What could be better than a lazy sunday?

I can't remember the last time Zach and I had a lazy Sunday, so today was that day. We woke up around noon, which was wonderful, enjoyed some snacks that he purchased at 7-11 while watching the Bills/Ravens game on TV. I'm not normally a football fan, but it held my interest while I folded laundry and picked up around the house. I realize folding laundry does not sound like a lazy Sunday component to many, but doing laundry relaxes me. I have no idea why. Anyway, during all that I made my special chicken wings, which take forever but are totally worth it. It's an Alton Brown recipe, and all told it takes almost two hours to complete. I don't care though, because they are the greatest wings in the world. Certainly the greatest wings in Baltimore, anyway. I mean, I love it here and it's better than Buffalo/Utica in a lot of ways but the wings (and pizza, for that matter) are seriously lacking.

Now I'm enjoying a cup of tea and preparing for the immigration law mock hearing tomorrow. I can't say what role I'm playing due to someone on the other side who reads this blog, but it should be interesting. Speaking of said person, last night was probably the greatest night of the semester thus far. Some good friends had a party at their awesome apartment, and it was just wonderful. No drama, no weirdness, all fun people who just wanted to have fun. I had a great time, and so did Zach. It was an all-around great night. 

Blahhh..I just want to watch Dead Poets Society and drink more tea. Curse you, sense of personal responsibility! 

This:

is absolutely true. I have about six cardigans, and I love them all. Cardigans are the best.

Okay, evidence can wait.

A year, in pictures:

First Halloween in Baltimore, as Shaggy and Velma from Scooby-Doo.

Christmas at my parent's house. So much food, it is making me hungry just to look at it.

Zach and I at my parent's house. Got my first real Yankee jersey from my sister.

New Year's Eve in Buffalo. 

So good to see all the old Canisius friends. 

SNOWMAGEDDON in Baltimore. We lived on the first floor at this point and this was the view out the window. 

The parking lot. 

The streets. No cars at all, so crazy. 

Brief trip to Washington, D.C. to see the sights. 

The Vietnam wall, and my attempt at artsy photography.

Moved from the first floor to the sixth floor of our building, and now we have a real view!

I have to wear glasses for most of the summer because of an eye thing. On the upside, I did get cute new ones, so it wasn't so bad. 

Trip to NYC to see some law school friends. Me in Strawberry Fields, loving life. 

New apartment furniture is exciting.

Winston is still adorable. 

I haven't been on this thing in more than a year.

SO, I used to have a blog, but then I went to law school. Following the lead of a good friend (Hi Lindsay!), I've decided to revive this thing and write in it every once in a while when I'm either procrastinating studying or somehow free of work to be done.

I'm not even going to try to summarize what went down over the past year, so I'll make a list. List-making is a hobby of mine. Here's what happened in my life from August 2009 until now.

1. Moved to Baltimore with Zach

2. Started law school

3. Met some cool people, made friends

4. Hated life. Law school is hard.

5. Christmas break! Hooray.

6. Second semester. Grades, not so great. Passed everything, which is probably the most important thing.

7. Summer : Internship! Excitement. Real law office, fun! Summer ends, school starts, sadface.

8. Older sister is pregnant! New niece or nephew in December! Excitement.

9. Second year starts. Way better than first. Evidence is horrible.

10. Evidence midterm TOMORROW. Why am I making a blog post?

So...yup.

Next week is Halloween. Also, it is Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert's Rally to Restore Sanity/Keep Fear Alive in Washington, D.C. Definitely going, because it's only about an hour away.

Well, we'll see if I update this again, or if I'll just abandon it the same way I abandoned my livejournal account and my diaryland account. I am the worst blog owner ever.

Back to studying!

recent happenings

It's summer! Also, I am unemployed. Basically, this means that I watch a lot of The Office re-runs and clean the house almost every day. I have also been quite crafty in the kitchen, having baked two loaves of banana bread from scratch, made homemade chicken pot pie and brownies, and other assorted delicious things. Tomorrow is my 22nd birthday, actually, so I won't have to cook, haha. My lovely boyfriend has promised to me a delicious dinner at ETS (Elmwood Taco and Subs) and then, he is taking me to see UP! It should be absolutely great. I'm pretty excited...probably because there is nothing special about a 22nd birthday. After this, I have only a few birthdays to look forward to, i.e. 25, when I can legally rent a car without paying ridiculous fees, 35, when I can legally run for president, and whenever it is that I can join AARP. 55 or something. As we speak, I am currently watching an episode from Season 2 of The Office, and honestly, nothing upsets me more than the episodes before Jim and Pam realize that they are obviously meant to be together and get rid of Roy/Karen/other insignificant others and begin to date, officially. I'm not kidding, it really upsets me sometimes.

So tonight Zach and I are going to the library to catch up on our leisure reading. We are worried that the summer and corresponding summer activities and fun are turning our brains to mush, so we are delving into the list of suggested leisure reading given to us as a prep for law school by the UB Law Admissions website. Included on this list are The Appeal by John Grisham, The Nine by Jeffrey Toobin, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee and A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr. I read To Kill a Mockingbird in ninth grade, and I remember the basic plot, but it surely wouldn't hurt to read it again.

