HAPPY 25th BIRTHDAY MATT!!! I HOPE IT IS EVERYTHING YOU WANT IT TO BE!!! (wow that sounds so card from your elderly great aunt type of greeting) Anywho, happy birthday. I hope I can do my part in making your party interesting and memorable.

I passed the test!!! YES!! That's a load off my back. With the nervousness gone now a fun St. Patty's Day weekend can commence. Tonight some country line dancing with the crew followed by a short day at work tomorow and doing some deliveries where I get some tips which is nice. Then Jill's birthday dinner and going out tomorrow night and Matt's birthday on Saturdya. And then the St. Patty's Day Parade and all that entails on Sunday. YES WHAT A GREAT WEEK!!!

I almost forgot (how could I forget?) A visit by (e:howdown) !! YES! That is always a party!

Wow! I am so gullible and should never be on a jury. I honesly could believe anything someone is trying to convince me of. I watched some like 20/20 or Dateline or Larry King or something speical about this guy who supposedly had murdered his wife in like the 70's. Anyway, while he was talking I was so convinced he was innocent and could not believe he was so wrongly convicted like it actually made me upset he was in jial for something he didn't do. Then the victim's brother was on talking and i was like on wow the guy in jail totally did do it, I can't believe he tricked me. I can honestly be swayed to believe anything..seriusly try it out sometime and see if you can convnice me of something completely ridiculous and then later on of a compelety opposite ridiculous thing.

I think sometimes I am bad at making new friends because I am so unwilling to give up on my old firneds for even a minute. LIke only if nothing is happening with them will I be willing to hang out with a new person no matter how much I want to just cuz I feel like that is how it always was. Like I can't imagine saying no to hanging out with them for someone else. I should work on that. I am trying to change that...hopefully it will work.

Did anyone else hear that Dennis Quaid confessed today to being anorexic. I guess years ago he had to lose lots of weight for a role and since then has been anorexic on and off. Like he said everytime he looks in the mirror, all he sees is fat. This makes me think about two things...

1. Dennis Quaid is not really skinny so um is he really anorexic or publicity stunt?

2. if he is really anorexic then do you think that is why Meg Ryan left him? I totally could see her doing that. She is dumb...i don' t like her...i haven't since she dated russell crowe...eww.

Me, (e:mk), jen and diana decided to go to East Aurora for the day yesterday. It was nice out and so we wanted to just walk around and shop and eat. It was nice. We went to Vidler's which I love. It is just chock full of crap and penny candy. And they have a popcorn machine where you get a bag of popcorn for like 10 cents. Literally 10 cents. It is awesome. I also bought some tasty penny candy and FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS I FOUND CANDY CIGARETTES!!! I loved candy cigarettes when I was little but then they stopped having them anywhere but they had them there and they were so good. We went through like six packs yesterday, I am such a kid when I get candy, as in I have to eat it all right away. We also found if you light a candy cigareete, it smells good like a smore. Me and my friends are such classy 22/23 year olds that we were pretending to smoke fake cigarettes all night while we were out/at spot/ambrosia/walking. When will we stop being so cool!?!

I found some good finds while shopping. Besides the candy cigarettes and popcorn I also bought a video called Alice in Wonderland in Paris. I guess after she went to Wonderland, the next best place is Paris.It is about how after Wonderland she wanted to go to Paris. And she meets Francois a business mouse who is doing a cheese survey. And she will only tell him her favorite kind of cheese if he takes her to Paris. So he feeds her a magical cheese and then the fun ensues....how super random! I can't wait to watch it! I also bought a book at a used book store called 101 uses for a dead preppie. I just thought that was random too and it only cost 92 cents. Except you had to crawl under a table to look at the 92 cent books. None of my friends would but I have no shame and thank god I don't becuase I was able to find that great book.

Well I am loving this nice weather, even if it is rainy today at least it is warm...too cheers for spring!!!

No, not the kind of boomerangs those crazy aussies use but the new restaurant on Niagara Street sorta near the Peace Bridge. Me and (e:Mk) waited an hour last night to get a table. It was crazy though any place that has fish fries on a friday in lent in buffalo is always packed. I wouldn't have minded waiting except the guy who was seating definetely didn't like us for some reason. He definetely seated people who came in after us before us and was like totally ignoring us. The waiter was nice though and I tihnk totally noticed and offered to make us free drinks and stuff so that was nice even though we said we didn't want any. Anywho, once we got seated the food and service was good and so it it was good overall except the stupid host. His sheet where he wrote down peoples names was really crazy, their was no list-like quality about it , it was just names scribbled all over it everywhere. ANyway, so if you are going to go my recommendation is make reservations. Oh and be Italian. Everyone that worked and/or was eating there looked Italian, except Mary Kate, I tihnk that may be why we weren't seated fast. Cuz she is a craz yIrishmen.

After that we went to Friday's for dessert with Matt and (e:diana) and it was ok. I really don't like Friday's though except their tasty mints.

