stuff and more stuff
Hmm, there's so much that I want to post about, mostly stuff that I just want to remember, not because I think anyone really cares about it. I'm feeling rather behind, like all the way back to November behind. Josh and I are still trying to figure out how to go about finding some friends in our neighborhood, but we haven't let it stop us from going out and doing things. We really like the area that we live in and we've found that we can walk to a lot of different things. Some nights we just go for walks and explore the neighborhoods and try and find areas that we might want to buy a house.
In November we headed down to Eastown to a "night before the election" Democratic party. When we first arrived there weren't many people there, which of course wasn't shocking since West Michigan is full of Republicans. Thankfully as the night went on the crowd grew. A lot of the local politicians were there and there was live music and around 10:30 the governor made an appearance. For some reason I thought that Devos might have some sort of chance, but I was wrong. Four more years of Jenny, yay! Our voting experience was less than pleasant. Our polling place is in the basement of an old folks home/apartment complex, so it was super hot and there was a rather long line. I will plan my wardrobe better for the next election.
The night before Thanksgiving we went out with Kristen and some of her friends to Mulligans. We both drank plenty, so the walk home in the cold felt like nothing.
We've been attending a decent amount of events at the Wealthy Theater. Last night we saw River City Improv. They're really funny and this is even more impressive because they're funny without anything dirty. Their shows are totally family friendly. We tried to see them last week, but we got there 15 minutes before the show started and stood in line only to have the show sell out long before we got to the door. Last night we arrived 45 minutes early and got in and got pretty good seats. I think it was in November that we attended a Vaudeville show there that was very good. In early December they had a free movie day where they showed It's a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Story. Neither of us had ever seen It's a Wonderful Life, so we went to that. It's a really cool old place and it's great to see people there and even better to see a full house.
We went and cut down a tree for our first Christmas and got our car stuck in the mud. We managed to push it out. Our tree was wonderful and only $10. We went to the Heritage Hill Neighborhood Christmas potluck and I got talking with a couple people about trees and they told us about this little place they always go for their trees.
We've been to the arena for some hockey games and for a 10 yr anniversary open house, where we got to see all the behind the scenes stuff, which honestly was not very impressive.
We've been to the Urban Institute for Comtempory Arts a few times recently. They have a great holiday artists market and we attended that to purchase a photograph of the bean from Millennium Park in Chicago. We had seen this photographer in the past at shows and had decided we wanted some of his work, but we never had enough money on us to buy it. It's now hanging in our living room. It's the only picture on the wall that's still a work in progress. I imagine we'll have the wall just perfect just in time to move out. We've also gone to a movie at UICA and will probably go to more in the future.
We have season tickets for Actors Theatre at Spectrum Theater. Our landlady is very active with the organization and directed the first play we went to back in the fall. After that show we decided to just buy season tickets. Last month we saw Tick Tick...Boom. I've been wanted to seeing it for a long time and was not disappointed. The same night as Tick Tick...Boom we went to the holiday event down on Division in the arts area. They have a bunch of galleries and live/work spaces for artists.
In past month or so we've attended a couple of events at the St Cecilia Music Society. Josh won tickets to see an awesome classical guitarists. We also went to the holiday concert for the St Cecilia community bands. It was really amusing since almost all of the band members were over the age of 60. It was fun though because it was free, it was festive and there were free cookies and punch after the concert.
For Christmas we received an art museum membership and we're looking forward to using that. I'm also looking forward to the opening of the new museum.
Right before Christmas we hosted a Christmas party at our house, which was either a great success or boring, depending on who you talk to. I had a good time and all the crap I cooked turned out, so it's a success in my book.
We also have to go ice skating down at Rosa Parks Circle a few times this winter. We kept talking about doing it last year and never made it, but since we now live within walking distance we really can't miss out again.
I'm sure I've forgotten something. I guess looking back at all of this it's no wonder I feel like I never have time to get stuff done and I don't really care much about cleaning the house. Maybe January will be slower, but not for another week. Thursday after work we're leaving for Omaha to see Josh's family for a little belated holiday celebration. We weren't able to make it for the Duggan family Christmas, but we still want to go and see everyone. We will be able to attend a holiday party at the home of some friends of Josh's mom. We had a nice time at it last year and figured if we could make it this year we'd plan for that weekend, thus we'll be off on Thursday, returning on Monday.
Oh, I almost forgot: yesterday we tried out yoga for the first time, at the new yoga place a few blocks away. We both liked it and are considering taking some classes there.
