I totally didn't see Easter coming this year. We don't really "celebrate" Easter at our house. When Dominic was really little we did the whole Easter basket thing, and all that, but these days... well, it's just too much effort and it seems like no point. There's some good candy on sale right after, so there's that, but Easter itself? Meh ( 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... )

So last night we went to the next-door neighbors' house for their NYE party. We had a great time, and since we just had to walk one house over to get home, we drank more than we typically would, too (at least I did). I was only drinking wine, so it crept up on me really slowly. It didn't feel like I was drinking that much, but by the time we got ( Read more... )

We were invited to our friends Kim and Pete's house for a New Year's Eve party and we RSVP'd to the evite that yes, we'd come. And we'd spend the night, since it's an hour and a half away. But since then we've noticed that of the 11 people who RSVP'd yes, we didn't know hardly anyone. Pretty much everyone we actually knew had RSVP'd no. I mean, we ( Read more... )

My friend Chris (who lives in Cali) is about to make a trip to Tucson and has agreed to go to St. Mary's Tortilla Factory and buy me 3 dozen large tortillas (they're like 15-16" across according to the lady on the phone) and mail them to me here in Massachusetts. I'll freeze some so they keep... I'm so excited. It's going to be like Christmas! Oh ( Read more... )

Ok, so my friend hnybny and her husband had dinner plans to go out for Chinese with some other friends of theirs, but the plans fell through due to the other friends not wanting to drive that far (she is gluten free so they couldn't really change the restaurant--this is one that has a gluten free menu)... I said that Dan and I would go for Chinese with ( Read more... )

Well, it's Christmas again! Seems to have creeped up on us this year. It doesn't feel like Christmas since there isn't any snow and we didn't decorate this year (Dominic is spending the holiday with Rob in Virginia and we didn't see the point).

Here is a cute ecard for all of my online friends.I woke up around 10:30am which is about an hour and a ( Read more... )

Wednesday at work we had our departmental holiday party. I brought a broccoli casserole which was 90% eaten and some homemade fudge which was about 75% eaten, so I guess I chose well enough. The party was fun, it was nice to socialize. After the party everyone was reminded to gather the dishes they'd brought. I had a big casserole dish with a lid ( Read more... )

So yesterday we went over to the next-door neighbors' house around 2:30pm with two bottles of wine. They had some family over as well, and we were introduced around. Everyone was very friendly and we had a nice time chatting with people and having a couple of drinks before dinner. Dinner was very good, and they had a "nut roll" kind of thing for ( Read more... )

About a year ago we discovered that our next-door neighbors weren't exactly strangers. Dan was coming home from a walk and they were working in the yard and the wife looked up at Dan and they had a moment of "I know you! Where do I know you from?" before realizing that they both worked at the hospital in Framingham. She's a nurse there (in the ER, ( Read more... )