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Tuesday, June 27, 2006

:-( It's really the nights where I don't want to go to bed that bother me the most. I wish I could say that I'm looking forward to the 4-day weekend, but since I have a ton of work to get done Monday and Tuesday, it really isn't a 4-day weekend (at least I'll still get to sleep in and won't have to go into work).

Corinne and I had Coke Blak floats tonight (my idea). Pretty good, tastes surprisingly like coffee (which I already knew), not likely to do this again (because I don't normally have ice cream floats and because the Coke Blak is ridiculously expensive for Coke).

Can't I just stay home and knit all the time? I would be much happier if that was the case.

- Lizzardie, at 11:37 PM Post Link


Sunday, June 25, 2006

Part of the plan for this weekend was to write a nice update. Instead, all I did was watch lots of Law & Order, knit (socks right now, it's all I seem to want to work on) and eat pasta. Right now I'm also drinking wine. This will not be a very good udpate. I'm in a rather down mood, but I think it's mostly because I don't want to go to work tomorrow.

I did go to the Red Sox game on Friday, which ended up being fun despite a rather uncertain beginning. My coworkers spent all day telling me that the game wasn't going to happen, due to the ridiculous amounts of rain. And even when I headed out for the game, it was pouring - I was soaked by the time I got to Davis Square. But, when I got off the T in Boston, the rain had subsided, and the game was only delayed about 45 minutes. The seats were in the bleachers, so they were cheap, and it was a good game - Beckett pitched really well (nearly 6 innings with no hits) and Manny had a great game, too (2 home runs). I'm glad I didn't bail on going (which apparently ran through Corinne's mind as well), because it ended up being a fun night.

Jamie's friends stayed here last night with their 2 little kids - a 2-year-old and an 8-month-old. For some reason they seemed to really like me. Odd, since kids don't usually like me.

I suppose now I will watch more tv, knit some more and then eventually get some sleep.

- Lizzardie, at 11:46 PM Post Link


Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Another picture from Memorial Day weekend! This one was taken on Sunday, in the Public Garden. Demetri on the bottom, Allison, Dan and Kristy in the middle, Ryan, Cat, Liz, me, Dana, Susan and Chris in back.

Still nothing new going on. :-)

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Monday, June 19, 2006

Not much to say since yesterday, but I did finally get around to grabbing Memorial Day Weekend pictures from Corinne, so I thought I'd post a few here and there.

This is from that Red Sox game Friday night - Megan, Dana, me and Kathy. I'm exciting to be going to the game again this Friday against the Phillies. :-)

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Sunday, June 18, 2006

It's hot and I'm tired. So I might as well just sit at my computer (small change from normal) and say hello. Since it's been so long, I'll break things into categories.

Work: sucks. I try not to post about work too much - I work for a company that monitors blogs for other companies, so I know better than most people that what you say on the internet can get you into trouble. I don't really fear that what I say here will get me fired, but I still like to be careful. With that caveat, work sucks. :-) We're busier than ever (way overbooked for July, and I already have 3 report sets that need to be done this coming week and this is NOT the busy season), we're shorthanded (particularly with my manager's departure last week) and I'm not as interested in what I do anymore. I want to grow in my position (or grow into a better position, as it were), but it's hard to do that when the most important thing of getting through existing client deliverables takes up nearly all of your time. I've taken over my a lot of my manager's projects, as well as scheduling for the department (with my boss's , which is good (but makes me even busier), but I'm somewhat anxious about what's going to happen in the coming months. I guess I'll just have to patiently wait, do the best I can and try and figure out what it is that I want for myself professionally, and go from there.

