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...

it's been a good week. i've done 60 situps and ran 0.75 miles. that may seem like a tiny amount to some, but to a girl that hasn't worked out in about 8 months, and wasn't even capable of working out just a few weeks ago, that is amazing. the first tiny step on the road to all my favorite activities. AND i just got back from a hair appointment where i did something drastic and fabulous. but i'm not going to post pictures until i get back from oregon. ;)

So, Brynna is 5 weeks old and I'm back to being able to contemplate things other than her for 5 minutes at a time. Seems like a perfect time to post to all my loyal fans. (all 2 of you!) First on my list of contemplations... getting back in shape. I have lost about 30 of the 37 pounds I gained, which is amazing. What is not amazing is that I think some of that weight included my core muscles. I attempted pushups yesterday and was able to do 2. At seperate times. *Sigh* It's going to be a long road but I guess starting sooner rather than later is the key. As promised, I'm getting a personal trainer to kick my butt, and he comes highly recommended from a friend. Hooray! That funness should begin about the 2nd week in September, after all our crazy traveling plans, which include (but are not limited to)... REGER'S WEDDING! Next Tuesday we fly out to Portland, OR, where we'll spend a few days exploring the city before the big day (Sunday). We've both nev...

It's a girl!! We had (not so) little Brynna Margaret on Tuesday July 8th at 1:30. We're home now and settling into life with a baby, and I probably won't have many updates here for a little while, since I'll be posting mainly to the baby blog. You still love me! :)

This past weekend (Happy Birthday McDevitt and Birgit!) Matt and I stayed at home with no plans. Very strange. Friday night we went to Babies R Us (you're jealous.) and bought the last few things on our list, then we went home and finally took most of the gifts out of their boxes. Saturday we did all those annoying house-errand things that tend to pile up (I guess they actually want us to pay some of these medical bills??), went to a breast-feeding class (which, at 2 hours, was about an hour and a half too long!), and then made our way back to the couch. :) I wasn't feeling so hot in the evening so Matt and I went for a walk that ended us up in Diesal Cafe drinking hot chocolate and playing pool. Apparently I married a pool-shark! Seriously, I was kicking his butt and only had like 2 shots left to make to his 8, when out of the blue he just runs the table and then seals it with a ridiculous 8-ball shot. I was too impressed to be upset with losing. :) Sunday we went to ch...