| March 3 - I suppose this will be the last of the winter entries, because I'm going on spring break next week. I'm going SKIING!!!! Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeha! The weather doesn't bode well for buckets of snow but that's OK because they've got a decent base. And we've got a condo with a private hottub on the deck, and lots of alcohol. I'm excited. Speaking of excitement, I'm rather excited about this evening's events. What's going on? Well, Rhiannon and Sara and I are going to dinner. This stems from our crazy Saturday night. The 3 of us went out to dinner and ended up staying there drinking all night. Sara was - quite inebriated. I rarely see her like that, it was a riot. Long story short the bartender requested we return as his shift ends on Thursday night, so here we go. All I know is, I'm having dinner with Rhiannon and Sara and it's great food. So it'll be a good night, regardless - but I'm definitely curious. And finally, I ordered myself this SWEET pair of sneakers from Zappos.com (best shoe website EVAR). They'll be here today, I'm so excited! It's been ages since I've been this psyched about an item of clothing. They're green nylon Asics with yellow logo on them. Snazzy. :) Have a good week everyone, I'll write again when I'm back from Whistler! February 25 - Get ready Atlanta, we're showing up on the town in SKIRTS tonight!! We've got tix to Hairspray at The Fox, with dinner beforehand and vodka specials at some nearby bar afterward. I can't wait, it's been a rather stressful week. Work has been really busy and trying to keep up my workouts and social events... it's craziness! I did find a new cool thing to do in Atlanta - trivia NEAR MY HOUSE! SaraHoke and crew go up to this place every Wednesday night. I'll be joining them from now on. Soccer starts this weekend, excited. Then I'll miss 2 weekends b/c I'll be vacationing in WHISTLER - hooray, skiing!! Alice gets back that weekend - Al, if you see this, I miss you. :( Anyhow yeah lately I am entirely too stressed out for my own good! Must relax. Can't wait for the weekend. Have a good one, everyone. February 21 - OK I'm not as excited now... but I don't know, I'll know more later in the week. I'm not ruling it out, but I'm definitely not as excited. Well, I do know that everything happens for a reason and that THE UNIVERSE IS UNFOLDING EXACTLY AS IT SHOULD. In other news... go see the movie Hitch. You will laugh the whole time. Very, very good writing. Great story, too. I was supposed to start playing soccer this weekend but it rained. So I'll start next weekend. I didn't play ultimate - I wasn't very with it yesterday. Just needed some Liz Time. Basically I'm losing my focus. We're all going to be just fine. Things are going to work out. I don't know what I want out of life, but I'm tired of worrying about it - it's so unlike me. I need to just enjoy where I am, because I'm really in a pretty good place right now. I guess it's human nature to want more. Or maybe this is part of growing up... which, do I really have to do? February 18 - So I have a 240SX at my disposal, thanks to Gary buying himself a phat new WRX and keeping the 240. Very cool. Al is in San Fran for work, so at the moment I have TWO cars to wander around town in. Ha. Things have been good... very very good. I'm looking forward to an awesome weekend that will include Bambinelli's and some drinkin' - can't seem to stop since New Orleans!! I'm hoping it won't rain, my first practice with my pick-up soccer team is on Sunday, and I'd like to jump into the ultimate game going on on SUNDAY AT 3:30 PM AT SAC FIELDS. I went inside SAC on Tuesday to swim and HOLY CANOLI!! It is incredible. It puts any athletic facility I have ever seen, in real life, on screen or in my imagination to total shame. Cheap to join, too. Check it out here. Oh yeah, and the Mardi Gras 2005 page is up, here. Ha ha I knew you'd all love that. Have a good weekend, everyone. February 11 - TOO BUSY! WAY, WAY TOO BUSY!!! But I wanted to post this... things bode very very well for what I'm so excited about. The excitement builds, actually... if you don't know what I'm talking about you have to email me b/c I can't post it here. Good weekend ahead... I'll make my mardi page, too. Though I hardly need to, I sent so many people the pics. OK not ALL the pics. Let's just say I'd better not run for office. Ever. ;) Have a great weekend. February 8 - Fat Tuesday - Happy Mardi Gras. I'm back and I'm in detox. On top of that I'm working like a madwoman to get a project out tomorrow night so I can't really update, but it was my best MG yet... (I say that every time). No news yet on what I'm so excited about but I'll post when I find out anything. Too much work to do... happy Fat Tuesday, I'll make a webpage of the weekend laters. :) February 2 - OK here I go to New Orleans. Alice gave me all these great beads, including some very phat Hooters beads which I am sworn to return with. I'm armed with a bottle of Grey Goose and a digital camera.... hooray! Last night I had a pre-party at Eclipse de Luna with the girls... very fun night. But I was drunk as I was trying to pack last night so