First of all I almost just killed my whole family by accident. I'm on the couch talking to (e:jill) on the phone when I start to smell something. I am thinking in my head hmm what is that smell, it is so familiar and kinda obnoxious yet somehow also good and makes me kinda hungry. Them my mom screams "open the windows"...I ugess she had turned on the fire on the stove but the fire didn't go on so it was just on high leaking tons of gas. Had I been home alone I prolly would have died while tihkng "hmm what is that smell?"....maybe i need to stop killing brain cells with alcohol....

Secondly, I hate that school is back in session cuz that means school buses and that means it takes 6 hours to get down elmwood or anywhere else...I walked to school....so should everyone else

So the final part of my bday (except maybe a work party that will turn into a bday party on sept. 6) was on Saturday and it was muy excelente. It involved super tasty french onion soup (did you know that it could be made at home? I always assumed it was a restaurant only thing for some reason), pasta with vodka sauce, salmon (which i love) and brocolli. And then an amazing pecan chocolate cake with like real whipped cream. Buit the best part is that it was all served to me in bed! How fantastic is that? Especially on a rainy day wher eyou juts want to get under the sheets. But it didn't' end there. Then i got the goods. Mocha Jet Cafe which is super sweet since that is how this whole thing started back at Coffee & and my using the mocha jet cafe addiction to be there as much as possible. Also the tasty hot cholcoalte mix they use at Cafe Aroma and an OUTKAST CD THAT HAD NO CD IN IT! Seriuosly, it was all security wrapped and everything but then afyter ten minutes of tearing through plastic, there was no cd in it. It was crazy. Anywho the whole night was amazing! Thanks (e:libertad) for making my birthday so special!

As my 5 day birthday is coming to a close, thanks eveyroen for making it amazing! IT truly was more than I ever oculd have asked for!

So last night was very fun! It all started off with a quick trip by me and (e:mk) to the Target dollar section where everything was on clearance for a quarter. Needless to say I've been stocking up on cheap plastic everythings! So then (e:beast) picks me up at 930ish with a gift to big to bring with us and so i open it and what is it.....A TRAMPOLINE!!! How crazy is that? I have always wanted a trampoline. It is like a personal exercise one I just don't know where i can use it cuz if i jump in my house i will get concussed by the ceiling. Hmm is concussed a word cuz I use it a lot? She also got me this Little Miss and Mr. Plate and fork/sppon combo tha twas such a knockoff cuz it acted like it wasn't Little Miss and Mr. though it was clearly pictures of them on it. It was from Hawaii. (e:beast) also made me an awesome hat I got to wear out proclaiming my bday. I hope there are pics to be posted at some point though I don't remember many pics being taken.

Anywho, then we get to (e:mk)'s where Brian is meeting because he was driving. AND he had cake and chocolates which were super tasty. OK i forgot about the chocolate so I haevn't eaten it yet but the cake was from his work I guess they have a bakery or something and it was super duper good! So that was cake time number 4 for my birthday at that point and i loved it! So we drove brian's super dupa fly new car that he just got yesterday and it had like only 30 miles on it. It can only handle 850 pounds of passenger so luckily we were all pretty light yet still we were pushing the limit I thik. 850 split 5 ways does not leave a lot of weight per person. SO then we picked up (e:libertad) and we were on our way!

At Frizzy's (e:jill) and jim and (e:amanda) and nick were there to join us. So I opened my gifts. Well I got a drink first of course and thne opened my gifts and wowser they were good. I got Golden Girls Season 2 DVD (Golden Girls party soon to follow!), Mean Girls DVD, Center Stage DVD, an American Idol Microphone, an awesome Rocky Mountain shot glass, strawberry chewies, twizzler sours and other asosrted goodies. I actually got two copies of seasoon 2 of Golden Girls so I will exchange one , prolly for season 3, SCORE!

Then (e:diana) showed up a little later with and awesome pin for me to wear! Then (e:paul), (e:terry), (e:matt), and (e:theeecarey) came and joined us. Which was exciting cuz I didn't think they were going to come! Then the people who used to live in front of (e:pmt) were there. Not for my bday they just happened to be there but it was still fun because I hadn't seen them in a while. A little later I think (e:pyrcedgrrl) showed up also.

It was exciting because LIz Chadwick was there who makles this shot called wet panties which is sooo good. And so we did a few of those cuz she is the only one who can make them so it was good she was there!

Somewhere in the middle I wasn't feeling super good and took a walk with (e:libertad) to protect me! Thanks (e:libertad)!

Then off to NY Pizza and then we were on our way after a brief stop at Cathode and the Pink.

ALL IN ALL IT WAS SUPER! THANKS EVERYONE FOR GIVING ME A GREAT BDAY!!!!

FIRST OF ALL I GOT A BUG VACCUUM!!!!!! It is so cool. You can vaccuum up bugs and then release them outside. I can now move into an apartment I think. That was a big stumbling block because I have many days where I cannot shower or something because there is a spider in the tub or I am stuck in a room because a bug is in the doorway. Now I cna live safe. I just need a safety clip to keep it on my belt.

Anywho, I also have already had 3 birthday cakes. At work on Tuesday the ygot me a cake and sang and then they did again on Thursday!!! THey were both so good. The one that Sara made on Thursday was super tasty with strawberry filling and strawberry's on top. MMMMMMM!

