This blog is fast turning into the "Alyssa Show." Its a little late to be blogging about the previous weekend the following Thursday, but I was hoping my husband would have time to share his wisdom and perspective on the blog before I wrote another consecutive entry. There is no sign of his schedule letting up, therefore, I am electing to write again before I completely forget the little nuances and details of what I want to write.

My mind is firmly entrenched in the autumn right now even if my body happens to be stuck in the sweltering, humid final days of August. I have a headache right now at work because I just spent 30 minutes trying to unclog our Canon copier because *somebody* keeps loading it with bonded paper which always has and always will jam the entire machine. With my head pounding, I am sitting here, writing this, and wishing I was back home in bed with my two cats for company. I feel like laying around today.

I dread the fact that I am sitting her spewing about eagerly anticipating the autumn when chances are I will suddenly recall in the midst of a January chill that I squandered the last days of summer longing for a more temperate season. There's something said for being in the moment or "loving the one you're with." I'm not doing such a hot job with that right now.

With no vacation to go on now, little in the way of big plans, my mind is definitely more set towards better things, better home, better occupational duties, more of this and that, blah blah blah, children eventually. Perhaps if I keep myself busier or try to keep my head cooler, I'll feel less like my brain is short circuiting. Its always a great aspect of myself that I'm always onto new and better things to always be looking for the next project or next item to scratch off on my to-do list, but I don't think contentment in the now is ever going to happen for me.

After blowing off some steam, I should talk about the fun things that occured this past weekend. Mid-day Saturday Keith and I left our apartment (which if it was a person, and not a place would have been feeling *shocked* at being completely picked up and polished for the first time in months) to meet up my mother, my youngest brother, and my mom's boyfriend to go whale watching in Boston Harbor. We saw quite a few whales with a male whale Aporn being quite the show off. The day was absolutely gorgeous with azure skies, warm but not humid, and breezy. It was the first nice summer weather we'd seen in weeks.

We caught dinner at Legal Sea Food in the Harbor area and then parted so we could take Jimmy out pub crawling. That was fun, but we only made it to two bars before the menfolk petered out at 1:30 am. We got up the next morning with Dave and Mom meeting us at our apartment so we could head out to a celebratory brunch that Keith and I treated the group to for Mom getting her new job! I showed them around Harvard, took them back to our place, where we watched old family movies and laughed our butts off at mostly my young antics.

Then, Keith, Jimmy, I, and two friends who bought tickets with us went to the New England Revolution MLS game who was playing the LA Galaxy--now the home team of David Beckham! Of course, if you've read much about this game you know that Beckham sat on the sidelines the entire time while while NE Revolution won the game. The crowds occasionally rang with the chant "Overpaid, Overpaid, Overpaid" and booing rang out when the jumbotron showed Becks sipping his Gatorade on the slidelines. Here's a news story.

Regardless, it was a fun game, something that I think more NE residents should go to because the games are a ton of fun especially watching the crazy die-hard fans in "The Fort" or the fireworks going off when there's a goal, or the minutemen militas stationed at either side of the field with muskets and yellow cards and red cards when appropriate. We had great seats for $34 a pop at half field, 11 rows up. They also have very reasonable family packages.

It was back to work at Monday and this week has had its fast moments and its slower moments. This weekend will be quiet which is good, but hopefully Keith and I will do some fun things. As always when looking towards the future, the weekend is a good thing to be focused on.

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