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Boring Tuesday Night

Written By: Colleen - Jan• 24•12

Big sigh. Jay’s playing Magic the Gathering tonight, so I’m bored. I’m in one of those bored moods where I can’t concentrate on one thing. I tried watching the State of the Union address but couldn’t focus. Then I watched this week’s Castle and House of Lies, but my mind kept straying because I was trying to play Words with Friends at the same time. I think I’m just going to read and go to bed soon. I figured I’d at least throw some random thoughts down on here. Oh, the quality of this blog has taken a dive. Lo siento.

I recorded a Media Junkyard last night, so I’ll be appearing on all 4 shows airing this week. We had a lot of fun. Woo-hoo! Check it out if you’re so inclined on iTunes. We talk about mature things, I promise.

Man, Delta will seriously do anything to have an excuse for interrupted service! hehehe

I’ve actually been very sad the past few days over the news out of Poughkeepsie on Saturday. An off-campus house fired killed two students and one former student. I know that house, I used to live right around the corner from it and passed it every day on my run. The whole thing is just so terrible, so terrible. It makes me want to cry thinking about and I have this pit in my stomach. I can’t even imagine. I’m a Red Fox forever.

Well, this post is depressing so I’ll leave it with a picture I just took of Zoe who is straight chillin’ with me right now. Happy thoughts. My darling friend Crissy and her awesome husband Charlie welcomed baby Victoria Rose on Saturday! I was there when they had crushes on each other, before they even went on their first date. Oh happy Marist memories. I’m so so so so excited for them. Times like this, I wish I lived in NY still so I could see all of my friends becoming parents instead of stalking them on Facebook, haha.

Anyways, I’ll have to make happier post tomorrow! Onto that book!

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And may the odds be ever in your favor.

Written By: Colleen - Jan• 20•12

Dear Hunger Games movie,

Please be as awesome as this poster implies.

Love,

Colleen

Posted in Movies , Jennifer Lawrence, Movies, The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games Movie Poster | 2 Comments »

Sh*t Nobody Says at Marist

Written By: Colleen - Jan• 19•12

Haha, so true. Long live Marist College!

Thanks to John for the head’s up about this video.

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SOPA Blackout Day is here

Written By: Colleen - Jan• 18•12

Many big websites, including Reddit, Wikipedia, Craigslist, WordPress, Twitpic, and the Cheezeburger Network, have gone black for certain periods today to protest SOPA and PIPA, two bills that are currently in the U.S. Congress and aimed to fight Internet piracy. If you don’t know anything about SOPA, this article explains it pretty well. You’ll also want to check out what some of the sites have linked to on their own blacked out pages, explaining why they’re opposing SOPA and PIPA. Google‘s, Craigslist‘s, and Twitpic’s are basically cover it all.

If this bill passes, it could mean the end of Facebook, YouTube, blogs, etc. But don’t let me scare you. Just read the information for yourself and make an informed decision on whether or not you support SOPA and PIPA. But just keep in mind that even my lowly little blog with at most 15 readers total would be in danger of automatic, no-questions-asked shut down.

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Purina Wrong.

Written By: Colleen - Jan• 17•12

Just a tip for all of you out there who have cats that are picky eaters. If your cat will only eat Purina One for Sensitive Systems…

…it’s NOT a good idea to accidentally get Purina One Indoor Advantage, no matter HOW stupidly alike they are packaged.

Why? Because if you leave the wrong food out for your cat while you’re away on vacation in New York for a week, you’ll come home to a mini-rebellion that looks like this:

Yes, that mess was Zoe digging through the new food while we were away to see if her old food, the one she likes better, was underneath it. Oh that Zoe is too funny.

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Apollo bars, A-schmollo bars.

Written By: Colleen - Jan• 16•12

Oh look, a bonus post. These usually happen when I am bursting at the seams to share something or I’m cranky & need a forum to bitch to. Lucky for the 10 of you out there reading this, it’s the second one. Apparently it’s also an opinion that I may be in the minority having. So here we go.

Topic: Once Upon a Time and all the Lost fans whining about the Lost references on the show.

On this past week’s episode, the Apollo bars made another cameo. Personally, I thought it was fun to see the Apollo bars pop up again. PLEASE no one take this the wrong way because it’s just MY opinion, but I really don’t get why everyone is bitching so much about those little easter eggs which are supposed to be fun. They aren’t one bit essential to the storyline, so why is everyone whining about them? Lost fans will get nice little tributes but it’s not going to make people watch the show. At least, I’m not watching the show for the easter eggs; I have limited TV time as is, so I’m watching because I genuinely like the story & want to see it advance. I truly fail to see the problem. Non-Lost fans watching the show aren’t taken out of the moment. To them, it’s just another prop, the clock was just stuck on some random time, and Regina’s house is just a random street number. Who cares? Maybe I’m cranky, but I’m just getting frustrated every week with someone complaining. ALL of JJ Abrams’ movies and shows have things that repeat that are within his universe, like Slusho and now apparently Apollo bars.

Does it really matter? Are they really so distracting? They aren’t to me. Not trying to pick a fight with anyone, I’m just really perplexed why week after week people complain about references that are meant as winks to the fans.

My name is Colleen and that was my rant.

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Chatty Monday

Written By: Colleen - Jan• 16•12

Oh, Monday. I have such a love/hate relationship with Mondays. I hate them because it means the start of another work week, but I love them because they tend to be the “quietest” day of my week. Most people get caught up for the week on Friday; I’m lucky enough to be able to get a good handle on my week by mid-afternoon on Monday. If only Monday could start at noon, it’d be the perfect day of my work week. Alas, alack.

