Tuesday ramblings

Well today is Opening day at fenway park, and once again I am not there. My dad will be though and likes to tease me about it. At least Daisuke isnt pitching today otherwise I'd be seriously jealous. Emily F and I are going to try and go home some time soon to see our dirt dogs (yeah, i dont usually call them that, i just like the site and needed a place to link it). Clearly I'll see them in Baltimore as well, and I might even go see them in NYC with Emily. That would be fun, and it would continue my goal of going to as many ball parks as I can. I've been to fenway, camden, olympic stadium (old expos park), cracker jack (spring training), and i've SEEN jacob's field and wrigley field. I think i've been to another park but I cant remember.

I still hate vista, but I actually got soemthing to work: skype. So I can video chat again, so let me know if you have a web cam and want to chat (if i dont know you and you are a creepy stranger this offer does not apply to you, this was not intended to be a dirty thing)

Also I've managed to re-injure my hands by knitting again. Thats a dangerous sport you know!

that is all I have to say for now.

Monday Randomness

Friday night I met Lem and Allan at one of our old favorite GW hang outs, Lindy's. By the time I got there Lem was already on the phone with Kenji, the owner of cafe Japone, and shortly after got a phone call from Adrian, one of the staff at Japone. Clearly lem is vip ;) . So we finnished our drinks and headed to Cafe Japone to celebrate Lem's birthday where we met up with a bunch more people. It was passover so I wasnt drinking beer, but lem and allan and eventually everyone else who came took part in saki bombs every 15 minutes till the bar closed and we had to leave--dont worry it was ok for me to drink rum or various other shots they sent to the table.

Allan is the worst at sending photos (ahem, still waiting on those NYE pics) so he and I texted eachother our snail mail addresses and will burn photos to cd and mail them to eachother. kinda funny.

The winner for best attempt I'm defaulting to leslie's blog, you might have to wait a bit before she posts it, but its way funnier than anything that happened to me this weekend.

Sat for Laura's birthday we had a great time at the Melting pot for dessert. While the chocolate fondu was excellent, the most amusing part was the wait staff. It would appear that they were all high, and as the night progressed only continued to get worse. I'm sure our giggling every time he came over didnt help either.

A VERY good friday indeed

As all you loyal blog readers know there is a certain gentleman at work that I cant stand. Lucky for me he was placed in my office for about six terrible months. Well As of yesterday afternoon he is no longer here! Instead they have moved him down the hall to another office. Now its just me and the officemate whose sanity I question.

Now we eagerly await the arrival of the new hire.

I thought i'd take a second and tell you about the remaining officemate's nervous habits, of which she has two. The first is that she mirrors everything you say to her as you are saying it with like a 2 second delay. I will demonstrate for you if you ask. The other is she laughs while saying ANYTHING. like she could say her mom died and laugh through it. then you awkwardly sit there like ummmm. and she keeps laughing and staring at you till you muster a fake laugh, then you both sit there awkwardly fake laughing till somoene else walks in the room and changes the subject.

The good thing is she's easily ignorable so I can actually get my work done.

Dude, You just got fucked by Dell

Dell...microsoft...whatever.

If you've known me since highschool you know that I am very much a PC girl and was anti mac for a long time. Also I had 2 computers in my apt, one that I've had for 7 years and while its a good computer, its hard drive makes an audible clicking noise and powers itself down after about an hour. My other computer runs Server 2003 and has no sound card. Clearly it was time for a new computer. I went to www.dell.com and picked out all the things I wanted...Dual core processor, 512 mb memory, 160 GB hard drive 48x cd/dvd burner...all the good stuff, how could I lose?

I'll tell you how I could lose. As of Jan 30, 2007 dell only offers new computers with the brand new and improved windows vista. Alright, I'll give it a try, its only 400 bucks. So I placed my order and eagerly awaited its arrival.

Well Wed April 4th it arrived! I raced home and picked up my package from the front desk. Before turning it on I opened it up and added a second video card so I could have two monitors again. It turns out it was a good thing I did this because when I turned on my computer the first thing I noticed is that it was running off my new video card and not the integrated one. Turns out that one doesnt work and I have yet to fix it.

My next problem occured when I attempted to get on the internet. I was prompted by my computer to contact my ISP. After 30 min on the phone with Comcast they informed me that it wasnt thier issue, but instead Dell's. One more hour on the phone with Dell and I was re-directed to comcast. Instead I decided to uplug everything and plug it back in, and miraculously I could now connect.

I gave myself a little tour of vista and just about everything pisses me off about it. they make it pretty hard to search your computer. I downloaded AIM and I cant find anywhere to click to activate it. Luckily it automatically launches at startup, but if i close it I'm screwed.

