Monday Mad List

Check out those teeth sitting sideways.

First day: a "medium" Jamocha shake that was larger than my head. This + squash soup was my first dinner after surgery.

This week's list is short: wisdom teeth. Useless.

So Hungry Right Now.

I thought I'd done a pretty good job without solid food within the past 24 hours, but I just woke up from dreams about amazing food. The closest things I've had to solid food since I got my wisdom teeth out have been antibiotics and narcotics.

It hasn't even been a full week back from Florida, and my violent craving for seafood has reached new heights at 4a.m. I desperately want to relive my dinner experience at The Boot that I had with my best friend Bridget when I came back from Italy.

We've eaten there twice, and both times I've left with my jeans unbuttoned and ripe with food baby. The restaurant supports local, organic food and is a part of the slow food movement. [Delicious]. We didn't take pictures of our cheese plate because it was gone in about 5 minutes, but it had all kinds of amazing local cheese [my favorite we ate with honey].

I had the mahi mahi special and Bridget had giant scallops over pasta.
And I'm going to make some oatmeal and pretend it's something else.

Things I Love Thursday

Palm trees on Fort Myers Beach, Florida

♥ Being the darkest I've been since I was 14.

♥ Funny tan lines

♥ Playing Scrabble in bed with Ryan

♥ Reorganizing my room to maximize space for ACTIVITIES!

♥ Winning a Greek sponsored spelling bee with Anna

♥ Fried scallops

♥ Discovering caramel macchiatos made with soy and hazelnut syrup

[Late] Travel Tuesday

Here's a video I put together from my 20th birthday weekend [September 18-20, 2009] in southern Italy with my Roma roommates. The hostel didn't have enough room for all of the students on our trip, so the six of us were given our own apartment [complete with an elevator x_x].

We took a ferry to the island of Capri and laid out on the rocks, sipped Coronas and took a two hour cruise around the island. We also had the opportunity to jump overboard and swim through a grotto [not the Blue Grotto, as the water was too high].

The next day, we rented motorinos for a modest 35€ a day and drove to Positano. [More on that, later!]

Before we returned to Roma on my birthday, we took the train to Pompeii and got some funny tan lines!

Best weekend of my life.

Monday Mad List

Pet peeves this past week:

1. When my roommates lock the door while they're in the house. During the day. We live in corn town West Michigan, what the fuck are you trying to keep out?


2. Not knowing when to buy a new foundation seeing as I am getting increasingly more brown! This can also be a good thing, I suppose.


3. No tour dates for Conan's upcoming "half assed" comedy tour in Michigan! Looks like I'll be making my way to Chicago.


4. Not having a pug to love & to hold.

Dirty South

Skype with Sinouhe and Renato back in Roma.

Driving to Florida for the week in about half an hour. We're camping on the beach, pretty much. Oh, and I think I'll be stopping at Disney on my way back home!

Monday Mad List

1. Girls who ask you what you're wearing out for the night. Just...why? So we can out-dress each other?


2. Professors who start class at 11:59 a.m.


3. Drunk, belligerent kids living in the apartment across from me who throw snowballs at my window at 2 a.m.


4. Canada winning the gold medal hockey game & Sidney Crosby scoring the winning goal.


5. High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS). Now I know why my Nutella just isn't the same in the States or why Coca Cola tastes so much better in Europe. Thank you Sav-A-Lot for carrying Mexican Coke in glass bottles made with real sugar.