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May 30, 2006
Memorial Day
As you all know, yesterday was Memorial Day which obviously included a parade and a BBQ. I have a ton of pictures, so I'll try not to waste too much space talking and just get right to it.
When I was little, my street would have a block party over the summer where everyone would decorate themselves somehow and participate in a neighborhood parade up and down the street. We would always make quite a spectacle of ourselves, but my neighborhood has always been a little crazy and a lot of fun. Our neighbors up the street decided to get the parade started again this Memorial Day which was a great idea.
Parade pictures!!
Andrew K. on his unicycle:
Mr. P leading the parade (just like he did when we were all little):
Mr. W and Andrew W. with Mocha, their dog:
My dad, Mrs. W, and my mom:
Here they all come!
Mr. and Mrs. K with their dog, Foster:
Chloe:
Parade:
Andrew K. and Colin W. in the parade:
Bringing up the rear:
Getting the BBQ started:
Ali, Greg, Molly, and Cathy:
Cathy and Me:
Suzanne and Eric:
Eric is one of Brent's best friends from home and Suzanne is his girlfriend. They were in Greenwich on Memorial Day so they were able to join us for the BBQ =)
Vanessa bug-spraying Molly:
Starting to grill:
These next couple pictures... I don't think I need to explain them, just note that Spencer is holding a bottle of lighter fluid and Alberto is holding a match...
Before:
After:
Cathy playing football:
Me playing football:
The pro-griller:
Cathy, Molly, Suzanne, and Vanessa:
Spencer and Alberto (Alberto is holding his stick he found. What is it with guys and sticks?):
No one paying attention:
Eric:
Girls! (Me, Vanessa, Molly, Cathy, and Suzanne):
Everyone (Molly, Cathy, Me, Suzanne, Eric, Vanessa, Spencer, and Alberto):
Vanessa, Spencer, and Alberto:
The first burger:
Alberto, Cathy, Molly (wearing pants on her arms), Eric, and Suzanne:
Really cute picture of Eric and Suzanne on their way back from the water:
Hmm... as I put that picture up I realized that no one realizes that we were at the beach. Why? Because we were BBQing in the woods because that's what the boys wanted... because there was a "circle." (I have no idea...)
Anyway...
Molly, Me, Cathy, and Vanessa:
Alberto and Cathy:
Alberto and Spencer:
Eric sitting on Suzanne:
Grill:
Eric:
One side of the table:
Other side of the table:
Alberto and Spencer being responsible grillers and putting out the fire:
As we left, we all saw a beautiful sunset:
After the beach BBQ, we all came back to my house to play in the backyard...
Spencer and Alberto on the swings:
Trampoline:
Ghostly figure on the right:
Molly was born to be a pole dancer:
Molly and Me:
Vanessa:
Molly and Me playing on the trampoline again... Molly was trying to fly on a broomstick:
Cathy and Me remembering the good old days of playground playdates and swingset summers:
Spencer and Alberto in the tree house:
Spencer, Vanessa, and Molly:
Spencer and Suzanne looking at Eric flipping in the air:
Eric and Suzanne:
Spencer:
I think that's all for now. I'm leaving tomorrow morning to go to the Vineyard until Saturday to see Brent (YAYYY!!!) so I probably won't post again until then. Goodnight everyone!
Posted by lauren at 06:48 PM | Comments (0)
May 29, 2006
More Random Stuff
Ok, well, today I went to the beach to have a BBQ with some wonderful people, but I'm not going to put those pictures up quite yet. Basically, I have a bunch of pictures from the last few days, and if I put them up with fun BBQ pictures then no one will look at them and I'll be really sad, so I'm saving the BBQ pics for tomorrow. All right, that being said, here are some pictures from the last few days.
Frisky:
Chloe:
Saturday night, my parents and I went down to the beach for dinner from the snack stand. I know, I have way too many beach pictures, but here are some more:
Sails down:
And up:
"Cute" car:
Davey:
Baby bunny:
Anyway, here's a completely random thing I'm angry about. I noticed this the other day:
That's the inside of our refrigerator and if you can't read it, the little digital screen says "door open." I can't figure out what idiots out there thought this was a necessary feature. It's interesting that in the four years we've had that refrigerator I've never noticed the "door open" notice... oh wait, maybe that's because I notice the door being wide open before I read it on the little itty-bitty screen. Oh, the door is open? Really? I wouldn't have realized if I hadn't leaned into the cold, open fridge to read your little digital screen.
All right, moving on.... After the beach, we went to Blockbuster where we rented Prime which was a pretty funny movie. Here are a couple particularly unnecessary pictures of Blockbuster in Stamford and the patriotic cookies we ate during our movie:
Yesterday morning, I started my day off with a delicious cup of crema-style coffee from Mr. T, our fabulous coffee, espresso, lattee, cappuccino, mocha, EVERYTHING maker:
Mid-afternoon, my mom and I went to one of our clubs, Rocky Point, to read out by the water. Neither of us did much reading because it was such a beautiful afternoon and we wanted to take in the scenery:
Is that a fire off in the distance?
