This weekend was a total blast. Tiring but fun.

I left work early on Friday and headed to New Jersey first. Didn't think I was going to stop there but at the last minute Jersey boy found out he could get out of the photoshoot early so we could grab dinner. I wasn't nervous to meet him because we had talked online for months and I felt like I knew him already. He took me to this little Mexican restaurant with no tables, just a bar. The food was delicious, the Spanish soap opera in the background was amusing and the conversation flowed easily. I didn't want to seem to into him, but man, the boy is cute.

We talked and talked and then drove around looking for ice cream. I met his parents who seem fun and all of his 5 crazy dogs. We had a quick little peck of a kiss when I left. Awwww. I don't want to get to excited just yet because I don't want to get crushed, but there is something there. He is supposed to come up to Boston two weeks. Yay!

On to Delaware. I didn't get in until after 12:30 (sorry Erika!) even though I hauled ass on the Jersey Turnpike. Saturday morning we all woke up to rain. We decided to still head into Philadelphia, and lucky for us, it never rained. Just stayed overcast. We hit the zoo which was fun.


After the zoo we went to the King of Prussia mall which was GINORMOUS. Right after walking through the front doors we were confronted by some man that was bleeding heavily from his foot region. As we walked into the mall more there were puddles upon puddles of his blood. It made me nauseous. We stopped in a few stores but were all so pooped we took off for dinner. Joe and Erika took me to this awesome Asian restaurant. We went back to their house and I tortured them with watching Twilight! It's an obsession.

Sunday we just hung out around the house. It was so much fun catching up on everything that has been going on in these past years. So glad I went down and I can't wait to hang out again! Micah is just to adorable for words and such a good baby!

Seriously, how am I not getting dates? :)

This week went by fast, it was nice not having school but back to the grind this week.

I'm on week 4 of my running program and I'm feeling SO much better. It's amazing what a little exercise will do in my life. I've even gained weight, but I don't really care. I can tell my clothes are fitting better and I just feel better overall. Today was a tough run though. I made it all the way through but felt like I was going to pass out when it was over.

I can't wait for this weekend! I'm going to see Erika, her husband and her adorable little boy. I think the last time I saw Erika was probably a good 4 years ago, maybe even longer. It'll be nice to catch up. I'm also stopping in NJ on the way down to meet Nick for dinner, which I'm also very excited about. We'll see where it goes.

This weekend was lovely, went by way to fast though. Saturday I went for a jog and then drove to Hyde Park to hang out with Dustin. His mother was their and I absolutely adore her! She brought out so much food, drinks and chatted. It was nice. We watched the movie Lost Highway. I'm not one to usually hate a movie, but it's official, I hated that movie. The movie itself was good, suspenseful, creepy, but it had multiple stories going on and never really closed them or brought them together.

Sunday I went to Southie for the St. Patrick's Day parade. Betsy invited me over to Marks apartment and we partied on the roof deck. From the roof you could see the parade which was fun. No drinking for me which was a bummer, I was the only sober one their. It was nice to catch up with Betsy and hang out with her friends. I met a few new cool people as well. I had to babysit Maddie later that day so I headed out after the parade, making my way through all the drunks on the T. Always fun.

Still job hunting. Still anxious. I hate it but I'm trying not to dwell on it. What happens, happens.

Just last week I was saying to my mom that life was going great, too great. I told her that I was expecting something bad to happen. Boy, I was right. She just called to tell me that the dog died. Just because this week couldn't get any better.

Well, I guess you can add me to the list of people who have lost their job in this economy. Ironically enough, it isn't because of the economy. When L goes on maternity leave they won't be able to pay me as much and her mom is retiring from teaching and will be able to watch the babes during the day. I would still be able to watch N two days a week but financial I can't do that so the job hunt is on.

It gets me a little teary eyed thinking about it. I have come to think of my employers more like my family. I come in every morning and chat/gossip with them. They are my friends, and I'm not just hired help. I've been watching these boys since they were just little blobs laying on the carpet, and now they are big kids. Granted, they are the slowest walkers known to mankind but that will be my mission before I leave. So, it's going to be sad to leave and it's a little scary knowing that I won't have a job after April. I started putting in resumes last night as soon as I found out. Not having a job is not an option. I have bills and rent and nowhere to go if I can't afford them.

Everything will work out though and I just need to stay positive. With school, finals and life it's just a little overwhelming.

Random picture taken at Wait St. last weekend. Seems appropriate now.

Since my lovely lovely mother sent me money to take my friends out to dinner, I made her happy and took them out last night. We walked from Mission Hill to the South End at had dinner at the Beehive. The weather was amazing, so nice for walking around Boston. The restaurant was cool, it was in a basement with exposed brick and chandeliers. Heather, Dan, Julian and I each got awesome food, mine being a very rare burger. It was delicious. They also have frites which are a type of french fry that were soooo good.