Anytime you click on ANYTHING it asks you if you meant to do this Accept or Deny?

Tonight's task is going to be to get the second monitor to work as well as install and use itunes.

Emily's dad has a great suggestion that I just say fuck it to vista and use linux instead.

Team B.O.O.B(Beating Our Odds Beautifully)

To the guys reading this Blog continue reading if you love boobs and women, to the girls reading this blog continue reading if you love yourself and all the women in your life.

This will probably be the first of many blogs like this within the next couple of months. June 2nd Team B.O.O.B. (Beating Our Odds Beautifully) will be participating in the Susan G. Komen National Race for the Cure (profits go to the cure and treatment of breast cancer) . Somehow I am registered as Team captain, but I think thats just because they needed a contact on our team. Its a 5K race which some of the team (probably our marathoners Katie Sweeney and Lindsay Mathers) will run, and other memebers like myself will walk. If you are in the DC/VA/MD area and would like to join our team please let me know, we'd be more than happy to have you on our team! (boys are welcome too, we already have a couple confirmed on the team...Chris and Robbie! yay!) If you dont feel like attending, or just dont live near here and still want to support this cause feel free to donate. While we arent actively fundraising I thought I'd still put the option out there to anyone that wanted to give.

I love that Dirty Water

I've always been the one to claim "home is where your stuff is" but I must say I've come to learn that Boston, you're my home...because truly "home is where your heart is"...and my heart is with the Boston Red Sox. If you've ever had a conversation with me, or seen my apt, or gone to the beach with me (when i actually wear hats)--then it wont come as a surprise to you that I love my boys.

I couldnt be more excited for this season! I've also bought into the hype and cannot wait to see Daisuke pitch...not just on tv, but I am going to do my best to time it so I can go to a game where he is pitching.

I have a redsox fact a day calendar at my desk, but so far its all been like 1916 trivia that none of you people will be interested in, maybe later in the year when we get up to current times i'll start adding it to my blog.

You might notice my new link to Curt Schilling's blog on the right hand side. I stumbled accross this and was really touched by how nice a guy he is. There is a little boy with a rare type of cancer, and every time he goes in for chemo Curt gives him a call, and is having Rebok embroider 4 pete's sake onto his shoe to give the boy (pete) a little help getting through it. That was just one example of his generosity. Take a look at his page, and be impressed. (more impressed by his actions than his pitching on monday....)

Also I need new redsox appareil this year, but I dont know what to get since I have the curse of the shirts...I have nomar's, and damon's...Although last year I did get varitek's shirt so that was good!

lastly i've posted new pictures (www.angelfire.com/theforce/res)

Not only have we disappointed Marky Mark, we've let down the Funky Bunch!

We kicked off the weekend right with an 80's themed Power Hour at Molly's house. It was awesome. Plus the movie cocktails was on in the background the whole time. minus the teeth issue Tom Cruise def was way hotter back then, and a lot less crazy! Unless he's actually been crazy this whole time and noone really noticed till relatively recently. who knows, maybe he was and i just choose to ignore that. Highlight of this party was when Robo in a track jacket and jeans, casually removes his pants mid party to show his surprise costume of shorts, tube socks, and track jacket to be an 80's sports coach. anyone that can do that with a straight face is awesome.

Unfortunately Leslie and I shopped through Dan Farmer's probably awesome tour of the capitol building, but hopefully I'll get to go in a couple weeks.

After Polishing off 4 bottles of champagne Leslie and I felt ready for the sat night surprise party---it wasnt as disasterous as we had imagined due to all the drama and nova hating leading up to it. Plus annie made a beautiful cake.

Also Leslie Will and I went to see Blades of Glory on Sunday night! That movie is HILLARIOUS. For anyone thats seen it did anyone else notice that John Heder's character's swan outfit was identical to Johnny Weir's outfit with his swan Camille? (yeah some of you might be just finding out now that I like figure skating...I dont follow it quite as closely within the past few years, but yeah..I like it)

Lastly this movie is a total parody of one of my favorite movies that i've seen a million and two times: The Cutting Edge! complete with the pamplachinco and all! If you've watched the cutting edge as many times as I have you'll love this movie. If you havent you'll probably still laugh your way through the movie anyway...so go see it.

one last note...While I've gotten countless manicures before, sunday I got my first pedicure! first of what will be many I'm sure! Who doesnt like sitting in a massage chair with thier friends re-capping the weekend while alternating between getting a foot massage and having your feet sit in warm jet powered water baths! Pedicures are the best!