French fries for lunch:
Caterpillar:
Another fun blue car:
After Rocky Point, we took a drive around the beach where we saw Officer Beach Cop on one of the new "I'm so embarrassed for Greenwich" beach cop vehicles:
Off-roading is always important, and ATVs make the beach cops soooo much less useless.
Last night, we all went to see Mission Impossible 3 which I thought was really really good. Here's a cool building (that this picture doesn't do justice to) by the movie theater in Stamford:
And lastly, this is the yellow bird that lives in our trees that I nearly broke my leg (sorry Pat) trying to chase after with my camera:
That's all. My street's parade pictures and BBQ pictures will be up soon! Goodnight!
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May 27, 2006
Fondue
Last night, my family had crazy fondue for dinner. We apparently had a bunch of different cheeses in our refridgerator that my mom wanted to get rid of, so we made fondue!
Grating cheese:
Bread:
Yum:
After fondue, we decided to take a trip around the beach. It was really foggy out which was actually quite beautiful. Here are some beach pictures:
Well, that's all for now! I actually spent a couple hours last night setting up a picture for an online digital photography contest and I'll put the picture up here as soon as I can, but I can't do that until the contest has officially begun... so maybe Tuesday-ish. Anyway, have a great Memorial Day weekend everyone!
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May 26, 2006
Tom Squad '06
Yesterday, I got up relatively early (probably sometime shortly before 10am) to go shopping with my mom. Before we left, we saw this beautiful white moth outside our front door. When we first saw it, we actually thought it was a fallen white flower because it was so pretty:
Well, at least I thought it was a fallen white flower. It landed right on my mom before falling to the ground so she was in a panic about a giant bug on her.
Anyway, I've been to about four different stores looking for the Conair jumbo hot rollers I wanted so badly and FINALLY found them at Target yesterday. Has anyone been to the target in Stamford, CT? They have escalators for the shopping carts. Very exciting:
My new hot rollers that work splendidly:
Poor Frisky wearing a little pink tutu:
Last night was our first softball game of the season! We're on the Tom's Driving School team (Cathy's dad is Tom), better known as Tom Squad. Last night's game was against the Greenwich teachers, so we actually knew a bunch of them who worked at our high school. They had been in a more advanced league last year but chose to drop down into our league again this year... so theoretically they're the best... but we beat them!
Here are some pictures taken by my mom.
Davey with his Tommie:
Action shot:
Me on third:
Spencer and Alberto as part of our usual fan club:
Cathy on first with my dad as the first base coach:
Me playing second base (with a beautiful porta-potty behind me):
Kara up at bat:
Shaking hands after we won the game:
Tom Squad (we won first place last year!!):
Poppy and Grandma at the game:
Poppy, Me, and Grandma:
After the game, we all went home to get cleaned up, then Vanessa, Ali, Molly, and I went over to Cathy's house to watch TV and hang out. I was the first to get there and Mike was doing his statistics homework and he was doing a problem about freezing rain. I'm a huge nerd and I think math and weather are really cool, so I got Mike to let me do that problem for him. Apparently Vanessa thinks I'm a loser:
Mike and Cathy:
We were watching "So You Think You Can Dance" and this lady was really hot:
Vanessa, Ali, and Cathy:
Ali being really creepy as Samara from The Ring:
Vanessa, Ali, Cathy, and Me:
Molly's grand entrance:
Molly's cute hair that I LOVE:
I remember when Molly and I were in first grade together and I got in trouble for playing with her hair during story time.
All right, that's all for now. I'm off to my very first golf lesson this afternoon! Check back later to see how that goes....
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May 24, 2006
Eagle's Nest
Today, my mom and I did some shopping in Norwalk where we had lunch at Wendy's and I took this picture:
After lunch, we went to Linens & Things where I decided to get a head start on college shopping. I got a mirror and a purple Mary-Kate & Ashley shag carpet:
I am so cool:
Tonight, my mom, my dad, and I packed up leftover baked ziti in Chinese food containers (new ones, not used...) and drove down to the beach to have dinner. Of course, I took a bunch of pictures:
Snack stand:
My mom had heard that there was an eagle's nest on top of the eagle statue/tower on one of the little beach islands, so we had to go check it out:
Seagull:
I love the beach:
Egret:
I'm not sure what kind of bird this is... maybe just another kind of seagull?
Goslings:
After the beach, we stopped by Binney Park again and saw the same turtle Brent and I had seen before:
Little house at the park:
Blue ceiling:
Tree stump growing out of a cement pipe?
Pretty pond:
Bridge:
Sam, the park-dwelling hobo dude:
Egret:
And finally, Mom and Dad on the bridge:
They had their wedding pictures taken at the park which I think is really cute.
