Skating, showers, spring, Santino & swans
- Jimmy and I went ice skating a couple weeks ago with a bunch of folks from his new lab. I started out with figure skates, but kept catching the darn toe pick on the ice and nearly falling on my face. I guess the months of rollerblading has had an effect on my ability to skate with figure skates! So I switched to hockey skates and had a blast. In fact, we had so much fun we decided to invest in hockey skates for ourselves. We found some on eBay, and we are now the proud owners of our very own skates. Skating, anyone?

- I went to Chicago last Saturday for a baby shower for our friend Ginny. She and her husband have picked out a Classic Pooh theme for their nursery - so cute! We had tea at the Drake. I'd never actually been there before - it was really nice. Good tea & sandwiches and it was great to see all sorts of people that I haven't seen since we moved.

- Spring has sprung! My favorite time of the year has arrived, complete with pouring rainstorms. Wednesday night, we were watching the Project Runway finale and it was raining so hard that we had to turn the TV up. The finale, BTW, proved that we are definitely not good judges of high fashion. We loved Santino's collection and hated Chloe's. We didn't understand how Chloe's stuff, which we had liked all season, could have suddenly become so bizzare. On the other hand, we really liked Santino's dresses, and unlike the judges, thought that a more mature Santino was a good thing.

After the finale, it was still pouring rain and Violet was sacked out on the couch, but we had to take her out for a walk. The poor puppy kept giving me disgruntled looks while we were walking and trying to huddle into my legs, as if to say "Why did you wake me up and make me go out in this?" She hates water so much that she had to look where she stepped every time, so that she wouldn't accidentally step in a puddle. Poor little doggy.

- Yesterday, Violet and I saw some swans out on the pond by our apartment while we were walking. She was intrigued and wanted to investigate them, but I managed to convince her that swans could totally kick her butt.

- OK Troy, we blogged. Please don't put us on hiatus :)