So my favorite Italian has always dreamt of taking a road trip across America. So he's coming to America. And I'm riding shotgun. For two weeks. Mmmhmmmm.
I must have been VERY good in my past lives.
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- ...besides gelato
- "working from home"
- (there are still too many days...)
- 100000 dollars would make getting to italy and co. a LOT easier
- 21 minutes to drink 3 more glasses of water
- 3 cities (broc
- 54 and rainy today...come on spring
- 6. FIND MY OWN RICARDO
- 7 more to go
- 8 glasses of water a day like it's my job
- a case of the ADDs
- a guy peeked under my umbrella to tell me he liked my look and i had a very european style
- a quick weekend in Detroit
- a worm has NINE hearts....WHAT???
- alice in wonderland was WONDERFUL. imaginations are wonderfuler. friends to watch movies with are wonderfulest.
- all of our representatives are busy please stay on the line and your call will be answered in the muther effing order in which is was received
- allergies are stupid
- allora
- alloraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
- also went to the school i taught at for an instuctor meeting to see if they have considered offering ESL night classes because I WANNA TEACH AGAIN
- also...may be crossing kentucky derby off my list and circus acts of lowman's list
- although that would mean staying in boston indefinitely which is even scarier than living next door to bank of america
- And a gym.
- and a surprise trip to NYC tomorrow
- And after a hard day's work I avoided going to Anthropologie (for one more day at least) even though I really really really really REALLY need a fix
- and back to a work out plan i mean it this time
- And candy
- and doing a LOT of day dreaming
- And epiphanies to be had.
- and farmers market and matinee
- and how the hell has it only been one week?
- and i didn't even have to teach them english
- and I got my hair did but there was nothing language-y about that in fact evan was white as hell from Marblehead Massachusetts
- and i know i've said this a million times but i love that city even in the snow even covered in giant puddles and even though i still cant figure out the subway system i love love love it
- and i started our OFFICIAL family cookbook
- and i'm celebrating by going to NYC
- And if they're successful
- and it's TWO blocks down from my hotel...ahhhh
- and johnny depp
- and just incase you wanted to know
- and kids on leashes and men with handlebars and don't get me started on the hair
- and more salted caramel ice cream from ile st. louise
- and only for a couple weekssssss
- And planning a trip to Lowman's cabin in the woods to bust this thing out
- and the best part is i'm right across the street from CHACAREROS - home of the most yummy chicken sandwich EVER
- and then there was two
- and to each their own...i don't know what my "own" is but it's not a 20 year lease mamma mia
- and trial make-up
- and want to make videos of EVERYTHING
- apple pie and green bean casserole...breakfast of hungry champions
- are ju alone?
- at least it's not Cleveland
- attention deficit
- aunts arguing over the dishes
- babies sick and crying
- baby steps
- back in the deeeeetroit
- bank shmank
- bartender
- BBQ Time
- Bea Bea Bo Bea
- BED.
- beets
- bien sur
- blast from the past thanks again to facebook...
- books
- boston to chicago to route 66 to grand canyon to vegas to LA to san francisco to NYC
- boston to geneva
- buena rulla
- bulle
- but i need to go pancake shopping for the pancake party i'm having tomorrow and i don't have an umbrella
- but i'd still rather drive a helicopter
- but not as much as I should have.
- bye bye black soul
- c’est la vie
- can't get enough peter bjorn and jon
- can't stop listening to beirut
- cashmoney
- castles
- cervesas
- Chaldean Time
- cheerios for breakfast
- christmas movies ALL DAY
- ciao america
- ciao anthropology degree
- ciao beppe severgnini
- CIAO WEST COAST i miss you already
- closer every day
- communions and baklava and arabi music
- cooking classes in tuscany
- cousin dahlia is here
- cousins gossiping
- damn those adorable little babies at the cafe.
- days like these are just fine with me
- de puta madre
- do not read airline magazines
- dog barking
- dogwalker
- don't break my cucumber
- drinkmaster
- drinks with foreigners tonight
- Eating the most random things out of my refrigerator so I defrost that mother before I leave for a week
- elvis
- english level 4 is all mine
- especially today
- every day i am the student
- ex umbris
- ex-copywriter
- eye eye eye
- feels like 3 years not 3 months
- Feirtabend
- fingers crossed
- flower shop girl
- fondue
- for SERIOUS
- for the wine shop's friday night tastings
- forgettaboutit
- four words: homemade cinnamon ice cream
- freedom
- friday nights at the wine shop keep me sane
- Frittatas. Naps. Dessert. Movies. Martinis. Old best friend. Strange new ones. I like 2010.
