so i moved again. but before i moved these things happened.

oh hey hi! for some reason multiple people have thought i died this past week so i guess it is time to blog and tell the world wide web that i am alive! 

my last post discussed how i just moved for the third time (you probably didn't read it because it was a lot of words, i don't blame you) so now I live about five minutes from the Harvard Business School which is kind of neat. but before i moved some nice things occurred. one of them being my brother helping my parents facetime on their ipad! and then the same brother going over to my sister's house and being able to facetime with them via his iphone. i hadn't seen any of these cuties since i moved to boston and it was a very welcomed reunion. 

did i mention that my roommates love to cook? i realized i would be moving soon so i began helping them and asking lots of questions because roommate kenzie doesn't use recipes but everything always tastes great and it blows my mind. on this particular day i was brave and made chicken tikki marsala while kenzie made homemade ravioli, homemade sauce, and homemade artisan bread. why wasn't i doing those things when i was 19? or 24? 

 

i'm pleased to announce that everything was delicious and i made her tell me how she made that meal so if i'm ever feeling overzealous i can (try to) recreate it. 

our ward did a little priesthood appreciation night and someone thought it would be a good idea to have karaoke at the end to you know, lighten the mood. well. all of the sudden this dear friend stood up and not only decided to sing "sexual healing" but also felt it was appropriate to give a speech along with it about how we all have sexual tension and we just need to let it out. i. was. dying!and perhaps i recorded it because it was just that awful/awesome. 

i decided to sleep over at new friends mccall and pam's house. we watched the sisterhood of the traveling pants 2 and i felt so happy about it. there is just something about watching awful chick flicks with nice friends that will always fill me with satisfaction. 

parking in boston is a bit rough so at times you have to park a mile or two away from where you are going. this happened to occur during a downpour but i had an umbrella so i felt fine. 

here is why people (young single adult lds people) are cool in boston.  most of them have no inhibitions and they will attend something like a cotillion and actually dance and even a few dressed appropriately for the occasion. i feel bad that i initially went because i thought it would be amusing (which it still was) because i ended up dancing the entire time and learning some sweet new 1800's moves! i feel that activity would have bombed in provo and that kind of makes me sad. 

 i tried so hard to understand why this was happening

and i never could but i liked it a lot. 

a girl in my ward informed me a church nearby has a thrift store so i decided to check it out and found the cutest dog willow! i'm really not a dog person to be 100% honest but for some reason i LOVED this dog. so fat and fluffy and mellow. sadly the woman who owned him didn't know what mix he was because she got him from a shelter. my one chance at finding a dog i would want to own has been blown! 

afterwards i walked over to check out urban's books because they never fail to entertain

and i found a folder i could use for the february photo a day challenge. the challenge that day was "green" and i think these cats pretty much some up how i felt about the prompts each day. maybe i'll end up posting my photos for it? but maybe not. 

 so as i've previous mentioned i was always way against smart phones and never owned one until i moved out here. i still think you can get by without one BUT i am always grateful for it in moments like above when you are driving to walmart and as you look at your maps app you see you are right by the ocean!

so you jump out of the car and love the crap out of it for a few moments. 

then you spend a lot of money at walmart on things you need for your new place because it is unfurnished which, as our saynotocosmo friend would say, gives you the sads. 

the night before i left brenna was really sweet and helped me alter some shirts that were just a liiittle too big for my body. i really need to get my domestic on and learn how to do these things myself!

the day i left i had an interview so instead of taking the bus to the subway station i decided to walk through the cemetery.

 and then coming home i did the same for the last time which was sad :(

(but i really liked this cute old man (kind of) walking alongside me which made me feel better)

 bye bye baby room and fake mattress. 

 thanks grace for always saving the day. and is anyone else wondering how i have so much crap? i swear i came over with just three suitcases..

and bye roommates. i appreciated that you were so good at all the things i'm not. sometimes i wish you didn't already forget that i ever lived with you and sometimes even forgot that when i still lived there haha but it is okay! because i love you anyway and i enjoyed our time together. and brenna - i enjoyed that chocolate chip cookie dough you made for me right before i left, especially how you left out the chocolate chips because i hate them.