All By Myself

Filed under Life by on 6 January 2011 at 5:00 pm {no comments}

I hope you are hearing the Celine Dion song in your head right now.

I am not a person who particularly likes to be alone. Sure I enjoy going to the movies unaccompanied once in awhile or going to the gym, but for the most part I am a social person. Which is why when I found out that my husband was going to New Orleans for almost a week, I immediately called in reinforcements.

So while Jeremy is off gallivanting being a productive member of his academic community, I invited my secret best friend, Melinda, to leave the Midwest and come enjoy the beautiful East Coast.

Jeremy is New Orleans supposedly “networking” and “doing math,” but I’m pretty sure he’s just down there enjoying the warm weather and sunshine. Tomorrow it’s supposed to be 65 in the NOLA. Here in New Hampshire, we’ll be enjoying snow showers with a possible high of 34.

Melinda and I will spend time doing important things like working out and probably touring local breweries. Here’s to a festive weekend!

Michigan Madness!!

Filed under Life, Travel by on 8 November 2010 at 7:29 pm {no comments}

While there aren’t a ton of pictures to account for my trip, I had a great weekend. Thursday I headed straight to the airport from school. Friday was spent hanging out with my secret best friend, Mindy. We spent the day around the D seeing everything from graffiti to Mexican town, and I even got a pedicure. 

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Saturday was all about my best friend and her baby shower. I’m so glad I got to be there to share such a special day with her.

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While I was busy every second that I was in Michigan, it was the best kind of busy. I really miss my Michigan friends.

5 Things Friday #3

Filed under 5 Things Friday, Food, Life by on 22 October 2010 at 5:30 am {no comments}

Wow what a week. I managed to go to work everyday this week, but I spent a majority of the week down and out with a serious cold. Wednesday and Thursday were late days 6:30 and 6:00 respectively. While I know that’s not late if you work in an office, we start work at 7:00, so the days were long. Even with being sick, there were lots of good things this week; lets recap.

  1. Jeremy made his first guest post. If you haven’t read it you should. He ended up cooking dinner all week. Thanks Jerem!
  2. We have Big Bang Theory season two to watch. So excited. XO’s for Netflix.
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  3. Seeing good friends, from far away places is always soothing to the soul.
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  4. Having two late nights at work and only seeing two parents means I am totally caught up on my grading, which is a wonderful way to enter the weekend.

  5. Sweet potatoes with butter, cinnamon and a little brown sugar have been satisfying and comforting lunches this week.

A Little Trip to the Cape

Filed under Food, Sports, Travel by on 22 August 2010 at 11:41 am {2 comments}

On Friday morning, I whisked Jeremy away to the Cape for the night. Some old friends are working on the Cape for the summer and I really wanted to see them before they returned to Ohio. They are working for the Monomoy Theater in Chatham, MA, and we went down to see The Cherry Orchard, a play by Anton Chekov.

We left early Friday, but not too early, in an attempt to avoid Massachusetts traffic. If I ever have to live in Boston, I will need to be able to take public transportation because I HATE driving there. The drive went smoothly, and we stopped in Plymouth to see the rock and eat lunch.

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IMG_4559After hanging out and walking around, we continued down the Cape which is really up the Cape to Yarmouth, where we were staying. After looking around for a while, and some people – not me – napping, we got dressed and headed to Chatham for dinner and then the show. The Monomoy Theater is really just beautiful. It is a true Cape style building and has a flower garden off the side where refreshments are served by twinkle lights during intermission. If you live in the area, you should go down and see a show. While good literature is always timeless, The Cherry Orchard was timely. It was about a Russian family from the early 1900’s who is in the process of losing their home to foreclosure. A change of costume could have easily put this show in 21st century America.

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It was so good to see our friends that we haven’t seen in five years. Time seems to move so quickly now. Let’s hope it’s not another five years before we see them again.

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Saturday before we left, Jeremy and I ate brunch at the Keltic Kitchen in Yarmouth, which was near our hotel. While the food was ok, there was way too much of it. Neither of us could finish our food and it was just not all very basic. They didn’t even have Irish butter.

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On our way home, we had to stop at Trader Joe’s and Sonic; we just do not have these things in NH. I stocked up on some foods that will come in handy during the harried first weeks of school, and since we had a cooler, I could get some frozen things too. I had a nice discussion with one of the managers about TJ’s coming to NH; things don’t look good friends for a TJ’s in the “Live Free or Die” state.

This was a nice quick trip. We are trying to soak up every ounce of summer while we can.

Goodbyes Suck

Filed under Life by on 1 July 2010 at 9:23 pm {one comment}

Today I had to say goodbye to one of my best friends in New England; it was a sad day. When we met four years ago, we were both friendless, jobless, and new to New Hampshire.  Those first weeks in New Hampshire we really difficult. I was incessantly looking for job, and no one would even interview me. Jeremy and I had just left college, where we had been surrounded by people and places we’d known for years. New Hampshire was so different from Arkansas (where we were living). I may have been a tad bit depressed. Then Elizabeth and I met through our husbands, who were both getting Math PhD’s at UNH. Eventually, we both got jobs and settled into living free the New Hampshire way.

We have had so much fun over the last four years: beach days, shopping, coffee dates and lots of shared meals . One of of our favorite places has always been The Green Bean.  While everything I’ve tried at The Green Bean has been good, my favorite thing to get is the bean burrito. This is yet another excellent Exeter, NH eatery.

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Today we met to say our last goodbye (or see you later) because Elizabeth moved away today to North Carolina.

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Best of luck friend.

In other news, I’ve been diligently working on a self hosted site. It’s been a bit more difficult than I thought it would be, but I’ll be moving soon. :-)

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