I hope I got everything. Well, come back Monday or Tuesday to see how MG2005 was. I can't believe I'm going. January 27 - OH MY GOSH!! I am SO SO SO EXCITED!!!! I can't say what about. But if you email me I'll tell you. I just can't publicly say it here b/c I don't know who reads this and I don't want to ruin anything for anyone. Beyond that I'm really excited for Mardi Gras next week. I can't wait to see MICAH - and you too, Eric, of course. :) I'm trying to get Gary to hijack Sarahoke and head down there as well. Oh my gosh that would be the best way to do it. He needs to carjack her! Anyhow Apes will be there too and I can't wait to hang out with Jana for an entire weekend. SO AWESOME. BUT DAMMIT I AM IN THE BEST MOOD now that I found out what I found out. Of course this could all fall through... but even so, yahoo for me right now. :) :) :) :) January 23 - Well dammitt it's SUNDAY and I'm here at Morton's. I have given up my yesterday and today for this stupid Missouri project that doesn't even have a NAME yet... hmmmm... it's OK because now I can take off for Mardi Gras in 2 weeks and not feel too badly about it!! We've just got a lot of stuff to get done - part of the problem, though, is poor scheduling. Yipes. Anyhow, things have been really good here in LizLand otherwise. I went to Wild Bill's with the girls last weekend - and I won't get into it, but it was a WILD weekend! And who knew I liked Jack so much? I mean, Jack and Ginger is a hell of a drink. Hm if I get 2 dogs that's what I'll name 'em. Ha. My friends will never cease to amaze me, in both good and bad ways. I suppose that is the beauty of life and of friends, that you just never know what will happen, things are always changing, so if you don't like the way things are going, just hang on and everything ends up working out. I would specifically like to say that Slim is a better person than I gave him credit for, and I really appreciate everything he has done for me in the last 2 weeks. We choose our friends. We choose whether or not we keep them in our lives. We choose the ways in which we can help them and enjoy them and share life with them. Friends are different than your family - your family HAS to stand by you, but your friends WANT to. And I thank Slames for standing by me in the most random and unexpected of ways. And now I'm going to get back to my projects and GO EAGLES I want them to win today, I wish I were up in Alpharetta watching the game with my roommate and his friends... but I am consoled by the thought that I'm getting my days off free and clear for MARDI GRAS. :) January 13 - Mistress Liz is back and has absolutely NO COMPLAINTS about the way her life is currently going. I feel like the luckiest person on earth. (Even though I'm sure I'm not.) But my dad was definitely onto something when he was naming all our boats "Lucky Liz". Anyhow, I had so much fun in Colorado. Ended up staying an extra day - call it divine intervention. The Cordillera house is still awesome, it has THE BEST leather couch in it. The French Press is still THE BEST restaurant. I went skiing 2 days.... hung out with April and Doug. Very cool. I had forgotten how much I liked Doug. I just haven't been around him. He's still quite awesome. April is, as usual, the best. :) She had me try this crazy breakfast - oatmeal mixed with scrambled egg whites and hot sauce. It was SO good! Super healthy, super tasty, super bizzare. :) Going to N.O. next month with the Washington crew... back to the scene of the crime. Jana and Sarah Hoke may come, too. Bobby and Jill get back to the states soon. Tonight is Felini's and OC night. I have come to a rather large new bridge to cross. I can't expound on it right now, I've got to see if I can cross it, then decide if I WANT to cross it. Sorry, that's all the info I can currently give, but man, life is GOOD right now!! 20 more days... January 5 - I have SO much work to do but here I am again... briefly... just found out a Mardi Gras trip is in the works... and I'm IN!! I'm so excited!! The good life just keeps getting better. I wish I could settle down and concentrate on these revisions.... which are going to be revised AGAIN at the end of the week.... dammit. January 4 - Wow it's 2005. This the year of my high school 10 year reunion! I hope you guys had a great Christmas (or Hannukah) and New Year's. I had the time of my LIFE over the last 2 weeks. Thursday the 23rd my sister and I took the worst flight ever into Philadelphia, during which Alice informed me that I really ought to take a valium or xanex before getting on a plane. But, it was the first flight either of us has ever been on (and we are 2 of the most seasoned flyers of our age) where when we landed, the entire cabin broke into APPLAUSE for the pilot putting us safely on the ground. It was thrilling, to say the least. Anyhow it was warm and rainy when we got there, but got cold very quickly. No snow, just chilliness. My brother arrived at 2:30 AM. Christmas Eve was incredible. All my living relatives on my mom's side went to my mom's cousin's house. Ralph had Father Stack come to the house to say mass - so all 30+ of us crowded around the pool