Life Updates of a Larger Magnitude

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Longer than I meant to between posts, but what's a girl to do? Right now I've got to whip out the GCalendar in order to remember what fun and exciting adventures I've been on since I last wrote. (GCalendars are fabulous.) Oh yea! As promised, for Matt's bday we partied it up in style. The bowling crew ended up being more than 4 (hooray!) and I have to say that I quite enjoy candlepin bowling. It's like skeeball on crack (with whacked out scoring). Still enjoy 10-pin more, but for a cheap and local night out, that place rocked. Brynna and I left the bowling a few minutes early in order to head back to the house and pull the lasagna out of the oven. And apparently took Matt Shea's shoes with us in the stroller, thus leaving him to enjoy the pleasures of a rainy Somerville night barefoot. Eventually peeps arrived and we commenced the eating and drinking portion of the evening... Much GGE was played, with special birthday rules that allowed Matt to play every...

One of my first memories including Matt was freshman year of college - somehow I heard that it was his birthday and I made him a giant red construction paper card that said "Happy Birthday 9/9/99 boy!" and then taped it to his door. Yesterday was the big 2-7, and it was pretty tame. As my gift to him I finally made him meatloaf. For the past 9 years I've avoided this because it's his favorite dish that his step-mom used to make, and I know meatloaf - no 2 are the same! So instead of it not living up to expectations, I just avoided it altogether. Until last night. And I have to say, it actually turned out ok. :) THe mashed potatoes turned out even better. While I was cooking (and running around trying to accomplish 5 other things) I realized that it has been a longgggggggggg time since we've actually had a home-cooked meal (burgers and hotdogs don't count!). My goal is to make another one tonight, but we'll see. I don't want to be too ambitiou...