Hello, fall.

This weekend seemed to be the definitive "hey bitches, it's fall" weekend. The weather consisted of rain and some coldness, but it wasn't the sad sort of cold that the winter brings, I almost enjoy fall's cold.

The weekend was really good, though! Pretty relaxing. Friday was some wine at Jason's with Claire, Josh, Erik and his friend, Sally. That was a fun evening. Saturday it was raining when we woke up so we deemed it a movie day and it actually ended up being a movie sort of weekend. We went to the Quiet Storm for some breakfast & then returned to watch Wild at Heart, which was excellent. We then watched some (2 hours) of a documentary about Japan because we're awesome. Then we went to TASTE OF INDIA for dinner and wandered around the waterfront for a bit before meeting up with Claire & Josh at Rock Bottom. We then went to see the movie "Nine". It was really neat to watch but I guess not all I hoped it would be.

Then we went home & I read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Jason read whatever he's reading( I knew this but currently cannot remember.) and then we went to sleep.

We had bought items for making breakfast on Sunday so we didn't have to go out for breakfast. We watched some more of the Japan documentary & then breakfast happened and for breakfast eating we put on Slumdog Millionaire which neither of us had previously seen & we both really enjoyed the movie and the breakfast.

We then picked up some Mineo's pizza and headed over to Claire & Josh's new home for the Steeler game. This was awesome because Claire is a huge Steelers fan and Josh is a huge Bengals fan. They handled it well. It was fun though, as it always is to hang with those two. Not fun that the Steelers lost, but I was happy for Josh.

SO, that's about it. Today is my first day back at work since last Tuesday, boooooooo.

Here is my closet.
This is proof that I did ALL my laundry. Yaaaaay, me!

G20 Jag-Offs.

I really want the protesters to go home now. They are protesting absolutely nothing legitimate. I don't think they even know what they are supposed to be opposing. How does destroying small, local business's windows/property support anything about their cute little signs against CAPITALISM and the CORPORATE GIANTS?

I want to go to their cities and destroy their local diners and businesses. I don't even like Pamela's, but it still pisses me off.

The peaceful protests are fine, great, super. People are more likely to listen to peaceful protesting. When you start messing with our city though, people are not going to react kindly. Especially a city like Pittsburgh, where mostly everyone who lives here harbors an intense pride for it.

Now, there is speculation that some of the places vandalized in Oakland were actually done by Pitt students. That's sad, because yeah we all know you're drunk, unruly college kids and maybe you aren't from here, but still. That's just plain old embarrassing. Oh, haaaay rest of the world, the college kids in Pittsburgh really love to embody the whole "meathead" stereotype and be destructive at any given chance, but DAMN those protesters! They drew on the street with CHALK in front of POLICE. Ha...ha....ha..

It's always a disturbing sort of wake up call when you see what people can act like in these situations. Most of them just need a hard slap in the face, a shower and perhaps someone to love them.

Quit it with your hippie bullshit.

I always forget how boring it is to be off of work. Especially when everyone else is either working or trapped somewhere else due to the G20.

I did wander around a lot today, which was nice. I also did some cleaning and hung with the cats.


I was trying to feed Jason's cat, the Bob, since he is staying at his parents in order to make it to work ontime due to unforseen traffic issues. Weirdest thing, I cannot get his door open. It's driving me crazy. I guess my key doesn't work as I refuse to believe I am idiot to the point where I cannot open a door I have opened many times before. Ah well.

Last night was epic grocery shopping.


It had been awhile. I am so incredibly stoked to have food. I bought the Morningstar crumbles so we can have a veggie taco night in the near future, which I am SO excited about!

In case you were wondering, I did finally get two new dresses on Modcloth and I am very excited.
Here is one. It's calm in the front, but there is a party in the back.
The other one does not seem to be on the site anymore, so you will have to live in curiousity until I debut a photo of me wearing it, perhaps.


I also REALLY want these shoes :
They are fantastic.

Alas, that's enough daydreaming for now. I am going to go take another festive walk around Squirrel Hill. Despite the humidity, it's still a nice day. Maybe I will run into some protesting anarchists. One can only dream.


Also, here is a hilarious photo of Josh, Claire, myself and Jason at Irishfest where it looks like Claire is touching Jason's crotch and Josh's hand is in Claire's beer. None of these are actually true. However, it makes for one amazing photograph.


