Showing posts with label Joel McHale. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joel McHale. Show all posts

Friday, November 5, 2010

Joel McHale & Wagner Homecoming

For Chris' Birthday back in August I bought two tickets to see Joel McHale open the New York Comedy Festival at Carnegie Hall. We are BIG fans of The Soup and The Community, in which he stars in both. We only started watching The Soup this year, but now we DVR it every Friday and it's become somewhat of a tradition to watch before we go to bed on Fridays. It's just the kind of mindless comedy we need before bed after a long week. Anyway, tonight is the night: we are going to see Joel McHale at Carnegie Hall and we are seriously soooo excited!
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I'll recap all about it next week. In the meantime, I completely forgot to mention that Chris and I went to our Alma Mater's Homecoming two weeks ago! We didn't have many friends attend this year, unfortunately it seems to become less and less every year. I was almost tempted to throw in the towel myself, but Chris insisted that it's tradition, and we had to go. I was fine with that...and we're only a 40 minute drive from the school anyway so we hopped in the car and headed to Wagner College on Staten Island. We ran into quite a few people we hadn't seen in awhile and had some great catch-up time with our friends Liz and Becca. We managed to get into the Alumni tent JUST as they were closing it up and grab some food without having registered (mwahahaha). We watched the tail end of the actual game (we lost), and then walked around the beautiful campus that is, Wagner. 



This was our first time back since our Engagement photos back in August. We got to tour the new dormitory, Foundation Hall. It was beautiful on the outside, and very neat on the inside...but I don't know if I would have chosen to live in that dorm had I still been at Wagner.
I still go through various pangs of missing college so very very much...much like I do with anything. I'm the type of person who misses everything. Even at the ripe old age of 25, I can sometimes pine for "the good old days". I miss High school, I miss my apartment for 2 1/2 years in Astoria, heck, sometimes I even miss Elementary School (life was so simple back then!) What can I say?...I'm a nostalgic person.

It's not to say that I don't love my life now, because I do. I just miss when so many of the people who were close to me in my life were in one place. There were friends to hang out with or vent to any time, any day. I miss practicing piano literally every.single.day! I miss singing in choir 3 or more days a week. I miss the amaaazing salad bar in the cafeteria and that I was just a 5 minute walk away from the caf. and from the gym. Also....I miss this view!
Lucky for me, I feel very fortunate that we have a great group of friends from Wagner who have all managed to stay in touch. Even though we don't see these people nearly as often as we used to, these are the friends we can get together with any time, and anywhere, and pick up right where we left off. I can't wait for these very important people to celebrate our wedding day with us...because after all: Wagner is where we met, and most of these people have been with us from the very beginning.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Dining Detour Guest Post!

Firstly, Happy Birthday to my fiancĂ©!! Yesterday Chris turned 25, which I keep reminding him is the age he'll be when he gets married. Last night Chris's mom and I prepared some of his favorites for dinner: French Onion Soup, Meatloaf (my mom's recipe), and pierogies. Followed by an ice cream cake his dad brought home and chocolate chip cookies that I made from Mandy's top-secret recipe! I also got him (us) tickets to see Joel McHale at Carnegie Hall on November 5th! We're big The Soup fans, and have wanted to see him live for awhile, so hearing that he was going to be at Carnegie Hall, I jumped on getting him tickets for his birthday. I can't wait!

We got our engagement pictures yesterday!! There are a ton on the cd and I did a good job of weeding through them last night, but until I spend a little more time on the post, you probably won't see them until tonight or tomorrow! PROMISE! In the meantime, I am excited to announce that I guest blogged for the food blog Dining Detour this week! Be sure to add this blog to your list of regular blogs to follow. You can check out my post and recipe for my new favorite healthy cookies "Maple Nut Oaties" here:



Enjoy! Make some oaties, and stay tuned for our pictures really soon!