearly the whole night, I got paid separately. So the groom hands me some cash and I stick it in my pocket. A few minutes later, I count the bills...$400.00!!! No freaking joke. Okay so I am thinking this is shift pay and tip. Still a great take for 11 hours, well it was only 10 at that time. So extended another gracious thank you to the host and loaded up his car for him. I had been a bit pissy earlier though as I was very sweaty and it is SO humid out in the fields at night AND I had made only $1 at the bar so far. Moving on, since we were at a vineyard there was extra chilled wine which I was allowed to take. So I gots me another $53.00 in free booze also, BONUS!!! Sweet sparkling wine and kinda not my cup o tea Chardonnay.

So after we finally got the heck outta there, Bob my bartending buddy says he thinks we are still getting shift pay and tip as usual. Now really, get the fuck out of town. Is he saying that we are getting $220 plus our usual $100+ tip in addition to our $400 booty???? I'll have to report on this later cus that would just be too sweet...AND it only took me an hour and half to get through that swampy Hamptons traffic! I'm too excited to sleep, if only I could make $720.00 every night, ahhh...

Well I'm going to Musikfest tomorrow cus I keep hearing from random people how groovy it is. I'd better find some interesting food on the way though. So there.

This is Fing Great!

This is one super idea, although could be seen as evil also.

This is another amusing website to peruse when you are bored or kind of drunk a bit.

I forgot how cheesy I am

I completely forgot to mention the food shops I visited in the city. Well, it's silly to run through the list now but I did take some pics of other cheese I enjoyed recently.


This is a greek cheese, Manouri. I think that is the correct spelling but who gives a rats ass when it so tasty? Serious now, I don't know how to describe it but it seems like a firm chevre but tastes like a salty fresh mozzy. It's just good. I attempted to eat other than straight out of the wrapper but that never happened.

I also tried this Australian cheddar, mostly because it was only $2.00/lb. I usually don't try cheddars but there was a sample lady and I watched her cut a piece then put a pick in it so I figured communal food was ok this once. It was creamy and mild but not like our cheddar so I purchased a chunk. That was 2 weeks ago and there is still some left so I'm not a huge pig lately. Then again I haven't been home that much so...


Forgive my crappy pics. Don't bother with Grace's Marketplace on the UES either, it doesn't come close to Fairway or Zabar's, it was more like a pricey Whole Foods. Which brings me to Union Square where I love the Whole Foods market AND the recently opened Trader Joe's has a separate wine store where I purchased 2 bottles of wine for less than $9!!! Now that's a deal! And no the wine doesn't suck, well the vino verde I got was good but that's always cheap. I got a malbec too but I don't have high hopes for that. I didn't see any two buck chuck which i was looking for to make fun of. Hmpf.

hi again

So where has longislandlisa been tramping it up lately, well let's see....after the cake making I revisited the fiesta where it was being showcased and it was well, a scene. The cake was solicited by a 36 yr old woman whom I was close with more than a year ago. It was a surprise for her 24 yr old "boyfriend" who turned 25 that night. So needless to say the scene there was a bit youthful. Apparently the cake went over very well, although I have yet to be paid for it. After returning to the bar, Chatty and Huggies were feeling happy:
So we stayed there a bit then moved on and drunklisa made an appearance and later an obvious appearance that was made fun for some time afterward. Finally I got my wish and we went to the diner where I harassed the waiter because "I know I know you from somewhere!" Although he stated that he did know me as well.

It's all kind of blurry but I think I went to the beach that weekend also. Last week, I was off from work and spent the entire week in class at NYU which was great because I got to eat at a new place each day! The pics mostly stink but KB met me at Cafe Spice and we had delish indian grub
Some days I forgot my digi, oops. The class was Art Librarianship and it was great. Just great, got to see some really rockin stuff that I wouldn't have had the opportunity to otherwise. Enough about school.
So LF's "29th" birthday (cha right!) was last friday and after sweating it up on the train I unhappily zipped over to Riverview, where else? for her fiesta. It actually wound up being a really good time which is a good thing since I had sworn that place off. I have only one pic of the birthday girl though :(

I've got to remember to take more pics!
Later on that weekend, DH and MV and I headed out to guido central and had a fuggin blast. Who'd a thunk it and on a sunday night to boot?

Although driving home was a nightmare. That's 50 miles babe! Next time, we plan better. So that's it along with some unmentionable occurances. In other news, I am now actively pursuing internship opportunities that have real career possibilities. It's a royal pain in the arse though because commuting to the city and working out here is not a joy.

My ipod car connect broke!!! I so miss my tunes that sometimes I drive wearing my ipod, shhh, I think thats a no-no.

This one takes the cake!

What is this?

I just completed yet another cake. Note the time: 2:49am. The temporary official name of my next business venture is "Luscious Lovelies by Lisa". Any other suggestions? This was a paid gig so I tried to make it super. I used new flour and the smell in this house is so friggin awesome! The base is vanilla cake with a vanilla buttercream frosting and the appendages are covered in a chocolate buttercream.



Bet you didn't except that to be the final product, eh?
I am damn tired now.

cake op

Last night I made another bday cake for co-worker. Looked and smelled amazing but I used some really old flour which had a strange gummy smell and the cake came out very dense like pound cake with that strange smell but it was fairly tasty. I also made a chocolate buttercream-like frosting for the first time and it came out fairly well. Whadda ya think? It appears that RD couldn't wait to get his lick on that sucka!

3563 w 4th st

The unforgettable address. Just chatted with Huggies and we laffed it up again. This guy was funny I tell ya, funny funny guy. My memory can be spotty but repetition is the way to go! I have to got to use his lines one day!!

We also think his phone number is 867-5309 :)

and the beat goes on

Last night the work crew went out to 'celebrate'(?) the departure of some employees. For some ungodly reason they picked the bar which has the attendance of every reject on the Island. I don't even know why I went but maybe it was because I knew I would get to hang out with this woman

who consistently makes fun of my clothing, and tonight stated that sometimes it looks like I am wearing a "costume", haroumph!!! although she did add that I look "normal" tonight. I don't take her too seriously though since I don't think she has bought clothing in the past ten years or so. Maybe it's also because she looks ten years older, take that!
After spending the evening chatting with an airman, i think it means he is in the airforce, I met up with JW at what apparantly was a meeting for all of the guidos under 30 in the world. It was out of control and really fugging annoying, i mean really Fing gross. JW was very very tipsy and I feeling a bit of the effect also

so we left and I convinced her to come to the diner with me. I even said I would get fries (which I am on hiatus from eating since 7-4-06 until 1-4-06 when I will have my bday fest at McD's) but in her stupor she made a wrong turn and I headed home. All for the best I guess, the diner at 2am is usually not a good idea for anyone.

I think I might be starting to get tired of partying though. Well until next week that is...

We bid you adieu dear Dallas

Today we went for food at Blue Mesa Grill which held no surprises except for some tasty tableside guac which was made by the waiter from Rhode Island or was it Maine???


Keeping inline with my psychic lottery dreams I bought a scratch off when we got gas and I won $4.00!! I think it was because I used a quarter that had Texas on it which I got as change IN Texas!! So I had to buy another ticket and scratch it off in the same spot with the same quarter and I won again, $4.00!! This continued for four more tickets until I hit the motherload, $10.00 on one ticket!!!
I had a feeling I might be pushing my luck and the clerk was starting to get freaked out but I bought one more ticket and lost, ho hum :(
I lost count but I think in the end I wound up being $15 richer off of a $1 investment, that's pretty damn good, even on the East coast!
We made to the airport without rushing and Huggies was happy about that. I managed not to lose any earrings or bracelets but did lose my fave pair of sunglasses, shucks. BUT Huggies and I both said we had a blast and would do it again anytime. On the plane we started talking about our next last minute vacation ideas and giggled over our ridiculousness the past few days.
To make things even more amusing, instead of my mother coming to pick us up at the airport, both parental units came and we sat in the back seat like teenagers coming home from the mall. Good times, good times.

The rest of our decadence in '06 Texas is documented in the albums link for your viewing pleasure.

song for today: simple man - lynryd skynyrd

Those aren't real, are they???

Our next day in Texass brought a not so good meal
at

Then it started to rain so we headed out on the open road to see some historical evidence at
by the time we got there, the rain had stopped and it was fuggin super hot again and we got to take pics with dinosaurs

and see evidence of dinos walking our earth which was super friggin cool. We then went to Fossil Rim but I got a bit freaked out about the animals (which also happened at the bull riding show) and we had to leave but we did get a pic of a wild bison, which wasn't very thrilling but...

At night, we consulted our hotel staff who suggested we go to Addison for the evening and my guidebook recommended this groovy pub which had the cutest bathrooms

and thanks to my well seasoned liver I managed to drink about 7 pints of brew and a red headed slut heh heh. The bar keepers Doug and Lenny were quite accomodating to us foreigners and as the evening wore on, the patrons became more accomodating as well. Except for some christian freak who was okay in the beginning until he started touting jesus and all that crap. Later on I witnessed this, um Huggies, what IS this all about?

They also had a mint jukebox which we didn't have to put money into, bonus! Following the hefeweiss extravaganza I insisted Huggies take me to
where they were out of cheese for my nachos which was disappointing. Again I fell asleep in that squishy bed without washing my face, damn!

I have no idea what the song is for the day, I am super drunk by now.

Gimme my Taste of Dallas

After the two steppin last night, Huggies and I were a bit worn out so we took in a hearty breakfast at Cafe Brazil
and it was damn tasty. We drove around town a bit and also visited the Dallas Farmers Market which had an amazing array of produce, the smell was fruity and yummy.
Finally we hit the Taste of Dallas and I was well, let down. I did get some shrimp ceviche for free though which was spiceeeeee and it was SO fuggin hot out ugh

but we still trooped all the way uptown and rode a trolley and did all the touristy things to do in Dallas which amounted to about three hours of sightseeing hmpf! After the downtown area, we drove around a bit then headed to the pool at our hotel which had a lovely view of an interstate heh heh. Seriously though, the hotel was really nice for so cheap. I had wanted to stay around but Huggies wanted authentic BBQ so we followed the guidebook and some texan advice and headed back to Ft. Worth and hit up Angelo's which was another surreal experience for us New Yorkers. I for one have never eaten in a place like this where the food was served like this

but Huggies said it was the best pork she'd ever eaten. I even tried a bit but had a hard time getting it down. I just can't do the swine thing, sorry folks. My chicken was ok but this whole white bread thing with bbq, I don't get it. We hit some bars in the nice part of town including 8.0 but Huggies felt the draw of the Stockyards and we didn't feel we had gotten the full cowboy experience aside from Billy Bob's so we returned and the mayhem continued. There were lots of "stranglers" present (how did he get into those jeans???)
and we met a nice cowboy who tried very hard to show us his hot tub back at the ranch. This blonde young "lady"

even said she would hang out with us "yankee bitches" and yes that's a quote. I was more interested in what was going on in her ex-bf's pants there! Those are some big socks you got there cowboy! Another night of staying in town until closing time which is an early 2am and we headed back content with our fill of country. I even got to ride in the saddle, well kind of at least:

and meet another real cowboy

and in case your dirty mind is wandering, no we didn't go back to the ranch and see what a texan hot tub looks like!


song for today: Save a Horse - Big & Rich

Where friends meet to eat

Today we woke up and headed out to taste the "best burger in America" at Kincaid's in Fort Worth
and I would testify that this was THE best burger I have ever eaten and I don't even like beef! The old school atmosphere
only added to the charm of this joint. Huggies and I agreed that we would fly half away across this country to eat this
again and the onion rings were fuggin good too!
After the belly buster we headed to this sundance square area of town and what do you know, it was nearly happy hour so we had a drink at Reata which had a groovy modern country feel with much attention to detail. After walking around a bit and consulting my trusty guidebook (of course) I dragged Huggies for beer at the Flying Saucer which unfortunately we don't have many pics of except of course for one of me with a Shiner Bock

While we were sippin on brew, some friendly texans made our acquaintance and drilled that address into our brains forever, 3563 west 4th street!!! Huggies digi was having a spaz attack and we are left only with this impression:
So we are unable to send the said promised postcard. We did have lots of fun though. Ahhh good times, good times. After an extended happy hour or two we headed to (drumroll please) look for authentic cowboys and we had no idea what we were in for when we entered the

We spent the evening (after sneaking in for free) at the largest honky tonk in the world(??) probably. There were lots of men in wranglers, cowboy hats and boots. It was fuggin surreal but a shitload of fun.
This young buck (ignore my stupid ass face here)
got us into the preferred seating area to see Kevin Fowler
whoever the F that is. Apparantly dancing the two step is a big deal here and Huggies and I were dragged onto the dancefloor more than once to attempt this silly dance. I could not handle this country life. After the place closed (at 2am!!) we headed back to Dallas for a slumber in our feather topped beds. I didn't even get to wash my face, ho hum.

song for today: Play something country - Brooks and Dunn

Off to Bushland

Last week Huggies and I decided to go see some of our lovely country. Today we departed on this little scary plane

and landed in Dallas, Texass for the Taste of Dallas amongst other foodie things. Due to my inability to make a decision, we missed out on a free flight during our layover that US Air (that horrid airline) was offering if we stayed an extra 3 hours in Philly. Ironically, our flight was delayed 2 hours so it really stuck in my craw! At night, we headed to Greenville Ave. which was disappointing and so were our Italchos

It's hot here and we are lovin it! Check out our massive beds:

We got lost in them, so comfy!

Independence Day

Pouring rain but Huggies and I treaded out to DD's
house and it was alot of fun. I made a lickered up watermelon salad which was so fugging tasty, esp in a glass of ice and more vodka!

There was even some lovin going on, or was there?

Chatty and I were getting on fairly well too:

All in all it was a nice day and Huggies got to drive me home heh heh. The fireworks were nice too but I just don't get what the big deal is.

Wasting taxpayers dollars again today

Took this quiz today while I was "working". cheers.

Freudian Inventory Results

Anal(63%) you appear to be overly self controlled, organized, and possibly subservient to authority, this effectively narrows your exposure to a wider set of options and ideas lowering the odds that you will make the best decisions in life. Phallic (56%) you appear to have a good balance of sexual awareness and sexual composure. Genital (56%) you appear to be somewhere between a progressive/openminded and regressive/closeminded outlook on life. Oral (40%) you appear to have a good balance of independence and interdependence knowing when to accept help and when to do things on your own. Latency (36%) you appear to be overly practical; don't undervalue abstract learning, abstract learning increases your ability to make good decisions (and predictions) in the real world so it would be 'impractical' to shun it.

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Looks like I might be in a bit of trouble!