That's all, Mom and I are attempting to watch Shaun of the Dead on TV right now, so we'll see how that goes....
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May 23, 2006
Playing With Light Refraction
Before I put up any of the pictures from tonight, I want to put up one I just took playing with light refraction. I knew my physics classes would come in handy at some point... so I've been putting my knowledge of light refraction to good use these past couple days (yes I'm a loser). Yesterday I took some pictures of dew drops and flowers, and today I used the sphyrical top of a sugar bowl in front of one of my dad's wine bottles from his collection and here's the result:
My dad is raffling this bottle off tomorrow:
Anyway, earlier this evening, my mom and I made baked ziti together, and it came out amazingly:
I think tonight was the last voting night for "American Idol," and Davey is OBSESSED with "American idol"... so here he is frantically dialing in to vote. He was very distressed because he had trouble getting through so he tried putting them on speed dial. How sad:
Lastly, I took a bunch of pictures of my kitty, Frisky. She lost a toe recently due to a terrible infection, but she's healing very quickly so she's been playing around the house which makes me really happy:
That's all. I've gotten into the HBO show "Big Love" thanks to Jocelyn, so I'm going to get back to watching it now. Goodnight!
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Phun with Photography
As you all know, I got a new camera for my birthday on Friday, so I've been having a lot of fun with it. Yesterday, I poked around in my backyard for a while taking some random pictures.
Potato Bug:
Moss in my backyard:
Centipede:
When I was younger, I had a beautiful tree house around two of the trees in our backyard, but apparently those trees weren't finished growing... so here's what happened:
Squirrel up in the trees:
Last night, my dad wasn't home so my mom and I went to Oriental Gourmet, the best Chinese take-out place in the world, to get chicken lo mein for dinner.
The back door at Oriental Gourmet:
We decided it would be fun to take our food to the beach to eat:
My fortune ("Love is like sweet medicine, good to the last drop"):
Using my camera's really good zoom, I got this picture of a lighthouse way out in the water:
After eating our Chinese food, we drove around the beach and saw four or five goslings:
Then we came home and made s'mores cookies:
After eating some delicious cookies, I tried taking some cool dew drop pictures of my mom's flower arrangement. I want to know which one people like the best, so please comment and let me know your opinion:
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Today, my mom and I had to run some errands in Stamford followed by some amazing ice cream.
Pigeons:
Ice cream at Emack & Bolio's:
They make really cool cones fresh every morning with stuff on them like pretzels, chocolate, cookies... and the ones that my mom and I got, rice krispies treats:
We both got "no sugar added" Moose Tracks ice cream which I wouldn't have known was "diet" had it not been for the sign. Delicious!
Everyone should definitely check out the Emack & Bolio's across the street from the Ridgeway Shopping Center in Stamford, CT (or at any of their other locations):
Well, that's all for now. I'm off to make baked ziti! Have a great afternoon everyone!
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May 22, 2006
My Birthday Weekend Part 2
Last night's entry had pictures of Thursday, Friday, and Saturday during the day, so now it's time for Saturday night. Kristina and I had planned a trip to Montreal for our birthday which got too complicated, turned into an overnight in NYC which got too expensive, and eventually became a dinner at a nice Greenwich restaurant. Unfortunately, not all our friends were able to come because of all the confusion, but we still had a nice group of thirteen of us. Kristina and I chose the restaurant Bleu, a French bistro on Greenwich Avenue that turns into a club around 10:30pm. The night was going to end after Bleu, but our amazing friend Ali invited us all over to her house afterwards for some outdoor beirut which was definitely one of the highlights of the evening.
The dinner reservations were at 9:30pm which we thought was appropriately European of us. Everyone arrived at my house around 9pm, but Cathy, Pat, Alberto, and Bridget came early, probably a little after 8pm. Once everyone arrived, we got ready to go and left for Bleu. We got to Bleu right on time and were all blown away by the ultra-trendy decor. Before dinner arrived, I took a bunch of pictures of the group, so here they are!
Cathy and Pat:
If you see Pat on crutches in any of the pictures, he broke his leg recently in a lacrosse game.
Bridget and Alberto:
Kristina, Vanessa, and Jenn:
Brent and Me:
We tried to get another nice picture of Cathy and Pat, but Pat took it from nice to very naughty.... The room was very dimly lit so no one else could see, but luckily I have a very bright flash. Don't worry, they're just pretending:
The birthday girls!!! For those of you who didn't read my last blog entry, Kristina and I share the exact same birthday so we planned this party together:
Greg and Ali:
Pat with his pomegranite martini (don't worry, he's 21):
Above our table, we had a really cool light fixture that was actually just a group of bare light bulbs brought together in a light bulb bouquet:
For those of you who have not been to Bleu, the bathrooms are definitely the best part of the restaurant (aside from the food). There are two giant bathroom stalls with completely clear glass walls, but when you go inside, you flick a switch and the glass immediately fogs up so that no one can see in. I got a before and after picture of Pat in the bathroom.
