Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Baby Fever
I have been having a lot of dreams about babies lately, either me having one or someone else. My mom thinks this is because of my sister being pregnant and all of us having baby on the brain. She's right about me having baby on the brain. But I have baby on the brain partly because I am really wanting one myself. I am now making it my mission to have a baby before I turn 31. I will do artificial insemination if need be, but I am also willing to go natural donor as well. Would I want the biological father's assistance or involvement? I don't know. I haven't really thought that all the way through yet. But I figure I have a little time to figure this out.
Monday, October 17, 2011
NY & PA trip
Sorry, I meant to post this a week ago, but got caught up in other things. This is about a trip I took on the 5th-7th of this month.
It's back to work for me after a five-day mini vacay, three days of which were spent on a lovely excursion to Pennsylvania and southwestern New York State.
Wednesday morning my friend Jade and I left Lexington and headed north. We drove across the breadth of Ohio, going through Cleveland to get to Pennsylvania. Making a short stop along the way for a roadside attraction accompanied by lunch, we made it to our destination in roughly eight hours. We were staying at a little bed and breakfast in North East, PA, so we checked in there and unloaded our luggage before we decided to venture around town a little. We went to one winery called Mazza Vineyards and enjoyed some samples there. We walked around near our B&B and just enjoyed the quaint town. We ended up eating at a little local diner called Johnny B's that had a nice setup and good food. I had a delicious club sandwich with french fries. We retired early with a game of Scrabble.
Thursday we enjoyed an amazing breakfast before heading out. We had blueberry gingerbread, a roasted peach drizzled with raspberry puree, and "Captain's Scramble", which was sort of a quiche with three kinds of cheese, peppers, and mushrooms. I also had cranberry pomegranate juice and coffee. After that it was off to Jamestown!
Jamestown, NY is the birthplace of Lucille Ball, and somewhere I've wanted to visit for years. It's a cute little tourist town, and we had a wonderful lunch at the Taco Hut. I was disappointed, however, that you weren't allowed to take pictures in either the Lucy-Desi Museum, or the Desilu Playhouse. But the museums were very neat, and it only cost $15 to go to both. (Normally, I'm not averse to sneaking pictures when they're not allowed, but they had security cameras and that made me a little nervous.) We drove past both the home that Lucy was born in and the house she grew up in, which was in nearby Celoron and just a couple blocks from Lake Chautauqua. We also visited the cemetary where her ashes were interred, and where several members of her mother's family are buried. After that we stopped briefly at a consignment store for kid/baby items, and then went to a little roadside farmer's market-type store. I bought a crotcheted bookmark, two Gala apples, and a mini pumpkin.
After Jamestown, we doubled back past North East and stopped in Erie. Jade really wanted to see a lighthouse, so we drove out on this little peninsula jutting out into the lake called Presque Isle. We drove around for a while, and it was very beautiful there. There were some really cool rocks on the beach, but the two lighthouses we saw were smaller than anticipated and we were a little disappointed. From there we looked around for somewhere to eat, but the place in our guidebook that we wanted to go was closed, so we ended up just stopping at KFC because we were so hungry by that point.
Back in North East, we both showered and then played a round of Huggermugger. It was this really cool game that was basically an English major's dream. It was all about words. Definitions, spelling, rhyming; it was a really fun and unique game that we had never heard of, let alone played before. Then it was off to bed.
Friday morning before checking out, we had apple pie to start out our breakfast. Next was a fruit bowl of bananas and both green and yellow kiwi. I had yeast waffles for breakfast. They were very light but crunchy. That time I had coffee and superfruit juice. Off to Cleveland we went! We went to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame which was really cool, but we were also not allowed to take pictures there. They had a "Women Who Rock" exhibit filled with costumes worn by female artists (duh). Underneath the Stevie Nicks stage outfit, they had some incorrect information, which I e-mailed the museum later to let them know about. They said they would correct their mistake "as soon as possible", but who knows if they actually did.
