A Leg Grows in C Minor

I just woke up from a horrible nightmare. This is common for me, I have them at least once every 2 weeks now. They used to be about once a month, but now they are much more frequent. I have potential reasons for these things, but first let me tell you about my dream. I was in a giant house with my brothers and some other people. Like a GIANT house. There were tons of flights of stairs leading to different landings. We were on a mission (I'm always on a crazy mission in my dreams). This time I had a special stun gun, and I was looking for a giant spider that liked to torture people. Since this house had so many rooms, my brothers and I were basically shouting and stomping around to see if we could raise enough commotion for the spider to come out and attack so we could stun it (and maybe kill it or imprison it...my dream thinking didn't get that far). So I was running up some stairs with my brother Keith, and we were both a little afraid because it was kinda dark and qui...

If there's one thing I learned since moving to NYC, it's that celebrities are tiny people. Usually both thin and short. When I met most of the cast of Ugly Betty , that was what I noticed first. I met Amanda, Mark, Hilda, and saw Betty (I don't know their real names, I don't even watch the show actually) and they looked like the littlest people alive. America Ferrera (I lied, I know her name) must be like 5'0. Last week I went to a broadway show called "Spring Awakening" that starred Hunter Parrish (Silas on Weeds ). On stage he looked thin but tall. Once we spoke to him afterwards he was shorter than me (I was leaning back in the pic) and definitely thinner than me. The day after meeting Hunter, I found "no parking" temporary signs on my street. These signs are posted all over the place when a filming is going on. I looked at what was filming, and lucky me, it was Flight of the Conchords , season 2! I've mentioned here before that ...

So I wrote last January about my cousin Lauren's fiance who was paralyzed when his car went into a ravine. He still hasn't moved, other than involuntarily, and he is going to live with his parents instead of my cousin, because they have a handicapped accessible house. A couple days ago, my cousin Leah's fiance, Shawn, was killed when he hit a tree with his car. My cousin has three previous children, and Shawn was willing to adopt them all and be a father to them, as well as a great guy to my cousin. I feel so bad for her. She had already set the date and asked me to be in the wedding. I really hope that I'm not cursed to be in wedding parties for my cousins... In lighter news, I finally finished the four books in George RR Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series. Sooooo good. Some of the best reading I've ever done. I have no fucking clue how, but this author can write political intrigue, romance, horror, and medieval times like nobody I've...

Or maybe with my "aura". Either way, I am breaking things lately. There are just way too many coincidences. Consider the facts: It all started when Mike and I went to Vegas with Smike and Melinda. The day after we got back, my computer died a very weird death. I could sign into Windows, then the screen turned black with just a white mouse arrow and I couldn't do anything except move that arrow. Mike and I tried recovering it and it was no use, my little computer, as I knew it, was gone. So Mike reinstalled Windows for me. Now it works, but I'm afraid to download programs so I just go on the internet with it and have nothing on my desktop. I know, Macs are better, but it's a brand new computer!! Then, I was trying to watch a show on Mike's computer while mine was down, and somehow I temporarily broke his audio input box. He set everything up for me, and it was working fine, and as soon as I turned the volume up (carefully I may add), the box died. On...

I love you, readers. Actually I probably don't love some of you, because I don't know you! But I'm attempting to say that phrase more so I thought I would start here. Here is the deal. I had been working with wonderful people named Annie and Alfred, and we became friends. We really liked working together, and we did a kick ass job. And I got to learn a lot about South East Asian customs! (Annie = Bangladesh, Alfred = Pakistan) But our supervisor has temporarily shifted my schedule to the weekends, so I'll be working with other people. That's fine, I like working with those people also, but they're not my close buddies. The thing about the people down here is that they say what they mean and what they feel (most of them at least). Whenever we couldn't work together, Annie and Alfred would text me and tell me that they missed me and that they love working with me. This morning Annie said again to my face that she was gonna miss me. This is completely...

I know that I'm a tad late on this (as in about 4 years), but I just started watching The L Word , and it is awesome. I was wondering if I would actually get that hooked on a show with all women in it, but the characters are so great and the storylines are so interesting, that it's my new favorite show. (Besides Fawlty Towers , which I just saw and also loved...but that's much shorter.) I've also fallen in love with one of the characters. I've been talking about her nonstop since seeing this show, and I think she is even hotter than Angelina (who I used to have a girl crush on). Her character name is Shane, and her real name is Katherine Moennig. She is apparently cousins with Gwenyth Paltrow, but they look nothing alike. Mike has been a little bit worried since I've told him of my love for her, but he doesn't have to be worried. Maybe I could be with a woman for a short time, and I definitely find some of them very attractive, but they are missing a v...

