i'm back!

good news guys!

my blog exists! holy moly. I thought it was lost forever when i decided i didn't have time to write anymore and stupidly deleted it. i am the happiest person in the world. now i can continue you to delight you with cute pictures, stupid little things and complaints!

sundays are for football

it's football season!

this makes me so very happy. not only do i love football, but i love the activities that surround it. any excuse to sit in a t-shirt, eat dip and drink a couple beers is just awesome. last year i spent every sunday with my momma watching the game. this year i get to spend them with the lovely stud i call boyfriend. i'm excited. 

friday i had the opportunity to tour gillette stadium and meet joe andruzzi. i was an idiot and forgot my camera so i have some lovely cell phone pictures to share. 

joe was basically the closest to a teddy bear without actually being a stuffed animal. he let me wear all three of his super bowl rings. i was so very tempted to steal one.

while we ate, the pats did a walk through before today's game. 

 then we got to see the field. we were strictly forbidden to walk on it. i pet it instead.

 in the process of this awesome tour, we got stuck in the elevator for a minute or so of pure terror. my mom freaked. like full on, she's gonna pass out, freaked. so afterwards we got a beer at toby keith's bar. cinnamon and sugar rim is amazing. all beers should come with it.

today consisted of queso dip, bean dip, beers and friends watching the game. i am in that super relaxed mode now that follows a bunch of food and a couple day drinks. its 8:30 pm and i could pass out. 

oh and tonight i got to spend some time with this face. seriously, i die every time i see her.

birthday

birthdays are so fun.

this one in particular was exceptional. i am lucky enough to have my birthday fall on a long weekend almost every year and i am also so lucky to have great friends and family to share it with. it just makes life seem so wonderful.

26. 

the weekend started with girl's night at a fabulous asian restaurant in downtown providence. i was surprised with the most fabulous cheesecake i have ever eaten. ever.

now prepare yourself for some terrible phone pictures:

i swear this one of the prettiest moons i have ever seen. a blue moon in fact.

 festivities continued to Opa- a lebanese hookah bar. the weather was perfect and so was the company.

 please excuse the demon eyes.

birthday day fun with my family

and him

my brother, sister and nephew made the trip. this made me the happiest of happy.

i mean, look at this face!

to say this weekend was spectacular is such an understatement. 

 i really am so grateful to the people who went out of their way to make me feel so special and loved. 

 to many more <3 

today was one of those days.

one of those days where you just feel it in the air... you can feel things changing. 

it might be the gorgeous mild weather or the excitement of school being right around the corner but things certainly felt different today.

change is one of those things i can't decide how i feel about. sometimes they can be wonderful but most of the time the anxiety of it all just consumes me. 

i feel like this happens a lot around this time of the year. my birthday is right around the corner and school starts in just a few days. it really is great. i love school and well, birthdays are just awesome but its the waiting that drives me bonkers. i cannot wait to be in class and get my syllabus and maybe meet a few people. of course, this will all change a few weeks in when i am knee deep in notecards and very stressed but for now, i'm pretty damn excited.

and my birthday, well how can i not be excited about that?  aside from the fact that i am now closer to 30 than i am to 20, this birthday seems extra special. at least, that's what i'm hoping for. 

the plan is "girl's night"  god, it's been a while since i've had one. this isn't any ordinary girl's night. this night involves all the girlfriend's of the boyfriend's friends. does that make sense? i think so. dinner, bar then meeting up with the boys to ring in my birthday with quite a few drinks and maybe some dancing.

this is how i feel about that:

whoa mama. it's been a while.

there's no real reason for the absence. i blame summer. and my new couch. it just sucks me right in!

so here's the update:

i'm now the proud auntie to this little fellow:

i have a boyfriend.
and he's lovely.

 i feel like this crappy phone picture of us describes us perfectly. also, how awesome is my new couch?

that is pretty much the extent of exciting news in my neck of the woods. school starts in two weeks and in one week i will celebrate another year of being alive. let the "oh my god, i'm getting old!" crap begin.

i was chatting with some girls about it the other day and we both agreed that at some point you just feel like you won't grow up anymore. of course there will be more responsibility. there will be more bills, maybe some babies crawling around and just everyday stresses. i guess we will deal with that as best we can but maturity wise, we all decided we have probably reached a stand-still. one of the girls said it best "at some point you stop growing up and you just get better at faking things in different situations." i probably shouldn't have put quotes there. consider those as air quotes. it's pretty much the gist of what she was saying.

it's been a long day and i have like-new bed to crawl into.
there is sure to be more intellectual things being discussed soon and way cooler pictures as well. stay tuned.

i've always been a momma's girl.

it's nothing against my father. because he's just about the most wonderful man on the planet.

see, i'm my mother's mini-me. our personality is almost identical....aside from a few things.

some things i get from my dad:
like my eyes. i've got my father's eyes. beautiful green eyes.
we're both perfectly ok with being quiet. i can sit for such a long time doing nothing. no tv, no radio, no talking. and be perfectly ok with it. i remember growing up just watching him sit in a chair or sitting on the front steps watering the grass with the hose. just content with sitting there in his thoughts.
we don't do phones. ok, well obviously i have one but you won't catch me babbling on with someone for more than 45 seconds. he doesn't do phones...or technology for that matter. he's so simple and i love that about him.
we have these wonderfully large jay leno type chins. i've always disliked it. but theres one fabulous thing about it: it's going to be almost impossible to have a double chin when i'm older.
he's artsy. so much more artsy than i will ever be. but he has instilled in me an appreciation for art. he used to help me do almost every single one of my projects growing up. and he has the most badass handwriting to go along with it.


he's really such a great dad.

this year is extra special. unfortunately he is on a plane coming home from a long vacation so i haven't been able to see him but when i do, i will be sure to give him the tightest squeeze. you see, this year he has pretty much beat prostate cancer. it's the most curable cancer for men but with all his prior ailments, it was nerve racking. also, it's extra special because i feel like i've done so much growing up in the past year. i've moved out of their house and realized just how much both of my parents mean to me. i think i used to take them for granted when i lived with them because they were ALWAYS there. i mean, always up in my business. obviously i like to have my own life and space but sometimes its nice to just go to their house and pretend i still live there and fill them in on every little thing.

and now to take a page out of my boy Kanye's book:
 Yo blog readers, I’m really happy for you(and that you're reading this)…I’ll let you finish. But my dad is the best dad of all time! One of the best dads of all time!  

haha ok i'm done now. and now i feel terrible i forgot to write a nice post about my mom on mother's day. sorry mom! i promise it'll come soon...you rock too!

i really really love this picture of them. 

where have i beeeeen????

no seriously, does anyone know?

i wish i could tell you this fabulous story about my adventures in life but well, that is not happening. my brain isn't functioning at the optimum level at the moment so it'll have to wait.

it's been a month since i have wandered my way back here which means two things:

1. i have been busy

and

2. i haven't been drinking enough.

i mean that in the most non-alcoholic way possible. 

so here's the update in pictures:

 i discovered an adorable organic farm near my house that had the sweetest couple running it. it had everything you could need and they made all their jams and baked goods right in main house on the same counter they had their small register on.
    been hanging with this handsome fella.

i promise i will have some seriously fun stories soon. horseback riding, zoo trips and all around shenanigans. there have been plenty. be patient, young grasshoppers.