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07/16/07 10:35 - 68ºF - ID#40139

nickel creek

i was just browsing nickel creek's website to check the tour dates, completely forgetting that they will be here for thursday at the square this week!!!!! i don't really enjoy the square but i will definitely be there. you should check them out, they are a great bluegrass/countryish band. YAY!
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07/11/07 09:49 - 77ºF - ID#40048

don't read if hungry

Well (e:Anne) and I are back from our Europe trip, as she mentioned in her most recent post. Naturally one of the first things I did when I got back was organize all of my photos, plus her photos, which ended up being a grand total of 584. Amongst that ginormous collection of photos are some I took specifically to put them up on estrip, so I present them to you now. Here is an album of everything we ate in Milan and Madrid, (e:Paul) style.

(e:Anne) enjoying some yogurt at Toronto's Pearson Airport, getting ready to fly to London-Gatwick.
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A white-chocolate macademia nut cookie from Starbucks. It was so good.
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(e:Anne) enjoying her first European Fanta since 2005. She swears it's better than here.
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A baguette from some place in Gatwick's food court.
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Now we are at our first dinner in Milan, and this was our four cheese (quatro formaggi?!) appetizer. Mmmmmm...
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Authentic Italian pizza...and yes we ate every bite!
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Next day walking around Il Duomo, the 3rd largest cathedral in the world. We got sandwiches from a stand right near by (the worker was in love with us too, he kept telling us how beautiful we were, awww)
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Cookies.
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Next day's lunch. We stopped at a supermarket and ate in a random playground. I love brie.
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OMG gellato. OMG uuggggghhhhhhh it's so good.
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Our last dinner in Milan. This is a plate of some random cheese, tomato on bread, some kind of fancy ham, a word I can't remember (the stuff in the middle, (e:anne) knows it) and fancy liver on toast. Liver makes my mom gag so I ate hers. I don't love it but I'll eat it. Of course after that I figure I've had enough liver for the year.
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Our main courses.
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This dessert was sheer heaven. That's a pear on top, which I took off and gave to (e:Anne) - she said it was also really good.
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Lunch in the Milan Malpensa Airport, waiting for our flight to Madrid.
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More gellato. This was better than what we had had the day before.
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Now in Madrid - we didn't get in until approx. 10:30 and sat down to dinner around 11:30. Looking back on it, this meal probably wasn't that fantastic, but I was starving and it was warm and salty. Delicious.

By the way those thing that look like mozzarella sticks are croquettes, which were full of some kind of dough and ham and cheese.
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Happy 4th of July, aka (e:Anne) 's birthday!!! We started off our day with Chocolate con churros, which is basically sticks of fried dough that you dip in warm puddling-like chocolate. Mmmmmmm...
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Birthday lunch - Paella Valencia, which is rice, vegetables, saffron, chicken, mussels and prawns. I really liked it except for the fact that the prawns still had EVERYTHING attached, including eyes legs and antenna. It grossed me out too much so I gave those all to (e:Anne).

Apparently Pano's has great paella. I want to try some now.
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Birthday dinner, haha.
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"I can't wait to eat this ice cream!"
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"I can't take one more bite."
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"I'm going to explode."
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But we did it!!!!
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Thursday -
Thrilling croissant from Starbucks.
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Madrid has a Dunkin Donuts!!!!
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Lunch (yes I got pizza even though I was no longer in Italy!) It had four cheeses, and one of them was blue cheese which I had to scrape off most of. Unless accompanied by chicken fingers and wing sauce. blue cheese should not be on pizza.
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This was the greatest thing I've ever eaten I think. Melted brie and white aspargus on toast. MMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmMMMMMMMMmm
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Dinner/Dessert/Snack later. More gellatto. The vanilla tasted like lemon but the chocolate was great.
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Now we are in London for a day before we fly back to Toronto. This was Friday's breakfast.
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Mars bar! I love them and eat many of them when I am in Europe. I know they are just like Milky Ways but I swear they're better.
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Dinner in Covent Garden.
FISH AND CHIPS AND MUSHY PEAS mmmmmmmmmmm
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Saturday morning, getting ready to leave. : (
I think it's funny that I could easily find a bagel in an Underground Station in London, but (e:Mike) and (e:Jill) couldn't find any in an airport in Tennessee.
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Unfortunately, my last meal of the trip. Hoooooray, airplane food!
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So to sum it all up, we ate some pretty delicious food. But we walked a lot too, so none of us came back with too much extra "baggage". Notice the difference in portion size, as well?

Have a good day peeps. Go eat something yummy!!!!!!!

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06/23/07 06:35 - 70ºF - ID#39787

apartment pictures

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ok, also in this entry, some pictures from the big (e:mk) and (e:anne) move out to richmond - two weeks late. oh well!

