Spring!

Amazing what comes after the suffering cold of the winter... It has arrived!
Tulips are everywhere.
Long row of trees right around the corner from our house. These things are amazing.... trees here flower in all sorts of colors... white, pink, yellow.Me and the dogs walking under the flowering trees. We are going on LONG walks everyday that I can stand to be outdoors in shorts (i.e... > 60 degrees). This particular day (yesterday) it was somewhere between 70 and 75 degrees. And that felt really warm.
And finally, the last tree to awake.... the tree outside our porch! Look for flowers to be dawning our patio area soon!

Unmotivated

Just thought I'd share. I have a final in 1.5 hours, am having trouble concentrating/caring about studying. Frankly, I could care less. It doesn't help that my half attempts at school stuff have been rewarded with A's thus far.

Really, today's final....I could care less. When in my life am I going to need to have the comprehensive history of the struggle for rights for the poor, or have a systematic solution for the upcoming shortfall of Social Security funding memorized to the point I can spit out on command?

That's all. I really do love school though. I've just checked out mentally for today.

Baseball in the Neighborhood

With the streak of decent weather continuing, we headed down to the baseball fields near our house to play a bit of catch this morning. Jeremy and I were having a good bit of fun ourselves, when a whole team of people (literally) walked up and asked if Jeremy and I would join them for a bit of hitting and fielding practice. I coaxed Jeremy into it and we joined the 8 other guys and one other girl.

For starters, I strategically placed myself in right field so that I'd get as little action as possible and hoped that I'd just make one good catch so that I wouldn't be laughed off the field... this did happen by the way. I caught the one pop fly that came my way and even almost had to dive (luckily I didn't).

So, the group finally coaxed Jeremy into batting practice, and he, well, put the rest of the guys (none of whom were bad) to shame. There were lots of choice words of exclamation flying across the outfield as he would hit each ball waaaay past where everyone was standing. Then I hit, and well, we won't talk about that. Anyhow, we earned an invitation back to play next week.

All in 10 minutes work!

I had a wild ten minutes today on my walk by Fenway to the management company's office to update our lease for next year. So, I was walking down Landsdowne and stepped out in between cars to cross and a Bentley comes to a stop (it almost ran me over). I waved it by and it was Manny Ramirez on the way to the ballpark.

I then get on the phone with Jeremy to tell him that I was like a foot from Manny and his Bentley. Then, as I'm walking by the players parking garage, out comes Mike Lowell. I waved hi and he waved back. What an interesting 10 minutes.

Here is me at Fenway with my friend Lara when she was here in March. What a difference a month makes....today I was in a skirt and a short sleeve shirt with flip flops.

The Alternative Opening Day

Jeremy keeps saying "I need to write on the blog" but until he does you are just stuck with my updates. As promised, here is my opening day:

First, is my boss and I. Please pardon my appearance. I'm clearly wearing the wrong colors (of course I should be wearing blue and red), am pale from a winter in the north, and did little more than brush my hair in the morning (the beauty of short hair).
Here is picture of some of the residents watching the ring ceremony. It was neat to see them watch Bill Buckner throw out the first pitch. The lady in the red almost fell out of her wheelchair when Kurt Schilling got his World Series ring... she's a huge Schilling fan.
And the resident Yankee's fan. She wasn't going to come but they got her, her own Yankee's balloon, Yankee's plate, and Yankee's napkin. She's also the one that has tried to whack me with her grabber.
And finally, a video:

I'm revolting

While the rest of the country is experiencing spring, I am too. Well, maybe not quite yet, but I'm forcing the issue. April is too late for the winter coat, gloves, and thermals. They have returned to the winter clothing box and out has come my spring/fall jacket and sunglasses. Despite what the bank temperature said this afternoon at the bus stop (it said 39), I stood proudly in my jacket and sunglasses. Ha! winter you are DONE!

I've been leading my first group therapy sessions over the past month, and today at the end of the session while we were waiting on some aides to help some of the residents back to their rooms, we were talking about the Red Sox and opening day (which is tomorrow). Funny...all the ladies knew of Julio Lugo's terrible performance over the weekend (3 errors), and discussed how they would have removed him from the game. Only here...

