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Although I hate on the team, I gotta give props to this stellar...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:57:18 -0500

Although I hate on the team, I gotta give props to this stellar baseball fan. A NY Yankee insignia followed by “GR8NES.”

(via hikenow: barroomhero) Per wikipedia: Ithaa, which...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:40:37 -0500

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Per wikipedia: Ithaa, which means pearl in Dhivehi, is a mostly acrylic undersea restaurant secured five metres below sea level at the Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa (soon to be the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island) in Rangalifinolhu, Maldives. The five-by-nine meter restaurant has a capacity of 14 people and is encased in a transparent acrylic roof offering 270° panoramic view to its customers. The restaurant was opened on April 15, 2005. Meals range in cost from US$120.00 (lunch for hotel guests on Full Board meal plan) to US$250.00 (dinner for hotel guests on Bed & Breakfast meal plan).

Add to: places I need to eat at (and places I need to visit)

Regarding the Marriage Ref

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:57:23 -0500

Me: You HAVE to watch the Marriage Ref. It was amazing. The first "issue" was a couple arguing over whether or not they should display their dead dog the husband got stuffed by a taxidermist.
CW: What?!
Me: It's awesome.
CW: We thought about watching it actually but my wife and I worried that it might start arguments between us if we don't side with the same person.
Me: Actually, I did think of that - but now I'm not as worried. So far so good. For example, Ryan and I both agreed that when our cats pass away - we will not be getting them stuffed.

Sonja = Minibar Fail. I never fail! Not at obtaining...

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:48:42 -0500

Sonja = Minibar Fail.

I never fail! Not at obtaining reservations to the most coveted restaurants around. Do I have an inside track to the restaurant business? Not at all. Instead, I have killer instincts at redialing or refreshing website pages. In case you couldn’t tell, this “never failing” thing has made me quite cocky over the years. But today I failed.

Every March / April I head down to DC for a weekend of sightseeing and indulgent eating and drinking in one of my favorite cities. So my plan for this year was set: the first weekend I’m free from work (the weekend of 4/3) we would head down and spend Saturday eating at Jose Andres’s six-seater Minibar. A perfect weekend getaway after 3 months of hard work.

So exactly 1 month in advance at 9:45 AM (even though Reservations didn’t open until 10 AM) I started calling. For 45 minutes I called. Outside. In Connecticut. While it was snowing (though not sticking). With no jacket. Because Greenwich does not believe in having good cell phone reception (with any company). I was about to give up and decided that my call at 10:30 would be my last when lo and behold I didn’t get a busy signal. I got through. And found out that there were (at least) 12 lucky souls ahead of me (there are 2 seatings). So I put my name on the waiting list - but pretty much will not be holding my breath that I will get a call back.

I will be trying again until I succeed!

*Photo courtesy of the Minibar website

I arrived early for a meeting I have near Penn Station (will wonders never cease) and was trying to...

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:12:58 -0500

I arrived early for a meeting I have near Penn Station (will wonders never cease) and was trying to figure out what to do to kill time when I noticed a HUGE Famous Footwear store next door. At first I was a little skeptical but turns out they had really cute shoes. After being on a shopping freeze for the last 2 months it took all my willpower not to buy the entire store. Well, all my willpower and the fact that it might not look too professional to show up at my meeting with endless supplies of new shoes in tow.

The Marriage Ref

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:48:00 -0500

I’m the type of person that actually buys things based on *as seen on tv* infomercials so it was really not a surprise that after seeing countless commercials for The Marriage Ref while watching the Olympics, I was determined to see the first half-hour clip.

It was hilarious! Like I was gasping for breath with tears rolling down my face hilarious. I can’t wait till the full hour pilot episode starts on Thursday.