Before:
After:
That is way too much fun.
James and Molly:
Pat's very fizzy beer overflowing:
The food came quickly and everything was delicious. I had the salmon which was sitting on top of some sort of potato and vegetable thing and a pool of bernaise sauce, yum.... The one thing none of us could figure out, though, was the stuff on top. There was a small pile of little tiny circular green and orange things that sort of explode like bubble wrap in your mouth. If anyone has any idea what it is, let me know because I'm really curious!
My salmon:
The "bleu" bar:
After dinner, our waitress brought a scoop of ice cream with a candle in it for Kristina and me:
We sat around for a little bit while the club music played very loudly, and then decided it was time to head over to Ali's.
Leaving Bleu:
When we got to Ali's, someone had made "jungle juice" for us to drink, and we had a bunch of beers to play beirut with outside. Ali had a ping pong table out by her pool which made for a great 2-game 'rut (pronounced "root") table.
Brent and Pat:
Brent and Me:
The adorable mini Cosmopolitan drink set from Ali, Molly, and Vanessa (no one had to get us birthday gifts, but thank you so much!):
While I'm on the topic of gifts, I'd also like to thank Cathy for the adorable Vera Bradley purse and pink sweatpants and Pat for the very classy book he picked out, Kristina for the gorgeous "going out" shirt and the really fun lip-plumping gloss, Jenn for the J-Crew gift card (I'm so excited to go spend it!), and James for the delicious Godiva chocolate truffles which are completely gone now.
Anyway, Kristina and I had a really yummy Oreo cake at Ali's and everyone sang for us:
Jenn, Ali, Vanessa, and Molly:
James and Greg:
Kristina and Me:
Bridget and Alberto:
Cathy and Me:
Alberto, Brent, and Greg out by the beirut table:
The guys quoted their favorite comedian, Dane Cook, pretty much all night so I thought I should get at least one picture of them doing the "I just wanna dance!" bit:
Pat, Brent, and James:
James and Alberto:
Vanessa and Ali posing:
Bridget and Alberto:
I really like this "in-action" picture of Cathy and Me:
Cathy, Greg, and Kristina:
Brent got this picture of one of the balls in the air in front of the group:
The beirut group:
James and Alberto right after they won:
Vanessa, Molly, and Kristina:
The next few party shots are stolen from Cathy and Kristina's cameras.
Kristina, Molly, and Me:
Brent with my camera. He looks like such a... I don't know:
Ali and Vanessa:
Pat and Cathy (check out Brent in the background ruining their cute picture):
All the girls:
Everyone made fun of me for carrying my camera around my neck, so I posed for a "tourist picture" for them:
Kristina and Me:
Kristina, Cathy, and Me:
After a while, some people had to go home and the rest of us (who were sleeping over at Ali's) started winding down for the night. Here's Brent falling asleep while playing with one of those really confusing wood puzzles:
Cutest picture ever of Alberto and Bridget (I don't think they know I took this):
Cathy and Pat:
Greg, Ali, and Kristina:
Ali, Kristina, and Cathy:
Brent and I disagreed on which one of these next two pictures was better, so I put both up.
My favorite:
Brent's favorite:
Everyone watching MTV:
James and Brent:
It was really late and we were all getting tired, so we decided to find places to sleep. We were all scattered around Ali's house on various beds and couches, but Pat, Cathy, Brent, and I were all sleeping on a twin trundle bed in the bedroom where one of Ali's birds sleeps which was actually a lot of fun.
Brent and Pat setting up our bed:
Pat talking to the bird:
Brent and Me:
Cathy and Pat:
Alberto trying to start a pillow fight:
Cathy and Me:
Brent:
Alberto and Bridget posing for the picture:
Kristina and James on the couch:
Ali's bird:
The bird talked to us and even laughed at us, then reached it's foot out and grabbed Pat while he wasn't looking. It made for a very fun night... especially waking up to Brent and Pat having a farting competition. The next morning, Pat made his way down Ali's very steep driveway on crutches, and we all went home:
Pretty flower arrangement my mom made at our house:
Cathy, Pat, Brent and I soon met up at The Upper Crust Bagel Co. in Old Greenwich where we waited on a long line that went all the way out onto the sidewalk:
Brent farted again in line and it smelled AWFUL:
Bagels:
Brent's breakfast sandwich:
After breakfast, Brent and I went back to the park to look at the turtles and ducks again.
