Monday July 5, 2010

When we woke up Erin’s Dad had cleaned up the entire freaking yard. The beer bottles, towels, lawn chairs and the huge mess on the front lawn from the fireworks. I was shocked. If that were my kid I would have gotten that little shit up at 8 am with me and made all the sleepover guests pitch in to help too. Thank you Mom and Dad for being such amazing hosts! Rob, Nikki and I hung out annoying Erin’s parents a little while longer with Erin and Adam gossiping and recapping the party and then we headed back to Boston around 1pm. We were stahvin and wanted some lobstah so we headed to the watah and tried The Barking Crab.

They gave us a New England style vibrator to entertain us while we waited! Barely used! (ok that is gross, sorry)

I would love a mermaid hanging in my loft.

Holy shit this family next to us ordered the 10 lb lobstah dinner…as featured on Man Vs Food!

I was fishing around (pun intended) for a bite to see if a larger lobster tastes tougher or less delicious than a regular 1 or 2 pound lobster… and it didn’t seem to be different. It was still totally yummy. If you have never had an Atlantic lobster before it is an entirely different experience than other lobsters. It’s not even something I can describe really, you just have to try it. The problem with ordering lobster in other parts of the world is that often times they don’t have claws and that meat is some of the best…its not as tough or chewy as the tail, which most people consider to be the best part. I mean look at that thing!

Wellfleet oysters to start…Rob was gagging, Nikki only tried one.

New England clam chowder…not as good as from The Pearl at The Cape, but still pretty awesome. This had huge chunks of bacon in it.

Crab cakes: waaaay too greasy and not enough flaky crab in them. Pass on these if you ever go here.

Nikki’s lobstah roll was wicked good.

Do yourself a favor and don’t ever ever try to be brave and look cool by ordering the salmon hot dogs here. Trust me, you know I eat anything and I couldn’t even choke this shit down. Nasty!

What a cool photo spot…

I know it appears that we are sightseeing, but we are really just looking for a bar with an outdoor patio.

This woman was great… so happy to be in the fountain with all of her clothes on, just like a little kid. She was loving it. A hot day and a childlike way to cool down. Either their hotel was very close or she was on ecstasy.

We settled on The Landing down by the ferries…great people watching and a refreshingly strong foo- foo drink called The Guppy.

I miss Nikki a ton… she lived with me for about 10 months in San Diego and we were like sisters. I wish she wasn’t such an East Coast girl and would have stayed in California.

I like this shot a lot. She might hate it though.

The Old State House

We stopped at Sissy K’s for another snack before heading home. Rob loves the chicken tenders there and I gotta tell ya, they were pretty awesome with their honey mustard sauce. The pic didn’t come out but if you are there definitely try them. Skip the nachos with ketchup. We went home and fell asleep in Nikki’s studio with the AC blaring and Family Guy on. One big happy family. I hope they didn’t want to have sex. Or maybe they did, I dunno I was out cold.

Thursday May 13, 2010

[Day 3 in a row at the gym. Same weight]

I met Tommy at a place called The Big Easy for a New Orleans style dinner. Frank Terzoli, a former Top Chef contestant, owns the place so I was excited to try his food. We sat down and realized that they don’t have a liquor license yet so we politely told them no thank you and left. It’s my own fault for trying to go to a restaurant without a functioning website. What an idiot. We went approximately 25 feet across the street to none other than Fiesta Cantina: our favorite place for drinks and gawking at hot gay guys!

This is Bonnie, the cutest sweetest lab mix who kept licking my fish eye lens.

This is by far one of my favorite fish eye shots to date!

Tommy had to head home so I flipped a coin and met Tim down in Ocean Beach at Tony’s and then we ended up at Sunshine Company. I like OB, I need to get down here more often.

He was with some friends who I cannot for the life of me remember their names. I am so bad.

This is lovely. Maybe one day when I get published in a magazine I will use this as my “Meet the Contributors” shot.

It was good to hang out with Tim, we did a little shit talking about NA which is always healthy! haha! I think I might have offended his friends a little because I was kinda fired up today. His buddy is a Hawaiian, Eskimo, Asian, part Black dude with a red beard and I just could not wrap my head around that. He was a cool guy and he began giving me a bunch of shit back, too, so I think it was fine. I told them about my new idea for a video blog and they loved it. It’s basically like Man vs. Food…. but it will be Girl vs. _____. Fill in the blanks with whatever alcohol is on the menu for the night. What do you think? I think it will be highly entertaining and self deprecating which is always a blast. I am going to wait and shoot it with the Canon I am ordering

In other news: Today was interesting because I took a call from Christian who I haven’t spoken to in months. Christian was a very good friend of mine for a long time but things got a little ugly with us professionally (he is a content provider) and I chose to stop speaking to him because of the unnecessary drama he was causing me in my life. I am sure he has a different opinion about why we stopped being friends, but nonetheless, we hadn’t spoken in a very long time. He sent me a text a few weeks ago telling me about how my blogging during my trip to Australia and New Zealand has inspired him to see and do more while he was traveling. Christian likes to sit in his hotel room playing World of Warcraft and he likes to go to the gym for hours on end. I’m sorry but if you can do that shit at home, then why bother going on vacation at all? Anyways, in a nutshell he called to tell me that he underappreciated me while I was at Naughty America and he wanted to take me to dinner. (I am going to go ahead and take this as an apology for his erratic and ridiculous behavior towards me earlier this year.)  I told him the only way I would go to dinner with him is if he flies me to Texas (his home state) and takes me to dinner there. That fucker owes it to me. So we shall see if it happens. I do miss him a little bit. And I meant what I said when I was a guest blogger on his blog at the end of 2008. (PLEASE READ AT YOUR OWN RISK! there is a bunch of smut on there with no warning page and stuff you might not want to read about) Our relationship had changed dramatically over the course of 2009 and we were far from BFF status. Maybe now that I don’t work in the industry and have to deal with his unprofessional horseshit on a day to day basis, we can become “friends” and talk about things that do not involve porn. I can think of a few people who might disagree with the decision of letting him back into my life, but hey…things are on my terms now and I don’t have to talk to him if things get ugly again. I’m hoping we can be friends and I can continue to assist him in being less of a douchebag. Hi Christian I know you’re reading this.