Author: The Jody

While I’m thinking about it, twice now (well, at least once but I think twice) Adam over at Boston Online has referred to me as “a true New Englander”. Well, I am. I’ve never lived outside of New England. I am 10th generation New Englander. But I think it’s funny that he’s referred to me this way twice. I need to start acting the part. Maybe I’ll grow cranberries in the backyard. It is pretty wet on the other side of the fence. I’d have to cut down a lot of trees, though, because most of the bogs I’ve seen were out in the open. The water levels may have had something to do with it, though.

So the true New Englander in me has to go put on her winter coat, scarf, hat and mittens on this the 10th day of March because with the wind chill it’s 8 degrees outside. Lovely. I swear, I’ve never seen a winter like this.

I used to get my mail at noon. I have lived in this house for almost 9 years now, which is a subject for another day, but for almost all of those 9 years, it was a very safe bet that if you went to the mailbox by 1pm the mail would be there. Our mailman generally delivered the mail between 11:30 and 12:30. For years.

Suddenly, the mail has been getting here between, oh, say 3 and 5. It’s 3:20pm right now, and he was just here (dropping off crap, I might add). I just can’t handle the change. Why, after 9 years, am I forced to suffer this way? Doesn’t he know what he’s doing to me?

One bottle of Merlot, three huge portions of food, and one free dessert later, it’s back to normal life. We went to Vinnie Testa’s to celebrate my friend’s birthday, while her husband watched her two kids and Junior. It is the highlight of his week when he gets to go play with them, so this was a good deal for everyone involved. We were going to eat and then maybe wander around Tatnuck or the Christmas Tree Shop in Shrewsbury, but we effectively killed our whole 3 hours just at the restaurant, talking and laughing. The bummer is that now the next birthday isn’t until October, so we’ll have to find some other excuse to do this again!

Pardon my dust while I attempt to figure out if I actually wrote the correct PHP statements to get my commenting software to work the way I want it to. Talk amongst yourselves.

Okay, if you don’t hear from me again tonight it’s because I’m out having fun!