Bye bye facebook

Bye homies, I know you will miss me.

Hello sabbatical,

My name is Natalie and I have zero self control

(You can find this on pinterest, twitter and here)

Mostly pinterest and here, twitter is awfully confusing

I think I'll go to Boston

And go I did. Last week was a great week, started off with the Vivint black tie event. Good times, good people.

Then my darling roommate Alex and I went to the Thriller production put on by the Odyssey dance theatre. They did an awesome job and successfully freaked me out.

The Joker made a special appearance alongside some of the cast members.












Finally the main event: I stayed with the Jones family (my sister) at their home in Belmont. My mom stayed with them the week before I got there, and thankfully our visits overlapped for a day so that we could get another crazy humidity hair picture

This blog post isn't going to be very much fun for people I can already tell, because I'm mainly going to be bragging about how great my family is.

 

We went to the North End for some dinner and dessert. We ate at this Italian restaurant (Mother Anna's) and I can't begin to relay to you how delicious it was. I ordered the tortellini with mushrooms, spinach, and artichokes. The first thing Spencer said when he tried it was, "Oh, yeah that's not good for you." Aaand it wasn't. But it was really great for my heart. (But not actually) Should have gotten a picture of that but my phone was out of commission mostly the entire time so photos were hard to come by. Also I always feel weird when I take pictures of food. But that won't be stopping me in the future-heads up.

 Afterwards, dessert was at Mike's Pastry Shop. A must-try there, seriously everyone was carrying boxes of it. I got a boston cream puff, which I wasn't anticipating enjoying-mainly I just stress ordered because everyone was yelling and shoving around me- and I ended up loving it. It was made with custard. Which was obvious to everyone but me. Custard is good, I didn't know.

A lot of the trip was spent hanging out with my sister and the nieces and nephew, which was more than fine by me. I learn so much every time I am around Andrea and I just love those kids like they were my own. So.. I enjoyed my sister's delicious, healthy home cooking, went on a thirty-some mile bike ride with Spencer up through Lexington, saw a lot of historical monuments, ran waaay to early in the morning, donated blood at a church that had a sign posted outside about an "urgent need for blood" (made me feel really good about myself), attended our own church at a very cool chapel right below the Boston temple, walked the streets of Harvard like a sellout wannabe (Harvard is super great, I'm forcing my children to apply), watched a good amount of Iron Chef and 30 Rock, got bit by some poisonous something raking leaves, lobster rolls, did some serious 1st grade math with my best friend Kate and all in all just really enjoyed the east coast. 

Did I mention my family is the greatest? Because they really are.

I wish someone would set fire to the rain

Holy moley we know I love fall and even a little cold weather but if this is a foreshadow to the winter I will be a spectator to: I quit. I am wearing two shirts, a sweatshirt, pants, two pairs of socks, boots and a blanket and I am frozen through. October 6th, let the record show. I can't even change into my clothes to go to the gym, I can't do anything but sit here. Typing is becoming difficult. Hahahahahha... NO Heat In This House.