gnomi | More "How I've Spent My Winter Vacation"

On Wednesday night, as mentioned in my last post, we had dinner with a bunch of folks, some of whom we knew before and some of whom we didn't. A fun time was had by all.

On Thursday morning, I got up and did some knitting (finished a baby gift I've been working on; pics to follow eventually), and then at 12:30 I went and met

gem225 for lunch. After a lovely lunch, I dragged

gem225 all over the Brighton and Brookline area (with us laughing and talking all the while) on errands (we went to Whole Foods in Brighton, then we walked to Coolidge Corner (down Washington St. to Beacon, down Beacon to Harvard), stopping along the way to poke into some of the stores along our route, then to Walgreens, then to the Post Office, then to CVS, then to Brookline Booksmith, and then to Barnes & Noble (with a brief stop in the Sprint store to say hi to a friend I saw through the store window) before

gem225 had to head off). I then went home and did home stuff until I left to meet

mabfan,

angwantibo, and a bunch of LJ-less folks for dinner. Again, dinner was much fun, and it was nice to get a chance to talk to people we don't see often.

On Friday, I got e-mail from a friend I'd been trying to coordinate with to get together during my vacation but with whom I hadn't connected -- he was coming to Brookline for a morning meeting; would I be available for lunch? Well, it was Friday, so my original plan for Friday had been to be to stay home and focus on Shabbat stuff. But I hadn't seen K (a former Kenan/Lucent denizen; he was gone before we became CSG) in way too long, so I didn't want to turn down this opportunity. We met for lunch at noon, and had a lovely time talking and laughing and catching up. But then it was time to buckle down and prepare for Shabbat, so

mabfan and I got the place ready and again brought Shabbat in at the appropriate time (and not at +16 minutes, which seems to be our usual pattern).

Today we went to shul (we and another shul member, D, met up about a block from shul and walked the rest of the way together) and were the first to arrive, so

mabfan and D got to open the shul. After davening was over, we had a lovely lunch with shul friends that lasted until almost 4 PM. We walked home and it was almost Havdallah time, so we read for a bit and then brought Shabbat to a close.

Tonight we're hanging around home, and tomorrow we're off to a family event.