fustration

sorry for the ugly blog!!!!!

why can i get the jpeg to be transparent??? ALEX i need your photo shop skills.


eh. i'm done with this for today the blog will be ugly until tomorrow.

Blast From the Past.

today has been a great day for my social life. i have heard from so many old friends.

1. my luxie lover called out of the blue (read: i called her forever ago and she finally called me back!!!) and we are going to hang out this weekend! i die
2. a high school friend messaged me. apparently we live in the same neighborhood. drinks are in order!
3. i hung with my cousin JH. not a old friend but i have not seen her in like a month. we are running the 10 mile together on SATURDAY -eek-
   
4. dinner on Thursday with another college friend

i'm so social!!!

catching up on old friends is a great way to break the dullness of the work week up. AND ... its a holiday weekend. off at 3 pm on friday!!

Trader Joe's

i'm in love...

with trader joe's. so much so that today on this perfect day i walked, took a bus and the el to get there. (there is one that is just a bus ride away but whats the fun in that on this beautiful day) AJH has the jeep now.

but i now have all this glorious food! and i got to spend some time outside. Good thing MLF got me that L.L Bean Boat Tote. its also on Nina Garcia's The One Hundred so everyone should have one!

back to trader joe's. reasons why i'm in love:

• amazing product selection all private label
• best organic yogurt i have been able to find (and always plenty of frozen raspberries!)
• cheep prices
• great produce
• AMAZING wine (for the non-post college palate you might not agree)

Down sides

• cannot use coupons (this is major for me)
• relative small selection of non healthy items

all in all it beats the Jewel and Dominics but if i had a Harris Teeter i would probably split my shopping more evenly!

tour de oxford

For Those of you who did not get to spend 4 (or more) GLORIOUS years at MIAMI.

as Robert Frost put it "The prettiest campus that ever was"King Library where i spent many hours but i never road a bike.

Upham Arch and alex marie. (if you kiss your lover under the arch at midnight you are denstined to become a MIAMI merger

Close up (also i spent alot of time here b.c it used to be the business school before they bulit a new one)

MLF and his house mates. so handsome!

MLF walking in to graduation (i got great seats!)

I am so J. they got to wear red so much better than black, but i guess they are the bicentinnel class.

Also, off my check list Alex Maire, JC and I accomplished skippers, lunch boxes at Steinkellers (no fries tho), fiesta chara, 3 mind probes (no mongolians but thats ok), 1 bloody mary, lots of beers, and FUN TIMES!!!

Recovery

hello blogosphere

i have finally recoved from my tour de Oxford, MLFs visit and a visit from my sis, AJH, however my room has not. i sware i will clean it soon.

anyway who knew that next weekend was memorial day. that means solider field 10 mile... EEK. i ran 8 today so i think i'll be ok.

Also, if finally STOPED rainning in chi town. wahooo!

graduation deux

pictures will surely follow but...
OXFORD ON FRIDAY!!!

this weekend both MLF and alex's BF we will call him JC (as in jesus christ) graduate. good thing we get to relive our glory day on friday. Fiesta Chara, Skippers, Mongolans at CJs, strongbow (on tap), and french fries as Steinkellers. we are going to do it all. -translation: probally none of this will happen but much fun will insue)


while JC is graduating from Law School and MLF from college(heading to law school) they will both be in the cincinnati area.




if only we can have one moment like this:
This is my uncle and Alex eating skyline after the bars closed (they are sitting on the curb). we proceeded to go home and sing Piano Man.









few times in my life will i talk about something as fondly as MIAMI. bailey my dog ranks about as high, so does kiehls. thats about it.

ok maybe alex, AJH and MLF make the cut.

i'm back...

so i have again been a v. bad blogger. (not as bad as Alex but bad) and here are my excusses:

1. the cable was out
2. it keeps raining
3. i have been v. boring lately
4. the cable was out (again, this happens alot)
5. i have been in a deep depression about the fact that a year ago i was graduating college.
   
6. my internet time has been devoted to Linkedin and finding a new job!!