My mantra

My email today revealed this little lovely:
Capricorn(Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Learn to give yourself up to the universal flow. If it's really meant to be, none of your efforts can screw this up. On the other hand, if it's not meant to happen, nothing you can do can make it occur.

Couldn't be more true. The coveted food and travel internship was offered to another. I am disappointed.

Last night we:
got to spend time on a swell boat unfortunately it belonged to this:
And the photo doesn't even come close to capturing the real him or his nasty toenails. ICK!!!!!!!

But on the upside, summer weather is here!!!! rock on...

35 years is a long ass time

My boss retired today after more than 35 years with the department. Wow, that is just way too long to be unhappy. He seemed happy tonight though:
This biatch
really got to me by the end of the evening. She is such a gossip ho. AND she lives in a fuggin glass house!
Earlier some of the worker bees were having fun though:

Stop raining already!

I got my mop chopped this past weekend and let me say, Amanda knows how to cut hair! She appears to trim each individual hair. She even remembered me from February, I was impressed! Here is what it looked like right after:
forgive the pic, i was in the bathroom and not so good at taking pics of myself. It looked groovier in person, you'll just have to trust me. BUT, after came the rain:


I only had to walk 2 blocks but I had wavy hair at that point, hmph!

Tomorrow my boss is retiring. I cannot imagine spending over 30 years at this job. My gosh, that's a frightening thought. I had to cough up $40.00 to go to the 'retirement fiesta'. Jeez. This weekend is supposed to be a washout also and I have to work. Well, maybe something exciting is on the horizon, oh like my trip next week, yahoo!!! Fun in the sun finally.

Not just a long day, THE longest day...of the year

Today is the first day of summer, thank whoever AND it was a sunny pretty day too. I went to work at 1am this morning until 1pm so I have been awake the whole time, got to see the sunrise (although it was from behind juvenile detention bars) and the sunset. When we were kids the days seemed oh so long and now they only seem a bit longer. How sad...

The stars must be aligned bc there has been much path crossing lately. A whole lot more of us from work were out on friday

and DD showed up. Well I took the high road and went to speak to her and we somewhat cleared the air I guess or whatever, wasn't a big deal then and isn't a big deal now. Got to chatting with MYC and met his wife who as it turns out I went to high school with, weird!! Then ran into the eX. Later I ran into someone else I knew and called him the wrong name completely by accident bc I know him for years and he bootied a friend of mine so I was just being an ass. We then ran into JB and some cops who happened to be the Nth persons that night to grill me as to why I do not have a husband or worse, the dreaded 'boyfriend'. Argh! I have finally managed to answer this question with a sentence or two. Most men bore me and most of them are stupid. If they aren't stupid then they aren't funny. Done.

The next day I woke up with no voice. I mean literally no sound came out when I spoke. It was horrible. Father's Day was not much better but we went to The Country House and the boys ordered $12 salads which literally looked like $6 salad at best, I couldn't believe the prices at this place but, really, but, the meal was damn tasty. Here's the salad:
and my immense stack o tuna:

For the gift of being my Father (hee hee) and Mother's birthday I catered them a dinner which they appeared to appreciate until Father tells me that he is going away for business upstate and won't be around to eat it. SOOO, Mother jewishly guilts me into coming back over the next night to eat with her. I am so tired. The lamb chops came out awesome, the crab cakes super but the sauce icky. The rest of the dishes were tasty also but I didn't take pics cus I forgot my digi.

I am so tired. I called the Dr. to help with the insomnia and they recommended melatonin, so we are working on that this week. As of now I have been awake for 39 hours and just now starting to feel a bit sleepy. I am completely ill and have a cough that sounds like a lung is about to be projected out of my mouth. I am actually medicating myself with real medicine it's that bad. It sucks.

Song for today: You have killed me - Morrissey

What is it?

What is it about Ray LaMontagne that just makes me ..... i don't know what but it does that. I must hear this in person.

Another song, "Crazy" stirs up emotion but I have no clue why or what the emos are. weird. sometimes i feel like i'll weep other times it makes me rollerblade faster other times i just sigh and go hmpfh.

Obvious song for today: Crazy - Gnarls Barkley

Bettye Lavette rocks socks

Went into the city yesterday and was planning on going spice shopping so I got off midtown only to find myself smack in the middle of the Puerto Rican Day parade. jeez it was chaos, total chaos. I never made it to the spice shop and just walked thirty+ blocks to the Big Apple BBQ where I got a free Brooklyn beer (savings $4) and waited for Bettye Lavette to start singing.
She is amazing. I cannot wait to see her again, I must look into this.
KB actually showed and didn't stand me up for the third time! It was fun to catch up with her since we haven't seen each other since college, oh and DP's wedding six years ago. Then we paid for a beer and later got another for free (savings $8!). The BBQ was all gone and KB seemed disappointed and I found out that she is a total foodie and even makes her own ice cream, wow.
So we got tasty Regional Thai Taste in Chelsea. She ordered a mango caress and I a mojito, which totally sucked (loss of savings at $9 ea,hmpf) but they were very pretty:
We ordered the dinner box which I insisted on calling the box multiple times, since after the beer it seemed very amusing (dork!), the soup was awesome
and so was the box
heh heh :)
Feeling nostalgic I stopped off on the way home to visit RH at work since I hadn't seen her in nearly a year. Then we went for more drinks of course. Good times. Good times.

Song for today: Play something country - Brooks and Dunn

What a sight

Such a bright moon tonight it made the sky a lovely blue. The photo doesn't capture it though.


song for today: Delicate (damien rice cover) - Celso Fonseca
love this version

The drunk octopus

Last night we went to a summer place and it was just okay. I had decided to see what straight hair would look like:
which I was modestly happy with and surprised how long it was, until we left and it started to pour like a you know what...
So I had a frizzed out curly thing going on after that.
Next, I headed out to the birthday bash and to witness the cake extravaganza

It all got a bit out of hand as the evening progressed and after multiple jell-o shots someone turned into a sea creature and I HAD to get the hell out of there. Unfortunately some people don't listen and I nearly ran him over with my car. I am debating whether or not to mention this incident to the ex-girlfriend who I really like being friends with. Maybe some things are better left unsaid. Hmpf. Men are complete idiots.
Well, except for my new crush:

Sigh....

Where is that darn romance?

What is the point of living without romance or any of the other pleasures of life?

This is the scariest website I have been to in a while. Jeez.

Tonight I made a birthday cake for a co-worker who it seems might not be getting a homemade cake on his 40th. It's a checkerboard cake, shhh, but I am not the finisher. I made it for my office mate (his ex) who doesn't have the time to make one by friday for her EX bf. I insist that she has to icer and frost or decorate it. Although I have to admit, it's a bit unfulfilling to make a 3 layer cake and not be able to finish it and see the result. well life goes on. Gosh, watching her backslide helps me out too. Last night, TA came over and we drank a bottle
which I recognized from the first sip as the wine I got polluted on that last night of class in nyc then fell asleep on the subway, anyway...she is such a strange bird. I mean really strange way of thinking of relationships and men in general. Somehow she has equated doing things for someone as a way of making them fall in love with her and stay there. HUH? How the hell did I wind up like me and she wind up like her, who the hell knows, but phew.

Life does not happen sitting home in my apt waiting for someone else to ask me to make plans. If only my friends were a bit more ambitious. I don't always want to be the cruise director!
I just reserved a weekend as a cowgirl! F the cowboys, they're probably all married or better, gay!

Song for today, brings me back to being a youngster:
Baby you're the best - Carly Simon

Rubberbands in life

I cannot believe that was a year ago already....does the saga continue? We shall see.

I'm so cheesy at night

Did I mention just how amazing that smokey blue cheese was? It is simply amazing. Here is a link I found about it: Smokey love.

I wanted to share my feta experience and how surprisingly nice this "Light" French feta was that I opened the other day. It is light in calories and fat and just a bit light in flavor but very moist and crumbly. It is better on its own rather than in salad or with veggies.

Oregon, France and now Italy. I also picked up Taleggio at Fairway and I just love this mild cheese, it's perfect for me on whole wheat crackers. It would probably be very good melted on anything also but it never seems to make it here long enough for that.

I am piggie, hear me oink.

It is fair to say that I love Fairway!

I completely love Fairway. You may wonder is it possible to love a food store? Well, yes, indeed it is. Fairway is always there for me and is just far enough out of reach that I still feel independent. Fairway does not irritate me and I do not irritate Fairway, unless you count the cheese monger who seemed bothered by me yesterday but usually is very pleasant. Fairway always has what I need and is fresh! Okay that was lame but point was made. I enjoy spending an hour wandering the store with a majority of time spent in produce and cheese.

In less than 24 hrs I have gorged on a blue gouda which is super, a smokey blue (), which is even more super, some pot cheese which reminds me of being a jew even if its not a jew food. I also splurged on some spice power-fu tofu salad which I successfully replicated today after an hour of playing around with flavors. I am very excited about this, not only because there is not much other excitement in my life but because now I don't have to spend $6.50/lb for power-fu AND I make a whole bunch at once instead of their cheesey little containers. YUM-O!!! Gosh that is so Rachael Ray and she is so ICK-O!

I am also working on a recipe for a $50,000 burger that I will be submitting in August but cannot reveal any details for obvious reasons. Don't be a hater!

There was less married drama this weekend, phew. Friday involved some loser, who made out with 2 of my friends (in one night mind you) a couple of months ago, and he insisted that there was:
'something between us. are you telling me you don't feel it?'
me: 'well, i don't mean to be offensive or rude here, but no.'
him: 'i don't believe you.'
me: 'i'm sure that's what they said to Columbus, but the world is not flat.'
him: 'huh?'
me: 'see? nothing there. i'm going to the ladies room.'
He approaches yet again later on,
me: 'so you are married aren't you?'
him: 'no'
me: 'that's odd, if i remember right, you were married two months ago.'
him: 'oh, well..um...yeah, i am married. butbutbutbutbutbtubtubt.........'

and He was super annoying on top of it all too. what do you know, here's a photo of said loser:

Then "drunk lisa" appeared and made too many comments about DH's married "boyfriend" and he seemed to be upset but it's all true. Although I admitted it's not my place to comment. My apologies for that.

Days without sugar: 4. I miss cake mix with water :(
and I miss Moose a lot today.

Song today: With or without you - U2

A bit of wisdom overheard...

It's best to have the memory of an experience than the wonderings of an opportunity gone by.

Green Goblins everywhere

Went to the deck last night and I brought JW a birthday cake because nobody should be without a homemade cake on their Bday. I am a wannabee domestic goddess:

So entering the bar with this got me out of paying the outrageous $10 cover, which was for what??? The night progresses and it's a fairly lame crowd. I have never had a good time at this dump. JW drags us out on the "dance" floor and we happen upon this mulletted freak who danced like noone was watching, in fact he made Taylor Hicks look graceful. He had a fancy move of grinding his toilet area into the ground, it was quite pitiful to say the least, a pic would do him no justice but this is all I got:

His friends approach us and one is particularly chatty with me. After he is clearly drunk and hanging on me I ask where his wife is, he states he is not married. Do you see where this is going? LONG story short...they are there for a friend's bachelor party. He is now "white shirt". He insists he is not married and wants to know me. I am super suspicious because I have one of my "feelings" that he is wedded. After what seems like hours of this, I go to the loo. When I return he has told Chatty that he digs me mucho and cannot understand why I do not believe him. Chatty tells him I am a witch and I just know things. He is now really happy and shows me his tattoo of a warlock on his back. I am not impressed. At this point I tell him that he should just be straight with us about being married. He INSISTS that he is not. I stare at him for a second and determine that my intuition is to be trusted over a stranger so I tell him off and state that he should have been honest hours ago, the night would have progressed the same (meaning we all would have danced and chatted together anyway) but now that he has lied the entire time I am put off by his dishonesty and insulted by his lying. I walk off.
A few min later I find JW chatting it up with some dirtbags and tell her about the mouth off and now I am tired of the evening. She is still partying it up but her cake was ruined and she is not happy because she wanted to take it home, tubby nut. Awww...

White shirt reapproaches me and now tells me that there is something wrong with me and I have trust issues among others and I should seek some professional help. He goes on to say that he was really "feeling" me and wanted to know me but is now tired of my crap and why didn't I just believe him hours earlier about not being married. He goes on and on and I actually feel bad and start to believe him, although I am still unsure. Chatty and JW say that they believe him and I should let my guard down. I don't but I do take a shot and a drink from them. We all dance on:

Okay so now it is very late and JW leaves. At some point walking across the lot with the bachelor party, white shirt tells me he is married. I F-ing was right!!! I am not pissed off becuase I was truly never interested but I am irritated with the lie. I tell him off of course and give them a ride because I feel bad for him and them. The cab drove off with another fare and they were bsing with me so....it was on my way anyway. As white shirt gets out of my car I glance at his hand and now there is a wedding band where there was none before. He states it was there the whole night (it was not) and now he wants to F me. I tell him to F himself too. Then he says it was all a test and he is happy I passed. Tells me my witchy sense was correct.
Again, what the FUCK is going on with me and the married guys this weekend, insane. Utterly stupid.
We went out east for a bit this evening and it was relaxing and no married guys bothered us. I am not drinking for the next month. I am tired and feel very fat and out of shape. Back to the grill again. Happy memorial day!!!!

Je n'ai plus faim

Me and JW for yet another birthday fiasco.

I just uploaded a bunch of photos to the album and I am spent. I have found a new way to laugh at people: I go out, don't drink alcohol and see others act silly.

Last night I did have some drink though. Chatty and I went out to meet some girls we hang out with once in a while, and we went to a very cheesy place. JW stated that she could not believe "YOU of all people would go to that place!". Well I did. I met an older gentleman who had a custom chopper and some other toys. In addition, my mother would recoil in horror at the look of him and his tattooed body. Of course he is enamored with me in minutes and I agree to go to a strip club with he and his friends. Chatty comes of course. As we start to embark on the journey he grazes his lips across mine. I am surprised. Now I had asked if he was married, he said no. (foreshadowing there). We arrive at Gossip, shhhh, oooohhh. He is not there, I am not paying $10 to look at boobs so we turn to leave and he enters, states that he was waiting for me. Hmmmm... interesting but not likely. At this point, I am just into it for the adventure of the evening, Chatty agrees to stay. He pays for me to enter. He attempts to purchase drink for me. I refuse. I am suspicious. He ignores me. Chatty and I sit for a bit. I give her my phone to use. I don't remember the circumstance. Biker boy reenters the picture. He states he wants to know me. Gag gag. He buys us a shot and a drink. He kisses me full on without permission or warning. I ask his friend when he got married (as if i knew already), answer: 2 or 3 months ago!!!!!!!
F-ing LIAR! Don't F up my karma like this mister! At first I pretend not to know, just to see what he is willing to do or say. He senses he made a mistake and now starts to say he is not feeling well and I should leave. I should leave??? Hmpf.

