Blue Lollipop Road

August 28, 2009 In Uncategorized

Fridays At The Bay

I think this stuff tastes like crap. Most others I have asked think the same. Even thought it might not be the tastiest of brews, I have to give the old Bud Light Lime some props here. Without it and a certain interaction this summer, the past few months wouldn’t have been nearly as fun and awesome as they have been.

Cheers to you BLL. Thanks for at least looking icey-cold and refreshing.

August 27, 2009 In Uncategorized

There Are No Coincidences

Last night a friend rolled into town late for a visit. We were channel flipping at around midnight while relaxing on the couch and catching up. As we laughed about the Post-it note episode and my post from yesterday, we realized we’d stopped on rerun of SATC and yep- you guessed it, that very episode.

Yet another reason to believe that everything happens for a reason and things like roommate debacles, drama, adventure and all the rest of the madness in life is alllll supposed to happen.

Love it!

August 26, 2009 In Uncategorized

I got dumped On A Post-it Note

(I hope you know this episode of Sex and the City. There was a note situation in my life this morning and a friend made reference to this episode. We thought it was funny so a perfect title to todays entry.)

I know that I write about a lot of TTAA (Things that are awesome) and I do think there are a lot of TTAA in general. What I would like to share right now are TTTS. (That stands for things that TOTALLY suck.)

#1 Having a roommate when you’re over the age of 22. Ok- so roommates are pretty annoying anytime unless you are going to marry them.

#2 Having a roommate that totally sucks, who screams at you and drinks all your beer.

Um, yeah. I think a; WTF?! and wow- that really sucks ass is appropriate right here. That and knowing that life will never cease to throw you curve balls. You know, I hate to be girly and go all feminist and stuff for a minute- but I sure am sick of dealing with grown men in work and life that turn out to be complete weirdos for NO reason. (Yes, there are bazillions of wonderful and non-weird men course. Thank god. Just seems there are a slew of weirdos too.) Maybe it is true that men and women just can’t be friends cause there’s always going to be some type of feelings or drama on either end. Hey people who can’t speak what’s on their mind…get over yourselves! Can we all grow the eff up and stop throwing sand in the sandbox?

Jesus pete.

The daily life human study- totally love it.

Grown men who can’t speak up- so totally hate it.

It’s fantastic that all I have to do is wake up in the morning and take one step into the world to fill the bucket of great material I have for my book. At this point my bucket needs to be a storage warehouse. Thanks world- you sure do make for some good stories!

August 25, 2009 In Uncategorized

I Spy!

Do you ever wonder if people think there is some magical force-field in their car windows or that they’re painted black or something?

I just went for a run. It never fails that about every third time I’m pounding the pavement there is a guy or gal sitting at a stop sign/light and just straight up picking their nose. Yes, I know it has to be done sometime and there’s often not a ton of time to run in a bathroom during a busy day or whatever but just going to town in broad daylight like that? Hello!

For those of you who could care less who sees- great. Good for you for not giving a hoot. For you other daylight pickers who’d be mortified if you you knew how clearly we can see you; They are called windows. It’s not 1988, you’re not in Daytona driving that dark tinted Z28. We can so totally see you hardcore digging for gold.

Just FYI.

August 24, 2009 In Uncategorized

The Floodgates Are Open

Check it!

I know it’s taken me forever and a day, but I figured I’d wait till the perfect time.

I can’t lie, I’m pretty stoked to see whatever happened to Kenny so and so and that other weird kid that picked his nose a lot in 7th grade. It was also pretty cool that I found out Kate who used to be my old live out of our backpack soccer practice buddy (she had dropped off the earth the past 10 years. I mean- dropped) is now happily married with a bambino.

Even better I hope that some of the incredible people I have had in my life/met in my travels will find this. Maybe I’ll get to connect with those random folks I haven’t seen in lots of years and we’ll both be able to say “Ahh- how did I know you’d be doing something like that?”

Love that stuff.

Let the games begin.

August 23, 2009 In Uncategorized

Run Bacon Run!

August 21, 2009 In Uncategorized

Mixed Whites?

Why is it that no matter what kind food establishment you order a “mixed greens” salad at- it comes out with iceberg?

Gross.

I mean, it just never seems to fail. I could be going through a Wendy’s drive up window, at an average mid-quality standard restaurant or the highest end spot. 90% of the time (even when I ask the server specifically about it) the as advertised mixed greens salad comes out with the tasteless, nutrition-less, white, iceberg staring me in the face. Not only that, but do you ever notice that for some reason salads are the one thing on a menu that restaurants seem to put the most random things on instead of what the menu actually reads? For example; the mixed greens salad with carrots, cucumbers, croutons and mixed cheeses often comes out as something like a pile of iceberg with mushrooms, onions and tomatoes.

Huh?

What if you ordered a BLT on wheat bread and it came out as a turkey, lettuce and onion sandwich on rye?

I’m so confused restaurants of the world. What gives?

August 20, 2009 In Uncategorized

Make It A Blockbuster Day

Free stuff is awesome. Especially free stuff like movies.

Check out what The Regal Entertainment Group is giving away this summer. (Ok- so I am a little late, but I just found out about this.)

Grab the kids, Smuggle some snacks and drinks in a backpack (throw some Pop Secret in the microwave before you leave the house, along with a soda or bottle of water) and hit the theatre on a rainy day. What’s not to love about a fun day and not having to spend a penny?

There’s free stuff out there all over the place. You just have to poke around a little to find it…

August 19, 2009 In Uncategorized

I’m The Poster Child For A Diet

Yeah. Not so much.

To stay on the Chicago theme just a little longer…

These pix are our table and my plate last week at the always de-lish and totally slam-packed famous Giordano’s. Admittedly, it’s tourist haven (I try to avoid tourist only crowds in my travels) and yes it is hard to get locals (like one friend of mine I was with) to go there. Yes, you have to fight the crowds at almost midnight on a Thursday night when there’s still an hour wait, but it is so worth it. If you are a pizza lover and have never had Chicago-style? Run- don’t walk when you have the chance, to one of these spots if you want to feel fat and happy. This pizza was so good it was smack-yo-mamma twice good and I would’ve waited 3 hours for it. I don’t think I need to say much more. The pix tell you all you need to know with all those layers of goodness.

I’d like to think that at some point I am going to stop eating so much or that I’ll shut up about food but I am starting to think that might never happen.

Rachel Ray’s tasty travels? Ha! How about mine!

August 18, 2009 In Uncategorized

Dear M & B

So much to say, but I will keep it short and sweet.

I Can’t believe it’s been 15 years today since we were belting out the tunes on the radio and mooning those cars after soccer practice. Thanks for continuing to inspire me to find all the adventure and joy life has to offer. I know it would make you smile to know I still find plenty of ways to laugh too loud and act like a fool like we always did together. Oh the fun times. Hope I’m making you proud.

Love you, miss you.

Strong Mojo!