Thursday, April 19

5 Things: Signs of Warm Weather





With Boston being a cold weather city, there are a few things I'm always on the look out for to know that the spring season is upon us.
1.  Margaritas.  Margaritas are tasty any time of year, but as soon as the weather starts to get nicer they seem to be on every restaurants drink menu.  It's a good thing.
2.  Sam Adams Summer Ale.  Without question, the day I see Sam Summer on draft in one of my favorite bars is always one of my most exciting moments of each year.  This might sounds sad to some people but it's my favorite beer.  It has a full yet light flavor, but it's only available for a few months every year.
3.  Dining Outside.  Clearly no one is eating outside in the winter, but at the first sign of spring every Bostonian seems to be fighting for a table outside.  One of the reasons I love Boston so much is almost every restaurant has large windows that slide completely open out onto the sidewalk.
4.  Boston Red Sox.  This year Fenway Park is 100 years old, which officially makes it a historic landmark, on top of that the Red Sox also have a new manager this year... lots of excitement for Red Sox fans!  Baseball is popular in cities all over the U.S. but no city is like Boston when it comes to their baseball team, any sports fan can tell you... Red Sox fans are hard core.
5.  BBQ.  Who doesn't like grilled food?  Not only are grilled foods some of my favorite, but BBQing and grilling is a great excuse to get together and hang out with friends.

Friday, April 13

12 Goals for 2012

Oops! Sorry this post is a day late!
1.  WORKOUT REGULARLY...  As you can tell from some of my recent posts I've really been getting into my workouts.  Spinning class is my favorite.  Although I will warn anyone that hasn't done spinning before, walking down stairs onto the subway, or upstairs to your apartment doesn't feel too good afterwards.
2.  UNSUBSCRIBE... About a month ago I thought I was basically done with this one, but over the last month or so I've gotten a bunch of junk email.  It's a never ending battle.
3.  TAKE A VACATION... Well, my family is taking their annual beach trip in June.  So I'm looking forward to that.
4.  SLEEP IN MY BED... I've been doing really well.  The last two weeks I've gotten out of the living room and made it to bed almost every night.
5.  STAY CLUTTER FREE... This kinda makes me laugh because I just spent the whole morning putting away clothes and cleaning up.  I think my new part of this goal is going to be keeping up with my laundry, so by the time I do it I don't have as much to put away.
6.  VOLUNTEER MORE... The CCFA walk is the first weekend in June, and honestly I'm getting kinda frustrated because I haven't gotten as many donations as I thought I would, but there is still some time so hopefully I'll think of some good fundraising.
7.  DRINK MORE WATER... I've been going to spinning, enough said.
8.  TAKE MY VITAMINS... Not so good on this one.  Hopefully I'll have a better report for all of you next month.
9.  LEARN FRENCH... Last month I said "I hope I'll have something better to tell you next time", I don't.  This goal will be my focus for the next update.
10.  SELF-TAN... I was good for a bit, but as soon as I stopped I went back to being pale.  It's kinda frustrating.
11.  OPEN MY MAIL... My mail got rather stacked up over the last month while I had the workers in the apartment, but now I'm back on track.
12.  WEAR MORE SKIRTS & DRESSES... I've been looking pretty a few times a week at work.  I'm so glad I've kept this up, it even helped me get a date!