Bringing the U-Haul home to load up.
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Mommy bought us breakfast :)
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The puppies wanted some of it.
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(e:Anne) and company loading up the truck.
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Meanwhile, i was already at the apartment signing our lease and paying the first month's rent. i had lots of time to explore before they got there. this first picture is a drawer that was left by the previous tenants. thanks for all the extra supplies!
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Back balcony - the view
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My favorite part of the whole apartment...a little window between the living room and kitchen.
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My room, a little bit moved in.
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This is our peace lily. His name is Mahatma.
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Fast forward to yesterday and my first charcoal grill lighting experience. I must say it went pretty well except that I probably didn't light enough and the chicken took like 45 minutes to cook. But what's the rush really?
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This is marinade (pronounced like "speedy" sauce). It's made somewhere near Binghamton. It's like their version of Chiavetta's but way tastier.
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(e:Mike) and (e:Jill) and I had our own housewarming party last night, complete with mini umbrellas.
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Sometime we'll have a bigger housewarming party and we'll let y'all know!

have a goooood weekend :)



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06/22/07 09:49 - 62ºF - ID#39762

mk was an aaasssssssshhhhhoooooolllleeee

wow I was such an asshole for like 2 years.

I'm going back and reading all of my old entries and from like March 2004 - September 2005, I mentioned how I missed my friends and hanging out in like every single entry. I kept saying like "I hope we can hang out tonight! I hope I can do stuff this this weekend! I miss you guys!"

But did I actually make effort to change this? NOOOO I just kept NOT hanging out with people that LOVE ME and ENJOY MY COMPANY and instead spent all of my free time with my awful ex-boyfriend.

Why didn't everyone hate me? Well actually I think you did probably. I specifically remember both (e:Mike) and Diana writing entries a couple summers ago that might not have been aimed at me exclusively but I know I was definitely the target partially.

I'm sorry. Seriously, I feel like the biggest jerk when I read those. I feel like I never came home, never went out, never spent any of my summer weekends with my friends. I know that people get caught up in relationships but I feel like I was really stupid. And I'm sorry. I will nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnneeeeeeeeeeeeeeevvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrr let that happen again.



I promise that even if my adventure tomorrow yields something that is long-lasting, I will not be an asshole! You have my word!!!
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06/18/07 09:28 - 71ºF - ID#39713

AHH

He sent me an email and I'm too nervous to read it
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06/14/07 09:18 - 64ºF - ID#39653

Thursday

Sooooo here I am at school while the kiddos are in exams. Since I'm only part time, I'm kind of coming and going as I please. They don't pay me enough to sit here all day, especially since I can't even enter my grades until Monday. So I brought in an empty box and eventually I'll start packing up my desk. Eventually...

I really want this guy to ask me out on a date. I still don't know him very well but if he asked me to hang out I would say yes. We've only hung out with other people, and our mutual friend is very talkative and so she generally leads the conversations. And that's fine because we have a good time but then I don't feel like he and I ever actually talk to each other, and I get really shy and quiet if she ever gets up and leaves us by ourselves. I mean that's awkward no matter who it is. But anyway I just want to see if it's a possibility. I'm always afraid that I'm not giving the right vibes. I DID make sure to sit across from him when we were playing cards the other day so that we would be partners. Do guys notice things like that?

Well whatever...here's hoping for something to happen!

Job hunting really sucks. I feel bad for (e:Anne) but at least she has gotten lots of interviews (and a very nice new suit that we went shopping for last night). Job hunting especially sucks for teachers. There was definitely a time when there were tons of teachers retiring and positions available, but I'm pretty sure I missed it by about 4 or 5 years. There are a ton of young teachers at my school. I'm really lucky that I got the maternity leave position that I did because who knows what I would have ended up with? I feel badly for people that have to leave home and go out of state if they don't really want to just because they need a job, especially those from the Buffalo area. There's always tons of music teacher jobs posted in Long Island, but that's not ideal for most people (other than the pay).

(e:Anne) said she's going to run a race with me in July. YAY!!!!!!!!!

My friend wants to do the Rochester Marathon in September. Which probably means I have to start running again. Blaaaahhhhh. Oh well at least that means I might be more bathing suit ready when (e:Mike) and I go to the beach every day as usual.

p.s. (e:Mike) said he was going to call me to run to Target the other day like we always do but now I live far away and it seems silly and that made me a little sad.

p.p.s. I am definitely loving where I live so far though. I went running up and down the strip twice this week. I just like being out among all the e-strip dwellers, plus there are like a zillion cute dogs around to look at. I really like being out here, especially now that the weather is beautiful.

Okay, peace out, peaches. Can't wait to get internet on TUESDAY!!!!

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06/11/07 08:48 - 60ºF - ID#39602

official

So (e:Anne) and I are officially estrip residents.

More details, including dates of a housewarming party and pictures to follow...
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06/07/07 11:57 - 80ºF - ID#39578

post its

wow i just checked my post its. i had some going all the way to december i never knew about. sorry (e:enknot) for never responding!!!!!!! i feel bad.

who's coming by on saturday? :)
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06/07/07 10:36 - 60ºF - ID#39564

i hate the internet!!


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06/03/07 07:25 - 69ºF - ID#39517

mike

omg everyone is driving me crazy with all this mysterious talk about (e:mike). WHAT IS GOING ON!!!

p.s. come help me and (e:Anne) move into our apartment next weekend on Richmond. we will have breakfast AND lunch as bribery. we enjoy all the help we can get and could definitely use some strong guys.
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