Fellyconnelly's Journal

08/06/2007 18:16 #40413

apartment paint job
Category: hgtv

Okay so the painting is all done and I have photos where you can see some of it.... i don't have a super fancy smancy camera that takes wonderful photos but i did what i could...

That's my cat. On my bed. I have a new bed that is being shipped to me sometime at the end of the month, but the point of this photo is that you can see my pumpkin patch/misty evening paint job.

There is my desk by the door. And one of the fully packed bookcases. notice the misty evening as an accent wall.

oh yes and then there is lauren in the kitchen.

oh what a tiny apartment. i love it.

hodown - 08/07/07 10:14
The new place looks great!

paul - 08/06/07 21:19
Ya wednesday, oops.

fellyconnelly - 08/06/07 20:36
the paul repellant is all OVER the house.. sorry paul! that is why i put pics up!

and paul i think you mean wednesday right?

paul - 08/06/07 20:10
I can't to finally meet you guys tomorrow?

jim - 08/06/07 19:46
Awesome :)

I see you put the Paul-repellant on the bed.

08/06/2007 00:12 #40398

on that note....
Category: good times

Lauren just found 'the best of soul train' on tv and i just stared slack jawed for a good ten minutes....cocaine was definetely in high use on that show.

happy birthday james!!!!!!!!!

and how special do i feel that i got mentioned in a sticky?

too bad for all ya'll that i'm boring in person. haha jokes on you!

bed time!

fellyconnelly - 08/06/07 18:01
haha yeah i was being a bit full of myself there assuming you thought i was fascinating!
i can't wait to meet all of you~! i'm so nervous!

imk2 - 08/06/07 17:12
oh come on!....you're boring on paper too, not just in person!

ok, ok, j/k. don't kill me. you're a riot. can't wait to meet you on wednesday.

fellyconnelly - 08/06/07 11:06
once, while drunk at the end of a party i came across a show (5 am) that involved a paper bag that talked. nobody beleived me for a long time.
but i digress....

james - 08/06/07 10:12
The best of soul train? That sounds horrendously wonderful.

Once, while drunk at a party that was dieing the great death, the game show network was on at 3AM. I think everyone on TV in the 70's was high in so many different ways they made Timothy Leary look like a kindergarten teacher.

Thank you for the good wishes ^_^

08/05/2007 00:27 #40384

Lucky Dog
Category: aminals

This morning my mother informs me that my dog died. I tell myself repeatedly that it is good that he is out of his misery. He was pretty damn old and he was having seizures and lost his eyesight. It was so bad that my mom even wanted to have him put down, but my dad wouldn't let her. He died very soon after the seizures began.

I am just glad that I got to see him again last weekend. He was such an old stinky dog, but he was still my Lucky. (that was his name)

a thought: why is it that most dogs named 'Lucky' are mangy little buggers? mine was.

put together an impromptu barbeque at my bro - bob's house. invited my other brother too. it was nice to sit and relax in the cool day of today.

and returned with yellow squash, green peppers and a green tomato. oh and a couple of cucumbers. I already have a zucchini from the last visit - so now i have to figure out how to prepare it in a way that lauren actually eat it.

look at me... i'm an exciting party animal! it is saturday night!

i'm going to bed.

fellyconnelly - 08/05/07 10:48
thanks for all the well wishins... i had to leave my lucky when i went away to college 10 yrs ago, so its harder now for my dad than it is for me...

lucky was, indeed, the perfect name for that dog. he had severe asthma, he had a knack for barking so loud and much that he pulled muscles in his back and couldn't use his back legs for a week, he became incontinant, blind in one eye (then in the other)and was missing teeth (which added to the sewer mouth). but he was a good boy.

jenks - 08/05/07 10:00
aww... So sorry about your dog.
My alice just died in march- and I haven't even been home since then, so I don't think it's really hit me.
It's tough. :(

tinypliny - 08/05/07 09:03
Lucky is definitely in a better place. Its not fun to have a double whammy of seizures and blindness. :/

You could make a zucchini stir-fry with carrots, broccoli, portabella mushrooms, water chestnuts and tofu. Yum!

drew - 08/05/07 07:56
sorry about your Dog. If you need your "old dog fix," you can come and visit our 12 year old lab.

ladycroft - 08/05/07 01:52
isn't that how it usually works? "Lost: dog with three legs, one eye, missing most of his fur, goes by the name Lucky". :) I'm sorry he had to leave you but I'm happy he's no longer hurting.

