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BufBloPoFo #12

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BufBloPoFo Topic for Day 12: Write an “About me” paragraph consisting of things your readers don’t really know. We all “like to read, travel, and party with friends”, but your next topic is to talk about the things that are totally specific to you.

Wow. As I’ve stated time and time again, I have a hard time coming up with things that are completely new, but I’ll give it my best shot.

Things you might already know about me:

I’m terrified of bees. I knew how to read when I started kindergarten, but I pretended I didn’t. I used to be a cheerleader. I have a tattoo. I hate wet socks.

Things that might be new: 

I love the movie Bring it On, totally without irony. My abuse of the ellipsis is out of control, and should probably be stopped. I still know all the words to Ice, Ice Baby. I have a bladder approximately the size of a teaspoon. I like to write with purple ink.

If you’re new, and if you care, you can always check out the 100 things about me! page.

Home sweet home

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BufBloPoFo Topic for Day 9: Share your own insider’s perspective on your hometown. Most of you, like me, are Talkin’ Proud, so share your expertise. What’s your favorite way to spend a Buffalo summer day? Which old timey Buffalo movie theatre is to most old timey? What’s your most vivid Buffalo memory (any Buffalonian worth his or her road salt knows where they were when the pigskin went wide right.) Your favorite Buffalo restaurant? (If you say Wild Wings, you’re dead to me.)

If you aren’t a Buffalonian, what should we know about your hometown?

Well, as many of you are aware, I am *not* a native Buffalonian, but I have made it my home for the past eight years and don’t see that changing in the near future. So I shall answer this question in two parts.

Part 1: Things I dig about Buffalo (and WNY)

Summer in Buffalo rocks. Shakespeare in Delaware Park. Countless festivals involving bad-for-you (but oh-so-good) food. Thursday at the Square.

I love Buffalo’s proximity to Toronto and Niagara Falls.

I love the fact that you can get such a variety of amazing food without having to go too far for it. Within 15 minutes of my apartment, I can get fantastic Greek, Korean, Indian, Chinese, Thai, and Japanese food…not to mention great pizza and wings!

Asking me to choose a favorite Buffalo restaurant…sigh. How can I possibly choose? Here are a few favorites, both within city limits and not: Gabriel’s Gate. Towne. Pano’s. India Gate/Taste of India. The Village Grille. Korea House. Morning Glory Cafe. Cole’s.

I love Wegmans. I love being able to get pretty much anywhere in 20 minutes. I love sitting by Glen Falls in the spring. But more than anything else, I like all the people I’ve met here!

Part 2: My hometown

Grew up in St. Marys, PA, a small town in northwestern Pennsylvania. What should you know about it? It isn’t near anything. It’s not near Erie, it’s not near Pittsburgh, it’s not near Philadelphia. The closest known commodity is State College (home of Penn State University), and that’s like an hour and a half away.

It was settled by German Catholics. It has a brewery and a convent. It consolidated with a surrounding township to gain the dubious distinction of ‘city’. And even though I’ve made Buffalo my adopted home, St. Marys will always be home.

What’s in *your* wallet?

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BufBloPoFo Topic for Day 7: Open up your wallet/purse/backpack/hobo bag on a stick. What’s the one thing in there that no one else has in their wallet/purse/backpack/hobo bag on a stick? What’s been in there the longest, having never been used?

Uh. Hmm…

Having recently purchased a new purse and cleaned out the old one, there’s not much of interest in there at all. A small notebook and a pen, my wallet, a couple of pill containers (I carry ibuprofen and lactose pills with me at all times), my iPod, softlips, cell phone, an inhaler, change, tweezers, a glasses cleaning cloth, a list of books that I can’t remember the reason for writing…

Inside my wallet? Just the typical stuff. Zero cash except for some change. Cards. Driver’s license.

I’ll try to be more interesting next time. 😉

Let me tell you about myself…

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For the first day of BufBloPoFo, the topic assigned was “tell us about your blog.” I answered this question back in June at this post, but here’s an excerpt:

When did you begin your first blog and what inspired you to do so?

I started my first blog (titled rather boringly “erin’s blog”) in late 2002 or early 2003. I was inspired by my good friend Eden of So Anyway, who had sung the praises of blogging and first sent me the link to Blogger to help me get started.

My blog sat mostly empty for quite some time. I posted now and then throughout early 2003, and when I began student teaching in the fall of 2003, I started a second blog-my online student teaching journal. (I don’t think that one’s online at this point…)

The thing that really got me blogging regularly was The Breakup in the fall of 2003. My long-term BF rather abruptly called it quits, and I began blogging regularly both as a way of dealing with my feelings and letting my friends know what was going on in my life without having to tell the same stories over and over and over again.

When I started dating again, I blogged about my experiences to entertain people, and soon I had a small but loyal readership!

Unfortunately, the vast majority of those early posts were lost in the Tragic Blog Incident. (I accidentally deleted my database. Don’t ask…)

Since those early days, I’ve changed urls a couple of times (the first one I chose was too close to the email address I had at the time, and I thought that was a mistake, given the topics I was blogging about. ) and moved from Blogger to hosting my own blog using a WordPress format. I like it here. 😉

This is the first post in existence on my current blog, from March of 2004, almost four years ago. A few of my older posts (from Blogger) are still floating around the net somewhere, but most are gone forever. Eh, what are ya gonna do…

I do believe my first real post (January 2003) was about Super Bowl commercials.

Almost exactly a year ago, I completed a meme asking for 5 reasons why I blog. It took me a while to find that so I could link to it, but there it is!

