Gah, it's snowing already!!!

It is way, way, way too early for this crap! Dude, it's not even November yet. What happened to Fall??? Nothing stuck to the ground in our immediate area, but there was definitely snow mixed in with the rain on my commute home and watching the news right now there are neighborhoods with real accumulation. I'm not ready for winter yet!

Brimfield Fair

A few weeks ago I went to the Brimfield Antiques Show in Brimfield, MA. My mom, sister, and I did the hour and a half drive together on a somewhat wet, muddy, and early Tuesday morning (dude, I voluntarily got up at like 5am on a vacation day!). Think of it like a gigantic yard sale with a pretty cool variety of products.

One thing I really loved was this huge dresser-like chest of square drawers. It makes me think of an apothecary store and was just so cool. I have no idea what it cost as it's not something I could either transport or have room for in our house, so I didn't even ask.

A week or two later, I was flipping through the pottery barn catalogue and what should I see but this piece:

Very similar concept, no? This pic is actually two cabinets side by side, so one unit is only 5 drawers by 4. The cost is $699 for just one unit. Even though I didn't ask the price of the Brimfield piece, I can pretty much guarantee that it was a fraction of Pottery Barn's price.

One piece that I actually would have bought was this great tricycle with a big basket in the back. Perfect for farmers market trips, little errands around town, and other romantic ideas that I would probably never actually execute on :) But, alas, it too wouldn't fit in our car. It was $100 and just so, so cute.


Look at the old school horn. It's all just so cute! Willy, however, was not at all impressed. Boo on him!

And I'll leave you with this piece de resistance. This would have fit in the car but I decided maybe it wasn't right for our home. I kind of love it though, hahaha!

So long, fair Jetta *sniff* *sniff*

After 15 years and over 100,000 miles, Willy and his first love parted ways. She was good to him and he pampered her for all those years, but she lost her cool one day and he just had to let her go.

So, yeah, her A/C died and those of you who know Willy know that he can't live without A/C. You can't really blame him--doing a 1/2 hour commute in 80-90 degree sauna isn't a lot of fun. She did also need four new tires and some other minor work, all of which would have cost us a few thousand dollars to fix. Instead, we opted to make a couple of thousand off the Craig's List buyer who gave her a new home.

Thanks for the years of loyal service! You'll be remembered fondly :)

Red Sox Nation's Newest Inductee

Upon moving to Boston, Willy quickly learned that loyally chanting, "Go Sox! Yankees suck!" was essentially a requirement 'round these parts. Not that either of us really follows pro sports, heehee. But, seeing as he is now a bona fide Bostonian, he did want to see the inside of Fenway so we bought a couple of tickets from our season ticket-holding friend.

How appropriate that it turned out to be an A's game. It was a fun game, especially since we won :)

I love Freecycle

Back in December I saw a very exciting post on Freecycle--free yarn! I managed to get to it before anyone else and the lady gave me a good sized box of random odds and ends. The pic doesn't really do it justice; it was a lot to comb through! There were some cheap acrylics mixed in with some good stuff (e.g. a skein of Debbie Bliss Cashmerino, for those of you who care). There were also a bunch of random works in progress that I just ended up tossing, like this big stack of granny squares. I mean, what was I going to do with a bunch of camo-colored granny squares?!

And while we're on the subject of yarn, here are a couple of small Christmas projects I did to fill in some time on my daily commute. Cute, no? :)

Catching up

Wow, it's been a long time since I last blogged. I keep meaning to, but then life happens. Better late than never right!

I'm not even going to try to catch up chronologically or anything. I'll just post some pics that I finally downloaded from my camera :)

Back in May, W and I celebrated our sixth anniversary. For a variety of reasons (mostly related to needing to be around for our families), we weren't able to take a trip to celebrate. First time we've missed an anniversary trip since we got married, but I think that's a pretty good track record. W got me some pretty flowers and a really sweet card (who knew an engineer could write such lovely prose--I think he's even surprised himself!). Of course, we didn't skip celebrating with food :) We headed back to one of our favorite local restaurants, Ming Tsai's Blue Ginger. I finally tried one of his signature dishes, a black pepper garlic lobster. Unfortunately, it wasn't as good as I expected--one of his other signature dishes, a butterfish, is much better--but overall we had a great meal. We chatted with a few couples at tables by ours and four of us in a row were all celebrating anniversaries. It is a special occasion kind of restaurant but it was still pretty funny. We were the youngest couple by probably at least a decade (both in age and married years) but that will be us in time!