After dinner we decide to walk to the North End to get cupcakes. If we are going to eat shitty we might as well eat really shitty, right? While walking there the city was re-enacting the Boston Massacre. Apparently they do this every year, except none of us knew about it. HA. We also watched break dancers for a bit who were insane.

For cupcakes we stopped at LuLu's and got 4 different flavor cupcakes to split. Carrot (me, still on that kick), orange creme, vanilla and oreo. Splitting them 4 ways was so fun, we each got to try all the different flavors and ended up only eating one cupcake. It started raining as we were sitting in the park so we started walking back. We got a wild to go see the Watchmen so we walked to the Common and hunkered down for the longest. movie. of. my. life. Good thing it was entertaining!

After the movie we then made the walk home. My body was so tired by the time I got home, I was a happy little clam when I got to crawl in bed.

Nothing to terribly exciting happening around here these days. I applied this week to Urban Outfitters after having a mini meltdown with Heather. It's hard living so far way from your friends and family and I've had a hard time meeting new people. I'm grateful for the few friendships I have but when they are busy I sometimes feel lonely. She suggest getting a weekend retail job to meet people and make a little extra cash so that's exactly what I'm trying to do. I realize in this economy it's not going to be the easiest but we'll try.

I also had a random hang out session today with a boy from my computer class. He came up to me after class and asked if I could help him. I sat with him for like 20 minutes getting some files in order and then he asked if I wanted to hang out after school. I said sure, why not. We went and grabbed some coffee's, took a little walk and then went back to the college to play frisbee. So random! It was fun, something to shake up the usual routine week.

She came to the daycare nearly the exact same day I started working. She was adorable and all the teachers were in love, for all of about 15 minutes. That's when she started screaming. Nobody had the time,energy or patience to try and calm her down so I took on that task. What a task it was and thus our relationship began.

Her parents went up to Betsy one day asking if she was available to babysit, she said she would look at her calendar and let them know. She already had something scheduled that day so I offered to watch her. The tattoos might have freaked them out at first but they agreed.

I've been babysitting her for about 2 years now and I can't believe the time is going that fast. Her family and I have become good friends and talk regularly. When I was going through the break up with Bob the mom let me have a good cry before they left and even offered for me to stay there if I needed to. It's nice to have people whom act like my adopted family since mine is so far away. I babysat her last Saturday and she is growing up to be such a big girl. It was surreal, she seemed like a little 12 year old walking around. I can't wait to see what their new baby is going to be and hopefully the fun will just continue.

Last night Heather and I decided to throw a cupcake party, as part of our 'Anti-Valentine's Day' protest.



We had so many cupcakes it was insane. All I ate for 24 hours was cupcakes, way to go eating healthy! We talked, ate and watched youtube videos of insane things. It started out as watching Barnatt brother videos and progressed into weird, gross and things I've never even thought about. I'd say the night was a success.

This whole eating healthy thing is HARD. I'm really trying though and today I did really well. This weekend, eh, not so much. I blame it on my period. I feel like I could eat an elephant and not be satisfied.

Today was a wonderful day in the state of Massachusetts. It hit 50 degrees. My body did a little happy dance called a 4 mile way through the streets of Boston. It was windy, a little drizzly but dammit, it was 50 degrees. I took my camera with me but wasn't inspired to take a single picture. It's a little ugly right now, I think that's why.

After I got home I started planning Nicole's Baby Shower. I'm getting really excited, I think it is going to turn out really cute. This evening I dragged Conor to go see Coraline with me. We had some awesome 3d glasses which they just happened to charge an extra $2.50 a ticket for. The movie was really amazing. A little creepy and dark, just what I like.

That's it. This 5 pounds has got to come off. I've given myself a month, hopefully shorter (ha!) to do it. I'm starting tomorrow. Waking up at 4 am to take Heather to the airport and getting a coffee for myself is a great way to start. 130, here I come!

Nicole posting a new blog made me think, I really need to do that more often. Even if my life is nothing but school and work, I really enjoy looking back and seeing what I've been doing. Heather isn't helping either because when I know she is going to be around I don't take my camera. I need to not let that stop me and just accept the fact that she blows me out of the water and I can still appreciate her pictures while posting my lame attempts here.

I'm starting this post at 10pm on a Sunday night which is insane because I need to be up very early. I have finally moved into Boston and am totally in love. Walking around the city this weekend made me realize that this is where I have needed to be. Living in the suburbs was rather hard for me because I didn't grow up there. I didn't no anybody or any cool spots to hang out. I couldn't go to the townie bar and see all my old classmates, it didn't work like that.

Friday night I went out with Heather and her friend who came into town from San Diego. His name was Andy and if she wasn't totally smitten by him, than I am. He was funny, charming, and a gentlemen. We started off getting pizza at Joseph's. We sat and talked and made weird pizza eating faces while the people waiting for the T outside watched. We hopped on the T and made our way into downtown where Heather realized she didn't bring her I.D. Off to the Hard Rock Cafe for drinks it was. We drank, I went to the bathroom and had a menu, glasses and straws miraculously jump in my purse and then we went to the North End.

