It’s beginning to look….

This last week was a pretty awful, stressful, all-around terrible week.  This weekend was a just-plain-bad weekend for Buffalo sports.  My house is a mess and I have no time to clean it.  I have no food.  I lost my cell phone and had to spend waaaay too much money to get a new one.

But a few hours ago, I looked out my window and I saw the first snowflakes of this season. (Or at least the first snowflakes that I’ve seen this season.)

I love the snow!

What was…

I’m sorry I haven’t been posting lately but it’s been CRAZY lately!  Halloween was super fun but I drank a little too much which put me out of commission for Saturday (which sucked) but I had a Great Time!!  Work’s been hectic and my brother is in town to visit so I’m pressed for time to say the least.  However, I just wanted to remind everyone to vote tomorrow!!  Do go on about blah, blah, blah, it doesn’t matter in New York anyway.  Just vote!

I’ll try to post soon!!

Hello, gift-giving murderer!

So I woke up this morning, ready and energized (thanks to 3 cups of coffee) to go to work when I opened my front door and found three large boxes sitting there.  Oddly enough, they all had no return address, just mine including (obviously) my name.  So I dragged them inside, curious enough, and opened them right there.  THey were filled with stuff!  For my home!  Not new things, packed straight from a store, but older, gently-worn-in tpes of things.

Don’t get me wrong, some of it is awesome!  There’s this silver rimmed mirror that’s beautiful and a few matching wooden picture frames…

The thing is… I have no effin clue who sent me these things!!  I called my mother, she had no idea; I called my grandmother, both aunts, and brother… all said no.  My mother was actually freaked out by the whole situation and reminded me to lock all my doors and windows before going to bed.  I laughed really hard at her… I mean, what kind of evil genius gives you gives before he crawls into your house to kill you?

Anyway… whoever is sending me these things, Thanks!  I love the picture frames!

I have a confession to make

A horrible, embarrassing confession.  You see, I love to read.  That’s not my confession; I’m pretty sure that anyone who takes the time to write a blog likes to read.  I love to read classics from Jane Austen to Charles Dickens, i love nonfiction (history books… yes, I minored in History, I’m a closet nerd), mysteries, easy-reading literature to thick-and-takes-you-about-a-month-to-finish-literature, and horrors.  (i don’t read fantasy or science-fiction.  Sorry just doesn’t interest me.)

Through all my life, I have been able to say that there is one group of books that I will not go near.  Trashy and useless, fluff and mind-numbing.  Well, my friends, I’m sad to say those days are behind me.  Yes, I have read, and enjoyed, my first romance book and I have bought another.

How can a seemingly well-rounded individual such as myself fall for such drivel, you ask?

Well, let me tell you… it was really, really enjoyable.  Sure, the plot lines were predictable and the characters were shallow, but it was entertaining, nontheless.  Happy endings and a feel-good-story… how can you go wrong?  Sure, if you want an interesting, thought-provoking read, look elsewhere.  If you are a hardworking individual (perferably a woman) who sometimes wants to get home from work and have a relaxing, enjoyable and easy time relaxing on your couch with a good book… maybe being a snob about romances are a waste of time after all.

82-0!!!

Whoo!!

That. Game. Was. Awesome.

I mean, I was a little worried at the beginning, and during the second period, and when i realized it was going to go to a shootout, but they pulled it off!! It was a fun time!  Everyone was in such a good mood and I probably spent way too much money on beer and a pretzel… but it was worth it!

My friend, Renee, and I sat next to two of the nicest Canadien fans ever.  Usually, I hate sitting next to the opposing team’s fans (who wouldn’t?) but they were so sweet, saying that they loved coming to Buffalo for games, everyone is so nice, and how they hope the sabres do well this year.  How nice is that?  I… didn’t say the same about their team but I did say that I loved Montreal (because it’s gorgeous!)  They had these cute french accents too…  I’m just saying that it was an experience!  It’s just so different then sitting next to a normal visiting team’s fan.

Flyers fans and Toronto fans… the worst!! Seriously, hate is too nice of a term for how I feel about them.  Who comes to a game in another team’s building and heckles the fans?  Well, in Philly it is probably something in the water that makes them terrible people because it’s how they act in real life too  (I really don’t like Philadelphia!) but in Toronto, if you take out the Maple Leafs, they are really nice people!

