Military

Let me start by saying if you serve in the military, this is by no a zing on you or our country.

I simply hate when people are introduced to someone who is in uniform for the military. It always starts with the person saying, "Thank you! Thank you! I really appreciate all that you do. Thank you so much." blah blah blah. I certaintly appreciate anyone who has the balls to serve in the military and take the abuse and harshing living conditions, but in no way am I going to make them unconfortable by thanking them a thousand times. They are a person just like everyone else. I'm not treating anyone like royalty because they are in the army or marines, navy or air force. I absolutly hateeeee this. Maybe if someone took an interest in what that person actually did while serving or where they are stationed that would be alright. But simply thanking someone to death shows, in my opinion, well i'd rather not say. I don't want to offend anyone, but i just don't like it... that is all

much love

Frank Papa's

Court and I went to Frank Papa's on Saturday and it was quite sub par. It needs a major face lift on the inside, its got a high class feel but at the same time dingy feel. It didn't make me feel like I should be spending good money for this food or atmosphere. I will still give it another try. I always have a tough time choosing a pasta or entree at a restaurant that I've never been too. I ended up with a fettucini alfredo, which I never enjoy when I order it. Either I've never had a great alfredo or I just don't enjoy it at all. The bread I must say was enjoyable, can't beat bread and butter. That leads me to the best butter ever served in a restaurant. I don't know what the brand is, but its in the gold packet its super soft, i could eat that stuff like in a big ice cream scooper full....yum. I need a standard meal that I can rely on, and I don't think that I have that anywhere I go. Speaking of ice cream I think I'll make my first trip to ted drew's this weekend. Stay tuned for my review on whether its all that or old hat.

Much Love

Work

I'm coming up on my 1 year anniversary at Enterprise. It seems just like yesterday, that I was slinging crab legs at Red Lobster, and tossing cheddar buscuits to geezers. From CHARGERS to PT Cruisers, no one is ever satisfied. Taking in hundred of dollars in drug money and handing back expired and non-driver's licences, there is never a dull moment. People think its unreasonable to ask for a credit car when renting a car. I have to explain to them that I am giving them a $20,000 car and have to have some sort of good phone number and payment. Draining!

Much Love

iphone

This is my first iphone blog post. I am getting a cramp in mpy neck and my eyes are burning from the bright screen. Not much new to report, still getting settled at the new townhouse and Courtney and I love it. We are getting close to our trip to New Jersey and New York in September.

I hope everyone is doing well. Hit my e-mail if you want to holler at me. Anthonycolaneri@gmail.com, it will g right to my hip.

P.S. I love Olympic badmiten

4th of July at Loon Lake

Hey all,

After an awesome weekend at Look Lake I have nothing but great tales. While everyone else drove the 6 1/2 hour drive almost to the border of Illinois and Wisconsin, Court and I decided to fly up after work on Thursday the 3rd. We rented a Charger and drove about an hour to the lake house, battling the infamous traffic jams of Chi-town. We finally arrive and find a riviting game of landmines being played. So we slid in like butter and started to lay our own mines. After consuming numerous beers and a couple glasses of blended scotch (woof), i was quite toasty.

We retired for the evening at about 2, i had been up from 530 that morning, so i quite tired. That next day provided a world of fun and hurt. From a breakfast beer and suntan lotioned up we hit the lake. Megan was first to hit the wakeboard, and she was quite a pro. Brandon followed up with a less than stellar performance, when he claimed when he was 16 he had done a flip on a wakeboard. hmmm maybe that was a dream or something. Brad followed and managed after a while to get up and we quickly snapped pictures. YA Bradley! Josh followed him and did just as poorly as the rest of us. Basically Megan Nelson and Brad were the only ones who were able to do it.

From there we we a little sauced so we came in for some lunch and some volleyball. With courtney diving for balls ...lol...and lauren flailing about when the ball was coming her was it was quite a game. So we ate and thought tubing might be more up our alley. This was a trip.

Holding contests to see who could hang on the longest came to be the challenge of the weekend. Josh hit a nice wave and bounce off the tube and wid a summersault into the water. Courtney flipped out of the middle(which we all thought was immpossible) and almost drown from laughing to hard. And when I got skipped across the water at 40mph, my coinpurse was feeling it.

The last night we all thought maybe it would be good to go to the townie bar up the street, so we walked...staggered...and jumped right into the karaoke ring. "the flaming assholes" wow we looked cool! That night ended in turmoil when the boys defended the honor of a lady....caution when drinking it can impair your judgement. All was resolved sort of and we left again with another story.

Pretty much from bags, to mosquitos, to s'mores, fireworks, beer, wine, ribs, more bags, and bar fights, this was a weekend for the record books.

Lets make it a yearly deal!!!!

Much Love

Sidney Street Cafe

So we made a treck down 44 to jefferson to sidney street to eat at the Sidney Street Cafe. We were in for a real treat. This place was absolutely fantastic, priced a little on the high end, but the ambience and great service really pushes it over the edge. I had a filet with a bernaise sauce and lagostino lobster that was to die for. Court had some roasted chicken which practically fell off the bone with tobacco style onions and spinach. We were both delighted as we sat across from each other with a tall candle lit onthe table. Although they were out of the wine we wanted, we found a quite suitable substitute. We will return to this place, and I would suggest it of maybe a special occasion or with a group of friends.

Much Love

Double D Lounge

If you're up for a night of off pitch speech sluring hooligans, then the Double D has your name all over it. With a super mix of the younger crowd to families to a few older singer wannabe's, the Double D welcome's all. In all seriousness the greatness doesn't begin until about 11pm, but make sure you arrive early enough to plop youself down at a table. You're gonna want a good view of the stage where karaoke is being belted out continuously. The song choice is key, if you can get the crowd to sing along with you you won't sound as awful as you really are. Will a total bill of 40 bucks for two people and about 10 beers and 5 jello shots, thats not too bad. They called last call at 1am, and were still singing until 1:29am when everyone was asked to leave.

Bottom line its a fun place to be on a Saturday night to relax get a good laugh, or prove that you are the next American Idol. I would highly suggest this place. A great little dive bar karaoke good time in brentwood, right next theh frank papa's.

Much Love