Then it was off to SoHo with (e:amanda) and jessica where they knew the bartender who gave us free drinks and shots which was nice. And VIP passes so you can cut in line and not pay cover. I have ended up at SoHo a lot lately and would never choose to go there proly but it has ended up fun.

Then I ended up going to pink and met up with (e:lilho) , (e:terry) and chris from california. The Pink and Soho have very different crowds and neither is really my scene or actually both are kinda I guess. I am not sure what my scene is. Anywho thats all for now.....

So I found this little number in an anthology of poems and drawings circa 1989. The catch is it is by an (e:strip)per. Can any of you guess who it is or do any of you remember writing it?

Appreciation

Appropriate
Praise from
Person to person,
Raising one;s
Esteem.
Complimentary.
Indescribable feeling of
Acceptance
To be on of the gang.
It's a nice feeling
Of
Need.

Anyone know whose this is?

I love the photo booth at Frizzy's. The sign now says it takes 7 minutes for a photo. I swear it used to say 2 but it always took like 7 anwyay but the new sign makes it seem much longer. Anywho, I love the photo booth and have quite the collection of photos from it over the years...so many good times. Here is one from Teres's going away party...hopefully more to come as I get control of them from my frineds (I like to be the holder of all pictures/memories)





Me and Dave

I LOVE THE OSCARS! It is probably my favorite day of the year. I love it so much that I started watching preshow at around 1130 am and watched almost straight through til now while I am still watching the post show on E!. It is my dream to one day go to the Oscars, wel lmor ethe after parties. Me and (e:jill) think we are just going to start a rival post party that will rival the Governor's Ball and start wooing the celebrities that way. We don't have much to offer, excpet maybe some Gordon Lightfoot cds and some tasty nacho chip creations. But hey there are plenty of c-list celebrities out ther ethta need to go somewhere. So anyway, waht are some of the tings I saw and learned in my 12 hour Oscarathon

1. I watched a behind the scenes look at a commerical that was going to air during the Oscars. It was an American Express one by M. Night Shaymalan. He talked about the only reason he did it was becuase it was something he oculd be behind and support. Um a credit card? Not exactly like a good cause....

2. Plenty of ways to use M&M's in an oscar party. It was weird cuz at first I was thinking wow does this party planner for the stars really use MM's in like everything and then I realized that M&M's were the official sponsor of this years telecast. That and JCPenney's...cuz nothing says glamour like JCPenney's.

3. I didn't realize there was so much controversy about Jon Stewart as host. So many people on the preshows were saying he is too edgy and liberal and that America wouldn't tune in...I am waiting to see the results...I personally thin khe did a good job for the most part

4. Reese Witherspoon...love her...hate her dress

5. I love montages probably more than any living person but um come one they had some rather ridiculous ones. Like honestly noone had any idea what they were even montaging. LIke they just were montaging old movies, then movies based on people, then like movies based on things...it was a little redic.

6. Joan Rivers was interviewing Gary Busey and it was relaly bad and afterwards like completeyl seriously she said something like "this show is crap just cut back to Melissa" ..i know she jokes about it bu tI tink she really felt that the show had gone down

7. I swear the interviewers get crazier every year.

MY PERSONAL FAVORITE: Isaac Mizrahi interviewing Ludacris on the red carpet and he says something to the extent of "those are some cute little beatiufl diamond earrings you have one" haha i think you had to see it to understand but it was seriously hilarious!

9. And what was up wiht the writer of Brokeback. Was she like drugged up and did you catch the shot of her drinking in her seat. She was ridiculous.

10. THANK GOD THEY LET THE REAL SINGERS SING THE SONGS THIS YEAR. I don't know if the rest of you remember but last year Beyonce sang three of the nominated osngs and Antonio Banderas sang one even though the real singers were in the audience. It was so stupid so I'm glad they went back to the real thing. AND WHOA DOlly is hott!

11. Ryan Seacrest, after probably the awkwardest interview ever with Naomi Watts gave her a free DVD of King Kong....which she starred in...so I"m sure she prolly already had a copy if she wanted one...what a loser he is.....

Ok thats all for now ...oh wait one mor ehing....who was th ehideously dressed respoter on ABC's preshow. She had an armband on and looked ridiculous. It made me physically sick. Or maybe it was the mass quantities of food me and (e:jill) ate because we thougth more people would be there but there were just four of us yet we ate like all the food anyway.....

So (e:beast) is leaving again. She is going to Alaska. I think she will be eternally traveling but she will always be back. ANyway, I will miss ya (e:beast). Who am I gonna find who will go up to a couple dry humping in the corner of SoHo and pretend to interview them wiht a fake microphone that is actually just your hand. Noone! You're one of a kind. See ya in a few month if we don't meet up in Hawaii first!@

Last nights going away party was fun. An odd assortment of people from teres's life. There was this creepy old man at Frizzy's who was hitting on Teres and would not stop staring at her. He sat on her chair with her and she said this is uncomfortable but he didn't get it and still asked her to go out and have a smoke with him. He would not leave her a lone even after me and Jill sent him scowering looks and showed him our big guns. People are weird. I think I will always love Frizzy's if for no other reason than the photo booth.