My bday celebrations really started on Sunday with my frist gift from Jenny who is moving to Nashville and was leaivng town Monday. She got me a blender and cool fun cups for my future aparmtnet I hope to have one day. And then on Wednesday (e:maureen) got me a subscription to US Weekly which is so awesome! Now i can really make sure I keep up on my celebrity gossip at all times! I love magazines! Especially weekly ones! The topper though is that she also made all these pictures of me worked into magazine covers. Maybe I will post them later.

Then yesterday after my second cake bday celebration at work, the class i had to teach ended an hour early so I got out early and had like a million messages on my phone that had been off all day from people wishing me a happy bday. THEN I came home and my house door was decorated with balloons and candy thanks to (e:jill). It was awesome!

Then last night I went to the Hideaway Grille in North Tonawanda for dinner with my parents, (e:paul), (e:terry) and (e:matt). I know N.T. does not sound like a great place to go for anything but it was super duper tasty and the waitress was insanely on crack! They have this stawberry whipped butter. IT WAS SO GOOD!!! And their bread basket has like 10 kinds of bread in it! I had filet mignon. It was really good! I definetley recommned it though we did have to wait like 20 minutes even though we had reservations at 7 we didn't ge tin til like 720 cuz some table was taking forever I guess.

Oh and I got an iTower from my paretns too which is this twoer speaker system that plays music from your ipods!

And then this morning I woke up and there is a card from (e:beast) on my car! I can't wait for day three of bday celebrations tonight. YOU BETTER BE THERE. FRIZZY'S AT 10!

I think 23 may just be amazing!

Frizzy....10pm....Friday the 1st. Celebrate with us! Be There or be square. Noone likes to be square!

Friday the first we're going out to celebrate my bday. Be there or be square. Where to go I am not sure yet. mostly likely a stop at Frizzy's will be for sure. I'll post the details when I know more....

Happy Birthday (e:terry)! I hope your birthday is fun and amazing because you are cool as a cucumber. (I think that saying needs to be brought back) HAVE A GREAT ONE!

OMG so (e:jill) was discussing at coffee the other night that she thought she heard a rap remix of the children's song "do your ears hang low". A few years back we heard a "my buddy and me" remix so we figured it is quite possible though ridiculous...but lo and behold it is true. Listen for yourself at


it is a hopping tune...haha

So many of you probably have heard already that in part of Madonna's concert now she hangs herself crucified style from a large glittery mirrored disco cross while wearing a crown of thorns. She uses the song as she shows pictures of dying African kids trying to bring attention to AIDS. Hmmm...i would think the glittery disco ball with a crucified Madge would detract from the images of the African children not enhance them but who am I to say. Needless to say, many people are upset but in Germany the stakes are raised. I guess it is illegal to do anything religiously offensive or something liek that in Germany (prolly b/c of their not so stellar past in that regard) and so she could be jailed for up to 5 years for doing this stunt at her German concert. I guess the prosecutor's office is supposed to have people waiting at the concert to see if she does it and arrest/fine her or whatnot. How crazy! Though you know what, why should she be above the law?

Wow, this company knows how to waste money. So today we had about an 8 hour meeting ( mind you this is the only day out of the three we are doing anything work related). Well we spent like a good hour bascially going over how to turn on and off a computer and restart it. Mind you this was all theoretical because we did not get actual computers becauase the rooms wiht computers were all booked. (its not like they spent at least 1,000 to fly the four of us in and put us up for four days, why would they bother haibngh a computer available?).

There was some valuable things we learned about teachign the class. LIke maybe 2 or 3 hours of this trip were necessary. It seems like something that oculd have been done in a onference call or something though instead of a three day trip. I don't mind being here or anything but it just seems like a waste.

So at about 9pmish i got sick of being in the hotel and so i decided to venture into town (or really walk dwon the thruwayish , sidewlakless road to the Giant Eagle grocery store.) The girl at the desk assured me it was safe and I made it back ok and had no problems. I treid ot walk around "town" but there serisuuly is no town. It is just some hotels, some erestaurants , a closed Ames and a Giant Eagle. Even a shut down Burger King. I think it is bad news for your area when you can't support aBurger King. Well I come home at three tomorow and i am ready for some fun and some partying (so long as I survive the plane ride).

There is another kid my age here wiht us and we could hang out I suppose but there is nothing to do and I just met him really today. I was gonna call him to see if he wanted to go to the Giant Eagle but I don't know what room he is in and so i oculdn't. He must be even more bored than me because he has been here since monday by himself. He is soo ready to go home. I ca't even imagine how sick of this place he must be as I am dying after just two nights.

Oh, I forgot the most important part. THE GIANT EAGLE HAD STRAWBERRY CHEWIES!!! I WAS ORIGINALLY TRICKED INTO THINKING THEY HAD NONE because they weren't in bulk but I found them in the regular section!!! They were so good! WEll I didn't eat them yet, but they will be. For of those of you who don't know, Strawberry chewies are crack for me and they don't sell them in WNY anymore!!! It is a travesty!!!

OK see ya all back in the b-lo tomorwo. Mike