Leyre – more to come, I promise!
This is Leyre’s nephew, Gabe.
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Gabe
Posted by Sarah G on August 15, 2009
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River Views
I love my walk home from the trolley after work. Yup, yup I do.
Posted by Sarah G on August 14, 2009
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Shhhhhhh….I didn’t take this picture!
From here. But you never saw this. ;)
Posted by Sarah G on August 13, 2009
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10 on Tuesday
- Where to begin….since Pete just fired up the 360 for some Netflix viewing, let’s start there. Pete and I recently added Dhani Tackles the Globe to our instant queue and have been watching it more or less non stop since then (we’re about to finish the first season and have to wait a year for the 2nd – boooooo). Yeah, I’ve got a crush on him. Not even a crush really, I just want to be his best friend and travel the world with him. I’ll let him do the “tackling” of new sports. This minor obsession has only been furthered by the fact that a friend of of a friend was hit on and taken out to dinner by Dhani around Christmas and is going on her first official date with him soon…I want her to date him, and then I want to weasel my way into his life and be his best friend. This could TOTALLY WORK. Right?
- Speaking of Netflix on the 360, we just downloaded the updates so that we can now browse Netflix and select movies directly from the XBox (previously we could only access what we’d already placed in our instant queue). Could my life possibly get lazier? And awesomer? Seriously, we love streaming Netflix. It has completely ruined us for watching live TV and having to sit through commercials.
- Those apples up there, in case you’re wondering, are the ones I bought from the fruit guy outside South Station this morning. You get 3 pieces of fruit for $1.25, and I stop and get fruit every once in a while when I’m trying to be healthy. Sometimes it works!
- I had a really, really awesome weekend last weekend. It was my first since early March that I didn’t have to do a training walk! I guess officially last last weekend was the first I didn’t have to walk, but I had about 14 hours of driving and two weddings that weekend so I don’t think that counts.
- We kicked off the weekend by heading to Tavolo Friday night to hang out at the bar, eat delicious dinner (CANNOT go wrong with the spaghetti alla vodka), and watch the Red Sox game. It was nice to relax with good food and good wine (and good people watching, since the Sox watching wasn’t so hot), and Pete isn’t a big fan of their menu so I was pretty excited when he asked if I wanted to go there for dinner.
- On Saturday, we headed to Boston Common – with our brand new $10 camp chairs, snacks, and a Sigg bottle full of wine – to see Shakespeare on the Common. This year is The Comedy of Errors, and it was quite entertaining. Totally worth the (free) price of admission!
- Sunday night we took our camp chairs out again (gotta get our money’s worth!) and went to see Boston Landmarks Orchestra at the park up the street. This was not quite as entertaining, but it was still fun and nice to get out. Plus, we were home in time for Pete to catch the kickoff of the first football game of the season (Which he watched about 20 minutes of, because really? Who cares about the Hall of Fame game? I think he was just excited to see football on TV).
- Barley has been very snuggly with me lately. This is very uncharacteristic of him, he usually prefers to snuggle Pete, but both today and yesterday he jumped into Pete’s lap and walked right across it to settle into mine! I’ll take it, even if it means I end up covered in a layer of fur when he gets up. We may need to invest in a furminator.
- I still haven’t unpacked from WI. Is that a problem? I mean, most of the stuff has found it’s way out of the bag…but the bag is still sitting there on the floor of the bedroom with half a dozen things still in it…
- And now it’s bed time!
Posted by Sarah G on August 11, 2009
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10 on Tuesday
1. Let’s start with the picture(s), shall we? I didn’t have one I liked from today, and I couldn’t pick just one from Wisconsin, so here’s a collection of the non-wedding portions of our trip. Click on the following links for full size versions of each photo… (starting in the center and then moving L-R, top to bottom) 1. Soy, 2. Sunny, singing, 3. Cooking, 4. The Drive: part 1, 5. Rain Drops, 6. The Drive: part 3, 7. Trout Pond, 8. Pete, on a plane, 9. Toby, 10. Barn Quilt 3 (and cow), 11. Fields of Gold, 12. The Drive: part 4, 13. Holly Dolly
2. Things I’m currently excited about: sleeping in my own bed again, not driving anywhere for a while, not having to do training walks in the near future.
3. Things I’m currently NOT excited about: the amount of stuff I’ve been putting off until this past weekend was behind me, returning to my furry alarm clocks, having to cook for ourselves again.
