St. Patrick's Day

I had a really fun St. Patrick's Day yesterday. We slept in and then had a nice breakfast of pancakes and bacon. Then we lazed about watching the CSI marathon on Spike while I started boiling the water for the corn beef and cabbage. Once the corn beef was in the pot with some spices (bay leaf, pepper corn, and thyme) I went on a walk to the cemetery. Dinner turned out great, and Sarah was home, so she ate with us. I also made brownies for dessert. After dinner we watched Dr Who: Waters of Mars, which was excellent, but annoying because it was like having one chocolate and then sealing the box so we couldn't eat any more. Then I had to design a phone booth for the show I'm set designing.
On the whole, mostly unproductive aside from making my first real holiday dinner, but deliciously so.

Spring Break: Half Over

So, spring break is half over and I finally started getting some work done. Yesterday we got Mike a new pair of glasses that look super awesome and let him actually see. We ended up taking a crazy nap though at like 7pm and then were up until after 5am because of it. I'm really excited because I found out yesterday that there are at least two places on Maui that rent suits. This is wonderful because I was really afraid that we were gonna have to rent some of the guys tuxes because they didn't have suits and that was just gonna look weird. I should really go and do some reading now as much as I don't want to.

Greenwood Cemetery

Today I decided I needed to go on a walk because my pudge was looming threateningly around my middle now that I've been at Mike's for almost a week. See, the problem is, he feeds me really well and I never go anywhere, so I'm getting more food and less exercise. So, I google mapped his house to try and find a route that would take me between 30 and 45 minutes to walk at a brisk pace. Turns out there is a cemetery about 10 minutes away. My mom LOVES walking around old cemeteries, which is a little creepy, but whatevs. I mapped out a more roundabout route and took off. I got there without incident, and it was a nice walk because it's fairly hilly so there was some uphill bits and some down hill bits. I walked around the cemetery for about 10 minutes. It was interesting because while there were some old gravestones, there were also a lot of more recent ones. It was also interesting because there were a lot of family plots, more than I have seen in most cemeteries I've visited. In order to get into the cemetery, I had climbed over a short rock wall. Not wanting to leave in the same sketching manner, I decided to leave through the back corner which joined up to a street with just some grass and no wall. (The main entrance opened onto the busy street that I wanted to avoid if possible.) So I left the cemetery, but the road didn't hit the one I'd originally come on, so I just had to walk and make guesses as streets ended, hoping that I'd eventually get back to somewhere I knew. Luckily, I was able to keep in my mind where I was in relation so the cemetery, so I eventually got back to one of the streets I'd come on. It was fairly uneventful after that. As much as mum would have liked the cemetery, she would not have liked all the dogs I saw on the way. There were even a couple that were leashed with very thin rope that even I was a little worried would break.
Note for the future though: bring Kleenex so I don't use my sleeve again and cover my ears with something so they don't get cold and ache again. I'm thinking of going to Walmart and buying some knitting needles and yarn and knitting one of those bands that goes around your ears. I feel like a hat would just be too warm for walking.
I posted a couple random pics I took while I was walking on Facebook.

Oscar Kanye Moment

So last night at the Oscars there was a really weird moment when a lady in a hideous purple poncho totally interrupted another man while accepting an award. Here's the story for anyone else who was curious:

http://www.popeater.com/2010/03/08/music-by-prudence-elinor-burkett-oscars/?ncid=webmaildl2

Wow. You know the movie business isn't perfect, but you'd think they'd have wanted to clear it up before the Oscars and everyone saw their dirty laundry.

Spring Break!

Woot! Spring Break is here! Means I get to spend two full weeks with Mike and do very little work. Well, that's an understatement. I have some homework, and I need to make serious progress on the wedding and job fronts.
Maurine (Mike's mom), Sarah (Mike's sister), and I all went to David's Bridal yesterday and found Sarah a dress, which was fantastic. Didn't take long either which was a relief. Then Maurine and I went to Cambridge and had dinner with her sister Kathy, her niece Christina, and Christina's husband Furman. We had corn beef and cabbage and talked about all sorts of things. Turns out that Mike's family is "wicked crazy smart" as his mom put it. Almost all her siblings have their PhDs. Who knew?