Young + Professional = Booze

Oh yeah, that's an accurate equation I believe.

But yes, one of my lovely friends invited me to a Young Professionals gathering at the gorgeously wonderful Barcelona restaurant in New Haven. I love that restaurant, I wish I could have dinner there every night. It's essentially a tapas restaurant so you order enough little dishes to fatten you up and to go along with the exquisite food, they have a fabulous wine selection to complement every taste.

It's a bit pricey so I think I'll just stick to the wines and mixed drinks while I schmooze it up with my fellow young professionals.

Back in Black

Lewis Black will be gracing the Wallingford, CT stage on the 3rd of February, and I'm going to be in the audience. Oh yeah!

I'll always love him, not just for how hysterical he is, but for the words of wisdom he gave us at my old alma mater. He was doing a college tour with Dave Attell and he did a show for my university and at the end of his stellar act he confided in us about college. To paraphrase, he was saying that this was the best time in your life because you are in this "bubble" where you're kind of an adult, yet you don't have all the responsibilities yet, so have fun and enjoy yourself now because this is the best time of your life. After this, comes the 9-5 job with all the bills and adult like things, so live it up and don't look back.

I love him! And I can't wait to see him again!

T-One Month

Well, enough bitching about a party I wasn't invited too...on to better things!

I've reached the 1 month remaining mark to my UK trip which will be from the 26th of February to the 8th of March! Woooooo!!

I think I have pretty much everything I need: teeny tiny travel bottles, luggage, travel lap top accessories and more importantly a travel sized umbrella. Yeah, apparently it's like Seattle over in Old England and for more unpredictable than New England (Mark Twain was wrong!) so I will not be bringing over any suede items.

Well, maybe the boots. :-) Maybe there will be a dry patch one of those nights so I can walk around in my fabulous boots.

You're So NOT Invited...

Wow, I guess this is making up for all the high school antics and politics that I missed since I was too busy working and getting ready for college at the time. I guess there's no way around missing that critical time in your life when you have to form cliques for survival and people are jealous for no good reason, even if it means facing them in your mid 20's.

Case in point, as all of you know, there was an implosion on Saturday at the crack of dawn. Now since it being so early, I had wondered what other people were up to the night before whether they would just turn in early (like I did, since my sister came over anyway) or stay up late and party without having to go to sleep at all and sleep afterwards.

Well, I just found out that I wasn't invited to a party on Friday night and it's purely for high school like reasons, so much as I can gather. I'm not going to go into details, but I pretty much know why and it's very childish, some people need to grow up especially when they are older than me and are still pulling this kind of stuff. If you're approaching 30, I think you need to start to grow up and leave that high school frame of mind behind. I had too at a young age because I had more important things to worry about, like bills and trying to afford college, so it's very hard for me to understand how you can clutch onto that petty period of your life.

And yes, I am hurt, but I'll move on. Sadly, these people never will and they wonder why they just move on from party to party and meaningless relationship to meaningless relationship with nothing to show for it besides bad skin and gained weight.

Photos of Destruction

After watching the implosion that happened on Saturday, much food was had and I have no idea why but all of us were famished after the blast. So we ended up walking to Bruegger's Bagels and having a wonderful cup of coffee along with a heavenly breakfast bagel (eggs, bacon, peppers and cheese, oh my!). Then after hanging around a very cold New Haven, me and my sister headed back to my apartment to chill out and make reservations for lunch.

So after eating a fabulous breakfast, we were already thinking about lunch and where to eat said lunch. I don't have any explanation for the all the foodage on Saturday other than the fact that something cavewoman in us woke up from watching the structural carnage of the blast and became hunger. "UGH, me want food!"

So we headed over to Modern Apizza which so far is the best pizza I've had in New Haven. They have all the regular toppings you could imagine plus a "Specialty" list that features the likes of crabcake and clams casino (which was phenomenal the last time I had it, the clams were perfect).

After this, with our belly's full of pizza-goodness, me and my sister decided to see the implosion site and possibly get as close as we could to the carnage. Little did we know that the whole site is just open to the public for the most part. I mean, you can't walk onto the bended steel, but you probably could since all you had to do is hop the fence over by one part. Here are some of the photos I took as we walked along the block around the coliseum.

And this picture illustrates how close you can get to the fallen steel, you can actually touch it!

That's my sister's mittened hand!

Implosion!

Daily Mitchism

"I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down."

Aw, I just got proposed to...