Two boy ducks:
Footprints in the mud:
We saw a really fat looking duck by the water's edge:
It turns out it wasn't fat at all, it was just protecting nine little ducklings under its wings:
Ducklings running into the confused turtles:
I love how cute and fuzzy they are:
Library reflection in the pond:
It was getting stormy out, so Brent and I took a quick drive around the beach to look at the clouds:
Beautiful home on the water:
A few minutes after getting home, Brent's parents arrived to pick him up on their way home from NYC. We had some pastries and talked for about an hour and a half before Brent had to leave =(
After Brent left, my dad and I drove back to the beach to look for goslings and rabbits, but only saw one rabbit on the whole trip. I got a couple cool pictures though.
Fisherman in the storm:
These next couple pictures are really cool because there were some thick clouds out over the water and you can actually see sheets of rain falling from them:
Last beach picture:
I actually took one more closer to the water, but the strong winds and big waves were spraying me with ocean water so I gave up and went back home.
I hope the 200+ pictures I put up in my last two entries will make up for the few days I didn't blog!
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May 21, 2006
My Birthday Weekend
I'm twenty years old! May 19th was my 20th birthday and I feel really old now. I have SO many pictures to put up because I've been neglecting The Blonde Excuse while my boyfriend visited. Anyway, I'll begin with Thursday, when Brent arrived for my birthday weekend. It was a beautiful afternoon so Brent and I decided to take a walk. We walked to Binney Park, which is on my street, and then we went to the beach. Here are some pictures from that afternoon.
Flower outside my house:
Brent crouching by the one of the big turtles we saw at the park:
Turtle:
Brent didn't want to touch the turtle, so I did it first:
But he did it too:
Brent climbing my favorite tree at the park:
Brent in the willow tree:
After the park, we drove to the beach where we shared a hot dog and fries at the snack stand and bumped into Jennifer, a friend from Trinity who also lives in Greenwich.
Brent making a face:
As we walked along the trails, we had a show-down with this crab:
Brent and I won.
Bee:
Someone had set these rocks up in about 5 little groups on the beach:
Purple plant:
Brent on one of the larger trails:
Brent again:
If you look, you can see Brent's giant rock that he dropped off the bridge in mid-air:
A telephone pole washing up on the rocks... I don't know why:
Brent took this beautiful picture of one of the beach bridges:
Lots of shells:
A break in the cloudy sky:
A duck couple:
Brent on the path to the castle ruins:
Castle ruins on top of the hill at the beach:
A tree in the woods at the beach with beautiful purple flowers:
Brent on a little path near the castle ruins:
Boats at the end of the long path:
Brent hanging from a tree:
Goslings:
After the beach, we came back home to have a delicious chicken cordon bleu dinner that my mom and I made:
Afterwards, Brent and I made strawberry bruschetta which might sound strange, but it's really good:
Brent liked the blow torch so much that he found ways to use it on sandwiches the next day:
It was my birthday on Friday, so after lunch Brent asked me what I wanted to do and I felt like going for another walk, so we walked down to the park and then into Old Greenwich to a little book store.
Here are some of my pictures from Friday afternoon:
A storm was on the way:
Despite the weather, Brent and I continued on to the book store where we found a really cute cat in the window:
The weather kept getting worse, so Brent and I decided to head back home. We started running to get in out of the rain and almost made it.
The sky getting really dark as the rain started:
Well, anyway, we got back home and got ready for my birthday dinner!
Around the same time as we got home, my sister Jocelyn arrived. We all had some champagne, cheese and crackers while I opened my birthday presents.
Brent and Me:
Brent, Me, and Jocelyn:
Me opening my brand new really nice digital camera from my parents!
Opening the beautiful Marc Jacobs bag from Jocelyn:
Holding the gorgeous gold, diamond, and pearl earrings from Brent!
(Picture stolen from Jocelyn's blog)
Aww:
(Picture stolen from Jocelyn's blog)
Jocelyn brought us all an appetizer of cupcakes from Buttercup Bake Shop:
We took our cupcakes with us on the road to the Boxcar Cantina, a Mexican restaurant in Greenwich that I chose for my birthday dinner.
Mom and Jocelyn at dinner:
Brent between two of those bull skull things:
Brent and Me:
Brent, Me, and Davey:
Brent's buffalo burger:
My tacos:
After dinner we rushed over to PoCho to the movie theater to see The Da Vinci Code.
Mom and Jocelyn walking into the theater:
The movie was completely sold out, so we got tickets for the late showing and wasted some time at the shoe store next door. While my mom and Jocelyn were shoe shopping and my dad was drinking coffee at Starbucks, Brent and I borrowed Jocelyn's camera and went down to the street where there was a group of protesters. When we got there, they saw Brent and me with a big professional-looking camera, they thought we were the press so they all huddled together, turned their signs towards us, and started singing and marching around in circles for our benefit. If only we weren't there just to make fun of them on the internet....
