a week made up mostly of shopping. and shopping. oh, and shopping! i'm happy to say that the purchasing segment of this holiday season is almost at a welcome close. i like doing it all at the last minute. it makes me feel alive and in the spirit. i feel like if you don't stand in line at the cash at Indigo for an hour trying to get the absolute ( Read more... )

snow, snow, snow, snow, snow.

wonderful!

saturday was the last class before the holidays--two weeks sans teaching for me. it will be quite alright with me to not get up on Saturday morning at six, but i will miss the kids. we had a little party with cookies and timbits after class (we were missing five kids out of twelve that morning, weirdly) and it ( Read more... )

a good,  if slapdash and scattered weekend ( Read more... )

this will be an epic post ( Read more... )

it sometimes pours.

so my friend Christine emailed me frantically yesterday so that i could come work with her at Mortimer Snodgrass, a store which is kinda like a kitschy/retro decor and gift shop for the holidays. someone just got fired, so she needs someone desperately, and a bunch of girls who were a year younger than me in elementary and high ( Read more... )

ah, so since Thursday, time has sped up. officially. okay, no, but it sure felt like it. so many events were occuring this weekend, many of which i had to not attend to be at the ones i needed to attend. first off, Kristen's birthday party on Friday. i worked Thursday night, barely slept, and was cleaning and preparing for having people over before ( Read more... )

on the positive front, i may very well be getting a job at the ER registration desk at the Children's Hospital where Mom and Rob work.  hurray! am so very poor. and Christmas, that commercial devil rife with cuddly and sparkly things to buy for people, is right around the corner. if i don't start making some serius cash, everyone is getting ( Read more... )

last night: Tori at Place des Arts ( Read more... )

woot, go Red Sox.  they won 12-2 last night--i am very sure Rick is in Boston now, wearing his Sox paraphenalia simultaneously (jersey, hat, belt buckle, perhaps he even has red socks on...) you know, i never gave a shit about sports or watching sports until Rick came along to teach me about the rules of hockey and baseball, and now it seems, out ( Read more... )

 is there anything in the realm of better than hanging out with your Mom, watching The Sting, drinking tea and eating baklava? not a helluva lot comes close.

Rick is in Boston with his brother and cousin, enjoying a Bruins game and is probably now at Fenway, watching the Sox...miss him, but i'm at home, really enjoying being here.