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This past week was move-in time for the freshmen at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie-Mellon. If there was a resounding cry uttered from the lips of Pittsburghers it was “AVOID OAKLAND“, the neighborhood of both schools, which was a mad house of freshmen, their parents, and everything these 18-year-olds owned, including a few ponies [...]

Saturday was my mother’s mother’s side’s annual family reunion. It’s the Italian part of me and they’ve been going to a local family amusement park since I was a small child. There are matching t-shirts, card games, and tons and tons of food, of course. It’s as dorky as it goes and I completely love [...]

So, I really suck at blogging everyday. Just to point out the obvious. Speaking of things that suck: these bangs that I still haven’t gotten trimmed. They’re only driving me completely fucking crazy. I might just trim them myself, though that’s liable to end in disaster. We shall see. One thing I know I won’t [...]

Confession: I can’t believe it is June already. I know I say this almost every month, but I really could have used a May 32rd. June! The year is halfway over. Or only halfway begun, depending on your glass half empty/half full perspective. Still, JUNE. A couple bloggers have inspired me to blog everyday in [...]

It snowed. Again. Hold me. I can’t take much more. Okay, I’m good now. As I said a couple blog posts ago, I’m looking for a new apartment. This is my fourth move in five years: my parents moved to a new house when I was 19, I moved home from college at 21, moved [...]

While I’m stuck inside, I might as well admire the beauty. I was supposed to go to work yesterday but that wasn’t going to happen. I live on a hill, and my street was (and still mostly is) buried. I watched four-wheel-drive vehicles get stuck. Oh yes, and there was a state of emergency declared, [...]

So, how has everyone’s past few days been? Here’s mine: My car was declared unfit to be on the roads more than necessary on Christmas Eve. No three hour round trip to my parents’ house. I called my parents to let them know. My mom asked if I wanted them to pick me up. “Don’t [...]

Watching Obama’s speech tonight on the war in Afghanistan reminded me of how I thought I’d handle conflicts as a kid. I’ve never had an political aspirations, but once I thought I knew the secret to being the President: never go to war. Instead, I decided, if the country would ever be attacked, we would [...]

I like chandeliers, but you don’t see them very often. Or maybe they are in houses that I’m just not visiting. The house I grew up in was from the early 1900s and had a grand Victorian staircase in the front entryway. It was made of deep dark wood (Cherry? Oak? I have no idea), [...]

I’m writing this much earlier than I normally would because I have to go to the optometrist to get a retina test done and won’t be able to see close up afterward. No blogging or reading. How am I supposed to spend my hot Tuesday night at home without a book or a computer?! I [...]