When keepin' it real goes wrong (just like the 1st time)

I don't like people playin' on my phone!

Xmas eve with the family

My family has a christmas eve tradition of eating amazing homemade Italian food and opening presents from each other. This year my mom, sister, and I learned how to make the family ravioli from scratch - amazing. I fully appreciate all the elbow grease put into preparing this meal.

For Princesses and Disney Freaks Only (you people freak me out)

Finally, a Sears marketing campaign geared for slutty Cinderella/Snow White-types.

Sunday Funday - Boncing back!

Today turned out to be a lot better than I ever expected - miraculously, my acute illness left my lungs and I felt almost back to my normal capacity!  This is good news - there's nothing I loathe more than to be forced to take drugs and sleep off illness - but it's good to know that rest, fluids, fruits, vegetables, and a shit-ton of nyquil & advil will bring me back to functional status!

Today I felt was time well spent, I ventured to the wealthy suburbs with my roommates to carefully hand-select a 9-foot xmas tree in record time - i think it was 90-seconds we had picked our tree out, and found the nearest tree wrapping specialist to haul away our superb selection.  The majority of the 10 minutes we were at the tree farm was spent in line waiting to pay for our sweet tree - by the time we left the barn - the tree was carefully tied to Meghan's car and we were on our merry way back to the girtty city. Also record time - literally 5 minutes to get the tree in its base, straight and no tipping over!  We should go into business - we seriously have the whole process down to a science!

Part 2 of my semi-productive outdoorsy day was spent walking through picturesque christmas festive downtown Boston for 4 hours with my friend who is still learning English language and American customs, like that it is illegal to drive an unregistered vehicle & on separate occasion, running a red light will cost you around $250.  Then there's all the little american idioms that foreigners have no clue exist and do not understand when i start laughing at the simplest sentence it's not because they aren't grammatically correct - it is perfect English - but it's also a sexual innuendo, which they haven't learned in language school.  The humor is endless!

Highlights of my week

Well, this week has been a wash - I worked 2.5 days and spent the other 2.5 days and all of Saturday in bed :(

But I did manage to squeeze in some fun on Wednesday at my department's holiday party & Thursday got to see Ryan Adams acoustic show downtown.

I guess being sick could be seen as a trade-off, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I'll feel good enough to find some Turkish Delight downtown today. I heard it's the best!