So this past weekend wasn’t too bad. Kicked it off at the gym after work on Friday. I was going to meet Jay afterwards at the movies (which is next to my gym) to see Mission Impossible 4. I always change for the gym before I leave work, so of course I completely forgot to bring my non-gym clothes in with me to change back into after I showered. All I had in the locker room was a pair of clean underwear and an extra t-shirt! Braless and wearing dirty socks, I had to run out to the car and change back into my work clothes, all in the back seat. No one noticed me. I’m steathly like that. And, obviously, classy.

Anyway, I stopped to get my ritual post-workout smoothie prior to my backseat changing and had a great moment. The girl who made my smoothie said, “Can I ask you a question?” I responded, “Sure!” She continued, “Well…I saw your last name on your credit card and please don’t think I’m weird but there’s this podcast…” I just interrupted her and said, “Haha, that’s my husband.” Too funny! Glatfelter is definitely becoming a handy last name to have. I thought it was so awesome and I love meeting people through podcasts. I love how small the world is and how connected we all are without even realizing it. It totally made my night.

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About that Possible MetroBuzz Reunion Show

Written By: Colleen - Jan• 14•12

Hello, everyone! At the request of a few friends, I’m giving a little bit more details in writing about the possible MetroBuzz reunion show for Jay and Jack’s Annual 30 Hour Podcast for Autism Speaks. The goal is to raise $2,000 towards Autism Speaks. If John & I can raise $2,000, then we will do a long overdue reunion MetroBuzz show, similar to what the Dharmalars did in 2010. We will be appearing together during the actual 30 hour podcast to help get donations. Right now (it could change), we are supposed to appear from 9-11am EST on Sunday, April 1, 2012. The goal is to raise $2,000 between now and 11am on 4/1/12.

Donations can be made in several ways:

Through PayPal. The email address to donate is LPDonate@gmail.com. If you are going to donate, please select that you are sending the money as a “GIFT” when filling it out on PayPal’s site. I am not going to put a donate button on here, because I know that PayPal tends to have really weird rules when it comes to accepting money for charity/not-for-profit. If you can, please note that it is for MetroBuzz. This is what it’ll look like:
Through the link that takes you directly to Jay and Jack’s page on the Autism Speaks website. This was the link for it last year: https://www.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=460844&supId=201750786. It’s probably different this year, so if that’s your preferred method, please check back here again closer to show time; I’ll 100% post an updated link. Again, please note that it is for MetroBuzz, so we know and can add it to the total. The same goes for #3, which is…
…by check, which you can mail to:
P.O. Box 40716
Raleigh NC. 27629

Thank you everyone for even caring enough to read through all this. I know it’s a rough time for a lot of people, so even $1 would mean a lot. Everything raised between the hours of 9-11am EST on April 1, we are going to boldly assume is for our reunion show and will count as a part of the grand total. This is for a great cause and we are so excited to have the chance to finally get to be on Jay & Jack’s Autism Speaks Podcast, 5 years after TalkShoe pulled a big #FAIL on us and we didn’t get to do it, haha. No, in all seriousness, this is going to be a lot of fun and I’m so grateful to have been asked to be a part of it.

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Guess Who’s (Maybe) Back?

Written By: Colleen - Jan• 13•12

If you haven’t already heard, then you should listen to this. Especially if your name is IrischMatt, Cool Accent Ben, Paul, Dani, Nick, Jess, or James.

MetroBuzz Promo

I’m very excited. I hope we can raise the money for the comeback. It would be a really fun thing to do!

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Hello, 2012

Written By: Colleen - Jan• 12•12

Ah crap. I’m 12 days behind on my first post of 2012 and I was aiming to blog at least one post a week for the entire yet. I’ll have to make it up. I’ve been doing that thing where I work on 5 different posts but never finish them because they require things like uploading pictures, haha.

Anyway, hope everyone had a fantastic New Years Eve/New Years. Jay and I ended up having some of his Apple friends come over. Lots of champagne consumed. It was a really fun night. Sometimes the unexpected nights are the most fun ones.

I went home to Long Island on January 1. I was able attend our family’s annual New Year’s Day brunch, which made me so happy. New York was so much fun. Jay arrived on Monday, January 2 and we had dinner with my family and exchanged presents. On Tuesday, January 3, it happened to be the coldest day of the winter in New York. 20 degrees. It was in the 40s on Sunday and Monday! Jay and I headed into New York City, where we walked through Times Square (because I hadn’t seen it since it became pedestrian only), had some real New York pizza and visited the new Apple store in Grand Central Station. We then walked back to Rockefeller Center to see the Christmas tree, something that no matter how many times I saw it growing up, I still genuinely love going to see. Along the way, we stopped at the NY Public Library.

We then took the LIRR back to New Hyde Park on LI, where we visited my sister’s apartment then drove back into NYC to the Lower East Side, where Kate, Jeremiah #2, Jay and I had dinner near Jer’s apartment. Fantastic Italian food. My mouth waters even writing about it now. Post-dinner, we met up with Jer’s roommate at their local pub, a place called Baker’s Street. It was SUCH a fun day.

On Wednesday, we went to the Tanger Outlets with my mom to exchange Christmas presents for the correct sizes! After that, Jay and I met Uncle Lou & Germania at my all-time favorite restaurant ever, Shiro’s. Goodness, I miss hibachi nights. On Thursday, we hung out and had another big dinner with the family. That night, we met Rob for a beer at John Harvard’s Ale House. We came back on Friday afternoon. All in all, it was an incredibly awesome trip and I’m so happy I got to go home to see my family who I miss so much.

Anyway, I’ll be back tomorrow and this whole weekend. Tomorrow, Friday the 13, is going to be my lucky day!

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