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!!!
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07/11/2008 11:28 #44926
Queen Elizabeth and My Favorite Weekend07/04/2008 11:32 #44857
Dr. Phil For Real?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!
libertad - 07/05/08 23:19
I hate him too. A lot.
I hate him too. A lot.
uncutsaniflush - 07/04/08 20:18
(e:mike) are you disappointed or happy that Phil McGraw isn't the sort of doctor you mistakenly thought he was? Enquiring minds want to know!!!
(e:mike) are you disappointed or happy that Phil McGraw isn't the sort of doctor you mistakenly thought he was? Enquiring minds want to know!!!
tinypliny - 07/04/08 12:16
YEAH!!!! WE WANT MORE STORIES!! Dr.Phil can babble away to ruin and we couldn't care less.
YEAH!!!! WE WANT MORE STORIES!! Dr.Phil can babble away to ruin and we couldn't care less.
paul - 07/04/08 12:09
Where is you sunburn story. It demands public attention.
Where is you sunburn story. It demands public attention.
06/27/2008 18:22 #44804
The Beach, magazines and snacks!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!
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!
mk - 07/04/08 13:17
AHHHHH. I miss the traditional stop at Tops before heading to the beach. Always the Tops on Sheridan. Always waaaaaaaay too much food for the number of people that are going. Remember when we got that grill? Did we actually get it or did we just talk about it? That seems like a lot of effort on our part. Awww, I miss going to Bathing Centers aka beaches! Let's go every day when I get back like usual.
AHHHHH. I miss the traditional stop at Tops before heading to the beach. Always the Tops on Sheridan. Always waaaaaaaay too much food for the number of people that are going. Remember when we got that grill? Did we actually get it or did we just talk about it? That seems like a lot of effort on our part. Awww, I miss going to Bathing Centers aka beaches! Let's go every day when I get back like usual.
tinypliny - 06/28/08 16:54
You bought $60 worth of snacks for one evening at the beach and then you stole forks from gas stations, got lost and instead of reaching the municipal bathing centre, you reached the beach. Hahahaha... AWESOME. :)
You bought $60 worth of snacks for one evening at the beach and then you stole forks from gas stations, got lost and instead of reaching the municipal bathing centre, you reached the beach. Hahahaha... AWESOME. :)
06/24/2008 19:28 #44774
Reprimanded at a Wedding CrashSo 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.
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.
metalpeter - 06/25/08 18:50
Not that I have ever crashed a wedding but I think what got you caught is that you where together. If say you walked in a started to talk to someone else then go to the bar and order something and then after you get a drink talk with someone else and then all go out on the floor together then no one would have been wiser but when you go to the bar together and then dance together and don't interact with anyone else there it kinda points out that you aren't supposed to be there.
Not that I have ever crashed a wedding but I think what got you caught is that you where together. If say you walked in a started to talk to someone else then go to the bar and order something and then after you get a drink talk with someone else and then all go out on the floor together then no one would have been wiser but when you go to the bar together and then dance together and don't interact with anyone else there it kinda points out that you aren't supposed to be there.
fellyconnelly - 06/25/08 07:14
I don't see why they had to get so pissy about it really... was it open bar? did you give a tip?
I don't see why they had to get so pissy about it really... was it open bar? did you give a tip?
tinypliny - 06/24/08 19:51
If you watched 257 dresses, you would have known that the best tactic is to change your clothes before crashing the other wedding. Wedding bartenders are so stressed out anyway, they wouldn't have realized you were the same people! At least you could have turned them inside out, they always use a slightly mismatched lining fabric in clothes.
If you watched 257 dresses, you would have known that the best tactic is to change your clothes before crashing the other wedding. Wedding bartenders are so stressed out anyway, they wouldn't have realized you were the same people! At least you could have turned them inside out, they always use a slightly mismatched lining fabric in clothes.
06/20/2008 19:31 #44734
Anyone Want......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?
tinypliny - 06/21/08 10:42
Wow. I wiah I had graduated from Canisius in 2001 just to get that yearbook. Sadly, I graduated much much later, from a different college, in a different city, in a different climate, in a different country and in a different continent. Don't they print just the right number of yearbooks every graduation year? Whose yearbook do you have? You might never know! Man... now someone's memories from 2001 won't be revived.
Wow. I wiah I had graduated from Canisius in 2001 just to get that yearbook. Sadly, I graduated much much later, from a different college, in a different city, in a different climate, in a different country and in a different continent. Don't they print just the right number of yearbooks every graduation year? Whose yearbook do you have? You might never know! Man... now someone's memories from 2001 won't be revived.
The Chain Thing: Yes it would be nice if there where less chains, but if that where true would the food really taste any better or would there really be more or less choice. I know in the artvoice when they have the best of Buffalo any place that is a chain or not local is axed but that shouldn't happen in the food places. The reason I say that is when you go to say Jack Astors (at the taste all ways hot girls and guys dancing and having a fucking blast) it it isn't like the cooks, cook there meals then after four days fly back to Boston. Maybe they were not born here or maybe they were but they live here now2 so they are local. I say go and eat something safe first then try something sort of safe then go out for something you are not sure about (all taste wise) and maybe you will find a new place to eat at.
Paul Anthony Visco- That was not nice. Take it back right now before you get a spanking.
Me too. I love the taste of Buffalo. Its nice how your girlfriend flew back for it to go with you and my bitchhos did not, neither of them. It will be a ho-less taste this year.