So this weekend was my birthday party. We rented a 2 bedroom suite at the Residence Inn in Framingham (it had a full kitchen and a fireplace, even! Though the fireplace made it too hot in the room) and invited over a bunch of our friends and family to celebrate my 40th bithday pajama style ( Read more... )

So I got a new Droid 3 because the screen was becoming unresponsive on my original one. I thought I had backed everything up properly, but it turns out that A) a few apps need to be backed up within the app, not with MyBackup Pro (app), and B) I backed up the apps but not the data. So I had to temporarily reactivate my old phone to redo the backups ( Read more... )

You know, when I was much younger, I envisioned life starting to sort of... "wind down" starting around 40. Like that is when you would start to become less active, start doing old people things, and stop going out and having fun. Boy was I wrong. Aging is a totally different experience from what I assumed it would be. I turned 40 today and I feel ( Read more... )

Saturday night my friend Melissa had invited a bunch of her friends to go out with her to a bar in Boston. My friends Cheryl and Gary were going to go but not drink and not stay later than midnight, so I asked if they wouldn't mind if I rode with them (leaving my car at their house) and they said sure. We grabbed the EZ-Pass out of my car since we ( Read more... )

I had a pretty productive day. I did the dishes and wiped down the counters, finished some laundry, painted the edges of two canvases for the show black (the print of "Being Art" and also "Pixie's Itch" both still had white edges, which is a no-no for hanging in a gallery). I went to the bank to deposit some checks and remembered to get cash out ( Read more... )

Our friend Katie lives in Boston. Well, in Brookline, but it's close enough. She was in Dan's class in podiatry school and is doing her residency at Beth Israel. We go into the city to hang out with her every few months--it's never often enough and we always say we need to do it again sooner, but then schedules get in the way. Alas ( Read more... )

Joyce (Dan's mom) and Jay and I left around 12:30 on Friday to drive up to the cottage in New Hampshire. Dominic and Dan drove up later after Dominic got out of school and Dan got off work. We stopped by Brandeis University, where I work, to pick up my laptop from the help desk where they were trying to figure out why it was running so slowly. It ( Read more... )

So yesterday was Dominic's birthday. Hard to believe it, but he's 16 years old now, which is the magical age in Massachusetts for getting a learner's permit for driving. We're going today after he gets out of school to get the permit As part of our present to him we're going up to New Hampshire this weekend to the New Hampshire Highland Games at ( Read more... )