ME: "I want new shoes."

JEFF: "Where are you going to buy new shoes from?"

ME: "Your mom."

Ha ha ha.

So, tomorrow is my first day of the new job. And I got myself one of those Katie Holmes bobs to go with it.

We were planning this big trip to Italy. But then the job happened and I only have 8 days of vacation for 2008 and we figured if we were going to do Italy, we want to do Italy. So instead, I think we've decided on driving down Highway #1 in California. We're planning on going here: Treebones.

Yesterday morning I woke up with so many mosquito bites on my legs I thought I had bed bugs. I ripped up all of the blankets much to a sleeping Jeff's chagrin to see if he too had been prey to the bites. No. It was just me and I looked like I had chicken pox. I was in a panic and called my mother at 7:45, on my way to Spadina Station, because I ( Read more... )

I'm not going to beat around the bush about this: I am not in to Lost. In 2008, making this statement is similar to saying, "I am not in to the wheel" during the stone age, or quipping that "I am not in to croissants" while living in Paris ( Read more... )

Apartment is officially painted and I am officially finding anything, anything at all, to keep me occupied while I avoid the case-study analysis that I should be doing. Three more weeks until I am done with school for THREE WHOLE MONTHS. Wahoo.

Do you have a Twitter? I think it would be more fun if I had some friends.

@amandalaird.

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I love cooking on the weekends and will gladly spend a couple of hours preparing a meal, but during the week when I'm coming home at 5:30 and eating on my own I just want that empty feeling to go away.

A month or so ago I was wandering around MarthaStewart.com (something I do quite regularly these days), when I stumbled upon this recipe. I ( Read more... )

Jose Gonzalez played at the Phoenix on Saturday. The show was at 6:30 and was over by 8:30, making it the best show I have ever been to ( Read more... )