just maryse

Adventures in Parking

it took 8 days for me to sufficiently recover from my month long blogging adventure. not much has been going on since then. mostly just thinking about projects. i've got a few things up my sleeve with imminent deadlines, which means of course that i'm avoiding them.  and i've got a couple of long term projects which of course means that i can't stop thinking about them.  heh.

but that's not what i'm going to blog about today. today it's about last sunday's bazaar bizarre. it's become a yearly event. i get an early bird ticket and with a friend or two in tow (this year it was stacie) we head off to check out the crafty shopping. and like other years, it did not disappoint. i rarely buy a lot of stuff. my gift giving list does not include people who would get the whole handmade craft thing. but no matter, i still love looking at everything. 

but enough about the bazaar.  the big news is that WE GOT TO PARK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET!

the south end, one of my favorite neighborhoods of boston, is notoriously horrible for parking (like pretty much every neighborhood in boston). when i lived in town i would come down and do some shopping/hanging out on sundays and noticed that on certain blocks, cars would be parked along the median line. i figured it was for churchgoing folks. there are several churches in the area. but i was unsure what the actual rules were. and since i wasn't driving then, i didn't give it too much thought.

until last sunday. stacie and i drove down warren ave and stopped a woman who was parking in the middle of the street and asked her, what's the deal?  well apparently, on sunday, you can park in the middle of certain streets. it started out for church goers but you don't need to go to church, nor do you have to have a resident sticker. you won't get towed. you won't get a ticket.  YAY!

it's the little things.

 

NaBloPoMo Day 3

tonight's a good night.

1.  i'm making french toast for dinner (ok even though it's almost 9pm)

2.  tomorrow i'm working from home so no commute.  YAY!

3.  and tomorrow afternoon, i see adrian!

oh wait, that means that tomorrow is going to be pretty kick ass too!

 

sorry for the lame ass post. it's been a long day.

Thankful Thursday

my friend carole has a blogging tradition that involves listing three things she's thankful for every thursday during the month of November.  my life right now is so up in the air and confusing and stressful that i decided that i should follow her lead.  when your life is difficult, it's sometimes hard to think about things to be thankful for, but just because things aren't necessarily going your way in one facet (or two or three) of your life, doesn't mean that everything sucks.  heh.

so here we go:

1. i am thankful for my doctor for prescribing me the most wonderful pills ever.  heh.  seriously though, i feel so much better now than i did just a month ago.  it's like i can function again.  i still get weepy, tears welling up and stuff.  but i'm not embarrassing myself with hysterical public sobbing.  i can concentrate on my work.  i can laugh with my friends.  and i can better control my mood swings.  it's been eye-opening.  even before our separation, i've suffered from irrational mood swings my entire life-- nothing too serious but certainly times when i wondered why i couldn't just let stuff go.  now i realize that those intense negative moods were caused by anxiety. i just thought i was crazy, but the thruth is i was just anxious.  who knew?   i'm never giving this shit up. heh.

2. my job.  heh.  i'm not crazy about my job.  one day i'll have to figure out what i want to do with the rest of my life.  but i'm glad i have it now.  i have a friend going through what i'm going through right now and when she married her husband and started a family (just 9 years ago), she quit her job.  and now she's unemployed and at her husband's financial mercy.  so on top of everything else, she has to worry about money.  please, i know how tempting it might be to become a stay at home mom, but seriously, you never know what will happen.  i honestly never thought i'd be on the precipice of divorce just 7 years after getting married.  and neither did my friend.  listen to my mother in law.  do not underestimate the importance of financial independence.

3. i'm thankful for living in massachusetts.  heh.  scott brown's election back in january, scared a lot of us bleeding heart liberals.  OMG ARE WE TURNING RED?   but the other day, we re-elected our democratic governor and every democratic congressman on the ballot made it through.  we originated the first tea party.  we don't need another one.

ok that's all for today.  that wasn't too hard.

 

Thankful Thursday

a few weeks ago, carole encouraged us to think about things we were thankful for.  i was going to use that theme to start blogging more regularly but of course i didn't.  heh.  HEY I'VE BEEN BUSY!

but it's December, and it's my birthday month, if you've followed me over the years, you know i get a little introspective at this time of year and start taking stock of my life and thinking about what i've accomplished or what i wanted to accomplish and didn't. 

and when i do that, i get a little anxious and sad, and maudlin.

so fuck that.

this thursday, i'm thankful for my new kick ass boots.  yep.  boots.

i rarely bother with boots because not only do i have crazy large feet, i also have crazy big legs so sometimes even ankle boots don't fit right. 

but these are perfect. 

and they make me so very happy.  i feel like i could kick some serious ass when i wear these.  

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i also got a pair in black.  shhhh.