I found the quote. It is a pretty quote, and I thought of it that day that my cat was so overwhelmed at the park that she couldn't move. "We do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind: and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence." -George Eliot--Middlemarch

So Mike has been working as a waiter at the US Open in Queens for the past 5 days straight. He is working/commuting 14 hours a day, for 14 days straight. My poor fiance :( He does it because it's very good money. He wants to get some cash so he can focus more on acting and not making money. (since usually those two things don't go hand in hand) So while he's serving tennis players (yes I get the pun also) I have my time to myself. LOTS of time. I finished my latest book (if you are into fantasy books and you are not planning on reading George RR Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series, you should be shot) and I'm about to finish my video game. I've even started watching Ben-Hur only because it's a classic. Believe me, that is the ONLY reason I'm watching it, because it's really not great. So the cat has been bored along with me. Not so bored that she hasn't driven me crazy by becoming obsessed with the kitchen sink: or stoppe...

So I've mentioned in here before, multiple times, that my favorite romantic film of all time is While You Were Sleeping . More modern "romantic" movies like The Notebook leave me cold. I think that The Notebook is a piece of shit, personally. But it may just be my notion of romanticism. I love it when two people fall in love slowly as friends and then try to hide it from each other. It's kinda weird I guess but it works for me. Anyway, While You Were Sleeping is that type of movie, and back in high school when I first saw it I fell in love with Bill Pullman. Most of you know him as the President in Independence Day , but I have always loved him for the above mentioned film. So I went to Rochester/Buffalo/Geneva last weekend to hang out with friends and family whom I've been missing. On Sunday I went back to the Rochester airport to go back home, to Brooklyn. I was wandering around the extremely small food area looking for food, and I see someone wanderin...

Well I try not to go this long without writing something in here, but apparently when you move to NYC your life moves extremely fast. And I don't even live in Manhattan! With the exception of this weekend, we've had visitors for the last 3 weekends, and then I've been working the other days. Work takes energy out of me for a couple days past when it ends, so it's a good thing I only do it 3 days a week. I loved having visitors, getting to do things I wouldn't normally do if there weren't other people around. When Angela and her boyfriend came up, we went to Century 21 and a good dessert place in Times Square (although subsequent visits to Times Square has made me hate the place) and I saw my first Broadway Show ever. When Joe came we went ALL around Manhattan which was cool, and I had my first Grimaldi's experience (voted best pizza in NYC about a thousand years in a row) and my first Ice Cream Factory experience (also voted best ice cream). When my mom a...

New York New York it's a hell of a town! The streetcar's up and the shopping mall's down! Okay I have no idea if those are the right words to that song or not but it sounds appropriate. I am having a good time living in this city. As I've said before, I heart the accents. I really do. To me, a Brooklyn accent doesn't sound trashy, it sounds badass. And we all know I'm a fan of the badass nature of people. What else do I like? I love that if you have a craving for a mango, you can probably find one right down the street. Pretty much any food you'd want you can get it right down the street. And not too expensive either! This guy I work with can get a lunch bag full of cherries for 2.50 and I know because he brags about it constantly (but I think that price is only in Flatbush, where he lives). One thing though...we can never buy too much from a grocery store at once. A couple days ago we tried to get 100 dollars worth of groceries and Mike had to wa...

So we are firmly downstaters now. Without the accents. I WISH I could pull off that My Cousin Vinny accent, sigh. I still haven't started my new job, but when I do (tomorrow) I won't have nearly as much time as I do now so I'm gonna post a bunch of pictures from recent events. Yes folks, this is another picture blog (with some tv recommendations thrown in at the end). Let's get started with pictures of going away parties! Firstly, my mom had a party for me at her house in Geneva. She invited about a million of my family members, but the only pictures I will post are the people I am closest to. My best Geneva friends: My favorite girl cousins: And my family (grandparents on dad's side and grandma on mom's): Oh and my brother got the cutest husky puppy, so I have to post pictures of her: Mike and I had our own going away party the next weekend. Almost 40 people attended, and it went from 1pm-3am. Yeah. There was TONS of video game playing, eating, drinki...