"i cook?" written by Fellyconnelly on estrip.org

08/07/07 12:22 - 79ºF - ID#40424

i cook?

I am not a cook. I don't know much about cooking, nor have I ever really had much interest.

that being said, I'm starting to experiment. Zucchini and squash stir fry; with spinache pasta

and salsa chicken... with roasted potatoes and corn on the cob!

yeah who knew i could cook?

lauren and i have also taken to eating our dinners outside on the balcony. Nobody else seems to use their balcony like we do... though the neighbors seem to be venturing out there more and more... are we starting a balcony revolution?

on another note...

any of you mac users know how to export video that has been saved into iphoto? it doesn't seem to have that function available...

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08/06/07 06:16 - 80ºF - ID#40413

apartment paint job

Okay so the painting is all done and I have photos where you can see some of it.... i don't have a super fancy smancy camera that takes wonderful photos but i did what i could...

That's my cat. On my bed. I have a new bed that is being shipped to me sometime at the end of the month, but the point of this photo is that you can see my pumpkin patch/misty evening paint job.

There is my desk by the door. And one of the fully packed bookcases. notice the misty evening as an accent wall.

oh yes and then there is lauren in the kitchen.

oh what a tiny apartment. i love it.

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08/06/07 12:12 - 73ºF - ID#40398

on that note....

Lauren just found 'the best of soul train' on tv and i just stared slack jawed for a good ten minutes....cocaine was definetely in high use on that show.

happy birthday james!!!!!!!!!

and how special do i feel that i got mentioned in a sticky?

too bad for all ya'll that i'm boring in person. haha jokes on you!

bed time!

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08/05/07 12:27 - 69ºF - ID#40384

Lucky Dog

This morning my mother informs me that my dog died. I tell myself repeatedly that it is good that he is out of his misery. He was pretty damn old and he was having seizures and lost his eyesight. It was so bad that my mom even wanted to have him put down, but my dad wouldn't let her. He died very soon after the seizures began.

I am just glad that I got to see him again last weekend. He was such an old stinky dog, but he was still my Lucky. (that was his name)

a thought: why is it that most dogs named 'Lucky' are mangy little buggers? mine was.

put together an impromptu barbeque at my bro - bob's house. invited my other brother too. it was nice to sit and relax in the cool day of today.

and returned with yellow squash, green peppers and a green tomato. oh and a couple of cucumbers. I already have a zucchini from the last visit - so now i have to figure out how to prepare it in a way that lauren actually eat it.

look at me... i'm an exciting party animal! it is saturday night!

i'm going to bed.

fellyconnelly writes at 10:48:08 08/05/07 - Comment #21711: thanks for all the well wishins... i had to leave my lucky when i went away to college 10 yrs ago, so its harder now for my dad than it is for me...

lucky was, indeed, the perfect name for that dog. he had severe asthma, he had a knack for barking so loud and much that he pulled muscles in his back and couldn't use his back legs for a week, he became incontinant, blind in one eye (then in the other)and was missing teeth (which added to the sewer mouth). but he was a good boy.

jenks writes at 10:00:37 08/05/07 - Comment #21704: aww... So sorry about your dog.
My alice just died in march- and I haven't even been home since then, so I don't think it's really hit me.
It's tough. :(

tinypliny writes at 09:03:17 08/05/07 - Comment #21702: Lucky is definitely in a better place. Its not fun to have a double whammy of seizures and blindness. :/

You could make a zucchini stir-fry with carrots, broccoli, portabella mushrooms, water chestnuts and tofu. Yum!

drew writes at 07:56:00 08/05/07 - Comment #21700: sorry about your Dog. If you need your "old dog fix," you can come and visit our 12 year old lab.

ladycroft writes at 01:52:15 08/05/07 - Comment #21699: isn't that how it usually works? "Lost: dog with three legs, one eye, missing most of his fur, goes by the name Lucky". :) I'm sorry he had to leave you but I'm happy he's no longer hurting.

