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Marrows and Herbs

2007-03-27T19:00:00.000-06:00

So, I realized that I spend more time with Alisa and Jeff than anybody else in Austin and I haven't even put a picture of them in the blog blog. Bad, bad blogger!!! (Shut up, Cory.)

So, here they are at Lambert's, a fancy bar-b-que place where we all ate salad.

Jeff was obviously still hungry...

Twice now, I have had the pleasure of Tuesday dinner at Joe Bell's house. He has open dinners at his house every other Tuesday. Before we eat we play this french game that I don't remember how to spell. You basically throw metal balls at a little plastic ball called the pig and whoever gets closest wins. We do this while drinking very tasty wine that Joe makes himself. Once it gets dark and we get hungry we go inside and eat a delicious feast that Joe Bell cooks and fancy conversation is had.

This is Mr. Joe Bell.

This is an action shot of Alisa throwing...

This is me pointing out my game winning ball and the pig.

This is Jeff, intimidated by my athletic prowess.

This is me in action. It's getting dark. Time to eat!!!!

Look! These are my herbs that I just "planted" 12 days ago!!!!

Wedding showers and my new garden!

2007-03-16T18:20:00.000-06:00

Michelle got tons of presents at the shower given for her last Saturday. See how excited she is about them?

Here are the Moosh and Craig at a Sunday brunch given in their honor.

They look good!

So, my Mom got me an Aerogarden for Chanukah and now I'm going to grow my own delicious herbs in my dark little condo! I just "planted" the pods. I should see sprouts in 4 days!

At long last....

2007-02-18T20:18:00.000-06:00

Are you still there? I know I've been very bad about posting. I've had a very busy couple of weeks. Here's an update starting with my... and this should be read in a whisper... 30th birthday.

Luckily, my girls came all the way from New York to help me celebrate. This is us in front of Vespaio on my birthday. It was ridiculously delicious!

We drank lots of wine...

...well, I did anyway. Hey, it was my 30th birthday.

My Mom, Popi, David, Jacob, my Tia Jave, Amy, and Jenna came to Austin for my birthday too.

I think we all had a really good time!

Lucky for all of us, David played tour guide and led the tour around Austin. If left up to me, all the girls would have seen was the HEB, the Costco, and the building where I got my flu shot.

On Saturday, we went and had BBQ at the County Line for lunch. The ladies enjoyed the sun on the back patio by the water. It was beautiful out! Austin in January.

That afternoon we went to a UT basketball game. Here are the girls sporting their Texas pride. Go Horns!

Here are Mom, Amy, Jenna, and Jason before the game. Hook 'em!!!

I hope you enjoyed these highlights from my birthday weekend. Well, now it's getting late. Stay tuned for pics from my grandfather's 90th birthday in Vegas! Makes 30 seem like nothing, huh? Here's my favorite picture. It's my Mom about to give Papa a kiss on the cheek.

See ya!

Tongue Gallery

2007-02-15T21:55:00.000-06:00

Turning 30 is hard...

2007-01-30T23:11:00.000-06:00

Amy is only 25, but thinking about one day being 30 makes her sad too.

Just kidding.

Cake!!!!

2007-01-21T00:06:00.000-06:00

I made this cake last weekend for my dad's birthday. It's called a tuxedo cake. I think it looks more like a volcano. The inside is chocolate cake. Yum!

In other cooking news, I roasted my first beet this past Monday. It was delicious, although next time I think I'll roast it longer. I ate it in a salad with goat cheese, garbanzos and green onion, a surprisingly tasty combination. I wish I had a picture, but I don't. Next time.

I wonder what beet cake would taste like? It would be a pretty color I bet!

Okay, smell you later!

Happy New Year!!!

2007-01-07T00:19:00.000-06:00

I'm back and posting again. It is Saturday night and I'm in my apartment watching a rerun of SNL. Christina Aguilara just sang with Tony Bennett. It was quite enjoyable... Oh, now they are waving goodbye and Paul McCartney is there too. Wow, is my Saturday boring. And by Saturday, I mean my life.

Oh, poor Stephanie. Look! Here is what I look like on this mind numbing evening. As you can see, I am holding the camera with one hand as I pretend to "blog" with the other.

Nevermind that still unpacked box in the background. I am determined to have it unpacked (or hidden somewhere) by the time my girls come to visit from NY at the end of January. I got "Martha Stewart's Housekeeping Handbook" for Hannukah and I plan to learn from Martha the secrets of keeping a tidy and well organized home. Messy, disorganized genes be damned!

