A thrilling weekend. So thrilling, in fact, that I spent most of today sleeping and/or watching TV...until about 6:30 when I forced myself to get my butt in gear, go for a run and then cook a tasty dinner so I wouldn't feel like I had wasted an entire day.

Last night was Julia's (& Wynn's) Birthday festivities. And as is usually the case with Birthday occasions, everyone was pleasantly pissed last night. Here are some pictures taken before we got to the point of trying to do pull-ups on the scaffolding outside Rockwood Music Hall...





I was also dogsitting for my dear niece Linus this weekend - which was lovely, mostly. I desperately want a dog, so it's fun when I get to pretend I have one for a weekend. HOWEVER, I wanted to throttle her yesterday when she spazzed out halfway to my sister's apartment and decided that she didn't want to walk any further. She kept sitting down in the middle of the sidewalk and refusing to move. At first coaxing her with baby carrots I luckily had in my bag worked to get her down a block, but after a while she just wasn't getting convinced for anything. It took me approximately three hours to make a 20 minute walk. I would be really mad, but how can you stay mad at this face?