Theres only Us, Theres only this forget regret or life is yours to miss

Yes, Thats right, I went to see rent again. I love it and dont think i'll ever get tired of it.

One super cool thing that really excited me was that Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal were playing Mark and Roger. If you arent familiar with them, they are the two original actor's from Rent's first run, and they also played these characters in the movie. They are also the ones that sing on the soundtrack so they are the voices I am use to hearing.

It was interesting because I went with Laura who has never seen it, and she didn't really like it that much. Although she admitted the First act was OK and second act was much better than the first.

Anyway I had a great time and cant wait to see it again!

I use to be an archie comics avid reader. There are far too many old comic books sitting around my childhood bedroom for me to even begin to deny it. But why would I? Archie comics are the best. Who doesn't love Archie, Betty, Veronica, Jughead, and even Reggie?

One big series long question was whether Archie Andrews should Date Betty Cooper or Veronica Lodge. I guess, being a brunette I was supposed to side with Veronica, but really I always hoped and dreamed that Archie would pick the lovable and kind Betty.

Today I just read on CNN that these hopes and dreams are going to be crushed! Archie is MARRYING Veronica. All I have to say is that Archie, you are a sell out. Of course you'd pick the rich and beautiful girl. Who cares if she's mean and shallow? Clearly not you Archie! I guess you just arent the guy I thought you were.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/books/05/28/comic.book.archie.marrying/index.html

Weekend Fun

This weekend I was home for Marisa's wedding, which meant so were the other winsor girls! It was nice seeing them again.

The highlight of the weekend was going to the Sam Adams brewery (again) and Harpoon Brewery with Emily and Chris. First we went to the Sam Adams brewery and it was pretty good, same as before, but the experimental beer flavor was a nice white beer.

Next we went to the harpoon brewery. We couldn't get in a tour for 45 min, so what did we do? Bought a 6 pack and hung out in Chris's car's folded down back seat till our tour. I found an old LL Cool J CD that we listened to. Finally it was time to take the tour. They took us through the big metal tanks and sanitized by alcohol and flame the spout on one of the big tanks, and poured out some green beer for us to taste. Nothing like flat beer.... Once the tour was over we went to the tasting room where there were like 10 different flavors. My two favorites were the Leviathan imperial and the wheat orange beer. Delish. The guy working there also suggested mixing the raspberry beer and the lemon beer which we also tried.

Afterwards we found a cute restaurant on the water that we had lunch at and i introduced emily and chris to linenkugel (which i may have spelled wrong).

I think its safe to say fun was had by all.

Two Almost Victories

Last night We headed over to nationals park not expecting to see much, instead we saw two close wins!

The first was in the presidents race. The pittsburgh pirates had brought thier perogies to do a 3 legged race with the presidents, and with the help of oliver onion teddy almost won his first race, till the two of them tripped and fell and Abe and Hanna Jalapeno took the lead.

The second was that the nationals were behind 2-1 and the last batter gets up and hits a dinger alllllllllmost out of the field, but instead directly into the center fielders glove to end the game :(

10 pm TV

Lately we've been going to the gym at 10pm. Its nice because there are actually machines available, and it gives me time to eat and digest before exercising.

The one drawback is that nothing is on tv!!! There are 4 televisions, and one tv shows sports recaps, one shows some late night crime scene drama show (last night may have been law and order), a third shows Nancy Grace, and the fourth is static.

The sports highlights is interesting for maybe 5 minutes till they show the stuff i am interested in and then I have 25 more minutes that need to be occupied.

The crime scene shows are never interesting.

Nancy Grace, which i've NEVER watched before, somehow only reports the most depressing and violent news imaginable. Last night, for the entire time i was down there they reported on "wife and two kids killed, hubby refuses to comment"...yes, thats right, Hubby. lets lighten up this report a bit and call him hubby. I didnt watch the show, but I assume Hubby is the murderer.

Static basically is the most interesting channel.

Thank goodness for my ipod

Weekend a Day Late

This weekend Peter and I hung out with Tristan and Mike before they left us for Wisconsin.

First we went to the air show where we all got burnt, but it was a lot of fun to see all the planes. We went into one of the decoy Marine One's and talked with the pilot (another sox fan!), but one of his crew members looked no older than 16! it was crazy! I love the planes, but I really hate their use, and I wish there was a way for these engineering marvels to not be related to the armed forces :(

We then went to the nationals phillies game. All the fans were for the phillies, and I was more or less neutral. I opted for Hard Times Cafe over Ben's Chili bowl, and I decided I think i prefer hard times cafe. It started to sprinkle so I left to go up under the overhang. Just as i got under the cover it started pouring like you wouldnt believe. The teams went running off the field and the grounds crew lept into action! The tarp began to roll out....and then it began to roll back. Yes, thats right, they put the tarp on UPSIDE DOWN and had to flip it, letting the grounds get much more wet. Oh nationals, cant you do anything right?