We officially got an apartment in Baltimore! We will be living at the Henderson House apartments, which is just a block and a half away from campus. This is great, because we will just have to walk to class and not have to worry about finding parking or anything ridiculous like that. It's a beautiful building that is over 100 years old, and our apartment has renovated hardwood floors, brand new appliances in the kitchen and a washer and dryer in unit! This is unbelievably exciting to me, probably because laundromat prices are ridiculous and we wouldn't be able to just go over to Zach's parents' house to do laundry.

I can't believe we're moving to Baltimore in just a little over a month. It's going to be a huge change, but I feel as if we are ready and in time, we'll love it.

seriously bored. doing one of these nonsensical surveys

TEN WHATS:

1. What was the first thing you thought about when you woke up?: gosh it is hot in here...must open a window

2. What did you do last night?: uhmm...got home from the waterloo outlets at around 8, cleaned up the WHOLE APT with zach, watched a few episodes of six feet under and went to sleeep :)

3. What is the most important part of your life right now?: my family, zach, moving to baltimore...that's a weird question by the way

4. What would you rather be doing right now? actually i'm having a lovely time in the apartment getting things done with all the windows open :)

5. What did you last cry over?: i don't really know

6. What always makes you feel better when you're upset?: zach :) grosssss haha

7. What are your plans tomorrow?: class from 1-215 and then 230-515...then gosh i don't know

9. What are you worried about?: moving to baltimore

10. What are you looking forward to most in this week?: quad party :)


NINE HAVE-YOU-EVERS:

1. Have you ever liked someone with a girlfriend/boyfriend?: yes but not anymore

2. Have you ever had your heart broken?: yes

3. Have you ever played on a sports team?: synchronized skating

4. Have you ever been out of the country?: canada, australia, ireland, england, france, germany, italy...in a word, yes.

6. Have you ever been back stabbed by a friend?: of course

7. Have you ever had the cops called on you?: nope

8. Have you ever dated someone younger then you?: ugh yes what a mistake

9. Have you ever read an entire book in one day?: haha it's what i do best actually

EIGHT WHOS:

1. Who was the last person you saw?: zach before he left for work

2. Who was the last person you hugged?: see above

3. Who was the last person you called?: god my life is nothing but zach apparently

4. Who was the last person to call you?: my mom

5. Who was your first crush?: can't remember

6. Who was the last person to text message you?: zach

7.Who is the last person you texted?: zach

8. Who did you last yell at?: MY LIFE IS NOTHING BUT ZACH APPARENTLY THANKS SURVEY



SEVEN WHENS:

1. When was your last shower? just about an hour ago

2. When did you last see your mom?: yesterday actually

3. When was your last hug?: today

4. When did you last dress up?: hrmm...going out a few weeks ago. but senior ball is soon!

5. When was the last time you cried?: probably in the last week...i am hyper sensitive

6. When did you last go to the movie theatre?: oh god i have no idea...probably to see frost/nixon with zach a few months ago?

7. When were you born?: june 23 1987 at about 11 in the morning



SIX WHERES:

1. Where do(es) your best friend(s) live?: amber lives in rochester currently, although she is moving to buffalo. zach lives with me. so does winston. emilie lives on hughes in buffalo and amanda lives on delevan.

2. Where did you last go?: waterloo outlets yesterday

3. Where did you last hang out?: right here in my apartment

4. Where do you go to school?: canisius

5. Where is your favorite place to be?: uhm...galway haha i miss it

6. Where did you sleep last night?: in my bed dur


FIVE DO/DOES:

1. Do you like someone right now?: of course

2. Do they like you too?: well i would hope so we've been together almost 2 years

3. Do you ever wish you were someone else?: not realy

4. Do you know the muffin man?: ugh

5. Does the future scare you?: nope

FOUR WHYS:

1. Why are you best friends with your best friends?: because they're some of the few that didn't completely turn on me in the past year

2. Why did you get a Facebook?: haha because it was new when i got one

3. Why did your parents give you the name you have?: i don't know

4. Why are you doing this survey?: i am bored

THREE IFS:

1. If you could have one superpower, what would it be?: flying would be sweet

2. If you could go back in time and change one thing, would you?: no

3. If you were stranded on a desert island and could bring one thing what would it be?: a boat...duh.

TWO WOULD-YOU-EVERS:

1. Would you ever be friends with someone again, who you promised yourself you never would be because they were mean to you? no probably not, i hold grudges forever haha it's not good

2. Would you ever shave your head to save the person you love?: um because that question makes any sense at all? but yes if it somehow were helpful


ONE

1. Name a dream you wish to fulfill: never do a lameass survey like this again

once again, i forgot that this thing existed

I should be doing homework right now, but I figure that it's 2:30 p.m., I finished all my chores and work apart from this paper, so I have plenty of time! Right? Right. Anyway, once again I forgot that this blog existed. Actually, I always knew it was there, taunting me, suggesting that I could never keep a steady blog, but alas. Here I am again. I was thinking today about how much my life is about to change. Zach and I decided on University of Baltimore School of Law, sent in our deposits and acquired our student loans. We're really going. We're probably going to move down in mid to late July, spend a few weeks getting settled and setting up a new apartment, and then it's LAW SCHOOL eek! It's actually going to be quite a production, as my oldest sister has decided to get married on the Saturday before law school officially begins on Monday, August 17.

