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!