sooooooooooo when i moved to ridgewood, i didn’t bring one of my favorite things in the entire world with me… i’m not even entirely sure why, because i had opportunities with sophie’s array of large cars to bring it over… but for whatever reason, i had left it at my mothers house. and it was the worst decision, ever.

about six years ago, i was strolling through the warehouse part of ikea and came across what seemed like hundreds of piled up, chunky plastic chairs. my best friend sophie had one and i always thought it was cute, and at that time they were carrying hot pink ones… so i grabbed one at the amazing price of…………… $5! (#best) and it was seriously one of my favorite things about my bedroom decor.

when i moved out of my moms house this last time, my younger sister ended up taking my old room because it was larger than hers was. and that’s where i had left my precious chair.

one weekend, we were painting her new room from my dreary dark gray to a lovely shade of dark purple. and she thought it would be a genius idea to stand on my chair to paint an area that was higher than she could reach…

not so genius.

she went right through the damn chair with one of her legs.

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so we were trying to have an 80′s pop-star themed halloween party but it didn’t quite work out for everyone…  i didn’t get many pictures on my camera because i was too busy dancing it up…  but here are a few…  and i was supposed to be boy george for halloween if it’s not obvious… i couldn’t find a damn hat or over-sized vest to go with my outfit anywhere…  i guess that’s what i get for waiting until the last second for things.  i also wish i had the yarn and the patience to braid yarn into my hair…  meh.

teddy was an amazing looking prince, lol. he def. would have won a contest had we gone out.  marie and katy were hall and oates and my sister was the chick from flashdance.  her ex came up with us, he’s chucky. 

i tried to look serious in every pic.  i always remember boy george being more sad/serious looking than smiling?

this weekend, my cousins and i were watching home videos from when we were kids. we’d stay up all night and bug out making the dumbest, most random videos. at one point, my cousin marie and i were having a “dance off” while my younger cousin katy and my sister (who were always joined at the hip) lip synched and dacned in the background…

at one point, my sister had a cow suit on and you could pick up faintly in the background she kept saying “milk me, MILK ME”.

o.O

just popped into my head and it made me LOL at work.

saturday morning convo with mammle… about these two brothers > one i’m always confused with a title over… friends, fuck buddies, mildly dating? i have no idea… either way it went on for like 2/3 years…

mom: oh i saw the tucci brothers, god are they gorgeous. what are their names again?
me: mike and billy
mom: oh yeah, that’s right. which is the one you used to hang out with?
me: mike
mom: oh, right.
me: did billy still look on the crazy side?
my sister: they both kind of looked the same, with long hair
mom: that mike… (saying something along the lines of “if i were twenty years younger i’d”…)
me: (with puzzled look) jesus, ma!!
mom: (laughing) what?? he’s cute…
me: oh, i know. and i hope you know that i hit that… so, ha.
mom: :gags:
my sister: :gags:

lol

so i was in bayside all weekend… i was helping my sister paint her room, and i was going to take my mom out for valentine’s day dinner and then we had our annual physicals today… so i slept over there last night.

where did all the horrible things start?
ah yes, my old bedroom.

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…digging up more and more *fun* memories tonight.

so this first chick – she seriously had this as her myspace user pic. (loosen up a little, sheesh.)
we found great humor in this, and turned my bathroom into a backdrop for our mockery.

(clockwise) mindy?, amit, me, sarah (my sister), charlie.
charlie’s is the best. it’s even better than mindy’s.

…my ikea adventure today took place in the red hook, brooklyn store instead of my usual hicksville, long island trip… it seemed larger than the LI one… super crowded. here’s my walk-through experience.

get upstairs, looking for mattresses. walking down normal sized aisle, chick in uggs/furry vest/hair did comes walking up with hand up in the air like she’s a model… hits my shoulder/chest while i am clearly not in her way… it took a lot to not attack her physically. instead, i turn around and say “this is ikea not a fucking runway…” my sisters boyfriend laughed and then we just totally made fun of her (and her walk).

i totally behaved myself. i only got three of those little plastic box sets, tested out some mattresses and picked up the aisle/bin of the bed i went there for… totally skipped over the market place. (go jess!)

load up the furniture cart, going to pay, some lady and her cart crash into the side of one of my boxes. rips it open, but the bed was in tact. :whew: we decide on line that we want frozen yogurt and drinks… so my sister and i leave her boyfriend near the exit elevators and buy the stuff and get online to leave.

