Summertime

I've been having fantasies about summer.

The past week has been the week of GLOOM (not the pokemon). It's been rainy or foggy every single day. I usually love the rain. Especially warm spring rain. But consistently dour weather? It gets to a person.

Still, I've been making the best of it. I worked on the Freedom Trail quite a bit which has been a HUGE relief on my financial panic. I've also been meeting a lot of great people on my tours.

I've been sticking to my running plan really well! I've been consistently running every other day for about three weeks now! Last Sunday I ran three and a half miles in twenty nine minutes! and it felt great! Tomorrow I'm due to run four miles! I've really come to enjoy my time running. Tuesday I made Mike run a 5k with me. He hated me for it, but I think in the end he had a good time!

Last weekend I saw "Learn to Be Latina" at the Boston Playwrights Theatre. I had a blast (despite being in a kind of sour mood due to my horrendous allergies). I'll probably write down a proper review type post later, but I'm too lazy to do it right now. Ha!

Been playing L.A. Noire. Don't know how I feel about it yet. It's unique, but it's also just a a mash-up of games I've played before (Phoenix Wright, Grand Theft Auto, Heavy Rain etc). Which isn't necessarily a bad thing! In fact I appreciate any video game that tries to push gaming in a new direction. Yes, first person shooters and rpgs are fun and all, but it gets OLD. Good on them for trying something new. Still, it's certainly a flawed game. We'll see how it plays out!

Maestro has had quite a few couple of weeks! Last Friday he got his balls snipped (poor guy). At first when he came home he was aimlessly wandering around the apartment like he didn't know what to do with himself (it was probably all the drugs he was doped up on..), but the next day he bounced back completely. It was like nothing had even happened! Which was good and bad. Good because yay! he was still the same joyful pup, but bad because he'd leap onto things without abandon (making me panic that he'd rip his stitches right open). But so far so good! The incision looks good! We took him to the vet on Thursday because he RANDOMLY pissed in our bed. He was literally just lying down and staring at us. Then he got up and we noticed he was in a puddle of his own urine. This was very bizarre as he hasn't had an accident in months.

We took him to the vet and she said he seemed completely healthy! While we were there we also got him microchipped, but today I got a call and she said they found a few "crystals" in his urine (doesn't that sound magical?). Crystals are kind of the equivalent of kidney stones (but evidently a little less painful). She wasn't in when I called her back so not sure what to do next. Maestro SEEMS perfectly happy, but who knows! We might take him in again on Monday to see what we should do.

Oh! and we officially registered him with the akc! So his registered named is "Carl Sagan's Whale Song". It just felt right!

AND I'm taking Maestro to a farm next week to get him tested for herding instinct! If he likes it I want to get him involved in herding clinics so he can do what he was bred to do...which is really exciting to me! That's one of my many goals this summer:

- See if Maestro is interested in herding
- Go kayaking
- Learn to Sail (there are classes not far from where I live)
- Redeem my knitting class groupon
- Keep up with my running program (run a 10k in June!)
- Actually start saving
- Memorize Twelfth Night
- Go to Yappy Hour with Maestro
- Go swimming
- review the Japanese I learned in the fall and start practicing again
- Start reading again (Finish Bonk and the biography on Samuel Adams)
- Go to at least one new state this summer (Maybe Vermont!)

Obviously this is pretty ambitious, but I want to take time for myself this summer. Do things that make me happy and keep me inspired. I don't want to get so caught up in a routine that I forget to take care of myself. So there you have it!

Now I'm going to perform the Three Little Pigs.