Lovely.

This evening it was soo beautiful out! It felt like beach weather! And it really, for the first time in a while, really, really made me miss living in Myrtle Beach!


As I was out driving around and getting dinner, I had the windows down and the cool, wet air and the lovely sunset made me feel like I was just driving around on Hwy. 17, just 2 blocks from the Atlantic...for a few seconds, I was fully convinced I was there...it was sad to have to wake up from that daydream.

Life. Insane. Freestyle (the bar).

So, tonite after work, I checked my phone and found a message from Brad F. asking me to call him back. When I did, he said they were hanging out at John & Tessa's apt. & since it was still early (10pm) I decided to join them. [side note: it is no longer early, but rather, it is close to 4am, and I need to be up for work in 5 hrs. but can't sleep...oh maaan!]

Anyways, so John, Brad & I decided to walk to Freestyles (this random Washington bar that I actually have been to before, during the days of my trysts with the hot Syrian brothers) and there I had fun talking about auras with some random drunk boy, who I then challenged to a game of darts, which he kindly accepted. He then kicked my ass--twice. haha But it was fun times...I believe his name was Mike, though I think he kept referring to himself as "Huff Daddy" so...yeah. Then, as we were leaving, I saw this guy who looked familar and so I went up to him and said, "Is your name Dan?" He smiled and was like, "Teresa!" So I was like, "Yeah, I thought I knew you--you use to date Chante waaay back in the day!" We then proceeded to chat and fill eachother in on high school peeps...turns out Chante works at some restaraunt/bar right in Oakland, and that he, Dan lives up on Mt. Washington with 2 other guys we went to school with! Craziness! He asked me for my # and I gladly gave it to him...it might be fun to catch up with more CH folks!

So, that fun second part of the evening ended up making up for the shitty earlier half...well, except for the tiny part about Brad abandoning me at the bar after I stood around talking to Dan for what was obviously way too long a time ;) (Joel can relate to Brad's feeling I'm sure...) But I'm only joking, cause it wasn't such a big deal and I was just going home afterwards anyways. Now however, my thoughts are right back to the first issue...so I think I'm going to go be ill now. (Relax, you do not even want to know what the other links I *could* have put here looked like...but in case you do!) Goodnite.

Many Thanks...

I am thankful to Brad F. and John L. for persuading me to come out of my house last nite and away from "Sex & the City"--and for drawing me out from my own head & grumpiness... Thank you for your persistance...it paid off nicely! I had a truly great evening, even if it didn't end until 6:30am...and really, who am I kidding anyways? I *love* staying up all nite! :)

After Eat'nPark and some much-needed laughing & catching up, we traipsed the grounds of W&J college and the historic district of Washington until the wee morning hours...it was well-lit and there were campus security guards around, so it felt perfectly safe! I also finally met John's fiancee, er well, I at least *saw* her...perhaps I will actually get to meet and chat with her soon...

Anyways, I'm off to work now...

I'm a Bloggin' Fool...

In these days, I'm doing a great job with the blog up-keep! Wonder how long it'll last?

