I Heart Peanut Butter

Tonight was the closest we have come to a Worcester Blogger Meetup…. Finally meet Jeff from Wortown Taxi and Duncan, Mike, and Scott were all present…

Wormtown Taxi’s, Jeff was present which made me happy…

Soon I will steal the pic from Mike at Worcester Activist….

Check it out….
No More Slogans

This year it is Worcester! Next Year is the WORLD….

Come to The Dive tonight for yummy beer and No Slogan Cheer

The housing prices are crazy low right now…

I looked at this place on Vernon Hill on Sterling Street. The price at the time was $175k. I liked how much space was there but no way in hell did I want to deal with 15 coats of paint on the wainscoting.
Well this condo sold for $125,000 a couple weeks ago…

Then some time ago I saw this cute condo in a Victorian home near elm park… It was around the 170k range. Was last assessed at $175k, now for sale for $124.9K.

Both of these condos boast large sq footage for a very low price…

@ 51 Sterling there is still units for sale in this converted Triple Decker… Check this one out… If the 2nd floor went for 124K then I am sure the 3rd floor could go for less…

I think this will be my new adventure.. It is amazing at homes we looked at in thew fall of 2006 that we could not afford and some of them are still on the market and priced way below what they started at. Sighhhhhh

Just going to head outside and clean them down with the hose and some soap…. They are all dirty and dusty….Get our kayaking equipment all set up for today…YEAHH
Heading to Brimfield with Jill and Norma, myself and Neil. Should be a good time….

Wish us high water levels and non crowded river….

Happy Memorial Day Weekend….
Been busy and not the most relaxed but having fun again. I think Neil and I are more confidant in where this building that we own in is going. So we are allowing ourselves to start having fun again.

Friday we headed up to Maine, I wanted nothing more than to have some fresh beer at a Brewery, the Allagash Brewery decided on Thursday that they would be closing at 12 noon on Friday and there would be no tours offered. So we looked into other places. I noticed that just in Old Port neighborhood there was Sebago Brewing Company, Gritty’s Brew Pub and Shipyard Brewery. So I think we were all set…..

We got up to Portland around 11am and headed to a restaurant that I read about in Yankee Magazine (yes even people in their 20′s can read this magazine). They did a special about Portland chefs and some local recipes. There was the sister/brother restaurants, one of them being only dinner called Cinque Terre (but they had amazing things on their menu) and then the one we had lunch at Vignola. I had a veggie panni that had everything from green beans, broccoli and roasted red peppers on it and Neil had this Brisket Hash with poached eggs and hollandaise sauce. It was a very good lunch….

We were full but headed over to Sebago on Middle Street to have a beer or two. Low and behold we ended up sitting next to the VP/brewmaster of the company, Kai Adams. He was a gem to speak with and after a few minutes of talking beer with him, he gave us the king of samplers and we were able to try all of their current beers. The beer I bought for myself was this barley wine that was to die for. It was a pleasant time at Sebago Brewing Company and we will go back and this time take Kai up on the tour of the brewery. I will be suggesting to Alec at the Dive that he needs to carry these beers more often.

After leaving Sebago we walked around a bit and then walked right into Gritty’s Brew Pub, I am a fan of the Black Fly Stout and Neil had Vactionland Ale. I noticed after I ordered they also had the stout on cask, but oh well. Good either way…

We continued our adventures around Portland, the city if not for the 100 inches of snow each winter I would move to in a heartbeat. It is one of my favorite little cities in New England. Cute shops, nice people (who seem to rant about us from Massachusetts, but hell a lot of us spend our money up there in those parts). Spent a couple hours last night looking at real estate, something Neil and I do a lot of…. Found one to many cute condos in Old Port. Sighhhhhhhh

We then went up to Freeport because I have been on the mission to find a black zip up girlie hoodie, my favorite one now has some pretty holes in it…Need new one… We went to LL Bean and to North Face (where we were able to get very cheap on clearance clothing items). The rain started and it was late enough that we drove our butts home.

Drew at Veg Worcester has some great post on his blog. Great for me since I am a Veggie converting to Vegan….And he has some great tools and resources and also stresses I need to make it to one of the meetups soon…If only Stephen would figure out why I can not sign up for the meetup, that way i know more than 2 days before the next one..

www.vegworcester.com

Check out his blog….

It is time I held myself accountable.

Here are a list of things that I need to make sure I stick to :

• Lose 30 lbs by September, somehow I let my worried transpire into eating food for the last year….yuck.
• Drink less beer, seems I have been on the kick with the weather getting nice and a need to have some tasty belgium brew.
• Not pay $4.00 per drink at Starbucks anymore and also to stop buying lunch out each day…
• Get back in shape, this is over and beyond the whole lose weight thing…I need to start walking, working out and riding my bike more..
• Just be happy…
• Convert 100% to Veganism. I am having so much issues with CHEESE, please someone help me. I can eat yummy homemade pizzas with just veggies but give me a bagel and cream cheese is my down fall..
• Pay down all my credit card debt, it caused my credit score to drop a bit because I have been carrying this debt, but only being able to make payments monthly versus every month paying off my cards drives me crazy…

Ron English

Open Spaces

Muddy Cup CoffeeHouse Beacon NY

The Brick twin to our building the Electric Window Building

Rene Gagnon – Representing Fall River

I was digging the colors in the “splash”

This band was really good, to be followed by a group of spoken word

Up close and personal to Rene Gagnons work.

Lady Pink

Elbow Toe – this piece expressed more emotion than I believed it could

That is it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am done with my pity on me, let me eat my way thru my stress.

DONE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So this past week I was interviewed by the Telegram and Gazette regarding condos in Worcester. Well the photographer came on Thursday and now I am scared….

How did the weight creep on so easily.

Anyways at least read the story, and ignore my picture. Unfortunately for me my pic is plastered on the cover of the Business Section on this fine Sunday….

So on our trip to Beacon NY (more on that later) we ran into the ” Glamour Kills Clothing” store. What fantastic tee shirts for $20.00…

I got the “Save the World” shirt…..

The company was started by a 20 year old kid. They have presences in Zumiz and TSK’s.

But they are fun shirts for twenty bucks!

I received an email from Clayton Brown about his new website called Verve Earth . It is a collection of blogs from around the world, add yours and see who else is writing in your dream location on the planet…