Williams Fitzsimmons Wedding Website!

In case you want to be a creepy stalker, or if you're actually invited to the wedding, here's a link to the Williams Fitzsimmons Wedding Website: https://sites.google.com/site/williamsfitzsimmons/home. I'm trying to get our domain (http://www.caseyandterrence.com) to redirect to the Google site, but have thus been unsuccessful. I spent like 156 seconds trying to do it, arf. :-P

Update: It now works! Go ahead, type in "caseyandterrence.com" and you'll find our website.

My family!

Gratuitous Mustard Photo

Christmas in Brighton, MA

Every weekend is like Christmas for Mustard. He is just SO PSYCHED that we are there with him... and won't let us rest until we take him to the dog park.

Today after an hour there, we returned home... and he was 'treated' to a bath, and I sloppily quilted him a stocking (on the left):

And then, because I'm obsessed with him, I made him pose in front of the Christmas tree. Let this be an apology to my future children for all the photos I will take of them one day.

 He's not the only one who dressed up for the holidays... ;-)

Update: Mustard by the fire!

A rough life.

The New Place

It's a two bed.

With a dishwasher, working fireplace, and laundry hook-ups.

And they allow small dogs!!!

Moving in less than two weeks... eek! But in the theme of growing up and getting a real bedroom, we'll be getting movers. Love it.

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1 Bedroom Apartment in Brighton

'Tis the season... for moving! At least from us. We're moving around the corner from our current apartment... but daym, we will miss this apartment in Brighton just a block from the B line. It's up for rent starting Dec 1 for $1,000 including heat and hot water. Electricity and gas are ~$45 per month at most.

The details:

• Small 1 bedroom condo at ~500 sq feet; sometimes marketed as a studio as the bedroom is very small
• Ideal for 1 person, but a couple could make it work
• 1st floor apartment at the back of the building
• Lots of storage in the apartment
• Heat and Hot Water included
• Basement storage available
• Responsive landlord
• Cat ok, absolutely no dogs
• No laundry in the building, or dishwasher in the apartment
• Quiet hours after 11 PM
• Young professionals or grad students preferred; building is mostly owners
• Parking available for $80 per month at the back of the building

Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/smazzle/sets/72157625263037187/

Neighborhood: Just a block from the Washington St T stop, and 2 blocks from the Whole foods. Tasca and Bamboo are tasty options nearby, or you could go to the Brighton Cafe or Chang's House for some greasy delights. Brighton center is a few blocks away. It takes about 30 minutes on the train to reach Copley Square downtown. Multiple buses are within walking distance as well. Laundry is down the block. Population is a mix of young professionals, families, and students. We like the area so much we're just moving a block away. :-)

Bicycle Built for No One

Yesterday evening:

Rush home.
Pick up T.
Finish some emergency work emails.
Change into my "biking" clothes. We're going to go on our first bike ride together! I gave T a new used bike for his birthday.
Fill tires with air.
Jam the key into my bike lock. It won't unlock. In fact, I have twisted the key and need to use pliers to straighten it out again.
Take the bike outside. T tries to unlock it --- for 20 minutes.
I search for the second key, ransacking the house --- nothing.
We oil the lock. No dice.
Finally T figures out that the key is not for the bike lock - it's for my filing cabinet at work. Doh.
Ransack the house again while T researches how to jimmy a Kryptonite lock (it involves a ballpoint pen).
20 minutes later a little lightbulb goes off - "the keys are in your car."
Sure enough, both keys to the bike lock are in the car glove box.

After confirming the keys work, we put the bikes away, and drive to dinner at YoMa where T orders Happy Chicken and I get Y4, and we enjoy some BYOB Pale Ale. I pick up the tab. Sorry, T.

Consider this an endorsement of combination locks.

Ch-ch-ch-changessss

Things are a'changing. I'm not sure exactly where it will lead.

Nothing that dramatic.

Though quitting OYFP after 3 years, 2 years of which I was a co-dictator I mean director, is quite a change. And no, the website still isn't optimized for search. (Instead we're just getting a new website built.)

And T and I are moving in together.

I suppose it's time to think about what exactly I do want to accomplish. Part of me wants to have a fun, pithy blog about my clever life as a yuppie. Clever distraction, right? Sew more. Read more. Clean my freaking house more.

Time to think. And write down my goals.