January 5, 2012

• Ah ah ah ah..

  Stayin' alive! Stayin' alive!

  HAPPY NEW YEAR, XANGA!

  I'm still here. I'm still kicking. I haven't been reading or writing here AT ALL.. but things are good and hopefully i'll get back into the xanga-swing of things quickly. My dad and sister have been visiting and it has been very fun. Super sadly they leave today. The holidays were fun up in MA, I was spoiled on my birthday, and so far having entered the 4th decade and being 30 isn't bad.

  On my birthday myself and 8 of my family members went to see The Muppet Movie. So fun! 

  For NYE myself, my sister and 7 of my friends mostly from college, rented a house in Seaside Heights, NJ. Yeahhhhh buddy! It was oodles and bunches of fun. Seriously. Saw the boardwalk, the Jersey Shore house, Karma, the Shore Store.. all the big staples. Enjoyed a firework show. Had yummy food. It was all kids of good times!

  Next week I head off to New Orleans but till then it is back to the grind of work and life and stuff. I bet my house will feel VERY empty tonight without my dad and sister there to entertain me. I'm glad i'll be seeing them in May in Iceland. Before then i have a good friend from Amsterdam visiting with her BF in February, and then some ladies from Toronto will be bachelorette partying it up at my place in April.

  Typing this out like this sure makes it seem like i'll be quite the jetsetter in 2012. Going to see some new places is a good resolution to make. I've been to the Iceland airport but never the country itself. I've been to Louisiana but never New Orleans. I'm looking forward to both trips. Perhaps by year end i'll even go to Seattle or San Francisco too. We'll see.

  oh, also, this song is very stuck in my head:

  

  I'll keep this relatively short. Lots of work to accomplish at the office at the moment.. but here are some pictures from the 2011 Holiday season

   
  In the car on the way to celebrate Christnukkah in MA
  
  
  My sis and cousin loving on me
  
  My sister with Zoey--our cousin's girlfriend's dog. The eyes are super freaky in this picture
  
  Happy holidays from the x_naomi_x family sisters

  
  This photo is completely bizarre. It was taken on my 30th birthday. I look about 8. Maybe 12. NOT 30.
  
  Yay presents
  
  My sis and I met up with a friend from high school after the muppet movie. Very fun. Also, yes, i put gift bows on me and my sister wanted me to keep them on so I look like a dork. LOL

  
  On the way back to NYC from MA we stopped off at first the Wrentham Outlets and then my dad's college friend's place in CT. We went for a long walk.. it was lovely.
  
  
  
  He has a very sweet dog too.
  
  On our way to the Jersey Shore!
  
  We stopped off in Red Bank, NJ for some diner fun.
  
  On Facebook this picture is tagged with all the people who were at the party. We were well stocked. I think I was tagged as the red wine. There was also RonRon juice and Jameson both not shown in the pic. Yes, I said RonRon juice.. the secret ingredient? The sperm of a homeless man. Or ya know, not really.
  

  The house we rented was great. Had everything we needed.. cable, wifi, 3.5 baths, enough beds, balconies.. also, everything was covered in plastic. It was one of the many jokes of the weekend. The beds had plastic under the sheets, there were plastic walkways on the carpets.. trashy yes, but sort of nice too. No worries about spilling.
  
  The house had a couple hilarious features--one was that the mugs had butts on them.
  
  We had a lot of dance party moments
  
  Designed a new drink called the Irish Smurf
  
  There was signs everywhere "Life's a beach". "Home is where the beach is". Soooo many jokes.
  
  
  We played a lot of board games as well.
  
  The next morning we walked on the Boardwalk and beach.
  
  Fist pumping!
  
  Happy New Year from Seaside Heights, NJ!
  
  We also saw the Jersey Shore house
  
  and the Shore Store and Karma..
  
  The fact that they cab it to Karma is ridonkulous. It is 2 blocks from their house.
  
  
  This was our house
  
  This is S. being a gangsta'. LOL.
  
  Fireworks show! Actually it was sort of a funny story. When we were at the Boardwalk they asked people to get off the beach so they could set up the 5PM firework show. At 4:58PM we all dutifully went out to one of the balconies to view the show. At 5:10PM there was one firework. We made a lot of jokes about there being a firework show instead of a fireworks show. Some of us didn't even see the first firework. Thankfully around 5:25PM the full show started and it was lovely.
  
  We took some prom pics
  
  We laughed a lot
  
  and then we ended up in the Seaside Slammer. Ok, i kid. I kid. We just watched the po-po make a lot of pull-overs/inqueries from the balcony. I think they were really bored. There were MANY patrol cars and they were totally creeping--just to put it in Jersey Shore terms

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