We walk away for a bit and I am curious to see who else is in a strip club at 10pm. It is not good and looks sad to me. Biker reapproaches, I tell him I know he is married. He explains that is why he feels bad, claims he doesn't cheat. Comes up with some bs line about self control and how if it were a year ago he would be totally into me (??? we JUST met!) and blah blah but now he is married and cannot do this so he needs to walk away and not talk to me because he is having naughty thoughts. Jesus freaking christ...do men really have NO self control, jeez. Even before the quickest lip interaction I didn't think anything of it except for talking in a bar. Loser.

Story gets more married. After Gossip we went to meet JW for yet another birthday bar night. It was fairly lame and I was whining about going to the diner so we left. Then in the car, I decide its a bad idea to eat anything in the diner especially at midnight. Here is the more married part...and again WHY are men such IDIOTS????

8:30am cell is ringing very loud very loud. (Different) Married guy is calling to have serious discussion about last night. Huh?? What is he talking about? Apparently Chatty had made some repeated drunk calls to a married persons number from my cell. Well, we work together and I have seen these boys and I stress boys in action. Translation: I am one of the guys and have seen them cheating on their wives firsthand. Soooo....at least 5 more phone calls before 10am to do damage control. As I stated in the first call. I will not lie for you. If you got caught, it's you holding the bag of poo. If we aren't allowed to be buddies then don't call me outside of work and do not ask me and my friends to hang out with you married losers. Jesus freaking christ how F-ing stupid are they?? Take a risk accept the consequences. In addition, I have never made the acquaintance of any of these boys so in my mind, it's a non issue. Maybe if they kept their dicks in their pants they wouldn't be so F-ing paranoid. In any case, apparently one wife called my phone last night but Chatty had it so who knows what happened.

Moral of the story: MARRIED GUYS ARE IDIOTS!

Beautiful weather today. Beach tomorrow, yipee!!

Song for today: Simple man - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Are you for real?

I had a dream last night. It was very realistic. I woke up at noon but couldn't get out of bed until 2pm. I am debating whether or not to follow up on the dream. If it pans out I will be shocked. No that is an understatement. I will be floored, completely floored.
After finishing all of the chocolate covered oreos today, translation: 10!!!, I went for a short jog, 2mi. Then felt inspired and put the rollerblades back on and skated around for about 40 minutes and I didn't fall once. I will work at this a bit more then try the track again. I gave in and bought some smokes tonight. I am disappointed in myself, again. :(
I also starting cooking again and have come up with a great recipe for thai lettuce wraps using turkey, i'm going to submit it in a contest. pic to follow.

Song for today: SOS - Rihanna

Mets 4, Yankees 3

Today was a well documented day: stayed in bed until noon then decided to go rollerblading. In theory: good idea, in practice: not so good idea. So I crashed and wound up with a big scrape.

Then I dumped the skates and jogged for a while. In the afternoon, we got on the train and headed to the subway series, mets vs. yanks.



Who is that with a huh, umm, bud light??????????

It was a good time but very cold. Its friggin the end of MAY!!!
Me and JW were chilly.


There were so many people at the game it got me thinking. Paths crossing must really be amazing because out of all of the people there tonight, I didn't see one person I knew and there had to be thousands of people all in one place. Do random chance meetings really mean coincidence? This is so frequently a topic it's becoming tiresome. Chatty is convinced I am a witch. Hmmm...

song for today: Rock n roll - Gary Glitter

Bad Medicine

Tonight I dragged myself out to see TD cus it has been forever since I have seen her and she looks great! Lost all of the baby weight too! To our surprise there was a Bon Jovi cover band, !


I put on a happy face for the camera, ok so it wasn't happy but still a face.



I came home and ate what apparantly is way too much chocolate because I feel incredibly ill right now. Maybe it will be ok because I only had one drink tonight so the extra food will fill in for any alcohol I might have consumed.

Song for today: The Unforgettable Fire - U2

In the stacks

got this in email today:

Urban Word of the Day
www.urbandictionary.com

May 20, 2006: Take him to the stacks

A term to imply that sexual relations would be desired between a patron
and a library employee.

That patron is so hot, I'd take him to the stacks.


Had good time at shabbat dinner at schoolmate's house last night. The key lime squares went over well as did the chocolate dipped fruit I made but I forgot to take pics. oops. On way back was not feeling like going home so stopped to see JW:
I am not having so much fun. Is everyone a guido here? Well, it is 3am.

Song for today: Mission Impossible theme - U2

roger dodger

Irony, coincidence, surprise, who knows what it is. Phone calls here and there, and no number to return call. I would like to talk but....

Made some "key lime bars" with extra limes lying around after cinco de mayo, smells good in here but I don't like citrus dessert, ick. I'm tired. I have insomnia, this stinks.

Been thinking about Moose the last couple of days, I remember we used to dance around when we listened to So Lonely by the Police, I have no idea why but it always reminds me of her. I was looking at photos of us and I am sad now. Goodnight.

I'm still tired

It's been rainy and misty for days and it doesn't look like its ending for another week. This makes for big hair. Ugh. this must be what its like to live in London. Incidentally, I applied for internships in the british library system. Now we wait....

I spent this lovely friday evening doing lots of laundry, flipping my mattress and changing into springtime bedding. I absolutely love crisp cool sheets for the first night. I also spent about an hour eating boxed cake mix mixed with water, mmm. Then I felt ill for another 2 hrs. I'm resting cus tomorrow starts the first day of summer weekend work. So I'm missing chatty's surprise party, hmpf. Mother has been home from work all week with some sort of back problem, therefore I have been receiving incessant emails with lame questions about anything and everything. I have also been ordered to go to their house and hook up her webcam, ugh. Family dinner on mothers day as well, ugh ugh.

I am truly convinced that the universe has picked me for some kind of coincident. This just KEEPS happening. I watched a show on tv, there was a funny man on it. At the end of the show, there was a note that it was dedicated to his memory. I look his name up on google.com, someone had left a comment about him. I check the link, it links to happening upon someone else. Coincident or happens for a reason. What the fuck is coincidence anyway. Makes you wonder, or well, it makes ME wonder. I am not going to do anything with the info but I know its there. I'll sit on this for a while.

I'm going to lie in my crisp sheets and attempt to rid myself of this ever present insomnia. I started training again. I am aching all over.

song for today: anything old from U2.

photo for today: Moose. I miss you lots babe.

Ahh breathe

I just finished my last final for the semester and I am breathing a sigh of relief. I worked 2 overtime 8hr. overnight shifts this week, hosted a small fiesta, finished all my schoolwork (on time!) and did not miss one hour of work. I am not bragging, I am fucking shocked I managed it. I thought for sure I'd have a meltdown and email my Profs that I couldn't get it done in time. I did manage to eat an entire tray of chicken enchiladas though. So who knows how heavy I've gotten in the past week. Now I can start to live a normal life again, translation: go to work, miss my dog, cook fancy meals, gain back the weight I lost while I workout like a nut (triathlon in July ugh), catch up on my reading, and go to pubs and get silly with alcohol. I think I might start the last part after class tomorrow.

Mother's Day is this weekend, isnt it? What ever to buy the woman....flowers are so lame, I got them concert tickets last year, so hmmmmm will ponder this but have to act quickly. Of course I already have a card for her and all my girls who are moms. Jeez.

Song for today: who knows, my ipod hasnt been updated in ages, oh wait i know, that Chili Peppers song has been in my head for a while: Dani California (is that the name?)

I promise these posts will get more interesting even if i have to make the stuff up. heh heh.

Cinco de Mayo

So I hosted yet another fiesta, this time for cinco de mayo obviously. It was kind of fun probably because there was a pinata, sombreros and plenty of fake mustaches. Huggies made awesome enchiladas and I am still eatin em. My pineapple tequila didn't come out so great, it was actually kind of salty, I don't know why. I neglected to take photos of the food, my apologies. I uploaded the pics to the album, here's a preview:
Nice 'stashes

Mexi Divas

May Day

Well let's see, last week I did not go to sleep on tuesday or thursday night. Strangely enough, I only slept 7 hours between tuesday morning and saturday night. I didn't take any time off work and I finished the website in just the nick of time with the help of Professor. A more serious problem I have developed is this insomnia and I just can't kick it now. Saturday was a scary night.....I need to make some changes in my life here. After class, the lot of us went to the Dove and got drinks. I started with a personal sized carafe of a spanish red, V. tasty. Although I should have paid attention because I hadn't been eating much last week and that day I had consumed a protein bar and a bottle of water. Okay fast forward to carafe #2....decided I wanted to smoke, trodded to magazine stand, paid $7.00 for cancer sticks, ugh. While smoking, a classmate was on her way out and stopped to chat with me. She asked if I was married or in a relationship. No. She said, "I can see that, you seem really tough. I think dating you would be rough, the guy would have to be a real stand up man with principles." Ummm uhhhh huh? I didn't feel like getting into a drunk conversation with her so I managed to change the topic and she was on her way.
Back at the bar, Professor

is all over this one young student, it was quite disturbing but moving on....he then moves onto another student, not young. She asks me for a smoke, we climb out the window and the cigs are lit and so are we...hahaha silly stupid pun there. She starts talking about her bf and I tell her that Prof already told me that they hooked up. She says she will be friends with him for life.
Oh thats the interesting thing. The night went on,and he moved onto to all of us, really innnappropriate but anyway. One gal and I went to another bar and then we went our separate ways and I fell asleep on the subway and it was unnerving.
It's funny, well not actually funny, but its...well whatever the word is, this woman says she will be friends with the Prof forever but she barely knows him. What she knows is what we all know and why would she want to be friends with such a jerk. Hmmmm maybe she is just bored. She's a bit older than I and it is possible that she has a serious drinking problem as well.

I requested a coveted position at work today. I think I have a shot but in the end probably not. There are 24 interested and only 6 spots, supposedly only 1 slated for a female, which now that I think about it, is a bit sexist and probably against fair hiring practice. I will look into this. 1 final paper due and 1 homework paper due tomorrow and of course I left my laptop at work, argh! BIG final paper due next monday also. Oh and like the nut I am, I decided to have a Cinco de Mayo party. Complete with pinata, sombreros and mustaches. I encourage the attendees to dress the part and bring appropriate drink/foods, of course in Mexican theme, although I will allow Latin themed dress as well. You know the pics will be posted. Can't you wait?

yah yah

I have now been awake for 41 hours and don't feel all that tired. Strange I have not had any alcohol either!

I am attempting to build on my cheeeesy website and finish this for class on saturday, when we also have our last quiz. I nearly finished the term paper for another class and almost done with the work for my third class. phew......maybe four classes and work was a bit much this semester. I also missed kickboxing class last night, hmph!

The High Road

Bettye Lavette:
she's my new musical obsession.

August in Pennsylvania at Musikfest. I'm there. Cannot wait. Much more on the agenda after May 9, 2006.

registered for first triathlon today. argh.

song for today: little sparrow - c'mon now
Look at how much taller I am!!!

A quote

"Whether we accomplish what we have in mind depends on fortune, but the pursuit is alone a matter of the heart."

-José Ortega Y Gasset

Another day

Still not a bit better today. Was off from work today. Slept late. Warm weather and spring shoes today. Went to nyc galleries. Nan Goldin "sisters". Teary stuff. Pete's Tavern for a drink in the afternoon. Met old friend for buffalo burger at Heartland Brewery, not good. 2 bookstores. Actually, the third was barnes and noble, listened to Harvey Pekar and other guy about new book. Came home to quiet house, very sad still...

song for today: Landslide - Stevie Nicks (maybe fleetwood mac)

Day 2

I must be in denial...I still haven't realized that she isn't coming home ever again. Yesterday's photo was the last time we were together, as morbid as it is, she was already gone. I guess I needed to have it documented so I could see the truth. She didn't look like she was "just sleeping".

Today is the worst day of my life to date.

Every day for the past 11 years we had each other. I know how you sound, I know how you smell, I know how you feel. I want to hug you. I will always miss you. I will love you forever baby.

Today is not a good day

Mickey is in ICU at the hospital. It does not look good.

Key West 2006

'nuff said

lil piggie

i am such a lard ass. mickey and i are at the parents house tonight because she is staying here while i am sunning my buns in key west. they have no food here that is worth talking about but somehow in the past two hours i managed to shove in at least three servings of pretzels and a whole bunch of chocolate graham crackers. i feel ill. so i went to walk moose before heading upstairs and i forgot to bring a bag so of course she pooped on someone's lawn who of course had their lights on. when i came in i noticed some water on the floor next to my neatly packed bag, oh wait it's freaking pee! that smart alec pooch pissed next to my bag which of course soaked the bottom and now i am washing my clothing at 12:45am. did i mention the train to the airport is at 5:25am? this dog can be so spiteful sometimes. i had everything planned so well. moose got a bath, i cleaned my whole apt, got cash, packed lightly and neatly, was all good then of course murphy's fucking law. guess its april fools for me!

no song today cus i am overtired, stuffed and "pissed" off!

Irrititting

This is what bothers me today:

1) When I close my eyes and they burn and sting a bit but I endure this because it also feels good.

2) I am hungry but feel guilty about eating an entire bag of Pirate's Booty last night and drinking lots of iced tea. So I ate my lunch at 10am which was lettuce with salad dressing. So what bothers me about this...why I feel guilty about overeating snack food. It also bothers me that some people can overeat all the time and it doesn't phase them at all, even if they don't look so good in a swimsuit. A man who sits in my office wears suspenders every day under his clothes, just to hold up his trousers under his protruding belly, it doesn't seem to bother him at all.

3) When people expect things of me but I don't know it.

4) I have been looking for Cheddarella for years, did they stop making this completely cheesy cheese?

5) When I am my normal guarded cautious self and maybe miss out on good times.

6) I lost my coupon organizer.

In just a couple of days we will be in Key West and my intention is not to drink alcohol at all. I have been boozing it at least once a week for the past few weeks and I need a break. I will be proud of myself if I can pull this off!

All things cheesy am I

Not much to say today...if you'd like to check out the website I did for a class:
Here's my site

I know it's pretty darn cheesy. Speaking of which, new cheese this week: Monte Enebro Queso del Tietar. It was a new and different taste for me and at $19.96/lb. I don't need to buy it again nor would I recommend it unless you are a super cheesy nerd.

10 days to Key West!!!

Today's photo is of me and Huggies last week when we went to see Cyrano de Bergerac at the Met. Opera snobs, haroumph!

Song for today: While my guitar gently weeps - Beatles duh!