Here are my thoughts for the day...based on yet one more instance of total misunderstanding that occurred tonite while out with my brother... So, as most of you know, this has not exactly been my week in regards to interpersonal relationships. No, this week has been filled with conflict & misunderstanding, and it is quite sad. I can't figure out what is happening, but if I knew more about astrology, I would say my planets are clearly out of alignment (or some gibberish like that...). What am I yapping about you ask? Well, tonite after work, I did a little shopping and then called my brother's girlfriend to see if she wanted to go eat dinner with me and visit Adam at Friday's. It was 10pm and she was already going to bed, so next I called Melanie (aka "No Home") to see if she'd like to join me...she said she'd love to, and so off we went. I, of course ordered the Jack Daniel's chicken, and it was heaven on earth, exactly as I'd remembered it. She had an Ultimate Mudslide that proved to be too much for her. Things proceeded nicely and several of Adam's buddies (including this one--well, the *real* one of him anyways...) came and sat and chatted with us, then asked if we wanted to go over to Eat'nPark with them after they closed. Cut to a few hours later. We are all sitting in Eat'nPark when a few young people come in...and one looks kinda familiar, but I'm not 100% sure...either way, I can tell he's weird. A few more minutes pass and I noticed that my brother has this ugly burn scar on his arm that I've never seen before, so I asked him about it. He started to tell me about how he and this kid Nate O. use to see how long they could hold cigarettes to their skin when the kid who'd come in asks over the back of the booth, "Who's talking about Nate O.?" (now, you should know, Nate O. passed away in a motorcycle accident about a year ago...he was a party buddy of Adam's and a guy me & Lic use to prank call in the 9th grade...but we also did his chemistry homework for him, so it all balanced out) and we're like, "uh, we were talking about him...we knew him." And then the kid's like, "Who are you?" and I'm like, "Um, Are you Dennis? I'm Teresa--I think we went to Chartiers together." So now he turns around and is like, "Oh, how're you doing?" And I say, "Good, how about yourself?" and he says, "I'm alive." To which I reply, "Yeah, but Nate, I heard he's...well, Nate's *not* alive...that's soo crazy!!" So I was just trying to comment on how bizarre the whole reality of it is, and somehow, this totally set this kid off!! He starts getting all nuts and is like, "Yeah man, he was my best friend!! We use to hang out EVERY DAY!!! He was at my house the night before it happened!!!" So I, seeing how upset he now is, and remembering that he's a bit disturbed, tried to wrap up the subject, but it wasn't that easy. Now, the kid's pissed at me & Adam for bringing up Nate's name...and there's no way to avoid his rage. He starts saying to the girl in the booth with him, "June 27th--that's when it happened--almost ONE YEAR AGO!! YEAH, THANKS FOR BRINGING IT UP & GETTING ME TALKING ABOUT IT!!" (that last part clearly directed at Adam & myself). Everyone else felt pretty uncomfortable, plus we'd already gotten our check, so we just decided to leave. The kid was still making comments as we walked away. RIDICULOUS!!! First of all, how we were supposed to know this kid had been "best friends" with Nate??? (Adam actually hung out with Nate quite a bit and from what he says, he never saw this Dennis kid around). Secondly, even if they were tight, why in the world would Adam & I have thought Dennis was *listening* to our conversation and/or would even be upset by it upon hearing it?? All Adam was telling me about was how they use to get high and see how long they could stand the burn from their cigarattes--dumb, yes I know, but nothing that should have a) been a trigger for Dennis, or b) even have been *heard* by Dennis! What the heck???!!!!!

I'm just not going to leave my house or talk to anyone for a week...

FINALLY!!!

Alright, we've moved from sucking and not making our plan AT ALL, to full on making plan and then even making "stretch goal" and then even more!!! Woo-hoo! And what do *I* get out of this to cause such excitement? Easy: I was supposed to work until 6pm today...but do you know what time they let me stay 'til? 11:40pm!! Hooray! See, I actually really enjoy working looong shifts...after a year with the Israelis, how could I go back? So, a 10 1/2 hour work day feels like a solid, well-spent day to me! (Plus, so many hrs. were cut last week, now I can actually make up for it...)