Okay, so here are some photo highlights of my winter break so far...

First, I went to Dallas to see the Moosh and Craig and to pick out bridesmaids dresses for their wedding. The one we ended up picking out is awesome! I would tell you about it but then I might lose my Maid o' Honor title and I've been working on that one my whole life! I'll never tell. Here is the Moosh, Craig and me:

Then, when I got back from Dallas, I celebrated being done with my first semester with a night out on the town with Devin and Byron. Here is Devin in front of that horrendous building downtown:

Here is me after a bit too many cocktails:

And here is Byron at the Irish Bar where we ended our night:

Sadly, I just cannot keep up with these boys anymore. That last picture of Byron was taken after they ordered me an Irish Coffee because I was passing out at the bar. You can see the empty glass at the bottom of the picture. It was pretty yummy. It kept me up for about another 10 minutes. So, they ordered me another....

Okay, lets move on before an intervention is called...

Now, it is time for Hannukah. Also know as THE FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS!!!!!

Please don't ask me why. You may defer all of your questions about Judiasm to Jeff. That is an inside joke between me and myself....and Jeff, if he thinks it's funny. If not, I take comfort in the fact that I am laughing.

Okay, moving on...

Oh Hannukah, oh Hannukah, let's light the Menorah!

Yum! I helped to make these Latkes. They were pretty damn tasty if I do say so myself.

Ooh! Not fast enough!!! Here is Lily giving Jenna a special Hannukah present:

Well, after the Festival of Lights, I hung out in Laredo until right after New Years. I returned to Austin this past Tuesday, just in time to catch Jack before his visit to Austin ended. Here he is with Sam and Sarah Ann.

Okay, well that's my winter break so far. I still have personal statement letters to write for my graduate applications. Yuck. I don't think Graduate School is yuck, just the silly personal statements. It's like, just look at my grades and stuff, bitches. Why you gotta go and make me write a "Why I want to go to Grad School" thingamajig? Like they even read that shit.

Oh, did I mention that I got a 4.0 this past semester? Well, I did. So, take that. As it turns out, I am a genius. That is right, A GENIUS.

Okay, now even I think I'm obnoxious. An obnoxious GENIUS.

Goodnight!

(Oh, and Happy Birthday Sam and Ashley!)

I'm Ba-ack!!!!!!

2006-12-05T22:39:00.000-06:00

Hello all!

So, I got a little wrapped up in school and abandoned the blog blog. The sad part is that I didn't get much work done. I seem to spend more time working to avoid school work than actually doing it. Unfortunately, I mostly realize this after the fact.

The good news is that this in my last week of class for the semester. Woo-hoo! The bad news is that I still have 3 exams left this week. If I do well, I may not have to take the finals. Maybe I should be studying right now. Hmm.

Other good news is that Erin is again in the Northern Hemisphere, back from her year long sabbatical to New Zealand.

Oh!!!!

And I almost forgot, I can't believe it!

Great news! Greg and Sarah are engaged to be married. Married!!!! I'm taking full credit for making Greg go to yoga. Here they are last Spring. I haven't seen them in a while, but I'm pretty sure they are still this good looking.

Well, I guess i should go study now. Here are some pictures from Thanksgiving in El Paso. We had a great time. The place we went for dinner looked like it was really classy back in 1983. I'm thinking of replacing the blinds in my place with these curtains. What do you think?

Amy wins the best outfit award. It was ridiculously cute! Here she is with Austin, our cousin. He's ridiculously cute too.

As is his dashing brother, Marshall. Here I am with both of them. How hot are we?

Here is the always beautiful Miss Jenna. Praise be Jenna!!!!

We totally got our swing on. This is at a park near my Grandma's house. We used to go there all the time when we were little.

Okay, I have to go learn about American English dialects now. How jelous are you?

$1 Tecate night at La Vaca Bar

2006-11-21T22:41:00.000-06:00

So, I brought in this 5 day holiday break with some dollar Tecates at a local bar in Austin with my friend, Devin (see below). How many dollars do you think I had spent when I took this picture?

Afterward, we went and got wings and fries. Yum! So good and good for you! Now I have to go pack for Thanksgiving in El Paso. I'll make sure to take lots of pictures. As you may have noticed, I am a big fan of the self portrait. I don't want you all to forget what I look like!