We grabbed some cannolis, eclairs and cupcakes from some place that I can never remember the name too. After taking some romantic pictures, all for the sake of the shot, we sat and fed each other our treats. The whole night we had been trying to get Andy's friend to come join us so I could have someone to mack on but the boy chickened out so it was only us three. After realizing we were being ditched we headed to the karaoke bar where we finagled in without having to pay a cover, took a shot and listed to 'She's a Super Freak' by Andy. He was amazingly good. Andy then wanted to take naked pictures on the Charles River but after we all realized we were nowhere near drunk enough, he opted for clothed ones instead.

We walked through the common, over the bridges and the tree lit streets. It was incredibly romantic and I'm sure I ruined every shred of it for them. It's what I do best! We came upon this drunk guy who was walking into cars on Comm. Ave and decided we needed to stay with him until the police came to make sure he didn't get run over. We waited and waited, he fell in puddles and tried to walk away. Right before the cops showed up he got a burst of energy, hopped in a cab and remembered where he lived. We were talking to his wife on the phone and she didn't seem too thrilled with him. I wonder how that turned out.

We decided to catch a cab home at that point because my toes were frozen from chasing him around puddles. Once back to the apartment we all snuggled in bed and finished the chocolate cupcake. In the morning Andy made us amazing cupcakes and we said good-bye. I hope more weekends like this come my way.

Bone tired

Mike and Lauras wedding was absolutely beautiful. The ceremony overlooked the cliffs of Cape Cod Bay. I shed a few tears during the ceremony, which is good for me! Usually I ball my eyes out. Laura looked stunning, so pretty.

The reception was also great.

I danced to much
I ate to much
I drank I don't know how much

I didn't take my camera but others did. Hopefully they send me pictures because I saw some funny ones.

Worlds end

I needed to get out of the house, and have needed to, since summer started. I didn't want this summer to pass by like last. I decided to find someplace to hike close by and Worlds end was the winner.

I packed BoB into the car, told him we were headed to Hingham and off we went. We stopped at McDonalds for a bite to eat before we left and we stood in line for 20 minutes. Slowest. McDonalds. Ever.

We arrived, without fighting!, and walked the 3 mile loop. It was muggy and hot but we had a really nice time. There were no mountains to climb which meant no complaining from me.

The hike around Worlds end was 3 miles. On clear days you can see Bostons skyline which I would have liked to get some pictures of but since it was hazy we couldn't see it.

Finally, got out of the house! Now if I could just convince him to go to Marthas Vineyard.

Happy 4th of July

We went down to Plains Park last night to go watch the fireworks. Nicole and I decided we needed to get there early because it was going to be packed. We walked over at 5 o'clock even though the fireworks didn't start until 10. Around 6:30 a big rain cloud came in and gave us a little shower. It went away and the show went on as planned.

Rotary

We had a 'photoshoot' today. I think they came out pretty well. Mark even decided to join us because he knew it was going to be awkward. Wasn't awkward for me but I know when I get my picture taken it is.









I had a lot of fun and I hope they like them!

Trying to figure shit out

Well hmpf.

That didn't work.

Any of the 2 people that read my blog know how to disable being able to click on a picture to see it full size?

Life is pretty boring right now. Boring in a good way though. I'm working my three days a week, being lazy the other two and waiting not so patiently until I can start my college courses.

Work is going great. The two little boys I am nannying for are an absolute blast. It is so nice to actually have parents that respect me and take my time and effort for granted. They actually appreciate what I am doing for them which is quite a shock. It makes going to work so much easier.

So...life is good. I can't complain.

Couch to 5k

Today I started the third week of the couch to 5k program. It sucked. I did it though!

Hopefully by the end of this thing I'll be able to run a full thirty minutes. Right now I can't even fathom that. 3 minutes just about kills me.

BoB is going with me on Thursday to see if he can keep up. Of course he'll be able to keep up. He can run a 5k in like two steps.

We have $10 riding on it though. I am not so secretly hoping he sucks.

The perfect plot for a horror film

On Friday (the 13th) my friends Heather, Nicole and I set out to go take pictures of an abandoned warehouse.

I had never done this before but was rather excited. We parked at a local VFW and walked over to the warehouse. Getting into the building was not hard since there were various openings everywhere.
Inside the warehouse was amazing. There were old piles of checks and papers just left around along with boxes of cortisone 10. The warehouse itself was huge, with big windows and lots of light.


Then came the fun part. Right after I clicked this picture, I saw the end of a cop car drive by.
I might have had a little heart attack, okay, a rather large heart attack. All 3 of us ran over to the side of the building and crouched down. We could see a sliver of the cop car outside and watched where it was going. At one point we thought it left so we started taking pictures again but it started looping back around. He paced back and forth in his cop car and idled for a few minutes. Finally he left. And I died.
The rest of the time I was there I was paranoid he was going to return, but he didn't.

The next time I go someplace abandoned I'm bringing diapers and Valium.