diabetes? cake?

I think I have contracted diabetes; I say contracted because it happened much in the same way I imagine people to contract an STD. I made one simple mistake, in the form of a piece of cake and now I can feel the disease in my blood (I've never had an STD but in my mind you can also feel them in your blood). I'm now looking at the remains of said cake much as someone would look back on the night of a drunken hookup (this in my analogy is how the STD was contracted). I don't know all the symptoms of diabetes but if they include sluggishness, regret, the feeling that your blood is actually being turned into sugar along with the strong desire to take a nap, I have the disease for sure.

The saddest part is this happens every month when my office decides to honor those born in that month with above mentioned diseased cake and some good old fashioned office camaraderie. I should be use to this by now.

I have a lot of needs...

I need a vacation. I need to get out of LA. Preferably some place with a lot of trees and not so many cars. Though I love cities and definitely prefer living in them I will always need periodic trips to non-city areas to keep me balanced.

I need to get this together and stop being lazy about it.

Also I need to figure out this new doctor/HMO situation. And go to the dentist (yikes)!



I'm sure I could keep listing more, but I already seem needy enough.

Who said the Easter Bunny's not real?

Easter is the one time of the year that I really miss being a kid. Most people might think Christmas (and I guess that would be second), but for me Easter really makes me want to be 8 again. In an attempt to bring back the joys of childhood Easters past, I will shamelessly be dying eggs and eating candy come Sunday. But we both know it will not be the same. Despite my religious upbringing, that is not the part of the Holiday I miss (shocking I know), what I miss are the Easter egg hunts. I've never really taken a poll on the level of enjoyment other people got out of their Easter egg hunts, so I could be vastly misrepresenting myself, but I like to think that I liked them more then most people. They were a big deal in my house (if only to my brother and me). When my parents tried to do away with them one year we protested. My mom even hid eggs in the Boston Commons one year of college...it's a long story.

I honestly can't say what it is that made me love them so much...I'm definitely not a competitive person, so it was not the desire to get more eggs then my brother. I think I just really liked finding stuff, even more so if that 'stuff' was candy and money.

So anyone down to hide a few eggs in my apartment this Sunday? I promise to enjoy it more then any adult should.

Villa California

So they have been doing crazy mad renovations/improvements/inspections to my apartment building in the last month. I wish I could say it has made me want to stay there. I believe this was all brought on by the fact that the department of housing was doing inspections and undoubtedly our building did not fare well. So far they have:

- Sprayed all the apartments for cockroaches (which was VERY necessary since I believe they were on the verge of taking over the building)

- Did about 5 random inspections/maintenance visits to our apartment.

- Painted the hallways/courtyard areas/mailboxes/parking garage/pipes in the parking garage (random?) in addition to other things I'm probably not aware of.

Not that I don't appreciate them doing this work, but it has ended up being a pretty big pain (constantly having to park my car on the street, being woken early on the weekends so they can fix stuff, dealing with the LOUD construction sounds). And the building is still ghetto. The one thing I really wanted them to fix was the washer/driers - however that was a no go.

ooo...connecticut

My mom sent this to me today. I thought it was a perfect example of the fun and excitement one can expect from the great people of Connecticut (if you have ever been there you know there is not much else to do). Also some of them are really funny...Enjoy!