The last few weeks at work have been full. Not sucky, exactly – just teetering on the edge of Too Much. I’ve been trying to do more fun things so that I don’t just hide in my house and become an Old Lady. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’m 50 now. I’m not a […]
But thrice a year, I take a week off, tacked onto a long weekend. And that friends, is where I was last week – on my fall vacation adventure shenanigan-za.
Last week, I was at a user conference hosted by $dayJob in Boston. I brought my gentleman associate with me, and he wandered around the city all week while I was doing my thing at the conference. We extended our stay for a few days so that I could see more of Boston than just […]
The best possible way to come home from a vacation is to have a few things to do in the following days to make the post-vacay crash a little less… crashy. And a scant 40 hours after we returned home, there was a really great event to pull us out of the spiral: The Preston […]
Never let it be said that the universe doesn’t have a sense of humour. Years ago, when Child was 7 (14 years ago!), he and I took a shine to a movie called Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium. It’s a lovely story about mourning someone you love, and the absolute power and joy of a life […]
Cider? I hardly know’er!
I thought, “It’s been a while since the gentleman associate and I have been on a multi-stop tour-full-o’treats. Where there’s apples for pie, there’s apples for cider, and that’s really all the information I need.
I used three particular tools this year to sleuth out my guiding principles. So buckle in, bitches. We’re INVESTING!
What’s the benefit being a killjoy? Absolutely nothing.
I’m going to look for reasons to feel amused and joyful. And dogpile on that like it’s my job.
So on Friday past, when I had a day of vacation and no gots-to-do items on the schedule, I decided that I would purposefully find Things To Do in Cambridge. No excuses.
Sweary Parent Chronicles 