the grand finale

To sum up our weekend, in a word, it would be... accomplished.  Christian's last weekend in town was nonstop, but a lot of fun!  We ended on a high note for Christian here at Finale in Coolidge Corner.  Check out these scrumptiousnesses:

Which do you think I like best?  The handsome Dane, the ice cream, the molten cake or the espresso martini? :)  Difficult to choose but I guess I'll go with my Dane as the what I liked best about that night.

Saturday we went bowling at Jillians with Megan (Focaccia) and her boyfriend Matt.  We got some grub and only Matt bowled over 100.  It was lots of fun!  Afterwards we took a walk to Matt's office in which he grabbed free tickets to the Museum of Science for Christian and I.  Saweet.  Thanks Matt.  Check out his blog - lots of funnies and head scratchers and 'ohhhh that's interesting's!

We spent two hours roaming the general exhibit halls, highlights include the visual perception exhibit and of course the butterfly garden - helloooo. :)  Beautiful, beautiful butterflies.  We each had a few "hitchhiker" butterflies land on our shoulders - so cute!  After the exhibit halls closed and I stopped acting like a child in the gift shop we went to a Guitar Hero laser show.  I fell asleep during the last song, haha.

Took the E train and headed to the beloved Cheesecake Factory where you can eat like kings with left overs enough for three more meals.  1.5 hour wait and Christian and I have a new business plan - he is genius.  I would tell you what it is, but I'd have to kill you.  Stuffed to the gills we headed home.

Sunday we woke up to gorgeous and profound 60 degree weather in Boston in NOVEMBER.  Nice.  Went to brunch at Charlies on Newbury St and sat outside.  Perfection.  Took a stroll and then got on the T over to Cambridgeside Galleria to start CHRISTMAS shopping.  Yep you read that correctly.

Few gifts bought we headed home to Brookline and met Lykke for dinner at Zaftigs.  Matzo ball soup and potato pancakes are just about the best thing in the world aside from great Danish company.  As a grand finale to the weekend and Christian's trip we headed to... well you already know where.

Now I'm here trying to catch up with the digital world as I've been somewhat MIA in the personal realm for the past month.  I've got a awesome invite to Google Wave from a developer I work with in the UK and not a figgen clue how to use it.  Even the Wikipedia explanation didn't quite clear it up for me.  Hmm.

Do you Wave?  Can you Wave with me?  (Don't worry Sarah - save that one wave of the flag for you!)

What else is new in the virtual world - anything more fun then our weekend?  I bet not!  

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we're all going deaf

Picture me talking at (not on) my phone.  Not saying "Call Dad" but rather "Boston Common movie times" or "How many oz in a liter?"... Would you think I'd lost my mind completely and just hope there is someone on the other end or would you realize that I was searching Google?

Just read an article Richard sent across talking about how Google has unveiled voice-enabled search.  How crazy is that?  I think my favorite benefit of this new technology is

"Still not convinced? There just might be a few other benefits to voice recognition software. As we reclaim our voices, perhaps our eye-strain and carpal tunnel syndrome will subside."

How true that is.  I sincerely fear getting old.  I think that between the non-stop computer madness and my addiction to my ipod I'm going to be deaf by the age of 35, legally blind by the age of 37 and have severe arthritis by age of 39.  So basically I won't really want to even go over the damn hill.

I can’t see myself walking down the street saying search commands to my phone, though.  I am not even confident enough to wear a bluetooth headset in fear of looking like a crazy person talking to myself.  Which is really interesting because I talk to myself all the time without realizing it.

There are a lot of people claiming our generation is going deaf at record speed.  I can't say it's hard to argue it any differently.  I have even noticed that I struggle to hear correctly 100% of the time.  I'm pretty sure many of you have experienced me repeating what I heard back to you that makes absolutely no sense - haha.

Maybe I will just risk looking like a crazy person in an attempt to avoid losing quality of life before forty.

BTW - still desperately want an iPhone.  Do you think Apple accepts wedding registries? ;)

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