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Halloween 2013 Recap...

So this fine Halloween I woke up feeling extremely lazy and still tired, which resulted in me scrapping my plans to painting my face and going into work as a Liechtenstein painting. Instead I rummaged through my closet, found a vintage peasant dress that I bought forever ago at the thrift store, curled my hair, threw a flower crown on, put on some make up and transformed into a hippie flower child librarian to work my first Halloween ever (In the nine years that I've worked at the library I have never worked on Halloween, they needed me in the morning so I came in for a few hours).

After hippie flower childing it up at work for the few hours I was scheduled, I headed over to my parent's house to hang out with my Dad and Nella. Eventually Nicole came to pick me up and we took her son to a local kiddie costume parade, trick or treating (Not only did we get candy while out, we got free glasses of wine from the local liquor store) and then out to dinner, where Erin showed up at the tail end just in time for the special dessert Chef Kim whipped up for us (Bread pudding!!!).

After bidding each other adieu, I got my car from my parents' house and headed to a movie theater by my apartment to ended my Halloween by going to see a special showing of Halloween (1978) with Nick.

Despite having seen the movie literately hundreds of times, it was still incredible. I loved every moment of watching it on the big screen and being a theater with true fans that made some amazing commentary throughout the course of the film (Plus the dude who dressed up as Michael Myers in the sheet with Bob's glasses).

So yeah, it wasn't the most exciting of Halloweens but I had a great day.

Week In Instagram: January 20th-26th...

Chock Full o'Birthdays Weekend...

I spent this past weekend celebrating birthdays. Saturday we had a belated birthday dinner for my mother at the house (Mainly because she refused to let us take her out to dinner on her actual birthday which was last Thursday). I cooked dinner for the family and the boyfriends, it was nice aside from the fact that we all didn't sit together at the dinning room table (Our dinning room is full of stuff we managed to salvage from our den after Hurricane Sandy hit and we have nowhere else to put all the stuff, so we couldn't move everything to clear the table). Everyone enjoyed the dinner I cooked (Or pretended to at least), but not as much as the amazing cake I picked up from Dortoni Bakery in Levittown (If you live on Long Island and you need a cake, go to Dortoni's. This was the second cake we've purchased from them and both cakes were amazing). Overall it was a nice little family dinner, even though everyone but my mother wishes we just went out to a restaurant to save on the dishes & such.

Sunday afternoon was Jack's first birthday party and I must say, Nicole and Eileen did it up with a sweet pirate theme. A bunch of us dressed up like pirates (Or at least had a skull and crossbones somewhere on our person), there was pirate music, a beautiful pirate ship cake that Eileen made, an awesome activities table for the children attending the party, etc. It was really a good time for a child's birthday party.

All of these birthday celebrations just made me start thinking about what I want to do for my birthday in March (I love planning birthday parties, especially my own). I'm thinking about staying on Long Island this year and maybe gathering my friends to play paintball at this indoor place in West Babylon. I'll have to ask around and feel people out to see if it'll be possible. I hope my friends are down because I think it could be awesome.

Visiting Friends...

Since the hurricane a lot of my friends have become displaced because of all of the damage done to their houses and apartments, so Erin and I have been going around for the past couple of days and visiting some of them.

On Monday after some shopping we stopped by Nicole's new place to see her and baby Jack. We helped her with somethings around the house and just caught up. It was nice hanging out with mama and baby for a few hours, especially since I haven't seen Jack in a while. The place they are staying in is relatively close to Justin's apartment so I'll be going to visit them often.

Yesterday we drove into Queens to see our friend (The one that moved to Raleigh and then back) and her daughter. We picked her daughter up from school with her, took them to Tortilleria Nixtamal for some amazing tacos (Which was an adventure all in itself because I had to drive from Richmond Hill to Corona and I hate driving in the boroughs) and then we went back to her new unfurnished apartment where we talked, played hide & go seek in the dark, etc.

I'm really glad we got to go visit peoples. It kinda makes things feel normal and it's nice to see people picking themselves back up and trying to start again even if it isn't where we're all from.

Week In Instagram: May 20th-26th...

Baby, Baby, Baby, Oh Baby...

This morning I went to Nicole's place to visit her and the baby because I hadn't seen them since Jack was two days old (He just turned two months on Monday). In my defense on the matter, I hadn't been feeling well on and off throughout January and February, and there is no way in hell Nicole would have wanted me around in anything but perfect condition.

We hung out and passed the Prince around between myself, Nicole's Nana and Nana's friend for a few hours and then I unfortunately had to leave to go to work.

Now that I'm feeling good I'm gonna have to stop by more often to visit mommy and baby because I just love them both.

Month In Review: January 2012...

Adventures Of The Month: Highlights...

• Ringing in the New Year with my friends.
• Spending time with my Pages while they were home from college.
  
• Going to Las Vegas for my friend's wedding.
• Making up with an old friend and making new friends.
• Winning money in the casinos instead of loosing.
  
• Meeting Gloria aka GlowPinkStah on YouTube.
  
• Nicole finally having her baby.
• Going on a Long Island wide hunt for LPs with "Favorite Page #2"

Favorites Of The Month...

Posts

• New Years Eve...
  
• E-Mail From The Bride...
  
• Oh My God, Shoes...
  
• Everyday I'm Shuffling...
  
• Fried Pickles & Baby Daddies...
  
• Milk Jug Igloo...
  
• Misfit Archive: Las Vegas 2009...
  
• What Happend In Vegas Goes Up On Facebook...
  
• Computer Chaos...
  
• Las Vegas In Photos...
  
• It's A Baby!!!...
  
• Winter Reading Club Bulletin Boards...
• Las Vegas In Instagram...
  
• Saturday Librarian In Instagram...

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Instagram

New To Me As Of This Month...

Blogs



♥ The Cinnamon Sheep

Movies/TV Shows

• Green Lantern (2011)
• Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)
• Moonshiners (2011-Present)
• Hart of Dixie (2011- Present)
• Crazy Stupid Love (2011)
• The Dead Files (2011-Present)
• Stand By Me (1986)
• Riding The Bullet (2004)

Books

• Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Vol. 3 by Naoko Takeuchi
• Solitary Seance by Raymond Buckland
• Good Spells For Bad Days by Skye Alexander
  

iPhone Apps

• Grid Lens
• PicPlz
• SlowShutter
• Scramble With Friends
• Tetris
• WordFoto
• Kinopic (This one I found thanks to Mandi over at Life in Beta. Thanks Mandi!)
  
• Ride LIRR (You don't know how excited I was for this one)
  

iPhone Books

• Best in Travel 2012 (I got it free from Starbucks and it would have cost $9.99)
  

365 Days Of Pictures: Day 326...

How freaking perfect is he?! The minute I saw him I looked at Nicole and said "Thank God you didn't have an ugly baby. I didn't want to have to lie to you..."

It's A Baby!!!...

It's official! Nicole had her baby yesterday and the Prince has finally arrived! She was originally due on January 29th (We all knew she wouldn't last that long because she was huge) but she had to had a c-section yesterday because she was showing early signs of preeclampsia and her doctor thought it best to deliver the baby.

Despite having to have the c-section mommy and baby are doing great and I can't wait to see them tomorrow after I get off from work!

• Jack aka "The Prince" • 8 lbs 11 oz •