I suppose it's not her fault, as she set the date well before we had even applied to any law school, and we just found out the first day of classes a few weeks ago. Baltimore is approximately a six hour drive from Utica, so we will have to drive to Utica on the Thursday or Friday before the wedding, get there, probably sleep, have wedding nonsense going on all day Saturday, and then drive home early early on Sunday to maximize rest before launching into class on Monday. It's going to be quite stressful. We obviously can't drink at the wedding, because hungover driving for six hours would most likely result in the death of at least one, if not both of us. The thing is though, Zach and I don't really drink. Yes, in my past few years in college I was known as quite the party gal. I went out and drank quite a bit, suffered horrendous hangovers every weekend, but lately I simply can't handle alcohol. I went out a few weekends ago with some friends, and I probably had a grand total of five drinks over the course of the evening, and barely felt drunk; yet, when I awoke on Sunday morning, I had the worst hangover and (sorry for the TMI) couldn't keep anything down all day. I was throwing up WATER at one point.

So, it appears that my drinking days are over. I don't really mind; alcohol is expensive and not all that tasty. I enjoy the occasional wine with dinner and of course, Caucasians (white russians for the non-lebowski obsessed) with my love are always divine.

Anyway, my life is changing rapidly but I'm still enjoying it. Living with Zach has had its ups and downs, but we get along swimmingly and with the stress of applying to law school and getting into said law schools removed from our lives, we've chilled out a lot and are just trying to enjoy our last few months in Buffalo before we make a massively drastic change. I have just two more weeks of classes until I am done forever with Canisius College, and although I am excited about the future, it is a bit sad. I remember being a freshman and thinking that the seniors were so old, that it would take so long to graduate, and that college would last forever. It didn't. After freshman year, the entire process seemed to go on fast-forward. I remember things as if they occurred yesterday, but then it strikes me that it happened three years ago. Where did the time fly to? Oh well, on to the next stage in life.

uhm..What else? I thought I had a lot more to talk about today. Honestly, my life is not that exciting. The worst thing that happened in the past few months was the gas bill. See, apparently National Fuel is an idiotic company that leads people on to believe that their gas bill will be low, and then says "Oh hey, um, we billed you incorrectly for the past few months, you actually owe us A ZILLION DOLLARS" (not really, but considering my financial situation it may have well been). That was a bit of a crisis but thankfully for me, I am in possession of a sugar daddy (or a boyfriend who has a job that makes money) and a mother who didn't wish to see her daughter have to take cold showers. Because that would be tragic.

Winston-cat is adorable as ever. Lately, he has taken to sprinting through the house at top speed, and this results in him often knocking over his water dish, much to Zach's dismay. Zach is not a man who has ever had a pet (really!) in his life, so it's hard to explain to him that Winston does not mean it, Winston is not a person, Winston does not understand English, WINSTON IS A CAT. I don't love the fact that the kitchen is often covered in water, but he is barely a year old. Perhaps the fact that I have had cats all my life and have seen the much worse antics they can display, that causes my compassion.

What else? Zach and I did travel to Baltimore semi-recently for a Law Preview Day, where basically the Dean and many panels of current students told us why we should go there. They did a good job, because after the day was over, Zach and I were sold. Unfortunately the weather was drizzly and chilly, but we walked around the city for a few hours and tried to get as acclimated as possible. We ate at the FABULOUS Annabel Lee Tavern, so named for the Edgar Allen Poe poem. Did you know that Baltimore and its citizens are obsessed with Poe? He died there, and there is a Poe statue on campus, and the Baltimore RAVENS (I honestly don't know how I never made this connection) are named for Poe's most famous work. Anyway, Annabel Lee was simply delicious. Zach got a gyro wrap and sweet potato fries, and I went with what the internet (gotta love the Urban Spoon) recommended to me; a Kobe beef slider topped with pulled pork on brioche bread and a side of duck fat fries (which are fries cooked in duck fat. dur). Delicious. We also got a local microbrew, Resurrection, which is only sold at the tavern. Upon telling my mother what I ate, she observed that I am pretty much the exact opposite of my sister Mo. Mo is a vegetarian, and literally everything I ate was an animal product of some kind. I suppose I am carnivorous.

The trip went fairly well, although we got lost an innumerable amount of times and ended up paying $3 for the GPS on my phone to work. It basically saved our lives. Baltimore, here we come! Although not without purchasing an actual GPS first. Baltimore, you are incredibly difficult to navigate.