I'm not unemployed anymore - I actually have a very fabulous job as a preschool teacher with the University of Michigan child care centers. But I'm still posting, albeit a little more irregularly, and I don't want to ignore the personal progress I've made since starting this blog by renaming it.

Blog inspiration: I read 48 States in 48 Days by Paul Jury in the summer of 2011. It was fabulous...although he planned way less for his roadtrip than I would have. And at the same time, my lovely Anna was constantly reminding me that our lives were awesome, despite the fact that we didn't have job prospects, new cars, boyfriends/husbands, houses, etc., like so many people we knew. So, in an effort to appreciate my life and the crazy uncertainty that it is, I started writing this blog about the little adventures I have. (And by "writing a blog," I mean "making a list" because I make lists, not narratives.) Even if there isn't a BIG adventure that happens every day, I try to find at least one thing to list :)

Monday, July 4, 2011

These Boots Are Made for Walking* (July 3)

*The flats I wore were NOT made for walking long distances or in the rain.
  • We walked A LOT today.
  • Started at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and we got in for free with Krystle's leftover passes and ability to look only 17. The museum was pretty cool and definitely worth the stop (although I'm not sure I would have felt that way if we'd had to wait in line or pay the full ticket price...I appreciate the art, but I'm a poor impatient college grad).
  • Wandered up 83rd/82nd Streets and found a yummy little pizza place for lunch.
  • Embarked on our trek of Central Park. We saw the Bethesda Fountain and a sculpture of a panther (among other things). It was a little drizzly, but that only meant that the weather was cooler and there were less people around. One of my favorite parts was when Krystle found this plaque on a bench:
So cute!
  • Walked to Times Square...and found ALL the people. It was crazy! The Square looked awesome though, and I'm glad we went. Lots of memories for the 2006 Master Singers' trip came flooding back :)
  • Came back to the house and started a game of Monopoly, which was briefly interrupted by a search around the block for incredibly loud (though good) music coming from somewhere close...turned out to be a house party that we couldn't join :/ So we finished our game. Krystle got out pretty quickly :( But Justin declared that she would have been in way longer if he'd 1) believed me about the "If a player owns all the lots on any Color-Group, the rent is doubled on unimproved lots in that group" rule and 2) not taken his anger about me not trading with him out on her...so it's really Brophy's fault that she went bankrupt.
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