My name is Tracy. I am a Jersey girl at heart, but currently reside in Dallas, TX.

Likes: My family and friends, my cat - Jersey, good food, the smell of the ocean, New Jersey cliches, music most people don't listen to, cooking, photography, literature a million other things.

Dislikes: Peppers and mushrooms, waiting in line, people who lack common sense, vodka, spiders and flies and a million other things.
Tracy Calabrese

It’s been a hell of a week.

I definitely could have handled this week with more composure, but the stress got to me. I snapped at a few people, freaked out about things I had no control over, worked too many hours and ate too much junk food.

But today, a big weight was lifted off my shoulders as things started to fall into place. I feel so much better. I am really looking forward to some dinner and drinks with my friend Lenora tonight, sleeping in tomorrow, dinner with the family to celebrate my mom and dad’s birthdays tomorrow night and a nice relaxing Sunday.

Cheers to a good weekend!

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V-Day/President’s Day weekend recap.

  • Friday - Worked from home due to the snow covered roads and because my office building had no power. Met up with my friend/co-worker Shaun, a true NJ boy, who was in town for a work event. We bitched about work, rambled on about how we can’t find normal people to date and had a few drinks.
  • Saturday - Ran some errands. Lounged around. Gave myself a manicure. Did laundry.
  • Sunday - Went grocery shopping. Spent Valentine’s Day with my friend Ashley - saw Up in the Air (best movie I have seen in a while), had drinks and appetizers at The Porch, then met up with our co-worker Brett and his buddy for some drinks. He was definitely trying to set Ashley up with this guy. A little awkward.
  • Monday - Helped my dad at his office. Bought a new car! 2010 Volkswagen Jetta SE. Spent some time with my family. Going to bed early.

3 weeks ago 3 notes weekend recap work drinks friends valentine's day president's day movie errands

Another good weekend.

Good times with old friends (Friday) and new friends (Saturday), drank a few too many beers (both nights), wasted half of Saturday at car dealerships and didn’t drive off with a new car, ate everything I shouldn’t have (cheeseburger, fries, nachos, etc.) and enjoyed every minute of it, lounged around with Jersey until 2pm on Sunday.

Is tomorrow really Monday? Can’t I have one extra day of the weekend?

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Weekend recap (a day late).

Last weekend was a good one. It’s been a while since I have had a really good, blog-worthy weekend in Dallas, so I thought I would recap it.

  • Friday - After work, I went shopping with my friend Ashley and then we sat at Time Out Tavern, a total dive bar on Lovers and Inwood, with a few drinks and caught up. We complained about work, she bitched out her ex (literally) and then we deleted him from her phone and I talked about how I hate the dating scene.
  • Saturday - My parents came down for the day. My mom and I went to see The Color Purple at Music Hall at Fair Park (amazing!) and then had dinner at Fireside Pies. Yum! My dad stayed at my condo and put shelves up in my closets. His loss. Later that night, I went to see my coworker, Jenny, sing with the band Bricks in the Wall, a Pink Floyd cover band, at House of Blues. A bunch of friends and coworkers and came out and after the show we went to The Bank downtown. After paying $20 (seriously?!) to valet, it was quite the interesting scene. Downtown is so much more diverse than Uptown or Knox-Henderson. It’s a refreshing change of scenery (especially since I hate the Uptown scene lately), but you also run into a very strange mix of people…like a strange, extremely short chick who decided she wanted to dance with me in a completely inappropriate way. We spent a couple of hours getting bumped into and drinking overpriced booze and on the way out, ran into a friend of a friend which led to a late-night gathering at a friend of that friends’ condo, which happened to be 18 floors above the club. I finally got home at 3:30am.
  • Sunday - Wished I could have slept past 7:30am. Grocery shopped, ran errands, vacuumed, sat on my couch, napped and made soup. It was a nice, relaxing way to end the weekend.

1 month ago weekend recap friends band drinks bar house of blues parents

Stupid.

I feel like I have been doing some stupid stuff lately. I won’t go into details, but I don’t feel very happy with myself right now and I haven’t for the past few weeks.

A wise friend of my told me that she regularly asks herself when she is too old for random, crazy nights. Her answer: Never.

Maybe that is good motto. Maybe I need to take the stupid stuff I do with a grain of salt. Maybe the stupid stuff that makes me feel unhappy with myself is just a reminder to really enjoy what I do have.

