After a long couple of flights from Anchorage and Seattle (though short by this trip’s standards), we arrived in town with enough time for a quick nap before heading to the Mari, Jess, and Emily party in Somerville near the spooky round house. The party was a lot of fun, but we didn’t quite have […]

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So I asked for snow yesterday, and now we’ve got it. Not very much, but enough to finally stay on the ground. My landlord is pretty enthusiastic about the holiday-themed decorations; we had a scarecrow on the front porch from Halloween through Thanksgiving, and now we’ve got a multi-level Christmas village in the entryway and […]

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I’m still waiting for some snow to make it all feel like December, but we got some help from a handful of holiday parties this weekend, from the “grab some food and go” variety all the way up to the “last ones to leave” kind. The department-we-used-to-be-a-part-of (but still got invited to) party at Dali […]

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There are things I don’t like about Whole Foods, like its prices (Dan’s mom calls it “Whole Paycheck”) and its oft-times wacky customer base who can’t steer their carts and are rude and demanding, but I’ll say one thing for the place: any store that plays the “Magnum, P.I.” theme song on the p.a. system […]

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The holiday party season began in earnest this weekend, with a 30th birthday bash for Michael and a family get-together to show off Aimee’s home and cooking skills to the rest of the family. In between, we sought out and constructed a nice little gingerbread house, complete with non-pareil chimney, of which I am quite […]

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He’s tough to make out, in his ripped purple shorts and Santa hat, but he’s there.

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So it probably doesn’t have anything to do with my expos? on the subject from three months ago, but the strange street sign reading “Antrim At” has been changed to the more traditional “Antrim St.,” as of this weekend. I don’t know if the city stopped working with the company that made the sign in […]

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I venture into Harvard Square too infrequently, apparently, if I am to judge by the changes I see whenever I do head over that way. Today I passed by the location of Cappy’s Shoe Repair, which I knew was going out of business, and found out it has turned into the first ever Cross Retail […]

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Last night, Marty and the Social Club turned the corner, for me, and went from a band I go to see because I know the singer, to a band I’d go to see because the music is so good. They played a short set in front of a small-ish crowd at the Middle East Upstairs […]

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So it was more like a Taser than a gun, but we did have fun with it at Crate & Barrel this weekend as we started setting up our registry. We had a productive weekend, starting with the great save-the-date mailout on Saturday morning (as Aimee said, thank goodness for self-adhesive stamps).We started adding items […]

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I made my yearly pilgrimage to Brimfield today for the annual postcard show that goes along with the much larger (read: totally insane) antique fair there. The postcard dealers set up at buildings on either end of the mile of antique dealers, so I parked at one end and walked the length to the other, […]

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George and I went to the Sox game today; he flew up from the City and I met him at the airport, where we got to ride the Maverick Shuttle (sounds more cool than it is) in order to get around the still under-construction replacement Airport T station). Facing the Rangers, who fielded nine men, […]

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While walking to catch the bus yesterday (ok, so I’ve been either a T user or a walker/biker up until now, but I’m discovering now how convenient the #1 bus from Cambridge over the river to Boston can be), I ran into my freshman roommate from college, who was also a roommate of mine one […]

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Almost a month after moving in, I’m finally settled into my new place. I assumed I was living on Antrim Street, but apparently, according to the sign at the corner, it’s “Antrim At.”Can someone tell me what that might mean? I’ve looked at a list of “Acceptable Abbreviations Used on Traffic Signs,” with no luck. […]

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Yesterday was a long day. We woke up in Newport, where we’d spent the night in anticipation of our morning meeting with a potential wedding photographer. I had to run seven miles, to boot, so that cranked back the wakeup hour somewhat. It felt ok, a little sluggish and hounded by traffic on the usually […]

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