When is the last time anyone has seen an embarassing picture or heard an embarassing story of me. Its been a while.Its not that i am not having a lot of fun this summer cuz I am and i have done a lot of tings that were really fun and in a lot of ways that stuff is all a lot more fun and doesn't end in vomitting, i barely remember the last time i threw up. but I feel like i never really go out (read: drink copious amounts of alcohol and say/do embarassing things) anymore. It seems like I somehow lost all that. That is what is fun about summer in Buffalo, the going out every night but I don't know , I am failing miserably at it this summer. It seems like whenever something fun is going on , I already have a less fun plan booked and then when I want to go out or am free nothing is going on. How did tihs happen? This has to be fixed. There is only one month left. I am not that old yet. Like i always tihnki i don't want to go out late drinking the night before a 13 hour day, but i used to all the time and i would be fine, i think i actually enjoyed it more cuz at least it was like oh i hate being here but at least last night was a lot of fun, or the infamous "ugh i feel so sick which is ridiucloous since I ddin't even go out last night" only to go back and read text messages and realize i feel sick cuz i did go out and drank way too much. Its better then "ugh i hate being at work, and i went to bed a t11 o 'clock last night" I hope to have some embarssment soon...don't worry.....

I have been having strange dreams that I remember lately, the second one here is much crazier trust me:

1. I am on a show like Top Chef sorta thing and somehow I am making it through each round without actually cooking a thing. They keep announcing who is being evicted and it is never me and I always think that is strange cuz I don't remmeber cooking anything. (as those who know me, i really can't cook much of anything, really i am kinda lacking in most life skills) anywho, I decide they must be keeping me along because I am so charming and entertaining and for a reality tv show that is really mroe important than skill , right? So it gets to the final round in front of a live studio audience and it is just me and this girl who i went to highschool and college with named Val and we have one hour to prepare our final dish and they will pick the winner. Well the clock starts to tick and I start thinking, what am I going to do , i seriously don't know how to make anything , after like 20 minutes pass the crowd starts to boo at me so I decide I need to make something> I go through the cupboards and fridges and find some leftowver like pizza with black olives and hamburgers and so I mash it all up and through it in a casserole dish and then cover the whole tihng in water. It looked disgusting and there were like five minutes left and they said that we actually had to make TWO dishes so I freak out and just boil up a box of pasta as my second dish. See after you make your dishes you had to take a pcittre with your cell phone and send it in, (even though the judges and audeince were right there, not really sure why but hey it was a dream). Just as I fnished boiling the pasta the time ran out and i didn't have time to take the pcitres and so I lost. I thought in my dreams I should win righnt? even if I did make leftover mash covered in water?

So that is nothing compared to dream number 2:

1. I am playing for a proffesional hockey team( yeah that's right , I'm sporty in my dreams) and our goalie has four legs and so liek the other team can never score but they do when there are only like 30 seconds left , and we have no clue what do to cuz now we are losing and it is the playoffs and there are only 30 seconds left. Anywho by some freak chance the puck is in the air and i hit it with my stick and score at th last second. That's not the weird part, not even close, YOU SEE THE Judge for determining goals is Mairlyn Manson and he decides my hand hit in the puck and so the goal doesn't count. My coach and him get in a big fight and we want an instant replay but Marilyn Manson goes into this whole monologue about how as the goal referee he is king of the castle and he makes the rules and it isn't going to count...yet ihs isn't the strange part yet........you see somehow this segues into me finding out Marilyn Manson, (e:libertad) (Dave), this girl Justine who was in my second grade class, and this girl Meg who is a friend of one of jill's boyfriends friends ex-girlfireds (yeah follow that line), all want to kill me. Not like separately but thye have like this cult and they want to kill me for some reason, not necessarily related to the hockey incident as far as I know. So I find ihs out and somehow I end up at a cattle auction. but it was cool cuz all the cattle were different colors and tihs lady explained to me that that is how cattle really are but they always just show then as brown or black and white cuz they are afraid the public won't eat neon colored cattle. Anywho I am walking around trying to figure out waht to do to escape and not be killed and somehow the cattle auction turns into the galleria mall and now I have a huge stapler in my pocket for protection (oh and I left my cell phone in the car by mistake) so I am walking through the mall just trying to stay aroudn people so that I can't be killed and then the two girls Justine and Meg come up to me and start telling me how they are going to kill me and I can't really escape but I do into a display of christmas crafts. So then the mall is clsoing and i befirend tihs huge guy an dgirl who offer to walk me to my car and protect me. So I get to my car and my phone but still am not sure what to do , Do I call the cops and say Mairlyn Manson, my b/f, and two girls I Once knew are tyring to kiill me and chased me through a cattle auction and christmas disp[lay?

