February

It's March now. You can tell it snuck up on me, because yesterday (March 2) i called my landlord in a sad fit because i had forgotten to give her the rent check that i wrote out over a week and a half ago. I never do that (forget about the rent check). That's how you can tell that aside from being a short month, it was a busy month!

1. Went to Chicago! It was so good to see Lyrica and get to spend some good time with her boyfriend J as well. He's such a sweetie. We had a very well-balanced weekend, with the opulence of shopping and walking around Michigan Ave and seeing the Bean and walking to the lake on Saturday, and then on Sunday, we largely lazed around, made dinner, went to a coffee shop and read, and did a little yoga. Monday, we went to see Bodyworlds! I missed it when it was in Boston (shame on me) and i was REALLY happy to get to see it. It was, for lack of a better way of putting it, profound. One of the most beautiful things i have ever seen. Quite a life changing experience. The kids were all 100% attentive, and i learned SO much. It was a great time. And then i came home.

2. I also celebrated Laura's birthday last weekend! After teaching yoga at Harvard. We went out dancing! It was a blast. Hennessy's was fabulously fun, as usual, although the band was so loud that my ears are still sensitive from it. They still hurt on Monday morning (went out on Saturday night).

3. Q and i are getting more tattoos next weekend! More coming.

4. My phone died :( Fortunately, the wonderful folks and the Cingular store on Washington Street in Boston were kind enough to get me a new razor phone, its carrying case, a car charger, and a bluetooth wireless headset all for $90 with a $50 mail-in rebate, totaling in a whopping FORTY BUCKS. I would say i got a deal.

5. I paid off my SallieMae student loan! YAY! Unfortunately, we then had to buy home heating oil and received our excise tax bill in the mail, so i have $25 dollars until this coming Friday. Ah well. Now i get to work on the credit card bill!

6. Q and i are dying my hair tonight! YAY!

7. Upcoming Events: Ron and Carol Watier are coming down this week -- daN got Ron a gig at the Sage School! WOO HOO! It will be wonderful to see them. THEN, daN and i are going to New York City with two friends of ours to see the great storyteller Garrison Keilor in Concert! The FOlloWinG weekend, we'll be going to DC to visit Matt and Kathy Watier, and then to see the cherry blossoms in peak condition. Somewhere in there, i will be celebrating Q's birthday by singing drunken karaoke at a seedy bar near Lechmere in East Cambridge after drinking too much at the Boston Beerworks. Woohoo!

All in all, life is wonderful. daN and i are having a lovely time, and when we get to see friends, it's AWESOME. I am hoping to go to Switzerland, Seattle, or Quebec City sometime in the next year though... not sure where i'll get the money for that. Whatever.

How are you?