easter in weymouth

the K's were so gracious to allow me to tag along on their eater celebration this yeat. it was a good time. we went to church in the morning and i was shocked that there were so few people there.. at catholic church on easter, its standing room only.. i even took communion. only they all kneel around the alter, while the minister (a gay woman in this instance) comes around gives everyone the wafer, and then someone else comes aorund witha goblet of wine, and you dip the host into the wine.. then eat it. it was so painful to kneel on the alter, and strange to get the wine..



the rest of the service was pretty much like i remember catholic mass, only not as much up and down, kneeling and standing.. they might have had more singing though.

after church we went back to the house and prepared for all the guests that were coming for dinner. dinner was goood.. kinda like thanksgiving. there were lots of people there..



after dinner there was photo taking, and later a trip to the graveyard for a cemetary party. it was beyond cold for the cemetary party, so it didn't last very long, but i got to see where all the dead family people live.. and where their other "favorites" are.

the time has come!

so i am finally free form obligations and ready to party down! i am glad i have a few hours to myself this morning too.. too bad i prepared a bowl of low mein noodles, sesame tofu and rice (leftover from last nights dinner) and promptly spilled it down my leg and onto the cream colored rug!! yay. i need to wash these rugs again. :( i'm thinking white is not a good color for me.

i think i am overpacking. if i recall, last time i was there i wore my bathsuit and some over clothes most of the days.. but we didn't really take part in nightly activities.. maybe i should bring a different change of clothes for each day... hmm...

i am seriously slacking in my email replies.. :( maybe i will have time to return some of them from the airports...

i love having the itouch.. now i don't need to lug my lappy with me. lappys are such a pain, so now that frees me up to take a proper carry on. woot. i hope that the plane to mexico isnt full and i can have a row or a couple of seats to myself.

alright, i'm getting carried away watching kat von D on jimmy fallon.. i need to get moving.

and everything falls into place.

i'm not going to lie and say the last couple of weeks haven't been stressful. i don't know if its the carrot of vacation dangling in front of me or what, but why are the week/weeks leading up to a vacation always so stressful? maybe its the planning, the lack of time to make plans, the thinking about all the work that will be waiting for me when i get back, family medical issues, or maybe it's the new birth control i am taking... whatever it is, it's making me seriously stressed. there have been more than a few nights in the past couple of weeks where i have cried myself to sleep... when the end of the day comes on friday i think i will feel 200 lbs lighter.

despite the crushing stress, i've managed to fit most everything into my social puzzle quite nicely.. this weekend i'll have an opportunity to have dinner with a dear old friend that i don't see nearly enough, we are going to check out a "hidden gem" of a sushi place in arlington. then i will be able to spend some quality time my "kindred spirit" in weytown, followed by an action packed easter.. all before i meet up with KT and head south of the border. and i am looking forward to all of it!! (esp the cemetery part)

then i'm off to the riveria maya for 5 days and 4 nights. the weather seems to be different each time i look, so i'm not going to look again until friday.. it should be high 80's all week. :) good thing i am bringing the SPF 70.

when i return to boston the following weekend JBP and i are going to see "Flight of the Conchords" at BU. i'm crazy excited about that! afterwards we will meet up with our ladies and celebrate and cap the night off in a downtown hotel.. next saturday is a little up in the air right now.. i'm really leaning towards going home and chillaxing/unwinding from my vacation.

in other plan making news i'll be going to chicago in less than a month for a conference on social networking... woo who. KH has agreed to let me stay with her after the conference and we are going to do fun things!! i'm real excited about both the conference, and seeing KH.. i haven't seen her since SH's wedding, and i've only seen J in photos! i have good feelings about that trip already.

alright, it's late enough, time to cry myself to sleep.

amazing race episode 6 & 7

i've been such a slacker with these posts.. i'm horrible. so i'm striking the 2 teams that have been voted off since i last posted.



amanda and kris - hope - paid
cara and jamie - emily - paid
brad and victoria -dan - paid
christie and jodi - ryan - paid
lakisha and jennifer - mike
linda and steve - cathy
margie and luke - cathy
mark and michael - mike
mel and mike - rebecca - paid
tammy and victor - amanda - paid

i'm out of this now too.. i can't catch a break.

ice cream sandwich...

my refrigerator and freezer are so cold that things keep a really long time in it, but often my ice cream sandwiches and bagels take so long to defrost.. so i've discovered if i cut my ice cream sandwich into little slivers it thaws much quicker and it so tasty and fun to eat!

here are a couple of pics of my dinner tonight. you can garner more of an idea of how to make the lettuce wraps..

here are the ingredients: lettuce, carrots, bean sprouts, chow mein noodles, crushed peanuts, sweet chili sauce, and thai peanut sauce.


here is what they look like with all the ingredients, before i rolled them like a burrito/taco.

i want everyone to think good thoughts and say prayers that tomorrow at mikes dr appointment his new medicine is working better and he won't need to be admitted and have an IV permanently installed in his chest. :(

*** update ***
today appt was just a check up.. there was a miscommunication, cath will be end of the month or early may. PHEW!!!

shelf, dinner, pictures

this past weekend i went to pa, it was a lot of fun. towing the trailer was not though. it was empty and bulky. i bought the IKEA shelf i had my eye on. and tonight batman and i put it together (crazy easy) and we even hung it on the shelf wall. cross your fingers that it will not fall down.


we made potato soup tonight (kinda burned it) and i made some lettuce wraps. sooo good. we also created a barrier to keep p-Did in the kitchen so she does not pee on the rug any more. i think she's peed like 3 times now.

here are the pics from this weekend and the train trestle that was so awesome!

new kids on the block in syracuse

i'm glad i went to the NKOTB concert yesterday.. here are my thoughts in no particular order

• i was disapointed that not many people were decked out in old new kids attire. at the same time, the people that brought OLD tour books with them. really?! did you expect to get them signed or something.


• it was really the donnie, jordan, joe show.. danny and jonathan were just really crappy back up dancers.


• i am not sure why they even gave jonathan a microphone. he might have said 2 sentences the whole concert.


• donnie shouted out syracuse incessantly.. and brought up the sweet sixteen more than a few times.


• i did like that they came out for their final encore wearing orange syracuse jerseys.


• they sang "tonight" which i had forgotten was one of my favorites.. i downloaded it. :)


• it really was comical how badly danny and jonathan were mailing it in.


• there was an extended drawn out part where a few of them (not jon or danny) each did a couple of solo songs.


• they did about 3-4 encores.. it seemed a little excessive. :)


• it was funny to look around and see everyone drinking.. very different from when i went 16-17 years ago.


• i was surprised to see as many men as i did there.. i'd say it was about 45:1 ratio of women to men.


• there was a "in memoriam" section where they flashed a bunch of pics on the jumbotron. it was a crazy random bunch of photos.. like biggee and tu-pac, heath ledger, strangeness.


• i felt kind of bad for them because the place was totally not sold out. you'll see in my pics how empty it was.


• the parking lot attendant asked us who we liked more, donnie or joe? when we siad jordan, he said he was a DISTANT third place.

here are my pics..