Protesters:
After wasting about an hour in the shoe store, Jocelyn, Brent, my mom, and I found my dad at the Starbucks in the movie theater and got on the snack line. Anyone who hasn't been to the Loews Theater in Port Chester, NY should totally check it out just for the snack selection. They sell the usual movie snacks, Starbucks, cakes and pastries, ice cream, etc. While we were waiting in line, I made fun of my mom's giant glasses, so Brent took my picture wearing them:
My mom is convinced that by the time she gets new ones, the old ones will be back in style....
Anyway, the movie was very different from the book in a lot of the details... but I still enjoyed it. It was an amazing book and a very good movie.
After the movie we came home to have cake! We had a huge chocolate cake with cheesecake filling and chocolate frosting with a princess on top! It was beautiful and so yummy!
But first, I took this picture of Brent reading because I think he's cute:
My gorgeous cake!
Apparently, some people in the store asked my mom how old I was and she had to tell them it was my 20th birthday... how embarrassing. I loved my princess cake, though.
Davey:
Brent with his usual gigantic slice of cake:
Jocelyn and Chloe:
My mom, Jocelyn, and Me with our Marc Jacobs purses:
That concludes my actual birthday, so moving on to Saturday.
Saturday early afternoon, Brent, my dad, and I went to the driving range to hit a bucket of balls. I did terribly, as usual, but Brent and my dad did very well.
Driving range in Stamford, CT:
I liked this lady's outfit... I wish you could see the bottom half better:
My new bag is named Marcia because I thought that would be a good girl version of Marc, so I decided to take this picture to remember Marcia's first day out:
My dad in the cool golf hat I got him in Naples:
Brent:
BMW art:
On the way home, we saw a library bus:
A war protest:
A gas pump in someone's front yard:
When we got home, we had leftover cake for lunch:
Davey took a nap with the dog:
We went over to my grandparents' house after golf to see them after their trip to Bermuda. They bought me a T-shirt and gin haha.
Fountain outside my grandparents' place:
When we got home, Brent and I had to run a few errands in Old Greenwich:
And here's a random cute squirrel in my yard:
I got excited about my camera and taking pictures, so Brent and I went on a photographic exploration of Riverside, the part of Greenwich that I live in.
We started with the church pre-school that I went to:
"Dedicated to the dreams of our children"
Then we continued through the rest of Riverside on our photographic tour:
Horse-shaped tire swing:
Frank and Kathie Lee Gifford's house:
Kathie Lee driving:
I think that's all I can do for right now. I have a TON more pictures that I'm going to be putting up tomorrow, so check back! After the photographic tour of Riverside, I went out with all my friends to a restaurant on Greenwich Ave. to celebrate Kristina's and my birthday (we have the same one!) and then to Ali's house for the party afterwards, so that's what will be up tomorrow. Goodnight everyone!
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May 15, 2006
Cathy Locked A Hobbit In An Ice Box
Before I get to the hobbit story, I'm going to make you all sit through a lot of old random pictures I never got around to putting up. I forgot that I had a ton of pictures on my Sidekick's photo gallery, so that's why a bunch of these aren't as high quality as usual.
Frisky being cute:
Frisky coming out of my laundry bag:
A really cool cloud by the mall in Hartford:
Brent at Binney Park at the bottom of my street:
Binney Park:
Brent and Me at the park:
The sophomore BBQ out on the quad:
BBQ:
Free Cold Stone ice cream for everyone at the BBQ:
Anyway, Saturday night was Mike's prom night. My parents and I went over to Cathy and Mike's house to see Mike and his three prom dates all dressed up and to watch Big Mama's House 2. Here are some pictures of Mike with his dates:
Mike with Cathy:
Mike with his baby cousin, Jensen:
Dancing in Cathy and Mike's living room:
Superstars:
Mike doing "the fax machine:"
Davey with a death-grip on Jensen:
Davey with Cathy and Mike's dad (aka Davey's bf Tommie) "playing house" with the baby:
They don't make very good moms.
Jensen in her really cool bouncy swing that hangs from the top of doorways that I'm REALLY jealous of:
Anyway, some of Cathy's family was over and my family was there too, so everyone ran out of ice pretty quickly meaning Cathy and I had to go to the nearby gas station to get another bag. When we arrived, we parked directly in front of the store on a "No Parking" sign on the ground, so Cathy asked me to wait in the car while she ran around back to the ice box. There was a huge padlock on the door, so she had to go inside to look around. Some really short, almost "shrunken" person worked there who told Cathy to look in the back of the store... but Cathy couldn't find any ice:
This hobbit-like fellow had a long black pony-tail with light brown roots which looked pretty ridiculousl. Cathy says we went to high school with him but I don't remember him. Anyway, I went inside to help Cathy out and we ended up getting little Frodo to take us around back to open the ice box. As we walked over, he tried really hard to give off the "I'm way too cool to be working at a gas station" vibe by repeatedly saying he didn't want to effing be there, effing do that, effing this, effing that.... Anyway, we thought he was pretty stupid, but we needed him to get us some ice. When we got to the ice box, he unlocked it and lit his lighter to see if there was ice in it. Being very small, he even crawled right inside... without holding the door open. Cathy let go of the door too and, of course, it slammed behind our hobbit helper. Cathy looked at me like I was going to do something about it, and we just started absolutely cracking up.
