Tucson, Sarizona

I am so great! I am so great! Everybody loves me! I am so great!

20 June 2006

Los Raspados Unidos...

Raspados are Mexican snowcones. That's the definition I found online anyways. However, they're way better than snowcones in that they include real fruit. My favourite is strawberry coconut, and I will never stray. You can have them put ice cream in them, too, but I never do. Surprisingly, the best raspados in Tucson are found at the Tucson Mall, not at stand-alone raspados establishments. Weird, but that's just the way it is...some things will never change...

Another List...

I just thought of some other things I would miss about Tucson:

  • raspados
  • the cowboy mural outside the abandoned meat packing plant
  • Marana walmart
  • free high speed internet and cable
  • the gas in AZ, which I swear lasts way longer than the gas in CT

19 June 2006

Tucson...

Things I will miss about Tucson, besides my friends (MOST of which aren't here anymore anyways...):

1. Following arrows on the stoplights. Genius.
2. Cheap movies, though I rarely indulged in them. BUT there are NO cheap movies in CT. boo to that.
3. The dryness that affords me the ability to keep open cereal boxes for months without worrying about staleness.
4. My 2 bedroom apt.
5. My seriously diminished allergies/asthma.

I must vaccuum now.

18 June 2006

Are you kidding me??


So I'm searching the t.v. guide channel to find something to watch this morning, and guess what's on TNT...yeah, Eulogy! Yeah, WTF? I had never even heard of this movie before I got it from Netflix, and now it's on freakin' t.v.?? Whatever, I'm still glad I got in on dvd so that cable-less Emily could watch it, too.

Did everyone call their father's for Father's Day? I did because I'm awesome like that.

P.S. Still waiting to hear how the J. Ray & Pal beach trip went...

17 June 2006

Boob Pass...

This is the best picture I could find online...it barely looks like boobs at all from this angle...ugh...But trust me, when you're driving up to it, it looks just like boobs. That's why we've dubbed it "Boob Pass."




Since I have less than a week left in Tucson, I figured I should soak up as much of the area as possible, hence the sunburn...So I thought I would go watch the sunset at Boob Pass today. Unfortunately, the damn sunset took too long, so I left. But I did sit there and take in as much desert as I could stand. Before I headed up there, I dropped off some clothes at the Salvation Army, and I mailed some bills. There went the last of my money...seriously, I'm F-ed in terms of my credit card bills, which I have yet to pay. Hm.

Recently I saw Eulogy, which is an outstanding movie. I recommend it. I even recommended it before I saw the whole thing. I started watching it on the plane on the way home to CT (on my portable dvd player...yessss!), and I had to stop it as soon as the little boy called his lesbian aunt and her girlfriend "vageniuses" so that I could finish watching it with Emily. I don't know how I found the movie on Netflix because I had never heard of it before. I think probably they recommended it to me based on my other likings. They actually did a good job this time. Normally, they recommend based on the weirdest stuff. Like, they're like "Oh, you like Family Guy?! You must like Bananas in Pajamas too 'cause they're both cartoons." Well, I guess that's a bad example because Bananas in Pajamas rocks, but you get the picture, probably.






















Another movie that I wanted to discuss is The Devil Wears Prada. I've been seeing a lot of commercials for it on t.v., and before anyone decided that it looked like a good story, I just wanted to mention that it's not. J. Ray and I attempted to listen to it on cd on our 2nd (?) roadtrip, and we couldn't even finish it. The following dialogue (that I made up) paraphrases the book (and movie too, I'm assuming):

Boss: "Girl-who-works-for-me, do this thing for me now."
Girl: "Um, uh, hm, how do I do that thing? I'm stupid."
Boss: "Ugh."
Girl in narration: "My boss is such a bitch!!!"

After what seemed like an eternity of that, we stopped listening to it. I guess I don't know how it ends. Maybe the ending makes it better, though I can't imagine how. The other problem with the book in cd form is that Rachel Lee Cook's incessant droning reallllllly get's on one's nerves. She's not in the movie though, so...that's...something...

14 June 2006

Back in the AZ...

The trip to CT was eventful. The dream visit to Plimoth Plantation was realized, and pictures should be forthcoming...as soon as J.Ray gets "ye olde craptop" up and running apparently. Anyways, I just sunned myself for 2 hours, so I'm (hopefully) tan and definitely tired. BUT when I was home, Mom took me out to lunch to the Tolland Grille*, where the waitress was real dumb, but nice. Here is one conversation I overheard between her and another waitress:

Bad Moon Rising is playing in the restaurant.
Dumb Waitress, singing: "There's a bathroom on the right..."
Other Waitress: "hahaha..."
DW: "That's what I thought it was for the longest time...but it's really 'there's a back room on the right..."

HAHAHAHA...it was funny. Then the other waitress had to inevitably explain to her what it actually is, and she didn't even act embarassed about it or anything. Hahaha...whatever. Shower time.

*The name of the restaurant has been changed as I cannot remember the actual name of the restaurant.

04 June 2006

Auditions!

Are you witty and fun to be around? Are you in need of a best friend? If you had a best friend, would you both spontaneously call her AND return her phone calls? Would you always be available to help her through bestfriendmergenices? You're in luck! I have an opening for a new best friend! My old one sucks ass at the last couple of things, so she will likely need to be replaced shortly.

I had all kinds of other stuff to post about, including my new ipod/car setup, which rocks, and probably some other stuff. I'm too mad though.