Family Friendly

I went to watch my sister play hockey today (yes, sister... girl... hockey...  unnatural) and unexpectedly ran into my brother who had also come to watch the game.  We all love and respect each other immensely but we all live busy lives and rarely manage the trip up to see each other.  When we do it's usually just two of us and rarely three of us together...

To come together in an unplanned and unexpected manner makes it all the more special.  Add to this a trip to the apartment to browse through old photos and meander through memories of the last few years and it becomes downright sappy.  But in a good way.  A way that reminds you what family is all about in the first place...  A group of people who you can rarely see but who will always be there no matter what.  Who will always love you.  A group of people who create home wherever they happen to gather.  I love my family and thank them for a brief but wonderful afternoon.

We wrapped up the evening with dinner at Erin's house, with her parents, which I always enjoy.  The food is excellent, the company is interesting and I never fail to learn something new...  I especially love that this too, feels like home.    Sometimes I feel like I take all of this too much for granted... so here it is..  A giant THANK YOU!!! to my family, new and old.  May there be many more days like this.

Night of the Chicken Dead

For a friends birthday we all went out to Brookline last night for dinner at Zaftigs -the almost Kosher Jewish deli and then to see a midnight screening of the Troma film release of Poultrygeist, Night of the Chicken Dead...

Dinner was awesome. There is not much better than going out with friends of a similar intellect and imagination. Especially when that imagination tends to run along the lines of surviving zombie attacks. On the downside there was SO much good conversation that I didn't really even know where to start paying attention... overload!

Conversation snippets that I caught:
• "I've seen so many zombie movies at this point that a group of zombies could walk by outside right now and I would be like 'oh, zombies' whatever.' Then I would be like 'wait those were zombies!'"
• A great deal of time was spent arguing (good naturedly) about how to save the economy
• Spam (the food) ... as per usual... came up more than once, including a grand plan for a spam focused restaurant and carving boats out of spam, filling them with deviled egg mixture and giving them little sails made of bacon
• A great deal else
Birthday gifts included an entire book filled with zombie haiku.

We expected the movie to be terrible... terrible... terrible...
It was indeed infinitely terrible. Enough said. Check out the preview at the bottom of this page.
Thanks everyone for an awesome evening!

If only there was a hot tub...

I'm sick...

While unfortunate, this is not the end of the world. Being at home for the day, with time to think has led me to consider all the many good things about being ill! Yes.. good things! Here are some...

• Staying in my pajamas all day 
  
• relaxing/cuddling on the couch
  
• Movies and bad daytime television
  
• Ice cream - (especially when its got rasberry cordial's in it!)
  
• TEA! 
  
• Comfort foods - soup, mac&cheese from a box, noodles...
  
• Time to catch up on news and blogs (which I'm recently into) like this one which I like because it's a random collection of things that make someone happy
  
• Catching up on correspondence
  
• Ice cream!
  
• Having permission to be lazy and ignore my homework for an afternoon!
  
• Looking at photos and reviews of gadgets...
  

Most important, I love the feeling of being cared for by my friends. When I'm sick is one of the only times I can be guilt free about getting all this attention. I have the best friends and the best girlfriend ever!

One thing that's missing... a hot tub... a long hot soak would be perfect right now :-)