After Cleveland, we detoured through some more rural parts of Ohio to get to another roadside attraction, before getting back home around 11:15 that evening. It was a great trip, although I wish it had been longer. I was glad to get this in, considering it might be the last trip I get to take in a while.
Edit: I forgot to mention eating at Lola Bistro in Cleveland, where I had a roasted turkey sandwich with a parsnip curry soup, and coconut-prickly pear sorbet for dessert. One of the best meals of my life.
It's back to work for me after a five-day mini vacay, three days of which were spent on a lovely excursion to Pennsylvania and southwestern New York State.
Wednesday morning my friend Jade and I left Lexington and headed north. We drove across the breadth of Ohio, going through Cleveland to get to Pennsylvania. Making a short stop along the way for a roadside attraction accompanied by lunch, we made it to our destination in roughly eight hours. We were staying at a little bed and breakfast in North East, PA, so we checked in there and unloaded our luggage before we decided to venture around town a little. We went to one winery called Mazza Vineyards and enjoyed some samples there. We walked around near our B&B and just enjoyed the quaint town. We ended up eating at a little local diner called Johnny B's that had a nice setup and good food. I had a delicious club sandwich with french fries. We retired early with a game of Scrabble.
Thursday we enjoyed an amazing breakfast before heading out. We had blueberry gingerbread, a roasted peach drizzled with raspberry puree, and "Captain's Scramble", which was sort of a quiche with three kinds of cheese, peppers, and mushrooms. I also had cranberry pomegranate juice and coffee. After that it was off to Jamestown!
Jamestown, NY is the birthplace of Lucille Ball, and somewhere I've wanted to visit for years. It's a cute little tourist town, and we had a wonderful lunch at the Taco Hut. I was disappointed, however, that you weren't allowed to take pictures in either the Lucy-Desi Museum, or the Desilu Playhouse. But the museums were very neat, and it only cost $15 to go to both. (Normally, I'm not averse to sneaking pictures when they're not allowed, but they had security cameras and that made me a little nervous.) We drove past both the home that Lucy was born in and the house she grew up in, which was in nearby Celoron and just a couple blocks from Lake Chautauqua. We also visited the cemetary where her ashes were interred, and where several members of her mother's family are buried. After that we stopped briefly at a consignment store for kid/baby items, and then went to a little roadside farmer's market-type store. I bought a crotcheted bookmark, two Gala apples, and a mini pumpkin.
After Jamestown, we doubled back past North East and stopped in Erie. Jade really wanted to see a lighthouse, so we drove out on this little peninsula jutting out into the lake called Presque Isle. We drove around for a while, and it was very beautiful there. There were some really cool rocks on the beach, but the two lighthouses we saw were smaller than anticipated and we were a little disappointed. From there we looked around for somewhere to eat, but the place in our guidebook that we wanted to go was closed, so we ended up just stopping at KFC because we were so hungry by that point.
Back in North East, we both showered and then played a round of Huggermugger. It was this really cool game that was basically an English major's dream. It was all about words. Definitions, spelling, rhyming; it was a really fun and unique game that we had never heard of, let alone played before. Then it was off to bed.
Friday morning before checking out, we had apple pie to start out our breakfast. Next was a fruit bowl of bananas and both green and yellow kiwi. I had yeast waffles for breakfast. They were very light but crunchy. That time I had coffee and superfruit juice. Off to Cleveland we went! We went to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame which was really cool, but we were also not allowed to take pictures there. They had a "Women Who Rock" exhibit filled with costumes worn by female artists (duh). Underneath the Stevie Nicks stage outfit, they had some incorrect information, which I e-mailed the museum later to let them know about. They said they would correct their mistake "as soon as possible", but who knows if they actually did.
After Cleveland, we detoured through some more rural parts of Ohio to get to another roadside attraction, before getting back home around 11:15 that evening. It was a great trip, although I wish it had been longer. I was glad to get this in, considering it might be the last trip I get to take in a while.
Edit: I forgot to mention eating at Lola Bistro in Cleveland, where I had a roasted turkey sandwich with a parsnip curry soup, and coconut-prickly pear sorbet for dessert. One of the best meals of my life.
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