For what its worth

I hope I have not been too disappointing. Am a bit too crazed with schoolwork and work etc. I think I am doing a fairly good job of managing the stress, but I did forget to do 2 assignments for one class and am totally clueless as to what is going on there.

I actually sat in a theatre (!) and saw a super documentary about Eugene O'Neill the other night courtesy of a stranger, but then 'drunk me' made an appearance so I don't think i'll be doing that again anytime soon, hee hee.

Key West in 2 1/2 weeks, I cannot wait to be in the sun and not think about anything for a couple of days. There's a 5K on the schedule too. I hope everyone gets along, women can be such nightmares!!!!


Song for today: Oh yes I can - Roseanne Cash

Baltimore for an hour

Here we are at BWI with some Southwest nutter. It was the inaugural flight to Denver from Baltimore and the employess were celebrating. Made it amusing for us. At dinner, I gave my name for a table, when it was our turn, he said, "Carrie, your table is ready". Huggies and I looked at each other with question marks. He said he remembered that I said Lisa, but didn't know why he wrote down Carrie. Now this is getting absurd.

I am bored in class

You Are Scooter

Brainy and knowledgable, you are the perfect sidekick. You're always willing to lend a helping hand. In any big event or party, you're the one who keeps things going. "15 seconds to showtime!"

The Muppet Personality Test

I'm not even tired yet!

3:30am and I'm not even tired yet. What is going on here?
I got a car wash today for free. That was nice. Moose and I walked a mile this morning. She was happy about that. I sat at my desk all day and then some. I did an hour of cardio tonight. I read two magazines. I made a new recipe: Kufta kebobs with hot-pepper yogurt, but I haven't tried it yet, will find out if it's tasty tomorrow. I took my vitamins at 11pm, maybe that is why I am awake. I ate peanut butter on a spoon, straight from the jar. I worked on my website for class and studied for our next quiz, ugh. I forgot to donate blood today and missed out on the free tix to the Bronx Zoo :(

OH! The girls and I booked our annual KEY WEST trip, 5 weeks to go!!!!!

I forgot about this funniness I read today....a town in Turks & Caicos called "Cockburn", I am not sure I would have named the town that.


song for today: If you were here - Thompson Twins

I just HAD to post these ...things!

Friday evening AND I was the designated driver and chaperone of the evening!!!!! Imagine what this would look like if I were drinking...

Where did those come from?

Song for now: Seventeen - Stevie Nicks

All Long Islanders REED THIS!!!!

Southwest Airlines is offering a fantastic deal for all of us who can fly out of Islip/MacArthur Airport.....fly one roundtrip by May 15, 2006 (book by March 15th) and get a credit for one free roundtrip ANYWHERE they fly!!!!!

SO...this is my plan, get on a plane saturday, use my drink coupons on the flight, have some more drink in the Baltimore airport, get on a plane an hour later and come home, cost $68.00...THEN get a credit for a free roundtrip and use it to go to Seattle to cruise to ALASKA!!! Which by the way Holland America is offering a great deal for law enforcement with no single supplement!!!!

For the airfare deal use the link or go to www.southwest.com, If this inspires anyone, let me know, we can all go together!

Also, cowboys are out for this weekend, I just have too much work. I am disappointed. I want to eat. I am hungry. I am still overwhelmed.

I JUST remembered that Valentine's Day was tuesday, so here's a pic for V day....

Song for now: Avalon - Roxy Music

"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."

SNOW DAY!!!
Todays pic is moose sniffin her pee in the new snow :)

No school today thanks to the blizzard!!!!which is fine, I have so much work to do it's nutty. This website project is driving me batty and teach is no help, he is such a german freak! I already failed miserably on the first quiz too. First class, he wears a unitard, next class he's got leather pants and vest on, what will be next...

He puts this quote as part of a response to a student email:

As librarians say: This is a day to stay in bed with a good
book or with someone who recently read one.

Wacko! I think it's really funny though, heh heh.

So it's nearly 3pm and I have already eaten all of the interesting food in the house, hmpf! Went out and got the paper this AM, it seems like there is double the snow since. I am so happy I sold that house...oy vey imagine the shovelling.

Song for now: Live for that look - Dinosaur, Jr.

Is this a lasting treasure or just a moment's pleasure?

Here's a rundown of this past week, forgot to eat a bunch of times. Ended the 2 week drying out phase and kicked it with an evening of 5 drinks, yah! Finally got a haircut, and I actually like it. Got a parking ticket for being 10 min over the meter, damn! $95.00, almost as much as the cut!
Trekked to the LES after a ten hour day of work to ACE bar to drink with the birthday boy and mademoiselle...todays pics are from there last night, I put the rest in the album. Check out our hands full of cock.

Started working on my website for class, a directory of cheese shops, "what's that stink?" :)
My ipod crapped out AGAIN. F me. Managed to get a couple of workouts in for the tri...and to cap off this tiring week, the parents came over for coffee tonight and stayed for hours watching the Olympic opening ceremony. What a friday night! I cannot wait to sleep late, oh thats right, it's never going to happen! Work on a saturday and then another fun filled day of school. When is that snowstorm coming? I need a break!

Song for today: Weekend - Ladytron

Yee haw!

A couple of weeks ago Hughies said she wanted to go find some cowboys, so here we go...We are planning on heading out West next weekend to rustle up some cowboys and eat some cow. All I want to do is ride a mechanical bull, wear chaps, and get a bit of a tan heh heh. Cannot wait to see what happens...

No worries, I am getting a new digi to record all the interesting moments!

Song for today: Close to me - The Cure

It's winter again

Today was day 1 of the training regimen for the NYC Triathlon. I am so out of shape. Actually was not all that tired today but am getting overwhelmed with school full time and work full time and trying to make time for play also :)

In a bit of a cheesy romance mood today, unknown why but I know this...You only get what you give.

Lovin this new late night drink I concocted - decaf coffee, bits of real vanilla bean, soymilk creamer and splenda. It's totally sweet and tastes decadent but it's not.

Songs for today are 80's cheese: In your eyes - Peter Gabriel &
Head over heels - Tears for Fears

It's so warm outside

Met up with mon ami from Paris and other old pals at the Maritime Hotel in the city last night then we went to a bar that smelled like taco bell, it was fun. Odd thing isn't it? old pal comes to town, rings up, we have drinks, good times. New friends are fun but it's not the same as old friends. Especially one's you have lived with, heh heh.

My digi has been running low on batteries and I too have run out, ;)
There are a few more pics in the 2006 album. What a motley crue!

After school today, stopped at Fairway and got 2 cheeses:
Cantal - french mild cheese, not bad, nothing special &
Tomme de savoie - also tasty and a bit special.

Moose is def not happy with me the past few days. Sorry babe.

Song for today: Forever Young - Rod Stewart (ugh i know but can't get it out of my head)

Chuckles

This is a great "pick up" line, courtesy of www.linesthataregood.com

-Okay, so I came over here to ask you to dance, but I'm kind of concerned. We could hit it off really well, end up having a few drinks, next thing you know you're giving me your number because I'm too shy to ask for it, I finally get up the nerve to call and we take in a movie, have some dinner, I relax, you relax, we go out a few more times, get to know each other's friends, spend a lot of time together, then finally have get past this sexual tension and really develop this intense sex life that is truly incredible, decide our relationship is solid and stable, so we move in together for a while. A few months later get married, I get a promotion, you get a promotion, we buy a big house. You really want kids, but I really want freedom. We have a kid anyway, only to find that I am resentful, the sparks start to fade and to rekindle them we have two more lovely kids, but now I work too much to keep up with the bills, you're stressed and stop taking care of yourself, so to get past our slow sex life and my declining self-confidence I turn to an outside affair for sexual gratification. You find out because I'm careless and a lousy liar, you throw me out (and we have to explain to the kids why mommy and daddy are splitting up. It's so sad. Think about the children. So for God's sake, if you dance with me and we hit it off, let's just keep it sexual, because we both know where it's going.

Classes started this week and I am so tired. Got out of class a bit early on saturday and roamed around the village for a bit before heading home. Stumbled upon this tasty cheese from Murray's - Bleu d'Auvergne (french blue cheese). So f-ing good.

Song for today: Shoot the Moon - Norah Jones

Silly blogthing

HOW TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am 31% Asshole/Bitch.

I may think I am an asshole or a bitch, but the truth is I am a good person at heart. Yeah sure, I can have a mean streak in me, but most of the people I meet like me.

Take the
Asshole/Bitch Test
@ FualiDotCom

I am such a dink

Was anyone ever going to tell me that the show is called Sex AND the city and not Sex IN the city??????????

In Dunkin Donuts today 'looking' for someone...they had this wheel so I spun it and landed on:
COCONUT - You live for adventure, travel and happy hour.
Weird!!! So I made PK spin it and he landed on something different but it described him also. I spun it again just to see if it was random and it landed on COCONUT again!!! Freaky!!!

song for today: Talk - Coldplay

Freak, freakier and freakiest oh and me

Integrity......I'll get back to this thought.

Nature has an odd way of forcing us to deal with confrontation. This crossing of paths in life is really starting to freak me out. It's all in the details.

Scary TV I saw tonight...a show about morbidly obese people, truly sad. I watched a reality show with Lisa Loeb, forget what its called...but sad. I guess I am missing this female gene that makes women desperately want to get married and have babies. Hopefully this woman is amping up her desperado vibe just to get exposure for a new album and trying to resuscitate her deader than dead career but maybe she is really interested in showing the world her hunt for a husband, ugh. I totally get her personality otherwise though, uh oh, will that be me in 5 years? Nah, I'll more likely be on the obese persons show heh heh!

OMG, check out what show I went to see yesterday, parking in Times Square area was a nightmare! The show was not all that freaky, total let down:
Coney Island Sideshow


Song for today: Rebel yell - Billy Idol

Drying out

After last weekend in NYC and consuming a bottle of rum (yes the small one!) then falling asleep on the train home....I've started another one my drying out phases...no booze, no smokes and no junk food. The smokes are no problem, since I don't buy em or usually smoke em anymore. The booze is .... necessary to take a break from since my tolerance is getting too high and therefore affecting my wallet.
:)
No junk food is more of a problem, I haven't had any good cheese in a really long time. Haven't had any good pizza or any pizza for that matter for a while either. I think I had some fries on Monday with DP but they weren't worth it. That chick is always pregnant!!!

Moose and I have been sleeping in her bed and it makes her happy but it's killing my back, she's always squirming around pushing me against the wall! I know it's sad but I just want her to be comfortable :(

I thought I had solved the cable dvd problem but alas it is still inoperable, F me!
I want to watch wedding crashers! The car stereo spent 2 days being worked on and was replaced, alas it is still broken and they tell me they can't figure it out. F-ers!!!! Ipod is still not back, I miss my tunes!!!!

Songs for the past few days:

All these things I've done - The Killers
Soul meets body - Death cab for cutie
Hard to beat - Hard Fi &
Someone like me - Royksopp


Take a glance at the dangers of my new career!

Silly blogthings....

Got out of bed at 1pm today with huge bruise on my ass, guess thats what I get for stayin out dancing it up until 5am!

Your Mood Ring is Orange

Stimulating ideas Daring Full of desires

Mood Ring Generator

You Are Chunky Monkey Ice Cream

Truthfully, you're too spazzy to be chunky - you cheeky monkey!

What Flavor Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream Are You?

Your 2005 Song Is

Mr. Brightside by The Killers "It started out with a kiss How did it end up like this It was only a kiss, it was only a kiss" Let's just say you're happy to be done with 2005!

What Hit Song of 2005 Are You?

It's oh so quiet....

Elle a des insomnies depuis des mois.

I'm really tired this week. Thanks MLK, jr for all you stood for and for inspiring a 3 day weekend in January. Amazing how mild this winter has been, it feels like it never even began in so many ways.

Song for today: No regrets - Billie Holiday

Babies galore

I went to my first bris the other day and it was quite interesting to say the least. My cousin had a baby yesterday, that makes 3 babies I know born in 2 weeks, jeez! All boys and with uncommon names: Judah Dow, Max Jordan & Eitan Lorcan. Those aren't even with the last names, good luck with that last one!

Dinner last night with the parents was ....amusing...the water boy made a mistake and threw out my dinner instead of wrapping it up for me and I only ate one slice of cucumber, bastard!!! That was a whole lotta raw tuna chucked, I was not happy. Had game night after that and that was fun, then we all watched really bad amateur porn. I could not believe how freaking bad it was ugh. Really nice weather today, was wearing flip flops and sweats outside this morning! Sunny too!

I can't get my dvd player hooked up and that is pissing me off royally. Found this interesting statement on the back of a box in my freezer:


Now what could warrant a spanakopita emergency????

It's my party and I'll ...if I want to....

Today is the day I begin my 32nd year on this planet. Holy freaking cow, am I really 31? ...in any case at the end of the day it was a good one and for the most part a good year. I learned a lot and will never be the same. 365 days ago I was a different person and I don't regret a minute of it.

This morning I slept through my alarm clock and was awakened at 8am to the sound of Moose vomiting up some bile. I have to believe it was my fault because she had to pee last night and I was reading and neglected her...then I brought my car in for a lube job, none for me though :( They told me the stereo needs to be replaced, it's ordered and will take 2 weeks, ugh!!! So I trodded across the road to 7-11 to buy birthday scratch off lottery tix, alas the only ones they had were xmas ones and at $2, F me!!! I bought one anyway but didn't win. Good news is the stereo is covered under warranty, yipee!!!
Then went to the mall and returned some things including a dress I already wore, but bought 2 new pairs of shoes :o !!!!
Got Moose some turkey bacon and rented some dvd's. Went for a mani and pedi at 4pm and started to feel a bit bad for myself as nobody had called to wish me a happy day. Then MG called and it made me smile, then DB called and we haven't spoken in months and that made me happy, double smile. Then TD called and I totally didn't expect it but I messed up the mani so the nice korean chick fixed it for me, ps- it meant a lot to me cus TD just pushed out 9lbs 7oz last week. Then I picked up my present at the office from the parental units and it looked so cool and tasted awesome, see pic for today. I called JB to thank him for the extremely poignant card and winning tix and he stopped by for some grub and cake, he even left me with a smoke which I haven't partaken in yet! TA called and stopped by later with a very funny card and a little something, thanks!!!

In the end, I had a great day and I was happy to spend the majority of it with my Moose. Thanks to everyone who remembered, it truly means a lot to me. Love ya all.

Todays pics are the "bouquet" from the parents and a pic of me now at 31!!!! Holy F-ing sh*t, I'm old!!!!! (does that count as swearing?) Luckily I don't look a day over 25 or act a day over 10, hah!!! Boy that flash is bright!


Another cool thing, today is also Louis Braille's birthday, awesome to share the day with such a smarty pants!

