I have lots of wonderful weekends, but I just had an especially wonderful one.

It started on Friday night, when warlord_mit and surrealestate had a wine tasting (with several selections from warlord_mit’s ample cellar) followed by a Chicago singalong. That was just about the most fun event I’ve been to since, well, probably the last party at their place. :-) plumtreeblossom and I had a great time.

On Saturday, we needed to pick up new veterinary supplies for her cat Rowley from Angell Memorial Animal Hospital in JP, and since I really miss Jamaica Pond and plumtreeblossom has taken up long walks, I suggested that we combine pleasure and business and take a walk around Jamaica Pond first. Which we did, and we had a lovely and relaxing time and got to see lots of dogs and lots of scenery. (I did, however, break the screen on my old small camera while I was carrying it, though. Good think I have the awesome new one, and a camera on my cell phone.) Nice to enjoy the outdoors, now that Massachusetts has finally decided it’s summer after a couple months of Novembers.

After that, we went to Angell and picked up Rowley’s supplies and window-shopped for quite a while in their adoption center. Had a wonderful time visiting with all the animals! Then we went home to our respective houses.

Sunday was a workday at theatreatfirst, so I got to see plumtreeblossom again at that, as well as lots of other wonderful Firsties. It let out very early, so we had an early dinner together outdoors in Davis Square before going to her place to take care of Rowley.

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And today I went in to town to meet plumtreeblossom for the Indian lunch buffet at Shalimar of India in Central Square. Yummy food and a nice little daytime mini-date.

Oh, and today was a good day to take off from work, apparently. I most often take the Green Line down Huntington Ave, and I would have been significantly delayed. That was a couple blocks from my building at work. I’m really glad nobody was hurt!

Yeesh...Festival@First 6: Tables Turned opens a week from Thursday! Eek! (reserve your tickets here.)

And three weeks from today the auditions for Never After start! Ack! (reserve your audition spot here.)

this is such a screamin' deal, and i thought someone on my f-list would find it awesome:  amazon is currently selling a 12-month subscription to real simple magazine for FIVE DOLLARS.  

i don't think i can take advantage of it since i already have a subscription, but i think that's too good to pass up...i paid about $23 when i subscribed!

N. and I watched all five episodes of Torchwood's Season 3 over the weekend. It worked to watch them one after the other at our own pace, instead of one per night (as they were shown last week in the U.K.).

I never know what's a spoiler, so I'll tuck the rest of my thoughts away under the cut.
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Yesterday, with thanks to anomie666 and surrealestate, I learned that I can indeed walk 4 miles, and did so with them! They're training for a big charity walk coming up soon (one of you post a link to your donation info and I'll add it to the post). I joined in, and as far as I could tell I didn't slow them down. Other than that I'm a sweaty pig and they're not, I fit right in. And if you include the round trip from my house to Davis to meet them, and another round trip later that day, I clocked in 6 miles that day.

Time to start doing this more often and get these extra pounds off. Anomie has already lost more than my entire body weight, and if he can do that, I can lose 10 or 15 pounds.

Right now my hair and clothes smell like indian food -- I met up with my darling beowabbit today for lunch. Um, guess I have some walking to do tonight!

EDIT: Here's the link to the website for the cancer walk they're doing. They've got until September to raise the minimum necessary to walk, so if you want to help fight cancer, please help them if you can!

Not wearing a watch w/ the date on it means I keep almost missing b-days:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY uufarmgirl!!!!!

Hehhe, someone mistyped and wrote "Google Scholars" instead of "Google Scholar" in a request and now I can't get the image of all these corduroy-panted-elbow-patched-pipe-smoking itty bitty scholars living in a library in my computer and rapidly flipping through books whenever I look something up....

I keep waffling about getting a new computer. I technically don't _need_ one yet. But my iBook is 5 years old now, and he's definitely slowing down and struggling with even things like webpages. But technically he's ok. But, I'm pretty sure he's going to die soon, and I have never had the luxury of replacing a non-dead computer, and that honestly sounds attractive. But, it'll like completely wipe out my savings, as I haven't actually planned ahead and saved up. Unless a buy a Mini, but I don't really want a Mini. I should want a Mini because it'd be fine for what I do, but still. And if I start lessons, rebuilding my savings after buying a machine will be SLOW.

