Let's Go Red Sox

For Adam's birthday, I got him tickets to see the SF Giants play the Red Sox at Fenway. The baseball gods [or Jesus] were smiling upon us. The weather was perfect and the park was packed. Wheezy was also at the game having also received tickets for her birthday from her brother and her beloved Manny scored the only run of the game...a homer to boot. Since Adam is a big Red Sox fan and slightly bigger Giants fan, the game was pretty much a win win for him. He was cheering for everyone, but booing no one. I think he was slightly disappointed that it was a "pitcher's game" [as he tells me] and there weren't a whole lot of hits. In the end the Red Sox won which was fine since [according to Adam] they needed the win more than the Giants.

Lucy Kaplansky

We just got back from a Lucy Kaplansky concert tonight at Club Passim where we sat two feet from the stage and a foot from the speakers. Wasn't too bad given that it's folk, but the higher notes were bugging Adam's ears. Lucy was taking requests and some folks were being less than helpful:

Lucy: Would anyone like to request a song?
Adam: Brooklyn Train!
Lady: Can you sing the one about...your dad?
Lucy: Which song?
Lady: The one, about your dad.
Lady 2: How about the one about your mom.
plasticann [to Adam]: Can she sing the one about the train....and Brooklyn?

Unfortunately, Adam missed the entire exchange and didn't hear my little comment so I didn't get my token chuckle.

Ritz Galore

Last weekend was the Community Fest at church so they got the Ritz cracker van to come out and pass out free samples. After all, the new Ritz is flakier and tastes more buttery. When I stopped by on Tuesday, I noticed boxes upon boxes of crackers that the Ritz folks had left at church after the festival. I was overcome with joy at the prospect of 30,000 Ritz crackers and had to fight the urge to run over to the stack and hug the boxes. Adam even let me take a whole box home (300 two packs = 600 crackers) since I was so excited. The problem is, I'm so attached to the idea of a pristine box of crackers, I wouldn't let Adam open the box and snack on the crackers. I feel somewhat justified, we do have an open box of Ritz in our pantry and shouldn't we eat those first? I should think so.

Wagamamas

We walked over to Wagamamas for dinner last Saturday after we saw Ocean's 13. I was craving ramen since it was a cool damp day and Adam was kind enough to check out Wagamamas even though he would have rather had a Chacarero. I had the grilled chicken ramen and a delicious fruit juice and Adam enjoyed the pan fried udon noodles. Overall, the food is pretty good, but not fantastic, but it did whet my appetite for eating ramen in Japan when we go on vacation.

Events and Happenings

We've had lots going on and lots of visitors recently with Adam's birthday and my graduation. Here are some fun highlights.

Kristen, Dave, Adam and I went to Salts for Adam's birthday where we all ordered the roasted duck carved table side. It was a surprise for Adam where we were going and I tried to trick him up until the end implying we were going to Cuchi Cuchi across the street.

Adam's parents and the entire plasticfamily came to Boston for my graduation from that school that rhymes with BIT. There was even a contingent from Taiwan. We all woke up way too early to get to graduation. I had to be in line by 7:30am and Adam went and saved seats. I got my cool diploma and they even said my name correctly. Afterwards, we went to Mistral for a yummy graduation dinner where we were all stuffed senseless. We showed our Taiwanese relatives around town who requested lobster twice so we went to Legal and Summer Shack. Ironically, I ate a Pearl hot dog and a piece of fried chicken at Summer Shack while everyone else ate seafood. It was a mighty tasty hot dog, those kids know all about the good stuff.

Other than that, we're busy planning details for our upcoming trip to Japan.

Penny A Day

The other day, we sent our nephew Zames a cool ball for throwing around and we sent Zess a small coin purse, Hello Kitty of course. Zess was so excited about the coin purse and the random change and money I stuck in there that she's now inspired to earn a penny a day for doing her chores. I was immediately intrigued about the types of "chores" a three year old does. Apparently, she's responsible each morning for the following:

1. turn off her white noise machine
2. turn off her nightlight
3. bring her water sippy cup into the kitchen

Perhaps if Adam offered me a penny a day, I'd do some of the chores that I perpetually overlook. Oddly enough, they're pretty similar to Zess' chores. I often forget to turn off the humidifier, turn off the bathroom light and I sometimes forget to bring my water glasses into the kitchen. I am reasonably good about doing dishes so at least I've got something on my three year old niece.

Tapas at Masa

We finally made it over to Masa in the South End for their one dollar tapas tonight. It was actually 50 cents since we went before 8pm. We each got a combo platter of 10 small bites, shared a citris mojito and a chorizo quesadilla. Our favorites were the taquito, shrimp on plantain and the poblano goat cheese. The empanadas and zucchini frites were pretty tasty, but I wasn't a huge fan of the skewered chicken and the Mexican hummus. I would definitely recommend checking it out if you're in the bar area especially if you're looking for a fun snack in a nice bar. The combo platter was really fun and only five bucks when it's 50 cent tapas. For another five bucks, they'll throw in a small pitcher of sangria.