look at that, two strawberry blondes

in my ever so timely fashion, here is a Top Nine Things I Did About a Month Ago list, during the great sisterly reunion of 2009:

1. played cricket in celebration of Australia Day; stopped when i hit the ball over the fence; hung head in shame
2. went to the opera, which was excellent
3. visited NASA; found out they do not have a zero gravity room; was disappointed
4. went to the zoo; stopped growling at the millions of small children long enough to stare at the elephants

5. used my six-year-old umass ID to get in to howl at the moon, the dueling piano bar, without paying cover; requested Sweet Caroline and Crocodile Rock; sang obnoxiously along to both
6. ate entirely too much food
7. made the mistake of bringing morgan, the most sensitive of all bleeding hearts, to the mouse room at work to see all the babies i would eventually kill; gave a rambling speech about necessary evils, penicillin, cancer, etc. to no avail
8. met someone who calls himself Big Joe at the bus stop, who took time out from his breakfast of Olde English in a tall can to tell the two of us we were very pretty (i'm paraphrasing)
9. spontaneously decided to cook two lobsters; named them lawrence and leonard on the way home; housed them in a pot of water in my sink until dinnertime; shrieked when one tried to make a break for it; reenacted Annie Hall

this would have been a top ten but it was all so long ago that my alzheimer's has done away with the last one.