Sick, Sick and Sick

I've been meaning to update with pictures from my wedding, honeymoon and new life as a married woman but just when I got my pictures together something serious hit. Matt was sick first with a horrible sore throat and terrible cough. I wasn't too worried about catching anything because every time Matt got sick while we were dating I never once caught it. I considered my immune system to be invincible.

Well, I was not so lucky this time. I caught what Matt had and apparently my immune system just wasn't quite ready for it because I was so much worse than he was. I've been home from work since last Friday sicker than I've been in a long time. I thought I was over it on Tuesday but when I got up to go to work things got worse, I couldn't hear out of my right ear. I called a 24 hour nurse to ask if that was normal. She assured me that it was and that I just needed to relax and take it easy and I would be hearing again soon. So, I stayed home again and tried everything I could think of to get my hearing to come back with no luck.

On Wednesday morning at about 3:00 am I woke up in more pain than I have ever felt in all my life. It literally took my breath away and brought me to my knees. Matt jumped out of bed and we rushed to the hospital. We headed home about an hour later with a diagnosis of a middle ear infection. The doctor said that in her opinion ear infections are worse than labor. Not having had a baby, I don't know if that's true but it sure made me feel better. I haven't been able to lie down completely for about 2 days now which means I'm not really sleeping. Oh and on top of that, all of the pain medications that they gave me make me nauseous and miserable. My poor husband has been so good to take care of me even giving up work and sleep just so I can be comfortable. I love him so much.

I normally wouldn't blog about this kind of thing but I just wanted to let you all know that I will blog the wedding and honeymoon and everything else soon. I just need to get on my feet again first. Until then, here is a fun video from our honeymoon. This may be more fun for Matt and I to watch, so consider yourself warned. We really do laugh and have fun all the time.

Home Sweet Home

Hooray! I've moved into our new home and I absolutely love it. It was such a hot and muggy day here in Boston but with a little help from some good friends we were able to get everything moved in pretty easily.

This place is exactly what Matt and I hoped it would be. It's newer meaning no more uneven floors, stairs that go on forever, or teeny tiny closets. It's absolutely beautiful and even comes with a washer and dryer in the unit, and a dishwasher and disposal! That never happens out here.

While our place is extremely empty at the moment we've had a great time improvising until we get our real furniture in. Food storage and storage bins have made great tables and a laptop works great as a TV when you need it to.

My favorite thing by far though is having picnics in the front room. We've since rigged up that table top on a storage bin to make a little table to sit at. I LOVE IT! :)

WKWR Summer Outing 2010

I've been working at WKWR for about 2 1/2 years now and I have to admit, while the work truly is boring sometimes, they really do treat us well. Our firm Christmas parties are always these amazing dinners at places like Ruth's Chris and Morton's, we get awesome gifts for administrative professionals day, and the people who work here are so kind and fun to be around.

Ever since I started working here people in the office have talked about how they use to have summer outings but stopped doing them for some reason. They always talked about reinstating them but never did until this year.

So, we closed up the office at 11:00 and headed out to lunch and a Red Sox game. :)

(Steve, Dave, Eric, Ron, Mark, Staci)

We started this years summer outing off at Burton's where I had one of the best burgers ever. We then headed to the game where we sat directly behind home plate . . . and a bunch of A's fans (not cool but we made the best of it).

We had an extra ticket and I was so excited that Matt was able to go with us. I've been telling him stories about the people I work with for the past year so I was really excited for him to actually get to meet them.

(Ryan, Lillian, Elisabeth, Doris, Andy, Erin)

I think Ron was about the cutest thing ever. He's a pretty uptight guy who I couldn't even picture at a baseball game. He surprised us all when he came out in jeans and a jersey with his name on the back. He told us later that the number was his wife's birthday. Adorable!

Even though the Red Sox lost we really did have a good time. The weather held up really nicely and we didn't see the rain that was expected until we were home. It was a great day and a good time. Thank you WKWR!

Earth Fest 2010

What's better than getting out to enjoy some sun, 90's tunes and getting a whole ton of free stuff all while enjoying some seriously good people watching? Okay well a lot of things are probably better than that but last weekend this was our best option, so we slathered on some sunscreen and headed out to Earth Fest 2010.

Earth Fest is a yearly event in Boston put on by Whole Foods to promote greener living. Every year they bring in bands to entertain the adults (this year we saw the Gin Blossoms and Collective Soul) as well as bands to entertain the kids.

I was blown away by these little kids below. Although I don't think they would take kindly to me saying so, they were about the cutes kids ever. I felt like I was watching the live version of School of Rock. I attached a video at the bottom so you can see just how good they really were.

I think my favorite part of the whole event was all the FREE stuff they handed out. We weren't sure what we were standing in line for half the time but we walked away with all kinds of great organic food and about 5 grocery bags to put them in. I now have more than enough cereal, humus, and granola bars to last me a long while and believe it or not, it actually tastes pretty good too.

Earth Fest 2010 . . . success!