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Abe had a huge tick on his face last night. I don't know how we missed it... it was nasty. It reminded me of a Raisinette... and then for some reason today I found myself eating that very candy!!

I'm in the process of trying to gather all my old medical records from previous doctors. It's quite a task, and kind of scary. So we'll see how that pans out.

Pat and Kate's wedding was a good time - we actually met some really nice people at our table. Their names are Jason and Kerri, and they live in Rhode Island. We ended up hanging out with them after the reception, and they took us to a few bars in the Providence area. Later on in the night, they ended up leaving, but Kerri's sister and her husband showed up, so we just hung out with them, too! So it was a night of hanging out with really cool people we'd never met before, and we had fun.

Drinkin' with Doug Flutie... last night I met up with Jay and a few of his work buds over in F'ham at John Harvard's Brewery, and Doug Flutie and his posse came in and sat at the table right beside us. It's times like these when I sort of wish A) that I had a camera phone, B) that I knew how to use it, and C) that I knew how to post the pictures on this here weblog. Ah, someday...

Today is our friends' Pat and Kate's wedding (is that proper English?). Jay and I are gettin' all gussied up for the festivities, and we're pretty darn excited for them! You can visit them at www.rockland-ave.com.

So I heard on WBUR (90.9 FM) all about the Kids Cafe. I guess it's where less-privleged kids go to get nourishing meals. They were interviewing an 11-year-old girl who goes there, and she was saying that she can tell when her friends are "hungry" because you can hear their stomachs growl and they hold their tummies and hunch over. Poor Gina Cervetti was aghast at this fact, saying that it's horrible how someone should have to go through that. Did anybody tell these people they have a tape worm? Cause I do, His name is Boris. Boris keeps bugging me to go to Kids Cafe but i say No! No BORIS! OUT, OUT EVIL RUSSIAN TAPE WORM. I HATE YOU CAUSE YOU EAT ALL MY TASTY FOODS.

Public transportation is strange. Things I don't like about taking the commuter rail:
- people who sit next to you and sing.
- people who sit next to you and you know them, but not well, and you let them borrow your sunglasses because the sun's bright.
- $2.00 surcharge for buying tickets on the train b/c the guy at the ticket booth was too slow.
- the all-too cheery conductor man who sometimes refers to the Lowell stop as "Next stop, Disneyland! Heh heh heh!"
- old women who stare at me when I take the elevator to the platform.
- that guy at the ticket booth that's too slow that always jokes around and it's annoying, and then he tells me there's no tickets left and he's not joking.
- conductors that rip up my receipt so now I can't claim it on my taxes.

I'm finding that I harbor much anger these days. I will try to be more cheery. Kind of the like conductor who jokes that Lowell is Disneyland. In a way, Lowell IS Disneyland. ...I'm feeling better already!

Joined a band today, The Screamin' Meemies I guess we're called. I play bass, there's three other gals. Our first practice was today. My favorite cover: Eye of the Tiger.

Yesterday was the Dow family reunion up at Jay's aunt's in NH. We pretty much just hung out with Jay's dad and played foozball and pool.

We went for a walk again near that BMX track in Billerica. It's some state forest over there, I think, and it's a really beautiful place to walk around. We ended up by the Concord River. There's no one there, either, so we can let Abe the beast run free so he can pee on whatever he chooses. Which is mostly everything...

So much to say! Last night we went out to Clinton, MA, where Matt and Lisa reside. The Old Timer is "the Worthen of the Clinton" according to Jay, and I can't argue. Nice and dim, yet at 9:10 the kitchen was closed. But the bartender had made himself a nice hamburger with a side of onion rings...? Then some weird drunk lady was asking us if there was a hotel around and asking us where we were from. I realized I'm way to nice because I just laughed and encouraged her to talk more while everyone else shunned her. I should have shunned her because she was NASTY.

Tonight we had a little alley gathering. See the pic at www.felixcgresham.com! Then we headed over to the opening night of the Lowell Spinners, which was great (but we lost). A foul ball ended up right behind us in the net above the smoking section. Then we hung out at Jodi and Felix's place to watch some of the Red Sox game.

I realized that next weekend is our friend Pat's wedding, and I hope to get some nuptial ideas from the ceremony. Jay and I haven't planned jack SQUAT for our wedding, but since I have ADD and it's like 16 months away, I feel like I'm in the clear. (?)

I'm still working on posting pictures. I like pictures and so should you.

I killed a pigeon yesterday!

[I had a post here about how I killed a pigeon (I accidently ran it into the road where it got hit by a car), but it was sad and boring so I deleted it.

I have nothing to say in its stead.]

Jay and I had a great time hanging out with Cuddy and Courtney and Tony over at the Cuddster's Framingham abode. Lots of swimming, eating, and hot tubbing.

Jay rode his bike for the first time today (a 1978 Honda)! He signed up for a motorcyle riding class run by a state trooper so he'll be nice and safe. He looks good in his leather jacket. Rrrowwllll!

Also got to see Jay's grandmother who was out for a visit... she's very excited about us getting married. She wants the most grand- and greatgrandchildren. The most!

And we took Abe for a walk across from the House of Corrections in Billerica. There's a big cycle track back there, which was pretty neat. It's the Billerica BMX club or something...

I'd post pictures of stuff here but our Internet Explorer keeps not working, and the BloggerBot service I signed up for will only default to run on that browser. I'm not smart enough to get into the HTML code and mess around with it, and even if I were I don't have any server to put photos on. (If I knew how to do that, I'd probably know how to do that HTML stuff.) Plus we downloaded the trial version of Lemonade Tycoon, and it took about 90 minutes to start running... but by the time it started up, the 60-min. free trial was up. Waah waah waaaaaah...

Last night we had probably the most-hyped and preplanned alley party of the season, and it delivered lots of fire, lots of hats, lots of friends who we haven't seen in a while, and more fire. Jodi and Felix brought down their about-to-be-tossed couch, we set up a makeshift bench out of a plank that came from I don't know where, there were two grills, an outdoor fireplace full of 10 lbs. of briquets... and list could go on. The guest list kept growing as the night wore on as more and more people walked the red carpet that is the alley, finding themselves engulfed in the glory of Lowell.

So we had a great time! My friend Bethany showed up, she came all the way from Plymouth; and Mike Mailman showed up with his girlfriend (who's not from Haverhill...); of course Cuddy who is a huge fan of the alley parties; and we had Laura all the way from Chicago, my bestest friend, and with her was Curt! Plus lots of neighbors, acquaintences, stragglers. (Abe made a few unwelcome appearances, too.) Fortunately, the wind was just right so that we didn't bother any neighbors, and no authorities showed up. Towards the end of the night we had Lennox singing, and everyone agreed that he has a fantastic voice and that he sounds like Seal.

There's nothing quite like an alley party...