since i had two 14 hour car trips and a weeks worth of visiting in memphis to do last week, i decided to embark on a personal project, entitled ‘knit ALL the things‘. the name is in homage to hyperbole and a half, which if you haven’t seen it i think you’re missing out. your views may differ, but i find her hilarious.

anyhow, i brought 8 projects ( Read more... )

i can't even believe it's over already and that we're back in mass. and we even came back a day later than we originally planned to. we left last tuesday night, and had a quick awesome drive thanks to husband. we do it at night with the boy, leaving after dinner and pjs so he falls asleep quickly and sleeps the whole way. makes for a tired night ( Read more... )

i can't believe it's nearly the christmas season already. i say nearly so as to specifically note that it is NOT YET CHRISTMAS. it really kills my spirit to see people rushing it -- i've seen decorations up for weeks and holiday shit in stores for the same time. our neighbor even decorated their house this weekend. i love thanksgiving and i hate ( Read more... )

we went to boston this weekend to see family. it was nice to be home. some visits i go up and i don't miss new england at all, and others? i wish i was back. this was one of those ( Read more... )

this weekend we went up to boston to visit my parents; we hadn't had a chance to do that yet, since we went to memphis for christmas this year. it was an awesome time, but nothing went as planned. alex got sick on tuesday, head cold sick. wednesday it sounded worse so the doctor wanted to do rsv testing and chest x-rays. all was well, so we bundled ( Read more... )

we went to memphis for christmas this year. it was a nice visit, even though it's always difficult not to spend the holidays with my family. old habits are hard to change, but it's nice to experience christmas with my new extended family as well ( Read more... )

cnn has a great article on lowell mass and it's connection to jack kerouac today - it took me back a little. i remember when this barnes and noble was even built, back when i was still going to school there. we were all a little bummed that they weren't putting a new bar in that building downtown, but it was a nice bookstore anyways ( Read more... )

at least i'm going to try to keep it short. i had visions of recounting an hour by hour outline of the journey, but my memory (much like my liver damage) has faded :)

first, pictures here - click on any to see the whole album!


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ok, so the flight back wasn't the magical experience of the trip out, but it landed and that's a positive. and it wasn't so bad to re-freak me out about flying again in general, so that's also a positive. the fact that it was like we were driving on a gravel road with lots of pits was not positive, but what does one do, flying in the summer over ( Read more... )

so last weekend we went up to bawston, just for a little while, and for a very special reason. :) we went to visit with shuelaces and jeppo at their baby shower, and got to meet little callie ruth! what a beauty, and so small and cute! it was hard not to fall right in love with her :) it was so great to see sue and jeff too, it'd been far, far too long since we' ( Read more... )