Playing Catch-Up

Hello blog world. I apologize in advance for the underlining, but have no idea how to fix it. Gotta love technology.
So here's a quick update of September and October so far. Still have NO idea how it's almost the middle of October.

Mid-September was "The Nightman Cometh", a live musical put on by the cast of Jared's favorite show: It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. While the House of Blues was HORRIBLE (seriously, don't EVER EVER EVER go to the one in Boston), and the opening act was awkward and out of place, the show itself was just what we wanted. Off-color and hilarious.

I also ran a race (wait, where did the underline go?!) as part of a sort-of-kind-of team effort for the college I work for. It was called the Mission Hill (it's a neigborhood of Boston) 5K. I was unaware of just what they meant by hills. I'm fairly certain that no more than .25 of the 3.1 mile total was even remotely flat. The uphills hurt my muscles and the downhills hurt my bones. Good times.

After the race we checked out the Allston Street Fair. It was ok. Loud and lots of free stuff, but interesting nonetheless. On the way home from it we stopped at a bike store to pick up a new seat for my newly refurbished bike. I ride the bike to work since it takes my commute from 45 to 20 minutes. Downhill on the way to work and uphill on the way home. It's quite the workout.
Here's another shot of the street fair.
We also finally took advantage of a very generous birthday gift card and took ourselves out to Aquitaine Bis up in Chestnut Hill. After a wonderfully leisurely meal we both decided it made the top 5, maybe even top 3 best meals EVER. Definitely recommend Aquitaine if you're in Boston and up for spending a little more for a truly amazing meal.
This past weekend J's parents were in town to visit. Got to see some stuff in Boston and spend time with them, which was fun.

Today, with my Columbus Day off, I ran the Tufts Health Care 10k for Women. That's right folks, apparently I lost my mind and decided it would be fun to run 6.2 miles at once. Here's me before. It's a terrible photo of me, but whatever.

There's me crossing the finish line... one of 8,000 who completed the course. It actually was really really fun and I never had to walk. Didn't know I had 6.2 miles in me! Who knows, maybe I'm more of a long-distance gal and not a shorter and faster person. I'm definitely of the slow-and-steady tribe. I'm ok with that.

This afternoon J and I were feeling very autumnal so we decided to make some soups/casseroles/stews for freezing. In addition to the containers below, we had a LOT of chili for dinner and have a large container of cassoulet saved for tomorrow.
The top left 4 are vegetable soup, the top two right are chili. Under the veggie soup is spiced butternut squash (we used our new immersion/stick blender: FUN!!!!) and the bottom two right are the cassoulet.

I think we're good for the next few weeks. Up this week to use up some other ingredients and have more frozen is lasagna and herbed chevre tarte. Yum!

And that's the update! I'll try and update more often from now on, I promise. Enjoy your fall!!