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Tuesday, June 26, 2007
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All of the pictures from the weekend/Scott and Julie's wedding are up on Flickr, in case you're interested.
The wedding was lovely. It was outdoors, at basically a country club with lots of yachts near the shore. The weather was perfect. Some personal touches made it really special, everything went well and it looked like Scott and Julie had a wonderful time. The "international coffee station" was my favorite touch - coffee with whatever kind of booze you could think to mix it with (I had coffee and Godiva liquor, with a touch of Bailey's).
I generally enjoyed my brief trip to New Jersey. Dan came up to where I was to visit Saturday night, and while we couldn't find a diner (someone tell me how this is possible), we did have a nice drive looking for one (there are some really nice houses in that area) and dinner in what appeared to be downtown Red Bank was pleasant enough. Meeting up with Kathy, Demetri, et al. was at first hard to coordinate, but we eventually all agreed to drive out to Point Pleasant and hang out on the boardwalk. I'm happy to have been able to go to "The Shore" while I was there (plus custard and salt water taffy, though no skee ball). Seth drove me back to my hotel, so that Dan could head back south to his dad's. And then the wedding Sunday. I had gotten a ride to New Jersey from Corinne and Ron, and we agreed to take Demetri back to New Rochelle on our way home. We stopped to buy Yuengling on our way out.
And that's when the trip turned disastrous.
Okay, that's maybe a little too dramatic. Traffic on the Garden State Parkway was horrendous, though, and it took us 4 hours to leave New Jersey. Demetri felt terrible (we would have gone a different way, getting us out of some of the traffic, if we weren't bringing him home), Ron was cranky, Corinne was quiet and I was terribly uncomfortable with no leg room. The ride was smooth sailing after the GW Bridge (Demetri took us by way of the Henry Hudson, where there was no traffic, unlike 95, and then we took the Merritt through Connecticut), but I didn't get home until 1:30am (we left the reception at 5:00pm, when it ended). That is not how Sunday was supposed to go.
But now it's over! And it's HOT in New England this week. But, good news, Steph owns an air conditioner and has no qualms about using it, so I installed mine (which hasn't been used in nearly 3 years) last night, and am so happy I did. I may be spending more time in my room in the next coupla days. :-P
- Lizzardie, at 11:29 AM
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Saturday, June 23, 2007
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I am blogging from New Jersey, which I think I've done before. I am pretty sleepy, so I will not be writing a terrible amount right now.
Left Boston/Somerville around 9am this morning. There was Dunkin' Donuts, New York style pizza, Petsmart, AC Moore, New City, New York, the Garden State Parkway, my hotel room in Red Bank, a place called the Murphy Style Grill for dinner, nice houses, Point Pleasant Beach, the Jenkinson Boardwalk, sand, salt water taffy and frozen custard. And I did a lot of knitting in the car (so far today I've had three people drive me around, I'm happy to have left my car at home).
Other than not making it to Elizabeth (I'll post later about why I want to go there), I think my New Jersey weekend is pretty much complete (except, ohh yeah, Scott and Julie's wedding, which is why I'm down here in the first place - but that's tomorrow).
- Lizzardie, at 11:59 PM
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007
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Mmmm, Tuesday. How I wish it was later in the week already!
Weekend was okay. Friday I played poker at Natalie and Kevin's. It was sort of an interesting invite for me, because I did not have Natalie's number in my phone, so when she text messaged me (it was a group text message, which means it followed allowable rules), I had no idea who was inviting me to play poker at their place! It ended up being pretty easy to figure out though (she'd mentioned it the last time I saw her, the address, etc...). I brought a bottle of Asti (the one Cat gave me on Monday, so it was quickly consumed!) - Natalie and I went through that AND a bottle Natalie ran next door to buy very quickly. This was of course fun while we were drinking it but did not make for good poker playing later in the evening! I lost $40 on the night. We also ordered sushi, and after I came out of the tournament (tied for fifth out of nine), watched the WORST MOVIE EVER (probably not, but it was pretty bad) - Music and Lyrics. Natalie has a nice place, and I like that the core group from the free poker game has started to get together more often for house games (even though I haven't been able to make it to many).
Saturday... I have not been that tired in a LONG TIME. I got home around 3am Friday night and went straight to bed. I woke up around 9:30am, was up for about 5 minutes before I decided that I couldn't function, and went back to bed - I woke up again at 1:30pm. And I dragged all day! At 5:30pm, I took a nap until 8pm and then went to bed before midnight - it was ridiculous. Sunday was a little better, but I didn't do a whole lot. At least I had knitting to do, but even that was difficult on Saturday - crazy. I don't think it was the alcohol, because just a bottle of sparkling wine should not have that effect the next day.
