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I love food. I'll eat pretty much anything except carrots, celery, peanut butter, and squid with tentacles still attached.

I don't remember living through this particular event, but I heard the story from my mom and dad. Apparently, when I was 2 years old, my dad took me to a seafood restaurant when my mom and Kate were still in the hospital after Kate was just born. My dad ordered his meal, and then ordered a side of clams for me. The waiter told him, "You know, we have a children's menu....would you like me to bring her some . . . Read More..

For my 23rd birthday I wanted to do something really fun, because I usually don't do much to celebrate my birthdays.  Kelly suggested that we do a girls night in Canada because we still thought Canada was fun and Kate and Jill weren't 21 yet.  So we decided to spend the night at the Windsor Casino hotel and just wander around and hit up all the bars without having to worry about who would drive home.  We all drove over to Canada in one car, and for some reason we decided we would bypass the duty free liquor shop and just find some liquor once we got to Windsor.  Well, we drove around for about 20 minutes, and couldn't find anything.  Finally, we stopped at what looked like a convenience store, but they didn't sell alcohol there (because Canada is weird).  The convenience store was run by an Asian man, and we asked him for directions to the nearest liquor store.  He gave us directions by telling us how many "twaffics" (traffic . . . Read More..

This is just one of many strange stories from my trip to Spain a few years ago. It was one of our (mine and Kate's) last nights in Valencia, and a group of our friends decided it would be cool to hang out on the beach all night. I think Kate and I had dinner at "home" and then we met up with everyone later at the Palau, where there was some kind of play or something going on.

We all walked to the beach, equipped with wine and speakers for Leslie's portable CD player (I remember a lot of Dave Matthews Band music that night). It was fun to talk to everyone, but the time kind of dragged on after a while as everyone started getting a little tired. To wake ourselves up, Kate, Ann and I went to a club that was a little ways down the beach. It was probably about 2 AM at that point, and we could barely even get through the door because it was so crowded (people just start going out around 1 AM and stay out until 5 or 6 AM). If it hadn't been soooo crowded, it would have been an . . . Read More..

I don't know what made me think of this, but I remember one time my dad took Kate and I to a tea party. On Saturday afternoons the library would have a lot of random events, and one happened to be the American Girl Tea Party. The American Girls were a collection of books for kids, and they were series of stories of different girls living in different time periods. For example, my favorite was always Samantha, who was a girl that lived in New York (I think) in the 1940's. Now they have an American Girl store in Chicago that sells clothing and dolls of the characters. I'm sure my parents would have had to shell out hundreds of dollars on that stuff for Christmas presents if it was around when we were little.

Anyway, Kate and I loved these books and really wanted to go to the party. I'm not sure why my mom couldn't go (I think she had to study for her finals--she went back to school) but my dad agreed to take us. So we got there, and he was the only guy in the room with all the . . . Read More..