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February 15, 2013 · 7:15 AM

BLIZZARDIC PARK: THE LOST WEEKEND

Pardon the cheesy blog post title from a movie I haven’t seen since ~~1994~~ 1997, and don’t remember anything about. I’m sure many of you have heard about this crazy ass snow storm that clobbered the living fuck out of the east coast last weekend? If not, good for you. Like all storms, I generally take what the meteorologists say with a grain Krusty O’s.

But I’m a huge chicken when it comes to snow storms, so I worked from home on Friday. Good thing I did because much to my surprise, it actually did start snowing. I didn’t think it was going to be all that bad though, but I kept up with shoveling the back area because it’s surrounded by a fence and concrete wall. I woke up Saturday morning to let Zorro out. This happened:

I had no idea how to react other than shouting “what in ACTUAL fuck?” aloud to myself. I then proceeded to be the world’s crappiest girlfriend, and woke Andy with my panic about how to get the dog out and if he thinks we have enough dish soap to last us the weekend. Yup.

He shoveled out the front door and made a path to through the back so we wouldn’t lose Zorro in a 4′ snow bank. I don’t know why I was so worried he would drown, he is half Siberian Husky after all. He cut through the snow banks like a freakin’ dolphin escaping tuna fishermen. I fell in a snow bank and he “saved” me by licking my face. Worst snow fake-rescue dog ever!

Normally our area is pretty well plowed. Apparently they forgot all about us, since it actually ya know, snowed a lot. Weird, I know! Also, my neighbors are morons who threw snow onto the street. I submitted a claim to have our street plowed, once Saturday afternoon rolled around and I ran out of things to do that involved not leaving the couch. They didn’t actually plow until Sunday. I was so mad! I’m so grateful to have snow pants because we got stir-crazy Saturday night and walked down the area where the bars are.

I actually had to work from home on Monday again because they did the worst plow-job ever on my street. We also had a giant-ass snow bank blocking our driveway that we needed to kill. I decided to be “that guy” and submit another claim to have our street plowed. I figured it couldn’t hurt, they actually did come back and do another pass…on TUESDAY after I got home from work. Oh, Boston!

During my weekend of pretend agoraphobia, I did get some stuff done. After being with the same car insurance company since I was 16, I decided to switch. I also became addicted to the Simpsons version of The Sims called, Tapped Out. I know you’re all jealous of my Krusty Burger and Jebediah Springfield statue! I also did not win a TV over the weekend from my nephews school raffle. What the heck man?! I needed to win it for Andy so it could be his Christmas gift for the next 7 years. Oh well…

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December 9, 2012 · 6:06 PM

DRAGON ASS

The next couple of weeks will be draggin’ ass. I have 11 days off from work coming and it will be no fun waiting for stupid time to hurry it’s ass up so I can pretend I’m a teenager for a little while and just eat and sleep. Oh yeah, and also enjoy the holidays with family and friends. I haven’t asked for any “big ticket” items. I think I’m all set as far as the latest electronic gadgets and whatnot. I guess that makes me a terrible at pretending to be a tech blogger from my last post? My niece made an elaborate gift matrix for things she wants for Christmas. I wish I was that organized at that age! I also wish I took a picture if it, I was impressed.

Anyway, on to my usual weekend recap!

Andy and I decided to have a date night. I was going to try Hailo, but they failed us. I booked a cab and they confirmed only to call me when they were supposed to be arriving to cancel. So we decided to walk to the main road and hail one, and we were lucky enough to find one. I didn’t realize there was a tree-lighting happening around the corner. Once we were on our way, we tried Red Bones in Somerville. It was pretty good, but I definitely wish I got the steak instead of pulled pork. Oh well, I know better for next time. We also went bar hopping afterwards. Makes me sad the weekend is over, but I’m slowly on my way to 11 days off (PLEASE GET HERE FASTER!).

Loverly couples shot

Beer time!