Cathy holding the door:
We were shaking so hard from trying not to laugh too loudly that the shot came out really blurry. When Cathy yelled "Oh no!" and tried to open the door, the gas station guy replied with "Hey! I'm still in here!" Anyway, in conclusion, we got our ice, the hobbit got out of the ice box, and we went home. I think that might be one of those "I guess you had to be there" stories, but oh well. That's all.
I'm watching A History of Violence with my parents now, so I have to go, but have a good night everyone!
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May 13, 2006
Coming Home
Well, yesterday I packed up my room into my Jeep and somehow made it home in one piece. I had already made one trip home with a full car, so I had to get everything home this time. Those of you who live in the area know how awful the weather was yesterday. It was torrential rain for hours and hours and didn't let up once. I had to carry all my things outside under a towel to keep them from getting wet. Luckily, I have an amazing boyfriend to help me carry stuff. We both got absolutely soaked.
Brent coming in from the rain. He looks so sad:
My car completely packed up (view over the top of the driver's seat):
The passenger seat:
I couldn't see anything at all, so I'm not sure how I made it home but I did.
Right now I'm watching a marathon of "America's Next Top Model," one of my favorite shows, while my parents drive my grandparents to their Bermuda cruise! I had to drive my dad's car home from my grandparents' house this morning when I went to see them, and I set one of my favorite traps for him to get him back for all the times he runs my car out of gas early in the morning before I wake up. I left a Disney CD in his CD player with "Be Our Guest" on, I turned all the windshield wipers on the highest setting, and I moved the seat to where I like it. I'm a terrible daughter... but hey, it's not Father's Day. All right, I'm getting back to my show now, but I just guest-blogged for Jocelyn's blog (my sister) so feel free to check it out here: Rock Star Diary
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May 09, 2006
Library, CT
Well, Brent and I have pretty much taken up residence in the library here at Trinity. It's finals week so everyone spends the majority of their days studying here... or pretending to study. I was in the library for about 4 hours earlier today and managed to do absolutely nothing. Anyway, yesterday when the sun was going down, the clouds by the chapel were so beautiful that I thought I should take a couple pictures. I took these two pictures within a few seconds of each other so I can't figure out why the color is so different, but I actually think that's pretty cool. Anyway, here's the view from the library last night:
Brent and I just had dinner and are now back at the library where we'll probably stay until the wee hours of the morning. Either that or until 10pm when "The Real World" is on. Brent just gave me a look for suggesting that we leave by 10... so we'll see how it goes. Anyway, Brent and I are back in The Joslin Family 1823 Room which is definitely the best room to work in in the whole library. It's usually closed off and reserved for special class meetings, etc. but during finals week everything is open. Brent and I got a big table right by one of the windows that has a comfy windowseat to sit in so we're very happy:
That's brent's studious face. All right well I should stop procrastinating and get to my studying now!!
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May 08, 2006
Recovering From the Plague
Luckily, as finals are approaching, I'm getting over my bout of the plague. Here are a few random pictures from the past few days to keep you mildly entertained while you view my site. Anyway, when I was first getting sick, Brent, being the most amazing boyfriend ever, invited me over to his room to watch a movie with him and secretly set up all my stuffed animals (and his black lab that I got him because it looked like his dog, Beamer) with a blanket and pillows before I got back to school:
The weekend hasn't been that interesting, so the pictures will be equally boring. Here's a picture of the new street light in Hartford:
I know what you're thinking... that I've really gone entirely insane with my picture-taking... but actually this street light is really cool. It's not like any of the others where there are a lot of little lights within the big circle of the green/yellow/red light, these are somehow reflective pannel things that I don't understand at all. You probably can't see that very well in the picture, though... making this pointless. Ok, you're right, I'm an obsessive picture-taker.
Friday night was actually really nice, I spoke too soon about the boring weekend. Brent's parents took Brent and me to a restaurant in Hartford called Peppercorns Grill which has delicious Italian food and is definitely worth trying if you're in the area.
Friday was, of course, Cinco De Mayo so I thought I should take a picture of the Corona decorations outside Coyote Flaco in Hartford:
Normally I would include a link to the restaurant... but I wouldn't want to subject anyone to 3 hours of being violently ill afterwards. Coyote Flaco and I do NOT get along.
Couches across the street from Trinity (we sort of live in the ghetto):
Another useless picture coming up...