mk writes at 12:56:50 08/05/07 - Comment #21698: oh and she is definitely a mangy little bugger, hahaha. she had a litter of puppies when she was 2 and she was never quite the same after. always cranky and paranoid and barking at every unusual noise she heard, everything from a car door closing to a dog barking in a the distance to one of us accidentally closing a drawer too hard.

mk writes at 12:54:45 08/05/07 - Comment #21697: i'm sorry to hear about your dog, but it sounds like he lived a long, happy life!

i have a dog named Lucky too. actually i just posted pictures and she is in a couple of them.

it's interesting to me that of the Luckys that i know or know of, mine is the only girl Lucky. i never thought of it as being a boy name, but apparently we were wrong! considering she's 11, i think it's a little late to go back and change it. :)

hope you're enjoying the b-lo so far!

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08/02/07 09:52 - 80ºF - ID#40362

hot thursday

sooooo lauren and i took the bus down to the square.

first of all, i have to say that the bus driver lady was hilarious. calling out the names of all the streets and in between that she seemed to be talking to the people on the streets. as she was driving down the road... as in, 'oh honey, you better jump right back up on that curb, you see me comin, don't you - PEARL STREET! hey are you waitin for me or what, wave your arm a bit - COURT STREET" or whatever.. it was funny..

anyway - the square was nice... we sat in the grass and watched melissa ferrick and all the buffalo lesbians. it was strange sitting and watching them all. i swear some of these gals look like if they had balls they would be grabbin them. they just look like they are trying to be really tough... i can't imagine how much drama is going on with all of them... i made up all kinds of stories about them and it was fun.

but somewhere in the midst of it all, i started thinking about my friends back in new paltz.... watching these people all meet and greet their friends and work the crowd... well it kinda was like a wake up call... hey... you don't live in new paltz anymore... you don't have that security of that big exclusive group of lesbians that had no drama.. (or very little)

its a whole new world now.

well, so then we decided to walk home... boy that was a long ass hot walk home. but we did it and it kinda felt good. i think we are going to take long walks around buffalo more.

has anyone seen the superhero reality show on sci fi channel? wow.

fellyconnelly writes at 07:23:06 08/03/07 - Comment #21635: haha i'm so amused by all of your many sightings... we are like the wheres waldo of estrip!
and yes mike, i beleive that we were at that corner somewhere in that almost two mile walk...
how exciting!

metalpeter writes at 05:55:19 08/03/07 - Comment #21631: Glad you two had a good time. In terms of the Superhero show I haven't seen any of this seasons episodes I did see it last year. I can't say if it works the same way as last years show but how it worked last year is: Stan Lee hosts it and makes all the decisions I think. Every person comes up with their own Name and Identy and costume. They are put into chalanges where they have to do stuff or have a goal. For example change into uniform without being seen. There was a part last year where everyone was supposed to get to some point and there was a lost kid by the fountain and everyone but like one person ran past her and I think that she also found the kids mother to. The tasks are supposed to test your superhero characters. If memory serves who ever won got there character as a comic book. I'm not sure if it is a full series or mini series and I'm not sure what other prizes there where. But a someone who really wants to be a superhero doesn't really do it for the prizes do they?

theecarey writes at 10:52:43 08/03/07 - Comment #21611: So you want to be a superhero- yeh, I saw it. once. I havent paid enough attention to know what the premise is. Is this a farce or do they *really* want and expect to be superheros? What do they get in the end if they survive (yeh, wrong show) to the end--superpowers? a cape? bedazzled spandex leotard?

dont think I ever wanted to be a superhero.. but having a superpower or two might have its upside. :)

mike writes at 09:44:44 08/03/07 - Comment #21604: we may have spotted you guys on franklin (? maybe pearl) and chippewa? Were you on that corner at any point last night? You are such a celebrity with spottings all over town! Our own paris hilton!

chico writes at 09:30:02 08/03/07 - Comment #21603: Spotted you and Lauren walking up Elmwood Ave last night just before 7:30 pm, wanted to holler after you but we were driving south and you were walking north, and I was in the passenger seat... still, good to see you out and about!

fellyconnelly writes at 12:11:01 08/03/07 - Comment #21600: drama is for TNT. It is funny because I just realized today that the people who were a part of my old circle were there because they slept with somebody who was already in the circle. And yet it still was less drama filled than many circles.

