Vegas-December

An email from Elaine and David saying that flights were cheap to Vegas and a few days later we met up with them in Las Vegas. Sadly we had to leave a night early to beat a storm so we could make it to a wedding and they had to stay an extra night due to an ice storm in Chicago.
highlights include but not limited to:
-walking, shopping, walking
-new york, new york roller coaster
-blackjack at almost every casino on the strip
-jokes, jokes, jokes
-trader joes!
-dinner at Tom Colicchios'
-lunch at Bobby Flays'
-dinner at Daniel Bouluds'
-friends, food and fun

Chicago-November

(kristin and elaine at Avec)

In November we went back to Chicago for a few days. I was nervous that it would make me want to move back but luckily it didn't, no matter how hard our friends tried. The food was fab, weather blah, shopping eh, fun oh yes!

philly- September

in Sept we went to Philly on a whim to see Rusted Root and Dave Matthews the next night. The weather was perfection, everywhere we ate was amazing, and sight seeing was great and took us back to elementary school history class. Both concerts were fun, Dave saw that I was there and played all of my songs!
I hope we continue our family tradition of seeing Dave in a different city each year.

A Song for the Mormons! (12/14/09)

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recall

my thoughts on Jersey Shore are not a solid recommendation; I only watched half an episode and I had hit my skeeve limit and that is saying something since I am watching The Bad Girls Club right now.

I only wanted to say that the show is reality and as an Italian it does not offend me.

*I have to watch Bad Girls Club on very low volume because it frightens Oscar and infuriates Nick, but there is nothing good on the tivo

jersey shore..fo sho

There has been a lot of controversy over the new mtv reality show Jersey Shore. I have been to the Jersey Shore and consider myself lucky that I did not contract hepatitis from the "water". If you look past the greasy film on the water there are more prophylactics floating around than fish.

I grew up in the tri-state area, I am a daughter of a 1st generation tri-state area Italian Mom and an Italian/Irish Dad from New York and I am not offended by the show; because it is TRUE! I have tried several times to explain to Nick what a Guido is and now I can watch the show with him and explain it thoroughly as if it is a National Geographic special.

I am very proud to say that no one in my immediate family is a Guido/Guidette, wops yes but no guidos. I was a little worried about my brother years ago because of his gel usage and tan, but thankfully now he has a ski mullet and lives in Steamboat. And my sister like me got the Irish skin and could never get tan enough, but she does have a Steelers necklace so...to be continued

love tank

when a husband agrees to a Target trip and doesn't complain in the health and beauty aisles; an angel gets their wings

when a husband goes Christmas shopping, to Target whine-free, starts to help clean without being asked, takes you to Chipotle even though he doesn't like it, takes the dog out several times during your unofficial party, and discretely cleans up the party while you dish with a bff til 3:00 in the morning; a love tank is filled

*Kris Tina, you might be the only one to get the reference

Happy Hanukkah!

Husb gave me a new laptop for the first night of Hanukkah! You may hear from me a lot more often now that I can watch Bravo and blog at the same time!

Mazel!