- Germany is trying to teach me German
- get you some new peter bjorn and john
- giving iTunes all my money
- giving up hamm
- go away hiccupsss
- go underdogs
- going going goin
- going to bed early tonight
- Good. I'm glad we had this talk.
- got nothin' to worry about
- got to start somewhere
- gotta find a loophole
- gotta finish making some kickass centerpieces
- Gotta go back to napa with girls.........
- gotta go gotta go gotta go right now
- GPS IS AMAZING
- grammer is for suckers
- grandma excited to see everyone
- grape crush
- gryere) and 98378279879291 calories later
- HA
- had no idea finding a hotel in Paris A WHOLW MONTH IN ADVANCE was such a bitch.
- have you tried greek yogurt? it's good
- He loooooooooooooooooves Chicago
- heart = racing
- hello 28
- hellooo sleeper sofa
- hey apple
- hey barry i like your apartment
- holy cold eucalyptus towels...i can get used to those.
- holy guacamole
- home at 3am just in time for my first day of FULL TIME EMPLOYMENT
- homemade pasta is amazing
- hotels in barcelona
- house swap
- how are you?
- how the hell do I know what I'll feel like wearing 10 days from NOW
- I almost forgot what you looked like
- i almost pet a dog today
- i already found my third place
- I also want a cigarette.
- I am addicted to chocolate soy milk
- i am freezing and i don't know why since it's JULY
- i am hungry for something and i don't know what
- i better get my act together
- i blame pietro
- i can't believe i just watched american idol
- i can't believe i took a half day at the office to do this.
- i can't get enough of that raspy goodness
- i comes before e except after c and when sounding like 'a' as in neighbor and neigh
- i don't even have a one year plan
- i don't know where they came from but all the sudden i have tons of friends here FINALLY
- i don't like octopus
- i don't remember anything from french class already
- i don't think i've ever been this excited to see my family...i miss those chaldeans
- I don't want this feeling to go away either mr. johnson
- i don't want to be rich. i want to have a rich life.
- i feel so thankful
- i found my next photo project
- i get to start every morning like this for the next six days
- i hate winter in boston too
- i have every reason to hate valentine's day but i don't...i don't enjoy it but i don't hate it either
- i have the worst volunteer luck ever
- i hope some italians tonight will help
- I imagine heaven is a place where you never have to pee so bad it hurts
- i just realized i LOVE make-up
- i know what enchantee means now
- I learned how to make dirties in bartending school today
- i like mangos
- i like that song and i will use a funky remix of it in the movie i will write one day
- i love air conditioning
- i love cherries
- i love goat cheese
- I LOVE GOOGLE DOCUMENTS
- i love me some third place
- i love ny
- i love tacos
- i love tacos and margaritas
- i love the rain
- i love tonight
- i mean a lot
- i might die if i don't get some nyquil STAT
- i miss the julies
- i must work here
- i need a bigger closet
- i need a lamp
- i need dicipline
- i need some airplane music
- i new adam lambert when he had red hair and freckles
- i REALLY need more single friends
- I really really do
- i tasted a lot of wine today and swallowed all of it on purpose
- i think i can do it
- i think i was born in the wrong decade.
- i wanna live like the JETSONS
- i wanna walk on stars real bad
- I want FinalCut NOWWWWWW
- i want old new york
- i want to learn a new skill but i don't know what
- i wanted to use that song
- i was asked if I could meet at 3 to discuss batch promos for fourth quarter
- i was born to be a consultant
- i was thirsty
- I will elope in venice...mark my words
- I WILL find a loophole.
- i will not buy a lamp just in case i move
- i will survive
- i wish i had some more blueberries
- i wish i was still laying on the grass in central park
- I won.
- i wonder when and where the word want was invented
- i'i'll probably run into her again on a party bus somewhere
- i'll miss you
- I'm a greedy son of a gun I know
- i'm figuring it out as i go.
- I'm full.
- i'm going to find a way to add something good to other people's lives every day
- i'm high off pizza and good company
- i'm in love
- i'm just bored
- i'm miss you terribly
- I'm not sick.
- i'm pooped
- I'm pooped.
- I'm sick.
- i'm staying after more often
- i'm thinking...
- i'm thirsty
- i've been consulting my whole life
- ice cream
- if i'm going to get a place in nyc that's not hiring to hire me i'm going to need more than a cover letter
- If Suzanne Pirret can do it so can I
- in other news people are weird
- is it just me or is february d r a g g i n g???