Ant colony:
And finally, my two favorite pictures of the day, the squirrel who lives in the tree right outside Funtown:
The squirrels here at school are 1)Obese and 2)Frighteningly (for me) unafraid of humans. I love squirrels, but not when they get close to me and look at me with that "Do I know you? I think I've seen you around somewhere but I'm not sure... Should I say hello? No, I'll sort of half smile and keep walking" kind of look on their little rat faces. Now I'm just creeping myself out. Anyway, this particular squirrel was cute until it almost dropped down right on top of my head! It was seriously only about a foot away from hitting me and it was terribly traumatic. It was eating flowers and dropping them on people. All right, enough procrastinating... I have an 8-10 page paper on Rousseau to write.
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May 07, 2006
I'm Sick
Well, it's finals week so I have "The Plague" as I just read about at Camp Trin Trin. Ugh, I hate being sick. Anyway, I have a few pictures that I'm going to put up (obviously I'm not in them because I look gross), but I probably won't get around to that until tomorrow. Thanks for continuing to check my blog even with the lack of recent postings... I'll be back.
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May 04, 2006
Super Awesome Playdate With Cathy, Mike, and Brent
Brent drove down to Greenwich today to visit me, yay! This afternoon, we went out to lunch with Cathy and Mike for an awesome playdate. We went to Panera in PoCho (Port Chester, NY) and had a delicious meal.
Panera:
Panera is a bread/soup/sandwich place and soooo yummy!
Mike and Cathy at the free samples table:
Brent walked up to the counter and started ordering and about half way through his order the lady looked at him and... "Welcome to Panera, how may I help you?" Yes, she was an idiot. Still is, I assume. Anyway, we got our soup/sandwiches all right and they were amazing.
The panini that Cathy and I got:
Brent's sandwich:
Mike's soup in a bread bowl:
Mike and Cathy:
Brent and Me:
Brent didn't want to waste any of our bread, so he put it in his pocket:
After Panera, Brent and I went over to Cathy and Mike's house for the continuation of our playdate. We ate Muddy Buddies and watched Superstar.
Muddy Buddies:
The powdered sugar I secretly got all over Brent's face:
After the movie, we played an awesome game of catch the green ball. Cathy had to leave for 10 minutes to pick up her mom, so Brent, Mike, and I started counting (out loud) the number of times we caught the ball. Around 36, I dropped it (because Brent threw it badly!) but we kept on counting. Cathy got back somewhere in the 200s and joined in the game even though she had no idea what we were doing. We got to 500, celebrated, and called it a day.
After our playdate, Brent and I came back to my house and my mom and I burried the cat, Frisky, in Easy Mac:
We want really badly to get on Stuff On My Cat and keep sending in pictures, to no avail.
Brent took a brief nap on one of the couches and I took this cool reflection picture of him:
Isn't he just darling?
After napping, my parents, Brent, and I met up with my grandparents at Beach House Cafe... "The Beach House" to local Greenwichites, a cute beachy restaurant in Old Greenwich.
The Beach House has the black and white awning by the clock.
More pictures:
OG Unit, the old G-Unit:
The new G-Unit, loosely related to the music industry, should not be confused with the G-Unit of the days of yore. When were the days of yore anyway?
After dinner, we went back to my grandparents' house to have dessert. We had delicious pastries from one of the local bakeries and I definitely had more than I'd like to talk about.
Pastries:
After getting our fill of dessert, Brent and I went to see the movie RV:
We both thought it was one of the funniest movies ever... just hilarious. Now we really want to drive an RV to Colorado, too. Maybe someday....
Road trip anyone?
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May 02, 2006
Miscellaneous
Well, I have a few random pictures to put up... as usual. First, Brent finally sent me the pictures from Florida that were on his camera. Here's a picture of Brent and me by the pool at his aunt and uncle's house:
This is a picture Brent took for my blog of the chocolate-covered strawberries that were mistakenly sent to his hotel room. Lucky him!
And more recently, these three videos are of the concerts from Spring Weekend:
Concert Video 1
Ok, that's all my miscellaneous stuff. Oh no, wait... here's some more:
Brent sitting on his car:
The chapel at night (I thought the clouds were really cool):
All right, and here's what I did today. First of all, today was the last day of classes! Yay! I'm finally done with everything. Everything but finals, of course. I decided to come home for a couple days since I really have nothing to do until next Thursday and Friday when my finals are. I missed my Dad's birthday, so I brought his gift home today:
It's an iceless wine cooler temperature controller thingy with cool buttons.
For dinner, my parents made filet out on my dad's new outdoor electric grill (another birthday gift):
It's different from our gas grill in that it's really awesome.
And finally, my parents and I went to see Sentinel tonight at the Crown Majestic Theater in Stamford, CT and it was a great movie, definitely go see it!
I apologize for this being the most unorganized blog entry ever... but what can I say.
Brent is coming to visit me tomorrow and we're going out to lunch with my Kiki and Mike lovERs at Panera. There will obviously be pictures, so check back soon!
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