A new year has begun. Which means A) It's time for a crash diet, as I ate way too many cookies at Christmastime. And B) It's time to start thinking about the seventh annual birthday list. I'm off to a good start; I completed the first item on January 1. I was visiting Daisy for... Continue Reading →
1/1/11
A new year is upon us. I'll be in Vermont for a few days, celebrating Daisy's birthday, so am posting a preemptive New Year's entry. I am trying to be hopeful about 2011, even though it's against my nature. I found a quote to put me in the right frame of mind. "We will... Continue Reading →
Nor’easter
The worst day for a Nor'easter to descend? December 26. What are the chances that Boston's first major snowstorm would hit the day I was supposed to fly back. My flight was canceled a few hours before I was supposed to be at the airport. I got online to rebook the flight, and to... Continue Reading →
By the Numbers
Christmastime in Rochester by the numbers (as of December 23): Number of cookies eaten: 42 Number of gifts bought and wrapped: 10 Number of Hallmark Christmas shows watched: 8 Number of trips to Wegmans: 5 Number of trips to the mall: 3 Number of hot stone massages: 1
Watch Me Unravel
I saw Weezer perform its "blue album" on its Memories tour on Tuesday. The debut album came out in 1994, when I was a sophomore in college. It's one of my favorite albums of all time. So imagine how excited I was to be in the 7th ROW. I could actually kind of see... Continue Reading →
