Archive for the 'Family' Category

I dug up some old photos of my mom, one from high school (to follow up on my comment in my last post about how much we look alike), and then a surprise one of her at about the age I am now.

We joke about how much I look like her, but. Um. I really don’t think she can deny me:

Senior Pic:

and …… REALLY??

In case any of us were ever wondering what I’d look like in the 70s … there you have it.

So you may not hear from me here in the next couple of days. I’m off to Washington DC to woo some clients. But I’ll have the iPhone and will surely be all over Twitter and Flickr. Especially Tuesday during the day - that’s my “run around DC alone and take it all in” day.

I’ll be back to my regularly scheduled posting on Thursday!

Finishing a thesis and turning 26 in the same week! If I were a betting woman I’d say someone’s liver is going to go on strike sometime around Sunday!

Hey Kadiddle, I’ll meet you at 6:00 sharp tonight where I will promptly buy you an adds. I’m just the best sister ever. …Sister? Enabler? Whatever.

(Persephone review coming tomorrow.)

My sister Kate finished her Masters Thesis this weekend, pretty official binding and all. So our regular Sunday night dinner was more of a celebration last night. After months, of quite frankly, HELL I think we are all pleased that it is O-V-E-R.

So last night I first tried to force my sister to pose with our close personal frenemy Thesis, but she refused.

This is the “I’m just going to go ahead and ignore you and text my friends. Friends who wouldn’t FORCE me to pose in a picture.” picture.

After dinner, my sis and I stayed out and moved over to the bar. Naturally to get Thesis a little drunk.

Things started out ok: Thesis decided on a beer, and sipped away. Then a few more friends showed up and Thesis got a little out of control.

Apparently Thesis has never heard the old nursery rhyme: “Liquor before beer, you’re in the clear. Beer before liquor, never been sicker…”

Eventually we just lost control of Thesis and there was no reasoning to be had.

Thesis got SLOPPY.

Eventually Kate and I had to take away Thesis’s keys, throw Thesis in the backseat of the car and roll the windows down to get home.

Kate and I had a grand evening out with friends celebrating the completion of Thesis. Thesis, on the other hand, was a hot mess:

Kate’s passing Thesis off to the school today. THEY can deal with this rowdy fool from here on out.

Tell Kate congrats! SHE’S DONE!

You always taught me “Life is a struggle.” So where we gonna struggle through drinks tonight?

Ps. You are looking particularly “Beave-ish” in this photo. Well Beave-ish and frightened. Of the nuns.

Ok I’ll post a photo to counter all the Beaveness …. and ensure that any potential date who Googles my name will most likely run the other way.

Well if we’re going that route, why not REALLY scare everyone in the other direction and bring out the big guns. Literally.

Happy Birthday!

HINT #1) Stay to the right.*

HINT #2) Now stay towards the front. Ish.

RULE EDIT #1) If you are an out of towner with no access to Boston Magazine but still want to play, enter in the same way as outlined below with an in the dark page guess. If you’re close (we’ll say within a 10 page radius - 5 pages in either direction) I’ll throw your name in too. HURRAH!

*Read on to figure out what the HELL I’m talking about.

So like I said yesterday, I hope (if you lived in the designated states) that you voted (I did and loved it!). And also, there was in fact a photo of me and Sarah in the February 2008 issue of Boston Magazine.

(The caption for the photo says “Guests after their Best Of Boston Beauty Makeovers”. We did not receive any makeovers. We did however receive many cocktails, which in turn caused many of the patrons to receive a lot of our money on delicious products.)

And now for the contest, since I need some good fun content to keep me going for the rest of the week.

My stepmother coincidentally also happens to be in this month’s issue of Boston Magazine as well. Neither of us had any idea until I bought it to flip through for my pic and stumbled on hers.

Can you find my stepmother? While my name was not listed in the magazine, hers is. And the only hint you’ll get: if you know my name (which you freaking should it’s all over this website and all my other websites), then you can figure out at least a part of her name.

Rules and How to Enter:
There is only one rule 1.) If I talked to you yesterday and TOLD you where she was in the magazine, you can’t play (Sarah, Danielle, Amber, Dad …).

How to Enter: send an email, subject line “Boston Magazine Contest”, to jenny @ alleyesonjenny.com (take out the space around the “@” obviously) and include the PAGE number where she appears in the magazine.

If only one person gets it, they win the prize. If multiple people get it, I will throw all of the names into a hat and draw. BONUS: If you leave me a comment letting me know that you entered and you get it right, I’ll throw your name into the hat TWICE.

Isn’t this fun? (It’s my blog and I’ll add hints if I want to.)

The prize: a $25 gift card to Starbucks. The drawing will take place Friday February 8th at 3:00 pm and winners will be posted shortly thereafter.

Good luck!