World Champs!! (well, not quite literally)

yes, the Phillies won the World Series....there were plenty of very enthusiastic fans going nuts at the parade...the craziness wasn't helped by the fact that it was also Halloween. i was crossing Broad St. in the sea of people (not even in Asia have i been in such a packed crowd) and felt an arm around my shoulders and navigating me towards the direction he was walking. i stopped and the guy looked down, a bit surprised (but also a bit drunk) and said "oh, i thought you were my girlfriend"....apparently he lost his girlfriend.

the cat is still alive...

my housemate has been away on vacation this past week, and left her cat to my care. generally, this should post no problems (besides the fact that i'm allergic to cats--thankfully my allergies doesn't seem to be kicking in with Taylor), however, once you consider the cat is diabetic, and has a thyroid issue, it's not so easy. so my week of learning has also expanded to administering thyroid pills and giving insulin injections to cats---i bet not even cat lovers can say they know how to do that!

there was a scare last week when i thought perhaps i was going to have to take the cat to some cat emergency room...since apparently she also has seizures. yes, i'm totally serious.

fire!

this city girl has just learned how to start fire in a wood burning fireplace!! thank God for friends who know how, or else i might have to invest in lots of fire extinguishers. yes, i know it's lame that i didn't know how before now, but read: city girl. now i have access to one, i intend to make use of it on cool nights. there's just something about sitting in front of the fire...the smell, the crackling of the wood, the hypnotic flames....ahhh.

now, if i could just find wood so i can stop burning chopsticks or contemplate tossing in "spare" furniture....(feel free to bring fire wood to my place when you visit next time.)

leaf peeping in New Hampshire...

couple of weekends ago i went up to NH with my friends, tina and sue, to do some hiking and leaf peeping (which is a term that some people seem to find...obscene, for some reason). anyway, nothing was perverted about this trip with the exception of maybe my insistence of documenting the food i ate.


the first thing we did before hiking any trails was eat.... we heard about a place called Polly's Pancake Parlor, so we went and waited more than 30 minutes to be seated since it was that popular (with locals and travelers). had some gooood pancakes with their housemade maple concoctions. Sue and i spent sunday afternoon driving to Portsmouth , and grabbed a hotdog at the famed, Gilley's, for appetizer before going to a brewery co. for for some beer tasting and pub food. then it was killing some time before we can eat dinner over in Maine, at Bob's Clam Hut.....yes we crossed state line to eat.


the foliage was nice, and we did plenty of hiking for our long weekend away. we hiked the White mountains, drove through the Kanc (Kancamagus hwy) and did some shorter trails there, as well as Mt. Monadnock (which claims to be the 2nd most climbed mountain in the world, after Mt. Fuji in Japan). with all the exercise, you can see why food was of importance to me, no?