Oh, here are some other patrons enjoying dollar tecate night. He's a musician turned firefighter and she is going to school for social work. They live to save lives and drink $1 beer, just like me. If only there were more of us....

I'm sorry about the dark pictures but I hate using the flash.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!!

Weekend in Laredo!!!

2006-11-19T22:11:00.000-06:00

Hi! I'm back. I went to Laredo for the weekend and spent some quality time with Lucy and Lily. The blonde is Lucy and Lily is the brunette. Aren't they gorgeous? They're sneaky too. We caught them breaking into my purse. They managed to down two candy bars from Halloween before we caught them.

I couldn't eat tomatoes without having to share with Lucy. She thinks she's entitled to anything we eat!

We went to the movies at the new stadium seating theatre in Laredo on Saturday night. Remind me to NEVER EVER go to the movies in Laredo again. I almost murdered everyone in the theatre! There were 2 crying babies, 20 teenagers sneaking in and out of the theatre (I think they were trying to get into Borat or something), and the girl sitting next to me answered her cell phone TWICE! I leaned over and shushed her real good the first time and she hung up, but she still answered the second time. I swear, some people deserve to be shot.

We saw "Stranger than Fiction" by the way. It was cute.

Look! I'm wearing flipflops outside in November!!!

Why, yes, I do need a pedicure.

I am like an old wise sage...Except for the wise part

2006-11-11T18:21:00.000-06:00

Hi! So, I'm not doing so good on the daily thing. Oh, well.

I just got back from a classmate's bridal shower. That is her, Jane, in the fuscia shirt in the top picture. I not quite sure what I am doing with my shoulders. Anyway, I had a very nice time. We played bridal bingo, where all of the squares were little facts about Jane and her fiance. It turns out she was born in 1985. That's right, I said 1985. That means that she was 10 when I graduated high school. I didn't even realize people born in 1985 were allowed to vote yet, much less get married. Ca-razy.

The next picture is of two of my classmates, Rachel (white shirt) and Kyle (brown shirt). They too were born in the eighties. I'm trying not to think about it.

So, on Thursday, I went to Sam and Sarah Ann's house for dinner. I'm pretty sure they were both born in the seventies, but I could be wrong. Anyway, they made me gumbo and it was delicious. Sam was suppose to send me pictures that I was going to post, but he hasn't yet. Anyway, so their new house is awesome. It's right near Central Market, my favorite store in the whole entire world. And I just have to say that I think Sarah Ann may quite possibly be the loveliest person walking the planet.

Okay, so I don't have pictures of Sam and Sarah Ann, but Sam did tip me off to a video on youtube for a song from his old band, The Muscular Christians. It's pretty funny. Enjoy!

Here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=muscular+christians&search=Search

Because my Popi told me to...

2006-11-08T22:31:00.000-06:00

So, my Dad said that he thought bloggers posted stuff daily. I told him that there were no blogger police and it is my page and I could post whenever I wanted. And then I thought, hey, maybe I should try to post something daily. So, here goes it.

For now, all I've got for you is this pretty picture from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden that I took last spring. Stare at it and contemplate life while I try to come up with something wise to impart to you....

Thanks for coming by!!!!

Football!!!

2006-11-05T23:24:00.000-06:00

So, this Saturday, David finally took me to a football game and it was super fun! The Longhorns played the Oklahoma State Cowboys. This is us dressed in the requisite orange before the game.

David used a port-a-potty before the game and I caught him coming out of it!!!!! (I used one later and it was surprisingly very clean.)

This is a giant Jumbotron that we sat in front of. It was so big that I sometimes watched the game on it instead of watching the field!

First the band came out to get us ready for the team...

Then the team came out and the crowd went wild!

including the Dov!!!!

Here are some fans....

This classy lady was wearing Bud Light bottle cap earrings! I'm getting them for everyone for Christmas.

This is Bevo, our mascot.

In the end we won 36-10. We basically kicked their asses. It was lots of fun.

Hook em' Horns!!!!

Today, we went to Alamo Draft House, a movie theatre where you can order beer and food while you watch a movie, and saw Borat. It's a pretty cool place. The best part is that even with all the drinking and eating, everyone pays attention to the movie.

I guess I just started a blog...

2006-10-23T00:59:00.000-05:00

that's weird.