I'm scared!

As I was writing emails tonight in our new apartment on the first floor (which is good for moose and scary for me) the tv was blaring some nonsense show on the WB. Then I hear, "go up and check the children" !!! Could it be "When a Stranger Calls"??? THE scariest movie I have ever seen??? So I make a mad dash into the living room and it was! A remake of the movie is coming out in February!!! As if I am not plagued with enough fear of people hiding in my house and waiting for me...damn I'm freaking scared so I'm going to see King Kong and my man Jack black, holla!


pic today is from New Year's Eve, the food was mint!!!!


No song for today as my IPOD is busted and had to have Best Buy send it back and fix it.
Then this morning my car speakers busted!
This year is starting off with a bang, a silent one!

Party on....

The big holiday party was tonight and I don't know what happened!!! Swear!
Hee hee. I had 3 glasses of wine, ate dinner and 1 rum and coke. Next thing, we are in a bar I am holding these ridiculous heels and sitting barefoot on a stool. Hmmm....the night was a lot of fun and I am glad I went. Here are some pics I have of the night. Moving this weekend, ugh!!!

Who is that guy???

Hahaha!






The rest of the photos of the night are in the Party Gals 2005 album, link from this page to My photo albums.

Chances are....

Saw LM in Riverhead today at a store. Saw JL in Target also. Weird...I never run into them or see them elsewhere for that matter.

So we're stuck in NY for the end of 2005 and for the beginning of 2006 but I am thinking of going to see some live music in Cali in a couple of weeks. Just checked air $99 ea way!! Hotel $61/nt!!! Looked on the map and my cousin, his girl and their soon to be born child live right nearby!!! What are the chances??? Although, I don't think I'll be sunning my buns cus looks like the weather is only 60's. Shucks. My first solo trip!!! Might as well try it, I'll be in my thirties ugh. I hope Moose will be ok. She was coughing today and it was a weird sound. The trip is in 2 weeks so we'll see. I only have to book 7 days in advance which is good for a last minute freak like me.

Song for today: Time after time - Cyndi L. and Sarah M. (is that the other voice?)

Hanukkah Food for the Foodies

Since this info has been requested by some of you who missed out on the fest...This was the spread at our 3rd Annual Hanukkah Hullabaloo. Mickey helped out with the meat log. The rest of the pics are in the Hanukkah album (link on the side of this page to all photo albums then select 3rd annual... etc).

Baked Brie (that was a 2lb wheel of brie in puff pastry, mmmmm hot cheese :)

Spinach dip with veggies (ho hum)

Cheese & crackers (ahhh more cheese....sharp cheddar and Monterey jack, pedestrian but tasty)

Glazed salami with mustard (yes sounds nasty but was requested and gone in minutes and that was 3lbs of kosher beef there!)

Potato Latkes with cinnamon applesauce (yepper i made em both!)

Olives stuffed with blue cheese (bought em)
Various nuts (hee hee)

Choc covered oreos (thanks TD!!! they are awesome!!!)

Oh and a huge tray of pasta rustica that I made to keep everyone from getting too sauced (MV said I must be italian cus she liked it, except she called the sauce "gravy", hmpf. not familiar with that. guess im no italian)

You'll all have to make it next year!!!

Terry Reid

The first show I decide to go to by myself winds up a bust!
Took me only 40 min to get to the bridge but 40 min later, I still wasn't at the bridge entrance so I called and realized I would miss the show so I turned around and went back to old school times. I really wish those F-ing transit union people would not have striked. They made me miss Terry Reid and I REALLY wanted to see him. F-ers!!!!!

I am arrogant?????????

ok to clarify. i think SJP looks like a horse face, so if you think i look like her, then F off. she's kinda icky. Aniston, I don't look like her. DONE.

I havent swore in days, don't make me.

Two too too many cookies

My tum tum hurts from all the junk we ate today. Watched Forest Gump yesterday, didn't remember that it was actually a love story. It was sad. Found some more lumps on Moose. It made me more sad. I woke up today with massive puffy eyelids.

I have to start packing, I really dislike packing...although I tend to travel lighter each time. I still have to do my taxes for the past two years! Refund tho!!! Then planning on using those new found funds to go to Belize, yah!

Song today, didn't have one earlier but just came on through my itunes library and I paused and I really listened to the words and it gave me the chills. I don't know why. Maybe it's the mood. Where are you going - Dave Matthews Band.

Lately I been really diggin these tunes:

Magnet and Steel - Walter Egan
Dirty Water - Standells
Rock Steady - Aretha Franklin
Always See Your Face - Love inc(?)
Der Kommisar - After the Fire
No Worries - Hepcat


Although, the crowd at my Hanukkah Hullabaloo was not happy with most of the ipod, F them!! Which reminds me, I haven't used the F word in 2 days!!! I figured I'd start the resolutions early this time. Thanks to everyone who came by for the latkes and to dance the hora and thanks for stocking the bar! Hope you all had a good time. Pics to follow soon I promise.

i dig my life

holla yo!
last night's 3rd annual hanukkah hullabaloo were pics on the old school vibe so we'll have to wait til they're scanned in. today's pics are from stella & tim's "winter party" tonight. city apts have such small kitchens!!! hah haha.
only two for today tho.

college !!





song tonight: tiny dancer - elton john

I am a lightning rod!

What is going on in the universe? This week has been chock full of coincidence....the other day while working, I was driving down a street and saw DD's dog loose in the street so I had to call her and ask what to do with the dog. I haven't spoken to her in months and we work in the same place, hmmm. Then, we were driving to an appt and I look at the next car on the highway and it's a guy I work with, weird. THEN, after work I stopped into Target and as I pulled into a spot I noticed the car behind me pulled in just two spots away, it was TT and Melody. WEIRD!!! That was all in one day. Then some more stuff happened to other people when I was with them. It just keeps happening all week, hmmm....

Pulled an all-nighter the other night and finished my final exam and term paper, ugh. Got so hungry in the middle of the night that I had to make food and all I could come up with was rice and broccoli with salad dressing and cheese, yes, it was completely gross. Then I remembered I had pizza in the freezer, damn! I made up for it tonight and made cinnamon applesauce from scratch and it came out F-ing delicious.

Tonight Mickey hoisted herself into the tub and she got an awesome lather with anti-dandruff shampoo, she smells mint! But she's a bit pissed because we haven't had turkey bacon in over a week, sorry moose, but do you know any other dog that has their own bed, bedroom and bathroom??? Only the best for my babe.

The night sky has been so beautiful the past couple of nights, I wish it weren't so freaking cold though. It's an amazing deep midnight blue, barely black at all. The stars just pop out at you when you stare up. I remember trying to describe the color when wanted my hair like that years ago.

Song for today: I Remember You - Skid Row

Scratch that

Just watched SITC rerun when Big says he's going to work in Paris for a while. Okay, so maybe I am Carrie Bradshaw.

Coincidence is really fascinating.

Pics today are from TA's surprise party last night:
The Girls


Chatty be quiet!


Must be late, we're getting randy and the tie is off!

My updated Wish List

Ok ok ok....so I'm updating the list...

9. Burberry perfume (the original)
10. 2006 daily calendar
11. BedHead hipster flannel PJs
12. funky socks
13. travel Scrabble
14. an awesome surprise




And for the last time, yes I have heard that I look like SJP before. I don't think I "am" Carrie Bradshaw, although I do think she is dope so I'm not taking that as an insult, but I never would have cheated on Aidan...

This just in

Since Terry Reid is my new musical obsession, I just checked him out on the web and coincidence couldn't have been better. He usually plays on mondays in L.A. but will be at BB Kings in NYC on Dec. 22!!!!!! Of course, I have to work til 9pm but I am leaving early for this. Can't wait!!! Ever since first heard him, was hoping to catch him live sometime. Mint!

It's snowing

"Astrology is not predestination, but it is about initiating your actions at the right time in a complex mathematical cycle."

Interesting. While my fave daily scope is www.astrology.com, I just checked out www.astrologyzone.com for monthly h'scope. Good talk.

Me and Moose started our relationship in 1995. She started coughing a lil bit today. It made me cry. I hope my monthly horoscope is wrong this time.

Song for today: Faith to Arise - Terry Reid (and then Superlungs also by TR)

A day at the zoo

Today was full of wild animal adventures!

Looked out the window of our office and there was a parade of wild turkeys going by, these are the biggest freaking turkeys I have ever seen.

Later on in the evening, made a 'visit', saw the beer on the table and knew the woman was hiding from me, so as her bf was lying to me one of their freaking birds attacked me!!! Seriously, the thing flew into my hair twice before I told the guy I was going to pepper spray it if he didn't put it away, then it flew at me again and dug its claws into the back of my neck biting my ear!!!! Then I finally told him to get the 'fucking bird off of me' and I went into their bedroom and demanded the woman get out of the closet. Now that was funny but I was not happy especially when after she came out, her cat started rubbing itself up against my leg. oh did i forget to mention her parrot that was chewing on a baseball cap on the kitchen table?

I thought that was enough animal exposure for the day but alas, I live a Seinfeld-esque life so...an hour or so later, I went to make another 'visit' and as I closed (and locked) the car door, I heard running behind me. I turn around to see not one, not two but three deer in the street about 10 feet from me. They are really big up close! WTF are they doing in the middle of the street? I froze and slowly unlocked the door and waited in the car to see if they would walk away but they didn't until I started the car. I was so freaking scared, I had to laugh though, it was too funny. Oh best part....the street was called Deer Meadow Run. Fuck me!

Song today: Chicken payback - The Bees

My Wish List

Since the season for giving is already upon us, I have compiled a short and sweet gift list. Please send me any of your wishes too!

1. The best of health for Mickey (oh and all of you of course!)
2. Kodak EasyShare V550 dig cam (or V530 if its red, although less memory)
3. Triathlon wetsuit
4. High heel tall leather motorcycle boots
5. Vespa ET4 (red, of course silly)
6. One hour massage
7. A tan and the trip to go with it
8. World peace, an end to hunger and all that obligatory stuff you have to wish for!


Food for thought from Dr. Seuss:

Be who you are & say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

I don't think enough people heed this advice. They should.

Song today: Dreams to Remember - Toots Hibbert (or Otis Redding version if you're a purist or it's nighttime)

Gorgeous pic of Moose last week:

Bad cheese, bad cheese!

Went into the city today and had lunch with the Bulge. Nothing changes, is it 12 years since I stole your shirt? I promise if I win another flight to London, I'll take you, just don't sue me!!! LOL. Weird thing....we're walking down the street and he says lets eat here. ok. I look at the menu and realize I have eaten here before but across town. Out of all the places on the block to eat in...now thats odd. AND i had my digi but didn't want to freak him out by taking pics of food. We'll save that for another time. Nice office stud & good luck!

Tonight I busted open a new french Camembert and was knocked down by the smell, bad cheese!!! Had to chuck it out bc it really was bad, I guess I should have paid more attention in the store, freaking $12/lb on top of it all! The bread was toasting so I opened up the Comte, which was really good. It's french and I'm pretty sure it's a french version of swiss gruyere but maybe not.

Moose seems pissed today and I'm not sure why. It was so warm out I didn't even need a coat! Having Monday off is a great way to start the week.

Song today: J.I.M.M.Y. - Jim Jones (just to feed my inner ghetto girl a bit)

I don't know who pooped in your lunchbox but It wasn't me

Thoughts today: Does everything really happen for a reason? (yes thats a recurring thought)
Would you get it on with someone if they were looking at something else? Huggies agreed, he got it wrong. While taking a stand is certainly admirable being too self righteous can make you tip over with nobody to help you up. Quick judgements and not looking back are my specialty, talk about irony. Interpretation is personal from one's own point of view. I guess our pasts determine how we interpret the future. I'm glad there hasn't been as much poo in my cherry bowl of life! I still have faith in the goodness of people and not in technological romance.

LIPA told me that my excellent credit rating is appreciated today. sweet!

Went to Fairway for fresh veggies and new cheeses and ran into longtime neigborhood family friend of 26 years, girl is completely prego!! Good to catch up tho her hubby was not at all appreciative that he had to wander the store for 30 min by himself. :( You'd better email me!

TT had a soiree tonight and I could not drink at all cus was so full when I got there but managed to stuff my face the whole night anyway, ugh. Here is a pic of a pot of meat I spied on the stove. "Is that beef or pork?" lol Everyone got a bit randy including me and Liza's friends, haha Then we settled down a bit
We didn't get all that raucous though, wasn't really NOT in the mood to cut loose.Hmmmpf.

Song today: Follow Through - Gavin DeGraw

Happy Thanksgiving

Is it true that when a man died the Greeks didn't write obits and they just asked whether he had passion? Do that for me when it's my time.
Mickey and I went to the parents house today. I made awesome variation of bruschetta on awesome bread. See pic: Mother also had a really good italian Fontina and this super pesto layered cheese, I think it was called Basilico Torta.
Then I made stuffing with homemade cornbread which turned out to be really good but was not so good before baking it. Mother asked me to bring some dvds over so I brought em all except Serendipity, really couldn't handle that today. So we watched Saving silverman which father thought was funny but mother thought was silly. Then we watched Clay Pidgeons. Then mother asked father to put in that dvd she wanted to watch but couldnt remember the name, guess what it is. Serendipity. I watched it but left before the ending because its a movie. Now that's weird. Coincidence or destiny. Hmmm. Cannot go there today. Woke up at 4:30am cus I couldn't sleep and it was snowing. I took a pic of moose in the snow.
Last night we went out for the 'biggest night of the year' and well I was asleep before 12. Heres 1 pic of us. I made that shirt in high school, what can't she do? lol. Convinced a trio that TA and I were bail bondsmen also. Very funny conversation of the night. TA: So are you irish? Boy: yes. TA:Oh, so you have the irish curse? Boy: yes. Me: Wait a min, do you know which curse she is talking about? Boy: Yes I do and yes I have it. Me & TA: huh, why would you admit that to us strangers? Boy: Well, lets say we start a relationship tonight, I wouldn't want you to have any surprises along the way, figure I start out on the right foot. Said without cracking a smile (!!!!) Needless to say, TA and I found this incredibly humorous. Pics from the rest of the night are also in the party gal album for you girls.

I am thankful for Moose being here today and my health.

Song for today: It's You - the Specials

Giving well means knowing what they wish for...

