09/25/10 05:44 - 60.ºF - ID#52831
Walking Downtown/Saving Scientologists?
OH i almost forgot while walking by the Statler some people came up to me and asked for directions to the TOwn Ballroom AND I WAS ACTUALLY ABLE TO PROVIDE THEM! As many of you konw I am terrible with directions , like i can get around but cannot explain it to others. OK really from Statler to TOwn Ballroom is really simple but it was still something.
ANywho then after City Hall i walked down court and then down main street towards downtown more and then around and on washington and stuff and just looked around. It is neat seeing like all the old like painted on names on buildings , like how many different things these buildings have been and many them sadly are now nothing. That leads me to the next thing, DOWNTOWN IS DEAD on the weekends. I know this, but it always shocks me a little. EVen the Tim Hortons in the LIberty BUilding is closed on Saturdays, when your downtown can't support 1 Tim HOrtons that is really sad, though to be honest the Dunkin DOnuts on CHippewa and Main Street was open so I guess there was that but still it seemed sad.
So then I was walking down Main Street back to Dave's and my favorite place in buffalo for some odd reason has always been the block of main street between Goodell and Tupperi think . SO i dawdled around there and then walked over to the CYclorama building which I have also always loved and took a picture of it to put in my phone. Then I sat on a rather comfy bench on the corner of Main and Goodell and talked to (e:mk) for a while about the sabres game she was attending tonight and what not. So then I took a peak into St.Louis church which is right there and that is where (e:Mk) is having her wedding and it was really pretty. Mass was going on so I couldn't really walk aroudn it but it looked really pretty.
Then I continued on my way down Main Street and got to the Scientologist Headquarter Building where some lady looked like she was getting brainwashed to join so I stood outside the windown and tried to mouth to her "DONT DO IT" but she looked at me like i was crazy and I"m just lady you the crazy one joining that freakin Tom Cruise cult! SO i walked on before they came out and murdered me to cleanse themselves of their alien toxins or whatever crazy thing they are doing at the moment. I have always wanted to go in and really see what it is like but i am so gullible and would definitely be pulled in for sure without a doubt!
So i continued on my walk down Main Street to Allen , then down to Elmwood and back up west ferry to Dave's apartment. Oh i forgot while walking down Main STreet I saw the people I gave the directions too again and they said they had found the Town Ballroom so I felt succesful!
Oh and I also forgot, like i was thiking while walking by the Hyatt like wow if you are a visitor to the B-lo and you walk out of that hotel onto Main Street it is so deserted and not welcoming and from the looks of things you prolly may as well be in Kabul! They should prolly work on that.
ALl in all it was an awesome walk and I am glad I did it and would liek to do it again. I am sure noone has read this far cuz this is like my journals that ramble on of old but maybe a little shorter!!
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09/16/10 05:57 - 65.ºF - ID#52758
Buying Music
Jai Ho from Slumdog MIllionaire
Club Can't Handle Me by Flo Rida
Don't Stop Believing and Bust Your Windows from Glee
Hey Jude from Across the Universe
Take It Off Kei$ha
Mad World from Donnie Darko
Party In the USA by Miley Cyrus
Eye of the Tiger
I dreamed a dream by susan boyle
Million DOllar Bill by Whitney Houston
We No Speak Americano by Yolanda be Cool
Sorta a mix but really all movie or current hit related I suppose. I still have 5 dollars think i'll save it for now.
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09/11/10 09:10 - 64.ºF - ID#52715
Karen Walker and me
on Will and Grace , Karen (who is hilar) said "you know what else is incredibly sad. poor people with big dreams. Actually that's not so much sad as it is incredibly funny"
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09/01/10 10:31 - 75.ºF - ID#52631
Cable Tease
Anywho that isn't the point, so it obviously was some type of mistake I thought and I figured they'd catch it evntually but I would enjoy it while I can. We had HBO for like 10 years by accident, it was super weird and like still on a channel that was not HBO for the people who actually had HBO, anywho I got home from work today and all the channels were taen away. We are back down to like 70. : ( . I"m not sure if like maybe they just give you 5 free days or something or if it was amistake but either way it is over and I miss it already!
