Missing Boston

Now that we've been in NY about six months and the inital excitement has worn off, I'm realizing how much I miss our friends in Boston (though there are MANY things about Boston we don't miss). We still haven't found friends that we can invite over for a big chilli dinner, or a good fist fight (we've lost those pictures of Cristie and Steven), or chess game like with Ben and Sam (and other people at other times).... (a.k.a Cowboy Bear Bat Ben) ...or run off with to Paris... (Spence and Joel are two of the funniest people I have ever met) ...or work with to organize a Business Ethics Conference (I love how BYU Mag found the only woman at the conference for their photo)

...or run off to NYC for party- hopping.... like this party where I met the crazy guy in the floral shirt (you can't see in the pic, but John is also wearing a skirt)

....or share countless other adventures with many great friends over eight years.

We bought furniture!

If you were to read the family journal for the past year, you would notice that John and I have spent about a quarter of our weekends since last March shopping for furniture, but buying only a bed, and two rugs from a fly-by-night carpet sale (hence all the pictures below of us sitting on the floor or in bed). Yesterday we finally made another major purchase. We've noticed that we both have strong opinions as to what we like, and that neither of us is willing to settle for something we don't completely love. We would also advise any non-married folk to buy furniture BEFORE you marry so that you don't have to go through the year long process of finding something on which you both can agree- unless one of you is willing to step aside and let the other make the decisions, as two or three of our interior decorators suggested. But this is what we agreed on- a couch in a khaki colored fabric, and two recliners in dark brown (not the red below)

The rug we bought at the VFW