MY DEAR Christine,

I AM MAN OF 39 YEARS OLD FROM RUP. OF COTE D'IVOIRE RESIDING IN
ABIDJAN,COTE D'IVOIRE IN WEST AFRICA. I WISH TO HAVE YOU AS MY
WIFE BECAUSE I HAVE SEEN YOUR
PICTURE AND I LIKE YOU AND LOVE YOU, MY TELEPHONE NUMBER IS
0022507983819 AS THIS IS MY PRIVATE TELEPHONE NUMBER. EXPECTING
YOUR URGENT MAIL
AND TELEPHONE CALL.

BEST REGARDS,
KENNETH ANONYE
++22507983819
_____________________
That's it, I'm going to hop the next plane to Africa, screw you guys in the UK!

Library Thing

This is an awesome link that my librarian friend got me hooked on. It's called LibraryThing and it's a website where you catalog all your books online and you're able to see who else in their community has books like you and stuff like that. I believe you can also trade books with people and stuff like that, but I love the feature where you can see who has something of yours.

Pan's Labyrinth (some spoilers)

Holy crap...just, wow. One of the best movies I've seen in a very long time, and it definitely deserves it's 97% rating from the Rotten Tomato front, who are notoriously picky about their movie likes.

**spoilers**
You can obviously tell that this is a world that the girl is sinking into in order to shelter herself from that horrible post-Spanish revolution reality she is in. It's so tremendously heart wrenching to see the innocence of this girl (the main character) up against the world.
**spoilers**

This is a tissue movie, bring along one of those little packets of tissue because you will need it.

And don't let the subtitles deter you, lazy bones! It's worth it. Your mind gets used to reading and watching the movie at the same time, so just sit back and get the rhythm, it's worth it.

Also this is from the horror film sweetie, Guillermo del Toro who finally gets the show the world that he's more than just a blood and gore director. You definitely get a taste of his horror background with this film, you're not just going to sit there and cry, oh no. You're going to sit there and cringe at some of the stuff Guillermo gets away with. AHHHH!!!!

Daily Mitchism

I wanted to do my 'Smokey the Bear' joke in England, but I had ask if they had 'Smokey the Bear in england', and they don't. They have 'Smacky the Frog'. I think that is a way better system, because bears can be mean, but frogs are always cool. Like, never has there been a frog hoppin' towards me, and I thought, "Man, here comes that frog. I better play dead." Never have I said "here comes that frog" in a horrified manner. Its always optimistic, like, "Hey. Here comes that frog. Alright. Maybe he will settle near me, and I can pet him, and hold him. And put him in a mayonnaise jar. With a stick and a leaf. To recreate what he's used to. And I'm gonna poke holes in the lid, 'cuz he's definitely used to air."

Cusp

Did you ever get that feeling that you were approaching a cusp in your life? Kind of like you can sense that you're going to go through a drastic change. I've had this feeling all weekend and now this week as well.

*looks at crystal ball*

I don't know, I hate to rely on feelings and the like, but I can't shake this feeling that something is going to change with either me or my life soon. Either romantically or socially something like that, that's the feeling I get.

Buy Some More Stuff from Me!

Here's a link to my eBay store. I'll probably be adding more things to come, so keep checking.

Buy Stuff from Me!

Alrighty, here's a link to my Half.com store.

Soon I'll post a link to my eBay store as well, in which you better buy some stuff there too! You've been warned!

No Subject?

Apparently I can't blog from my cellphone is I include a subject for the text message. That's kind of weird, but oh well at least I can blog from my cellphone, so that's kind of cool. So if you see phantom subject's on either the page or your RSS feed, that's why. You can call it a "oh, Eris is using her phone" alarm or something like that.

Cellphone test.

Testing cellphone.

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Mitch Hedberg on Dr. Katz?

Whoa, I don't remember this. Consider this your daily Mitch-ism.

New Year's Resolutions

HAPPY NEW YEAR'S!!! Woooooooooooooooooo!!!

I can't believe it's 2007, good Lord. But with any new year beginning, one must have resolutions that either get somewhat accomplished but are rationalized into huge accomplishments to boost your self esteem, or get completely thrown to the wayside because "you were too busy" to accomplish them.

Mine are as follows:
1. Start saving money (well, better than I have in the past which means not blowing every single cent I make on something)

2. Lose weight (I'm a girl, so this is a given.) But to recap, I have lost over 40 pounds since last winter, so I'm proud of myself for that one. However, I think another 10 or 20 to go with some toning will make me feel better. But again, I'm a girl, so feeling good about my weight will probably never happen. Damn you American media!!