Chillin over the weekend

Had a nice weekend - although I could have used some more sleep and Friday could have been a tiny bit warmer - the wind chill was below zero during the day - it was COLD!!! Kristin and I went to the Burren on Saturday - listened to a great band, the Spitting Vinnies, and made some new friends - Robin and Ben - or in the celebrity couple world - "Roben".

Sunday Stef and I chilled with Momma Moira and sweet Baby Vincent. "You have a baby - no waiting in line!" Thank God for little babies - b/c of V we didn't have to wait quite as long in the line outside of where we had brunch. But honestly how could you resist his precious lil face!

Oh! One thing that made the weekend "totally awesome" was the guy at the Burren with the full on Rat Tail - braided and EVERYTHING - please see picture for details - I tried to get a decent pic but it was hard to do it without looking obvious.

If every Monday could be like this...

Had lunch with the girls to see Tori off - she and Tom are going on a round the world - super fantastic - here's a shovel can you dig it fool - trip of a life-time!!! Then we got our nails done, had a couple of mini neck massages, and some Starbucks to chase the cold away. So Nice!

Bella

This is the dog I want...

Huh?

I've seen lots of strange things on the train but this morning I saw something that was just - well - odd. It made laugh because it was 1. unexpected 2. being done by a seemingly 'normal' person 3. so damn early in the morning.

Scenario - standing outside waiting for the T when a woman all done up her biggest, fluffiest, warmest winter finery gets in line. She has two backpacks, a purse, gloves, and about 50 other things flying around her as she prepares herself to get on the T. One of the things I notice is something wrapped in a paper towel - this she shoves in her coat pocket. I'm curious though - what is it that's wrapped in that paper towel?

On the train she is sitting across from me - still messing with her things - zipping and unzipping - taking out and putting in - when to my delight she whips out the paper towel mystery from her pocket. SCORE!

She takes off her gloves - what could it be? She unwraps it....the anticipation is intense...it's long and yellow - a banana perhaps? No, not your typical breakfast item but... an ear of corn. AN EAR OF CORN. She unwraps an ear of corn and starts gnawing on it for breakfast. Please see the numbered items above for why this made me laugh. It's just not something I expected to see - I wouldn't eat on the T if you gave me all the Kit Kats in the world - it's just so germ infested - so to see this woman touch that ear of corn with her dirty T hands and then eat it - ick! She might as well have licked the floor or the homeless person's a** sitting next to her.

Luther, Kilts, and the Girls

Busy this weekend checking out the music scene - i.e. hung out at a couple of pubs with the girls.

Friday night we saw Luther Johnson http://www.telarc.com/biography/bios.asp?aid=46

On Saturday we went to the Burren - it was the owners 40th birthday - the pub is Irish - he's Irish so the place was FULL of Irish - had a great time. A shout out to our barely legal boy in the kilt! The band was great and we even got to hear some bagpipes.

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