"so you want to be a superhero" is the name of it i think. (the superhero reality tv show, not the circle of lesbian friends) (though that name could apply too.)

james writes at 12:05:59 08/03/07 - Comment #21598: And I hope your pack of lesbians here is as close to drama free as possible.

Drama.. the same word used to describe King Lear's slip towards madness and Mac the Knife's debauchery also describes Cindy forgetting to call back Brandy and Tommy getting pissed because Joey puked on the couch. What a world, what a language.

And there is a superhero reality TV show? I that Drawn Together was that show?

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08/02/07 12:12 - 77ºF - ID#40349

thursdays in the....

tomorrow we have decided to step out of this paint and bleach smelling apartment. And this time it won't be to go to wegmans.

I just checked out the Thursdays in the square and found out that Melissa Ferrick is a special guest tomorrow night. Lauren is in love with Melissa Ferrick. So we are going.

Of course if any of you are going to be out there, you can find us quite easily. Lauren will be drooling and doing all that she can to bumrush the stage and throw herself bodily at Melissa Ferrick's cowering self on stage. I will be the one doing all that i can to hold back Lauren, while scowling with intention at Melissa Ferrick.

Sooooooooooo..... this is the point wherein I open myself up and beg and plead for assistance and directions. Ohmygod its a lesbian asking for directions!

Seriously, I was just checking out the nfta metro website and i think that somewhere along the lines either my brain has turned to butterscotch pudding as a result of long periods of bleach filled bathroom scrubbing, or the metro maps were written in hieratic hieroglyphs.

from what i can gather, if i were to use the busstop at 358 elmwood, i should take the 20H downtown to... (?) and then how to get back to the 358 is beyond me.

somehow i managed to getmyself around NYC by myself, but Buffalo still alludes me. I would just drive if i thought that i could park anywhere near the square. oh and i hate parallell parking.

tinypliny writes at 07:42:36 08/02/07 - Comment #21590: Compared to Rochester, Buffalo's NFTA is awesome. :)

No, seriously. I love it. I know those time-tables are hideously confusing but give them enough time and quite miraculously, they do make sense.

Well compared to NYC's metro, Buffalo's transport still has a long long long long way to go.

Compared to Prague's metro, Buffalo's NFTA is awful.

fellyconnelly writes at 03:32:23 08/02/07 - Comment #21572: thanks everyone for some great directions!hopefully i wont get TOO lost... but i'm writing all this down..

leetee writes at 11:24:11 08/02/07 - Comment #21563: Yes, it's the same bus back. You just need to catch it in slightly difference place. And you have a few options where. Either walk south on Main Street to Division (one big city block) where all the buses end up. Or walk west on Court, past Pearl to Franklin. I also think that the 20 stops somewhere on Court before it gets to Niagara Square and up Delaware.

jenks writes at 11:01:37 08/02/07 - Comment #21562: much better solution- Find other people going (hint hint estrippers who's going out tonight?! [not me, i am going to free dinner at fiamma- woot!] [i HATE woot]) and hitch a ride with them. ;)

fellyconnelly writes at 10:43:36 08/02/07 - Comment #21560: wow great info everybody!
but... if i do take the bus... is it the same one that comes back?

dcoffee writes at 08:59:41 08/02/07 - Comment #21554: It's been quite a few years since I rode the 20 every day to School. But on its trip downtown I believe there is a stop at Main Place Mall on Pearl st. Get off there or at Court st which would be the stop before, if it stops there.
Or, do what I do and ride a bike. By far the quickest way to get downtown from Allen and the Elmwood village. We take Richmond to Allen, to Franklin, to Court St.
Yea, NFTA is confused not you.

ladycroft writes at 01:29:18 08/02/07 - Comment #21552: ditto what leetee said, it blows. Since it's nice out though you can alway just walk over to the subway stop at summer and ride it right to the square. can't get lost! it's about a mile from where you are, i used to live just around the corner from you :)

leetee writes at 12:52:37 08/02/07 - Comment #21551: It's not you. Its the NFTA site -- it blows.