Red Bones interior

Dranks

Pulled pork

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Super pumped it’s banana bread beer season!

I also darkened my hair a little. Feels more “me”

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November 26, 2012 · 7:20 AM

BEER, TURKEYS, REUNIONS, AND ANNIVERSARIES!

Having the past five days off form work has been less than relaxing to say the least. I started off with some Thanksgiving Eve drinks in my BF’s hometown. Our friend came back to visit from AZ, so it was nice to see him. I had fun except at the last bar we went to. It was too crowded and I got crammed into a corner right next to the entrance. This annoyed me to the point where I actually left the bar alone, and walked down the street to a less crowded Mexican place. I enjoyed a water and a margarita in that sparsely populated bar. It was so nice and relaxing! Then I psyched myself up to return to the bar I dubbed the “7th circle,” as we all thought it was like hell (or Burma). I had to go back before my boyfriend noticed I had been gone wandering alone, for close to an hour. Ooops!

Andy doesn’t like his picture taken.

My camera is “too fancy” for Andy to operate correctly. He took a sequence of 20 photos before I told him to stop.

Beer. Yup.

I passed by a manger on my walk to the Mexican Pub. Someone already stole the baby Jesus!

I had a great Thanksgiving with my family. Thankfully, my nephews didn’t return festering with ticks this year. When I got home, I wasted no time putting up my Christmas decorations. We don’t have many ornaments, but were going next week for some.

Tree Topper

Living Room

Our “freeunion” HS reunion went very well. So well in fact, some have requested another meet up! It was great to catch up with people at a hometown bar without having to buy $75 tickets!

@ginntastic and myself!

Last night, Andy and I celebrated our nine year (NINE) anniversary. We tried this new Brazilian style steakhouse in Boston called, Fogo de Chao. I think the nine year anniversary should be the steak anniversary. It was delicious! You start at the unlimited salad bar. Then you get double-sided steak cards for when you’re ready for steak. When you flip them to green, waiters each toting different steaks, begin to appear at your table. They will slice you cuts of what you want. It was nuts! I tried about seven different kinds of steak. I finally had to flip my card to red so I could start trying some. My favorite was probably the bacon-wrapped filet mignon. It was a great night, it’s always fun to get dressed up!

New shoes and tights!

I love this new bag!

This picture sux because my “MySpace self-portrait” skillz are rusty.

Yummy martini and caramelized bananas!

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November 13, 2012 · 2:30 PM

I FINISHED HARRY POTTER AND A POST UNRELATED TO THIS ACHIEVEMENT

I have been bit by the Christmas bug. I already bought my pre-lit tree (blue-of course!), stockings, tree topper, tree skirt, wreath (named her Wreatha Franklin), and mantle decorations.We’re not setting anything up until after turkey day. I think my tree is going to be smaller than I thought when it’s set, but I live in an apartment so I don’t exactly need a 7′ fir tree (maybe?). But I’ll be “nstagramming” the shit out of my living room once it’s all set up.

Andy and I don’t typically do couples costumes for Halloween. Read: he doesn’t do couples costumes for Halloween. This year I was R2D2 and he an Angry Bird. I found out last week, Angry Birds released a Star Wars edition of the game. Which is the awesomest thing EVER. So HA, we did technically a couples costume this year. Now I have to somehow trick him into a couples costume for next year. This will not be easy. I can’t rely on the Angry Birds people to read my mind again.

I drove down to my BFF’s house 40 miles away this weekend. We always do sushi at the same place, and haven’t had sushi anywhere else that matches it. With Halloween being one of my favorite holidays, I got the “back by popular demand” Halloween roll. This place sometimes does really cool plate art. When my food arrived, I was a little confused. Is it a flying potato? Overweight bird? Nope, we concluded it was a ghost/angel since I got the Halloween roll.

The Great Ghoul of Sushi!

