Well today was just an awesome day.....NOT. To start off today The Jonas Brothers were at Jiffy Lube Live formally called Nissan Pavillion in Virginia. No I am not a Jonas Brothers fan....but my sister is a BIG one. Well considering she is old enough to have a license and our Mother has to work...it leaves me to take her. Well between where we live and the concert place theres kind've semi-important district named Columbia (DC). Well it takes about an hour to get to the concert assuming theres no traffic but since this semi-important district just happens to be inbetween the two sites any time from 2-7 theres going to be massive traffic...so I've learned from todays lesson. So her and her friend needed to be at the place before 430 so we "planned" to leave at 230 but because my sisters a perfectionest she took about 20 minutes to just make sure her hair was in the perfect pony tail...so we didnt actually leave until 240 oh and then as we are getting ready to get on the highway she realizes that she doesnt have her camera so we have to turn around go back to the house and start the journey all over again. It's now 250 and they requested to get Chick Fil A on the way since its about 15 bucks cheaper than a meal at the Pavillion would cost so by the time we are actually on the road its about 305ish. Seems like plenty of time to get there right??....so we thought. We get on I495 and we sit in a parking lot of cars. We were only on 495 for about 15miles...so shouldve been like 20minutes-ish oh no it took 45mins to go 15miles.
Did I mention that I only had a half a tank of gas?? yea so we are still half to our destination when my tank lever thing just keeps going down. Only one solution to slowing it down....AC off and windows down. Did I also tell you that there was a huge storm coming so its about 90% humidity 87ish degrees so it feels like about 92. Yay us. and since we arent moving theres barely a breeze. Perfect way to spend an afternoon right? Driving to the best concert ever just to drop them off. We finally get to the place...they missed sound check since we didnt get there until 530 and they stopped letting people in at 430 so there was a ton of tension in the back seat I thought I could possibly have been strangled by the tension that was flowing in my vehicle. A trip down there that should've took no longer than 1hour 15mins tops took 2.5 hours.
Next mission find a gas station to do a number of things: 1.get gas 2. go potty 3. get some kind of snack for our rumbly tumblies. Mission Accomplished.
The ride back though had a lot less traffic let me tell you....oh but wait of course the ride couldnt have gone that smooth....mother nature decided that we were going to have a monsoon. yes my favorite driving condition! (sarcasm) the wind is blowing sheets of rain towards us so you can barely even see the lane lines...I definitely thought there was a large possibility we wouldnt have made it home without a dent, scratch, fender bender, etc.
So by the time we get home the entire trip took 5 hours when it shouldve taken only 2.5hrs. It was an awesome afternoon driving to drop my sister off at the coolest band ever created by the coolest three brothers that god ever put on this earth. I know you guys must be super jealous.
So to summarize the list of sucky things that happened:
1. jonas brothers concert with in a 100mile radius of my place of residence.
2. I had to drive.
3. Bumper to Bumper traffic going up.
4. Running out of Gas in the middle of journey resulting in the trading of AC with humid non exsisting wind.
5. Monsoon over Fredrick/Bethesda Maryland
6. Taking a trip that shouldve taken 2.5hrs but it ended up being 5hrs.
It gigures that I would have this much suck in one day. Yes I said gigures...my latest typo :)
Peace and chicken grease America.
P.S. Its still raining its been raining since about 7 this morning.
*Warning: Lots of sarcasm was used in this post to describe the awesomeness of a certain band of brothers*
12 August, 2010
08 August, 2010
Are You Ready for some Football?
First and foremost, I would like to say Happy 51st Birthday to my mom! You know what this means Red Sox and Mr. Josh Beckett, there better be a win for her tonight...just sayin!!
Not only is August 8th my mother's birthday, the name of a song, and the day where I expect pure perfection from the Red Sox, it also marks...*DRUM ROLL*
THE FIRST NFL PRE-SEASON GAME!!!