- it only took us TWO days to learn german
- it's july????
- it's really not that bad i'm just being dramatic
- IT'S SPRING IT'S SPRING IT'S SPRING IT'S FINALLY SPRING
- job
- just a little peek.
- just kidding julio
- just smile and nod
- just you wait...
- kabobs and tart on the BBC?
- kafka shmafka
- keep the foreigners comin
- keep the italians coming
- khalalalalalalaaaaaaaas all around
- kids on DSs
- la dolce vita
- la la la
- laid off
- later jobs
- Let the wild rumpus start
- life is good
- like i should go to church or something
- like right now
- lists lists and more lists
- long impromtu lunch with the italians and frenchies and crazy polish chick...all foreigners are not created equal.
- LOVE YOU
- loveyoumeanit
- made friends with the boy next me...double wow.
- made tons of crepes for my friends today then did tons of nuthin after...it happens
- mademoiselle is way funner to say than young lady
- making lists is SO much easier than crossing things off
- making mix tapes and getting rid of excess baggage...these are a few of my favorite things
- making new friends. making old friends. all day.
- making pancakes sounds funnER than grammar
- malcolm gladwell makes me glad
- mama mia x10
- manchego
- manchego cheese is the bomb and so are figs
- masseuse
- maybe because i just heard BBD sing poison on the BET awards
- maybe i need to look for jobs in san diego?
- maybe tomorrow
- me cago en la puta
- me too
- meritage
- met a girl tonight who taught english in seville and TURKEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY. gotta go gotta go gotta go gotta go
- Missing my friends
- mmmm piazzas and corner bistros and courtyards and open markets
- Moody McMoody
- more delicious food with more delicious people
- more lighting
- more thunder
- most importantly i got two new pairs of shoes AND washed my dishes AND AND AND hung up my clothes
- muchas muchas muchas gracias para amigas buenas
- MUST convince nico to convince bibi to hire me at the castle in tuscany this wkd
- must move back to san diego STAT
- my first bachelorette party and my L A S T.
- my holiday starts NOW
- my instructer is a 300lb puerto rican with a diamond studded yankees dog tag
- my internet is out today so i'm at the boston public library sitting a desk with a mr. belvedere lamp
- my kind of party
- my little circle of foreign friends continues to expand and i luff it
- my pancake queen just called to say he'll meet me in italia so we can open a pancake stand
- my social calendar is suddenly full as well
- my tomato soup from sportello was worth it i guess
- need nail polish remover in a bad way
- netflix
- Next: Italian Neighbors
- NO i am not watching the BET awards i was just flipping through the channels ok
- no more airports for one WHOLE month
- no swallowing
- no thinking just doing
- nobody likes whiners
- not a dream
- not bad this new life of mine
- NOT pursuing career in anthropology
- note to self: open macaroon stand one day...somewhere
- now i how to say cheers in 9 languages
- now i need an idea for march
- now i want to be in a band too
- now it feels like summer
- now we just have to convince italians to eat breakfast
- oh and lost my third umbrella this year within 24 hours of purchasing it
- oh i plan to mr. herbert
- oh my
- ok so there is a slight chance it is a bad idea
- olives
- omg i can kind of speak spanish
- once i learn how to write a movie
- opa
- optimism is HOT
- or a one month plan
- or i'm just the worst volunteer ever
- other note to self: learn how to make macaroons
- otters in boston
- OxyClean did NOT get the wine out my skirt as promised. Rude.
- oyyy
- P.S.S. it feels SO awesome to come home from work and without the get-yer-ass-to-the-gym-monkey on my back cause i already went this MORNING
- part-time job for lunch
- past participles are a muther
- perspective
- picked up The Great Gatspy at shakespeare and co for the flight home
- pinch me
- pink bubbles for the birthday girl in the bag.
- plans are silly
- porcini mushroom ravioli mamma miaaaaaaa
- pork tout gait
- Presenting the Original Pancake House...Home to good hashbrowns and bad service and amazing conversation
- Pretending I didn't just read the Italian Consulate's page on work visas...booooo
- PROFESSIONAL dirties
- PUPO PUPO PUPO
- que rulla
- que te pires?
- rainy day fever
- ready for a night on the town
- ready to go
- Reno: GO TO PASTRY SCHOOL
- right on g burns
- roadtrips
- route 66
- ryan- i'm on it. thank you for the pep talk.
- school portrait taker
- SCHOOL tomorrow
- seriously
- seriously what's in that sauce?
