( Christmas with the Fam )

So the parents are at a hotel with grandma till the power is back on...which might happen Monday or Tuesday. A falling tree hit my dad's car, but luckily the house was spared. And everyone's OK.

Meanwhile, we've been having rain and SUNSHINE on and off here. Weirdo 128 dividing line, in action.

I saw this report on channel 5 when I was at the gym earlier, and I thought it was kind of cool. Worcester moved some of its polling places into supermarkets, to avoid disrupting the local schools. I am about 75% sure that one of the stores they showed was the Stop & Shop down the street from my parents' house. Also, this one guy they interviewed ( Read more... )

( Long and not very happy... )

So today was the surprise party for my Dad and my Aunt Kathleen, who both turn 60 this year. It was the typical family gathering...too much food, about a dozen slightly hyper children, and cake. Mmm, cake.

Afterward some of us ended up at my Grandma's. I was telling her how my hairdresser went back to school, and somehow she misunderstood my need ( Read more... )

Sunday afternoon Tiff and I headed to my Grandma's for what was billed as an "impromptu" ham dinner. In most people's vocabulary, "impromptu" implies that there was little preparation and it'll probably be pretty low-key. At Grandma's house, it means a ham (with glaze and pineapple), a huge pan full of potatoes, carrots, and onions, steamed ( Read more... )

Apparently the people who live down the street from my parents had an interesting morning. I used to babysit for their kids when I was in high school. (This year, their oldest is graduating high school. Who feels old?) Lucky for me, the fiercest creature in the backyard in those days was their dog, Guinness.

Back on May 17th, Mass Equality started running television ads in honor of the anniversary of gay marriage. With the ConCon vote coming up in two days, and the potential for gay marriage to be on the ballot in 2008, the ads seem to be running more often lately. I went to their site today to read a bit about the one ad I keep seeing, about this ( Read more... )

So, my hometown is in the national news, because this couple from Worcester and their 3-year-old daughter got booted off an AirTran flight from Florida due to the child's "unruly behavior". But depending on whose version you read, the poor kid might have been scared to fly home, because the flight to Florida was likely painful for her due to recent ( Read more... )

I sort of don't want to be writing this entry, as it means that I am admitting that vacation is almost OVER. Sigh. Maybe by Tuesday I will have psyched myself up about going back to work, but I have my doubts.

Rather than bore you with a blow-by-blow account of my last week and a half, we'll go with the highlights:

- Babysitting Josh last Friday and ( Read more... )