Knitting: More now than ever all I do is knit when I'm at home. Instead of devoting posts to project, I think I'm going to just put some pictures (and project details) up on Flickr, so if you're interested, you can look there. If you're not interested, then you don't have to look at them. Right now I'm working on another tank top/camisole (and have yarn for others), as well as some dishcloths (which make good summer knitting - they're small and made from cotton - plus I found ridiculously cheap yarn for them). I also knit my first bag this weekend, which is really cute (I borrowed from the dishcloth cotton stash I bought last weekend) and a quick knit, and finished some socks last weekend. If I ever get around to sending the scarves I knit for the family, I'll post those, too. Since one of the things I really love about knitting is how relaxing I find it, I'm TRYING to explore that a little more, with the help of Mindful Knitting, but I'm having trouble getting in the right mindset for it. I'll need to put more effort into this, if I want to be more successful.

Food: I spent a lot of time eating out this week. It's nice to go out to dinner, it's not nice that it means I'm not at home to cook food and also have to eat out for lunch. I should have cooked on Sunday of last week, but I failed. Anyhow, Monday night I went to Fire & Ice in Harvard Square with Corinne, Ron and some of Corinne's high school friends. For those not familiar with Fire & Ice, it's a Mongolian grill restaurant. Buffet style, you fill up little bowls with what you want - noodles, meat, veggies, sauce, etc... (they even have a hamburger station), and then get in line for the grill to watch them cook your food(just like the Mongolian grill at RPU, except more variety). Also just like RPU, it takes FOREVER. I went up twice, and also got a salad, and might have gone for something else, but I just didn't feel like waiting. I also felt the food was a little overcooked, but I guess that's the nature of experience (they do 20+ people at a time). The food was decent, but it's definitely not a place I think I'll be frequenting. Tuesday night I went to Bambara, near the Cambridgeside Galleria, with Corinne, Susan and Gene (friend of Corinne's from UNH). This was really quite tasty - yummy whole wheat bread up front, and then I had grilled filet of beef, which was served with Mesculan greens, blue cheese, fried artichokes and a currant sauce on top of a slice of toast. It was super tasty, though it took them a long time to bring the entrees. They told us after awhile that they'd had a big party, and if I'd known that, I might have gotten an appetizer because I was STARVING, but I ended up being pretty happy with my meal. After dinner, we headed over to the Cheesecake Factory for dessert, which was rather disappointing. We had them seat us outside (we'd been outside at Bambara, too), and when we told them we just wanted dessert, the waitress was clearly disappointed (right after that, one of the food runners came up with bread and set it on the table, but she sorta snapped that we were just there for dessert and he took it right off the table - amusing but also put me off a little). It then took a very long time for them to bring four slices of cheesecake and two coffee drinks, which seems somewhat inexcusable. The cheesecake was good, but not outstanding, and I was left wishing we had gone to Davis Square to get ice cream, which was the original plan. Rounding out the food, on Wednesday, which was Day 2 of 3 of eating out for lunch (each coming a night after I'd gone out), I headed to Strip T's, which is this little restaurant near my work, and I typically find disappointing (and expensive, which is why I hardly ever go there). To my delight, though, they had a fried whole clam meal, which made my day - I'd been craving fried whole clams since I'd had them at Summer Shack the week before. Mmmm, fried seafood. :-)

Friends: Last Saturday was Susan's party, which at least for me, was better than her last party, if only because I was able to walk around and socialize. There were less people, but I don't really mind, because it meant being able to get around. The theme of the party of Mudslides, Mohitos and Margaritas, which was cute and summery, but the chilly, rainy weather was a little ironic. It made me want to have a party, since Jamie and I never did (housewarming party a year after we moved in, anyone?). I'll have to try and figure out when the landlord is going on vacation, and maybe have a party then, OR see if Jamie wants to have a joint birthday party, since our birthdays are so close (August - I'd wanted to do this last year, but just wasn't feeling in a party mood at the time so I never even tried). We'll see. Also in the friend front, Chris (Goo) was in town, sorta, to visit Dana, so he and Dana came to poker on Wednesday (where I played horribly). It was nice to see them, and I hope they enjoyed the poker game (since given that they were a little late and there were a ton of people this week, we didn't get to talk too much).