The best line of the episode: Well, people in hell want ice water, but they ain’t gettin any! [as retorted by the wife arguing about not wanting a stripper pole put up in her bedroom]

*Also, sort of off topic, but I just want to say that DVR totally changed my life. Four years ago I was cursing my job for not letting me be home at nights to watch the Winter Olympics. But thanks to DVR (and the interwebs) I got to watch everything I cared about this time around… just a little bit later than everyone else.

THINGS I LEARNED FROM: Glee 1. Metaphors are important 2. All...

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:49:57 -0500

THINGS I LEARNED FROM: Glee

1. Metaphors are important

2. All the Asians in school are named “Chang”

3. The square root of 4 is rainbows.

4. Cheerleaders wear their uniforms all day long, everyday.

5 Ballads are male ducks.

6. The fastest way to sell cupcakes is to use Nana Connie’s recipe.

7. Mohawks are heritable traits!

8. Sunglasses automatically make you cool.

9. America needs sunshine and optimism….and also, angels.

10. There’s nothing ironic about show choir!

11. If you don’t know who Josh Groban is, you should kill yourself.

12. Everybody Loves Disco

13. School pictures are great practice for the paparazzi

14. Girls want sex just as much as guys do!

15. Single Ladies is the answer to football victory

16. Having two gay dads is the key to getting your way in life

17. Ovaries are exposed when cheerleaders bend over

18. Caning works

19. Don’t fall in love with a kitty cat

20. Spanish Is a Dying Language

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Le sigh. Ever since we started planning to go to Vegas this...

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:40:00 -0500

Le sigh. Ever since we started planning to go to Vegas this upcoming April I’ve been checking and waiting for Garth Brooks to announce what dates he would be performing at the Wynn. I figured the odds were not good that he would be there the same weekend I was. But he will be. For the exact same time!!! New concert dates were announced on Wednesday. Tickets went on sale this morning. And so by the time I learned about it this evening, they were sold out. Err!!!!

Articles have said there are preventive measures against scalpers - I hope this isn’t true… I REALLY want to go!!!

In times of emergency, spam is still king.

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:50:00 -0500

After hearing that the tsunami (triggered by the earthquake in Chili) had reached Hawaii, I nervously dialed 10 digits and was met with relief when my dad answered and assured me that all was fine, and that no deaths or even property damage had been reported.

Best line of the conversation: “Thank god nothing happened - we only had 1 can of spam in the house.”

We both laughed at my Dad’s joke - and over the fact that it probably really wasn’t a joke.

I don’t understand why everyone calls me the bad one.

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:41:00 -0500

I don’t understand why everyone calls me the bad one.

"Thank you biatholon for having athletes ski around with rifles on their backs. In America, we love..."

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:54:11 -0500

“Thank you biatholon for having athletes ski around with rifles on their backs. In America, we love sports where players run around with guns, but we just call it the NBA.”

- Jimmy Fallon, writing thank you notes to various aspects of the Olympics.

Snow day! Snow day!

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:11:48 -0500

Southern Connecticut seems to continuously be missed in this 3 day long snowstorm that’s hitting the north east. So after 2 days of lugging home half my office and waking up to just rain (and therefore lugging my office back to work in a torrential downpour) I had enough. I interpreted the weather.com report of 1-inch of snow fall in my area less important to the scrolling report at the top of the screen announcing that the storm is a “threat to life and property” and decided to call it a snow day / work from home day / don’t change out of pajamas day.

Although as I type this, the weather has apparently decided to do me a favor and start snowing. I’m sure that’ll last for like 2 seconds, but I’ll take it.

Meryl Davis & Charlie White. I am totally obsessed with...

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:34:00 -0500

Meryl Davis & Charlie White.

I am totally obsessed with these two. I have a big day tomorrow so I should have been in bed an hour ago but instead I’m staying up to cheer on these two, as they’ve turned me from a person that makes fun of ice dancers into a huge fan.

Meanwhile, the Hubby is thinking about adding Tanith Belbin to his “list” so me cheering on Davis & White irks him. Which makes me estatic. Yes, we have an odd relationship.