That's right! Football is officially official, and I am super excited because football season is such a wonderful time. Now don't get me wrong, I LOVE baseball, and nothing in life is more enjoyable than watching a Red Sox Yankees game, but football is once a week so all that energy and "hatride" for the other team just builds up and is released into an approximately 3hr time period or more if the game goes into OT.
Today's game features a whole bunch of epic gailures, and I am so excited. The matchup: Cincinnati vs. Dallas. Which team do you begin with first? Oh yes, the recently laughable Bengals. So you guys think you are all bad ass now that you beat the Patriots (who last season lost Wes Welker)? Well unfortunately for the city of Cincinnati, none of the fans are even going to be allowed in the stadium. It's filled to max capacity already by the giant egos of Chad Ochocinco and the newly signed Terrel Owens. I mean really?! I wonder if there is a any clauses in their reality TV contracts about footage of them two crossing paths. I mean could you imagine them fighting over footage to be aired? Would they combine the two making the world most trashiest TV show. It's kinda sad how it would be considering there is a show called Jersey Shore out there...OK I need to stop, this has the potential to get way out of control....which leaves the other team...
The Dallas Cowgirls!!!! This is actually my dads favorite team. We also, a couple years ago, had a conversation about this, and I had asked him if he thought I would be a Cowboys fan if him and my mom didn't divorce, and he said "Do you really think any influence of mine would have made a difference?" Well dad, you are right. Thanks for passing on the "think for yourself gene", but I guess in a sense it backfired. (I'd like to point out at this time that I do love my dad, and we joke about football all the time). I am not a fan of the Cowboys at all, in fact, I did the most sacrilegious thing a daughter could do, and chose the NY Giants as my NFC team of choice...how do you like them apples? Which actually brings me to the point of this blog.
As I have mentioned before the summer of 2008 was the birth of our big inside joke about misspellings. We've had masked-potatoes, epic gailures, ultimare successes, polympics, etc...but I left one important one out, and saved it for today. As I mentioned in the above paragraph, I watch the NY Giants, which comes in handy when I am at school because there is no way in heck I am watching the Jets (unless they are playing the Patriots). One day in chat we were talking about football (in August we always get that football fever) and since I like to make random connections and Joe had just enlisted into the navy I came up with the G.I. ants. You get it? I personally thought it was hilarious. Somewhere along the way with talking about football, Allie had typed GIants which made it look like Glants, and thus a new team in the NFL was born, the New York football Glants. And ever since than, I don't feel like I am betraying dad so much (alright I never did but it would have made for a good ending).
So in the spirit of football and the upcoming season, I would just like to say GO GLANTS and GO PATRIOTS!!! I leave you all and T.O with this: My favorite NFL player =)
Not only is August 8th my mother's birthday, the name of a song, and the day where I expect pure perfection from the Red Sox, it also marks...*DRUM ROLL*
THE FIRST NFL PRE-SEASON GAME!!!
That's right! Football is officially official, and I am super excited because football season is such a wonderful time. Now don't get me wrong, I LOVE baseball, and nothing in life is more enjoyable than watching a Red Sox Yankees game, but football is once a week so all that energy and "hatride" for the other team just builds up and is released into an approximately 3hr time period or more if the game goes into OT.
Today's game features a whole bunch of epic gailures, and I am so excited. The matchup: Cincinnati vs. Dallas. Which team do you begin with first? Oh yes, the recently laughable Bengals. So you guys think you are all bad ass now that you beat the Patriots (who last season lost Wes Welker)? Well unfortunately for the city of Cincinnati, none of the fans are even going to be allowed in the stadium. It's filled to max capacity already by the giant egos of Chad Ochocinco and the newly signed Terrel Owens. I mean really?! I wonder if there is a any clauses in their reality TV contracts about footage of them two crossing paths. I mean could you imagine them fighting over footage to be aired? Would they combine the two making the world most trashiest TV show. It's kinda sad how it would be considering there is a show called Jersey Shore out there...OK I need to stop, this has the potential to get way out of control....which leaves the other team...