table in the basement while Father said mass from behind the bar. It made the perfect altar, and he thanked us for giving him a place to say mass which made him feel so at home. :) Anyhow, THAT was a great night, possibly the best Christmas Eve I've ever had. There are the little kids, the adults, and that group of us who aren't really either - which is everyone between my little cousin Liam, who at 15 (and not quite so little anymore!) just crossed over into our group, and I'm at the high end being 27. Great night. And Christmas was awesome, my grandma is THE BEST cook. EVAR. Plus she got us these little italian rum cakes - so if I ever get married I know what my wedding cake will be. Ha. They were crazy good. OK so on to New Year's. Somehow my sister and I survived a drive from PHilly to the great ATL with our parents. Tom paid dearly for his flight back, but I think next time I'll fly too. Just because I was KNOCKED OUT from Christmas, then Dad wants to leave at 4:30 in the morning. My days of getting up that early are a thing of the past, and Tired Liz is not fun. As I told my Dad, you can have your early departure and no traffic through Washington DC, or you can have an Amiable Liz, but not both. I was thrilled to get to Atlanta and have an Eatzi's salad for dinner, though. YUM. My parents stayed the night, saw Al's place and mine, and we all went to Flying Biscuit in the morning which is now on their list of Favorite U.S. Breakfast Places. Then I was back on the road with them to Florida. I had a great time down there. This entry is goign to be SO LONG but I don't care. I got to see Lucy and the rest of the Blaggie clan. I LOVE them. They haven't seen me in awhile so they were really surprised at how I look. Actually that's the theme of New Year's.... seeing people I haven't seen in awhile and them being surprised by the weight loss. I have got to get to LA to hang out with Lu (and AUDREY)!! That night I also went to dinner with Stacey. Yes, the Stacey who I completely cut out of my life after a nasty New Year's incident 5 years ago. She has really grown up, she's the one who contacted me and I'm really glad she did. We had a very nice night and I met her fiance Tony. I'm very flattered that our friendship is so important to her, and I'm happy that it's growing again. Speaking of friends, LUCKY ME I GOT TO HANG OUT WITH TANYA!!! I am so glad she came down. Jana also drove down, and as usual Jana amazed me with her coolness. The 3 of us went to the Dali Museum and met Natalie and Mike - when I cut my hair short it's going to be just like Natalie's. I loved it. Anyhow it was really great to see them. That was new year's eve... and that night Laura and Victor came over to the house, a couple of thier friends came, Kam and Steve (Kam really looks pregnant now - she's so cute!) and Nikki were there too. It was low key but lots of fun. We were up until 3AM! New Year's Day was great - my mom invited people over to barbecue and it was awesome. We had 17 of us, all the usual suspects. Joan made the Awesome Cranberry Stuff. I got to hang out with Tom's girlfriend Heather more - I like her! I miss Leslie, though. (We ALL miss you, Ress.) I played Texas Hold 'Em and lost all $5. I am going to have to start a poker night here in Atlanta. I gotta say my horseshoe skills went down hill since Thanksgiving... though there was NO LIGHT by the time we were playing so I think that's a factor. On Sunday we got up and went to breakfast at First Watch, compliments of Joan. Then Jana and I sadly took Tanya to the airport, and from there headed over to Clearwater Beach for a little sun. And now here I am back in the ATL. How great is my life, I was on the beach last weekend and this weekend I'll be out in the mountains of CO. Yeah!! I'm getting pretty visciously head-hunted, I have to say it's strange - I got another call today for an IE job here in the ATL. Anyhow I just paid through the nose to have my skis tuned and my bindings adjusted but I won't have time to get it done out west - I'm only going for the weekend. I'm so excited to see everyone at the French Press, Doug, THE MOUNTAINS, hang out with April and Dave in the Hooters Mansion, it's gonna be great. :) Dad said the most interesting thing - that I have a real problem dealing with other people's shortcomings, but that I've gotten a lot better about it. It's the truth. I'm getting better about it, but I do still get really hurt by things others do. I know it's not intentional and that they don't MEAN to hurt me, but it's hard to watch your friends change (or to watch them stay the same) and to get sort of left behind, or shuffled around on the priority list. But it happens to all of us and I'm sure I've done it too. It's just tough. Ha, Dad also asked me when I was going to get married, and informed me that I'd better start working on it now. I can't believe it! He NEVER mentions that! I told him I don't even want to THINK about it until I'm 30, or at least until I know what the hell I'm doing with myself. ;) Happy New Year, everyone. I'm glad you are in my life, even if it's just randomly. Love.Liz |
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