… of course, I heard the Buffalo fans are pretty bad, too, but… who am I to judge. (haha… i can be unfair and biased; It’s my blog.)

So, on another note, my apartment has a fireplace and I think I may have almost burned the place to the ground…  Am I really that stupid?  Hopefully not.

I am off to buy a new kitchen table today.

Why can’t you just shut up?

I have this mental problem that has been getting me into a lot of trouble lately.  See, when someone talks to me about a topic that is really the last thing I want to think about, lot alone have a conversation about (for instance, the underlying issues behind the stock market problems, or the a detail-filled explanation about how cell phones actually work, two actual conversations I had to live through in the last two days) my mind turns off and I do not pay attention to anything they say.  I know, it sounds like I’m just being bitchy, BUT I’M NOT!!  I try really hard to pay attention but, MY GOD, I just cannot deal with it.

I had to grow up with my brother, who is now an engineer for Symantec, and deal with him taking apart calculators and remotes, as he explained to me how it all works.  (He was my older brother so I had to deal… and yes he was a major nerd)  I’m done!  I can’t deal with people lecturing about things that no honest human being cares about in a one-sided conversation that lasts for hours.

The worst thing is I’m too nice to tell them to shut up so I just plaster a smile on my face and hope it all ends soon.

Anyway, I don’t mean to turn this into a hockey blog, mainly because I have no idea what I’m talking about most of the time, but for some reason I have this direct correlation to fitting in here in Buffalo and their sports teams.  My main football team is the niners (sorry) but the place in my heart for a favorite hockey team is completely devoted to the sabres.   So, on that note…

I love that they picked Rivet as their captain!  After he beat on Hollweg, I, and probably most of Buffalo, started to love him.  Hopefully, he takes the place of Drury and Briere and they can start over again.  A new leader!  A new season!  A new team… oh, wait… The Same Team!  (hmm, let’s overlook that, shall we?)   The opener is 2 days away and I’m so excited!!

Grocery Shopping Has Never Been So Much Fun

So, on this continuing adventure that is Buffalo, I thought I would write about one of my new favorite places… Wegmans!

Yes, a supermarket.  What of it?

Back in college, my grocery shopping was pretty minimal.  My diet was pretty much whatever my dining card at school could get me and, if I had a little extra money lying around, easy mac and cheap beer.  But now, having to be a responsible adult and eat healthy, blah blah blah, Wegmans has become my mecca.

I mean, seriously, they have like 20 kinds of mushrooms alone!!

Plus, every timeI am there, I either see someone who I know and eat up going to the cafe area to get some coffee, or I see a wonderful Buffalo celebrity (like Ryan Miller) shopping.  It’s effin fantastic!

So I would like to give my thanks to my first favorite western new york institution…

Thank You, Wegmans, for having so much variety of every kind of item I’m looking for that you turn a 20 minute shopping trip into a 2 hour event.

I Heart Buffalo

I thought I’d write when I started to completely love Buffalo. (instead of unpacking..)  At the end of the Sabres 2005-06 season and during the entire 2006-07 season, Buffalo went absolutely CRAZY for their team.  People put signs in front of their houses, every other car had a sticker or flag, everyone you saw around the city had some kind of Sabres shirt or hat on, stores and businesses had signs and banners up saying ‘Go Sabres’. . . it was UNBELIEVABLE!  I have never seen anything like that; a whole city and community getting behind a sports team.  Everyone talked about all the games, and everyone was completely heartbroken when they lost those two years in the conference finals. (including me!)  When Drury and Briere left, people took it as a personal insult, rather than a business thing which a lot of other cities would.

It just goes to show how Buffalo has this small town mentality that no other place that I’ve been ever has.  I remember trying to explain it all to my family back home and they just didn’t get it.  The thought that everyone in a city would be crazy about a hockey team is not something an everyday resident of California could get.

I was told it was also crazy when the Bills went to the super bowl for those four years . . .  After going to a few Bills games, I can definitely believe it!

The other time I had an ‘awe’ moment for Buffalo was during the October Storm.  Everyone suffered. . . it was horrible!  But everyone was helping out everyone else!

I refuse to believe that riots would ever happen in Buffalo.  Blackouts, blizzards, ice storms . . . no problem!  Everyone would just build bonfires in cleared areas and make large potluck dinners in the center of town.

Well, unless one of the sports teams won a championship…