cold....

can anyone else see their breath when they wake up in the morning? our apartment is completely on the cold side that i can see my breath when i wake up. but i'm not cold overall usually, because i have a down comforter. to further illustrate my point, our gas bill was $260 this month. there are two of us in a 500 square foot apartment, and when we shut out bedroom doors our rooms freeze right up. shiiiiit. we've decided to shut off the gas and try the baseboards. wish us luck.

i am almost to the season of six feet under that i have not seen yet. i'm getting very excited. lisa is about to die, and rico is about to cheat on vanessa with a stripper.

i have 2 painting ideas floating around in my head. i think i am going to flush one out tonight. :)

check out this phat chandelier i saw at "on the border".

resolutions... pshaw!!

i don't believe in resolutions, like M. they are just ways to set yourself up for failure... i don't even like to vocalize my dreams anymore, cause when i don't accomplish them i feel like a hypocrite.. and who wants to be a hypocrite. not me. practice what you preach. hee hee.

but i do plan to customize my blog interface here. i am a web designer for godsakes, i should throw some original shit in here. shiiiiiiiit.. that is on my personal "to do" list..

i have taken a bunch of photos lately. a series of which are my workspace here. since it is a big majority of what i do and who i am i thought you might like to see it. coming soon, i will also be updating prior posts with some bling bling... i mean pics.

tonight i am going out for drinks after work in the woo woo! at LM's favorite place, on the border.

i have been thinking about and flushing out an idea for my boston birthday dinner. i'm thinking it'll be feb 18th.. maybe i should send out a "save the date" of sorts... if you are reading this, save the date... i'm turning 30, in case you didn't know!! and... it might be my last birthday in boston.. :) and the sky could fall tomorrow, so seize the moment! LOL!

I was doing so well!!

I haven’t gotten lost on my way home from work in at least 3 months.. last night, after I saw 42nd street in Lowell and had a beer at “the old court”, we drove back to work to pick up our cars.

It was around midnight, I was psyched that I was going to get to bed before 2, so psyched in fact that I put ‘Live like you were dying’ on repeat and was singing along at the top of my lungs.. “… i was finally the husband that most the time i wasn’t, and i became a friend a friend would like to have…” and I see a sign for the mass pike. Goddamnit!!!! Its at least 10 minutes to turn around, and then another 15 or so to get down route 2 and to my house. So I get off at the pike and am going to go in that way, and up 93. of course, there is a detour at exit 22 on the pike at 1245 at night, so I get off at the allston/brighton tolls and head in via storrow. Well, wouldn’t you know. You can’t get on 93N from storrow at that time of night.. so I had to go mcgrath obrien highway. Ugh. So frustrating. I don’t think I got home till like 1.

I was however greatly impressed with 42nd street. It was mostly tap dancing, and a musical. We missed prob the first ½ hour, and weren’t able to get programs… we had to wait for HEK to show up, even though we were so late ourselves. So we decided to get Chinese food cause we parked right next to a take out place. I almost felt a sense of déjà vu when LK told the lady that she wanted her sweet and sour chicken to go. I couldn’t fit a sesame tofu in my little purse… it was just as ridiculous as putting enchiladas in there.. I ended up eating up most of it in the lobby of the place while we waited. The thing I liked most about these dancers was they were real people. They didn’t look and act like dolls/ballerinas. It was refreshing, some of them even had CURVES!!!

I wish I had videotaped some of the “tap dancing” that happened afterwards. I didn’t realize that everyone I went with had taken years of tap. They proved why they didn’t become professional dancers afterwards on the street, all the way to the bar. It was very funny. People were honking their horns at us even.

We walked a few blocks in Lowell looking for “the purple shamrock”. Couldn’t find it, but we did find the “blue shamrock”… apparently that is a gang hangout of some sorts. The music was so loud we couldn’t hear ourselves before we even walked in and it was full of sketchy looking guys. The irish pub was much more our speed.

brokeback mountain.. beware, this is somewhat of a spoiler.

so the opportunity to see brokeback mountain arose yesterday and of course, i jumped.

this movie illustrates perfectly one of the reasons i like to see movies as soon as they come out. movies that garner a lot of hype, never live up to it, in my opinion!! i have heard nothing but praise about this movie. its getting all these oscar nods, its controversial, blah blah blah.. i tried hard to see why heath ledger was getting nominated. but by the end of the movie, i've decided he's not going to get it.. you need to really pay attention to be able to understand what either of them are saying. they speak in this cowboy accent and they kind of mumble. heath talks like he has a wad of chew in his mouth at all times.. i had talked about this movie earlier in the week with a couple of girl friends and how it took place in wyoming, and there was that story a while back about the gay guy that was beat and left to die on a fence post in laramie... so, the entire movie i kept waiting for heath ledgers character to be accosted and beat to death. and it never happened. there were definitely some memorable quotes from the movie though that i think will stay with me for a long time.

