Friday, April 21, 2006
by Amanda.
What my dad’s living room sound system must have been thinking when it refused to play my John Legend cd:

Friday, April 21, 2006
by Amanda.
One cheap NYC restaurant at which I enjoy dining is Empanada Mama. My own Mama is famous for quesadillas, a similar pocket-like food, albeit not deep fried. I absolutely adore her quesadillas.

Thursday, April 20, 2006
by Amanda.
*Today my dad and I went to Old San Patricio and bought steer horns for my friend Nick. That was easy enough, but then we had to figure out how and where to pack and ship them. Oh.dear.God. Nick, my dad and I want those hours of our lives back! In the end, the steer horns were $50. Shipping them to an office building on Park Avenue? $96!

Wednesday, April 19, 2006
by Amanda.
On hearing that my friend Nick, whom I’m buying steer horns for, foolishly asked me to bubblewrap them and take them on the plane home as a piece of carry-on/carrion luggage.

Monday, April 17, 2006
by Amanda.
I printed the contents of my first blog, a year long stint on Open Diary during my junior year of high school. I look back at what I wrote, at how I wrote, and I roll my eyes…a lot. I thought the silliest things were so devastating. This is how teenagers think, though.

Tuesday, March 21, 2006
by Amanda.
I tried to post something in honor of Megan’s birthday yesterday, but Blogger was extrememly uncooperative. So…this isn’t belated, it was bedeviled. 
Saturday, March 11, 2006
by Amanda.

I took this picture the other day. I saw me, but upon closer examination saw my dad - the chin, the length of the nose, something about the way he holds his mouth. I saw the fullness of my mom’s face, the size of her eyes, the crease at the tip of her nose. I saw my sister gone lighter.

Thursday, March 2, 2006
by Amanda.
I love being a Southerner in New York City. I don’t have an accent or close-minded conservative ideals - nothing that could be a social liability in this metropolitan blue state. People are always surprised when I reveal my Southern background.