So, tomorrow is Red Sox Opening Day IN Boston... I'll be at work, but no fear I won't miss a thing...we are having an opening day party with the residents. Complete with hot dogs, popcorn, and their favorite baseball drinks :0) I'm sure it will be wild. Maybe I'll remember the camera and post a picture or two.

Our date to H&M...

Ahh.... H&M. We never blog about senseless things such as this, but today we will. Even Beth Moore blogs about clothes, so if she can, I can.

One of the best things about Boston. Cheap clothes. Better than the clothes that you'd get on that kind of a budget at Target in the south.

Sometimes I go there and see one or two cute things, but other times...watch out world and my bank account. Things get dangerous fast. Today, was one of those times. It was a good thing Jeremy was along.

We went to spend some Easter money that we gotten from my mom for an Easter outfit. It was a tradition growing up in my family, but there really is no need for an Easter outfit here in New England. Unless I was planning on a new pair of jeans or something.

Anyhow, I'm excited to share with the women readers that I found shorts! I haven't bought shorts since high school (seriously) because they are always too short! I was so excited that I bought two pair (I came out with the 2 shorts and a dress shirt for $42). They are nice too...like a Dockers type material and they roll down for a short pedal pant (above knee) or roll up for a decent length short.

But, the best part of the trip is what struck me as odd about Jeremy's changing style. He's so cute. I went over to the men's section because he wanted my opinion...about LINEN dress pants and a LINEN dress shirt. I was shocked. Sorry to say that the linen pant didn't make the cut for him after he tried them on as he said he liked the look a lot but that they were too "flowy" for his taste... and a bit short for mine. He did come home with the linen shirt. Too funny.

That's all, we finished out our date with a trip to Trader Joe's, a stop by Starbucks and walked by a man peeing on a wall. A complete night. ;0).

You know you live in Boston when....

Today was one of those days that even if you couldn't see, you would know that you are living in Boston... it was Opening Day for the Red Sox.

So, the season opening game was in Japan and was live on TV at 6:05 AM. On my way to work, the bus driver had brought a boom box onto the bus and had the game turned up, and then at work, the game was on at the nurse's stations and many of the residents were in a common room with the game on a big screen TV.

Oh, and then on the news tonight, I heard that many of the bars around Fenway where people normally watch the games opened early....serving coffee and breakfast instead of beer. Oh, Boston.

Opening Day in Boston is in a few weeks.

A popular location for the firetrucks...

And yes, it appears that this is our apartment building!

This past week we were visited by the fire department on an alarm call for the second time since moving into our building. The first was during Jeremy's unemployment in late October when someone in the building had a fire on their stove. Luckily, Jeremy was home and was able to take out the dogs.

This past time, a carbon monoxide alarm went off on the first floor, the fire department arrived and the apartment was locked (no one evacuted... we all just stood out in the stairwell as if we are deconditioned to alarms) so they got to use their cool tools to break into the apartment.

In addition, for your entertainment, I thought I'd include what we think is a GREAT Boston commercial. I like when he says "Watch yah bumpah!" at the end. No one watches out for anyone's car bumper here.



And yes, people, trashcans, lawn chairs, etc... really are fair ways to mark your parking spot...oh, Boston, how we love thee.... :o)

Heaven, a beautiful week, and the dogs.

Ahh..... so I've been feeling quite starved of good Mexican food recently. This past weekend, I had had more of a drought than I could handle so we made the pilgrimage to heaven... or On the Border. Here is my post-dinner seal of approval:
And... this week has been beautiful. It has been a glimpse at the end of the winter tunnel. I had the windows open yesterday to air out the house (it was close to 60), and went and got my hair cut AGAIN (even shorter)!! Today, it is cooler but still sunny. All of the snow is finally gone!! I went to lunch with my friend Kristin today and couldn't find even the smallest bit of snow, no matter how hard I tried... how exciting!! The dogs are even enjoying the sun. Apparently, Billy has found a new place to sun himself:
Sorry about all my exclamation points in this post... I'm feeling a bit jittery and quite hyper.