Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

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For the uninitiated, "Make Way for Ducklings" is a children’s book set in Boston, and there are bronze ducks commemorating the book in the public garden.

Did another trivia tonight (after a day of report writing in Cambridge – no appointments with kids, so I got to kinda play hookie). This time, we won third place and a $15 gift certificate to the place for next time. Yay!

Aaron and I had so much fun last night. We had an early dinner at Bella Luna. YUM! I was so craving linguini and meatballs, and they totally delivered! 

Steve tipped us off on a JP neighborhood meeting at the Milky Way Lounge. It was a cool place, and we got to meet all of our groovy neighbors. Very fun crowd, and there’s apparently tons of community stuff going on: potlucks, caroling, book clubs, running clubs, etc. I liked it a lot and will definitely be watching to see what’s going on. We all had nametags with our first names and our street names, so I was approached by a woman who lives right across the side street and met another woman who owns a townhouse around the corner. Very cool people, and I hope I get to see them again.

Also got to meet Rivera again. He was actually our third "trick or treater" doorbell ring we got on Halloween. I told him that his politician costume was excellent (tee hee). He’s about 30 and originally from Puerto Rico. Steve says he’s for rent control, which is maybe not a good thing, but as a renter, I’m having a little trouble with that concept.

Milky Way Lounge was a cool place. It’s a bar and a candlepin bowling alley. We left as the live band karaoke began. My kind of place.

Oh, and apparently, Carol can be photographed:

 And here’s Steve marketing the bowling ball:

As always, there are more pictures on Flickr.

Not feeling great today, but I do have the energy to say thanks so much to my parents for their fines selves and for their generosity in the restaurant department (as always – yay!) and to share some pictures I just posted on .

Mom and Dad are visiting this weekend. We went inside many of the buildings I’ve always passed in Boston. It was a fun morning.

Memphis Bloggers (and Peterson) will enjoy this picture. This guy saw me taking a picture of an anti-Focus on the Family protest outside a church by Park Street. He thought I was a gawker and took a picture of me taking a picture. I think he thought he was making me feel stared at the way he was feeling stared at… if that makes sense. But he didn’t hang around long enough to ask why I was taking pictures. I ended up talking to this one woman for about 5 minutes before realizing that she was actually an ex-gay, but one that felt proud about that fact. Very weird.

Is it wrong that after these guys made out to piss off the Focus on the Family people, I asked them to make out again just so I could take this picture? They responded to the question in the spirit of my asking it – by laughing and making out again, because HEY. They’re making out. And that’s always a fun time.