The Dallas Cowgirls!!!! This is actually my dads favorite team. We also, a couple years ago, had a conversation about this, and I had asked him if he thought I would be a Cowboys fan if him and my mom didn't divorce, and he said "Do you really think any influence of mine would have made a difference?" Well dad, you are right. Thanks for passing on the "think for yourself gene", but I guess in a sense it backfired. (I'd like to point out at this time that I do love my dad, and we joke about football all the time). I am not a fan of the Cowboys at all, in fact, I did the most sacrilegious thing a daughter could do, and chose the NY Giants as my NFC team of choice...how do you like them apples? Which actually brings me to the point of this blog.
As I have mentioned before the summer of 2008 was the birth of our big inside joke about misspellings. We've had masked-potatoes, epic gailures, ultimare successes, polympics, etc...but I left one important one out, and saved it for today. As I mentioned in the above paragraph, I watch the NY Giants, which comes in handy when I am at school because there is no way in heck I am watching the Jets (unless they are playing the Patriots). One day in chat we were talking about football (in August we always get that football fever) and since I like to make random connections and Joe had just enlisted into the navy I came up with the G.I. ants. You get it? I personally thought it was hilarious. Somewhere along the way with talking about football, Allie had typed GIants which made it look like Glants, and thus a new team in the NFL was born, the New York football Glants. And ever since than, I don't feel like I am betraying dad so much (alright I never did but it would have made for a good ending).
So in the spirit of football and the upcoming season, I would just like to say GO GLANTS and GO PATRIOTS!!! I leave you all and T.O with this: My favorite NFL player =)
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05 August, 2010
A Pizza Party for All of Pittsburgh (and a senior prom from senior citizens)
It's been a while since I have graced the pages of this fine blog. Since the last time I have been a very busy girl. I have been getting back into a normal workout, annoying people with my new vuvuzela ringtone (don't act surprised, it even comes with a vuvuzela app, so now I can rock out to a red vuvuzela), and getting ready for another fine year at Stony Brook University (GO SEAWOLVES!!).
It's going to be my second year experiencing dorm life. My first year wasn't a success but it wasn't a disaster either. I was one of those people who didn't think I needed a whole lot, after all I am not a high maintenance person. As the semester progressed I realized how wrong I was. As I told my aunt, you don't really appreciate a cup until it's 2AM and you wake up hot and sweaty craving water! As a health and wellness minor, I know that when you are thirsty, your body is already dehydrated, but when you are craving water like a PMS'ing chick craves chocolate, I think you are in a bit of trouble. The very next day, I drove to my local Setaucket Wal*Mart and bought myself plastic cups, cute ones too, they were clear with red and green polka dots (Christmas comes early up here). The one thing I never bought and regretted it time after time was Pepto Bismol.
Now I can go multiple ways with this post to get to where I am going with this but since the trade deadline for the MLB just came and it's an Erica and Joe story, I will go the baseball route. A long time ago there was a short stop that played for the Boston Red Sox named Freddy Sanchez and a young GM named Theo Epstein that Red Sox nation hails as a god. Well this god amongst men traded the young and talented Freddy Sanchez for a player named Brandon Lyon sending Sanchez to the Pittsburgh Pirates. This saddened me greatly as he was one of the first minor leaguers that I followed, so being a great baseball fan I followed him in his career with Pittsburgh and since I didn't have a NL team, decided The Pirates would be mine.
Fast-forward to 2008 there was a young player in the Yankees farm system by the name of Jose Tabata and the puppet GM known as Brian Cashman who traded Tabata for Demarte and Xavier Nady (the 4079634th) sending Tabata to the Pittsburgh Pirates. This saddened Joe as he was a player he considered would be beneficial for the Yankees in the future. Thus the decision to both like the Pirates and have them be our "neutral" team was born. Now I am not too sure how serious Joe is about that but I am not sure if I want to know....
Anyways July 31st is a good day in the land of Erica. It's my uncle's birthday and it's a baseball holiday. This year Theo finally listened to me (the memo must have gotten lost with the fan mail, I will make sure this doesn't happen in the future) and signed Jarrod Saltalamacchia. Maybe next year he will bring Justin Masterson back to the Red Sox. The Yankees signed Austin Kearns and Lance Berkman. Who did the Pirates sign? Well let me introduce you to him in the best way I know possible!!!