SO i deicde to drive around and end up at this restuarnat where ppoel are bringing the mulitcolored cattle they won at the auctio nand you bring it in and they turn it into a meal for you> People were eating lots of bacon which doens't relaly make sense since that comes from pigs but I think all my dreams prolly include bacon in some way. SO I leave there and go to the casino but as I put the money in I see the worker make this winkin gface and then these people are omcing at me and so I run for ti ( but actually I first I quickly do a quick few spins on the slot machine czu what if that ten dollars was gonna make me rich , you never know) ....

...so i make it out of the casino and for some reason go to (e:libertad)'s house (which in my dream was his house but looked like (e:beasts) house) even t5hough he was in on the whole killing me ting I thought I could convince him it was a bad idea for them to kill me. SO i go over and we are haning out and I try to convince him not to let them kill me and then Mairlyn Manson , who I find out lives with him, gets home and we all are stitig there tlaking which is awkward cuz I know they want to kill me, but I am tihnkin gI am winning them over when all of a sudden Marilyn gets tihs I am gonna kill you face so I run downstairs and grab this huge piece of iron that is on the ground which slows me down> I don't really know why i picked i tup , maybe i thought it was a weapon but either way it madee me move real slow and then I saw a phone so I tried to call 911 but i kept hitting 9## by mistake instead so i just ran for my car, got in y car, called 911 and then i woke up....so i don't know if i survived or not. I wrote it all down soon as i wok,me up so I wouldn't forget cuz really it was crazy. Actually I don't even know if it sounded that crazy when you read it, but dreaming it and living it in m ydream was terrifying.

If you mad eit all the way through those I hope you enjoyed them! hopefully no more crazy scary dreams will follow .

What is Irish and stays out all night?







.........Patty O'furniture

So (e:libertad)'s mom was in town for the week and so I saw her a lot which was really nice because she lives in florida and so really i never see her. It was great getting to know her more though I fear I am too shy and then it is awkward when we sit around and I have nothing to say and so she prolly thinks I am boring. I hope not! I also really didn't drink even though everyone else always was having wine, 1 cuz I don't like wine and 2 we all know what happens whne I drink and I was trying to keep it classy. he already told her to google me which brings up some unofrtunate photos ....... anywho oh we did bond over celebrity gossip . She lives near Hulk Hogan , how cool is that? She says they are in the paper every day cuz they are crazy, which they are. She even bought me a celebrity mag which I am thoroughly enjoying! I hope she liked me, its hard cuz she already has so much history with (e:libertad) and his roomate and so sometimes I felt like I oculdn't offer up enough to compete and be fun and entertaining, I hope it went ok and she didn't go home and say" what has my son gotten himself into!"

Haha today I heard a quote by Queen Elizabeth of England (not like I heard her say it while we were having lunch but i heard it in I read it in the paper) that she loves the song Dancing Queen and always dances when she hears it because as she said and I have often said "I'm a queen and i love to dance"

Also this is my favorite weekend of the Buffalo summer as it is the Taste of Buffalo. I go every year with (e:maureen) and eat more food than anyone else and then I always go at least one other time with other people. I really have to save up for it cuz I love to try everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ok not eveything but a lot of stuff. And my favoirtest thing ever they have again this year which is fried cheese stuffed black olives! THEY ARE SO GOOD and they don' tactually have them at the restaurnat that does them cuz I have called and asked they only have them a few times a year. I just love taste of buffalo and i know a lot of people ocmplain about how hot it is an drowded and expenseive but it seriously is what i live for all year. (e:maureen) flew in from Boston just for this basically!!! It is so good! The only tihng I don't like is that they really have too many chain restuarnats , I feel like it should be local restuarnats only!!!

So i just read Dr. Phil actually is not a doctor and does not have a liscense to practice psychology. THAT IS CRAZY!!!!!!!!! I hate him , what a whack job!

So me and (e:jill) decided to be summery and go to the beach today. Of course when we left it was completely cloudy and kinda chilly. We of course decided to stop at Tops for some snacks and magazines... 60 dollars,...4 magazines.....2 subs, 2 huge party bags of chiops, cookies, candy, pasta salad, drinks and other miscelaneous food items later we are off to the beach. Seriuosly it was a little redic how much food we bought but you never know how hungry you are gonna be and we are gluttons! WE forgot forks for the pasta salad though and luckily e"jill stole them from a gas station while we asked for directions.