I guess I also left out all of the Gerald Ford stuff we went to, or watched or whatever. I did post about it once before and Josh posted about the lines for the viewing, so I guess you can check that if you want to know more.
In November we headed down to Eastown to a "night before the election" Democratic party. When we first arrived there weren't many people there, which of course wasn't shocking since West Michigan is full of Republicans. Thankfully as the night went on the crowd grew. A lot of the local politicians were there and there was live music and around 10:30 the governor made an appearance. For some reason I thought that Devos might have some sort of chance, but I was wrong. Four more years of Jenny, yay! Our voting experience was less than pleasant. Our polling place is in the basement of an old folks home/apartment complex, so it was super hot and there was a rather long line. I will plan my wardrobe better for the next election.
The night before Thanksgiving we went out with Kristen and some of her friends to Mulligans. We both drank plenty, so the walk home in the cold felt like nothing.
We've been attending a decent amount of events at the Wealthy Theater. Last night we saw River City Improv. They're really funny and this is even more impressive because they're funny without anything dirty. Their shows are totally family friendly. We tried to see them last week, but we got there 15 minutes before the show started and stood in line only to have the show sell out long before we got to the door. Last night we arrived 45 minutes early and got in and got pretty good seats. I think it was in November that we attended a Vaudeville show there that was very good. In early December they had a free movie day where they showed It's a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Story. Neither of us had ever seen It's a Wonderful Life, so we went to that. It's a really cool old place and it's great to see people there and even better to see a full house.
We went and cut down a tree for our first Christmas and got our car stuck in the mud. We managed to push it out. Our tree was wonderful and only $10. We went to the Heritage Hill Neighborhood Christmas potluck and I got talking with a couple people about trees and they told us about this little place they always go for their trees.
We've been to the arena for some hockey games and for a 10 yr anniversary open house, where we got to see all the behind the scenes stuff, which honestly was not very impressive.
We've been to the Urban Institute for Comtempory Arts a few times recently. They have a great holiday artists market and we attended that to purchase a photograph of the bean from Millennium Park in Chicago. We had seen this photographer in the past at shows and had decided we wanted some of his work, but we never had enough money on us to buy it. It's now hanging in our living room. It's the only picture on the wall that's still a work in progress. I imagine we'll have the wall just perfect just in time to move out. We've also gone to a movie at UICA and will probably go to more in the future.
We have season tickets for Actors Theatre at Spectrum Theater. Our landlady is very active with the organization and directed the first play we went to back in the fall. After that show we decided to just buy season tickets. Last month we saw Tick Tick...Boom. I've been wanted to seeing it for a long time and was not disappointed. The same night as Tick Tick...Boom we went to the holiday event down on Division in the arts area. They have a bunch of galleries and live/work spaces for artists.
In past month or so we've attended a couple of events at the St Cecilia Music Society. Josh won tickets to see an awesome classical guitarists. We also went to the holiday concert for the St Cecilia community bands. It was really amusing since almost all of the band members were over the age of 60. It was fun though because it was free, it was festive and there were free cookies and punch after the concert.
For Christmas we received an art museum membership and we're looking forward to using that. I'm also looking forward to the opening of the new museum.
Right before Christmas we hosted a Christmas party at our house, which was either a great success or boring, depending on who you talk to. I had a good time and all the crap I cooked turned out, so it's a success in my book.
We also have to go ice skating down at Rosa Parks Circle a few times this winter. We kept talking about doing it last year and never made it, but since we now live within walking distance we really can't miss out again.
I'm sure I've forgotten something. I guess looking back at all of this it's no wonder I feel like I never have time to get stuff done and I don't really care much about cleaning the house. Maybe January will be slower, but not for another week. Thursday after work we're leaving for Omaha to see Josh's family for a little belated holiday celebration. We weren't able to make it for the Duggan family Christmas, but we still want to go and see everyone. We will be able to attend a holiday party at the home of some friends of Josh's mom. We had a nice time at it last year and figured if we could make it this year we'd plan for that weekend, thus we'll be off on Thursday, returning on Monday.
Oh, I almost forgot: yesterday we tried out yoga for the first time, at the new yoga place a few blocks away. We both liked it and are considering taking some classes there.
I guess I also left out all of the Gerald Ford stuff we went to, or watched or whatever. I did post about it once before and Josh posted about the lines for the viewing, so I guess you can check that if you want to know more.