back in the loop...sort of

I'm back! It seems like I have been gone forever but in actuality it was only a couple days. Weird how that works.

My sister's graduation weekend was a whirlwind of activities, ceremonies, receptions, dinners, sitting outside in the heat, fun, not much sleep and a lot of riding in the car. Especially yesterday, after 4 hours of graduation stuff and packing up the car with all of my sister's belongings we still had an 8 hour drive home. Needless to say I was thankful I didn't have to work today (no job remember?) and could spend most of the day asleep.

I hope you enjoyed the guest posts from Caroline and Ashley last week. I know I did. To everyone else who told me they would guest post: PLEASE EMAIL ME YOUR POSTS AS SOON AS YOU HAVE THEM...so I can get them on the blog! Or if you didn't tell me yet and you still want to post, let me know. My email is curiosity.cee@gmail.com

I'll leave you with a couple pictures from the weekend...

little sis getting her dipolma

graduation in the stadium

Me and my sis (daddy in the background)

My parents and sis

i blame the superbowl for a lack of creative title

Over the weekend Maryland experienced a ginormous and insane blizzard...and I missed it. From the coverage on the Weather Channel my mom, brother and I were not sure if there would be a Maryland to come home to, or just a white blob. But, we made it back safely and K was kind enough to wait until I got back so I could "help" him excavate my car. My helping basically involved climbing into snow banks then screaming "I've fallen and I can't get up!" and trying to make ice sculptures out of the snow on the roof of my car.

Marylanders are going to be talking about this snow for literally years to come so it is a little sad I won't be able to truly commiserate. Boston didn't get a speck of snow but it was bitter cold so all we couldn't really do anything but eat and drink. Sad I know. We also went to see Avatar (my sister and mom hadn't seen it yet) and my brother said he was very happy with his audition.

Forgive me Jillian Michaels, I needed the 5 sticks of butter and bacon in my Carbonara to keep warm. Like whale blubber.

I tried to burn off some of the calories by climbing in our hotel window and jumping on the beds with my brother a la Spiderman.

It didn't work. I need to get back to the Shred tomorrow. I'm also thinking about Weight Watchers online...anyone done it before?

As far as I know I still have my interview with School #1 tomorrow, but I won't be surprised if it doesn't happen.

escape from the snow

My brother is in the process of auditioning for musical theater programs at colleges (he is a senior in high school.) Saturday he has an audition at Emerson College in Boston which is one of his top choices. Since my parents have been taking him to most of them somehow it was decided that I would take him this weekend to give them a break (and get a free weekend trip.) Our plan was to fly to Boston on Saturday morning, go to the audition, spend the night with my sister (she goes to Boston College) then fly home on Sunday.

HOWEVER, a mega blizzard is supposed to hit Baltimore tomorrow and go through Saturday so there would be no way we could fly out Saturday morning and make the audition in time. My mom decided that she would just leave tomorrow morning and drive my brother so they could beat the snow. Since I was planning on being away this weekend she asked if I wanted to go along for the ride.

We are going to leave tomorrow morning and I am going to call out sick from work. I was planning on calling out sick on Monday anyway because I have my interview at School #1 (so it will be a long illness.) Ha. Gotta use those sick days before I quit!

Hopefully K and Hanna will be ok snowed in without me. He is going to go shopping tomorrow for frozen pizza and beer survive the storm. What else do guys really need?

I hope you all have nice weekends and if you are in areas that are getting snow you are prepared with your own store of food, alcohol, and lots of shows on your dvr!

Boston Recap

We are back! The trip to Boston was awesome, it was so great to get away and have some fun. We packed a lot of activity into just a few days so I am wiped out and dreading going back to work tomorrow (but looking forward to catching up on my blog reading.) We also ate at so many awesome restaurants so stepping onto the scale is a scary prospect.

Here is what we did (the basics):

Thursday---arrived basically on time and ate dinner with Sissy at Zocalo.

Friday---went out to breakfast with K and Sissy at Zaftigs, toured part of the Freedom Trail, hung out at Faneuil Hall, had dinner in the North End and stayed up late hanging out and eating cannoli.

Saturday---K, Sissy, her boyfriend, R, and I went to the Sam Adam's Brewery tour, ate a big lunch at Parish then went to the Red Sox Game (we tried to go to Boston Beer Works but it was too crowded.)

Sunday---drove out of visit my grandparents and spent the day hanging out by their pool and showing K around Essex and Gloucester, Mass then went out for seafood.

And now for some pictures...in no real order:

View of the Boston Common from R's office

Old vrs. New

Sam Summer Ale

Fenway Park

K and I in the North End (not the best pic...but now you know I am a real person!)

Old Granary Burying Ground---I took a ton of pictures of headstones

On the plan on the way there

A Bunch of "B"s

I'll be taking a brief blogging break while I am in Boston, having a blast enjoying

beer, baseball, and the war against the British (from a historical standpoint, of course.)

I'll be back on Monday, hope you all have banging weekends!

(was that super cheesy?)