Framingham!
Monday, September 22, 2008
Robin and I drove up to Framingham, Massachusetts on Saturday and we’ll be here until Friday. We have several reasons for taking the trip, first-and-foremost being the fact that Robin’s sister is having another baby on Tuesday. So we get to see the baby along with our nephew/godson Shamus – always a good time. We want to take him to the aquarium for the first time and take him to get his Halloween costume this year. I’m thinking I’m going to push him towards The Flash because it’s an easy superhero concept for a 20-month-old to grasp: The Flash runs really fast. It doesn’t involve utility belts, healing factors, or super strength – just run.
We’re also doing some wedding planning while we’re up here. We met with a DJ on Saturday night and he was a super nice guy but he seemed like the kind of person who does a “whacky” morning show on the radio. The good thing is we’re pretty sure that he’ll do whatever we tell him to do so if we go with him we’ll be able to at least fake the type of DJ we’ve been looking for.
Today we’re meeting with a caterer and on Wednesday we’re getting our engagement pictures taken care of. The caterer situation is insane – the one we really liked sent us a proposal that was around $55 per person for food (within our budget) and then an extra $100 per person for staff, linens, silverware, etc (about $100 out of our budget). The person we’re meeting with today seems to be within out budget but, as a foodie, his food choices hurt my soul. I’ll live…
The wedding thing is getting scary – especially with this whole “economy is rapidly falling apart” thing. We were trying to be frugal going into it and now we’re tripling our efforts on the savings front. Who knows how it’s going to go, anyway – for all we know we could be in a depression within a year and we won’t even have the wedding; at least not the picturesque one we’re going for now.
This economy – I’ve tried to create several posts on it but there’s simply nothing funny about it. It’s just a mess.
Anyway, that’s how my week is looking. I imagine there will also be a lot of beer involved (although I did pick up a couple of bottles of Rhone from the Vin Bin, a fantastic wine shop in Marlborough). There will also be a ton of keno and scratch tickets. Every bar we go to in Framingham has keno in it and I’ll play twenty-dollars in numbers as soon as I get in. On Saturday I wound up winning $15 dollars over cost between Keno and scratch cards so I’m already ahead. I’m sure I’ll end up a couple of bucks down by the time the week is out. We also want to go to Foxwoods to check out the new MGM Grand so that’ll certainly put me out a couple of bucks unless I have a blackjack run like I had at Atlantic City this past summer (I put $100 in and pulled $700 out).
Anyway, that’s really all there is to do in Framingham. The nights are particularly boring – I usually find myself in bed by ten which is about 3 hours earlier than I’ll go to bed on a weeknight, let alone a weekend. Hopefully I’ll get some writing done while I’m out here, I have several pitches I want to work on and several scripts I promised folks I’d read.
That’s all – sorry for the boring “here’s what I’m up to” blog post. Better stuff (in theory) on the way.
We’re also doing some wedding planning while we’re up here. We met with a DJ on Saturday night and he was a super nice guy but he seemed like the kind of person who does a “whacky” morning show on the radio. The good thing is we’re pretty sure that he’ll do whatever we tell him to do so if we go with him we’ll be able to at least fake the type of DJ we’ve been looking for.
Today we’re meeting with a caterer and on Wednesday we’re getting our engagement pictures taken care of. The caterer situation is insane – the one we really liked sent us a proposal that was around $55 per person for food (within our budget) and then an extra $100 per person for staff, linens, silverware, etc (about $100 out of our budget). The person we’re meeting with today seems to be within out budget but, as a foodie, his food choices hurt my soul. I’ll live…
The wedding thing is getting scary – especially with this whole “economy is rapidly falling apart” thing. We were trying to be frugal going into it and now we’re tripling our efforts on the savings front. Who knows how it’s going to go, anyway – for all we know we could be in a depression within a year and we won’t even have the wedding; at least not the picturesque one we’re going for now.
This economy – I’ve tried to create several posts on it but there’s simply nothing funny about it. It’s just a mess.
Anyway, that’s how my week is looking. I imagine there will also be a lot of beer involved (although I did pick up a couple of bottles of Rhone from the Vin Bin, a fantastic wine shop in Marlborough). There will also be a ton of keno and scratch tickets. Every bar we go to in Framingham has keno in it and I’ll play twenty-dollars in numbers as soon as I get in. On Saturday I wound up winning $15 dollars over cost between Keno and scratch cards so I’m already ahead. I’m sure I’ll end up a couple of bucks down by the time the week is out. We also want to go to Foxwoods to check out the new MGM Grand so that’ll certainly put me out a couple of bucks unless I have a blackjack run like I had at Atlantic City this past summer (I put $100 in and pulled $700 out).
Anyway, that’s really all there is to do in Framingham. The nights are particularly boring – I usually find myself in bed by ten which is about 3 hours earlier than I’ll go to bed on a weeknight, let alone a weekend. Hopefully I’ll get some writing done while I’m out here, I have several pitches I want to work on and several scripts I promised folks I’d read.
That’s all – sorry for the boring “here’s what I’m up to” blog post. Better stuff (in theory) on the way.
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