Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Flashback to Summer

It occurred to me that I never mentioned the Freezepop concert C and I went to with some friends over the summer. It was great fun! They are from the Boston area originally, although now they play all over the place and are rarely here. This is the second time I've been able to see them live; they came to Dartmouth while I was there (Junior year, I think). This is me with The Other Sean T. Drinkwater, one of the band's members:And this is the band (plus special guest whose name I don't remember):> This is The Duke, one of the original members, and it was his last concert with them in Boston as he is moving on to other ventures: I brought my old Kodak with me (smaller than my newer, beautiful one), but the picture quality is not as good, and the video quality is really not as good. Nevertheless, here are two videos (warning: terrible sound quality:)



If you want to hear more of what they actually sound like, check out one of their videos here.

Freezepop has added two new members to replace the Duke, and I'm hoping I'll be able to see them next time they are in the area!

Sunday, December 27, 2009

October

The room
From this:And this:To this:
I love my IKEA furniture!

Gloucester
C and I decided to take a weekend day and visit Gloucester, MA. We chose an absolutely beautiful day to go. Here's our day in picture form:And then . . . we went to the Gull for dinner and had delicious lobster. Yum! It was a wonderfully fun day.

Merry Christmas!

You know how sometimes time goes by so quickly that you can't seem to get to everything you want to do? That's been me lately, with my to-do list getting longer by the day and I can't seem to catch up to it all.

For the moment, Merry Christmas! We had a lovely Christmas home in Vermont, but more about that later. For now, I'll leave you with our beautiful tree and the promise that I'll update on the last few months soon!

Sunday, October 4, 2009

A Work in Progress

The new apartment is coming along nicely. Slowly, but nicely. It will be fantastic when we're all done.

For now, pictures of my room.

These are pictures of how it looked when I first moved in, before I painted:As you can see, the color isn't terrible, but it is kind of a dark greenish-gray. Just not a very nice color for a bedroom, particularly a smallish bedroom. I found the paint can, and the color is "Stone Fence."

So I decided to paint! "Sea Sprite" is the color, and I absolutely love it. This was my first time painting a room, and I think it came out pretty well. A few issues here and there, but they'll mostly be covered by furniture anyway.The room, a sea of boxes and random odds and ends at the moment. I'm planning to put a desk in the left corner there.

The bookcase, which is the first thing I sent up after the paint dried. The blue crate bookcase may be moving, depending on the size of the desk, but I think everything will fit.

Top of the bookcase, with the Tiny Puppy Army, pictures, and Wall-E and Eve (Birthday presents from my sweetie).

The brand new Ikea Malm dresser, which I put together all by myself! It does not actually have a random streak on the left side, must be something with the camera. I quite like the dresser, it seems fairly sturdy and almost all of my clothes fit. It felt great to unpack, I can't remember the last time I was fully moved out of suitcases. I'm pretty sure it was my Junior year of college. Sad.

My bed! Bookcase in the back also from Ikea, with my giraffe collection on top. Also, my lovely quilt, made for me by Aunt Nancy for my high school graduation present. I love this quilt. My favorite fabric is the fireflies, you can see them down in the right hand corner. So neat!

There you have it, the mini tour of my room. Once everything is set up I'll post again, and include pictures of the rest of the apartment.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Update, update

Lately, life has been getting in the way of telling you about my life. This has something to do with the fact that I'm generally out of the house for 10-11 hours a day (occasionally more), since I work 1 hour (by bus and the T) away from where I live. Speaking of which, I recently moved from Somerville to Medford. The new place is nice (or will be once we're done setting up), and I will take pictures once I've unpacked my camera.

Now, onto pictures:

First, from the 4th of July:Double RainbowWe had a brief (3 minute) rain storm, followed by a beautiful double rainbow.ShortcakeBerry Shortcake yum yum yum. I wish I had pictures of the rest of the food, it was all delicious. I need some practice at taking pictures of fireworks, but believe me, they were amazing.

Franklin Park Zoo:

When I found out that there was a baby giraffe at the Franklin Park Zoo, C took me and we spent a lovely Saturday looking at all of the animals.






















That's all for now. I'll be back soon with more photos.