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4th of July was pretty quiet.  We didn’t end up doing anything because the weather was pretty gross.  We didn’t want to go anywhere and then have it start raining and be stuck outside.  I made some BBQ chicken and pasta salad, so we had a cook-in.  It started to rain at night, but there were some pretty good fireworks that we could see from our bedroom window.  It was pretty nice to watch some fireworks and not get wet!  I was able to take a couple of pictures of the fireworks.  Since the screen was in the way, and I was so far away, they didn’t turn out so well.  I do like this first one though; it looks like I photo shopped the little stars in, but I didn’t! 

I wish I had more time in my day to do things that I want to do.  I would love to be able to take some dance classes during the week, but I just don’t have the time.  It takes about an hour to get to work, and an hour to get home, and working 10-7 means I have no time to do anything before work or after I get home.  And the last thing I want to do on the weekend is travel into the city. 

Blahhh.

I need to get off this computer and get my ass in gear!

I’m sitting here at work on a Friday, so ready to go home.  We have summer hours on Friday, but I still have to wait till my boss leaves till I can jet out.  He did come in with his Vans on, so I know he’s leaving early.  I’ll be in Waltham this weekend for Courtney and Dave’s wedding, and I can’t wait to see all my friends.  I think me, Brett, Chrissii, Joe and Eryn are going to hang out on Sunday.

I love the weekends.  Especially in the summer.  I love eating breakfast out on my balcony, sipping some yummy iced coffee and enjoying the weather.  Call me crazy, but I love when it’s really hot, humid and sticky outside.  To me, the suffocating heat IS summer.   

Last weekend was pretty crazy.  Brett and I went to Waltham for the weekend.  Friday night we met up with Danny and Rebal at The Great Scott in Allston.  I had never been there before, but it’s a pretty cool bar.  The only thing that wasn’t cool was the beer.  If you are serving beer, please make sure it’s freezing cold.  Keeping the glasses in a freezer helps too.

Saturday was spent doing laundry, making cupcakes and hanging out with the fam.  Saturday night was Courtney’s bachelorette party.  It was such an insane night.  We started out at Court’s house for some food and drinkies, then hopped on the party bus, picked up the entertainment and went into Boston.  We started out at Limelight, which was pretty lame, so we left shortly after we got there.  I didn’t even have time to finish my Sam Summer, but we did get up on stage for a Gwen Stefani song (it was horrible by the way).  From there we went to Tequila Rain, where we spent the rest of the night.  All pictures for public viewing are on my Facebook and MySpace pages.  The rest will never reach the public eye…

Sunday was Father’s Day and we met the Landry’s at Woodman’s for some traditional New England fare.  I had the haddock plate, while pretty much everyone else got the combo.  Fried clams, shrimp, scallops, fish, etc…  We ended the meal with some yummy ice cream.

Courtney’s wedding is next weekend so Brett and I are going to H&M tonight to find him something to wear.  Pleated pants just don’t cut it anymore in this day and age (thank god, pleats are the worst!). 

You know that you’re getting old when you’re talking to your friends on IM about recipes, how to cook certain things and houses.  Small things like that puts things into perspective in regards to where your life is heading.  It also makes you think of when you were younger, when those thoughts never crossed your mind.  Those thoughts result in a feeling of nostalgia because you remember the “good old days.”  I remember when my IM conversations consisted of gossip – who was dating who, who was having parties over the weekend, whose house i was sleeping over, what shows we were going to that weekend and the all important IM fights.  Now my friends and I talk about who’s engaged and who just got married. 

I’m growing up and it’s really weird.

Wow, it’s been almost a month since I last posted.  I guess I just haven’t had too much to write about.  I’m boring!  Although, Brett can almost fit my fist in his mouth.  Weird, I know.  Speaking of Brett, everything has been going really, really well.  No complaints in the boyfriend department!  We’ve just been working, and coming home to spend time with each other.  Summer Fridays have started at work.  I can leave at 2pm if I want to, but pretty much it means that I leave when my boss leaves.  Which is fine with me because any time I get to leave work early at all is ok with me!