Once our bellies were full of delicious food, we rolled on over for some outlet shopping. One of the places we went was Coach. Mind you, I just got a new bag for my birthday a couple months ago. But, they lure you in with their coupons and sale prices. I couldn’t leave empty handed. I got a couple new bags. I know, I have no will power! Nope, none!

Now after shopping on Saturday night, most people would probably stop by some random place to get drinks. We are not most people. We went back to her area bought some perler beads, and did crafts in her basement. I know, we are sad people. But we enjoy our crafts! Check out the necklaces I made.

Luigi

Moby Dick!

My friend made this Mario. We’re going to wear our Mario & Luigi necklaces to a show in a couple weeks.

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November 2, 2012 · 1:23 PM

I’LL NEVER AUDTION FOR WEST SIDE STORY, AND HOW TO SURVIVE A HURRICANE

I’m sad that Halloween is over as it’s one of my favorite holidays! Andy and I had a great time at the parties we went to last Saturday. Despite the fact I’m not a fan of going to bars on Halloween, I had a good time with my friends.

We got hit with this “Frankenstorm” on Monday. I’m grateful we just got a lot of rain and no damage I feel for the people that did suffer damage and hope they are okay! I worked from home on Monday and we got a delayed start to Tuesday. We didn’t lose power. We spent most of the time playing scattergories and drinking pumpkin beers with our neighbors. We also thought it was a good idea to go play football in the downpour. I think I was the only one that didn’t get soaked because of my trusty Goretex jacket and high Hunter boots!

I also found out some tragic news yesterday, I can’t snap my fingers. I was waiting for the microwave to heat up my cheese wheels. A co-worker was pretending to get antsy, and kept snapping his fingers. I gave my feeble attempt at snapping, and was swiftly jeered at. I can (sort-of) snap with my left hand, but I had a band-aid on from my biometric screening at the health fair. But basically, I can’t snap my fingers people! This means I can never audition for West Side Story. WHAT WILL I DO WITH MY LIFE! I CAN NEVER BE A SHARK OR JET GIRL!

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October 23, 2012 · 9:16 AM

BOOTS, ROBOTS, AND DANCING TREES

I’m very sad that I need to retire my favorite pair of brown boots. They’ve been with me since 2009! After doing some searching, I think I’ve found a replacement pair. The only issue, they are about $20 cheaper on this sketchy-ish website. I think I should just play it safe and pay more from a trusted online retailer. I was going to get a pair from work, but I’d have to wait another month for them to get more boot options in. I can’t wait that long!

Hello new boots, you have a lot to live up to!

I went to a really fun costume party over the weekend. It was held by some musician friends, which meant professional sound systems and lighting. Pretty sweet! We had a lot of fun ruling the beer pong table for awhile. I was dressed as R2D2 and made friends with a flamingo, ninja turtle, Jem, and Princess Leia. Surprised? I also danced like a robot with my new pirate friend. We all tried to avoid the guy that came dressed in jeans and hoodie with dozens of tree branches sticking out of his body. The floor was covered in leaves by nights end. This party was much more fun than the weird one last weekend in Brookline. As mentioned, I have three costume parties on Saturday. I highly doubt we’ll make all three, but 1-2 should be feasible.

My awesome-o R2D2 costume re-purposed from a Tin Man. I think I’m going to cut off the shoulder pads, reads a little football player.

My R2D2 cap I made from a bowl. I have to find more glow sticks to put in the scope.

Cool light show!

My pirate-pumpkin beer selection for the night.

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October 9, 2012 · 2:30 PM

I COULD USE MORE LONG WEEKENDS AND SCALLOPS

I had a fun long weekend which basically consisted of consuming mixed drinks with Red Bull and eating loads of scallops. We had some delicious Golden Temple food on Thursday. I’m still drooling for their fried scallops! I worked from home on Friday, which was good because there is always inexplicable traffic the Friday before Columbo’s Day. Anyway, that night was date night for the boyfriend and I. We went to a few bars in the area where we got tasty food and pumpkin beer tasters. I just love pumpkin beer!

