Snowmageddon

You may have heard about the snow we got recently.  Luckily it wasn't as bad as everyone thought, but I did end up working from home today since all the subways were closed tomorrow.  But here are some pictures of snow for your enjoyment!

Monday around 4pm:

Tuesday afternoon

Monica Visit!

Monica came to visit this weekend!  She made a quick stopover on her way home for a few days.  We had so much fun!  We didn't even do anything all that exciting, just chatted and hung out and made brownies :)  I've missed her!

We decorated to surprise her

New Year, New Shows

It's finally time for another blog post!  I've been keeping busy though.  I spent a wonderful Christmas with my family (and friends who are basically family), rang in the new year with friends, and now have just been hanging out and enjoying the beginnings of 2015!

One of my new year's resolutions was to actually sew on my sewing machine.  Today I completed that goal and my first project was to fix the strap of a reusable bag I use for groceries.  I was pretty pleased with myself.

I also saw two shows this weekend.  The first, Disenchanted the Musical is a Disney princess parody.  Basically the main plot was the princesses taking back their independence and their stories.  The main theme was how they didn't need a man to be successful and happy.

The show was pretty funny and I enjoyed it.  I was really impressed with the costumes though.  And also the singing, the actresses were fabulous singers.  Here's a little sneak peek video from their website, it's too bad you can't see the costumes in it though.  They were a lot of fun.



The second show I saw was the Improvised Shakespeare Company.  They were hysterical.  I laughed so much.  They are an improv group who gets a suggestion from the audience of a title of a new Shakespeare play (this one was The Mask of Murder) and then these 5 guys perform the play in the style and with the themes of Shakespeare.  This group was so talented.  It was amazing and they even rhymed and spoke in iambic pentameter at times!  Very impressive indeed!