It's going to be my second year experiencing dorm life. My first year wasn't a success but it wasn't a disaster either. I was one of those people who didn't think I needed a whole lot, after all I am not a high maintenance person. As the semester progressed I realized how wrong I was. As I told my aunt, you don't really appreciate a cup until it's 2AM and you wake up hot and sweaty craving water! As a health and wellness minor, I know that when you are thirsty, your body is already dehydrated, but when you are craving water like a PMS'ing chick craves chocolate, I think you are in a bit of trouble. The very next day, I drove to my local Setaucket Wal*Mart and bought myself plastic cups, cute ones too, they were clear with red and green polka dots (Christmas comes early up here). The one thing I never bought and regretted it time after time was Pepto Bismol.
Now I can go multiple ways with this post to get to where I am going with this but since the trade deadline for the MLB just came and it's an Erica and Joe story, I will go the baseball route. A long time ago there was a short stop that played for the Boston Red Sox named Freddy Sanchez and a young GM named Theo Epstein that Red Sox nation hails as a god. Well this god amongst men traded the young and talented Freddy Sanchez for a player named Brandon Lyon sending Sanchez to the Pittsburgh Pirates. This saddened me greatly as he was one of the first minor leaguers that I followed, so being a great baseball fan I followed him in his career with Pittsburgh and since I didn't have a NL team, decided The Pirates would be mine.
Fast-forward to 2008 there was a young player in the Yankees farm system by the name of Jose Tabata and the puppet GM known as Brian Cashman who traded Tabata for Demarte and Xavier Nady (the 4079634th) sending Tabata to the Pittsburgh Pirates. This saddened Joe as he was a player he considered would be beneficial for the Yankees in the future. Thus the decision to both like the Pirates and have them be our "neutral" team was born. Now I am not too sure how serious Joe is about that but I am not sure if I want to know....
Anyways July 31st is a good day in the land of Erica. It's my uncle's birthday and it's a baseball holiday. This year Theo finally listened to me (the memo must have gotten lost with the fan mail, I will make sure this doesn't happen in the future) and signed Jarrod Saltalamacchia. Maybe next year he will bring Justin Masterson back to the Red Sox. The Yankees signed Austin Kearns and Lance Berkman. Who did the Pirates sign? Well let me introduce you to him in the best way I know possible!!!
Yes, Mr. Diarrhea himself, moves from The Yankees to The Pirates.
Another reason I wanted to go the baseball route was because I needed a segway into the misspelling which is really what this blog is supposed to be all about. MLB and the Pepsi Refresh Project have teamed together as you can see here: Pepsi and MLB. Joe's been out to sea as part of his naval duties, and I have been sharing information with him as far as baseball is concerned (because I am awesome like that ;)) and informed him about Chan Ho Park (aka Mr. Diarrhea) had been traded, and had him guess. First guess was Boston, to which I replied No, one of your favorite teams. He than said Mets which shocked me because he hates the Mets, but unfortunately people think I am being sarcastic at times when I am not (inflection and tone don't translate well over text). I than informed him about CHP going to the Pirates which reminded me that I had voted for Pittsburgh for the Pepsi refresh project. Instead, it came out as the following:
Erica:
As if our beloved Pirates aren't a laughing stock enough
I actually voted for the Pirates in the pepso thing they are doing
Joe:
huh?
what's pepso?
So you think it ends there, oh no no, not when it comes to me! Joe then decides to let Allie know what's going on because well, it's her right to know. So I see the little post on her Facebook wall and comment as such:
It's a wonderful mix of Pepsi with a hint of Pepto Bismol to counter act the gassiness of Pepso!!!
Yes, I did it again!!! I blame my BlackBerry Storm for this. It would have recognized the mistake because it's has my back and looks out for me, unlike Facebook....you spoil me BlackBerry...
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