Pictures!

We forgot to mention - bell hooks visited OSU.
Ally got to chat with her, lucky ducky.
Top: Vintage store photo op
& Schmidt's Sausage Haus
Bottom: Kitten Mittens & bell hooks

Happy December!

Happy Halloween, Thanksgiving, Colloquium, Winter, Religious What Not and New Years. (We had some catching up to do and I figured, why not go for all of em). It's been a while since we last posted about our life here in Columbus but don't worry its mostly because we got busy. Ally is almost completely over her mono, her energy is still sapped sometimes but she's doing well. I got a job, so we can eat which is awfully nice. I work for county government logging things like voter registration forms and making sure people aren't getting food assistance in Ohio and Florida. I'm also in the midst of applying to doctoral programs and hiding from sallie mae. (what fun!). I was a robot for Halloween, Ally was pirate wearing a pumpkin hat. We had a vegan Thanksgiving with some fellow Boston - Columbus transplants. We also had a second Thanksgiving meal a couple of days later with some new friends because I demanded ham. We also now have a real honest to goodness bed (like adults) and let me tell you friends, sleeping in a bed is so much better than sleeping on... anything else really.

Sara Kleman gets a triple gold star medal for being the first friend to visit us. My brother visited too but he didn't stay over so he only gets a silver medallion. Sara also made the cats' booties and went with us to a sausage buffet. (Don't worry, pictures will be forthcoming). A sausage buffet? you say, 'who ever heard of such a thing?' Yes yes, that is perhaps what happens when you combine a historically German enclave (called German Village over here) with the Midwest (who doesn't love lots of (fill in the blank) at the low low price of (fill in the blank)). Probably won't be going there again, at least not for the buffet, but it was certainly a fun time plus there was a candy store down the block with the same chocolate covered marzipan that relatives in Germany sent my family when I was little.

Let's see what else? We miss you guys! We got cable last week and we wish we could invite you all over for a proper Bravo marathon. Bob is having a hard time understanding why he shouldn't stick his nose in our mood lighting (he keeps burning his whiskers) but otherwise the boys are doing well. We are both going back east for the holidays - Ally is off to Portland and I'm off to NYC. We wish you all a fabulous and healthy New Year and we promise to keep posting. Apparently Columbus's zoo is freaking amazing and there is a Chihuly exhibit at the Columbus Museum of Art. Who doesn't like pictures of animals and pretty glass sculptures? Better not be you!