hiddy-ho good neighbors
gruss dich!
man it's been a long time since i blogged. i blame the holidays and the coma that it seems to put me in for the few weeks following... but it's a new year and time to start fresh! i was so over 2006 when it finally walked out the door. i have a good feeling about 2007. so good, in fact, that i might change the colors of this blog to reflect that...
(though it still needs to look "corporate" enough that my bro won't get in trouble for reading it at work. hmm. maybe i won't change it. we'll see.)
conor and i went to boston for the holidays to spend time with his family. it's really interesting doing the "holiday thing" with a family other than your own... it's kind of like changing channels on a TV and going from the cosby show christmas special to the seinfeld christmas special.
no... that's not a good analogy - his family really isn't seinfeld. maybe one of the more modern family-shows where there are step parents and lots of people in and out all the time? and my family definitely isn't the cosby show -- we're much too crazy. but you get what i'm trying to say, right? the basics were all the same, but the place, and the characters were not. and thus the experience was not. but that's not necessarily a bad thing. it's just a different thing. and it will take some time before it feels like a natural thing, for either of us.
at any rate, it was a very good trip! his parents are both extremely generous people and they were clearly happy to have their son home again. and, i got to see my sisters at the start and end of the trip, and my cousin in the middle -- which lended just enough familiarity to my christmas experience so as not to totally overwhelm me.
plus it finally snowed on us the last day in town (yay!).
we also got to see a lot of our old friends from college... including my good pal nicky who i haven't seen in like 3 years. in fact, all "my girls" were together again (save for one), if only briefly.
here we are, dining on lunch:
i think that for conor and i both, being in boston together made our past and current lives feel more intertwined, which will only help the strength of our life together, as a pair, moving forward.
we clearly both have very different memories and experiences from boston though, and i don't know if it's the best place for us in the long run to settle down anymore... the more we think about it, the less sure we are. i think we need to explore some new towns. we've both changed a lot, and it might be unfortunate to pigeonhole ourselves by returning to a place (physically and mentally) that neither of us are in, anymore.
not to mention that we love trying new places. new foods. new terrains.
so, time to start doing some serious brainstorming, because we don't want to stay in SF for too much longer! oregon, perhaps? seattle? colorado? chicago? hmm. well, i guess that's a question i'll leave for 2008...
time to go pick out some colors for this blog.
man it's been a long time since i blogged. i blame the holidays and the coma that it seems to put me in for the few weeks following... but it's a new year and time to start fresh! i was so over 2006 when it finally walked out the door. i have a good feeling about 2007. so good, in fact, that i might change the colors of this blog to reflect that...
(though it still needs to look "corporate" enough that my bro won't get in trouble for reading it at work. hmm. maybe i won't change it. we'll see.)
conor and i went to boston for the holidays to spend time with his family. it's really interesting doing the "holiday thing" with a family other than your own... it's kind of like changing channels on a TV and going from the cosby show christmas special to the seinfeld christmas special.
no... that's not a good analogy - his family really isn't seinfeld. maybe one of the more modern family-shows where there are step parents and lots of people in and out all the time? and my family definitely isn't the cosby show -- we're much too crazy. but you get what i'm trying to say, right? the basics were all the same, but the place, and the characters were not. and thus the experience was not. but that's not necessarily a bad thing. it's just a different thing. and it will take some time before it feels like a natural thing, for either of us.
at any rate, it was a very good trip! his parents are both extremely generous people and they were clearly happy to have their son home again. and, i got to see my sisters at the start and end of the trip, and my cousin in the middle -- which lended just enough familiarity to my christmas experience so as not to totally overwhelm me.
plus it finally snowed on us the last day in town (yay!).
we also got to see a lot of our old friends from college... including my good pal nicky who i haven't seen in like 3 years. in fact, all "my girls" were together again (save for one), if only briefly.
here we are, dining on lunch:
i think that for conor and i both, being in boston together made our past and current lives feel more intertwined, which will only help the strength of our life together, as a pair, moving forward.
we clearly both have very different memories and experiences from boston though, and i don't know if it's the best place for us in the long run to settle down anymore... the more we think about it, the less sure we are. i think we need to explore some new towns. we've both changed a lot, and it might be unfortunate to pigeonhole ourselves by returning to a place (physically and mentally) that neither of us are in, anymore.
not to mention that we love trying new places. new foods. new terrains.
so, time to start doing some serious brainstorming, because we don't want to stay in SF for too much longer! oregon, perhaps? seattle? colorado? chicago? hmm. well, i guess that's a question i'll leave for 2008...
time to go pick out some colors for this blog.
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posted by megan at
10:06:00 AM
1 Comments:
glad you enjoyed your trip to boston. these are good things to be thinking about!
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