- sexy librarian
- shake your BODY
- shampoo girl
- sharing is caring
- she makes me want to wear perfume and I HATE perfume
- showed Flat Stanley around Boston as requested by my little cousin shawn and think it's an amazing idea
- siempre bale
- sitting in meetings is for suckers
- skipped a coffee date to finish my FREELANCE...oy...next sunday it is trader joe
- smile and nod
- so fantastic
- some days we're just not meant to wear pants and i'm fine with that
- Somehow.
- something I also don't understand
- something is missing.
- sometimes i just want things to fall in my lap
- sorry for skipping yesterday M...but here's a double dose for you today :)
- souvenirs were a hit
- Speaking of the world...I have the best mom in it
- special thanks to molly for not letting me become THAT girl at the wedding...by becoming that girl
- still unemployed
- still waiting...
- strawberries and cool whoooip for dinner
- summer summer summertiiiiiime
- summer?
- sundevils
- surprisingly a quote from an advertising newsletter i get every morning--the career that seems to actually REMOVE life your years
- sweatball
- testamatta
- thank GOD my dress fits
- thank goodness because i was having withdrawals
- thank you niccolo
- thankful doesn't even begin to describe how i feel right now
- thanks JM
- thanks melissa...for introducing me to people AS CRAZY AS I AM
- that 6'2" beast of a woman is my hero
- that george is just too hot for words i mean REALLY
- that's what a good mood i'm in
- the bear is HERE the bear is HERE the bear is HERE
- the bear's here the bear's here
- the city i'd rather be living in of course
- the end.
- the first product they ever created was a disposable coaster...now they have a store in brooklyn....hear that 3% milk???
- the kiwis and the bubbly frenchman
- The megabus is mega AWESOME
- the way we all connect is fascinating to me
- the weather outside is frightful so we're cooking and watching movies ALL day
- The weeks feel like days.
- then maybe a line of Christmas Cards in the future...?
- then Michael made us pizza and Guiseppe gave us lemoncello
- then on a plane to MICHIGAAAAN...agaiiiiin
- there are flowers on the trees
- There's a good chance we could kill each other before the 2 weeks are up
- THeriously
- these tweens are the boss of me
- they will get you
- things are brewing...
- things are getting interesting. i hope they stay that way. in other news i MUST paint my nails today.
- things get more interesting each day
- think he was a busboy
- thinking is STOOPID
- this company is too good to be true
- This could take a while
- this is shit DE PUTA MADRE
- this route 66 looks like TROUBLE
- This trip reminded me of two of my favorite words: WHY NOT
- this weekend
- to go to ny this wkd or not to go?
- Tomorrow probably will be
- TONS
- tons and tons of flowers
- too
- Trader Joe's "Nuts About Raspberries and Chocolate Trek Mix"...do it.
- trying super hard to take him seriously
- two months later...
- two more glasses of water to go
- two years later and i still don't know how to use my $1000 camera at night
- uh i don't know what that means but it sounds really bad
- uh oh
- uncles yelling about prices at the grocery store
- unemployed
- unsolicited most of the time but whatever
- waiting
- water water water
- Wedding Shower Time
- welcome to boston LIBBY
- what a wonderfully rainy saturday
- what makes you happy?
- what up fool
- What's a happily "unemployed" girl to do?
- whatever
- whatever i'll take it
- which could be awkward
- while Michael Jackson died...
- who knew?
- who's with me?
- whoa.
- why did i order steak? i do not like steak. i knew that before i ordered it but i did it anyway.
- WHY isn't funner a word?? it should be
- why not?
- why?
- WILD THINGS ARE MORE AMAZING
- wine
- wine and cheese and bread and charles river
- wireless internet is my second most favorite invention after caller ID
- with special guest LYNDSAY LOOOOWMANNNNN
- word.
- work work work
- Worked from home today because I felt sick and moody. Ended up going to the wine shop anyway. Came home re-energized and more optimistic than I was when I started off the day.
- working for the weekend
- wouldn't be the worst way to go
- wow
- wow pbj is SO awesome
- www.forkingfantastic.com
- yay for baklava
- yay for belly dancing
- yay for julie
- yeah i'll take one of them 4-hour work weeks thx
- yes that is graffiti on the door and yes it is awesome
- yesssss
- yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
- yesterday was pretty uninteresting but most other days are
- you speak good english
- you use active voice when you want to emphasize the person who performs the action and passive voice when you want to emphasize the action or the result
- you win some you lose some
I'm sooo jealous!
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