Anyways... Today was great for another reason as well--a very random one in fact! Ok, so since I was going to be staying for more than 7 hrs., I had to take a mandatory break...which I never know what to do during and rarely *want* to take (see the above paragraph about working with Israelis and how it changed me)--so I walked around the mall for a bit and then decided to get a pretzel. The girl ringing me up got all confused when trying to let me ring it as 'debit' rather than 'credit', but I told her it wasn't a big deal, just something with my bank's Points system. So she's like, "Oh, well I have National City too--what Points thing are you talking about?" Which triggered me right into automatic spokesperson-mode (as happens with so many things! I've actually gone off on this spiel before, only to have people ask me, "Oh, so do you work for National City?" and I'm like, "Oh no, I'm just really into my bank!" hahaha)! So, I told her and her co-worker all about it, how to set it up, what some of the perks are, etc., etc. and then left with my snack. As I was walking away, I caught a glimpse of this chick who looked somewhat familiar...as I passed I realized she recognized me too, so I yelled out, "Hey! I know you!!" and we both started laughing and doing the whole, "Oh my God!" thing (but sincerely..). Ok, turns out it was this girl Shannon who use to work with me waaay back in the day...the days of Vito Moots and guns...yes, of course I'm talking about here! Jk. I meant here. (And really, those two places weren't quite so different!) So, yeah, we use to work together in the Sporting Goods Dept., *now* we both work together at South Hills Village...she's working at one of those jewelry kiosks and hilariously enough is ALL ABOUT the Israeli guys at the kiosk(s) next to her! I shared with her briefly of my knowledge of this hidden subculture, and she was highly amused/fascinated. All she knew of me was that I was going off to India to "save" people...she asked me how that went...and I laughed and was like, "Oh dear, yeah, just so you know, I'm not even remotely 'religious' anymore..." and she was also highly amused/fascinated by this statement. So we talked for a bit and it turned out to be a really good conversation. I'm happy to be back in touch with her...and to have her working in the same place as me again.

Happy Birthday, Brother!!!

(No, not *this* brother...)

Today was Adam's 24th birthday! We celebrated by going to Benihana's and eating delicious seafood and having pretty decent drinks...though I cannot say sake has won me over yet...nope, not at all. I got sushi (veg of course...no actual raw fish for me!) and calamari, and some drink called a Tokyo Peach...mmm!

Today had some ups & downs, but overall, ended well. It was a bit of a downer right off the bat since today was "Father's Day", and my family doesn't have much to celebrate as far as that goes...so we all just focused on the part about it being Adam's birthday instead. It also wasn't so great waking up to a 'visitor' that decided to come a whole week early--ugh! Then, I went to work, where we *finally* not only made plan, but we went *over* plan! So, that was a positive that hopefully that means more hrs. this week. Next was our dinner--and that was fabulous--except for the part about me falling under some kinda spell while our chef twirled & banged his utensils around....which caused me to slip into some daydream about BRad...which then caused me to start fixating on the fact that I haven't heard one word from him since our "break-up" (if you can even call it that?). But then, the nicest thing happened! I decided to randomly get my phone out of my bag, and lo & behold I had a text message! And, of course, it was from him. This made me happy & sad at the exact same time... Immediately it made me happy cause I realized that he actually does care and isn't just blowing me off...but then it turned sad when I thought "hmm, it sucks that he really does care, and yet, we couldn't make it work". I had to excuse myself to the restroom where my eyes actually started to tear up...which I quickly thwarted by taking notice of this little girl's adorable pink asian-style flip flops...haha. Yeah, she was like, 3 or 4 and really cute, so I told her I liked her shoes and she was like, "THAAANK YOU!" and that made me smile.

I will now close with a humorous find... As always, it is from a note (which for whatever reason, my family is famous for ---> "Mom, wake me up so I can take Jeff hom") left by my mother this time to...I guess our entire family? It sat on the kitchen counter from the other nite and read as follows:

"Teresa's working. I went to the Nite Lite. The bean says LOVE."

(And to make this even better still, the word "bean" was underlined...twice! HAHAHA!)

Today sucked balls...