So many thoughts this week and it's only wednesday argh! Trying to do the right thing for everyone. Yes babe it feels kind of weird, but you'll still get those licorice pigs hah. what does your song mean?(wink) and sorry for pitching quarters at you at the Coop 'n makin you listen to all my hairbrained ideas.
Moose got her sutures out this morning and since she is doing so fab we are going to wait on treating the cushings to see what develops. She seems very happy this week but maybe that's due to the turkey bacon she gets when she takes her meds. She is such a lil devil. A bit of flurries this AM and it is so damn cold, def coldest morning we have had yet. Thats whats causing Mickey's dandruff and now i have to wash her with people shampoo and conditioner, thats going to be one long shower but she loves to splash around with me! Moose!
Got overloaded on estrogen this weekend at TDs baby shower and TD is so prego, check todays pic. Yep thats me with a pacifier necklace, i even won a prize! Sorry about bailing on the waxing guess its the fuzzies for me lol. More comments on how I look like J. Aniston this week than ever. Maybe I should get a haircut, its really starting to get annoying.
The parents called me the other night in a panic that the electric was out and no heat, yes fine you can stay with me for the night. Hmm funny that they call me who lives in a 2br apt but they dont call big raps who has a whole freaking house and is only 10 min away. Interesting eh? Thoughts....not even worth going there. Luckily as they were walking out of the house the power came on and i was spared.
The other night I was shopping for a new dig cam and vid cam in Best Buy but had to pee really bad so I walked over to Target and there was a line of people under umbrellas and tents waiting in the freezing rain in front of the store. Hmmm, so I am wandering around the store filling up my cart with nothing I need (tweed dog bed, caramel corn, argyle tights, did you know they have Riedel glasses now?!) when I realize why these idiots are out in the rain, that new xbox is coming out the next day. Can u believe these boys were going to spend the next 12 hours shivering in the rain just to buy a game system. So I went to check it out and while it looks really cool its still a fucking game. Cmon boys get some porn for the sofa and a join a sport. So when I was leaving I looked at the line and there was not one female. Hmmmm. Thought....I wonder if I should have waited on that line bought as many as allowed and then sold them on ebay. Probably could have made a decent profit.
Uploaded midterm quiz yesterday. The classes had better get richer, it was so easy, I was embarrassed doing it. It actually had a matching section, yes like from grade school. Maybe the prof is doing us a favor since cataloging so incredibly boring. After this only 6 classes left!
Karmic retribution....lots of thoughts on this lately. Do we have to be good all the time? Ok so its wrong but can't we be selfish sometimes? I wish I could, I am curious if those people who are completely self serving worry about it coming back around. does it? Maybe we should all say fuck it and go for it, then see what happens. Ah too frustrating for this morning.
This is funny...a little kid from ghetto town, his name is Doctor, seriously his first name is Doctor, his brother's name is Myking (as in My King) and his sister's name is Shaythed (like shithead accented differently). Not kidding at all. I think some of them have kids just so they can come up with dumb names. Couldn't they find somewhere else to use this creativity?
On that note, I have to credit bananarepublic.com for todays title cus gotta give credit when due. It's also appropriate for the season and very true. Start picking out those cards now!

That's a whole lotta meat

I hate traffic. Absolutely positively hate traffic. Coming back from NYC yesterday JB and I were discussing traffic problems and why they occur....led to this: Why are there so many stupid drivers? They cause the majority of these problems, look there, there, etc. JB read somewhere that 80% (or some very large #) of the people in this country do not believe in evolution. What does that have to do with it? Well obviously they are all fucking stupid, makes for a lot of stupid drivers. Nice train of thought there mister. Hah hah.
Other very funny comment made by JB. After getting over the bridge going in, we were talking about tunnels and how JB assumed I wouldn't like them since I don't like bridges. Ah only now after all this time you have come up with that assumption? Well if I were a fucking neurotic freak I'd be afraid of tunnels too. Said very matter of factly with a straight face which made me laugh even harder, thanks. So after getting 3 new wines, fab bread and trying some tasty gruyere we headed down to the village for quick food. The burritos were a huge mistake the pics prove it, I couldn't believe someone would serve this crap. You even needed to get a key to use the can.

After, I just had to get my $2 falafel to save for later of course. Thats me next to the meat in the window.

Thought: what do they do with the meat when they are closed? Do they put it in the fridge or just leave it hanging there?

Song for the day was Radioactive by ??? I can't remember who.

Evil nails

Todays rambling is last evenings story and was very amusing but you might have had to be there. Out with huggies, her friend ruby tuesday, chatty and some others i dont know. we are in a family establishment with children running amok. Across the bar there is a robust couple taking in the scenery and each other. very much so, see pic#1 in which i told huggies to pretend i am taking a pic of her. about 20 minutes later they have still not taken a break or a sip of their drink and they are becoming quite a show and the white hair next to them is visibly pissed SO....i ever so carefully strut over and tap her on the arm mid makeout and ask if they are married. she says no. i walk away, not before snapping pic #2 of course. i think they might have had a reality check so they get a table somewhere else. the white hair sends me a drink and a wink. the barmaid also witnessed this and calls me over to ask what i said then she tells me that they just met tonight and basically she walked over and told him her name, they ordered a drink and that was it. good story. would have been better if it were visually appealing to watch. thought you'd all love the photos. huggies lay off the cran/vodkas! and yes its black polish! (ps - the pics are in the party gal album)

song for the mood now- Wanna be starting something - michael jackson

Sweet dysfunction in the eye of the hurricane

I cannot believe I was considering quitting work and shacking up in my parents basement. These two are the most ridiculous people I know...where to begin. Woke up this morning with a huge wine headache (drinking with coworkers again) and father was drilling something at SEVEN AM!!! When I wandered out of my room he explained that he HAD to take apart that piece of furniture that early. They are moving tomorrow and running around all day bringing stuff to the rental house. Although my mother has yet to trash the fridge contents which of course includes 10 mustards 5 jams and shitload of mystery meals in tupperware. Don't be stupid of course they need to transport all this to the next place. Who wouldn't bring a half empty bottle of horseradish or 3 half bottles of salad dressing? On top of it when the experienced mover (me) suggests things like packing books in boxes instead of bags (yes he really thinks he can put bookcases full of books in bags AND carry them) my father makes a face and tells me I am being silly. (!!!) Moving on....eating eggs in the morning mother tells me to have juice, i tell her i dont like juice in the morning, she suggests coffee, i dont drink caff coffee, oh have diet soda. yum freaking diet coke with egg white omelet. of course she asks what i want for dinner. i havent even finished the damn eggs yet. manage to waste the rest of the day lazing around, more specifically i took a shower for 70 minutes!!! i felt so guilty for using all that water but a girl needs to indulge sometimes no?
dinner was at the greek place which was great but mother called big raps and he showed up. TWO hours spent with the 3 of them. conversation was amusing to say the least. here are the highlights:
me: father, if you were given 100 million dollars, how much would you give me? him: do i have to pay tax first? me: no [asswipe] i just put 100mil in a joint checking acct you can spend it as you please. him: well i would use it all and buy tax free municipal bonds which would yield $4M/yr and i would live off that. me: [dick]thats not the question, the question is how much would you give me? him: hmm well that depends on your situation. me: why????? i am your only daughter who cares what the situation is? him: fine you want a #? me: yes already. him: $500,000/yr. me: are you kidding me? you are sitting on $100M from which youre netting 4M EACH yr and you are going to give me $500G's along with stipulations??? keep it, youre fucking bats. mother: dont listen to him li, you know he's nuts, i'd giveyou $10M the first year. me: thanks mother. her only stip was that i had to spend thanksgiving with them. then she mentioned something about maybe being a grandmother someday and ......i tuned the rest out.
ok so what else?? father asked about mickey. i explained she most likely has cancer and won't be here next year this time. what kind of cancer? lymphoma we think. mother says OMG i didnt know that, shes going to die. Hold the press, we've got a sherlock here. She told me to watch my language, 'i dont want to hear it at the dinner table'. c'mon woman give it a rest. so here is the best part: after dinner, we get back to the house, she is nagging me about 2 freaking dresses hanging in the closet that i need to throw out or take with me BUT she is lying in bed watching some bs television while the bathroom is completely full and the kitchen is also. meantime father is making fun of how she is tired and she is bored of packing but he is eating his frozen fudge bar on the sofa downstairs. but we jsut got back from dinner, "but i always eat a fudge bar at night, its my snack", are you hungry? "nope". the books are not boxed or bagged either. Here is the final note: Mickey just busted out of the kitchen and made her way up the stairs which she is not supposed to be doing and wandered into my old room, mother starts about how shes not allowed on the bed. keep in mind the bed is about 3 feet off the ground, the dog just had surgery and has arthritis. i tell her stop hocking us about it, shes not going on the bed. mother: oh Li, chill out already. (me??) no its not that bad but this is the last time i sleep over, nuff said.

song for today was hard to pick so...Shining star - Earth wind & fire; Your song - elton john; paper underwear - david holmes (??) Finally got ipod back in the car! No pic today, not at my computer.

What now?

Very quiet night tonight. Moose is still at the vet recovering. Very strange not to have her around. No pitter patter into the kitchen when the fridge opens. No nudge to be stroked under her chinny chin. No ears to pick through, fur to brush, no lumps to inspect, no bowls to wash. Distracted myself by working late, watching horrible television while reading magazines then a book.
Odd thing today. Came home to find sundays paper at my door. today is monday and i already got my paper yesterday. hmmm. came with sample tea bag and coffee so i am thinking the gov't found out that i was checking into their cover ups yesterday and now they think i will drink the tea and coffee and they will poison me into forgetting about all that stuff. Alas, i am too clever for that~ gotcha to the man.
Painted my fingernails black at work today. nothing all that exciting happened for the rest of the day. Target charged me 2x for one item so they will get an earful from me tomorrow. The house is too quiet, its making me miss her. Jeez how freaking cheesy am i?

song for tonight: So Lonely - The Police. not just because i miss moose but because its a great fucking song except for the title. everytime i hear it i just want to sing out loud and dance around like a nut.

Moose got stoned!

Just got call from our primary vet, Mickey did well in surgery and all the stones are out. Vet said she was the priority this morning and has already been awake for 20 minutes, doing well, on iv and resting. I might even get to pick her up tomorrow!!!!
On a lighter note, my superviser just spent 20 minutes telling me about the No-Fly list put out by the TSA or is it NSA? He is worried that I might work there and not expose the truth. Okay so he is completely paranoid and said he is not consumed by finding out all these governemnt conspiracies. He claims he spends "only about an hour or two each night" reading this stuff on the net and listening to broadcasts by some guy. He claims its like a hobby. cha right! He suggested I look up this Sybil Edmonds woman. What a nut he is, harmless though.

Fantastic weather for Nov.14 today, 65 degrees and sunny!!

Song for today: We are the champions - Queen

Tis so lovely outside isnt it dear

Gorgeous saturday morning today. Moose and I were out walking for a while already. Finally am fully matriculated into school and register willy nilly for anything I like. Moose was diagnosed with Cushings disease which is no treat to treat, aha, but it is manageable. Unfortunately she will probably succumb to lung cancer before the Cushings becomes a major problem. She is having surgery to remove her bladder stones on monday so keep her in your thoughts!!!
She is still acting all goofy and trying to steal the turkey bacon off my plate, that lil rascal. We hang out all the time now and I am starting to come to terms with her future. We are just trying to enjoy what we have left and the day will come soon when she will be eating all the beef and roasted chicken she wants, hee hee.
As for my passport, we shall see how her health holds up so Scotland, Mexico, etc will probably be on hold for a bit. I have to mention how great the vets are at the place we are going. Very caring and it does not seem to be all about money with them. So what else is new? No new cheese this week, actually trying to lose some of the lbs. Although I am still working on that organic herbed goat cheese, mmm. I know right, me diet? Well, at least I can fit into my jeans again. My new obsession are a pair of amazing black leather Prada platform slingbacks.....ahhhh just thinking about them on my feet put me at ease.
The parental units are moving this week into a rental house until their gross (as in size) new house is built. After Mickeys surgery we have to stay with them for a couple of days, oh the humanity!
Last nights surprise comment made to me after i pitched a bunch of popcorn into this guy's mouth: When you smile you look like sarah jess parker, has anyone ever told you that before? me: no shit, really? nope never heard that before. did i mention that i aspire to be a star player in the wnba?? dumbass.

Photo today is a rerun of Moose in Montauk.
No song as of yet.

Dia de los muertos

Ahh Halloween...my favorite holiday of the year. No costume party this year, no trick or treating. As of 7pm on Halloween, I was not even going to get up off the sofa. Alas, I was a cat burglar and ventured into Brooklyn for a costume party which turned out to be dreadful and not in a good way. No photos either.
This weekend went to dive bar in NYC to meet up with Stella and her hubby. So good to catch up, miss her that kim chee loving freak! Photos to follow, will post here later.
Mickey is doing okay and we are scheduled for surgery consult next week to figure out what to do. Keep your fingers crossed, I am so not ready to be without her in my life and it's completely depressing so....
Took her out to Montauk on sunday for some fun in the sun on the beach. She seemed to enjoy the day. I got an awesome sandwich at Citarella and guac too. Yum. We went to the beach and drove around town. Visited the Memory Motel (of Stones fame). Then we went to Funcho's for burritos but it was icky. Not going there again.

Cheese update - Delice de Bourgogne - insanely rich triple creme from France (duh!). Was too rich for my taste it was nearly butter so I will not buy that again but it was tasty on warm rustic bread.

Song for today: I will not be Broken - Bonnie Raitt (catchy little tune)

But is it good news?

The internist called today. Mickey's liver nodules are benign! BUT....the tumor on her lung is ???? They can't say for sure what it is without taking a chunk out of her and checking it out. This is "invasive" surgery and has a bunch of possible infections that can follow. The Dr was less than helpful and seemed irritated by my questions. She does need surgery to remove her bladder stones though and while in there she said they will take more of her liver out to figure out what else is going on. I do not know what to do. I just want her to be comfortable. I have decided against chemo if the lung cancer were to be malignant. So why cut her open and make her vulnerable to infection, pain etc?

ON a lighter note, I just went to pee at work and when I entered the stall I nearly passed out. It was the worst smell ever and not what you are thinking. It stunk like a dirty pet store. I have picked up after my dog for 10 1/2 years and never encountered something like this. Needless to say, the previous user was of course, my office mate!! Maybe she had a dead cat in her purse????

I am skipping out of work to go to the library and play with Mickey. No song yet today. The rain has finally stopped though. Enough already with this hurricane bullshit. I 'm bored of it.

Tough

Mickey is probably very ill. We are awaiting further test results. I am a mess. This is the hardest thing I have ever had to deal with. I love my moose.

Song for today - She's the One - Robbie Williams (?)

