June 29, 2006:

From the Breslin Annals of "Kids Say the Darnest Things":

Patrick: (talking to Jarod in the playroom the other morning) "Hey, Jarod... you know, it's a good thing that Mom married Dad instead of somebody else."

Jarod: (turns to Patrick, bemused and befuddled) "Um, why?"

Patrick: (not missing a beat) "Cuz, you know,  I wouldn't be the goofball that I am now if it wasn't for Dad.  Cuz, he's a goofball and I'm a goofball.  You get it?"

Jarod: (rolls his eyes at Patrick) "Yeah."

June 28, 2006:

Now that I'm done with school, I have more time to indulge in my creative endeavors, namely tending to my Chinese veggie garden.  When I went back to Boston this past March/April, my mom gave me some seeds from her _own_ veggie garden.  It's kinda cool that I have the same Chinese veggies growing in my backyard as my mom.  Check them out:

June 25, 2006:

Last night, I went out drinkin' and celebratin' with a couple of girly friends.  We had such a blast barhopping and people watching!  We went to a total of three different places and I had a different drink at each of those places. (trust me folks, for me that's a lot!)  The first place we went to was called Oba's Restaurant for appetizers and cocktails. (Latin Nuevo cuisine, whatever that means...)  I had a White Cosmo there, very tasty. (it was very similar to a regular Cosmo but they used white cranberry juice instead, plus they floated a couple of candied cranberries, too.)  Oh, and we shared a plate of fried calamari appetizers.  So delicious!  Next, we headed over to a place called Andina's for dinner. (this is a super cool Peruvian tapas restaurant.)  I ordered a Pina Colada there, and guess what, the drink comes with sweetened coconut shavings on top.  How cool is that!?!  We shared a plate of fresh greens, smoked fish, baked parmesan scallops and homemade bread (that came with three different dipping sauces!)  For dessert, we had passion fruit & mango mousse.  It was such an amazing meal! Then it was off to Doug Fir for some late night cocktails.  My cocktail of choice was a Vanilla Drop, very similar to a lemon drop but they use Stoli Vanilla instead of Absolut Citron, I think.  We hung out there for a bit and chatted for a while.  There were tons of people dressed up as Nursery Rhyme/Fairy Tale characters.  They told us it was some gorilla masquerade thing (don't ask, cuz I don't know) and the most bizarre person of the night was a 6'2" guy dressed up as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. Very weird but it made for fun people-watching that night.  :-)

June 22, 2006:

I'M DONE!!!  I'M DONE WITH MASSAGE SCHOOL!!!  AFTER ALMOST TWO YEARS OF BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS, I'M HAPPY, RELIEVED, EXCITED, ECSTATIC TO BE FINALLY DONE! :-) 

*doing a happy Amy dance*