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06/05/2009 16:43 #48846

Favorite Lion Mural on a CityLove tshirt
So i wish i had a picture but i don't right now and want to write about it. So I saw in a like buffalo magazine thing an ad for Citylove which is a tshirt store that makes tshirts based on things in Buffalo (not like the I HEART BUFFALO HOCKEY ONES) , i like these better. Anyway so I saw that they had a tshirt of the mural of the lion on the side of some building on Delaware downtown sorta near Allen. I have always loved that mural and it is kinda fading away and in some parts the brick is exposed again. (e:libertad) gave me an awesome picture of it for my birthdya this year. ANywho, so today me and (e:jill) went to citylove to see what it really looked like cuz I didn't love the colors in the picture. But so we went and I saw it and i really liked the colors and how it looked in person and so I bought it.

But it gets better so the guy who was like about my age told us the story of the tshirt which made it even more interesting. He said like he doesn't design most of the shirts but he designed that one cuz he thought it was interesting and its cool becasue where in the mural the paint is missing he filled it in with "wake the lion" and he said how symbolizes like buffalo's rebirth and then like it ties in with Mckinley being shot and how people said buffalo was cursed since then because I guess that mural is based on the Mckinley monument lions. So anyway so he made this shirt which i love and then i guess the guy who painted the mural called him cuz he liked it and i guess that guy is now the head designer for the sabres and creates their logos and stuff.

So all in all I love my new shirt, will post a pic soon hopefully and i really like the citylove store and its owner seems nice so you should shop there, though they don't have lots of stuff , but i liked it. (e:jill) saw a shirt she was gonna get her sister too prolly. Maybe I will wear my shirt Sunday, though it is dark and so that might be too hot. We'll see!!!
lilho - 06/05/09 19:21
i like this story very much peach. im kinda jealous too, because i don't have any special mural story, and now i feel more plain and less unique than you, which i feel i probably really am.

05/29/2009 16:12 #48786

Garage Sale This WEekend
SO the weekend has finally arrived. Garage Sale this Saturday and Sunday (May 30 and 31 and yes its so big it needs 2 days) at 567 Auburn )between elmwood and norwood. Lots of good stuff to be had or at least come at laugh at the crap i've bought over the years!!!!!!

housewares....we've got it

crafts.....we've got it

clothes in my size....we've got it

ab roller....yup got that

curtains....got it

cd, movies, books, and records......for sure we got that

knicknacks galore....got it

stuffed animals.......plenty

games.....yup

desk lamp.....got it

folding cardboard dawson's creek soundtrack promo tabletop decoration.... i know you've been wanting it and we gots it

changing table....uh huh we do

cups, mugs, starbucks gift sets....got all those

wedding cake topper.....have it

kids cooking utensils....yup still in packaging

also music stand, dishes and so much more!

lots of stuff never even opened becasue me and my mom just like to buy buy buy and not use use use , we are finally starting to part with stuff come take it home today
southernyankee - 05/29/09 19:16
Pics please. Maybe I can order stuff from you online like a QVC show! That would be great.
paul - 05/29/09 18:35
You have to take lots of pics of it, once it is all spread out and together.
tinypliny - 05/29/09 17:16
Do you have a working stereo receiver for sale? (and bookshelf speakers, maybe?)
james - 05/29/09 16:54
I just might stop buy to gawk. You are an impressive collector of stuff and your past posts about your stuff have been awe inspiring.

05/26/2009 23:54 #48763

Garage Sale
I'll post about it again but don't forget,I am having a garage sale this Saturday and Sudnay (may 30 and 31) at 567 Auburn from 9-3. Come stop by, i have lots of stuff to get rid of!

05/23/2009 19:37 #48731

De Facto Salt and Pepper Collector
Not sure if i used the term de facto right but I have been going through all the totes in my basement of stuff I have for an apartment that i have either bought over the last 10 years or inherited from my grandparents or my mom has bought and put in the totes and I realized I am the proud owner of like 15 different kinds of salt and pepper shakers so now I guess I collect those. I like it...

I also realized I have soooo much stuff, I was trying to write it all down so then I could see what i still need to get ( ireally want to move out in the fall and tihnk I am relaly gonna do it this time) and like 5 pages into my notebook later I realize I have enough stuff for liek 8 apartments. I also relaized some of the stuff I bought over the last 10 years I no longer like so it is going right to the garage sale box....how funny like I bought stuff that just got bought put in a box and now I am selling, never even used. I wasted a lot of moeney over the years, well we all know me, i am sure i got it all cheap and that is why i obught it cuz it was on clearance. ...

this leads me to tell eveyrone I am having a garage sale this coming Saturday and Sunday May 30 and 31 at 567 Auburn ((e:libertad)'s house). So istop on by.. i'll post more aobut it tomorrow
tinypliny - 05/23/09 22:31
The real question is do you have cutlery and flatware to match? I mean how will the lavish parties you will throw ever be perfect otherwise??
libertad - 05/23/09 22:28
No wonder mike likes to use up my aluminum foil, he has a never ending supply at home.

I get to take whatever I want as a fee for having it at my house.
paul - 05/23/09 20:07
Your apartment idling overdue and way too planned. Seriously, 15 salt and pepper shakers? At least mom collects practical stuff lime ziplock bags and aluminum foil.

05/13/2009 22:35 #48662

Good Quote About Madonna
I read this in Parade magazine (the part of the sunday paper most peole prolly don't even look at but i love especially the celebrity questions and ask marilyn!) anywho I just feel like it really summed up Madonna well.

The question was (and i know this at first doesn't seem to relate to Madonna but keep reading:)


Q: I hear there's a new Mike Tyson documentary, Why should we care about a prize fighter who threw it all away?

Q: Because it just might make us reconsider him. Tyson's writer and director, James Toback, offers an intriguing object lesson:

"some people have talent and mage it well. Madonna has absolutely squeezed out every drop of her potential. Mike is the total opposite. He never failed to achieve th most he possibly could- and then never fialed to destroy it. Mike wouldn't underatand someoneone like Madonna, who discovers what works and does just that and nothing else!"

there it is folks