My advice is, if you can, use the site along with something else. In my case, i go for google maps, because i find them the easiest to navigate. I hate mapquest and i find yahoo maps slow. But i digress.

From what i can tell, all you need to do is take the 20 Elmwood bus towards Downtown, and i don't think it matters if it is the A, B, H or T... or Q... or Z. The bus will go down Elmwood through Allentown where Elmwood takes a small curve at Virginia, then past Edward, Tupper and both N and S Johnson Park and the ever infamous Chippewa before making a left onto Huron. From there it will go past Delaware and Franklin where it will make a right onto Pearl. I'm not exactly sure where the stops are, but Pearl and Court would be the closest you can get to LaFayette Square, which is a block east at Main.

Hope some of that diatribe helps!

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07/31/07 10:31 - 78ºF - ID#40333

blue moon

today lauren and i used up my 400 dollar credit on amazon.com. we bought a bedframe, slipcover for the couch and a floor lamp.

also managed to get the rest of the clothes put away.

and then we sanded down and repainted our stools.

and this large wooden chair that my mother gave us.

i went to hang my huge mirror on the wall but realized that the stud is not directly in the center of the wall that i want to put it on, so now we have to go out and get some anchors for it.

we don't have a coffee table. i've been checking craigslist for free ones...

i'm so damn exhausted yet again...
sorry... no photos yet...

QUESTION: where does everyone go for meat? (haha no really?)

hodown writes at 03:03:16 08/01/07 - Comment #21525: Federal Meats is super quality and well priced and really friendly. Wegmans is also really quality and again low priced!

fellyconnelly writes at 09:52:20 08/01/07 - Comment #21508: you guys really know your meats...

how are federal and johnies meats in terms of pricing? i like good meat, but i also don't have a jobby job yet...

also - i tried amvets, but nothing there caught my eye... i'll try the stock exchange, but i think i'll have to wait till lauren's check comes in from her loans..

zobar writes at 08:20:26 08/01/07 - Comment #21498: For sausages & the best bacon you will ever eat: Spar's European Sausage.
:::link:::

- Z

tinypliny writes at 12:59:37 08/01/07 - Comment #21495: Someone told me that the halal/kosher meat place two doors up from Guercio's is a good place to shop - but not being a meat eater, I can't vouch for the verisimilitude of this assertion.

tinypliny writes at 12:55:12 08/01/07 - Comment #21494: Or for nearly free totally rocking coffee tables - try Amvets on Elmwood. I saw a few excellent (but heavy) ones there this weekend.

james writes at 11:24:47 07/31/07 - Comment #21490: Johnies Meat Market on Hertel ave is awesome. They have good chicken sausage and premade Italian goodies. They also have duck breast and cornish hens. Though I can't say if it is better than Federal.

For coffee tables I go to the Stock Exchange, also on Hertel. Our coffee table is so super awesome it makes me cry a little. The owner is crazy nice and if he doesn't have something you like he knows the contents of every antique store in town and has a dozen catalogues for new, sexy stuff. If you drool over mid-century modern stuff like I do CouCoU, or what ever the hell it is on Hertel by Parkside is a trip to look through.

mrmike writes at 10:55:49 07/31/07 - Comment #21483: Federal Meats on Delware

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07/30/07 10:23 - 78ºF - ID#40318

the spice girls have reunited

I'm feeling a bit more myself now...
I cannot even begin to tell you why i felt it entirely neccessary to spend five days of serious apartment painting and organizing before i felt somewhat human. I still don't feel entirely human... i think there is still a bit of the beast left inside of me but i'm too damn tired to let it out.

All I have left to do is paint the bathroom. the smallest room of the apartment, though that isn't saying much as my apartment IS rather small. Still i'm avoiding it.

