The Green MOnstah

Work this week was full of more 10 and 12 hour days. I'm learning to appreciate the weekends even more. Tuesday it rained all day and I was forced to break down and purchase my first ever umbrella. Yep, first ever. yeah, it does rain in Lubbock, but you drive every where and just run through the rain from door to door. You can't do that here in Boston. I walk about a total of 20 to 30 minutes at least every day. I know that doesn't sound like very much, but when was the last time you walked outside for 20 minutes that wasn't for exercise?

So, I went to CVS and purchased a black, inexpensive umbrella. I quickly learned some important facts about umbrellas:

1. Every other person in Boston owns a BLACK umbrella. Sure glad I picked an original color...

2. It took a total of 2 seconds of walking in the wind for my umbrella to turn completely inside out. stink.

3. There's such a thing as "umbrella etiquette". There are a lot of people in Boston and walking on the sidewalk is usually a crowded experience. Carrying umbrellas adds about 2 feet to your width. So when you're walking with umbrellas and walking past someone you either lift your umbrella up or pull it way down, so they don't hit. I'm still working on my coordination, but no one's lost an eye yet.

I went to my first REd Sox game the other night. It wasn't a huge game, but it was a lot of fun! I totally stood up with the crowd to sing "Sweet Caroline" in the middle of the eighth, made a game of trying to talk to the not-so-friendly New Englander next to me (she totally said 2 whole sentences to me by the end of the 8th! We're so bff), and I tried order funnel cake when it was called "fried bread". Note: Fried Bread and Funnel cakes are NOT even close to the same thing. Fried Bread is gross, and leaves you feeling like you ate a ten-pound dumbbell. This is me, sad because we lost the game, but even sadder that I ate some of that fried bread.

And then, the weirdest thing happened. I don't know if you're familiar with "Kidd Kraddick in the morning" but I used to listen to him all the time on the way to school. And they had this "intern" on there named Adolpho. Interesting character, that Adolpho. Long story short, Rich Shirtenlieb, the funniest guy on there, moved to Boston to do radio up here and brought Adolpho with him. Well guess who I spotted while I was leaving the Red Sox Game? You guessed it, Adolpho!! And I was soo excited to see a fellow Texan and someone not-really-famous-but-more-well-known-than-me, that I went up to him and started talking really fast, and then Ashley got her camera out, and this was the result:

He's kind of like a Hispanic Chucky doll if you look close. And the guy that took our picture was either a)drunk b)on drugs or c)both. And he totally left us feeling violated... I won't go into that story, but I'm glad Ashley was with me and glad I had my mace..

Well, I have another long work week ahead of me, another week of totally relying on God's Grace and Wisdom to get me through.

Much love to all my friends and family, I miss ya'll a lot this week.