Week 1 - 1/8/07 - I like to eat

Week 1 - 1/8/07

What's new? Oh, I made some kickass ravioli, had the shittiest. wings. ever. and went to a new place for ice cream.

Let's get the shitty part out of the way first. I went to Damon's with the "BFFs" Tony, Cece and Troy. It was wing night and i was semi-adventurous going for a half dozen of both Ranch and BBQ.

Let me start off by saying that wings are kinda gross and made the opposite way that I like. They are tiny and deep fried and then tossed with powder (unless they are BBQ or something like that). My Ranch wings sat in a bowl of what looked like vegetable oil with pepper flakes. SO GROSS (I'm yelling that in my head!)!

The BBQ were good but only because the BBQ sauce was on the sweet/hot side and it sucked up all the oil. I finished those and started on the Ranch. I got one down before I almost lost it. My stomach actually lurched a little. Luckily my bill was about $4 bucks so I didn't cry too much.

I talked alot about such a shitty dinner. Yikes.

SECOND NEW THING: Stone Cold Creamery. Again, I lived here for 4 years and had yet to visit. I suck for visiting any ice cream place that isn't the Dairy Queen down the street. I split a Banana Carmel Cup with Troy. Tony and Cece split something made with a bunch of chocolate.

I know your saying "Miss, what about your extreme and unyeilding lactose intolerance?" Well, it yeilded a bit thanks to the crazy yogurt supplement I've been taking. It was really good but a little too sweet for my taste. I know. Too sweet. I'm on crack. But honestly, it was kind of sticky sweet and i like my ice cream to be more icy. Does that even make sense? I like Meyers Dairy better.

LAST NEW THING: We made Mushroom Ravioli with Gorgonola Cream Sauce. It was tasty. Living in the metropolis that is Bellefonte, finding scallions and fresh thyme at 6:30 didn't happen. We made due. There are some things that I would change, and it wasn't quite as good as ravioli down the street, but I was pretty proud. And Tony was jealous.

Most of this was totally boring unless you were here giggling along. I totally pigged out this week and it was worth it.

Week 1 - 01/01/07 - Too many "52 Weeks of Newness"

Week 1 - 01/01/07

To start off the "52 Weeks of Newness", I crammed much into last weekend. Technically these didn't all occur in 2007, but they did help kick off my gay experiment.

Friday, 12/29/06, Khybar, Philly PA: Electric 6 show.
Many firsts including:

First Jeremy Fish show. Sadly from outside - steaming the glass up with my breath. The gallery was closed.

First Khybar visit. Although I swear that I have been there before, Troy assures me that it is not the fact. He's probably right, my memory is crap. The bar was Philly hipster cool. In Old City so it's probably older than jesus. Drunk hipster/yuppies that kept screaming Tiger Woods and pulling my hair. I snapped at the one and almost made him cry. Also, pushed bitch from the hipster/yuppie group down and stepped over her body during a semi-mosh moment. That made me feel better.

First Electric 6 show. Dick Valentine is way creepy in person and a truly awkward dancer. Kept doing this weird thing with his arms like he was Dick "I'm not a crook" Nixon, but in a dance way. Most of the band was cool and posed for pics with my sister, Tre. She was happy.


Saturday, 12/30/06, my living room: Out of Reach Steven Segal

I KNOW. I made it to 28 never having seen a Steven Segal movie. I totally got tricked into it after watching a marathon of Law and Order and foolishly not turning the tv off fast enough. Sucker. I couldn't look away. It is a truly bad, bad movie BUT still not as bad as Pushing Tin. Not as good as Walker Texas Ranger but close.

Sunday - Monday, 12/31 - 1/1/07: Brewery, State College: Lowjack with Midnight Love Ensemble

First Brewery visit. I likened the whole night to this - it was like I went home and caught up with some buddies from high school. Your buddy knows this really great party at Joe's house in his basement. You recognize people but only vaguely. You wonder what the fuck your doing there but you end up having a good time, talking to the few people that you actually remember. THAT is exactly what it was like.

This was what I like to call the White Person Diversity Festival. Eclectic whites from all social/sexual classes. No two were alike. If I was a sociologist, I could have written my thesis, no problem.

My eyes burned all night from the smoke. I'm guessing that there is smoke down there from the last century. Some people were really gross, but the bartenders were cool and the music was good. Dennis from Lowjack has that thing that makes you want to watch him. It wasn't a panty-peeler for me but he totally made the other band look like douchebags. (Not that hard actually.)

Monday, 1/1/07: my kitchen: Egg McMuffins and Pork and Saurkraut

For Xmas, I got loads of stuff for the kitchen from just about everybody. My step-dad bought me the super-awesome-screw-you-Sheetz Muffin Maker. IT ROCKS! It takes about 3 minutes to toast the muffin, cook the ham and egg and slap it altogether. I made them for Troy, Jason and myself. It was a success. That's 4 bucks that I can call my own on weekend morning.

I also unwrapped a new crock pot on Christmas. (Thanks Aunt Anna May!!!) It cooked my New Year's pork and saurkraut perfectly. So deliciously ethnic.

That's it. Nothing else new this week other than starting this blog. It's so personal it creeps me out. But chances that you go this far with me babbling on unfunnily are slim.

Resolutions…

Every year I make new resolutions and every year I break them. (In fairness think that there is a crazy statistic that 90% of of resolutions are broken by the first week or month). I don't want another goal I may not reach… I'm not into cyclical behavior. I'm going to do something different and hopefully less gay.

I just turned 28. I'm 28.2 actually. Bummer age for me. My life is good, I have a loving family and really great friends (blah, blah, blah) but I'm not happy to be in my late (gulp) twenties. I really do believe that I'm where I'm supposed to be and at the risk of screwing with the whole "life path" too much, I'm going to set a rather ambitious resolution.

I want this year of the 2 - 8 to last. You can totally eat it twenty nine.

Every week I am going to do something new. Something that I have never done. Something simple or something dramatic. It could be totally boring, like learning to crochet, or completely interesting, like splitting an atom. At the end of the year I will have 52 new wrinkles in my brain. 52 new things that I can talk about with some deal of authority. 52 things with which I can bore Troy with ad naseum.

And Troy is as excited as any dude can be when his lady is dragging down a path of certain doom. "Just because it's new doesn't mean that it is good." That is his motto.

AND, I guess we can make this experiment interactive. I'm going to post everything new that I do here in my blog. YOU can give me ideas for what I can do. Books, movies, restaurants, bands to hear/see, places. The list goes on. It will be fantastic. I'll take pictures and you can be utterly bored with me by March.

Good luck to you with your resolutions and I'll keep you up to date on mine