September 23rd, 2015 @ 12:42 pm

i’m the self-proclaimed birthday grinch… i could give two shits that it’s my birthday. i don’t really try to make plans unless it’s a milestone, i don’t want any cake, i don’t do that thirsty shit where i post about it online… i’d rather avoid it altogether. i hate getting older.

HOWEVER…

i will ALWAYS make plans to go to shows around my birthday, and this year was a doozy! the adicts came around again and played on thursday, and rancid played on friday.

the adicts played after bands i had no interest in seeing (psycho/rockabilly bullshit). they didn’t go on until 11PM – which didn’t agree with me and sceave’s old people bodies (lol). i was also fighting some sort of sinus/cold thing for 2 days, so i was so fucking tired by the time we were done with the show.

rancid on the other hand, i knew i’d need to be 100% for. every time we see them, it’s a mosh fit fucking workout…

i went to h2o/rancid with an old friend (pun intended), and danced my ass off so hard that i couldn’t function muscle wise for 4 days… i’m also covered in tons of small, random bruises.  i actually ended up also seeing the great houdini at the show, and ended up dancing with/alongside him most of the night.  i love bumping into people at these shows that i usually don’t get to see…  when rancid took the stage, i ran right into the crowd so we weren’t stuck on the outside.  i instantly found my friends john and joe right away…  i ended up singing right into john’s face before i even realized it was him.  we were both like wtf, lol?  there was un pit shift and they were both gone.  missy was also with me and she didn’t want to go in the circle.  she stayed on the rim and i’d come back and forth, but i really just wanted to be in that circle dancing.  it’s such a good workout.  rancid always has the best crowds.  almost no douches, fun pits, and everyone is also scream-singing their hearts out.  i dread the day that i’m too old for shows/pits.  🙁  i live for those nights/vibes.

i keep having to go to shows at terminal 5, and it’s such a pain in the balls to get to.  i really miss roseland 🙁  that’s where i’d seen rancid before that for years… now this is their new spot.  it accommodates the large crowd that they bring in, so i guess they’re sticking with it.

June 6th, 2014 @ 12:06 pm

i am not even one of those people that enjoys karaoke.  i loathe and dread it, actually.  however, my coworkers put together an K outing and i went along with it.  i figured i’d just sit and watch from a dark corner, probably point and laugh…  it didn’t happen that way though.  in fact, i sang one of the first songs – but from the “sofa” in the room…  the only reason that i did, was because it was sublime – santeria and i already knew all of the words by heart already.  i thought maybe that would ease my anxiety of sounding horrible in front of everyone.

it hath not eased. #NEVERAGAIN

i let everyone sing a whole lot more before i got up again, and the only reason i had even sang again was because my sneaky co-worker told me he’d do salt n pepa – shoop with me.  i thought i knew all of the words to it, but not hearing it since (probably) the 90’s, did not work in my favor.  also: that song is DAMN fast.  i got a lot of it, though.

next up was no doubt – just a girl, because my coworker chose it for herself, and then bailed on me to make a LIRR train…  i sat down and belted it out with my coworker bryan quite successfully.

my next/last song was fuel – shimmer.  i figured no one would know/appreciate it but the entire room was singing along with me.  i love that people love that song so much, it’s so fucking good.  hearing it in unison sort of gave me the chills like hockey triumphs/milestones.  the only time i’ve ever heard it like that, is when my cousin marie and i have the windows down in the car, while screaming it as we drive around aimlessly.  forever good memories.

but still…

#NEVERAGAIN

April 15th, 2014 @ 7:03 pm

so last night, i was in bed at a sensible 10/10:30PM.  i figured i’d be up early at some point, because of how unusually early i fell asleep.  the cat woke me up coughing up a hairball at 3:30AM, so i cleaned it all up, peed and went back into bed.  as soon as i laid back down, i realized that i wasn’t sleepy.  i decided to check instagram and saw my friends posting stuff about the “blood moon” lunar eclipse.  remembering that i was interested in it, i decided to take a gander out of my windows.  there was nothing in sight from the front or the back of my apartment, so i decided to just round my street corner for a potentially better view…  i picked up my keys and i separated what i thought was my keys from the clip, which are annoyingly noisy from having cute things connected to a mountain climber clip thingie.  without double checking what i put in my pocket, i took my phone and rounded the corner outside.

as soon as i hit the corner, i knew i didn’t grab my keys, i just knew it.  so i pulled out what i had in my pocket, and it was definitely not my keys. indeed it was only my stop and shop coupon card, and my lucky new york rangers hockey puck key chain. 🙁

so there i was, at 3:30AM on my stoop attempting to call my ex (mike) who has the 2nd set of keys to the apartment to no avail.  he is usually up til the weeeeeee hours of the morning working on music production – but this time, he was sleeping.  funny enough, he said he was lucid or sleep paralysis dreaming about me.  i wonder if he looked at his phone and saw my name or something.  anyways, since he didn’t pick up – i called one of my dude bff’s steve.  thank god he picked up the phone… he scooped me and i slept at his place until i got in contact with mike, who let me into my place at around 1230PM…  i didn’t get to work until about 2:30, sigh.

i’m such an idiot.