Delicious drink!

Fried pickles

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Philly cheese steak mac and cheese

Pumpkin beer taster

Tried some Dirty Blonde at Sunset after

On Saturday, we stayed close to the area for some more Chinese food and darts at a local bar. I made myself pass on scallops, shocking.

We don’t really even know how this happened, but it did!

I actually passed up Dexter on Sunday to head out for dinner and sake with my friend. We went to a great place called FuGaKyu in Brookline. We got a private room and gobbled up some tasty food! This time, I didn’t pass up on the scallops. I had a delightful spicy scallop roll. I just want to eat sushi everyday. I don’t care about all the mercury, I’m sure it’s fun to be mad as a hatter. I could only manage to do some shopping and watch Dexter on Monday.

Mango fried ice cream

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October 1, 2012 · 10:47 AM

ODE TO SEPTEMBER

I’m always surprised at how quickly summer passes. I had to quit flip flops this week, it’s so sad! September was a busy month with my birthday and all. Since I was sucky at blogging most of the month, I’ll do another bulleted recap with pictures. Oh my!

September:

Spending Labor Day with my BFF by the beach and pancakes from The Pancake Man. I posted some pics in my August recap.
Quality bowling time with my #VEDA-rans. Patrick made an awesome video of this! #VEDA- Day 38?

This place hasn’t been updated since the Reagan administration.

Myspace duck face shot

Can’t own boring bowling shoes

My sister surprised me with a massive amount of lawn flamingos for my bday. BEST.DAY.EVER!

I met Wakefield from the Sox. Super nice guy!

Headed to Maine for some bday fun that involved outlet shopping, seaside dinner, and seaside drinks. I have better pics on my Nikon, but I’ve been too lazy to upload them.

Good nomz

Dinner view

Perkins Cove

Delicious drink

Testing out my attachable iPhone fisheye lens.

I just love Maine…

I had a (mostly) lovely bday outing at Yard House. I’m glad my friends were able to make it and the food was good. We did have a bad waitress though. I complained to the GM and she worked with us to be sure we were happy. I wrote a Yelp! review on it and I’m over it already. I just hope she finds another career path, for the sake of other patrons!

Andy got me an Xbox Kinect for my bday with a dancing game. My BFF stayed over after my bday outing and we DANCED OUR FACES OFF most the following day to the gift she gave me, Michael Jackson: The Experience. It’s seriously the best game ever!
We had some adventures with creeper dog.

Andy and I had a pretty chill past weekend. We went to party, got some more Kinect games, and WATCHED DEXTER!

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July 31, 2012 · 8:31 PM

MY CAMERA THINKS I’M ON A BOAT.

Is it sad that I’m still tired from Sunday night?! I had a fun weekend and I should blog about it before #VEDA starts tomorrow. On Saturday, I went to see Alexz Johnson. That girl has just an amazing voice! I spotted her in the audience for a minute taking pictures of the opener. I figured she wouldn’t play anything from Instant Star, but that’s fine. I liked what she did play, and I downloaded some of her songs. I would definitely see her again. I felt bad for Andy though, he had to go with me since my friend couldn’t make it. She went to the ER for a crazy migraine she has had for 2 weeks, YIKES! She was still considering going, but I told her live music and a 40 mile drive probably wouldn’t be ideal for a migraine. After the show we met up with friends for drinks and darts. I mostly watched the Olympic men’s gymnastics though. Could you blame me?

