m.i.a.

sorry i have been mia. we are in the process of moving (my parents that is), and it has been absolute madness. between school, nannying, packing, moving, babcia, the wedding, harry potter etc... this july has been the busiest month i have had in a long time. right now i am at the new house (as i am in the picture) waiting with babcia and edgar for the movers to arrive and drop off our stuff. its so hard to believe that i am saying goodbye to my old house that i lived in for seven years, and am onward to yet another one. and (crossing my fingers) i will probably move again within the next couple months pending on a job. speaking of which, i have not heard from fp, so i'm still anxiously waiting. i can only hope for the best, and not give my hopes up.

i will re-update what has happened in my life once the move has settled down and i can find where i packed my camera cord. whoops.

~annalisa

home sweet home

today we closed on our new house, and will be moving in on tuesday. it is so weird to think that i am going to pack up and move, then possibly move again within the next few months. for the first time since moving back from graduating in my undergrad, i am sad that i have to go. don't get me wrong, i am ready to move on with life, and do bigger and better things. but part of my is sad that i am going to miss out on a lot of the things with my parents that are going to happen in the new house. that being said, there are choices to be made, and made my decision a long time ago to fly out of the cuckoo's nest.

babcia has arrived, and she is as crabby as ever. the first thing she said to me when i was at my desk was "harry potter is the devil". i nearly laughed out loud at her comment, but then found it wise to keep my mouth shut. gotta love those old polish catholic grandma's.

~annalisa

ridiculous schooling

i only wish that the quality was better, but what can you expect with a camera phone. this, ladies and gentlemen, is an example of the ridiculousness of my failure of a mba. my professor, who is mumbling about absolutely nothing, is showing us photos of himself dressed in an army t-shirt and communist hat. trust me when i say that this has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with my class. but basically this is the gist of the class. talk about himself, his education, his travels, his other classes, his wife, sons, their schooling, their trips, their girlfriends, their girlfriend's lives, all the cars he ever owned, semester at sea, bungee jumping in zimbabwe etc etc etc... and.... nothing about marketing. so i was more than happy to capture this particular moment to really prove to the world that this program is a waste of time and money.

in other news, babcia is on her way... my mother should be arriving home with her at any minute. goodbye diet, hello pierogi's...

~annalisa

nyc, center of the universe

this is my native american friend melissa. i had never had a native american friend before this particular trip. i did have a friend named melissa, but she was just a regular old italian girl with nice olive skin. im so glad to make some new multicultural friends...

anyhow, nyc was lovely. i met up with mel the first day, and we caught a chorus line from the lotto seats. besides her being sick all night, we had a lovely time.

day two i dropped off mel, and met sarah at the hotel. we met up with kevin, and ate at john's in the village. per sarah's request, we saw legally blonde which fulfilled her dreams of becoming a blonde lawyer. two hours of constant 'OMG' and super short costumes was enough for me, but i did really enjoy it. i needed to make a quick trip to ann taylor due to the fact that my mom packed her suit pants rather than mine, and we bid sarah adieu after visiting the deliciouso buttercup cafe. kev and i caught spamalot (first time for both, gasp!) and we were both incredibly exhausted and went to bed at 11. sad sad sad.

on the third day, kev left incredibly early, and i was left to freak out about my interview. it was POURING, so i left an hour early because i knew the taxi line would be ridiculous and the roads a mess. i got to my interview about 45 mins early, so i stopped at a cosi across the street and read harry potter until it was time to go. the rest of the interview was kinda a blur. i went in for this interview as kinda an informal information session, and later found out that i was actually interviewing for a position that recently opened. i had three interviews and was there from 1:45- 5:30. and in the middle of my second interview, there was a fire drill. hahahaha. there i am in the pouring rain with my suit, but it was all fine. i think i did really well. i hope i did really well. time will tell.

so due to the fact that my flight was like triple delayed and i had nothing better to do (i have a paper to write, whoops), i finished harry potter. i am so incredibly sad it is over. i have been reading these books since 2001, and i feel like a large part of my adolescence is over. i wont go into too much detail as a courtesy to those who have not finished, but while it wasn't my favourite book of the series, i think she did it justice enough that she doesn't have to continue with the series. i give this woman credit for keeping this final book inside of her for so long. what a genius. she is someone i would love to have tea with someday.

ok, off to bed, and in the morrow to write my paper. agh.

~annalisa

the end of adolescence

i am so sad harry potter is coming to an end, but man, what a ride it has been. i just spent the past hour and a half standing in like waiting for the book, and i honestly almost cried when i was paying for it. this puppy better be worth all the wait. and it will be.

off to nyc this weekend to visit some loves and a job interview on monday. im pretty nervous/excited, but we will see what will come of all of this. prayers kiddies. it would be very much appreciated.

~annalisa

why do all good things come to an end?

it took me 4 years of college and a year of grad school to realize that being at home aint so bad. tonight i watched "factory girl" with roseanne at my new house (move in day: next thursday!) and we got kind of emotional. no, not because of the movie (which was really not all that good, but an acid trippy movie), but because this summer is really the last time we can do shit like this. the thing is, roseanne and i had made plans to live together after we graduated. but after a year of planning, we both realized we need to go to different cities for our jobs. new york is really the city to find a job for marketing, and la is the place to find a job filming. so here we are... two friends whose intentions to live together are busted and will now be living coast to coast. so thats why we got kinda sad. no more sitting at my house eating chocolate and watching bad movies till three am. no more drive in double feature movies. no more dinners where we act like complete assholes and the entire restaurant stares at us. but that's all part of growing up, right?

so i've got to enjoy it while it lasts... and remember that good times that lie ahead.

~annalisa

ps. OMG, IT'S ALMOST HARRY POTTER DAY.... i guess i will never grow up...

hello there

well, thus starts a new chapter in my life. one door closes (in this case, my livejournal that i have had for 4 years) and another one opens. which brings me here to blogspot. the way i saw it was that it was time to move on from livejournal. i am graduating in less than three weeks from my mba, am hopefully getting a job in a city other than buffalo, and am moving out of my house to go on to bigger and better things. my livejournal basically documented my college years, and i feel that this blogspot will take me through the next chaotic and unknown year of my life.

so that is my uninteresting first post. hello to my faithful followers from livejournal, those who are new, and those who just plain stalk me. that means you bonnie.

~annalisa

ps. i would like to credit miss kari, whose blog is linked to the right, for guiding me to blogspot way back when after i became obsessed with another "a year in the life" of blog...