4. Let’s catch up…it was 4th of July when I was last posting regularly, and a lot has happened since then! I spent the following weekend doing back to back 16 mile training walks. The next weekend my friends Pat and Becky were in town from DC, and we spent a lot of time catching up and a little time out enjoying the weather on George’s Island. And then it was the 3 Day, on which you can read my thoughts here. Needless to say, I survived, and headed out three days later to Wisconsin for our Wisconsin Wedding Weekend Wackiness. Let’s give that it’s own number, shall we?
5. Wisconsin Wedding Weekend Wackiness…that involved flying to Madison on Wed and spending Wed night, Thursday, and Friday morning in Fort Atkinson with Pete’s family before driving to Milwaukee for a wedding (Pete’s friend from high school) Friday night. Wedding fun, then a little sleep, then on the road by 7:45 Saturday morning to drive “up North” to River Falls, WI – about 6 hours including pit stops. We got there and found a number of friends in the hotel lobby and did some very very quick catching up before we had to grab lunch and get changed for the wedding. More wedding fun, and then Sunday morning we were up early (we are incapable of sleeping in) and spent as much time as possible with our out of town friends before we all had to head our separate ways. We dropped Mails at the Minneapolis/St Paul airport and then headed back “down South” (haha, I’m making up my own WI slang now!) to Fort Atkinson. We got to Pete’s parents around 8:30 and grabbed some dinner (brats, of course!) while I transferred photos and did a quick sort to show them, and then it was bedtime. Monday we headed back to the Madison airport around 11:30, had lunch, had two uneventful and on time flights, and made it home around 8:45. In one word: whirlwind. In two: too short.
6. I won’t go into highlights from the weddings, but I will share this funny story. At the second reception, for our friends Whit and Ed (the Johnsons!), Whit’s father and mother got up to give a toast. I’m a crier, but this speech could easily have made a non-crier cry. Ed’s friend and groomsman Kendal was sitting next to me and hadn’t heard something Whit’s dad said – he asked me what it was and I said “I didn’t hear it, I was busy crying!” Kendal was surprised, and I explained that I’m an easy crier – I cry at Friendly’s commercials – but weddings really get me. He thought that was funny. And then Ed got up to give his toast. About half way through, Kendal looked over at me said “gosh, you weren’t kidding were you?!” and offered me a handkerchief because there were tears streaming down my cheeks. Yeah, I wasn’t kidding. But Ed’s toast was incredibly cry worthy. I mean, he thanked Whitney’s parents for her. Come on!
7. The crying, towards the end of the weekend, was exacerbated by tiredness. Pete flipped on to Mighty Ducks before we left for the airport Monday morning, and yeah…I cried at Mighty Ducks. This should, in no way, demean the toasts by Whit’s parents or Ed. I wasn’t so tired then, that was honest tears. Mighty Ducks, I hope, was tired tears. July was a very busy month, and the 3 Day alone was exhausting and emotional, and then to head straight out for our whirlwind Wisconsin Wedding Weekend Wackiness which had me even more exhausted by the end of it…. tired only begins to describe it.
8. I mentioned the long list of things I’ve been putting off until “after the wedding weekend”. Training for the 3 Day sucked me dry of energy this year, and I knew I wouldn’t have time to recover from that before our vacation. I had hoped that our vacation, despite the two weddings, would be full of naps and relaxing whenever weddings weren’t involved, but that wasn’t the case. But this weekend…this weekend I won’t be setting alarm (and possibly over feeding the cats Friday night as I think that’s the only way to shut off the furry alarms…shh, don’t tell Pete!), and I’ll be staying in my PJs as long as I’d like, and maybe I’ll even nap in the afternoons…and then next weekend perhaps I’ll start on that “work on after vacation” list I’ve got in my head.
9. Now that I’m not walking anymore, and after flying, driving, and sleeping in beds that aren’t my own for a few nights, my body is crying out for yoga. Lots and lots of yoga. Perhaps I need to hit this up next Monday.
10. The cats have been very happy to have us home, and Barley has been following Pete around the house and settling on top of him whenever he’s stationary for more than a few minutes. It’s rather adorable. In fact, Barley’s already in bed with Pete, and I’m off to join them!
Posted by Sarah G on August 5, 2009
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