Our first visitors!

I'm pretty excited for the weekend.

The Bryants are coming to see us in the suburbs of Philly!

We plan on doing all the things that you do in the suburbs. Like eat and watch movies and stuff.

(picture circa fall 2007, don't we look awesome)

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I don't know where I live

Sometimes I wake up and I don't know what state I'm in.

It takes me a few seconds to remember where I am currently living.

I think we move too much.

* this is one of my favorite students in China, Winter. She woke us up at 5:00 am to watch the sunrise over the Bohai Sea. This picture has no relevance to this post except they both are about waking up.

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Mindy makes me laugh.

It's no surprise I love TV.

And I really love TV when they premier new shows early. It feels like it's a special showing just for me. 

Well it just so happens that special showing is happening with a new fall show I am looking forward to.

The Mindy Project is available to watch on On Demand (if you don't have this fancy cable feature you aren't really living) and on Hulu. 

I love Mindy Kaling, her book was hilarious and insightful.  I thought the pilot was a lot like her book. I laughed more than three times.

Apparently that's how I rate if a show if funny or not. I have to laugh at least three times. 

So, go give it a watch before it airs on TV September 25th. 

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No big deal. I'm just hanging out with real people.

My new friends are awesome. 

They have welcomed me to their work out group and have included me outside the gym.

One of the girls, Linda, had a birthday this week and us gals went out to eat to celebrate her!

Such a great thing here...

I now see another human in the daylight besides my husband AND they are making me go to the gym. That's a pretty big thing, me in a gym...

What a blessing they are.

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Downtonnnnnnn!

If you need me, I will be watching this multiple times trying to dissect every little bit. 

Downton Abbey season 3. I'm ready for you.

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Labor Day.

Our Labor Day weekend was rainy. We were going to go down the 'shore' (the Jersey shore), golf, have a picnic,  but it was too wet for any of that. Instead we had a rainy BBQ with some friends in our old neighborhood, Fishtown.

It makes me excited to have a grill and be able to entertain friends.

One day.

Hope you all had a great Labor day too!

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hiking with my new friends.

It's no surprise that I'm usually pretty bored and lonely while Marshall is working.

I have never been into working out mostly because I have a hard time motivating myself.  The apartment complex has a gym and they offer a few free classes. I went to a body toning class and the instructor convinced me to come back for yoga on Saturday morning. Marshall had to work, so I had no excuse not to. I went and am good thing I did!

After the class the instructor and a few girls from class were going hiking. I didn't know you could hike in Philadelphia but there is a huge park, Fairmount Park, pretty close by that they go to. I tagged along for my first adventure with my new work out friends.

It was me, the instructor Audrey who kicked my butt, Linda who has a 13 year old son who kicked my butt, and Eliza who is a few years older than me who kicked my butt.

They all kicked my butt into shape.  

In the woods and in the gym.

This park is crazy. I had no idea where we were or what was going on. There was a restaurant with a wedding going on, boys jumping off trees, families having a BBQ and my new friend Linda bought a bucket of popcorn half way through at the snack bar.

She is hilarious. Like, I want to hang out with her everyday. 

It might surprise you all but I have a hard time hanging out with people I don't know.... but I'm so glad that I went. And I am happy to say that I look forward to going to cardio boot camp class this week because I know I have 3 friends who will be there to motivate me.

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