Oh the places we'll go...
This weekend, my mom and aunt are coming to visit Boston for a whole week. I'm really excited about things, although I've been getting extremely anal retentive about how our apartment looks, and I'm getting pretty stressed about how it's all gonna go down too. The anal retentive thing runs in our family, as my mom and aunt had requested a typed out itinerary of what we're gonna do with them while they're here. I'm actually okay with that, as it keeps things organized and straight in my mind. I'm figuring it's a pretty fluid thing too; even though stuff is listed for specific days, we can switch days on things too. I made my aunt promise to help me keep mom from being stuck on the phone crying over another guilt trip her boyfriend gives her. She's gonna be on vacation, the drama stays home in the midwest, plus I don't want to hear about it anymore. I've had the internal "I told you so" moment and I'm ready to just see them end it already. Next thing on the agenda is figuring out things to do with my sister and her boyfriend if/when they come out in January. Ideally they'd come out in the summer, but he's a farmer and the only time they really ever get a day off of work is in the dead middle of winter, and even then there are cows to be milked. They're tossing back and forth between Florida or Boston, so I've gotta come up with things that will make them choose cold, wintery Boston over a warm escape to Orlando. If anyone has any ideas on making that one happen, please leave comments! I would really like them to come, especially if they can spend their time here before I start classes again in the middle of January.
On another note, my school is offering a trip for $35 to go to New York and see the play Chicago on Broadway. I signed TJ and myself up immediately. I get to go to Broadway!!! I've never even been to New York, let alone to my favorite musical on Broadway of all places!!! AAAHHHH!!! Side note: I love the musical regardless of its name, it could be named LA and I'd still love it (TJ thinks it's just 'cause it's named Chicago and I used to live there are the only reasons why I love it). It's AWESOME! TJ said he wants to pay for it as my Christmas present, which is perfectly fine by me :o) We're planning on ringing in New Year's 2008 in Times Square, I'm really interested in seeing what St. Patty's day is like here in the Irish-rich city of Boston (I would love to see my crazy Irish landlady get blitzed), catch a few days during the summer at Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard, and see what Maine is like in the fall. I love this coast!
We're getting so many exciting experiences out here, I wish I could afford to stay permanently. If you want an actual stand-alone house out here, it's at least $1,000,000 (and no, I didn't accidentally add another zero), and that's for a one bedroom small one. So it's really not feasible to stay and try to raise a family. If we moved back to the midwest, instead of a small one bed for that price, I could get a mansion. The obvious sacrifice here is that we lose the access to all this stuff, although with the money we save, we could take multiple trips back if we wanted to.
Well, back to the real world. Before Saturday when mom and aunt E. come, I have 2 tests, 1 presentation, 1 homework assignment, need to dust, sweep, and vacuum the apartment, put up storm window-plastic stuff, and try to find some nice decorations. Oh and not to forget cooking and baking a cake for my aunt's birthday that's Saturday. Wish me luck!
On another note, my school is offering a trip for $35 to go to New York and see the play Chicago on Broadway. I signed TJ and myself up immediately. I get to go to Broadway!!! I've never even been to New York, let alone to my favorite musical on Broadway of all places!!! AAAHHHH!!! Side note: I love the musical regardless of its name, it could be named LA and I'd still love it (TJ thinks it's just 'cause it's named Chicago and I used to live there are the only reasons why I love it). It's AWESOME! TJ said he wants to pay for it as my Christmas present, which is perfectly fine by me :o) We're planning on ringing in New Year's 2008 in Times Square, I'm really interested in seeing what St. Patty's day is like here in the Irish-rich city of Boston (I would love to see my crazy Irish landlady get blitzed), catch a few days during the summer at Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard, and see what Maine is like in the fall. I love this coast!
We're getting so many exciting experiences out here, I wish I could afford to stay permanently. If you want an actual stand-alone house out here, it's at least $1,000,000 (and no, I didn't accidentally add another zero), and that's for a one bedroom small one. So it's really not feasible to stay and try to raise a family. If we moved back to the midwest, instead of a small one bed for that price, I could get a mansion. The obvious sacrifice here is that we lose the access to all this stuff, although with the money we save, we could take multiple trips back if we wanted to.
Well, back to the real world. Before Saturday when mom and aunt E. come, I have 2 tests, 1 presentation, 1 homework assignment, need to dust, sweep, and vacuum the apartment, put up storm window-plastic stuff, and try to find some nice decorations. Oh and not to forget cooking and baking a cake for my aunt's birthday that's Saturday. Wish me luck!
posted by kitty Cat | 6:38 AM
1 Comments:
we would like to have 1 day to ourselves if we come up. We would go out for a lobster dinner, tickets to blue man group, and stay in a hotel. So, if you could let me know what hotels are nice, and how much blue man group tickets are, that would be nice.
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