Frederick Towne

Been home since Friday night...loads has been going on. So much, in fact, that it's been hard to keep up. Every time I come back, everything changes. Is that both comforting and threatening?

the new: frederick cellars

the old: a strawberry lemonade martini and a peartini at tasting room

Mini-Break

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Taking the weekend to go back to my quaint Southern town to play with old friends. These friends are very different, but much loved and treasured. It's almost like I lived a different life when I knew them, and even though we're running off at 100 mph in every direction, I love & cherish the times when we get to play together.

Til I post the photos...

Brooklyn. Union Hall. 2 AM Club.

Funny thing, the four of us live in Manhattan and we go to Brooklyn for a concert. We can't go to Pianos?

On Myspace.

At Union Hall in Park Slope, Brooklyn

Yes. There was Bocce, you guessed right.

blonde girls acting like groupies
(anna sui top w/ major bra strap violation)

Today...I Won The Grand Prize in Bingo.

As if the day couldn't get more successful, I had to go win the big grand prize at Bingo at Black Bear Bar in Hoboken, NJ. I unpacked more of my delicate items and I had a battle royale with three intricately tangled necklaces - 1 fishhook, 1 teal beads, 1 tusk necklace. I seriously didn't think it was going to be untangled and then, miraculously, a (1/2 hr later), I was able to get them all untangled and I actually made the tusk necklace more wearable. I sincerely thought that was going to be my biggest accomplishment today. Apparently not - besides the necklace affair, I did laundry, finally unpacked the rest of the bathroom stuff, AND WON A TAILGATING CHAIR IN BINGO.

My dinner. Healthy, right?
(shown, mini burgers, french fries, whiskey sour)

Full on minis

Alex is mad - we've all won bingo except for him.

With my prize (said chair) and my winning bingo mat.

I now have a chair for wherever I need to go. The PATH wasn't full, but I wasn't about to let this thing go. I get uncomfy, I can just pull out my MILLER LITE tailgating chair. Thanks Black Bear, for making me more lazy than I already am.
(gap sweatshirt, theory shirt, forev 21 pants, fringe boots, yee haw)

Meeting with grad school advisor tomorrow morning at LIU...

Celeb-Spotting: Ben Bailey...again

Only in New York. I saw the comic Ben Bailey (of "Cash Cab" fame) on Saturday night, and now that it's Tuesday and I'm out...obviously I would run into him again.

l to r: Chris, Ben Bailey, Rachel, Samantha, Catie, Jason

Catie Dishes Flashback: Sixteen Again

So, I did something today that people only do when they are bored. I googled myself. Yes, google. I usually google "Catie Nastovici" but this time I used my (full) first name and...the findings were sublime. I discovered the web page I had designed for my then-boyfriend's spoof (maybe? It seems logical) rap group (funny, because he was probably the biggest Reel Big Fish fan ever) "7 Thugs and a Minivan". I won't post the website here (embarassing) but the photos are a precious time capsule of my sixteen year old self...I thought I knew everything...I now know I know nothing.

Sixteen-year-old me with then-boyfriend Jason
I believe I had pink hair and braces (that's why there's no smile on my part) at this point.

Friend Kedre with then-boyfriend Nick
On this night, we were running around the new Best Buy in our town (Frederick, MD)
while I took black and white pictures for my photography class.
Brian and Chris...probably ogling a DVD

Brian, Chris and Jason at Chris's house...I remember spending a lot of time in this dwelling

I think at some point I'm going to retroactively post pictures of myself in high school or post stories of myself in college...I need to find a scanner!

Sunday Sunday (Swimming) Sunday!!

Great day today y'all.
I think I love Sundays more than any other day of the week.

Today, Alex, David & I needed to get up to the old apartment to take down some blackout shades. The new place is so bright, which I thought was good, when we were looking at apartments. Now, I feel like it's just really annoying to wake up 8 AM when you don't want to.

We also went to the Greenflea flea market, where I proceeded to deprive myself of $41...for asparagus ($4), jelly doughnuts (I historically love them) and french bread ($5), spinach ($3), half sour pickles (my weakness) ($6), shelling peas ($3), 2 lbs of ground water buffalo meat ($16...I know, 'spensive) and a block of buffalo ravello cheese (I did not pay for it). I also bought an antique key ($4) that I (preventing any laziness on my part) want to make into a necklace.

pretty/ugly picture of the greens (and key) i bought today. I love how all the green looks...

We then trekked it back to our glorious new place and put on bathing suits (!!!) to swim, drink Coors Lights, chat, play Buzz Time Trivia on PS2, and drink Dark and Stormy-s for the rest of the day with our amazing friends Kevin and Laura (and Skyy, let's be honest)...

