Hello everybody!!! I had a great time seeing you girls who came into new york! (Even if we did have a little trouble finding each other at first :)). And i’m so excited to hear that Dawn will be back soon!!! I haven’t posted in a while but I don’t have much to post. Things have been going well with me. I got a promotion so i am now an assistant store manager…second in charge :), and since my store manager is away this week I’m first in charge which is just a little more stressful than I’d like :). All in all, work is going very well though. OH!!!…and LL Cool J now knows me…well, sort of. I ordered a book for him a week or so ago and he came to pick it up the other day and said “hey, how’s it going.” He remembered me…and we had a mini conversation about the drink he ordered from the cafe. It’s the little things (not to sound like a girl, but he’s totally hot in person). Things with Rob are also going well (despite the fact that we both live at home and would like just a little more private time). I went with him and his family to Woodlock pines (a resort in Pennsylvania) in July and we’re going back for a weekend in October so i’m excited about that. Anyway, I have now told you about all the exciting things that are going on…sad isn’t it? I hope you ladies are doing extremely well and I can’t wait to see all of you again soon!!!!!
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Hi guys! I just wanted to say hello, and let you all know I will be back in the States soon! I’ll send out an email when I get back. I saw the pictures from the reunion and you guys look great! I am so sorry I missed it, and believe me I was thinking about you! Tim found us a house to live in! It’s actually a townhouse, but it’s only a few blocks from the ocean, and it sounds great. In the words of Monica from Friends…I have to live with a boy! I’m a little nervous, but much more excited. I’ll be working in the intensive care unit when I get back. I’m planning on getting out of the Navy next October, and then probably following Tim who knows where! We’ll see what happens. That’s the latest with me…I would love to hear about all of you! Love you and miss you all:)

Woohoo! So it sounds like our reunion is official, eh Ladies?!?! Yay! It’s going to be so good to see everyone. We should think about what we want to do…, where we want to eat, etc. Can I just put in my request now that we NOT eat at any Italian restaurants?? I’m dying for ETHNIC!!! The article from New York Magazine that I linked to above has some good ideas. Or perhaps our personal New Yorkie friends have some good ideas… Ladies? I would love some really great Chinese food.

I was thinking it might be fun to go see a baseball game perhaps. The Yankees are playing the Los Angeles Anaheim team on Saturday, it looks like the cheapest tickets are about 40 bucks. Not that I’m a Yankees fan, but it might be a fun thing to do.

Have any of you been to the Peking Duck House? I hear good things, but now that I see the website, I’m doubting…

I would kind of like to do a little window shopping/walking tour kind of thing–you know, just kind of walk around a cool area and check it out, see the city a bit. Greenwhich Village, Chinatown, Central Park…That way we can talk and catch up too–which might be a bit difficult if we’re in museums all day or sometehing.

Can’t wait to see you all!

I don’t know how many of you heard, but Binghamton got HUGE amounts of rain last week. The whole middle of the state did; the thruway was closed and there was a state of emergency in 20 counties or something. The high school stadium behind where I worked in Endicott was completely filled with water, and route 17c was washed out all over the place!

So, anybody miss Binghamton?

By the way, I started trying on wedding dresses with my sister this past weekend. It was a very bizarre experience. When looking in the mirror, my mind just could not seem to put my head and the wedding dress I was looking at in the same picture. It just didn’t seem real. I don’t know if that means I just haven’t found “the one” yet or my mind has some catching up to do with the rest of my plans. It was just the first trip, I plan on looking a lot more, but it was kind of neat and fun to begin. =)

By the way, do we have any more concrete plans on the NYC reunion?

