Pre-July 4th Update
One week...not too shabby. Ok, I am going to say that I am going to make this (relatively) brief because for some reason I am just beat. Not literally, but I think I need a good night's rest after this weekend.
This weekend was entirely awesome. Friday (hey, the evening counts as a weekend) it was still hot and muggy, so it wasn't the greatest weather, but it was definitely nice enough to play softball. I picked up Jose after work and we went to play softball with our Ivy Alumni League - our team is so cool. They are all just a great bunch of people. Anyways, we played Stanford, and it was a good game. First we were up by a couple, then they were up by a couple, and when the last pitch was thrown, we were victorious 10-7! I, in a feat that will probably never be repeated, went 3-3 and had 2 RBI. Seriously, last year, the entire season I got maybe 2 hits and never batted a single person in. So this game was nothing short of a miracle. :) Then Jose and I went to have dinner at another friend, Jessica's, apartment, which was nice. We all just hung out, and I got to meet Jose's new boyfriend! He's really sweet. I brought the dessert - cheesecake with strawberries. It got pretty high marks from everyone. Plus, it was the only thing I could think of that I could make without turning on the oven! No way I'd want to do that when it's 90 degrees out!
Saturday was one of the best days ever. My friend Rob had wanted to go strawberry picking (it's one of his family's traditions) so we planned to do that and also make a day of it by going to the beach north of Boston (the north shore...). We both picked a ton of strawberries, stowed them in the car, and then headed to the beach for fun in the sun. I had been to the beach in Mexico over Thanksgiving, but this was almost better because the sun wasn't as strong, so you could sit out and be warm but not bake. The water was like ice!!! As it would be on the north side of Boston in June! I sat in the sun and thought of not much, and finished re reading Harry Potter 2. it was really the ultimate escape day. ahhhhh. Today I volunteered at the science museum and then went to the mall next door and sat outside and finished rereading Harry Potter 3. Only GoF to go before I get to HP 5!! I walked around the actual mall for a while...I saw some v. cute things at J.Crew, but they weren't quite right fitting and/or too expensive, so all I got was a racerback tank at Old Navy. It just seems recently that all the things I really like are too expensive, and all the cheaper on sale things aren't quite right in some way, and even some of the things I do like just aren't quite right - like I can think of ways that I would improve them to make them more like something I would like better. oh well! not like I'm hurting for clothes anyways. ;)
So, going further back to last week - Monday I had orchestra rehersal, Tuesday I went to the free concert by Guster in downtown Boston. GREAT show. I went with some friends and a coworker, and we ran into another coworker while we were at the show! I had no idea she was coming. I asked her if she had all the Guster albums, and she did, and she burned them all for me! So now I have the complete works of Guster. :) The concert was a whole lot of fun because finally, finally the weather did in fact become nice and sunny and hot, and it was just perfect for an outdoor concert in the summer. Wednesday was errand day - it was just getting too hot, so I decided I needed a fan. So I went on a Tar-jay adventure. I bought an overpriced fan at Target as well as some turquoise thong sandals (v. cute). Then I went over to the mall next door, and found the fan I really wanted (a 16' on a stand) for $15 cheaper than the Target one (it came with a remote...oooh. no, not so much). So I bought the fan at CVS, and also bought some swimming supplies (I went swimming and the chlorine almost killed me, so I needed goggles) and then went back to return the fan to Target. I also bought HP 3 and 4 in paperback to round out my collection. :) Needless to say, I did not quite make it to the gym that night. Then there was Thursday, where I went to the gym, grocery shopping, gas station, and then home to make the dessert for Friday's dinner (Jello nobake cheesecake...but don't tell Jose it came from a box!). Oh, and then there was work. It's just one thing after another...we're dealing with this database, but every time we turn around there's some other issue, and it didn't help that our two bosses on the project were out of town 3 and 4 days of the week. sigh I was also helping to research some of the data sources we're using, and that was interesting. But of course the main part of the project that I'm supposed to be doing didn't even get started last week, which was a bit of a disappointment to my manager, but since the database isn't ready, there's not a whole lot I can do about it. Well, we'll see how it goes this week. It's going to be a fairly short one too - I'm doing a 4 day weekend for the 4th, going back to Chicago on the evening of the 2nd. It'll be really nice to see my family again. :) and whichever friends are around!
so now you're up to date...gee, that was a short one, wasn't it? ;)
One week...not too shabby. Ok, I am going to say that I am going to make this (relatively) brief because for some reason I am just beat. Not literally, but I think I need a good night's rest after this weekend.