Alex and I on the ferry coming back from Port Imperial, NJ

(vintage sunglasses, vintage earrings, Theory tank top, Syracuse - logo shorts - go cuse)

Moving Day...again? already?

In the grand tradition of Catie and Alex moving every year to a swanky new apartment in a new neighborhood, here we are, moving from our amazing apartment on the Upper West Side to a doorman building + rooftop deck + laundry room abode in Hell's Kitchen.

Living room...boxes and boxes and boxes.
(mostly my stuff)

More of our precious things in our kitchen/hallway...

David painting my closet...and the rest of my apartment

In our new apartment at last...pictures coming soon!

Night Out with the Funnies on 14th

First off, pardon the quality of these pictures, but I forgot my camera tonight! Alex found cheap tix to a Ben Bailey ("that cash cab guy") comedy show at Comix on 14th & 9th tonight so we're off.

Two chicken tacos from El Idolo Mexican food truck on 14th and 8th

Jim Gaffigan (surprise guest...talked about whales), Nick Stevens and finally, Ben Bailey.

After which, we headed off to Max Brenner's at 14th & Broadway.
I really wanted a banana split, but it's REALLY HARD to get something off-menu at this choco joint. They have bananas, ice cream, and chocolate, and sprinkles. Make me a banana split.
I got banana waffles instead.

Going out for an interview at Columbia!

Hooray! Since I got into grad school, I've been trying to fill up my summer with something to do (and maybe look good on my resume too? is that too much to ask?)...so I interviewed to teach ESL at Community Impact! at Columbia University. Here I am, off to the interview at 116th & Broadway.

I love this outfit, so here I am. Great confidence today.
(wearing steve madden wedges, a silk banana republic dress, botkier purse, glass stone necklace my dad got me from Florida)

Fishing Day in the Adirondacks

Another beautiful day (but still too cold for flip flops)...

Between Turtle and Sprang Ponds

The boys...fishing in the pitch-perfect pond.

Alex and youngest brother David. Looking almost alike, they blend into their dangerous Adirondack habitat.

All that work today and still no fish! They left, bought fishing licenses, and latched the canoe to the car. All day, and NO FISH. I get hungry by the end of the day...we ended up having steak :) (all photos courtesy of J. Sonneborn)

The last 2 hours

The last two hours of my life have been spent looking up skirts...specifically ann demeulemeester and dries van noten skirts. After being a dress girl for the past two years (easy, effortless) i've been thinking i want to tack up my style quotient on this my 23rd year...

a typical ann demeulemeester skirt, beautiful and basic and lovely

I had a lovely day today though. I'm in Green Pond (Adirondacks, Upper New York State), enjoying my relaxing Memorial Day Weekend. It's consistently my favorite weekend of the year...

at Donnelly's Ice Cream in Donnelly's Corners (Route 86). Memorial Day 2007.

My man's family owns a cabin up here (on Green Pond, nearish to Saranac Lake and Lake Placid) and every Memorial Day (this is my third time, wow) we come up and indulge in a) Gap Outlet/Bass shopping (I know it's silly but we all love it and there's ALWAYS deals...) b) Taking in a movie in the super-old movie house in Lake Placid (no cash) c) "Opening Weekend" at Donnelly's Ice Cream (no cash) d) Smores on the fire(place) f) Hiking/Fishing/Canoeing/Sailing...tomorrow we're going fishing & picnicing for lunch!

Mmm...Weekend

Up at the Adirondacks for the weekend...

Awesome pictures, I thought. Alex...hmm...not so much.

The "sun" was "burning" Alex's retinas, here enjoying some red raspberry ice cream at Donnelly's.
p.s. do you loooove my Adirondacks garb?

Alex and David in a little little picnic table

Alex trying...unsuccessfully...to ease into a baby chair

I'm weird and I actually like taxidermy, but this is too...accurate.

The men taking out the canoe

Syracuse Commencement Weekend!

Sooo, I'm finally putting up pictures from the Syracuse grad weekend that was May 9-10, 2009. It was held in the Carrier Dome and the commencement speaker was Vice President Joe Biden!


My "little" and all my other sisters from Phi Sig graduated this year...and it's just so weird thinking that I'm two years out of school and I remember these girls when they were just getting into the house as little freshmen and...I'm rambling. But I love them, and my boyfriend's brother Matt, who graduated with a Masters degree in Communications and Rhetorical Studies!

Secret Service...hawt.

Aww Matt!

VP Biden...speaking his speech...

A happy grad & fam & roommate. Matt will be off to the University of Colorado-Boulder for his Ph.D. in the fall!


For a video of Biden's speech...click here.

My thoughts exactly

Before I post the videos and pictures from Tulane and Syracuse and Columbia graduations respectively...here's something funny.