Until this feeling passes, I am perfectly fine with just taking everything day by day.

3 months ago unhappy stupid friends

The next 30 days.

Today marks one month until I close on my condo. The countdown has officially begun!

The next 30 days are going to be crazy busy:

  • August 19: Paul McCartney concert at Cowboys Stadium
  • August 22-28: Trip to South Korea
  • August 29: Cowboys pre-season game against the 49ers
  • August 30: Family BBQ
  • August 31: Day off from work to recover
  • September 3: Happy hour with Jess (visiting from NC)
  • September 7: Labor Day - work closed
  • September 10-13: Trip to San Francisco
  • September 15: Condo closing

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Bar golf.

A fun, challenging, often vomit-inducing college sport. The rules are simple. Players travel to 18 bars (the front and back 9 may be played on separate nights), and an hour (or half-hour if you want to make it intense) is allotted for each bar. Teams of 1 lady and 1 gentlemen are set up and score cards are distributed. Par is set ahead of time for each bar and you must drink to reduce strokes. Different drinks can be valued differently (i.e., a beer= -1 stroke, singles= -2, doubles= -3, long islands= -4, etc). Puking yields a +5 penalty. Golf attire is mandatory.

via Urban Dictionary

Try playing bar golf (with some rule variations from the above) at 15 minute intervals with 5 minutes to walk to each bar in 100 degree weather. That was my Saturday night. Enough said.

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Sake.

I had sake for the first time tonight. I went to The Fish in the West Village for sushi and happy hour after work and one of the specials was hot sake. I decided to give it a try.

I can’t decide if I am a fan or not. It was hot sake, which came in a little tiny sake pitcher. I sipped it for a while, then started to shoot it because it got cold and didn’t taste as good. It smelled like cooked rice and tasted like a cross between wine and vodka. I love wine. I hate vodka. I guess I liked it 50%.

Thanks to Lenora for convincing me to try it!

9 months ago drinks friends sushi happy hour

Raleigh, NC Recap.

I spent the long weekend with my friend Jess, who moved to Raleigh about 10 months ago. We spent some time in Raleigh and then headed to the Wrightsville Beach/Wilmington area to end the weekend with some beach time.

  • Raleigh is a cute city, its clean and the nightlife is pretty fun.
  • I LOVE North Carolina BBQ.
  • It is OK to lie about who you are and where you came from to get a guy to buy you a drink.
    • I am going through a messy divorce with my lying, cheating husband and I star in the show Real Housewives of New Jersey. I met Jess and her friend Lindsay during a Quizbowl tournament at the Raleigh YMCA. So NOT true.
  • My liver needs a serious break.
  • A six mile hike in a North Carolina state park is the ideal place to have some serious close encounters with wildlife.
    • Snakes, which we ran from and Jess refused to look at.
    • Frogs, which made us jump, but we didn’t run.
    • Fawns (baby deer), which we stood about 10 feet from and watched for 20 minutes, cursing ourselves for not bringing a camera.
  • Married people in the 20-somethings who live in NC like to party and drink as much as the married, 20 and 30-somethings I know in Texas.
  • Two games of elimination flip cup with two teams of five leads to passing out in a chair.
  • The only place I have ever eaten at where you can order chicken nuggets and corndogs as a side item and have 40 flavors of milkshakes is Cookout, which I highly recommend.
  • My liver needs a serious break.
  • Wrightsville Beach is awesome. I wish I could pick up a beach-style house and put it in Dallas. I love big porches and pastel colored siding. The only thing missing would be the sun, sand and surf. FAIL.
  • Wilmington has one long street of bars. They weren’t so happening on a Sunday night, but I can see Wilmington being a seriously fun town on the weekends.
  • We saw a few places where One Tree Hill is filmed, including the basketball court by the water and the “fake” store, Clothes Over Bros.
  • Whenever I go to any city by a military base, it is unavoidable to meet military men.
  • Bojangles is tasty after a long night of drinking.
  • My liver needs a serious break.

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Happy birthday to me.

Today I am 27 years old.

I am entirely too close to 30.

I hope this year brings more good times with family and friends.

And even more happiness.

Maybe 27 will bring me a man…

27 will the year I buy my first place.

Cheers to 27!

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