what will make this movie memorable for me is who i went with. seeing a movie with fjk is pretty hilarious. let me give some examples. first off, we meet in harvard square. i get to harvard square, buy our tickets, and head over to the border cafe. i mistakenly thought we were meeting at the restaurant. so i'm waiting outside for close to 40 minutes, talking on the phone. let me remind you that fjk doesn't have a cell phone and takes public transportation, i am used to waiting sometimes, plus i was on the phone, so i thought nothing of it.. so at 9 i see her coming down the street. she had been waiting a block away for the last 40 minutes.. we must have just missed each other.. now we only have 30 minutes before the movie starts to sit down and eat at the border cafe. good thing mexicans work fast. we had our food in about 6 minutes flat. :) fjk suggested we get it to go and hide it in our bags and eat it in the theater. i can just see myself jamming my enchiladas and guacamole in my little purse. hee hee.

once the movie started i got a time update about every 45 minutes... the movie was supposed to be 2 hours and 35 minutes, so after the fist update i thought, oh god. she's gonna walk out! she stuck it out like a trooper.

there were some intense scenes and some scenes on the sadder side. both of which were HYSTERICAL to fjk... giggling most definitely, almost laughing out loud. i still can't figure out that part. But we all know that laughter is contagious. So I had to laugh too…

overall, the movie was "eh...", the company was 5 stars, 2 thumbs up!!

can't sleep so good.

i am having the hardest time sleeping lately (unless its sleeping at 4 in the afternoon). the past two nights i have not been able to fall asleep till 2am or later. and as i lay there, stressing out about how much sleep i am not getting, it keeps me up even longer..

i think i need to exercise off some of that stressful energy. i am thinking about looking on craigslist for a walking partner in somerville. someone who will want to walk with me in the mornings before work.

i think also some of my late nighted-ness might be because i've had soda with dinner 2 nights in a row now. i'm quitting that tout suite!

i think art club is starting on friday, gotta check with JG. i am excited, cause i have a bunch of painting ideas floating around in my head!

oh, something else of note.. LK got this new showerhead that is pretty fly. its about as wide as a frying pan, i think that a 7foot tall person could stand under it now. but i guess the idea of it is to mimic rain.. its pretty nice. the only drawback i see is that it drips longer then the other one did after you shut it off.

a new restaurant in central square.

after my week plus away from home i was exhausted. i got home on sunday, unloaded my car, and slept, slept, slept.

when i finally got up i had lunch with KT and pep for pep's bday. we went to a place i'd never been to in central square. tavern in the square... it was really good, another place that has lettuce wraps. mmmmm...

after lunch i undecorated the house. i love packing things more then i enjoy unpacking things i think! then KT and mel wanted to go see the family stone, LK said it was really funny, so i agreed. jesus christ, not funny. it was sad. damn sad! bring kleenex if you go see that movie. jesus...

happy birthday!

MA loves her picture taken!

i'm loving this new camera, in case you haven't noticed yet.

not too long ago a friend of mine wrote me an email equivalent of a bitch slap. i had been venting some frustrations with my life on the blog and was just down in general.. i kept that letter, and will keep that letter, its inspiring. it was a different perspective of me, who i am and what i do.

over the break i was thinking about where i am in my life and how i'm feeling, in comparison to how i was feeling back then, and i came to the conclusion that i am doing well, really well. i am meeting whoever, whenever, and going here and there and doing what i want, what i want and
most importantly that makes me happy. i don't really know what my point was in starting this, i guess i just wanted to say that i feel like i am doing very well, and i'm very happy.

new years eve

since i was in syracuse all week, it was natural that i stop in albany on my way back to boston for NYE. i had lunch in the afternoon with MK, her place is so cute! but the ice skating rink hidden by the freshly fallen snow where she parks has got to go!! i totally fell and bruised the crap out of my shin.. anyone want to see pics?

MK, having a good time, per usual.


the MK pose!

after lunch i drove up to northville to hang out with MD and JS at their new house on great sacandaga lake. its so cute!! it has 4 bedrooms, 5 acres, lake front.. totally cool! we couldn't get any sort of reception on the tv, so we went outside at around midnight and started the bonfire. it was real cool to be outside in the snow warming ourselves in front of the fire. then afterwards we trekked to the frozen lake. some of us were brave enough to venture out onto the lake.

it was nice to see all the people i knew from college. i had no idea who would be there. most of these people i only see now-a-days at weddings.