But, shiny new computer that doesn't take 5 min to load _amazon_!!

ARGH!

ETA - I assume most of you know that I will only buy a Mac, so I don;t expect any head scratching over how buying a machine will wipe out my bank account ;) And no, I won't consider not buying a Mac.

Hey there, we're looking for a 3rd roommate.  Do  you want to live with dimers  and me?  We're looking for someone for August 1.

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Dairy Milk from Australia!!

OMG! It's shaped like Freddo the Frog!!!! FANTASTIC!! I shall bite off his head!!

ALWAYS MONDAY!!

On my drive in, I saw 3 deer in one of Verrill's fields, calmly nibbling away on whatever was growing behind the tomato plants! One looked fairly young - at least much smaller than the other two. They're so pretty.

Speaking of plants, I finally got a tomato cage for my cucumber plant - he doesn't look too happy about being in it, but I think he'll be happier in the long run - at least the cukes won't rot on the ground, if any manage to grow. Maybe the fact that only ONE day this week is supposed to have any chance of rain will mean both it and the tomato plants will finally get some sun.

Dh's party on Sat. was pretty good, though I may have slightly alarmed a few people by telling them how hosting parties terrifies me. I hope they didn't take it to mean I didn't want them there - I love seeing people, it's just that until the party really gets going, I'm always worried everyone thinks the party sucks and is ready to dash out 10 min after arriving.

The highlight of the party? COOKIE PUSS!! A Cookie Puss that demanded a 45 min drive (thanks to 3 accidents on 495) to pick up...! But he was worth it. All hail Cookie Puss!!

And now work. Tomorrow I start training on the e-resource troubleshooting. Whee?

Hello,
  I'm new to posting here so forgive me if this has been discussed before, but I'm in the process of replacing an old Columbia costume that I wore when I performed in a shadow cast 20 years ago. For the bowtie, I found a great sequined fabric that, color wise, is SA.. any hints on making it the SA shape, in the past mine have always been a bit too square.
  Also, has anyone heard of sequins being re-dyed/painted? My jacket is in great shape, but it's faded considerably.

Thanks everyone.

Forgot to post this last week, but better late than never.

• 1 bunch chard
• 1 bunch carrots
• 1/2 bunch red russian kale
• 1 head red lettuce
• 1/2 lb green beans
• 1 lb fava beans
• 1/2 bunch baby fennel
• 1/2 bunch purple kohlrabi with greens
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• 12 oz cucumbers
• 12 oz summer squash
• 1 lb baby potatoes
• 1/2 bunch dill
• 1/2 bunch carrots
• 1/2 head red lettuce
• 1/2 bunch kale
• 1 head new garlic (with stalk)
• small amount (~2 oz) basil
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• 1/2 pint blueberries

There are a number of things I could post about today. About how living with my father can be positively exhausting at times. My thoughts on why I think NY is not the place for me - there's a constant sense that I'm missing out on "the scene" as it were, on a scene; I have loose, tenuous connections to people - nothing more than acquaintances, really, who seem so much more connected, more socially active and involved than I've ever been or perhaps ever will be. I could post about how I feel about the financial burden I am placing on my family and myself by going away to school again - I could have sworn they said not to worry about it, that they could afford it, that it wouldn't be a problem at all. And, of course, I feel bad in turn for being that privileged sort who dared to presume he could go along la de da not worrying about finances...

I needed to get that out. But not to go on too much about any of it.

( The day, in bullet points. )

Here's a picture from our wedding yesterday! Trust me, I'll post many more when we get back from our honeymoon!

Just back from a week's vacation. I have ( a lot to say about it )

I am posting solely to use my new icon, which I like to call "Look! I CAN haz boobies!!" I need more of those bras, I think....

Thank you to everyone who commented.
I am ok, just needed to vent.
Very tired and busy lately so may not be able to take you all up on the offers but no worries, it helps more than you know to have so many great people who want to look out for me.
Thank you all.
Crys