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Location: Kenmore, NY
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08/30/10 02:34 - 84.ºF - ID#52611
B-DAY PARTY
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Location: Kenmore, NY
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08/08/10 12:21 - 79.ºF - ID#52396
Why should I care if it's googleable?
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Location: Kenmore, NY
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08/07/10 05:27 - 73.ºF - ID#52390
My Car Got Keyed
First it is like was this someone doing it to me in particular and then who was it? Like I don't really have any enemies or people that hate me, especially ones that would know where I was last night. I am not 100% sure if it happened at Illussions or on west ferry but i'm pretty sure it was in the parking lot at Illusions cuz it also looked like a drink was spilled on my car!
It is super bothering me trying to figure out who would have done it. I guess it could be totally random and prolly is but it seems so vicious like to also put gum in the locks. It seemed personal. Maybe someone thought it was someone elses car? I cannot unrelate it in my mind from the pretentious prick Aubrey who was there who I cannot stand, who thinks he can do whatever he wants. It def was not him cuz he really could care less and wouldn't know my car anyway but in my head I cannot separate the two events and it is just making me angrier!
BUt really who would key a car just randomly? That is so mean and rude. Like it is gonna be expensive to fix prolly and that just sucks. Just randomly for no reason people go around keying cars? that seems so wrong but I think I prefer that to the idea that it is someone out to get me! whO COULD it be? I'm not saying everyone loves me but I think there are very few people out there who would want to harm my car. This is really driving me insane and ruining my whole weekend!
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06/12/10 10:37 - 75ºF - ID#51860
Happy 30th Dave
A couple of friends wanted to wish you a happy bday also.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVEY!!
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Location: Kenmore, NY
06/11/10 11:41 - 67ºF - ID#51857
Emo Boy throws a dove at my face
Which one of you preppies put gold dust in my fencing mask?
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Location: Kenmore, NY
06/04/10 11:59 - 69ºF - ID#51797
LETS GET READY TO PAAARTAY
there's even a special guest from our nation's capital
and these
so come celebrate them
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Location: Kenmore, NY
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Different Cities have different Downtowns.
Our downtown is really just a place for business and work during the week and some cities I have heard are like that.
Yes the Chip Strip is part of downtown but most people call it the chip strip or some form of that.
Then you the Theatre District and yes those two areas kinda overlap. But again this is thought of its own area.
Then you have multiple areas called the waterfront.
Now what people are trying to do is to get the
cobblestone district and waterfront area all connected and that might happen.
But that still leaves that big middle area of Downtown that isn't hoping...
Now some people say no traffic on main killed the mall and the courtyard mall and that isn't true at all. Now the point of putting the train in well that does have marate but those are two different issues......
1. Elmwood, Delaware, Niagara and what ever that st. past main is that goes down to the Stadium all lead down town........
2. The Train
a. The 8 main ran bad and didn't hold a lot of people
b. The train changed that and made going from one part of the city to another much better
c. What this did was bring a lot of school kids to the mall
d. Lets face it a lot of those kids where black
e. If you are working all day and then at the end of the day do you really want to shop where there are kids hanging out and being nosey (hey kids do that), you don't even want to go shopping with your own kids. Now add in that many of them are black and you see why the mail failed
f. At the same you have this mall called the galleria and even though AM&A's or what ever they where called said they wouldn't move they did anyways.
g. AT one point there where stores at both the Galleria and thruway mall but it after time lost and closed
H. The Galleria didn't want city people, or people who couldn't drive at their mall or maybe just not blacks so they didn't let the buses onto the property
I. So those people shopped at the downtown mall.
j. There are been movement out to "The Burbs" for a long time. If you lived out there but worked here would you shop right after work or would you rather go to some big mall or shopping center on your way home? Do you want Drinks first?
k. I think some of the downtown shoppers turned into down town happy hours and then if they want to shop they can do it where they live......
WEll that is my theory just from living through it............