Brief things: I'm happy that I'm not crazy and the internet was ACTUALLY not working at my apartment. The RCN guys came out today (how is an emergency appointment anytime between 8am and 7pm on a Sunday?) and replaced the modem. Woot! now has a site dedicated to wine, which is awesome. I got new curtains, which are the same as my roommates, except in a different color (I have sage, she has burgundy) - our apartment continues in its monotone color theme (every room has sage, cream/gold and/or burgundy in it). It's hot. I'm sleepy. I wish I had air conditioning. :-)

- Lizzardie, at 2:56 PM Post Link


Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Sorry, folks, about the lack of updates. I've been trying to do work at work (shocker), and haven't had a lot of free time. What free time I have had has been spent sleeping! I'll update when I can, and you should expect a few restaurant reviews (Fire & Ice last night and Bambara tonight), as well as maybe a few details from Susan's party Saturday night. For now, I should probably get ready for work.

- Lizzardie, at 8:45 AM Post Link


Tuesday, June 06, 2006


Finding time to post is becoming more and more difficult. Of course, part of that comes from my preference to knitting over writing, but that's really beside the point.

The pictures are from my trip up to Southern Maine this weekend. Corinne and Ron picked me up Saturday morning, and we headed to Nashua first for brunch with Corinne's parents (her dad's birthday was yesterday). From there we went to Kittery and hit the outlets - there wasn't much else to do since it was raining. We avoided both Seiko (where Ron worked 3 summers ago) and Brookstone (where I worked 3 summers ago), but did go to the Kittery Trading Post, J.Crew, Linens 'n Things and Lindt before going to dinner. By the time dinner rolled around, we had also met up with Corinne's friends Gene and Jenny, as well as Jenny's boyfriend Scott, and we alled dined at Weathervane. Between the outlets, Weathervane, Kittery in general and the group of people (Ron and I subletted from Jenny and Gene that summer in Dover), it was like an homage to the summer of 2003. A little surreal, but all in all, a good time.

After dinner, we headed to the hotel where we were staying - The Anchorage Inn, right on Rte 1A - the picture in the upper righthand corner is from right outside our room, so had it been nice outside, we would have been right on the beach. Ahh well. We went swimming (there was also a hot tub!) then headed to the grocery store to buy liquor we didn't drink. It was a pretty chill evening - some cards, TV and knitting (okay, that was just me) and then bedtime (the hotel room slept 8, by the way - 2 bunkbeds and 2 full-size beds). Sunday morning we drove up to Ogunquit for breakfast at Amore Breakfast - I had both Bananas Foster French Toast and German Potato Pancakes - I figured why not, it was what I wanted. After breakfast, we headed back to York, bought salt-water taffy (yum) and walked along the beach, which is where I took the other three pictures. The picture in the lower right hand corner was difficult to come by - as I was attempting to capture the waves crashing into the beach, some of the waves decided to crash into ME - soaking my flip-flops (I wound up throwing them away when I got home) and the bottom half of my jeans. Ahh well. Then more outlet shopping (Yummies, Gap, Banana Republic, Coash - where I did NOT buy anything, Crate and Barrel), the NH State Liquor Store and home.

I bought a ridiculous amount of stuff at the outlets (can you tell the rain left us little else to do?), but since I hadn't bought summer clothes yet, I figure I'm forgiven - I got a ton of different tops. I also bought some New England-y things to send home to the family, and a ridiculous quantity of candy, most of which I brought to work. The candy is like an homage to my childhood - salt-water taffy (even though I didn't live near salt water until recently), Sixlets, anise squares, Bit 'o Honey, Mary Janes... and some Lindt truffles, which I absolutely love, in milk chocolate, dark chocate, and very dark chocolate.

So yeah, good weekend. I have to say that while it would have been great if there was sun and warmth, it was still nice to enjoy a nice relaxing weekend near the ocean, feeling a little less like a tourist and a little more like I can go up there anytime.