Stay baby

Worked today. Rained all morning. Beautiful afternoon. Chilly evening. Full moon. Clear night sky.
Had to take Mickey to the 911 pet hospital at 5pm. We left 3.5 hours later. Something is wrong with her liver. I was nearly in tears in the waiting room. We have to go to our vet this week. She was so fucking well behaved, I couldn't believe it. She layed on the bench next to me for 2 hours while we waited for her test results. She even let some chubby kid pet her! I have been petting her all night. Don't leave me baby. I love you.

Song today: Memory Motel - Stones

Rain Rain Rain Rain

I think it has been pouring rain for the past week. It's really getting boring by now and I wish it would stop. Mickey is pissed off because she does not like being outside in the rain either. Now she is limping again and it's probably because she jumped on the sofa when I wasn't home. Damn. Nic is gone!!! Haven't smoked in a while (except when drinking al) and feeling fine. Yom Kippur was yesterday and I atoned or at least I accepted my faults for the year and was at one with 'g-d'. Jeez that sounds ridiculous since I don't believe in g'd....so I am at one with my mistakes for the year and I can let go of mistakes made by others to me. Ahhhh breathe. I fasted for the whole day and only drank a bit of water. Sweet. Gotta love the jews.
More ranting....after walking Mickey this morning and coming to work....my jeans are still soaked up to the knees and it's nearly 1pm! Working tomorrow also, ugh. So I am working at a slow pace so I have something to do tomorrow when I am finished typing my homework. County dollars hard at work!!

Song for today: Dreamgirl - Dave Matthews Band (yes i know it's a repeat but it just makes me smile and i think of sunny days, anything is better than all this fucking rain)
Mood for today: irritable and wanting sashimi, hmpf!

scratch all that, song for today: Bittersweet Surrender - Big Head Todd and the Monsters

damn i am moody today! :(

Jews rock, literally!!

I forgot to post a song for today. Although the band is not all that great, I can imagine it's a fun live show. You all must check them out, Hassidic jews doing hip hop/reggae. The band is called Matisyahu.

Another thing...I have decided not to have the Halloween party. Instead I am considering a Dia de los Muertos fiesta since it will be November and who doesn't like a mexican party celebrating the dead. I am thinking of the menu already!

Anyone with a better idea, email me. Ciao for now.

Amnesia and Deja Vu at the same time

Did you ever notice that sometimes when you have deja vu you remember having the same deja vu before??? Does that just mean you can't remember shit? hah haha!

No work today, a holiday for Columbus! I have developed a bad habit in the past few days...sleeping until noon or later, damn. Went to Fairway this weekend and stocked up on new cheeses: Red Dragon - a soft cheddar like cheese with wholegrain mustard and brown ale. It's awesome on crackers or pumpernickel bread yum! It's made by Somerdale, try it yo! Will advise as I eat my way through the others.

It has been raining for days and on top of it all, now it's cold. So this past weekend's trip was cancelled. I was supposed to take Mickey on a road trip upstate but after coaxing JB into joining us, the agenda changed and we decided to go to Salem, MA for the Halloween festivities. It was a blast when I was there years ago but it rained then too, hmmmm. Mickey would not be happy walking around in the rain the whole weekend so....maybe in 2 weeks we can try again.

Well, going shopping again today, lovin life lately but so tired. Smoking habit is nearly all gone!

26 days to go

Where to start...went to Foxwood's last week for an employee appreciation party. total and complete debauchery. 1 person went to the hospital within an hour of arriving in the room. There was enough alcohol to get a small town very drunk. There were 24 of us. 5 suites. Steakhouse for dinner. The dinner was very amusing and the suites were very nice. I won $60 at blackjack!! Gambling is boring though. There were so many eldery people there it was very sad. The ferry ride back was awesome...tank top in the sun in late september, groovy!

No pics, no song, nothing interesting to say. I know you're all disappointed.

Fall has arrived

Last night Fall arrived. It was kind of chilly!
Actually been very busy lately, even to eat good food! Firearm requals this week: 255 out of possible 300!!!! And I haven't even shot since last years requals, I was glad not to have failed. Mickey was sick this week and left me a couple of visuals on the living room floor to make her point, ick. Mother agreed to watch her this week...playing hooky from work and going to Foxwoods for a couple of days for employee bash, damn! No worries, I'm bringing a book to read.
Tended bar today and crossed paths with my spanish teach from 7th grade!! I never forget a face, hah! Made great tips too. Maybe just maybe I'll gamble it and win big this week.
Maybe it's a new hairstyle but last night a woman insisted I look so much like...no, not Sarah Jessica Parker but Jennifer Aniston (???) and another said Sheryl Crow (?????) whats up with that? Today 2 men said I resemble Aniston, hmmph. Have these people ever watched Friends?? I look nothing like her. jeez!

Song today - The Big Payback - James Brown, yah!

My beloved....key west that is!

Key West evacuated...luckily I didn't move there last year, I would be washed away! I am sure they will recover by April for my annual redneck vacation. Worked a lot today surprisingly. ugh.

Nic and I are back together. I just missed him too much. 5 days was too long, hee hee. I'll try and get rid of that vice again after this pack. swear.

Another funny tidbit, Desperate Librarians. Somewhere in Wisconsin I think, a bunch of librarians got together and posed for a calendar (think Sports Illustrated swimsuit calendar) to raise $$ for some library. I think this is the link

Have you seen the tv ad for 2006 chevy impala? shitty car, groovy song. Here it is:

Bye Bye - Sarah Vaughn (it's on Verve remixed volume 3, I swiped it from limewire.com but I'm sure it's on winmx also)

Dollar dollar bill yo

Worked all weekend, bartended in Westhampton at a rainy wedding. Fun band, The Benjamins, they hail from NJ. Got sauced at the end and went to Cavanaugh's with Bob. On the way in, there was some sort of a homeless man or maybe he has a home somewhere you asked for a cig, so I gave him the one out of my mouth and told him to buzz off. Next morning I was hurting bad. Went to work, had to wait an hour for chef to show. It was THE most tacky, gaudy home I have ever been in, literally. It was in Nissequogue to boot, you'd think people had class up here. The crowd was from a bunch of different countries. Billy from Ireland asked me to golf with him and the missus (???). The geezer from England had the strangest navel and his woman had the absolute worst facial skin I have ever seen. The couple from China couldn't speak english so that was amusing. I scored a mini bottle of Patron for being me and picked up a check for last weekend which will fund my next week long excursion to wherever. Really need to clean my house. JB wrote a glowing recommendation for grad program,,,you're the bomb yo.

Had a bunch of interesting thoughts to note here but I forget them now.

Song today - Leather & Lace - Stevie Nicks/Don Henley

These are my thoughts...

It's not whether or not he/she is perfect, it's whether or not you're perfect together. (heard this the other day)

"Life is not the amount of breaths you take, it's the moments that take your breath away" - the cheesy but funny film with Kevin James, Hitch (no not kidding)



Song for the day: Good is good - Sheryl Crow

To keep you busy for the weekend...

I am totally cheesy today (and wasting tax payers dollars playing on the internet at work, shhh!) pasting all of these bullshit blog quizzes that teenagers post, have fun!!

You Are 24 Years Old

Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe. 13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world. 20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences. 30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more! 40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

What Age Do You Act?

You're an Passionate Kisser

For you, kissing is about all about following your urges If someone's hot, you'll go in for the kiss - end of story You can keep any relationship hot with your steamy kisses A total spark plug - your kisses are bound to get you in trouble

What Kind of Kisser Are You?

You Belong in the UK

Blimey! A little proper, a little saucy. You're so witty and charming... No one notices your curry breath

What English Speaking Country Do You Belong In?

Your Birthdate: January 4

Being born on the 4th day of the month should help make you a better manager and organizer. You may be more responsible and self-disciplined than you realize. Sincere and honest, you are a serious and hard working individual. Your feelings are likely to seem somewhat repressed at times. The number 4 has something of an inhibiting effect on your ability to show and express affections, as feeling are very closely regulated and controlled. You are apt to be much more practical, rational, and conscious of details. There is a good deal of rigidity and stubbornness associated with the number 4.

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

Your Personality Profile

You are elegant, withdrawn, and brilliant. Your mind is a weapon, able to solve any puzzle. You are also great at poking holes in arguments and common beliefs. For you, comfort and calm are very important. You tend to thrive on your own and shrug off most affection. You prefer to protect your emotions and stay strong.

The World's Shortest Personality Test

This is a groovy thing...

Found this on my cousin's girlfriend's blog, states I have visited...do yours!!



create your own visited states map

How many is too many?

Vice update: 2 smokes, no booze, no junk food. No exercise either though.
First day of school was today, strange to be taking notes after 5 years but thinking about how I can be out of this gun-toting job and finished with my master's in just over a year (December 2006) puts things in perspective. There aren't that many people in class but listening to the scatter brain teach who is a cataloguer made me long for the day when I wore spectacles, so I posted a pic of me the night before laser surgery last year.

Watched sex in the city again tonight. 2nd episode was about sex, no change there, more about numbers though. 42 is too many, I agree. Oddly the man wanted to wait. Claiming "what is the rush". Kind of along the lines of the theory I started to subscribe to when I turned 30, it all counts. As I approach the looming double digits, I sometimes think that it doesn't count and then I catch myself and realize that it does. Forget what everyone says, it is a big deal now, maybe it wasn't 10 years ago and maybe it won't be 10 years from now. Maybe I will never have to count on more than just my fingers and that makes me proud.

Song for the day: The one I love by David Gray, of course. He is just so amazing.

Miracles will happen as we trip. WHAT is going on with my Ipod?

Watched tv tonight! sex in the city of course. Saw a Gap commercial and that annoying songstress Alanis M was singing Crazy (Seal), which I have never liked but she made it sound so much better. I tried to find it online, but have been unsuccessful. It seems these songs from their new campaign are coming out on a cd. guess i will have to wait for that.

Vice update: broke down and had 2 drags of a cig, no booze, some pizza. It's a start ok!
Spent an hour at work discussing how to beat a polygraph with 3 liars. Funny. Finished reading Freakonomics by Levitt/Dubner, interesting.

This has really been bothering me, why is it that my 4gb Ipod Mini only holds 200 songs and the box says it holds 1,000 songs. What am I doing wrong????

Vices...love em or leave em

After a long weekend of driving out to Southampton on friday, East Hampton on saturday and Shelter Island on sunday, I was happy to spend the majority of today reading some of the 6 magazines I got in my box today. Working just half a day was a relief, although I didn't do much else and it was another splendid day for being outside. Planning on watching Jeopardy! for the first time in a while, hopefully all of the reruns are over. Tony Bourdain has a decent show on the Travel Channel that I happened upon last week, I think it is called No Reservations, I posted a note on the fridge to remember to watch it.

I have decided to live without any of the vices I enjoyed in the past. My good friend, Nic, is no more. 1 day we have not spent together and I miss him like crazy, this will pass I am sure. His buddy, Al, was next, also 2 days of not drinking, although the night is still young, hah! The next vice I am looking to do without is food, well not food altogether obviously, but no more decadent indulgences for a while. Strictly tasty but healthy food. I don't consider cheese a vice so I think I will be ok. No diet soda (no problem), no snacking on packaged items made in a factory. No fried potatoes. Luckily sashimi doesn't fall into these categories or I would surely be fucked. Okay, thats the plan. Let's see if I feel better in a couple of days, if not, the next step is to buy a pack of smokes, open a bottle of wine and forget all this nonsense.

No song for today as I haven't listened to anything nor can I think of a theme for the day, well, maybe I can...really into this song for the past day or two...

Dreamgirl by Dave Matthews Band.

Back to school

Missed Coldplay in NYC tonight which is disappointing. I really wanted to go. I worked a bunch of overtime though and had to write a personal statement for grad school application which I have to turn in tomorrow. Ugh.

I am so tired I must sleep and have to work another 12 hour day tomorrow, ah the life of a civil servant.

I haven't posted any photos in a while, so here is one from a couple of weeks ago of me and Huggies at Brennan's, that bar in a parking lot.

Song of the day - Fortress around your heart - The Police. Sting is still so fucking sexy.

Do I know you?

Another beautiful day, lucky for me I was out and about and trying not to work too hard. A woman stopped me and asked for directions this morning. I gave her an accurate and concise route to her destination. In the afternoon, I was in Riverhead at the Outlets returning something of course and was parked inconspicuously behind Banana Republic. I didn't want anyone to see the 'county' car while I was 'working'. hee hee. When I was headed back toward the car, an elderly British man struggling with a shitty map stopped me and asked for directions to the Hamptons. His actual words were, "Can you tell me what road I am on?" Now at this point I am standing next to him and he is almost eye level with me and reminds me of an older Dick. Furry brows and steep forehead, square head, thin mouth, kind of sagging cheeks, short. I almost wanted to send him out of the way but he was smoking a pipe. Who smokes a pipe anymore? I love the smell of pipe tobacco. I thought this was just so endearing...picture this short man, cropped grey hair, smoking a pipe behind a building with a crumpled up tourist map, the sun in his eyes, trying to get to Southampton. The best was his car. A big cadillac with Massachusetts plates. At the fucking outlets. How regal. Hah!

Cooked a surprisingly tasty curry shrimp and rice mishmash. No cheese today, but can't wait to try melting a wedge of Raclette I got at that Uncle something market in Smithtown.

Song for the day: Walking on Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves

Is lying the currency of the world?

Hurricane Katrina.....so fucking horrible. I would like to do more but there is only so much money we can give. It makes me very upset to read the paper and hear these people's stories. what about the pets?

On the way home tonight, America by Neil Diamond was playing on the radio and although I was singing all the words, it totally made me well up and then I realized how much I do appreciate living in this country. There really is a lot to offer here. I also decided that in my retirement I will have a farm and make cheese and bake rustic breads in a coal oven. I think I will make butter as well. I love butter, toast and cheese, so why not make it from start to finish....

Finally got around to seeing Closer on dvd, I didn't think it was fabulous. Although Clive Owen is a sexpot. There was a point that got to me...Jude Law's character asks his cheating woman why she told him she had slept with her ex after he asks her, she says because they had said that they would tell each to her the truth. He then states that she should have lied. "Lying is the currency of the world". Food for thought. I have been thinking about this for the past hour or so...why do people lie? The film seemed to be saying that people lie because they are cowards. Maybe that is why we value the truth, maybe it is a rarity.

Too much sun this weekend, gorgeous fucking weather, finally.

Katrina

What I read on Yahoo News about this anarchy in New Orleans is just so depressing.

Here is a decent blog detailing the storm and the aftermath, http://dancingwithkatrina.blogspot.com/

That's all for today.