This weekend was entirely awesome. Friday (hey, the evening counts as a weekend) it was still hot and muggy, so it wasn't the greatest weather, but it was definitely nice enough to play softball. I picked up Jose after work and we went to play softball with our Ivy Alumni League - our team is so cool. They are all just a great bunch of people. Anyways, we played Stanford, and it was a good game. First we were up by a couple, then they were up by a couple, and when the last pitch was thrown, we were victorious 10-7! I, in a feat that will probably never be repeated, went 3-3 and had 2 RBI. Seriously, last year, the entire season I got maybe 2 hits and never batted a single person in. So this game was nothing short of a miracle. :) Then Jose and I went to have dinner at another friend, Jessica's, apartment, which was nice. We all just hung out, and I got to meet Jose's new boyfriend! He's really sweet. I brought the dessert - cheesecake with strawberries. It got pretty high marks from everyone. Plus, it was the only thing I could think of that I could make without turning on the oven! No way I'd want to do that when it's 90 degrees out!
Saturday was one of the best days ever. My friend Rob had wanted to go strawberry picking (it's one of his family's traditions) so we planned to do that and also make a day of it by going to the beach north of Boston (the north shore...). We both picked a ton of strawberries, stowed them in the car, and then headed to the beach for fun in the sun. I had been to the beach in Mexico over Thanksgiving, but this was almost better because the sun wasn't as strong, so you could sit out and be warm but not bake. The water was like ice!!! As it would be on the north side of Boston in June! I sat in the sun and thought of not much, and finished re reading Harry Potter 2. it was really the ultimate escape day. ahhhhh. Today I volunteered at the science museum and then went to the mall next door and sat outside and finished rereading Harry Potter 3. Only GoF to go before I get to HP 5!! I walked around the actual mall for a while...I saw some v. cute things at J.Crew, but they weren't quite right fitting and/or too expensive, so all I got was a racerback tank at Old Navy. It just seems recently that all the things I really like are too expensive, and all the cheaper on sale things aren't quite right in some way, and even some of the things I do like just aren't quite right - like I can think of ways that I would improve them to make them more like something I would like better. oh well! not like I'm hurting for clothes anyways. ;)
So, going further back to last week - Monday I had orchestra rehersal, Tuesday I went to the free concert by Guster in downtown Boston. GREAT show. I went with some friends and a coworker, and we ran into another coworker while we were at the show! I had no idea she was coming. I asked her if she had all the Guster albums, and she did, and she burned them all for me! So now I have the complete works of Guster. :) The concert was a whole lot of fun because finally, finally the weather did in fact become nice and sunny and hot, and it was just perfect for an outdoor concert in the summer. Wednesday was errand day - it was just getting too hot, so I decided I needed a fan. So I went on a Tar-jay adventure. I bought an overpriced fan at Target as well as some turquoise thong sandals (v. cute). Then I went over to the mall next door, and found the fan I really wanted (a 16' on a stand) for $15 cheaper than the Target one (it came with a remote...oooh. no, not so much). So I bought the fan at CVS, and also bought some swimming supplies (I went swimming and the chlorine almost killed me, so I needed goggles) and then went back to return the fan to Target. I also bought HP 3 and 4 in paperback to round out my collection. :) Needless to say, I did not quite make it to the gym that night. Then there was Thursday, where I went to the gym, grocery shopping, gas station, and then home to make the dessert for Friday's dinner (Jello nobake cheesecake...but don't tell Jose it came from a box!). Oh, and then there was work. It's just one thing after another...we're dealing with this database, but every time we turn around there's some other issue, and it didn't help that our two bosses on the project were out of town 3 and 4 days of the week. sigh I was also helping to research some of the data sources we're using, and that was interesting. But of course the main part of the project that I'm supposed to be doing didn't even get started last week, which was a bit of a disappointment to my manager, but since the database isn't ready, there's not a whole lot I can do about it. Well, we'll see how it goes this week. It's going to be a fairly short one too - I'm doing a 4 day weekend for the 4th, going back to Chicago on the evening of the 2nd. It'll be really nice to see my family again. :) and whichever friends are around!
so now you're up to date...gee, that was a short one, wasn't it? ;)
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