Boston you're my home

To be technical, Boston you're where I work. I love working in the city. Commuting in has it's drawbacks of course. I leave my house at 6:30 in the morning and I don't get back home again until 6 or 7 at night (depends on the train I take). But the city is kind of fun and weird.

Earlier this week, as I was walking out of the station and towards my work there was someone video taping feet as we walked by. Absolutely no idea why and I didn't stop to ask. There is a guy who sells fruit out of boxes and he shouts to anyone who will listen about the fact that he can't have a stand. Some of the protesters from Occupy Boston were kind of fun too. The guy protesting the war everyday-annoying.

There are also the food trucks that serve anything from BBQ to cupcakes. It's also just a nice place to go walking around during lunch with all the shops we've got. It's also good for me because I can walk to the hospital where all my doctors are which means I take a slightly longer lunch break and go back to work afterwards.

After awhile you get use to people protesting or handing out flyers. But you do get free food and drink samples occasionally. Last year I tried humus for the first time and now I am a buyer for life. I love the stuff.

You also learn pretty quickly to ignore some of the homeless people. I am not completely heartless. I only get really annoyed with people shouting at people. I had a gift card in my wallet for Dunkin Donuts and since I already had my own auto-refilled one, I had no use for it. There is one woman who sits quietly with her sign so I gave the money to her. She doesn't bother people, she doesn't harass anyone and she gave me a genuine thank you when I gave her the gift card. Now, the guy who goes walking through the trains themselves, with a different story each week as to why he needs train fare and then starts crocodile tears when people don't pay attention to him, him I ignore.

All & all I do feel lucky that I get to work in a pretty awesome place even if it takes me awhile to get there. I don't have to sit in bumper to bumper traffic, just have to sit near the occasional loud person or the guy who snores. Attractive men in suits don't hurt either.

June 18

It took me all of 4 days but I finished the Stephen King novel and I loved it. Last night, while waiting for my husband's shoulder to get checked out at the hospital he glanced over at me reading. I had grabbed a light, fluffy chic-lit book before we left the house, so I was breezing through it pretty quickly. After about 2.5 hrs I read through all 350 pages and he called me a freak :-).


In an attempt to do more couple things, I went to see a soccer game on Saturday night with the husband. I'm still not a soccer freak like he is, but it's fun to go.

I realized the other day that I don't have one best friend. I have several friends but I don't have that one best friend that I can call all the time or that I hang out with all the time. I think the last time I had one was back in middle school. My mom had her best friend for almost 30 years and she was just like family to us. I see older couple all the time hanging out in pairs and you can tell they've been friends for years. I'm definitely a little jealous of these people. I'm not sure if it's just my personality or what. My group of friends tend to hang out in big groups. It's pretty rare to hang out as just one or two couples. I don't know if we just need to branch out and start being more sociable in smaller groups or what. But whose to say what really defines a best friend?

So it looks like our trip this summer will be to Puerto Rico. Neither one of us has been, it's off season, not too warm, reasonably priced and you don't need a passport to go. A win all around. I'm looking forward to getting away, even if it's just for 5 days.

Summertime

I'm definitely digging the summer hours in my office. On Friday's we shut down at 4 so tonight I got home at the same time I am usually boarding my train to come home.

For as much as I read, I've never read anything by Steven King. Well yesterday I started my first book of his. Granted it's not one of his spooky books but I am loving it so far. It's 11/22/63-the date JFK was assassinated. It's about a man who is discovers he is able to travel back in time and decided to try and stop Lee Harvey Oswalt. I've read almost 400 pages so far and I can't wait to read what happens. It's over 850 pages so when I finish it it'll be the longest book I have ever read.

I broke my nail pretty far down yesterday to the point where it bled a little. Thankfully my husband drinks tea because apparently the best way to patch it until the nail grows is a piece of the tea bag itself, covered in nail polish.

Last weekend I made a lemonade pie. When I first glanced at the recipe it called for half a can of frozen lemonade concentrate so I thought that I would just double the recipe and make two pies. Nope, one recipe makes two pies so doubling it made 4 pies. Needless to say, we have a lot of pie in my house. I know people say you can never have too much pie, but I think they may be wrong.

Also, Dawson's Creek is on Netflix streaming. I've been slowly making my way through all the seasons and reverting back to being a teenager. It almost makes me wish I was back in high school except for the fact that my high school experience was nothing like theirs.

Does anyone else make their own candles from the leftover wax or is that just taking frugality to an extreme? When I see a bunch of wax left over from a really yummy scented candle I hate to throw it away so I melt it down and put it in a smaller sampler size candle holder. I even have a package of wicks to put in them so I can burn them. This is about as crafty as I get folks.