July 28th, 2012 @ 8:11 pm

…my week in pictures.

lauren and i decided to get together on thursday night for shopping and some after work drinks. we also decided to do this right before a huge storm brewing over NYC…  this was just moments before shit hit the fan and we ducked into the bowery electric for cover.

read more…

March 30th, 2012 @ 11:26 pm

since i was out more nights this week than i was in, i decided to just chill out tonight…  i’m kicking back with kitty and trying to get some web work done.

not having a computer for a bit really took a hammer to getting freelance work done.  i completed a wedding website for my cousin in less than a day (woo! productive!), now i’m working on my friend kelly’s website to showcase her tattoo/art portfolio.

while i was eating dinner, i watched a show tonight that i have never heard of called “undercover boss” (clearly the CEO of a company goes undercover to see what their workers are all about).  i watched the episode with the yankee candle company’s CEO, harlan kent, going undercover to work at their flagship store, their factory, and two of their other retail locations.  he was focusing on one employee from each location, and getting to know them.  human-interest stories type of a show. honestly he was so good to those people, and it actually made me cry.

there’s more info here… i know people my age are usually out on friday nights, but it’s worth checking out if you’re into that kind of a show and just so happen to be home 🙂

September 28th, 2011 @ 12:49 am

mike and i had a tuesday night mini-date tonight… we went to sheapshead bay for a trip to the movies to go see “killer elite”. (very romantic, huh?)  it was my decision to see that flick, actually.  i like all action movies that jason statham is in, so that’s why i went with that one.

it’s based on a true story consisting of revenge, assassinations, shady military dudes, and highly skilled special-ops dudes. if you’re a typical lass, i may have already lost your attention. but if you don’t mind killing, guns, crazy fight scenes (as seen below, he’s kicking ass while handcuffed to that chair…), explosions and some shady governmental characters… i say, go for it.

i thought it was pretty good, so i do in fact recommend it (if my opinion has any worth to you, lol)…

the entire time we were watching the movie, there was this old couple sitting in front and to the left of us chit-chatting away.  at first, it was sorta cute when they were doing it through the previews, laughing and scream talking… you know, one of those cute old people couples… but they kept doing it through the entire movie.

mike and i thought they were pretty funny and giggled at each other about it a bunch of times.

the old dude kept balling up his napkins and throwing them forward at the empty front rows. we giggled at that too…  homedude was a little rascally rebel!

September 18th, 2011 @ 11:18 pm

so i have one hour of my twenties left…  i’m watching twin peaks and eating donuts by myself.

my boyfriend is in DC on business and my cat is sleeping.  all i have is twin peaks, and the hunt for laura palmer’s killer.

oh, and the donuts.

bye bye twenties…

i think it’s hard to let go of this decade because it’s so full of youth… moving forward there’s only room to grow for another decade and then you just go downhill. that shit scares me.

in the last decade, so much shit has happened to me. good and bad. but it’s shaped me more than i thought my teen years had/and or ever could.

good and horrible friends, raves and shows, meeting my father/brother/grandmother, working at west coast and cascarino’s where i met some of my best friends that i still keep til this day, my longest relationships (that i’ll always love, even if we don’t talk anymore…), my stupidest love mistakes, moving out, finding most of my favorite bands, the best upstate times, tattoos and piercings, finding my digital creative niche and career, working in dumbo, mets and ranger games, crazy bell blvd nights, become closer with my sister, shows shows shows, vacations without family, being responsible for myself, etc…

mainly it was just becoming an adult, now i just feel like i have to be one, no exceptions…

i also think that i have this expectation set for myself that i was supposed to be financially set, married, maybe with a kid by now and i’m not.

i’m definitely not ready for that (and i haven’t wanted that anyhow)…

in happy birthday news, my sister and best friend planned a great party for me at my favorite bar, and a shit ton of my friends rolled through and took up the entire front of the bar… it was so great to have everyone there… i felt kind of bad that i didn’t get a lot of one on one time with many people, but i still tried to make my rounds.

i had my friend laura there and i hadn’t seen her since my birthday party that i had when i was living in midwood.  she’s so amazing…  she wrote the sweetest thing on my birthday sign and it made me miss her a lot. we always just pick up where we left off and all we do is laugh, she’s great. she told me that i was amazing and that she thinks of me all the time even though we aren’t hanging out together… i’m glad that i fully appreciated every shift i had with that girl at cascarino’s (in both stores), it was our designated hangout time, lol.

mike finally got to meet different friends of mine, and he even met steve.  which i was getting a little freaked out about because steve is my ex and he never likes being around my current boyfriends 🙁  which is totally understandable but we’re still good friends, so i wanted him there.

mike got me tickets to see danzig (and doyle PERFORMING MISFITS SONGS) for my bday and opening day tickets for the rangers! (and another game against the isles) – but i am super super psyched about opening day. i know i’m gonna be crying so hard if they have anything for boogey

i had a great time around great people.<3 thanks guys

July 23rd, 2011 @ 3:38 am

my sister, her ex-boyfriend and i went to jones beach to see 311 tonight (for the third time, lol) and while my sister and i were drooling over nick hexum (#UNF), she googled him… she told me some stuff i already knew, but then there was this other (recent) fun fact that came up…

“311’s nick hexum delivers baby at home”

i mean as if he weren’t already gorgeous, talented, muscular, with amazing musical taste AND the swaying/rocking pelvis of a sensual, rhythmic sex god… he can even (literally) bring his own children into the world?

AMAZING.

where can i get one just like him?

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