Oh and by the way we had very loose directions to bennett beach which according to my gps didn't exist. WE got super lost sorta from the direction from yahoo and the erie count parks website and noone at th egas station we stopped at had ever heard of Bennett beach even though I'm pretty sure it is one of only a few beaches really in erie county and it was close to where we were asking poeple. Anywho after driving around for a while wihtout really feeling like we were getting anywhere we just used the GPS to go to the nearest beach to where we were at the moment. This beach had the beautiful sounding name of Buffao Municipal Bathing Center . Oh sounds so luscious and tropical. Anywho we follow the directions and lo and behold it takes us to Bennett beach...... what a crazy turn of events.

Anywho we get there eat mass quantities of food and read our magazines and are really rather chilly and just step into the water. We kinda fall asleep on the blankets and then wake up and go in the water and realize "HOLY CRAP I AM COMPLETELY SUNBURNED" This has happened to me once befroe and while I don't believe it is as bad as that time , it is pretty bad. We didn't even bring any sun tan lotion but it was cloudy so it shouldn't have mattered but I always forget that you can burn super extra in cloudy weather cuz you dno't realize. And booy did I?" Great I hope it is not too painful b/c last tmioe when me and (e:Maureen) got really burnt I was this close to killing myself cuz it was so painful!!

All in all bennet beach was prety nice. I had been there befroe with (e:pmt) and (e:chirs) , i am sure there are pictures in one of paul's old journals. I will post the pics I took today later. So even though I am burned i still love the beach and am glad it is summer!

So on Saturday it was the pharmacist at work Rachel's wedding. The reception was at Kloks in West Seneca which was pretty nice. I had never been there before. The food was really good! Anywho, only four people from work were there, one being Rachelle and then the two pharmacists patty and nancy. You guys might have met Rachelle (don' tconfuse her with the bride Rachel) at a party at the 24. We kinda happen to get a little crazy...anywho....you know how at weddings they close the bar during dinner well we were done with dinner and saw there was another wedding outside next door (rachel's wedding was indoor/outdoor) so we decided to just go there and pretend we were at that wedding to get some drinks while we waited for people to finish dinner. Well we walk over and order and our downfall I think was ordering a Michelob cuz the bartended was like "um that is what they are serving at the other wedding, are you from the other wedding?" and were like no of course not, michelob is our favorite so we always ask for it. So thye made our four drinks but gave us really mean looks and so then we deicded we needed to pretend we belonged so we like sat down and went up to the dance floor BUT LOOKMED AROUND AND REALIZED there were only like 40 guests at this wedding so we definitely stuck out! So then we tried to make a run for it through the parking lot and around back to our wedding. Thinking phew we were so smooth and made it out we go to go back into Rachel's wedding and the manager comes out and starts screaming at us "YOU LIARS, SHE ASKED YOU SPECIFICALLY WHAT WEDDING YOU WERE FROM, NEVER DO THAT AGAIN...blah,blah,blah". Now this would have been only slightly embarassing had rachel's weddin gnot been indoor/outdoor so tons of peopole from her wedding were outside watching as we got reamed out. SO EMBARASSING! Luckily rachel found it funny and not terrible as we imagined. We had to text patty an dhave her come out and save us and now the lady who yelled at us was the bartender at Rachel's wedding so we had to be slick and make sure we got the other bartender or send people to get our drinks.

WE were at a table with some of rachel's dad's cousins who were older and I guess our drunken dancing cuz quite a few commetns, like they were saying "they are gonna regret that on monday" (ha! Our work parties are 10 times less classy than anything we did at the wedding including being yelled at) and stuff like "i hope they sell condoms at rite aid , they are gonna need them". Oh we always keep it classy!

P.S. They had a baloon artist who was like 5 and awesome and made baloon hats. I will post pictures later.

...a Canisius College yearbook for the year 2001. For some reason (well the reason is I am an out of control pack rat who just collects anything he comes in contact with) while going through my school papers that I have saved I found the Canisius yearbook from 2001 and was flipping through it and then realized I didn't even go there that year, so why do i a.) have the yearbook and b) have kept it for like 7 years. It prolly involved seeing it somewhere in the school and being like i watn those memories even if they aren't mine. Who knows what good they will be in the future. Well anyway I want to get rid of it but feel weird throwing it out? ANyone want it?

...If i saw my coworker on the side of the road on fire, and i was walking by with a fire extinguished, I wouldn't put them out....I didn't say it to their face but i wanted to. I am so sick of people being so lazy and like just standing around and eating and having to tell them eveyr freakinn two seconds "TO REMEMBE RYOU ARE WORKING< HOW ABOUT YOU DO SOMETHING AND SNACK AND STAND AROUND WHEN YOU GET HOME" THAT I REALLY COULDN'T HANDLE IT ANYMORE!!!1 ugh new job is necessary, i say that a lot, i need to do something about it