Brett and I will actually be in Waltham a lot this summer.  I have Courtney’s bachelorette party and wedding, and Shannon’s bachelorette party and wedding.  Courtney’s is in June and Shannon’s in August.  We might go to Vegas July 4th weekend for Jeff’s birthday.  I’ve never been to Vegas, but I hate Disney World and Times Square, so I’m pretty sure that tacky places with bright lights aren’t for me.  I’ll go anyways, might as well give everything at least one chance. 

Ick, it’s just starting to thunder and lighting out and we’re about to go out for the night.  I really don’t want to walk in a storm, but we’re going to the Crocodile Lounge for Mariellen’s graduation/b-day celebration.  Any excuse to go to the Crocodile Lounge is ok with me!  You buy a beer and get a free pizza.  Good pizza too!  I certainly don’t mind paying 6 bucks for a beer and a whole pizza.

I just bought a lime green silicon case for my blackberry off ebay.  The whole thing (including shipping) cost me under 8 bucks.  Sweet!  I can’t wait to get it.  The only thing that irritates me about blackberry cases is that the majority of them don’t have anything to protect the screen.  Like the one I’m getting.  Usually when you get a phone, you get it because you like the body of it.  Wouldn’t you think that the most important thing to protect is the screen?  When that gets scratched, you can’t see the screen as well, so really who cares if the rest of it gets scratched?  I honestly don’t know why they make cases the way they do, it doesn’t make any sense to me.  Whatever though.  I’m going to have a lime green Blackberry.  Ha!

What I really want to do is get a cupcake cell phone charm to go on my Blackberry.  I love cupcakes, so why not? 

I think it’s time to start getting ready for tonight.  Check ya later!

Last weekend was Bamboozle.  Saturday was pretty miserable because it was cold and gross for most of the day, but I still got to see Vinnie from the Movielife and Jimmy Eat World.  I met the guys from Maylene & the sons of disaster which was pretty cool.  They are super sweet guys who told me to “stay pretty.”  The Movielife set definitely made Saturday worth the trip to Jersey.  Sunday was pretty awesome though.  The weather great, and I got to see Treos for the last time, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Coheed and Cambria.  Don’t worry, I saw other bands too, in between the bands above and awkward moments from strangers telling me I’m adorable.  I also got the Ferret hoodie that I wanted last year.  Black w/ gold lettering and a huge gun in the middle.  It’s pretty sweet and totally my favorite hoodie now.  You can check out some photos I took here. 

This is the week that my allergies are kicking my ass.  I felt completely horrible on Monday and didn’t go into work yesterday.  I slept pretty much most of the day.  I hate allergies!

Those are the three basic things I needed for my trip to the Cape last weekend.  Come to think of it, sunglasses, sweatshirts and Sam Adams are really the only things you need on Cape Cod.  Other than a bathing suit in the summer, it’s usually pretty sunny, guaranteed to be cool at night, and let’s face it…there’s only a handful of things to do on the Cape.  When you’re not at the beach or mini golfing, you drink just to pass time by.  And when you’re in Massachusetts, you have to drink Sam (but then again, I always want to drink Sam).  So, my trip to Hyannis was filled with the three basics, plus Brett, my family and my uncle’s family.  We went mini golfing and played lots of ski-ball.  Ski-ball is seriously the greatest game ever and I could play it all day long.  When I get my own house, I’m going to have a ski-ball machine in my basement.  We went to Falmouth so my dad could get his clamming license.  We went to the Christmas Tree Shop (a mandatory stop) and the Cape Cod Mall where the lady at Barnes and Noble thought me and my 16 year old sister were twins.  When I said I was 25, the two cashiers told me they hated me.  Haha. 

This weekend is Bamboozle and I’m excited for that.  Right now, it’s supposed to rain on Saturday so I hope the forecast changes between now and then to sunny and warm!

I guess it’s been a while since I last updated.  Lots of random things going on to talk about I guess.  A couple of weekends ago, Brett and I went to Waltham for Courtney’s bridal shower and Erica’s confirmation.  I went to the shower with Diane…it was at Skyline at Marina Bay.  It was really nice, they had huge windows overlooking the bay and the boats.  She got so many martini glasses, she’s going to need a china cabinet just to house them all.  We also went out to dinner with Christina, Court, Joe and Cort which was wicked fun.  If you haven’t tried the fried mac & cheese from TGIFriday’s I suggest you do so because it’s soooooooo good.  

