Yankees & Brewers Game

Posted on June 30, 2011

Last night I went to Yankees Stadium to see the Bronx Bombers take on the Milwaukee Brewers in an inter league game. It was a gorgeous night and while our seats were only in the Terrace level (Section 332A) they were great! I hate when the angle of your seats points you away from home plate!

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We also got smart this time and headed down to the field level to get food. We went with the chicken noodle bowls and Sapporos ($41 for 2 people…yikes). Later on we had some Miller Lite (in honor of the Brewers, not really).

So the amazing thing was we won! I have been to 5 or 6 games in the past 2  years and this is the first one where the home team has won. Martin and Jorge hit homers and AJ was great.

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Summer of Shoes: Pair 6

Posted on June 30, 2011

I dug way into my closet for these Mossimo sandals from Target.  They are very inexpensive – perhaps $12-15 shoes but are comfortable enough. However the insole, which appears to be sewn on but is really just glued on started coming off on one shoe. It may be time to trash these.

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Summer of Shoes: Pair 5

Posted on June 28, 2011

Today’s shoes are black platform sandals from Simply Vera by Vera Wang for Kohl’s. I love these shoes! They are actually leather and so comfy because of the platform. I need to wear them more.

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Summer of Shoes: Pair 4

Posted on June 27, 2011

I don’t recall exactly where I bought these Reaction: Kenneth Cole flats. It was discount-y type of place like Marshalls or DSW. Anyway they are cute and cheap, although I do miss the days when the Reaction line used real leather instead of plastic on their shoes.

PS I learned from wearing these shoes that you can use black sharpie to cover up where you’ve scuffed off the pleather on the toes. :)

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Summer of Shoes: Pair 3

Posted on June 24, 2011

I am a day behind in posting this due to my 1000th post extravaganza. Pair #3 in the Summer of Shoes are a pair of dark red Cole Haan pumps. I bought these at the Cole Haan outlet that used to be in Seacacus, which I miss dearly. I believe I got a killer deal on them too. The toebox shape is a little dated but they are super comfy and my favorite heel height for work so I need to wear them more.

Pair #3

 

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Post #1000

Posted on June 24, 2011

This is my 1000th blog post. Wow!

I’ve been posting on lorenextreme/lorenius since 2003. Here’s my first scintillating post from March 2003 (posted when I finally got on the blogger platform).

A few other highlights from the past 8 years:

I’ve been using Google Analytics since 2006, so here are a few fun stats.

  • My most viewed page is, by far, Simpsonify Yourself. For some reason when you google simpsonify my page is the top hit.
  • My most visited category is gardening.
  • Outside of mainstream sites (ie google, twitter) dianarikasari.blogspot.com provides the most referrals. I have no idea why. Seriously, go look at that site.
  • In order, the top ten states my visitors come from are New Jersey, New York, California, Washington, Minnesota, Utah, Wisconsin, Texas, Florida, and Montana.
  • The states I am least popular in are Alaska and Wyoming

 

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Summer of Shoes: Pair #2

Posted on June 22, 2011

This is my second pair of shoes in the Summer of Shoes.

I bought these nude Tahari sandals at Marshalls a few years ago. They are cute and versatile and theoretically the thicker heel should make them more comfortable, but I realized as I wore them that they are just not made right. There is something weird with the vamp that makes you put all your weight on the back of your heel and a weird spot on the ball of your foot.

The straps are not very comfortable either. I must have tried to mitigate this problem since there were some stick on gel footbeds, but they really didn’t help so these shoes are going to be removed from the collection.

Pair #2 Tahari

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Summer of Shoes: Pair #1

Posted on June 21, 2011

It’s the first day of summer and thus this first pair of shoes in my Summer of Shoes.

These shoes are Franco Sarto’s I bought to go with a dress for a wedding that was attending. I ended up returning the dress but keeping the shoes. My favorite thing about this is the semi-wedge thing going on with the wood heel.

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Shoe notes: Overall these are pretty comfortable, but the straps do cut across my toes. I think if I put some moleskin there it would help.

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Summer of Shoes

Posted on June 20, 2011

I’ll be the first to admit I have a ridiculous number of shoes that I only regularly wear a small portion of. Well that’s about to change. Summer officially starts tomorrow and I’ll be kicking of my Summer of Shoes!

Here's the real photo. Gold shoes! Or goldish.

just a few pairs of my shoes

What’s that you ask? Well I plan to go the whole summer without ever wearing the same pair of shoes to work twice. I go into the office 4 days a week so that means about 60 different pairs of shoes. I’m quite sure I have at least that many.

I’ll be posting photos as proof. Hopefully this will also help me cull out the really uncomfortable shoes, too!

 

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Father’s Day at the Beach

Posted on June 20, 2011

Yesterday the family headed down to Long Branch for Father’s Day. We met at my sister’s house and rode our bikes over to My Kitchen Witch.

It seemed to take forever to get seated and have our orders taken, but at least it was yummy.

There was a classic car show on the boardwalk but we decided to go and change into our beach stuff and then come back to look at that. My family is not the swiftest at getting ready so this too a loooong time.

The beach cost $7 but it was not too crowded. The water had some algae but was pretty warm for mid-June. We did all your typical beach stuff and no one got sunburn!

We rode back to Natalie’s house ready to eat. Vanessa suggested pizza which sounded good to me. We got ready for food much faster than for the beach and drove to Scala’s over in the West End.  It was delicious! I love white broccoli pizza so I had 2 slices. A nice icy glass of coca-cola totally hit the spot with pizza and after a hot day at the beach.

We also spotted this pink Fiat that was in the car show. It’s tiny and has wicker seats! Later we saw them driving it. It had 2 adults and 3 kids in it!

Then we crossed the street to get some italian ice at Lighthouse ices. I got lemon and blue raspberry. On a side note this was like the cheapest dinner ever – $55 for dinner, drinks and dessert for 6!

Happy father's day dad Happy Father’s Day, Dad!

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