Yesterday I had dinner with Kim and her family, as well as Patrick, Jeff and Kristen. We ate Vietnamese food in Harvard Square (parking took me half an hour, probably because of some event at Urban Outfitters), which was really delicious. Kim's dad was so cute - he said he was worried that Kim would be lonely when she moved here, but now that he's met us he knows that's not true! Aww... While I'm usually a little apprehensive about it (due to my generally antisocial nature), meeting my friends' parents is usually a good time.
Thursday I'm going to the Red Sox game with Kathy, and then hopefully Kristen and I will play tennis this weekend (Jeff thinks it will never happen, and I'm determined to make sure it does, if only to prove him wrong), so it should be a decently busy week coming up.
- Lizzardie, at 2:46 PM
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Friday, June 08, 2007
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Have I mentioned my hatred for text messages before? I feel like I'm telling everybody these days, as people start using them more and more. They are awful.
This does not mean I do not find them useful, because they can be. Trying to get a message to multiple people? Text messages let you do that! Communicating with someone in a loud place, or you are in a loud place? Use a text message! They are also great for communicating with people who are traveling via T (or subway), because of reception issues. And if you have exactly one thing to tell someone, and it doesn't require a response, a text message is a perfectly acceptable form of communication.
BUT! I do not want to have a conversation via text messages. It's time consuming and costly - pick up the damn phone and have a 45 second conversation. I also do not want to receive a text message from someone in the same room as me. It's stupid. If you think I'm in the car, driving, a text message is not the ideal way to communicate with me - I think it's much safer to answer my phone than to look at a text message. And let's not even get into how I'm going to respond to you (I'm not stupid enough to type a text message while driving - I'm going to call, which means you should have called me in the first place). Plus, my "friends" at Verizon Wireless like to raise the price on text messages without any notification (if you don't have a text message plan, you might have noticed the increase from $.10 to $.15 a few months ago). And the icing on the cake occurred yesterday - text message spam! Grrr....
I recognize that most people now have text message packages that let them send unlimited (or nearly that) messages every month, and they have cute this phones with QWERTY keyboards. Good for you. But I don't have one of those phones (nor do I want one) or a text message plan (and I don't want one of those, either). I'm fine with many other forms of communication - AIM, Google Chat, email, as well as a simple, quick phone conversation (I promise I'm not going to keep you on the line forever) - why can't I get the point across that I'd like to keep my text messages to a minimum?
- Lizzardie, at 11:28 AM
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007
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I uploaded pictures from Friday night's Yankees at Red Sox game to Flickr, in case anyone is interested. Unfortunately, my camera died midway through the game, and I didn't capture a lot of the exciting things (Joe Torre arguing with the third base umpire, Torre getting thrown out, the message that Don Mattingly had replaced him), the bench-clearing "brawl" in the bottom of the ninth, etc...). The game was fun, even though the Red Sox lost 9-5.
Before the game, Kathy and I met up with Scott and Julie, which was nice, because I hadn't seen them since December. We also walked with them back to Cambridge after the game (their tickets were in the upper bleachers).
Sunday I was supposed to play tennis with Kristen, Natalie and Kim, but instead I went to The Neighborhood for brunch with Jeff, Kristen and Natalie. After bringing cod cakes to Sally's, drinking very large mimosas and meeting up with Kim, we headed to Everett to do some shopping. Not terribly exciting, but a reasonably relaxing day.
Last night Cat was in town (on her way up to Maine for 2 1/2 weeks of research), so Kathy stopped by on her way back from her internship in Lowell. We ordered Chinese food from "the best Chinese food place in Somerville." I cut way back on the amount of food I order from that place, so it was a nice treat. Otherwise, I was kinda tired and in no mood to be a great hostess, so Cat and I just watched TV and chatted the rest of the night. She also brought me a bottle of Asti, which was nice of her.
My life is boring. But! This summer I'm hoping to help plan or participate in a couple of dinner parties (fondue, sushi, Land Air and Sea Take 2) and I really really REALLY want to play tennis some time. I'd love to play regularly, but I just don't think I'll be able to find anyone motivated enough to join me. Maybe some time at the beach this summer, too? Who knows, but I want to start making plans. :-)
- Lizzardie, at 1:01 PM
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