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Its about me.

Woot

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It was a long weekend. But a good one. In fact the last two weeks have been pretty great. After a horridly agonizing ending to July, it’s good that August starts out positive.

My parents were out to visit this weekend. The butt of jokes is that all my siblings live in more appealing places to visit than me, hence my parents never visited me. It wasn’t true, they just never visited often. With a sister in Boston, one in Miami, one practically next door to my parents, and a brother stationed…. Well I don’t know where he is stationed, haven’t spoken to him in a long time. Cleveland (as with Buffalo before it) doesn’t stack as up as anyone’s top place to visit.

But we had a good weekend. Like just about anyplace you lived a while, you find the go-to spots for visitors. With my parents we hit up the West Side Market, The Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, Edgewater Park for grilling and lounging, the Natural History Museum, and the newly renovated Capitol Theatre for a movie (Eat, Pray, Love… I owed Sarah since we saw The Expendables on Friday night… which was awesome). And they are eating breakfast at The Diner on Clifton this morning. So it was a full, fun weekend.

We didn’t even hit everything Sarah and I threw out as a potential activities list. There was the Museum of Art, the Botanical Gardens, eating at / touring the Great Lakes Brewery, the ridiculously awesome Cleveland Metroparks, the Coffee Pot diner, baseball games, frisbee golf, cruises on the lake, and more. There’s way more to do in Cleveland than one thinks.

However when my college friends visit it seems to revolve around going out, playing frisbee and eating.

Goodbye JULY

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Last couple hours of July.  Good-fucking-Bye.

Longest week of my life.  July certainly went through a lot to try and not end.

So glad to see it go though.

Til Next Year July.

Eat it.

~AJ

Delaware Vacation in Review

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Just a quick review of vacation.

Saturday I visited Pat in Danville Pennsylvania.  It was a fun trip, I met his girlfriend of the last decade for the second time (at least that I recall).  She was nice.  We all (Sarah was there) went out to eat and then walked down by the river.  After some relaxing at his place (and some really really filling rhubarb pie Shannon had made from scratch) Pat, Sarah, and I went out to the Pub II where we kicked BDGirl’s ass in trivia (although we absolutely sucked at the British Music Section).  This was then followed up by late night trip to the Old Forge Brewing Company for some delicious hand made soft pretzels.  Pat had raved about them earlier and he was right for doing so.

Sarah and I got up early on Sunday and finished out drive to Bethany Beach.  This was by far the hottest year in a while.  We didn’t got an hour on the beach without jumping in the water (usual Delaware trip is a swim, followed by an hour or two of reading and relaxing on the beach, some more swimming, relaxing, etc.).  This year you had to continually get in the water, it was just that hot.  We saw dolphins, sand critters, Ghost Crabs, seagulls, pelicans, and other animals.  We even saw a ghost crab eating a sand critters (pretty cool site).  We swam and got sunburned and played with my niece and nephews (soooo much fun).  Anyways, it was a lot of fun seeing my family, Sarah got her fill of crab at the Blue Crab (all you can eat = 7 crabs… at least for Sarah), and I got my donuts from Fractured Prune.

Random Pictures (I know there’s a Pat and me picture out there that I need to get ahold of):

Dear Pennsylvania,

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Dear Pennsylvania,

I am writing to tell that a “highway repair focused” economy is awful.  Don’t try to hide it.  I know most of your economy comes from the constant, and what I suspect as unnecessary, highway repairs you have going on all over your state at all times.  Its obscene really.  It makes visiting your state, even just driving through, a god awful experience.  Any appreciation of your natural beauty is lost by the anger and frustration one gets from driving on your highways at speeds considerable slower than 65 miles per hour because of the constant construction.

I wish I could drive around you without doubling the time and distance of any road trip.

You suck,

AJ

French Cinnamon Muffins

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I downloaded the Betty Crocker cookbook for my iPhone. It was free and I was curious. First thing I looked up was French Cinnamon Muffins. These were my favorite thing to bake all through middle and high school. Essentially you make fantasticly delicious muffins, then dip them in melted butter and then in a cinnamon-sugar mix.

I never said they were good for you, just amazing.