I don't quite know what this ranking is about, but I love it anyhow because it has the Red Sox in first place! Yeah Red Sox!

The other thing I have been up to for the last few days is getting ready for my parents to come for the long weekend. Despite having been to Boston quite a few times since Kevin, and then I, moved here, there are still things I want to show them...the biggest thing being my house! And in true Kim fashion, I have been spending a lot of time planning meals, my favorite thing to do, especially when people come to visit. I don't know how I became such a restaurant lover, but it is soooo much fun! I am not going to post my plans now, because I want to surprise them with a few of the things, but I promise to fill "you" in after the weekend.

Another slightly boring day in Kim-land. Emily and I are meeting to go to Curves tonight and then to Wang's, a great Chinese place that is about a block from my house. They are famous for their traditional (and apparently authentic) dumplings. Emily hasn't been to Wang's before, despite having lived within 1.5 miles of it for the last 12 years. After relying on her sooooo many times since moving to Boston, I can finally share something with HER.

Softball Update: So if you are one of those people who determines win/lose based on runs, I guess you would say we lost last night. However, if you are like me and determine it according to who had more fun, who had 5 people come to watch and cheer, who had the best dances in the outfield, and who laughed to hardest, we are certainly the winners. Yeah Whybunts!

Adult Content Warning: I found out about a website that lets people write in their confessions, guilty pleasures, and other personal thoughts on a website. Some are quite racy, others very violent or disturbing. But fascinating!

Although I am all in favor of kids, and all that stuff, I have to say this headline disturbed me to no end "Arkansas family celebrates birth of 15th child". Sometimes you just gotta wonder. A particularly interesting fact, "Their children include two sets of twins, and the parents have stuck to the letter "J" for their names. There is Joshua, 16; Jana and John-David, 14; Jill, 13; Jessa, 11; Jinger, 10; Joseph, 9; Josiah, 7; Joy-Anna, 6; Jeremiah and Jedidiah, 5; Jason, 4; James, 2; and Justin, 1"

Let's Play Ball: Tonight is the first night of softball (weather permitting)! Our MIT Alumni Association team (plus spouses, past employees and misc friends) plays in the Kentucky Fried League...the league for the worst teams at MIT. Last year we lost the division! BUT we had soooooo much fun! I had a wonderful (crazy) first base dance...and I might need to premier a second base dance this year if things go well. Beer, giggle, fun people...oh yeah, and a bat and ball. Let the fun begin!

Reproductive Health News: Woman gets pregnant with 21-year old sperm! See, I always told kids that you could get pregnant even after the coppulation!

Talk About A Powerful (but kind) Green Monster: "A retail trade group is blaming the hit movie "Shrek 2" for eating into retail sales last week." It seems that so many people flocked to the movie, there was noone left to buy things! Crazy!

Weekend Recap: Friday night I went to Diva with Marshall, where I gourged myself on the "vegetarian for one"...which includes soup, veggie samosa, 2 mini-entrees, rice, puffy bread (don't know what its called...not naan), desert and coffee. Marshall was a very good sport as I dragged him to Kmart, Building 19, Home Depot, Target and several parking lots of places that ended up being closed. I was mainly looking for wicker furniture for my sunroom. I think I am going to end up getting chairs I saw at Pier 1 but I am still scoping out the best deal.

Saturday began with tag/garage sales with my upstairs neighbor Caroline. Although I didn't find wicker furniture (well, I found one but it was $150 and more expensive than the new stuff at Pier 1) but I did find a fun candle holder for $2...the candles to put on it cost a lot more than that! I then rested for a bit and went to staff an event at work for young alumni who supported our "Young Alumni Campaign". The food was good, alumni were friendly, and I got to take home a very pretty centerpiece, with the cool vase. As I went home, I stopped of at Pier 1 and Home Depot (where I bought spray paint for my Sunday project) By the time I got home it was about 8:00 so I finished my leftovers from Indian, watched In America on DVD (A-), and went to bed.

On Sunday, I got up to find no Sunday paper (PANIC) I watched some of the Sunday news programs and set out to spray paint the radiator cover in my bedroom. I ran out so I had to get in my car and drive all the way back to Home Depot (because the hardware stores close by are all closed on Sundays) to get more. Although it was rainy almost all day, the sun popped out at about 1:00 so I ran outside to go on a walk. I then went home to watch the Red Sox complete their sweep of the Blue Jays (yeah!)as I read the paper which had finally been delivered. Then, at about 6:30, I met Hilary and Steve at Christopher's for dinner. They were staying with me because Steve had a 6:30 a.m. flight back to MN this morning. Their exciting news is that they bought a house this week! After dinner we went back to my house to watch the season finale of Alias (which I don't watch but they are *really* into) and then went to bed. I barely even heard them when they got up at 4:30 this morning to leave. Ah, and now I'm here at work.

Kim's Friday Five:
What five words would your mom/dad/parental figure use to describe you?
energetic, outspoken, talkative, smart, sassy
What five words would your boss use to describe you?
industrious, organized, opinionated,hard-worker, smart
What five words would your sibling use to describe you?
babbling, conscientious, liberal, insightful, anal
What five words would your kindergarten teacher use to describe you?
silly, talkative, young, precocious, social
What five words would you use to describe yourself?
fun, intelligent, high-energy, giving, self-aware

Stolen from Emily's blog, bi-racial fruits and veggies. (Well, bi-racial is the wrong word but you'll get the idea when you look.)

Yeah New Friends: I hung out with my upstairs neighbor and her son Ian last night. (her husband is out of town until tonight) We walked to Davis for pizza at Mike's and then grabbed ice cream at JP Licks. We then walked home with sad/tired/sniffley Ian and got him ready for bed. We then sat on the porch and sipped wine. Caroline and I might even go to a few garage sales tomorrow (is it only in Massachusetts they call them "tag sales"? I never heard that until I moved here.)

Mr. Coca, if you are reading this blog, please email me. Can't find your email address!

A fun quiz I found to test where you should go on vacation this summer. It said that I should go on a foodie vacation...if only my checkbook permitted!

I definitely want to see Super Size Me. "It's one thing to rail against Fast Food America and the burgeoning obesity epidemic. It's another to eat nothing but Mickey D's for a solid month and record what happens. As the 30-day diet wends onward and the director balloons into a dazed McNugget junkie, the film throws out dozens of greasy factoids: The number of people McDonald's feeds daily is greater than the population of Spain; 60 percent of Americans are overweight; 40 percent eat out each day.... My favorite: French fries are this country's most consumed vegetable." Who wants to come?

Distrurbing news from my 'hood. I have never felt unsafe on the bike path in the daytime and its a wonderful walk. (Note, the incidents all occured late at night...a time I would never walk on the bike path alone...some things are just common sense...not that anyone was "asking for it")

In today's Boston Globe I found a quite insightful, helpful and enlightened discussion of how to talk to kids about gay marriage, gay parenting and other such timely issues. Yea Globe.

In today's "News of the Ridiclous" we have Gwyneth Palrow naming her baby Apple! I expected so much more of this cultured woman! Argh!

In today's "News of the Weird" we have Pringles with trivia questions printed on the individual chips!