Happy Earth Day!

It's Earth Day!

Happy Earth Day, Everyone! 

I am still in New England. Heading back to Chicago tomorrow. I didn't do a great deal to observe today's holiday, but I did have locally sourced (delicious) fish for lunch. 

Just do your best to reduce, reuse, recycle, and even up-cycle. Hope you had a great Earth Day.  

Here is a photo I took today in New Hampshire... it's been pretty rainy here today, but the flowers are in bloom!

Home, Sweet Home

Hello all! Greetings from the country roads of New England! Yes, I'm home, and I love being home. It means seeing stars in the night sky, familiar faces, catching up with people I adore, food I've missed, places I long for, etc.

I've been working on doing some theatre/story-telling based work with some elementary school kids. They are grades K through 4th. It's fun to see them gain excitement over reading, theatre, and the act of telling stories.

Being home for that has also allotted me the much needed time to see some family, catch up with old friends, and just be around people and places that I love and have missed dearly.

I have spent the past few days in Boston (my old stomping grounds), catching up with old pals from college and theatre internships, etc. It was exactly what I needed on so many levels. I hope you enjoy a few photos from my time in Boston.

 PREPARE YOURSELF! I get up bright and early in the morning for a day trip to New York City! Show to be seen: TBA. I'm sure there is bound to be a spiffy post about NYC...

For now, my loves, here is Boston (how can you not love this city?):

 (Wild Turkey in the city)

 (Fenway)

 (Bunker Hill Blueberry Ale from Boston Beer Works- my absolute favorite and a must-have)

 (My hotel room was in the Back Bay area)

 (North End-ish/Government Center...ish)

 (My favorite cannoli from Mike's Pastry in Boston's North End- to. die. for.)

 (Hancock Tower at night [when I prefer to wear my sunglasses])

 (Bruins lovin' on the doors at North Station)

(Bridge)

 (Tree in Boston Public Gardens)

Pats Fan

As much as I love Chicago (and the majority of Chicago's sports teams), I am a New England girl through and through. Born and raised in New Hampshire, and got my college education in Boston. You cannot take the New England girl out of me. Ever. It's who I am. That being said, it likely goes without saying that I am a New England Patriots fan, and I LOVE when my team is doing well (who doesn't?)!

Here is how today's VERY important game played out as broadcasted by me via my Facebook status updates. Heh. What a rollercoaster!

- Wishing I felt good enough to watch the game(s) with my homie, (*insert friend's name here*). Proving that Patriots fans and Niners fans CAN be friends... for now.

- C'mon boys! Get it together!

- SACKED!

- UGH!!

- T.D. BABY!!!!

- Gah! Ravens T.D. No, thanks.

- Eh, slight lead at halftime? I'll take it.

- Three field goals, one touchdown, and a partridge in a pear tree.

- Aww, crap!

- C'mon boys. Let's get our heads in the game, stop being sloppy, and get it together!

- YES! YES! YES!

- My previous update has been reversed. Damnit!

- OKAY! Now we can have it! TOUCHDOWN! With a field goal ta boot!

- INTERCEPTION!!!

(So sorry for the excessive status updates!)

- Just kidding.

- MISSED THE FIELD GOAL!!! WOW!! GO NEW ENGLAND!!! That was EXTREMELY lucky for us!

- I seriously can't believe it. I honestly didn't feel like we could win if we ended up going into overtime. This game legit came down to who got LUCKY. Wow.

 Yikes. No joke. We got VERY lucky today. It was a seriously sloppy game, and them missing a simple field goal just came down to bad luck for them, which translated into our good fortune. If you ask me, neither team played even close to their best today. Now... that being said, I ain't hatin' on going to the SUPER BOWL!