mk - 08/05/07 00:56
oh and she is definitely a mangy little bugger, hahaha. she had a litter of puppies when she was 2 and she was never quite the same after. always cranky and paranoid and barking at every unusual noise she heard, everything from a car door closing to a dog barking in a the distance to one of us accidentally closing a drawer too hard.

mk - 08/05/07 00:54
i'm sorry to hear about your dog, but it sounds like he lived a long, happy life!

i have a dog named Lucky too. actually i just posted pictures and she is in a couple of them.

it's interesting to me that of the Luckys that i know or know of, mine is the only girl Lucky. i never thought of it as being a boy name, but apparently we were wrong! considering she's 11, i think it's a little late to go back and change it. :)

hope you're enjoying the b-lo so far!

08/02/2007 21:52 #40362

hot thursday
Category: good times

sooooo lauren and i took the bus down to the square.

first of all, i have to say that the bus driver lady was hilarious. calling out the names of all the streets and in between that she seemed to be talking to the people on the streets. as she was driving down the road... as in, 'oh honey, you better jump right back up on that curb, you see me comin, don't you - PEARL STREET! hey are you waitin for me or what, wave your arm a bit - COURT STREET" or whatever.. it was funny..

anyway - the square was nice... we sat in the grass and watched melissa ferrick and all the buffalo lesbians. it was strange sitting and watching them all. i swear some of these gals look like if they had balls they would be grabbin them. they just look like they are trying to be really tough... i can't imagine how much drama is going on with all of them... i made up all kinds of stories about them and it was fun.

but somewhere in the midst of it all, i started thinking about my friends back in new paltz.... watching these people all meet and greet their friends and work the crowd... well it kinda was like a wake up call... hey... you don't live in new paltz anymore... you don't have that security of that big exclusive group of lesbians that had no drama.. (or very little)

its a whole new world now.

well, so then we decided to walk home... boy that was a long ass hot walk home. but we did it and it kinda felt good. i think we are going to take long walks around buffalo more.

has anyone seen the superhero reality show on sci fi channel? wow.

fellyconnelly - 08/03/07 19:23
haha i'm so amused by all of your many sightings... we are like the wheres waldo of estrip!
and yes mike, i beleive that we were at that corner somewhere in that almost two mile walk...
how exciting!

metalpeter - 08/03/07 17:55
Glad you two had a good time. In terms of the Superhero show I haven't seen any of this seasons episodes I did see it last year. I can't say if it works the same way as last years show but how it worked last year is: Stan Lee hosts it and makes all the decisions I think. Every person comes up with their own Name and Identy and costume. They are put into chalanges where they have to do stuff or have a goal. For example change into uniform without being seen. There was a part last year where everyone was supposed to get to some point and there was a lost kid by the fountain and everyone but like one person ran past her and I think that she also found the kids mother to. The tasks are supposed to test your superhero characters. If memory serves who ever won got there character as a comic book. I'm not sure if it is a full series or mini series and I'm not sure what other prizes there where. But a someone who really wants to be a superhero doesn't really do it for the prizes do they?

theecarey - 08/03/07 10:52
So you want to be a superhero- yeh, I saw it. once. I havent paid enough attention to know what the premise is. Is this a farce or do they *really* want and expect to be superheros? What do they get in the end if they survive (yeh, wrong show) to the end--superpowers? a cape? bedazzled spandex leotard?

dont think I ever wanted to be a superhero.. but having a superpower or two might have its upside. :)

mike - 08/03/07 09:44
we may have spotted you guys on franklin (? maybe pearl) and chippewa? Were you on that corner at any point last night? You are such a celebrity with spottings all over town! Our own paris hilton!

chico - 08/03/07 09:30
Spotted you and Lauren walking up Elmwood Ave last night just before 7:30 pm, wanted to holler after you but we were driving south and you were walking north, and I was in the passenger seat... still, good to see you out and about!

fellyconnelly - 08/03/07 00:11
drama is for TNT. It is funny because I just realized today that the people who were a part of my old circle were there because they slept with somebody who was already in the circle. And yet it still was less drama filled than many circles.

"so you want to be a superhero" is the name of it i think. (the superhero reality tv show, not the circle of lesbian friends) (though that name could apply too.)

james - 08/03/07 00:05
And I hope your pack of lesbians here is as close to drama free as possible.

