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A few weeks ago, I went to Florida for Spring Training and saw the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen in baseball: a tie! I also saw a palm tree that was my height(ish) on the beach in Sarasota and walked around Ybor City, where Chloe and I found the greatest bar in the world (this bar had: indoor palm trees, a ***free*** jukebox with a bunch of great albums including The Hold Steady’s Stay Postive, a bunch of board games, fantastic pizza and beer selection, a globe collection and, best of all, a CAT) and a super cute coffee shop with a strawberry and white chocolate latte.

Right before that, J visited from LA and we had a karaoke night like we haven’t in a long, long time.

And also included above are a photo of Emily in her favorite spot on the kitchen windowsill and one of Joe flying a kite in the park from last Saturday. It was chilly, but we got hot apple cider and cider doughnuts at the farmer’s market!

If you have yet to see this, you are probably living under a rock, but OH MY GOD.

I just found this in my facebook inbox. I am obviously really cool and exciting. My favorite part is like 5 people saw it and didn’t respond even to make fun of me.

Sorry I haven’t been tumblin’ lately, but I’m maybe too busy/happy I guess?

This weekend, I went to a show where I felt so not cool/punk (because duh, have you met me?) but had so much fun anyway, tried (and failed) to teach my boyfriend (I guess this is a thing that I can say now? Feels weird!) how to dance at a bar, won $2 in Atlantic City and volunteered alone (again, but with some help from the staff) at Housing Works. 

The past few days in Portland have been so fun! Lindsay is a great tour guide and has showed me all the cool parts of the city. We went to a bar with hammock chairs (!!!) and ate grilled cheese sandwiches inside a school bus (!!!) and saw sooo many dogs. I also went to a bar alone Friday night to watch the Orioles game and met two O’s fans from Baltimore. We watched the rest of the game together and talked about baseball. Tomorrow, I’m heading south with my dad and Thursday, I’ll be in LA with J!

(via sydneyesque)

A few things:

• I changed my picture on here for the first time in a while because I think me drinking a beer with an Orioles hat on better represents my life now than me with a camera in my old apartment.
• I lost my first two fantasy football games, but I play my sister next week and I’m hopeful that I’ll win. Also no matter what, I have a t-shirt (made by famous fashion designer Lindsay) so that’s cool. Go Lynn’s Ice Catz!
• I’m going to the west coast in 16 days and I get to see Lindsay for the first time since last summer and J for the first time since July. I also will see Danielle for the first time since my birthday last year in Maryland the weekend after next.
• My baseball team is having their first winning season since I was 8 years old and I got to see them in person twice this year.
• It’s almost officially fall and I love fall.

Yesterday the Orioles ended their 14-year losing streak, I ate the most glorious french toast/cheese/bacon sandwich while watching Ja Rule music videos and my best friend attempted to bring back the side pony.

“This is how you climb on a cannon!” - me

EDIT: This looks familiar.

True life.

Last weekend, I went to Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine for my birthday with my best friend. We went to a bunch of breweries, saw a bunch of super scenic sites, ate lobster and haddock and blueberry pancakes and Cabot cheese, drove all over New England, took a ferry across Lake Champlain and then the Metro North home from dropping my cousin’s car at my aunt’s house upstate.

Fun facts to note if you are planning a similar trip: Ben & Jerry’s is full of annoying children like JACOBY who stood in line behind us and was the worst and now I hate that name forever; University of Vermont does not have any easy-to-find-parties to crash and blasting “Dancing in the Dark” does not get you invited to them; the B&B we stayed at outside of Bar Harbor was gorgeous and so much cheaper than the touristy B&B’s on Bar Harbor and the owners were super nice; Littleton, New Hampshire is the cutest small town in the world.

fuckyeah2002:

This weekend, I got the best birthday present ever: the December 2002 issue of Rolling Stone magazine featuring Eminem!

True Life: I am addicted to 2002 memorabilia and striped shirts.

Rachel and I have the dumbest email thread subject lines of all time. Literally the dumbest. We should get an award.

I’m moving before the end of the month and this weekend I broke the last of a set of six Ikea glasses I bought when I first moved into this apartment three years ago. I also went to Coney Island and saw a quesadilla wrapped in a t-shirt thrown into a crowd at a minor league baseball game.

My favorite bartender, who misses J as much as I do.