Big huge thanks to my friend Shelly in Germany for giving me a gift certificate to Caring Touch Massage Therapy to help me move into my 40s! Katrina, who owns Caring Touch, sidled up to me the other day at the gym and slipped me an envelope. Inside that envelope was the afore-mentioned gift certificate, along with a note from Shelly thanking me for my friendship (we’ve known each other since I worked at the University of Northern Iowa, way back in the late 90s) and wishing me well as I moved into a new decade of life. Needless to say, I got a little teary and sniffly.
Highly recommended!
And so I ran home, checked Katrina’s schedule, and got myself on her calendar ASAP. The massage was wonderful – she focused on my legs per my request – and I felt like I was walking on jelly for about 2 days. I’d highly recommend Katrina! And I’d highly recommend being friends with Shelly too. They are both simply wonderful!
We got some snow in January. Well, actually, we got a TON of snow in January – to the tune of just about 4 feet. Add in the foot and a half from December, and you’ve got some great snowshoeing weather. Amy and I asked our friend C. if she and the girls wanted to come snowshoe with us in the Blue Hills in mid-January, and they jumped on it! Both girls had snowshoed only once before, and seemed to really enjoy going with us. C., of course, had a blast, and so did Amy and I!
Running in snow is fun!
Happiness!
Everyone run!
A successful adventure!
Libby, Amy, and I went to see the Paw Sox last Thursday evening. It was free baseball cap day, so we made sure to get there early so we could get free caps – thanks Rhode Island Lottery and WEEI! While the Paw Sox didn’t win (hardly – they lost 9 or 10 to 1), the game itself was a blast! Some photos:
Megan and Amy each pose with Sox, the female Paw Sox mascot (yes, there are two).
Me, lurking behind Paws, while he was signing little kids’ programs. Yes, I’m a dork.
My wiffy and our great friend!
Me and Paws. I swear, I didn’t shove any kids aside to get this photo. At least, not too viciously.
Playing with the tilt-shift function on my camera – made the field look pretty cool! And yes, our seats were great – right behind home plate.
Amy and I had such a great time at the game that we decided to base our summer vacation partly on seeing minor league baseball games. The other part? Based on my 40 in 40 list… but you’ll have to wait until the vacation is done for me to tell you what fun things we’re planning on doing!
In my last post, I hinted at something else on my 40 in 40 list that Libby, Jen, Amy, and I had done on our first (annual?) L-JAM Adventure Day. We went candlepin bowling at Lanes & Games in Cambridge.
As a twist, we decided to bowl in skirts. Which meant we needed to buy skirts. Which meant a trip to Goodwill after lunch and before the graveyard adventure. Behold the shopping. (Amy does not like wearing skirts.)
And behold all of us in skirts (looking reasonably happy, even though none of us are really skirt-wearers.) (Aside: Amy coaches outside. Can you tell? The rest of us are pretty pasty white, but she’s looking all tanned.)
And behold some action shots of us bowling/posing.
Amy (l) and Libby (r) bowl
Jen (l) and Megan (r) pose
I LOVE candlepin bowling – it’s significantly more fun to me than ten-pin bowling, and not just because you get three shots on each frame. There’s something about the small ball, the shape of the pins, and the fact that between shots the deadwood isn’t swept away. That can really help, but it can also hurt. So hooray for candlepin bowling! I suspect I’ll go more than once this year…
On Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, I had FIVE adventures with Libby, Jen, and Amy, which we dubbed the L-JAM Adventure Day. We voted on what we wanted to do after throwing about 20 ideas out there, and the top 5 won. On the list? Flying a kite in Boston Common!
At first I was unsuccessful with the rainbow-colored stunt kite. Perhaps we were making things too hard with that one. Amy and Jen didn’t have any success with it either, although I’m attributing that about 99% to user error…
But then I had success with Spiderman! Spidey always saves the day! And really, there is nothing like flying a $5 kite on a beautiful summer day.
Other things we did that day include hopscotch and jump rope, eating food we’d never tried before (in this case, pork bellies and grilled pineapple, both of which are totally on my “eat again” list), doing some exploring in a graveyard and finding good epitaphs, and something I’ll blog about later, because it is also on my list of 40 things to do in my 40th year!
40 in 40, friends | Megan 03/26/2011 | 
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