Lataaaaaaaaa.

I reminded myself all the words you said.

Hi!
The G-20 madness has started to happen in our beloved Pittsburgh. I'm cool with it mostly because we're closed three days, uncool with the feeling of insanity that rises slowly up through the afternoon. Working for a bank does not help. Ah, well. One more day and then VACATION. Sort of. I really have no idea what I will do, other than laundry. Lame.

My cats are hilarious!

I am so tired today! Work went really fast so that was sweet like candy. I think I'm going to go to bed at like 8:30. I need to learn how to knit so I can successfully transform into a 90 year old woman. I'm stoked.

I want regular internet so I don't have to worry about it going out all the time which causes me to have to write these entries super quickly and not proofread. I do apologize for any errors, I just never know when the connection will drop.

Tomorrow is movie night with Jason and Flann and likely Vegan Dave. I like movie nights. I like wine. Mmm. Maybe I will take pictures and blog movie night. There's an idea. I really, desperately need a new digital camera. Mine has the amount of pixels that my cell phone has. Hahaa, I think that's so funny.

If my bank gets destroyed by violent protesters then I bet I'll have a lot more time to blog.

Peace out.

Being rugged.

This was most likely one of the best weekends I have had in a really long time! Most likely because nothing was actually planned, we had NO obligations, we were free to do whatever we wanted. What an incredible feeling.

Friday evening we decided to grace The Cage with our presence and we were very happy to be joined by Andy! It was a really fun evening and nice to get to chat with Andy.

Saturday we decided to go camping, it was one of those things that was very sporadic and we weren't sure we were really going through with it until we were actually on our way. It was maybe the most fun I've had in a solid 3 months or so, haha. We were originally going to head to Raccoon State Park but Jason's mom told us there were apparently a lot of G-20 protesters staying there so we headed out to Ohiopyle with no general directions, which made for a pretty hilarious car ride there. By the time we found it, it was still relatively early in the day, which was nice. You had to hike a couple of miles to get to the campsite and it was definitely not easy. It was incredibly rewarded to finally have made it to the campsite though, I was glad that I was able to push myself far enough to not collapse dead on the trail. Jason is a champ though, I tried to put on his backpack when we got back to the car today and I seriously couldn't even lift it off the ground. Ridiculous. He's like a super hero.

Anyways, we put all our stuff down and then went to see where the water we heard was coming from. This involved scaling some rocks, which was also weirdly fun to do. There was a sweet little stream running right below where the campsite was, I liked it. It was nice to hear the sound of it. We then came back and gathered firewood and set up the tent and then Jason morphed into Dude Dudely and built a sweet fire and we ate some food and drank some wine.

Sweet fire :

Tent :
Foodz, veggie combo and Morningstar Italian Sausages which are NOT easy to cook over a fire, FYI. :
Vino :
We were SO EXCITED because we brought instant coffee to have in the morning, only to find after making it, that we had accidentally bought Decaf. I think we both were on the verge of tears, it was a very emotional realization.

After we left the campsite Jason showed me a natural waterslide and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. It's too cold to go on it now, but we decided next summer we will do it. Here it is! You can see Jason wandering in the background.


My internet keeps going out so I'm going to post this quickly!

Suprise!

Hi, Guess what?

I am not dead. What actually happened was that since I steal my interwebz, it disappeared for like 2 months. I did not get internet otherwise because I don't like to pay for things. However, miraculously, it is working again, at least for now.

SO, I got two kittens! Jason's wonderful aunt gave me them after they had been rescued from the side of the road where their mother had been killed by a car. Sad, sad.

Meet Max and Stella!


This is Stella.
Here is Max.


They are hilarious.

So, Jason's cousin and our very dear friend, Ryan has left us and America(fuck yeah) for France. This is sad because we love Ryan and miss him very much. However, I'm glad he's doing something awesome.

Here is a picture of me crying, in case you have missed that.


Here is a picture of me not crying.

That picture may have been on the blog before at some point, my memory fails me.

We recently saw District 9 and loved it, I think everyone should see it. A couple of months back we saw The Decemberists in concert and it was incredible, I also recommend doing that if it ever comes your way.

If my internet continues holding out, I can buy something from Modcloth, which may have been the most painful part of not being able to get online. Just till tomorrow, internet! Payday!
Must go now. I am very busy.