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Number 1: Celebrate Random/Awesome Holidays

I had to make an early morning trip to the grocery store to buy waffle mix (and whipped cream – not essential, but essential, you know?) to make it happen, but we rang in International Waffle Day with a tasty waffle breakfast!

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by Sarah G on March 26, 2012 • Permalink

Posted in A List: Spring 2012, food

Posted by Sarah G on March 26, 2012

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A List: Things To Do This Spring

Here’s what’s going to happen this spring!

~~Celebrate random (/awesome) holidays often – i.e. National Cheese Fondue Day, Scrabble Day, Hug an Australian Day, National Limerick Day, etc~~… DONE & DONE &
Restart my running habit – one race per month from May to October!
Visit the Harvard Museum of Natural History ($1 discount with Charlie Card – free Sundays before noon – free the first weekend of the month with Bank of America credit or debit card) DONE!
Attend a live taping of Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! DONE!
Rearrange and decorate the bedroom
Look into (and start?) volunteering at the Quincy Animal Shelter
Ride my bike to Nut Island on a beautiful day DONE!
Get a burger at Mr. Bartley’s DONE!

It’s getting harder and harder to make these lists! Is it possible that I’m running out of things to do in and around Boston? Yikes. I need to find a sponsor so that I can add more out of town things to my lists. Who’s got some money for me?! ;)

What’s on your to do list this spring?

Need some inspiration for your own Seasonal To Do List? Check out some of my past lists!
Winter 2012
Fall 2011
Summer 2011
Spring 2011

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by Sarah G on March 20, 2012 • Permalink

Posted in A List: Spring 2012

Posted by Sarah G on March 20, 2012

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(Almost) Seventy

What do you do for someone who is turning seventy and has everything he wants? You tell him that one sister-in-law, one brother-in-law, one daughter, one son-in-law, two granddaughters, and one grandson are coming to visit. And then when you show up, there are actually three daughters, three granddaughters, two son-in-laws (sons-in-law?), one sister-in-law, one brother-in-law, one son, and one grandson. Plus some fancy Scotch, a delicious homemade olive oil and grapefruit cake, and tasty Italian pastries.

Thanks for being born, Dad, and thanks for being an amazing person and a great father!

I’m a Modern Girl

Since I’m back posting, I can reveal my secret without spoiling surprises! After work, I walked over to the North End to wait in line at Modern Pastry and buy cannolis as a 70th birthday gift for my Dad.

The TSA will definitely inspect your checked bag if it has in it a soft sided cooler with two ice packs and three coffee cups full of cannoli filling, and they will leave you a little (love?) note saying that they’re watching you, but they will not confiscate anything. Lucky us, because I think everyone enjoyed the cannolis…it turns out it’s pretty hard to find good ones in Bumpass, VA. ;)

Beauty as Duty

I was at the MFA for a work event in honor of Women’s History Month…in addition to a guided tour, there was networking with other ladies from work, wine, and some cheese (and crackers and veggies, but I think we all know that I only cared about the cheese). Anyway, we were given a tour of the Beauty as Duty exhibit by the woman that curated the exhibit, which was pretty awesome and has completely spoiled me for seeing museum exhibits any other way. How do I get curator led tours all the time? I need to work on making that happen.

I knew as soon as I walked into the room that I would love this exhibit. I’ve been wholly immersed lately in books and TV shows set in Britain, set anywhere in the few years before WWI to just after WWII (Downton Abbey and Maisie Dobbs, anyone?), so of course it would happen that the exhibit we were seeing was about WWII Britain! I had to laugh as I realized it, as I had RSVP’d to the event without paying any attention to what we would actually be seeing at the museum. After I walked into the room, I turned to the wall with the exhibit write up (Is there a technical term for that? You know what I’m talking about – the bigger blurb on the wall right at the start?), and there was a photo of Winston Churchill – by Yousuf Karsh, hands down one of my favorite portrait photographers. Clearly I was meant to see this exhibit!

If you’re in Boston, check the exhibit out! I’m pretty sure it will be interesting, even if you don’t get a guided tour from the curator…plus, I accept bribes (small ones work, I’m easy) and would be happy to see it again and share my knowledge! ;)

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