First sentences meme!
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urbpan2013 in first sentences:
January: "On Saturday we drove to Vermont to see Alexis' side of the family for holiday type stuff." (This was a horrendous drive in the snow on bald tires. I've resolved not to drive to Vermont in winter any more. My mother in law asked me on xmas day when I was coming up again. I said "when the snow is all gone.")
February: "Turtle is a very special pit bull." He is indeed. Now his name is Bentley and he lives with his forever family. We had him for a long time, through heart surgery and recovery. Great temperament, great dog. We haven't seen enough pictures of him. We're seriously thinking about making a Facebook connection mandatory to adopt one of our fosters.
March: "I am back from Los Angeles and I have a couple hundred photos to share." I really enjoyed Los Angeles. Meeting Fiona was a real highlight, and I'm still not sure if I said/didn't say/posted something that offended her, or if she's just moved back into permanent lurker status. I also got to see my friend Lila, who I love so much, and her wonderland inside the Natural History Museum. Fiona got me and my brother and father tickets to see the Watkins Family Hour and a live recording of Jeff Garlin interviewing Aziz Ansari. Fiona and the Watkins learned one of my dad's favorite songs (Scotch and Soda) and played it. Desperately hoping that the Watkins Family Hour podcast of that show will come out someday!
April: "We went to the taping of NPR's Ask Me Another!" Speaking of awesome shows.
May: "So I was getting sick of the internet just now and was about to go to bed (I'm beginning to take pride in going to bed before nine--I'm such a rebel!) when I decided to go look at my Gilmour Ride Sponsorship Page." You guys reading this sponsored me in my charity bike ride! Thanks! It ended up being an ordeal, as my bike malfunctioned and I had to ride a knobby-tired mountain bike with no toe clips. I might as well have used a razor scooter to go 25 miles.
June: "Hey you two friends who have special posts coming your way in exchange for donating to my charity bike ride!" A month later I was apologizing--I promised special posts in exchange for donations. I made good on the giraffe one, maybe maybe not on the "hidden Boston" one.
July: "When we first looked at the yard of Contentment Cottage, one of the things we noticed was an abundance of bluish brambles--black raspberry cane!" Which finally produced fruit, two years after moving in. Kind of a lot of them this year, which was nice.
August: "I am resistant to including garden plants in this project, but this tomato plant insisted." A tomato sprouted from the side of our compost bin. Ridiculously productive tomato year.
September: "On the Saturday of this Labor Day Weekend Alex came over and enjoyed some Back Bay IPA." My friend Alex has been a real constant in my life. I should be careful not to take her for granted, because it's so easy and warm to hang out with her.
October: "In late September my deliberate neglect of the yard bears fruit." Speaking here of blue wood asters.
November: "So we've had this thing in our house for the week." Speaking here of Reed, a foster puppy that we had for a short time. He was with us to greet the trick-or-treaters.
December: "My dad came to visit yesterday and we decided to go to Revere Beach." My dad has visited a lot this year. It's been great fun, going to neighborhoods I never go to and exploring together. It wasn't long ago that I thought I was going to lose him, so I try to take any opportunity to spend time with him.
January: "On Saturday we drove to Vermont to see Alexis' side of the family for holiday type stuff." (This was a horrendous drive in the snow on bald tires. I've resolved not to drive to Vermont in winter any more. My mother in law asked me on xmas day when I was coming up again. I said "when the snow is all gone.")
February: "Turtle is a very special pit bull." He is indeed. Now his name is Bentley and he lives with his forever family. We had him for a long time, through heart surgery and recovery. Great temperament, great dog. We haven't seen enough pictures of him. We're seriously thinking about making a Facebook connection mandatory to adopt one of our fosters.
March: "I am back from Los Angeles and I have a couple hundred photos to share." I really enjoyed Los Angeles. Meeting Fiona was a real highlight, and I'm still not sure if I said/didn't say/posted something that offended her, or if she's just moved back into permanent lurker status. I also got to see my friend Lila, who I love so much, and her wonderland inside the Natural History Museum. Fiona got me and my brother and father tickets to see the Watkins Family Hour and a live recording of Jeff Garlin interviewing Aziz Ansari. Fiona and the Watkins learned one of my dad's favorite songs (Scotch and Soda) and played it. Desperately hoping that the Watkins Family Hour podcast of that show will come out someday!
April: "We went to the taping of NPR's Ask Me Another!" Speaking of awesome shows.
May: "So I was getting sick of the internet just now and was about to go to bed (I'm beginning to take pride in going to bed before nine--I'm such a rebel!) when I decided to go look at my Gilmour Ride Sponsorship Page." You guys reading this sponsored me in my charity bike ride! Thanks! It ended up being an ordeal, as my bike malfunctioned and I had to ride a knobby-tired mountain bike with no toe clips. I might as well have used a razor scooter to go 25 miles.
June: "Hey you two friends who have special posts coming your way in exchange for donating to my charity bike ride!" A month later I was apologizing--I promised special posts in exchange for donations. I made good on the giraffe one, maybe maybe not on the "hidden Boston" one.
July: "When we first looked at the yard of Contentment Cottage, one of the things we noticed was an abundance of bluish brambles--black raspberry cane!" Which finally produced fruit, two years after moving in. Kind of a lot of them this year, which was nice.
August: "I am resistant to including garden plants in this project, but this tomato plant insisted." A tomato sprouted from the side of our compost bin. Ridiculously productive tomato year.
September: "On the Saturday of this Labor Day Weekend Alex came over and enjoyed some Back Bay IPA." My friend Alex has been a real constant in my life. I should be careful not to take her for granted, because it's so easy and warm to hang out with her.
October: "In late September my deliberate neglect of the yard bears fruit." Speaking here of blue wood asters.
November: "So we've had this thing in our house for the week." Speaking here of Reed, a foster puppy that we had for a short time. He was with us to greet the trick-or-treaters.
December: "My dad came to visit yesterday and we decided to go to Revere Beach." My dad has visited a lot this year. It's been great fun, going to neighborhoods I never go to and exploring together. It wasn't long ago that I thought I was going to lose him, so I try to take any opportunity to spend time with him.
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Date: 2014-01-02 02:00 am (UTC)For a while this year, the farmer I always buy tomatoes from wouldn't let me take home what I'd paid for without giving me a few more pounds of tomatoes because she had so many more than people were buying. I gave lots of them away to housemates & the landlord's wife.