And how did I choose my blog name? I dunno…it just amused me. 🙂

I maintain several other blogs (some of which are more active than others…you can find the links either on that first post I linked to above or on the “about me” page. Also, there’s my recently formed wedding blog, with the boring name “Erin’s Wedding Blog.” I’ll take suggestions for a new name. 😉 )

BufBloPoFo #4

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Yeah, yeah…so I haven’t done 1-3…

Even though I am not officially participating in BufBloPoFo (I read about it after the start date, and did not post in any of my blogs on March 1), I wanted to try today’s topic.

(Actually, I may officially participate anyway. I’ll leave it up to the judges. ;))

Who would play you in a movie?

Hmmm…interesting. Over the years, I’ve had quite a few “OMG, you look like ______” moments. I can’t say I agree with all of them, but I’m going to post their photos, maybe a brief story for each, and see what you think.

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Lisa Rinna. Most people know Lisa Rinna for (a) Dancing with the Stars and/or (b) Being married to Harry Hamlin. But before that , I knew her as Billie Reed on Days of Our Lives.

In the summer of 1994, I taught cheerleading camp around the country. While at a camp in Tennessee, a couple of the girls stopped me and said, “You look just like Billie Reed offa Days of Our Lives.” (imagine it said with a bit of a twang…) I smiled and said thanks.

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Susanna Hoffs. Okay, close your eyes and imagine, if you will, your humble narrator (circa 1992) with shoulder-length hair, bangs, and a perm. One of my college friends insisted that I looked just like Ms. Hoffs.

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Truthfully, I can’t remember who told me I looked like Liza Minelli. But I did dress up as Lucille II for our Arrrested Development party:

lucille II

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Isabella Rosellini. This was from a drunk guy at a bar who assumed I must be a lesbian because I blew him off.

AnnabellaSciorra

Not sure who said this one.

Linda Cardellini…but only because people think I look like Velma, but I’m pretty sure they’re talking about this Velma. 😉

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Anyway…

Laura San Giacomo, of Pretty Woman and Just Shoot Me fame.

As far as I can tell…what these women all have in common is that they are Italian and have dark hair. Most of them have brown eyes. Many of them are petite. However, the only one the right age to play me in a movie is Linda Cardellini.

So, what do you think? And who would you cast as my leading man? 😉

People are ridiculous

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It might be a mistake for me to post this, but here I go anyway…

I just logged in to get the following message on myspace:

u know we have a family here and i dont really appeciate single women contacting my husband (name omitted) and kids father-GET A LIFE AND UR OWN MAN

I would like to respond, but I think that would be an even bigger mistake than posting this here. The husband and father in question is a guy I went to high school with.  (I *gasp* went to a dance with him once. When we were sophomores. Oh, and there was some harmless flirting senior year when we both had significant others away at college.)

At any rate, I’ve been out of high school for sixteen years. I don’t need this crap.

OMG we friended each other on myspace! And even sent a message! I must want to sleep with him!
For the record, sweetie, if you’ve wandered over here…I *have* a life, AND my own man, tyvm. I have zero interest in stealing yours away.

Good lord.

Busy

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I h ave a million things to blog…okay, a million is probably an exaggeration, but still.

I took a bunch of pictures over the weekend that I have yet to upload. Soon.

Visiting with the family was good. It was my grandpa’s birthday, and so we had a little family get-together. My aunt and cousin who live in Maryland were there, so it was great to see them.

Of course, I left some things behind…a hairbrush, and a book that I was reading. Feh.

Also slightly annoying…I had been hoping my wedding dress would arrive before the weekend so that I could go and try it on. Alas, the bridal shop called me *yesterday* to tell me that my dress had come in. (You can read about my ongoing shoe quest over at my wedding blog, should you care about that sort of thing…) Rand and I have been plugging away at the wedding details, which I will write about in more detail over there.

We stayed up to watch the Oscars Sunday night, and I wasn’t as bored as I thought I would be. I may go into more detail, but here are the highlights (as far as I’m concerned):

  • The musical numbers. Loved all of them. I haven’t seen any of the movies that had songs nominated (Enchanted, August Rush, Once), but I want to see them all!
  • Jon Stewart bringing the woman who won for Once back onstage to give her acceptance speech since she was so rudely played off. Awesome.
  • Diablo Cody! Whoo! She made me cry.
  • Jennifer Garner being the picture of grace and style. She looked so adorably excited when Diablo Cody won.
  • The cute French girl winning best actress.
  • Ratatouille winning best animated feature.

Hmm…there’s probably more, but I’ve already forgotten. Sadly, I forgot all about joining Eden’s Oscar group and making picks this year. I tried to log in and do it at 8 on Sunday, but I was denied. Denied! Ah well.

Worked yesterday, and am working today. Work is good, but I’m so tired. Want sleep.

And now, I must prepare for a room full of 6th graders. Later!

Meez!

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Both me and Rand…we each made our own. Rand is playing the guitar in a library. I’m doing the Thriller dance. Why? Because it’s funny. 😉
Behind the cut for your viewing pleasure.

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Oops

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We had some technical difficulties around here yesterday. I am now upgraded to the newest version of wordpress, and things seem to be working just fine.

I’m at home in PA for a visit with the fam. Updates will resume soon. 🙂

Photos?

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Ack. I’m really bad at this daily photo post thing, huh? Ah well…

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Anyway, this is Aman. He lives with jennimi and Scott, and he’s pretty darn cool. 😉