My Trail Mix: Thank this

I have been utterly absent from my blog, but not for lack of amazing things to blog about. I go into every experience and take pictures as if I plan on blogging, but end up "failing" to do so. However, the excellent excuse that I have been providing to my clambering public is that my hunger for creativity that resulted in the formation of this blog has been so fulfilled by the blog itself as well as the one million other things that I have been busy with.

That being said, today is a good day to do a thankful-for-slash-two-month recap of the things that I love and appreciate.

1) Book Club: In October, I organized a book club (Jeal?). It has since been dubbed sexy lady book club (I think), and us sexy ladies get together every 4-6 weeks to discuss the latest book, eat some snacks and drink wine. This is my greatest joy. So far, we have read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and The Hazards of Hunting While Heartbroken. I will not comment here on my actual opinions of these books, other than to say that the discussion that they have and will provide is rich, touchy, and entertaining.

2) The marriage of my two lovely and in-love friends

Mary and Carl had their wedding at the Fuller Craft Museum; handmade all of the center pieces and wedding favors; tied their rings inside a Harry Potter book; were married by our good friend Matt (son of a preacher man);...on top of a home base plate; Mary had a m-f'ing rainbow dress; and Carl is the man of her dreams. Best day ever.

3) Seeing my lady friends all the time. This includes and is not limited to: going to see The Donkey Show; going to Drink; having joint birthday parties.

3a) Okay, to be fair, Drink deserves its own category

Drink in the seaport area of Boston is the shit. I'm a late-comer to this fine establishment. They have no drink menu besides wine and beer so you say things like: "I like gin gimlets, can you make me something more exciting?", and voila

Then other lady friends said, "I like sexy rum drinks"...Or, "Put anything in any sexy glass and I will be sure to put it down my gullet". That's pretty much happen, so it's a shock and happy surprise that I have any documentation of this evening. Because, no only did we drink, but we ate. Oh how we ate. Amazing Babara Lynch food.....Including, but obvs not limited to: falafel

cauliflower

4) Finding hikes in Waltham with my husborg. We lovvve nature.

Oh and going to Sweet Tomatoes afterward...

7) ALL THINGS HALLOWEEN

Adam and I were Ms. Pac Man and Clyde. Clearly.

Carving pumpkins with friends and playing "guess what time of wine this is" with friends is where its at.

7a) and again, to be fair, The Paint Bar in Newton, MA deserves its own category.

For $35 (And with a groupon $17!), you get a canvas, paints, brushes and instruction on how to paint the painting of the day. You sit around with a bunch of friends and ladies AND there's a bar with beer and wine. We happened to go on their halloween party day so there was also gallons of free candy. Win.