There is still so much to do. So much left to put away. All my pictures and paintings I need to hang. So many clothes I need to put away. I'm not the type of person who could live with boxes laying around for months. I think the older i get, the more OCD i get.

But pulling that damn couch up those tiny stairs was the last straw and now i've put my foot down. I'm relaxing for a couple days dammit.

Oh and I had a second interview for Wireless Zone - an independant wireless retailer for Verizon. They loved me and I'm sure that they will hire me. They apparently are VERY busy. Problem is that it is a thirty minute drive. That only will bother me in the winter, really.

But I have another really juicy and delicious opportunity that requires time, research and patience. I'll have to write about that one another time though. It is deserving of a post in itself and this one is already too long.

I think i'm going to go lay down on my 900 lb couch and watch some free tv.

have i ever mentioned that i love buffalo?

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07/28/07 11:17 - 74ºF - ID#40288

wegmans is my baby daddy

i'm hoping the worst of it all is over.

today i moved a 900 lb couch up to my living room. it really is a hideous couch, but i have a bunch of fabric and i'm hoping to transform it as we have transformed this apartment.

seriously though, i think the couch might have caused serious internal injury. We had to take both doors off their hinges and heave. two people at the top, two people at the bottom.

at one point i questioned whether or not i had any ability to go on living. that was about half way up.

at another point i almost passed out.

i also was in the sun all day at a christening for my second cousing. i'm approximately the color of those hideous red curtains that i have found mixed in with the stuff i have moved in.

so now i'm reading about all the (e:strip)pers hanging out at the 24 and i'm wondering how i 'm awake enough to read this, write this, or comprehend any of it, and yet i want to go play.

forgive me (e:society)... i'm almost ready to come out of hiding...

just a little nap first...

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07/27/07 10:45 - 72ºF - ID#40265

pumpkin patch and misty evening

those are the names of our new bedroom colors.

by the by...

we are here in buffalo now. since tuesday.

we have been spending 12 hour days painting like madwomen.

so pardon the absence, we are insane.

also - i am getting the dreaded blue screen of death on my computer. i have screenshots of the technical info. anyone know of a dell authorized repair center? i believe that I have a one year warrenty. or if i send you a screen shot could you tell me what my problem is? (that is, my computer problem)

back to the grindstone.

uncutsaniflush writes at 10:06:16 07/29/07 - Comment #21383: hmmmm, if y'all are "ridiculously anal" about painting then I think y'all would get along great with (e:leetee). She's the only person I know who uses an artist brush on trim to make sure it looks right. To put it another way, "good enough" doesn't exist in her vocabulary.

fellyconnelly writes at 11:10:08 07/28/07 - Comment #21333: well the blue screen of death is only happenin occasionally.

lee tee - we were spending 12 hour days painting. we are ridiculously anal. i think you would have run out screaming within minutes!

tinypliny - misty evening is like a blueish gray color. great with both orange and tan suedish colors!

tinypliny writes at 11:00:06 07/27/07 - Comment #21305: Hey, welcome to Elmwood! You must live in a cool complex - they don't allow any sort of painting over at where I live. Is misty evening a wild lavender/peach colour?

leetee writes at 08:24:22 07/27/07 - Comment #21300: Welcome, officially, to Buffalo!

If you need/want help with painting, email me. I like painting. I can't promise to be a madwoman, though... wait... perhaps i can... or am...

metalpeter writes at 06:37:54 07/27/07 - Comment #21297: I don't remember where the dell repair place is off hand but I think it isn't to far from Buffalo. When we first had ours we had a faulty CD Drive. They sent someone to replace it. I wish I had a clue about the blue screen. I agree with (e:jenks) that you should go to the after the garden walk get togather. If for no other reason to take a break from working and to relax a bit.

jenks writes at 04:21:12 07/27/07 - Comment #21293: sorry, no clue about the dell-
But welcome to town!

You should come to PMT's post-garden-walk shindig tomorrow!

james writes at 11:08:17 07/27/07 - Comment #21286: When had a Dell and it would die I would call them up. It took a few horrid hours but they helped me fix it. And I know nothing about these machines. So, give that a try.

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