Elizabeth & Brendan

So I didn’t have to travel on the ninth and was treated to a morning celebration. Brendan got up with the dog, made the coffee and got breakfast while I slept on a little (not too much since I was headed to work). I was allowed to open one present and it was…Bananagrams! It is a variation on Scrabble and is awesome. Then we went out to dinner and headed home to a few more presents (books) and a night of watching our shows.

Now I need to figure out what to get him in April.

Brendan and I have begun to look at some houses in the area. It is an interesting market to say the least. We went to one house that is a BIG Victorian. It was waaay too much house for us and I think that either there was a triple homicide in there or some human trafficking.

It was weirdly configured. The house was three stories and each floor had its own kitchen (or did at one point). However, you couldn’t make it into a multi-family house because of the way the entry way and stairwell is set up. We opted not to go down to the basement because we were scared.

There were several rooms being used as bedrooms and there was just a mattress on the floor and old computers/monitors/computer parts strewn on the floor. Lots of books including multiple copies of many titles. If the unibomber lived in Somerville, he might have lived here. We felt badly for the real estate agent because that is going to be difficult to unload.

Looks like not only will I out of town for Brendan’s birthday but I will be missing mine as well.

I hope North Carolina is ready for a party. RTP here I come!

Just viewed this this morning and it is really well done.

I am sitting in the Starbucks in the Zurich airport waiting for my boss and other work people to arrive. I took a more economical flight (read: not direct) and will now tackle the day with only about 2 hours sleep.

Before I traveled for work, I really wanted to do it. Then I realized it is not as fun as it seems. Ho hum. Woe is me.

Is it bad that I am already looking forward to going to bed?

About 28 hours until our flight takes off.
Three days until our first anniversary.
117 days until my birthday.
140 days until B’s birthday.

So we were getting a lot of searches for “Elizabeth and Brendan 2010″ and we wondered why. Turns out another Liz and Brendan set up a website but added 2010 to the URL. So some of there guests have been searching and finding this blog instead of a wedding web site. Oops.

FYI: There is lizandbrendan.com. Brendanandelizabeth.com used to be taken but it is not available. So all o

Another Boston Globe article here – different perspective but still an interesting read.

And yes – Brendan is a great purse holder and can apply a cool wash cloth to a hot face like nobody’s business.

This is what I do when I am bored and it is raining out.  I compiled all the search terms and ran the frequency.  Then created the chart below.

Brendan pointed me to this article.

I don’t like pink and have a similar view to that of Kramer’s on the all the various ribbon things.