Well I am official in my Fourth Year of Med School!! Yippee! This is a good thing because I should have basically all weekends off and no tests…bad thing cuz I have to apply and interview for residency..but what it means to you girls is only one more year till free prescriptions!! and hopefully it will work out that I can come to NYC to see my ladies!!
Currently I am home in Warsaw for about a week. Sam’s sister is getting married this weekend. I am getting a little nervous for my first appearance in Indian cloths. Sam’s parents have really taken the idea of me being a part of the family to heart as well. I will be sitting and the head table and they want me there for ALL of the events. And the keep saying “we can’t wait to just show you off to all the relatvies.” Nothing like a little pressure. But I am sure I can mingle just fine with the Hindi only speaking crowed 😉 Not to mention that the wedding is more like a full weekend event. The festivities start Thrus night and don’t end till Sunday afternoon! One big reason to do a destination wedding!! So if I get any good pictures I’ll have to send them to you all so you can see Caitlin as an Indian!
After this week I am going to California to be in a med school friend’s wedding..So that should be fun. I unfortunately have to were a full length heavy dress for the wedding in southern cali so that was kinda poor planning by the bride if you ask me…but it does have plenty of room for me to a hide a flask so i guess it does have it’s advantages!
Hope that you are all doing well and I miss you all tons! I will post after I get back to Chi-town to let you know how the weddings went!

hey ladies,

sorry i have written in a while. been busy finishing up classes and then took a trip out to los angeles to visit my family. now i am working at a bunch of different places and just hanging around. arash and i broke up and now we are trying to be “friends”. he got an amazing job offer in los angeles in june 2007, so given that he will definately be moving back next year, there is no point being in a relationship that has a dead end. i have done lots of soul searching and not sure if i could ever move to los angeles and raise a family there. who knows things may change, but this is best for now.

my friend pia (which some of you met) has a quarter time share in fire island (beautiful beach near long island). i was out there this past weekend and it was gorgeous!! she is going to be there the weekend shira is planning on coming to new york, so i thought we could maybe meet jen in long island and then take the ferry boat over. nothing like a beach day with the gals!! what do you ladies think?

congrats to nicole and caitlin for setting a wedding date!!

xoxoxox

So my trip to Germany ended up kind of sucking. I had gone as a patient escort. Usually we go with the patient, get them into the hospital, and then you have a few days to yourself in Germany. My patient they decided not to admit, and I had to stay in the barracks with her. This meant I couldn’t leave her side. I was only in Germany for two days, and I didn’t get one sip of beer, didn’t eat in any restaurants, didn’t even get to buy a souvenier! I never left the military base 🙁 But on the plus side, it was so green! Trees, grass…I will never take these things for granted again! And the air was so fresh…it wasn’t so hot you could barely breath, and full of sand! So that was good. I figure this just gives me an excuse to go back someday, because now that I got a taste, I really want to see more!

I hope all is well with my lovely ladies…I miss you!

Well, it’s been a month since my whirlwind weekend, and it has definatly slowed down. Actually, I’m bored out of my mind. I have applied to a bunch of schools, but they won’t start interviews and such until july or august. I’ve also been looking for a part-time summer job (because I haven’t been paid since January and my bank account is really starting to reflect that). No luck so far, the bank I used to work for knows I left to get my degree, so they don’t want to hire me back if I’m planning on leaving as soon as I’m offered a teaching job. I can’t blame them, but it sure sucks. I tried applying to Barnes & Noble, even mentioned our darling Jen, but they aren’t hiring. EMS would take me back, but they have NO hours available, so why bother? and the gym is just not a possibility for me. I’m planning on looking for summer tutoring around here and getting on the sub lists for the fall, but if any of you have any suggestions, I would REALLY appreciate the advice.

oh yeah, and mark your calendars ladies, Josh and I have a date for the wedding! June 29th, 2007. Woo Hoo! So a little over a month after Caitlin and Sam’s. I hope it doesn’t interfere with anyone’s schedules, I had to wait for school to be over!

Hey guys! So guess where I am…in Germany! I can’t talk about details now, but you will all hear about my trip soon! It is absolutely beautiful…so green! I think it would be amazing anyway, but to see all this green after being in the desert for three months…let’s just say I will never take trees and grass for granted again!
That’s all my news for now…I hope you ladies are all doing well, and I miss you!

Hi Ladies. What do you think about meeting in NYC instead of at my place this summer? I was thinking that it makes a lot more sense, since three of our group already live in that area and I’ll be flying through there on my way in from Italy. That way, the fewest people possible have to spend on travelling. I think it makes more sense.

Anyways, it would be August 11, 12, 13–that weekend that I’d be in the City. I’m planning on staying with or near my sister in Newark and taking the train into the city. Maybe we can all crash somewhere together one night in New York?

What do you think? Does that seem like a possibility??