Sunday was another great day, Ginny and I made our 7th grade dreams come true. We saw Our Lady Peace! It was an amazing show, they even did 2 encores! It was great to see them, even if it was 15 years later (OMG). Our friends B and M went to their show in 1997 and neglected to invite Ginny and myself, how rude. I’m glad we finally got our 7th grade revenge, haha! I think our tickets should have been marked “Obstructed View” though. We got to the show early enough to scout a spot near the bar and bathrooms. Unfortunately, some tall and large-headed people shoved their way in front of us. I wish they had some consideration for us short folks that were there first.I mean, they could easily see over us. I had to hold my phone and camera well above my head to take pictures. At least it was a good workout for my triceps. Aside from the big heads, it was a good time. I was happy they played 3 of my favorite songs and the encores were just so amazing.

Andy got tickets to another show for this Friday, and I’m taking my friend to Cirque for her bday on Saturday. Her birthday was in March, which is when I bought the tickets. It’s going to be so much fun! This will mark my 4th time at a show, each time just gets even more amazing than the last.

Now for pictures! I brought my new Nikon to OLP, but some of the pics came out blurry so I’ll just post phone pictures. It turns out I had it on some weird setting for when you’re on a boat, and that made the pictures blurry. It should be fixed now, I just wish I knew that beforehand. Oh well!

Alexz Johnson

Opening band for OLP

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July 11, 2012 · 10:21 AM

ALEXZ JOHNSON, TEEN NICK NERDINESS, SHITTY MOVIES EVERYONE BUT ME WANTS TO SEE, AND WEEKENDS.

I was on Instagram the other day, when a follower posted pics of her tickets to see Alexz Johnson in IL. I was like “OMGMINDEXPLSIONLOUDNOISES…WHAT?!”. If you know me, then you know I’m a 90s’ Disney and Teen Nick nerd, that also loves CTV (Canadian Television…Ready Or Not, anyone, anyone?!). Yes, I’m an American, but Canadian TV is awesome!

I watched Teen Nick upon it’s invention, back in the good ol’ days when it was called Noggin/The N. Anyway, I didn’t really like Alexz on the Disney series So Weird, but I think that had to do with her coming on later in the series and she kinda seemed like an annoying younger sister. I will forgive her trespasses, as she was on Teen Nick later for Instant Star. I loved this show, and was ashamed of myself for only thinking it was on for a season or two. I guess I was too busy in college doing silly things like “studying” to keep up with the series for it’s entirety. Imagine my surprise when I was cruising Netflix last year and saw a few seasons on instant! Needless to say, I watched the shit out of the series. I think I should get the box set.

Anyway, upon the discovery of Alexz Johnson still singing and touring no less, she is coming to Boston soon. I’M TOTALLY GOING! I was making myself dinner last night and was wondering what poor friend I could drag to this show. E agreed to go, as long as she isn’t working (!!!!!!). That’s what BFF’s are for, letting you geek the hell out to former Teen Nick stars with no judgment. I have no idea if for legal purposes, if she can actually play anything from Instant Star. I really really really hope she can play Waste My Time. Please Alexz?! Okay, confession time. I’m listening to the song on loop right now from YouTube #sorry #imnotsorry.

Moving on…I really don’t understand why every single person on my Twitter feed and Facebook is either seeing Magic Mike or Ted. REALLY PEOPLE, REALLY?!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!!! I just don’t get it, honestly. Mila Kunis and Marky Mark should get an award for Most Awkward On-Screen Couple. What was casting thinking on that one? Then again, I guess it doesn’t really need to be believable when Seth Macfarlane plays a pervy Teddy Bear named Ted o_O. I like Family Guy and all, but this looks about as entertaining as a Bea Arthur sex tape. Side note, I might see Magic Mike on DVD since I would be promised some Joe Manganiello shirtless time. Hey, I’m only human. At least I’m not seeing it for Chazz Tanningham and his “OMG DANCE”, “OMG DANCE MORE”, “OMG DANCE MORE MORE WITH A BULLETPROOF VEST” movies.

Moving on, I had a fun weekend. I went to a BBQ/pool party/dance party/summer camp party. There were also tractors, chickens, and dragonflies involved. Kinky stuff.