This past weekend was super nice too; mostly because it was on the relaxing side.  Friday night, we watched Bourne Ultimatum.  Saturday was gorgeous out so we went for a run and were on our way home when we saw a sign for an open house at this new condo complex near our house.  The building looks like a freekin school and just from the outside we could tell that they didn’t do a super quality job.  We were curious to see what the inside was like so we went for a tour.  The nice thing about the building was that they offered you lots of choices for condos.  They didn’t all look the same, they were all different, with different sized rooms so you had options for your price range.  The crappy thing about them was that they did a shoddy job on construction.  Some things weren’t level, the quality of work wasn’t great and sometimes you were asking, “why did they put that there??”  Overall we weren’t that impressed, so we went home.  Later on we had a picnic in Astoria Park, took a walk along the river and had ice cream from Mr. Softee.  That night we went into the city for dinner and met up with a customer of Brett’s at a bar and had some drinks.  Yesterday we did absolutely nothing and it was wonderful.

Later this week we’re going to the Cape with my family.  I can’t wait to get out of the city for a long weekend.  I totally need it!

…was awesome last night.  They played at Webster Hall (I can never get used to saying Webster Hall, it’s just habit for me to say Webster Theatre).  Not the best venue on earth, with the crappy sound and all, but they do have great lighting there.  I could tell the singer was still sick (they canceled a show earlier in the week due to sickness) but they still sounded great.  They played a lot off of Planet of Ice but did fit in a couple of songs off of Menos El Oso (Memphis & 53rd and The Fix) and a few older ones (Thanks For the Killer Game of Crisco Twister, for one).  The encore was a bit dull for me, one from Planet of Ice and 2 older ones.  I don’t even know what songs the last two were because I’m not much of a fan of their earlier stuff.  For me, their older stuff isn’t as cohesive and the lyrics aren’t written as well as their last two albums.  Don’t get me wrong, the old stuff isn’t bad…it just doesn’t really hold my interest.  In my opinion, Menos El Oso and Planet of Ice are just freekin perfect.

With that said, Portugal. The Man and The Big Sleep opened up the night.  I made it for about two and a half Portugal. The Man songs, and from what I could tell, were great and the crowd thought so too.  The Big Sleep on the other hand…not so much.  Not much love from the audience either, just polite clapping really.

Here’s some shots of Minus the Bear from the show.  I didn’t take them (I forgot my camera!), but photo credit is given:

credit: www.myspace.com/xtremefotos

credit:  www.myspace.com/xtremefotos

credit:  www.flickr.com/photos/nicolefranzen

The Webster “starry night” background (as I like to call it) and lots of pink lighting fit perfectly with the whole Planet of Ice theme.  All in all, their set was awesome.  They’re one of my favorite bands!

I suggest you check out Minus the Bear for yourself here. 
Tonight, I’m going to see Lannen Fall, which you can check out here.

So I’m listening to a band called We The Kings and each time I listen to the album, I notice how similar their songs sound like other artists songs.  They mostly sound like All American Rejects and Boys Like Girls songs.  Just like AAR and BLG, WTK write catchy-as-fuck pop rock songs that have the ability to cross over into the mainstream top 40.  They all also have the three letter acronym going for them.  And mediocre band names.  We The Kings wrote a song called All Again For You and the verse’s melody is exactly like Boys Like Girls’ Five Minutes to Midnight.  The guitar intro to WTK’s Secret Valentine sounds exactly like the melody to AAR’s Paper Heart.  Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not bashing We The Kings in any way because I like them.  This post is more…observational.  I could use Mayday Parade as another example.  They have a song that sounds like Brand New and another that sounds like Panic (exclamation point days).

Ok, I guess that’s all I have time for.  I need to go get Brett and we’re going to see Minus the Bear tonight!  I’m soooooo excited!  Yay!