just maryse

Route 16 ...

a knitting/crochet blog would not be complete without pictures of cats ... so i present to you napoleon. he's a great old cat, except that he hates J and pees in his clothes. that'll teach J to leave his dirty clothes all over the house. heh heh.

so i didn't do much in the way of anything really today. i went for a little drive, had lunch in sutton with a friend of mine who lives there (she could be the only single woman in the entire town). sutton is celebrating it's tricentennial this year and while cruising through the town center (we made sure not to sneeze so we didn't miss it) we came across some birthday festivities.

earlier, i passed through uxbridge, ma. uxbridge is an old mill town (in fact it used to be the home of the old bernat mills which now houses some art studios and small shops including this little yarn shop that was unfortunately closed).
(you yarn 'hos may also recognize uxbridge ma as the home of The Knitting Garden.)

today was also the big baseball parade so i got caught in some small town traffic. it was doubly fun for me because my red mini cooper tends to be quite popular among the under 12 set.

as i was sitting in traffic for the 15 minutes it took the parade to walk by (yes we are talking big time here) i was able to get this shot from the passenger side. it's such a pretty little town.

Food Coma

i just had the biggest salad ever and now i just want to roll up into a ball and take a nap under my desk.
and i actually could today, without anyone really noticing. tomorrow morning, bright and early, i'm off to Santa Monica, CA for a two day meeting. today, i'm pretty much just tying together some loose ends here at work. ugh. i hate days like this. i'm one of those people who manages to accomplish a great deal in a small amount of time when i've got lots to do. but if i only have stupid shit to do, it takes me all day to do the most mundane tasks. so here i am, just sitting here. waiting for the day to end.

this is where i'm going by the way...

i think that could even be the view from our hotel. i will never see it. i'll be sitting in a conference room from the time of our arrival tomorrow at noon until we adjourn thursday night at about 7pm. i may be able to walk around early friday morning before my flight back to boston.

last year, i was in Santa Monica at about the same time of year for another meeting. my husband (i'll refer to him from now on as J -- since he has a name and since i still feel weird referring to him as a husband. plus it used to piss me off to no end when my mother spoke of my father that way ... "my husband thinks this ..." "my husband says this ..." jesus christ woman! everybody knows his name. refer to him by that name!) met me later on after the meeting and we hung out for a couple of days. which was fun. we rented this

and we drove around the LA area. when i was a kid, i lived in the area, so i insisted on checking out my old house and school. but of course, i only knew how to get there from memory and well, i was 10 when we left. so we ended up driving around for 3 hours until we finally found the street. isn't it funny how big things are when you're little? i don't have a picture of the house or the school. J wasn't about to let me out of the car for a picture after i made him drive around all day.

of course we went to hollywood and beverly hills. mmmm we weren't impressed. saw this and walked by the local mcdonalds.

but didn't see any celebrities...that is until we were back at logan airport in boston at baggage claim and i spotted will ferrell from SNL and Elf fame waiting for his bags.. ha!

alrighty then. that's about it. tonight i'm going to try and felt those flowers up and i'll probably be taking some crochet project with me for the plane ride over. i'll have pictures when i get back.

later.