at this ikea, you have to exit back down to the parking lot in elevators, but as we were leaving, we were being stopped for our receipt (which i had just put into my bag). my hands were full, holding my soda and frozen yogurt and i realized i had to put something down to free a hand. so i was standing in front of a garbage can while this was happening, and without thinking – i toss my new frozen yogurt. only hit my tongue like four times. WORST.

my sister and her boyfriend are almost peeing in their pants because i’m an idiot, and the lady checking the receipts figures out whats going on, realizes she can relate and goes “i’m a pot head. and one time, i dropped all my weed right into the toilet! and it wasn’t in baggies either. straight up weed, broken up. mannn i was TIGHT that day.” lol.

and then we left.
and now i have a new bed at my apt waiting for me<3

i felt odd.

okay so my xmas vacation/weekend started on wednesday night…

my barista from work told me he was going to be on bell for a live performance at one of my regular bars, asked me if i knew where it was (lol) – i was very excited to have my brooklyn buddies down there (him and his gf who also works at my starbucks)! so i went over to erica’s and we met up with them at the bar…

erica left after a while because she wasn’t feeling well, and then my friend pat lee rolled through. we all hung out, enjoyed the cover band for a while… i was getting harassed by a youngin’, we entertained this for a while and then we all left.

my family and i didn’t really do anything for xmas. we were all pretty broke, so i promised my mom i’m going to take her to see mary poppins on broadway next month, and for my sister – i’ve got a few gems up my sleeve. but this month all had to go to apt. stuff… i mean, i know it’s not all about gifts, but we all look forward to it as well… my sister bought me the wicked witch of the west collectors barbie that i had wanted, russian nesting doll measuring cups for my new apt, and a slimer (from ghostbusters) coin bank (BEST!)

pat lee came over on xmas eve to help me out with my poor, charlie-busted computer… he installed windows 7 for me – it’s lovely so far! (thanks dude!) – so now i can update my poor, neglected blog again…

i slept for most of the day both days which has totally screwed up my sleep schedule now, worst.

last night a bunch of me and my sisters friends went out for my sisters birthday which was postponed because of the snow storm last weekend… the usual bar we go to where we can avoid all the annoying ugg-wearing/ditzy dancing bitches was filled with just that – and a DJ… worst. i guess they were looking to draw in a new crowd to pack the place – so annoying. but towards the end of the night it filtered out… ran into a few friends – one including a twitter-induced spotting (lol!) and let loose a little.

oh manskies, old school.
this is my sister sarah and i in the EARLY cascarino’s days<3 (the whitestone store)

soooooooooo this is what i did:

friday: movie night with my lovie<3 a mi casa…

saturday: went to the jersey shore (long branch) for my cousin kim’s wedding… it took place on the beach at a resort… it was kind of surreal, when i looked around at the hotel behind me and the boarwalk area, it screamed CANCUN! until i looked towards the beach and saw dirty jersey water… lol. bleh. it turned out to be a lot of fun, but super tiring since we were dancing in sand all night…

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this weekend had its ups and downs. friday was fun, went for drinks afterwork with willie dictionary, then went to dinner with christine and erica…  christine is 4 1/2 months pregnant, CUTIE! and for some reason i haven’t seen her since february, so it was good to catch up with her…  we went to cinco de mayo (shocker) and then just went back to erica’s apartment to chill out – we were just shooting the shit and i was making her and erica laugh so hard they were crying… fun times

saturday morning, my sister and mother got into a huge fight – apparently “because of me” needing a ride to go pick up my jacket from the post office…  (below, sexy. fuck yes. and yeah it’s part/fleece. and it’s not heavy and gross for this time of year at all.)

long story short – sarah had a dr’s appt and was heading out like 20/30 mins from when i woke up so i figured i had time if my mom drove me up to get it, but my sister wasn’t having it…  so i went downstairs and asked my mom if she’d take me fast and she told me to ask my sister…  so i did…

sarah got pissed off that we were asking her for the car because my mom knew “she needed the car all week”, and then my mom got pissed because she was answering me snotty. so she tried to defend me…  don’t know why, but it all escalated between the two of them because they both have bad tempers. they were screaming at each other, and my sister was dropping F-bombs left and right… so my mom told my sister to pack her shit and move out, that she couldn’t take her attitude anymore, and my sister ended up cursing AT her… i just tried to calm the both of them down and make them stop…  i told my mother to stop answering her, and she did…  and then i went upstairs to try to calm sarah down with reasoning and talking and she stopped finally…

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okay i think this is one of the last times i’m going to post about shea, sorry if it bores you guys.  i’ll clip the post so you have to venture in to see the rest…  i put a few of my favorite shots from over the past few years.  but here’s the latest pic i took from the 7 train…

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