Astroglide & Milk

After work, I stopped into Target to pickup eggs, a birthday card and a bunch of other items I didn't really need (gotta love this place) and as I approached the checkout line I noticed this woman who clearly was some sort of a crackhead, maybe meth. In either case, she seemed to be in a big rush and was sighing as we waited in line, she had jumped behind me as put my eggs on the belt. I noticed she didn't put anything on the belt though. She noticed that I had a coupon in my hand and she was in awe and kept going on about how excited she was that Target accepted coupons. As I was paying I noticed the gallon of milk, so I think...she must've walked to Target because she has dirty toes, wearing flip flops and I am sure she has no car, so she came to get some milk. But if she is in such a rush, why didn't she go to 7-11 right around the corner??? All of these stories and mental images are flying through my mind THEN as I am picking up my bags I hear her tell the 15 yr old checkout girl that the milk is not hers, but that "this is all I am getting" and she hands over a $6 tube of Astroglide. I totally giggled out loud and she shot me a nasty look. I thought it was hysterical. This woman was in a huff and a puff at 9pm in Target, just for lube.
You just can't make this shit up.

Song for the day: Caring is Creepy - The Shins

Summer is nearly over

Have not been online in a while, which is to say that I have been busy doing crap.
Had a very good french cheese last week, Morbier, i think it was called, i didn't get a new cheese this week though. Also still drinking vinho verde from Portugal, light sparkling wine that screams summer, either red or white.
I am learning to speak french with the help of some at-home course. Applying to grad school to finish this damn library degree has been taking up a lot of valuable time. Finally got around to jogging tonight and luckily Lurch was not in the fitness center, last week he spent nearly 10 minutes talking to me about his pizza fetish and he never even asked my name nor did he tell me his name. odd man.
Toronto trip is out, DH decided against it which is fine with me. I would rather go to Montreal if I am driving to Canada.
Mickey is doing fine, she is being nice to me again. Work is still lame.

Song for the day: All These Things That I've Done - The Killers

Food for thought...

"77% of all marriages are sexless" this is a statistic from sex in the city. I imagine it might be true, this would explain the rampant adultry in our society.

More food for thought, well just food...had super cheap chinese in NYC on sunday, meal and app for less than $9!!! The meal is today's pic.

Tried a great cheese last week, mild and super tasty, Basque Deux Laits. Definitely give it a taste.

What I listened to today

Worked in the sun all day. super tired. I know you are dying to know what I listened to today....:)

Graceland - Paul Simon (the whole album, fun)
Sweet November, Walk this world - Heather Nova
Love will find a way - Tesla (found it scanning the radio, took me back to high school)
When he calls me kitten - Kelley Deal
Do you love me now - The Breeders (kind of annoying band)
Angel of the morning - the chrissie hynde version, maybe its the pretenders(?), her voice rocks
Some Flaming Lips &
Only - Nine Inch Nails (surprisingly addictive!)

There is more but I have to sleep. Don't you feel better knowing this?

Are some things really better left unsaid?

Learned today that marriage is not forever. Not that I didn't know that but I didn't realize that all married men cheat. Does that mean that all married women cheat? He has a great wife, a good life, he's just bored. These thoughts were brought on by a 'pop-in' visit and an interesting 2 hour conversation with 2 "lovers". Neither of which I am all that close friends with. He said he was telling me because I am impartial and I tell it like it is. Now let's see, how many times have I heard this before???? People just tell me things, why?

He should try and work it out with her before leaving, I mean really try. She should let them try and not get in the way. Let him be alone and clear his head then maybe a clearer decision can be reached. All of his cards are on the table, which is where they should be. Who likes to wonder? All of this seems to be killing him now but it won't forever. This kind of trouble has only just begun...

As for my own enlightenment..."I will always want to be her friend, I will always want to sleep with her." Hah! I blogged it for you! Although I am not sure what it means, thanks ;)

There is supposed to be some awesome meteor shower in 2 hours. I am going to try and stay awake or set my alarm to wake up and see it. I hope you are watching it too. It might have been nice to watch it with you. There is always a next time.

Song for the night is still Why by Annie Lennox. Some of the best lyrics put to music.

I luv books, I despise Starbux

Found a whole lot of interesting reads at Borders last night. In the mag section I came upon Difford's Guide to Drinking, which is awesome. I looked it up and found out that it is a UK mag that was called sauceguide or something like that. A quarterly rag about bars and drinking what could be better??? Damn now I'm going to have to have a drink tonight. I just realized that I have not been drinking since last thursday, a week, jeez!

New career I am working on, CIA. Could this not be a better fit for my personality? AND they have librarian positions, which is my second choice. Spending a lot of time this week looking for a school to finish my Masters degree and do it completely online and for less than $12000 a semester, not looking good. Fucking christ!

The newest Target Superstore has a fucking Starbucks in it. WTF???? AND there was a long line of white trashy folk waiting to buy $4 coffee. Do they even like the coffee there or do they think it just looks cool to walk around town all day with a Starfucks cup? Suckers. Baristas! Hah! Puhleeze, they are an older version of Dunkin Donuts teenagers. Get over it you snooty clones. And stay out of my beloved Target.

Listening to Annie Lennox today...:) More specifically Why by Annie Lennox is song of the day, for sure.

Innocence and mayhem all at once

What are we listening to today?

Insomnia for the past 2 days...woke up after 2 hrs of napping to Keane's Your Eyes Open. This set the tone for the morning which led to a car ride including Culture Club's Do you Really want to hurt me, which led to a draggin ass morning which then ended in a chaotic morning. First running to testify in court for a drunk who wound up being taken to the hospital because he came to court drunk. Went out east and saw DB and Jolie which was quietly amusing. East hampton radio must have had me in mind because the afternoon picked up with the music riding the 40 minutes back 'up island'. Some Barenaked ladies and Echo and the Bunnymen lifted my mood a bit but not enough so I switched to some super cheesy station which made my ears bleed. Coldplay is fucking everywhere on the dial so I went back to EH radio and got my Bowie fix for the day which made me happy. Found some Skynyrd which I sang real loud and then laughed at myself when I saw an elderly couple staring up at me. When I got in the car at night to come home, more Keane...fucking inescapable. We might as well be strangers, hmmpf! Good band nevertheless.

After all this, 2 songs of the day: Let's Dance by Bowie. That androgynous freak. AND Going Through the Motions by Aimee Mann.

My top male musicians and not just for listening to: Sting (but of course my dear), Robert Plant, Chris Cornell (the voice not the man)....hmmmm can't finish the list yet.

I forgot the interesting thoughts I had today. I need sleep. Oh I remember, I think Simon Cowell is an ass on American Idol but very amusing otherwise, minus the jowels, he should take care of them with botox or something. Those remind me of Dick. I mean the title of his book is what I say at least once a day, "I don't mean to be rude but..." I am just giving my opinion. Maybe if I wear the same ugly black Armani shirts all the time I can get lots of cash for insulting people, hell I do it for free now!

What is up with that?

Found this craziness today...a fucking warning on my FrozFruit strawberry ice pop:

Notice: This product, when extremely cold, may stick to warm lips or tongue. Allow to warm slightly before eating.

It's a fucking icepop, why would I want it to warm up??? Do we really need a notice for this??? Jeez. Warnings on smokes, hot coffee cups, now ices???? Smoking is harmful, coffee is hot, frozen shit is cold. How fucking stupid are we? Just fucking insane and thats all i can say about it. fucking insane.

One irritating thing about California, everyone crosses at the crosswalk and they give tickets for jaywalking. What if I am drunk and can't make it to the corner? Nobody drives fast either. Somethings about NY are great. Running over pedestrians and having no consideration for others on the road. Hah!

A warning that is useful, stay away from Corey Beach in Blue Point. ICK. got out of the water and was covered in dirt and some oily residue. gross!

Driving home tonight, heard the sweetest song while scanning the radio. It's the song for the day: Lady by Kenny Rogers, awwwww fucking sugary crap music. Gotta luv it sometimes.

I am lovely goddamn it!

Back home haroumph...The flights coming back were not as bad as going, but I did get my bag taken away from me in Chicago because I left it unattended for a fucking minute when I went to pee. of course. Fuck me! I got it back with my charm and charisma, oh and playing stupid! So Mickey and I are back to boring Long Island life and just being here makes me anxious to leave. Her meds worked though and she is not limping at all, but I am sure Mother and Grandfather fed her people food all week. Although, I didn't get the itch to move like I usually do, I had a great time being away and not having to deal with responsibility. Well enough about that...totally wired but will probably crash soon. I posted the pics in the photo album link so check it. Today's pic is of a very drunk me last night and my bestest friend JB. I am so tan!
Song for the day...Extraordinary by Liz Phair.

My toes...

So this is my last day here and I am tired of sightseeing. I got coffee at a quaint place in Coronado and walked around looking for a korean woman to paint my toes. I happened upon a shop that told me I would have to wait 30 min, so I walked down to the local library. It was the most fantastic library I have been to in ages. It is so beautiful, yes beautiful. This island is so groovy. Got my toes done for only $13!!!! I thought cali was supposed to be expensive??? The same job here costs me $23!!!! So then I picked up JB for lunch and we went to La Jolla. Took a walk along the cove and saw some seals on a rock. Oh joy. Then we had super lunch with an awesome view, great fish taco, JB had great tuna soba salad. The food pics are in the album also.. hee heee. After, we went to Silver Strand beach and got tan and played in the water for a while. Finished the USA Today crossword. Met a freaky vet at McP's in Coronado who wanted to give us tickets to some women's tennis event. Evening in Gaslamp, drinks at the Strip Club, which was interesting, grill my own steak???? fuck that. Dinner at Sevilla, which was so fun. Sangria, tapas, paella, etc....fun fun. Then we went to a bar Patricks, which had a blues band which capped off a great week. 2 pics for ya today!

Living the life...

Today I went to Torrey Pines in the morning for a hike, but twas too cold for me. The weather here is strange. Drove back along some local roads and had coffee in Old Town and played on the internet. Took a walk there, refused to allow myself to look at the map and took a detour up some gigantic hill, of course. Then had to walk all the way back, argh! The area is totally a tourist trap and uninteresting aside from a groovy cemetary. Went to Whole Foods and got lunch for JB and me, I LOVE that place!! I hope we get one around here. We went to some park area but left because of the vagrants. We went to the Gaslamp for the evening and wound up getting great Indian food at Monsoon and the irritating hostess insisted I get a fucking bindi on my head. It came off as soon as we left. The meal was awesome though and they did serve wine in huge glasses. I think we went back to the Princess after that.....????

Exploring on my own

Did a walking tour of the Gaslamp Quarter this morning. Had lunch at Ole Madrid, good fish. JB cut out of work and we went to Balboa Park and did a walking tour there. The we took a long drive back and drove through Pacific Beach, Ocean Beach, Sunset Cliffs and to Point Loma and the Cabrillo Monument. So beat from walking....went to Little Italy for dinner and had pizza and wine at a great place. For some silly reason I took off my heels and went to the bathroom barefoot??? It didn't even freak me out when I had t.p. attached to my bare foot!! Then we capped off the night at the Princess Pub, some cheesy british type pub down the block. They have the swankiest looking 7-11 there. Passed out early in my clothes, ugh.

LONG day

Got to San Diego, no problem. Mickey was fine when I dropped her off, we'll see what happens. Had lunch at the Fish Market, disappointing snapper. Took a walk along the Harbor. Fell asleep by the pool, went to Coronado for the evening. Fun little town. Had fine tuna at Hotel del Coronado with too much wine and expensive weak drinks at the bar. Check out the pics!

Watch out cali

Going to California to live the life. Just kidding, will post as I go.....the pics should be interesting to say the least!

Be spontaneous and see what happens for $7.50!

This is what bothers me today...people who drive slow in the left lane. AND have the nerve to brake for no reason. Move out of my fucking way. Ok moving on.
Absolutely gorgeous evening on Georgica Beach in East Hampton. Worked at beach party for some obnoxious couple who had about 40 Germans in town. They had NO manners, jeez! We were behind Calvin Klein's house and down the block from Spielberg and Martha Stewart's compound. ICK. super big houses on the beach using way too much electricity. The sky was amazing though and saw a shooting star, yah! The lot of us sat around and drank beer for a while just soaking it in.
After the Riverview last night for Liza's 38th (!!!) b-day (why does she love that place so much?) came home and couldn't sleep. JB had called earlier and casually asked if I was interested in coming to San Diego for the week. But I said nah..."what about the dog?", "I didn't put in for vacation time", etc. SO...since I was home and bored, I went online just for shits to see how much a flight would be and it was $600. That was too much for spontaneity's sake, but then I remembered that I was close to another free roundtrip on southwest, so I checked my account and more rewards were posted the day before (!), so I called Mother and surprisingly she agreed to watch Mickey for me, so I fucking booked the first available flight out, cost me $7.50 surcharge. That's coffee and smokes, fuck yeah I gotta go! Hope JB is ready! I want to go to Tijuana also. You know I love that kitschy crap. Wish I wasn't so opposed to zoos, supposedly San Diego has the nicest in the world, hmm. So on the way out east, I went to the library (of course) and got some reading material, then stopped into work and left a note that I am not in, ciao losers. Will post pics in the album through the links for y'all to check out.
I just hope Grandfather doesn't feed Moose too much cake and Father doesn't lock her out! I will miss her, I have not been without her for more than 4 days since 1995! No photo today, don't be sad. Was Kids Week on Jeopardy, damn.
Song for the day: Love will find a way - ATB/Heather Nova remix, i think...good for driving at night amongst other things.

I love my moose

Forgot to post the pic of Moose and me in Va Beach...how fucking cute is she!!!

"Baron de Rothschild is behind it all"

This really bugs me...those people who walk down the hall and shuffle their feet. Pick up your fucking feet man!
Scary shit that happened today, came to work and realized when I was driving that I still felt kind of drunk but wasn't sure if I was just not in the mood to come here....intoxilyzer reading .07% Fucking christ! I was dwai at 9am! Not good. I only had 4 drinks, swear! 1 of them was in a pint glass though, hmmm....
Went to see the parent's new dwelling, huge but no yard, I guess its ok since its on a freaking golf course, jeez! they don't even know what golf is, haha. I think I counted 4 bathrooms then stopped counting.
Did you know this? credit at McD's. Was super thirsty and went to McDonald's, havent been there in years but heard that you can use atm card so I went to get a diet coke with my credit card, just because its so insane to use a credit card at a fucking fast food joint. Could they make it any easier to get fat? So of course I just had to buy a grilled chicken sandwich because I haven't had one in 5 days and was starting to go into withdrawal. It was actually not bad, but it was nearly $7! I am really in the mood for good tuna. I am thinking tuna from Blue Honu, I like their food. I think I might still be drunk, nah. I just tested myself again, all zeros.
Got an advert from a travel site, thinking about going to Costa del Sol for Thanksgiving for $550, need a partner for this price though. Also, 4 days at Atlantis in Paradise Island in September for $