I drank enough this afternoon that I am home on a Saturday night. It was my friend Tina's shower and her bridesmaids gave the rest of her friends and relations the greatest gift of all -- they opened all the presents as soon as we walked in and put our names on them. So instead of sitting in a circle and oohing and aahing over the fondue pot and the champagne flutes that she knew she was getting anyway because she REGISTERED for them, we had time to sit around and enjoy the free wine and eggplant rollotini. All in all a splendid affair. Oh and my table came up with the most song titles with the word "Love" in them so we all won picture frames. SWEET! We girls do the strangest things when one of us is getting married.
Ah well. My sister/roommate is out tonight and that is all that matters. So I have the DVR all to myself and I can catch up on all those shows that I missed while I was traveling. What is everyone else up to tonight?
So I am formulating a list of cities that I would like to live in. Please weigh in with your thoughts and suggestions. I would be happy to read them and they may influence how far away I get from your respective homes and lives. Depending on how much you personally can't stand me, this could be a good or bad thing so remember -- every vote counts. Here is the list I have so far.
1) New Orleans -- I have never felt so at home in a place other than New York as I did here. And yes, I KNOW there was a hurricane and there are lots of problems down there. But I do TOURISM PR for a living. Guess who could use some help in that department right about now? Plus, if I lived there I could probably kick my addiction to high priced coffee drinks since Starbucks seemed pretty hard to come by. It might lead to an addiction to other things but whatever.
2) San Diego -- I love the Gas Lamp district and there are lots of cute people here. However, there are also lots of Republicans and one block in one direction there may be a cute little cafe but one block in the other direction and you're standing in front of a pawn shop and a hotel with boarded up windows and some guy peeing in the doorway. The whole area kind of reminded me of Times Square back in the 80s, only with a lot less porn.
3) Chicago -- Speaking of porn, there are LOADS of porn shops in Chicago. Like middle-of-Chicago Chicago. Like next door to fancy restaurants and hotels. But it's the Midwest so everyone is very polite -- even the bitchy gay boys are less bitchy. And Irish bars are a plenty, let me tell you. It's cold as ass in the winter, though.
4) Philadelphia -- I LOVE PHILADELPHIA! It is a totally manageable size and it's only 2 hours from New York. The streets are fairly gridlike so it wouldn't be difficult to navigate. So far Philly is a definite maybe.
5) San Francisco -- It is very expensive in San Francisco. I think I would have to go back and explore it a little bit more to get a real feel for it but I like what I did see. And they have a street named after Jack Kerouac. How cool is that?!?
Okay so these are my top 5. I was thinking about putting Boston on the list but the baseball team is an insurmountable challenge, I'm sorry to say. And I can't move to Washington. There are far too many people I dislike living there and the neighborhoods I like I just can't afford to live in.
On a completely unrelated note, does everyone agree that Shakira is the cutest Latin person EVER?
Oh and I kissed my friend last night. I am highly anti-making out with your friends. I hope it's not weird the next time I see her.
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
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