Drama.. the same word used to describe King Lear's slip towards madness and Mac the Knife's debauchery also describes Cindy forgetting to call back Brandy and Tommy getting pissed because Joey puked on the couch. What a world, what a language.

And there is a superhero reality TV show? I that Drawn Together was that show?

08/02/2007 00:12 #40349

thursdays in the....
Category: good times

tomorrow we have decided to step out of this paint and bleach smelling apartment. And this time it won't be to go to wegmans.

I just checked out the Thursdays in the square and found out that Melissa Ferrick is a special guest tomorrow night. Lauren is in love with Melissa Ferrick. So we are going.

Of course if any of you are going to be out there, you can find us quite easily. Lauren will be drooling and doing all that she can to bumrush the stage and throw herself bodily at Melissa Ferrick's cowering self on stage. I will be the one doing all that i can to hold back Lauren, while scowling with intention at Melissa Ferrick.

Sooooooooooo..... this is the point wherein I open myself up and beg and plead for assistance and directions. Ohmygod its a lesbian asking for directions!

Seriously, I was just checking out the nfta metro website and i think that somewhere along the lines either my brain has turned to butterscotch pudding as a result of long periods of bleach filled bathroom scrubbing, or the metro maps were written in hieratic hieroglyphs.

from what i can gather, if i were to use the busstop at 358 elmwood, i should take the 20H downtown to... (?) and then how to get back to the 358 is beyond me.

somehow i managed to getmyself around NYC by myself, but Buffalo still alludes me. I would just drive if i thought that i could park anywhere near the square. oh and i hate parallell parking.

tinypliny - 08/02/07 19:42
Compared to Rochester, Buffalo's NFTA is awesome. :)

No, seriously. I love it. I know those time-tables are hideously confusing but give them enough time and quite miraculously, they do make sense.

Well compared to NYC's metro, Buffalo's transport still has a long long long long way to go.

Compared to Prague's metro, Buffalo's NFTA is awful.

fellyconnelly - 08/02/07 15:32
thanks everyone for some great directions!hopefully i wont get TOO lost... but i'm writing all this down..

leetee - 08/02/07 11:24
Yes, it's the same bus back. You just need to catch it in slightly difference place. And you have a few options where. Either walk south on Main Street to Division (one big city block) where all the buses end up. Or walk west on Court, past Pearl to Franklin. I also think that the 20 stops somewhere on Court before it gets to Niagara Square and up Delaware.

jenks - 08/02/07 11:01
much better solution- Find other people going (hint hint estrippers who's going out tonight?! [not me, i am going to free dinner at fiamma- woot!] [i HATE woot]) and hitch a ride with them. ;)

fellyconnelly - 08/02/07 10:43
wow great info everybody!
but... if i do take the bus... is it the same one that comes back?

dcoffee - 08/02/07 08:59
It's been quite a few years since I rode the 20 every day to School. But on its trip downtown I believe there is a stop at Main Place Mall on Pearl st. Get off there or at Court st which would be the stop before, if it stops there.
Or, do what I do and ride a bike. By far the quickest way to get downtown from Allen and the Elmwood village. We take Richmond to Allen, to Franklin, to Court St.
Yea, NFTA is confused not you.

ladycroft - 08/02/07 01:29
ditto what leetee said, it blows. Since it's nice out though you can alway just walk over to the subway stop at summer and ride it right to the square. can't get lost! it's about a mile from where you are, i used to live just around the corner from you :)

leetee - 08/02/07 00:52
It's not you. Its the NFTA site -- it blows.

My advice is, if you can, use the site along with something else. In my case, i go for google maps, because i find them the easiest to navigate. I hate mapquest and i find yahoo maps slow. But i digress.

From what i can tell, all you need to do is take the 20 Elmwood bus towards Downtown, and i don't think it matters if it is the A, B, H or T... or Q... or Z. The bus will go down Elmwood through Allentown where Elmwood takes a small curve at Virginia, then past Edward, Tupper and both N and S Johnson Park and the ever infamous Chippewa before making a left onto Huron. From there it will go past Delaware and Franklin where it will make a right onto Pearl. I'm not exactly sure where the stops are, but Pearl and Court would be the closest you can get to LaFayette Square, which is a block east at Main.

Hope some of that diatribe helps!