Start Trek and the Thermals

I went with Peter, Joe, Laura, and Matt to see Star Trek in IMAX the other day and it was awesome as expected. I have a few nerdy complaints though. One is that Vulcan and the snow planet were much to large and close together. They would surely suck each other into their gravitational fields and slam into each other. Also as pete pointed out (co worker not boyfriend) they went into warp drive, then tossed kirk out of the ship and somehow he landed on the snow planet only a few feet from where they started. Other than that the movie was great!

Joe and I saw the thermals again last night. As always I liked them a lot. The problem is I'm not so fond of their new CD. Its just boring and repetitive. its not terrible or anything, I just prefer their old stuff. Plus, i'm getting old and 10:30 shows on week nights are a lot for me. Also the floor of the black cat is getting stickier. My feet stuck to the floor and it was too hard to dance around to the music, so i was forced to stand pretty still and just bob a bit.

Shopping Etc

First the etc then the shopping

Sat night after wicked I met up with leslie to go to a roof top party in her neighborhood. The party was fun, the drinks were good, and the people were nice....but then we realized that the building that the roof looked out on had multiple windows open with multiple couples having sex. WTF. we are talking like 4 separate windows. One of the kids even climbed up onto a higher part of the roof to get a better veiw.

Sat during the day, back at chelsea market we sumbled upon a sferra sheet sale. I bought the two softest sheet sets and a duvet for only 250 bucks total, when if you know sferra this should have cost around 700 bucks or more! and its a great pattern too. I got back to the hotel and told my family about this, so we returned to the sale so they could all buy similar stuff. This was one of the best deals i have ever stumbled upon!!!

Food, the good, the bad, and the awesome

As always, NYC has a lot to offer in terms of food.

Friday night for my grandmother's birthday we went to 81 for my grandmother's eighty fifth birthday. The food was great, and they had plenty of vegetarian options. I had the ricotta ravioli, and the cauliflower steak with green beans. Very good. I may try making that on my own.

After dinner the chef Ed Brown gave us a tour of the kitchen. Very cool to see. The most interesting part to me was the meat in pressure sealed containers sitting in low temperature baths of water slowly cooking. If I ate meat I'd go right out and get a pressure machine.

The Bad restaurant, which was really the worst restaurant I've been to in NYC in a long time was China Grill. There was no good vegetarian option, so they made me just a plate of lo mein which came out way too spicy. We also got "crispy spinach" which was too greasy, and a side of wasabi mashed potatoes which was the only good part.

The Awesome food was start to finish my lunch on sat. In Chelsea market Leslie and I split a plate of crudites and a grilled cheese sandwich with figs at the green table, and then walked around the corner to la Madeline for the best macaroons ever. They had every flavor imaginable, and were exactly like the kind you'd buy in paris. I highly recommend going there (instead of magnolia).

Weekend in NYC

I had a great weekend in NYC. I'll write about it in 3 installments. 1. Theater. 2. Food. 3. Shopping etc

Sat night I went with my family to see wicked. I had wanted to see it, but I was kinda bummed that was taking up time I could have been out with friends. But I went anyway. and it was AWESOME. I cant wait to get the soundtrack and torture peter with that next :) Maybe wicked will even come through dc again and i can see it again. It was a good story that was funny and sweet and all the actors were so great.

(I picked the shortest post for this morning because I have to run to a meeting, but more tomorrow!)

dissapointment

Yesterday as a company we were supposed to rent 2 large buses and go to Wallops, VA to watch the minotaur rocket launch. Very exciting.

I watched the daily twitter posts turn to hourly as the launch got nearer, and the sunny sky turn to rain. 50% chance of launch. We were still going. Then, an hour before we left, it changed to 85% chance it would NOT launch :( so we canceled the trip.

Please keep your fingers crossed for me that I get to go tomorrow!

Wolverine

Sunday night peter and I went to go watch the new wolverine origins movie. I had high hopes, and peter had very low hopes.

Half way through the movie, just as peter is wanting to turn the adamantium bullets on himself, he turns to me and says "you cant be enjoying this can you?" To which i replied "are you kidding? Hugh Jackman hasn't worn more than a wife beater this whole movie, of course I love it!"

Other than him though, the movie kinda blew. The plot wasnt that exciting or original, the characters weren't that special or well developed, and the action scenes werent that awesome except the one in the trailer when the guy sliced the bullet in half killing two people.

I was excited for the next magneto origins story, but now i'm kinda worried.

Party Down

Ok so there is this new show on Starz I decided to give a try, its called Party down. I figured it has a good cast and especially my personal favorite Martin Starr. He is the greatest. Anyway, I've been watching it on demand, and its just not good at all :(

1. its not funny
2. the good actors are just playing annoying people
3. the plots are too much like I love lucy where they get themselves into these situations and you are just feeling too awkward or anxious for them to actually enjoy it.

I wont be watching any more of these