This weekend is Reunion at Cornell, and while I want to go, I just can't see how to make it happen. After Memorial Day Weekend and this past weekend, I really need some time to myself at home. It's sad, too, because I had gotten the weekends messed up, and thought Reunion was NEXT weekend, not this coming one. So I'll miss out on seeing Adam, and possibly Upstate New York people, who I promise I would have contacted if I were actually going. So if you live in Rochester, Syracuse or Albany - I will definitely come out to see you all sometime, just not right now and not likely before later on this summer. But at some point, I am definitely going to need a vacation (yes, again), so we'll see.

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Friday, June 02, 2006


This is from last Friday's Red Sox game against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. It was my first trip to Fenway, and I must say, it was enjoyable. Our seats were in the Right Field Grandstands, and you can see from the picture that we had a great view. And the seats were covered! No water on the seats to try and dry up or sit in!

I'm really happy to have the 500th post out of the way. I've been agonizing about it since January, when I realized it was coming up (thank you, Blogger, for telling me how many posts my account has). Of course, I originally thought I would get to it much sooner, but I kinda like that it turned out to be right around the anniversary of the blog (thought about posting it Monday, but I was sooooo tired).

I haven't done a very good job of catching up on sleep this week. Wednesday I wound up getting really drunk, even though I promised myself I wouldn't do that on Wednesdays anymore. Woops. I think it was the free drink from coming in second during the poker tournament - I'd only had one of my usuals, Sapphire & tonic, and ordered a pomegranate martini (which was quite tasty and very pretty, too). That didn't cause me to be drunk, but did cause me to lose focus of how much I was drinking. Ahh well. I'm a little annoyed at myself because I'm kinda careless when drunk - I say whatever I'm thinking (which sober me hardly ever does) and do ridiculous things (like throwing a still lit cigarette on a friend's wooden porch, then trying to pick it up by the lit end - very stupid). And I don't think the frantic phone call I made at 4am when I got home was much appreciated by the recipient - but the fact that my pills were missing from my purse (I still can't find them) seemed urgent enough to me. Anyhow, vowing once again not to do that - we'll see how long I can go before breaking the vow.

Yesterday kinda sucked in general. I was soooo tired and soooo hungover all day. And then I had an encounter with an idiot woman at the grocery store. I normally try not to let these things bother me, but she kept persisting that she was right about a situation where: (a) she was wrong, and (b) couldn't do anything to change anything anyway. :-) I was in line for the self checkout kiosks at the Star Market I always go to (in Cambridge, close to work). There are 4 kiosks, 2 on each side. I was the fourth person in ONE line - she came up behind. She then proceeded to tell me (as if I had started the line, which I hadn't) that it's actually faster to form two lines and that's the way it should be done. I proceeded to tell her that, no, it's faster to form one line. She continued with the "no, it's not" reasoning, kinda forcefully, not really letting me explain. My mistake was in saying that I've studied this sort of thing (which is true), which pissed her off even more. I started to ignore her, but she proceeded to spew nonsense at me when she passed me to choose her kiosk, and then again when I was leaving. ARGH. This piece of information is one of the few useful tidbits that I have from studying OR - 2 lines SEEM faster, but if you take a moment to think about it (and work out a simulation of what happens in reality), it isn't in practice. AND I HATE WHEN PEOPLE TRY AND TELL ME I'M WRONG ABOUT IT. In fact, I just hate people. Particularly at the grocery store.

End rant. I need to go back to doing stuff around my apartment/knitting (I had been writing this at work, but had to stop in order to do actual work - things are busier than they used to be this time of year). I'm going up to York, Maine, tomorrow morning, returning on Sunday, and I'm really looking forward to relaxing/shopping/eating at Amore Breakfast. :-) If the weather breaks enough to head out to the beach, I'll take pictures.

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