I think that my husband is the smartest person ever, and way cooler than me.

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:29:48 -0500

I decided to get ready for bed before finishing my previous Brian Boitano post and in my absence somebody apparently thought that the line above would have been the appropriate conclusion to said post.

What would Brian Boitano do?

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:21:11 -0500

Every time the Winter Olympics have come around I’ve been very excited for 1 thing only: figure skating… the beauty, the grace, the jumps. The fact that I was named after Sonja Henie, 1930s Norwegian Olympian in figure skating, helped prompt this love of mine since birth. But this year I’ve been getting kind of bored with the Figure Skating competitions. Speed skating, moguls, curling and even ice dancing has had me jumping and screaming with anticipation, but figure skating just isn’t cutting it anymore. So I have finally figured what can dig me out of my boredom with this sport - Brian Boitano dancing to the South Park song, “What would Brian Boitano Do?” You know the one…

When Brian Boitano was in the olympics,
Skating for the gold,
He did two sow cows and a triple lutz,
While wearing a blind fold…

I told a bunch of people my idea and they all told me the same thing “never gonna happen.” But then today while looking up the lyrics to the song - I stumbled upon somthing, Brian Boitano actually did skate to a version of the South Park song in 1999. If only youtube had been around then - I could be watching it right now!

The CW Announces Early Pickups for Five Series

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:57:22 -0500

The CW Announces Early Pickups for Five Series:

Oh happiness. Gossip Girl, 90210, and The Vampire Diaries, renewed. Sort of makes up for the premature ending of The Dollhouse. Sort of.

In the home stretch....

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:38:00 -0500

I hope. I had 3 projects to complete for what what we dub “busy season.” And this Friday I finished one. So that’s 1 down and 2 more to go but the hardest to do was this first one! For the last month I’ve been averaging about 3 hours a sleep a night - some nights were 8 hours of pure sleeping bliss and some nights ended with me going home to shower and heading straight back out to work. I think I went 5 days without talking to Ryan in person, which is a little weird considering it wasn’t like one of us was out of town.

So today was all about sleeping. Though I did get through several shows on my DVR and make a dent in catching up on the Tumblr dashboard. Now I have a choice, watch another DVR’d show or work on my SuperMario game.

Yes, it’s going to be one of those weekends.

"Recently, the highest court in South Africa handed down a decision ordering the country s parliament..."

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:33:00 -0500

“Recently, the highest court in South Africa handed down a decision ordering the country s parliament to extend marriage rights to all gay couples. So just to reiterate, American is now less progressive than South Africa.”

- Jon Stewart

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(via prettyfoods:likeneelyohara) This was the first...

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:11:05 -0500

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This was the first Valentine’s Day in 6 years that I got to spend at home. Thanks to busy season at my job running through the first couple months of the year, I’m never home in February during Monday through Saturday. Being too busy to shop, my presents in the past have typically consisted of a similar looking heart shaped pizza delivered from the pizza joint my coworkers and I order dinner from.

Though I may have been home this year I didn’t even manage to buy a card - stemming from the fact that I walked through the door at 7 AM on Sunday after working through the night. There’s gotta be better ways of making money….

Meanwhile, I have some online shopping to do this week to make up for it… though I already know what I’m getting (as does the Hubby). Nothing says “I love you” better than the unrated first season of The Jersey Shore.

YAY CANADA!!!!!!!

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:46:00 -0500

Awwww! So happy!!! I’ve never prayed, hoped, and cheered so hard for a country to win gold in the olympics that wasn’t the USA.

Alexandre Bilodeau, first Canadian gold winner on their home soil!

Good, now I can get back to cheering for the US.

Meanwhile, can the reporters stop talking about the big heartbreak of Jennifer Heil losing out on the gold. I mean the girl got silver. So second best IN THE WORLD! That’s pretty darn impressive.