Except for one thing...today after work (which I left early from once again today due to the fact that we do not seem to be making any of our numbers this week!) I stopped by Victoria's Secret to get a new spray pump for the Mood "Sweet Craving" Perfume that my brother got me for Christmas! See, it's one of those old-fashioned spray bottles, but sometime last month, mine stopped spraying...and it was really annoying to me because a) I am not a dab-on perfume kinda gal...a little on the wrists & a little on the neck doesn't really do it for me. I prefer to mist and then walk into it, thus allowing my hair and clothes to capture the scent (these seem to hold scent better than skin, don'tcha think?) and b) I wear this perfume most every day so the dab compromise was starting to get to me.


So I had gone in earlier this week just to ask them about it and see if they kept extra or replacement sprayers in the back, which they did not, but they assured me that if I brought mine in they would be able to get me a new one. I never for one minute expected to receive a brand-new perfume since the bottle I currently have I've been using for months, but when I went in with it today, they said to just give it back to them and I could go to the wall and get a brand new box!!! Woo-hoo!!! It's like $45 and not something I'd usually get for myself (thanks Adam for locating & purchasing it for me when at the time, Ross Park Mall was the *only* Pittsburgh Victoria's Secret carrying it! You win for best effort for a gift!), so this was a real nice treat for me!

Also available in a delicious candle (I have two!)

and even a body lotion (I have just one)

This Morning...

(cont.'d from DreamsWeDream...if you're visiting my blog first, you probably wanna go back and read the dream post before you proceed...otherwise, this post is meaningless.)

...Now I was scared and annoyed. I *finally* realized that this noise was coming from Ron's phone, probably his alarm, and that everyone else had already woken up and was downstairs. So, I shut off the alarm and went downstairs where Alicia & Leroy are cracking up and asking me what that noise was! I'm like, "Wait, what??? Why are you asking *me*?? That's *your* fiancee's stupid phone alarm!!" But Lic had never heard it before cause she leaves for work earlier than Ron. Her and Leroy had been joking that it must be "the noise from inside my own head playing". I was still annoyed...and her dogs jumping all over me wasn't helping. Ron finally emerges from the guest room where he'd slept so that me, Lic & Leroy could stay upstairs and hang out all nite--which was super sweet of him, I just wish he'd remembered to either take his phone with him, or cancel his daily alarm! I asked him what the heck his phone was doing/saying and he's like, "Oh, you didn't catch that it was saying "MoTo, MoTo"?" Uhh, no Ron, sorry I missed that while I was asleep and watching someone's half-eaten face twitch around in front of me! ...What a way to be woken up. They all then proceeded to growl and howl and get the dogs all riled up...for amusement I guess? I had to get out of there. I was not amused.

The STASIOWSKI Wedding...

(...cause I know how much you all love seeing this name in print.)



This was no electric slide event...or was it?

More details to come...

Sad Times & Poor Taste...

...and I'm clearly not talkin' about my own!



The day my heart was broken.



And now I have not one of these sisters, but *BOTH* of them effin' up my day! Geez. ;)

Alright! Alright!

This blog is back by popular demand...or at least to meet the demands of a bullshit "William J. Weblog". Ha! Ha!

So anyways, my life has pretty much been these things as of late:

I. Work:


A. Semi-Annual Sale
i. $5 Mentha Lips Shines/Goldie & Wexler Plumpersii. $6 Pure Simplicity Products (I like Cocoa...you guys like Ginger I believe?)iii. $6 True Blue Spa Products (Cracked Heal Treatment works like a charm)
iv. $13 Henri Bendel Candles (**Tonka Bean & Birch**)


B. Figuring out how to get along with a certain manager

II. My Car:


A. Learning how to remove this in order to add this to this and this
B. Hanging out with my ol' pal Doug @ Monroe Muffler (you may remember his heroics from before)
C. Shopping around for a new car
D. Dreaming about the car that I *really* want (and do not say a word, Beth!!):



III. Music!
A. Page France show complete with road trip!


B. Free Mason Jennings show!


C. My first Andrew Bird experience


D. Local delight courtesy of friends.
E. Trying something new with old friends & good drinks!

IV. This Guy! Oh, and this one too! :)