"Choose to Be Happy"

Ugh, I miss Grey Gardens. Like a lot. Have been listening to it here and there in the past week and have realized that even thought "Peas in a Pod" could be considered a "throwaway" little duet, its just so good. And so catchy.

Had a bit of a freakout last night. I stayed up until 4am waiting for the boy to get out of his second show. He got on and told me he was going to run to the bathroom. I was already in bed with my laptop unplugged. I went to plug it in as the battery was almost dead and it started to go to "standby" but then flashed some weird screen saying "performing hardrive dump" but then shut down. I've seen the screen before, but anytime I see something say "hardrive dump" I have a bit of a freakout. Well I tried starting it up again and some weird ass screen came up everytime and wouldn't let me get to Windows.

Of course, when I get up today my dad is no where to be found on SKYPE on his cell or house phone. My brother actually helped me figure it out just by googling. Go Greg.

Anyway, last night was fun. Carrie had me over for dinner. I fucking love her red sauce. Because shes Calabrese, its spicy and I love it. She made gnocchi which were delish. I'm going to miss the quality of the food here. I'll explain.

My first time in Roma in 2004 I was being grilled by everyone because I honestly just hated the food. While here I had to eat spaghetti with cooked tuna and corn in it (????) among other horrid things. This time around, as I'm cooking for myself, I'm realizing that you can be a shitty cook but still have your food come out well because the food is just of such good quality here.

I've become a master of making my own sauce. People seem to really like it, I've always wanted to have something I could cook thats like signature to me, especially red sauce which is so hard to perfect.

I cooked eggplant rollatini last week. It came out really well (surprisingly as throughout the process it was not looking so hot). I'm heading to Punto today and hoping to pick up some stuff to make Chicken Francese. Nothing like a nice, big kitchen to learn how to make new dishes.

Cutting back to last night, after dinner I was in my apt. for a bit talking to the boy as we had a SKYPE date. That was fun :) Then I headed down to see the girls downstairs and chilled with Niki and Dana. We ended up smoking which was fun. I left to come up and see if Chad was online but ended up just raiding my cabinet. I ate:

PBJ crackers
Potato Chips
Cookies
Cookies in Nutella
More Chips

Yea, needless to say I'm going to the gym today.