awww, biscuits.

while i was being struggly yesterday, SARAH WAS BEING AWESOME. click here, then check out the gorgeous girl in red on the glass. THAT IS MY GIRLFRIEND YOU GUYS.

in other news, the end of work today marks the beginning of vacation. eee. i fly to the cabin first thing tomorrow morning, then sarah joins me sunday evening and we fly home together next thursday. THERE ARE KIND OF NO WORDS FOR HOW EXCITED ABOUT THIS I AM. time with mom and brother and sis-in law, then time with all of the aforementioned PLUS sarah, then time with just sarah and mom. SO. EXCITED. plus! sailing and kayaking and swimming and fishing and campfires and silly-song singing (heh) and a new dishwashing mix for the summer of 2009 and pine woods and eagles and LOON FAMILY WITH BABIES and hiking and sunsets and beer on the dock and coffee on the porch with a blanket on my lap and my feet tucked under and I CANNOT WAIT.

but first: work.

struggliest morning in recent memory and NONE of it was my fault:

- someone decided to play scales on their saxophone in the park across the street from my house. AT 6:45 AM. all my windows are open. LOVELY SAXOPHONING.

- got called by the alarm people for my house because my struggly neighbor left without disarming the alarm again. tried to give them my code. they didn't believe me so the police came. AWESOME. this happened at 7:40 AM. yes. again, lovely.

- mondays are apparently lawn-manicuring day so there was weed-whackery outside our bedroom window at 8:15. DO. NOT. WANT.

- kitten struggliness-at-inoportune-times continues, but sarah was awesome and made her get down/put her out and shut the door whenever necessary.

the day turned around when we made banana pancakes for breakfast, though. i also drank most of the pot of coffee and talked on the phone with mom for an hour, so - there's that. ;D

between now and beer & pizza tonight - now with bonus red sox baseball - i have nothing planned. sarah thinks she'll work on her big-bang fic; i think i'll poke through my bookcase and find something new to read.

six red sox are all-stars and i am such a homer wicked pleased. also, matty hunwick filed for arbitration which - apparently - is good news, especially since the globe seems to be reporting it is likely that he'll reach terms with the bruins before a hearing becomes a necessity. NOM. HUNNY.

in other news, lazy day planned for the morrow with my ladyfriend. NOM. happy independence day (observed) to meeeee.

now to read the latest chapter of SiR. NOMNOMNOM. life? still pretty good. ;D

hello, independence day! there are brownies in the oven - for llamapalooza (tm) tonight - and the neighbors are having a cookout with neil diamond on the boombox in their yard. NICE. sarah is here and it is awesome. also, the sun is out for the first time in FOREVER. om nom nom.

in hockey news, sheriff shane has moved on, kes is still ours (but unsigned) and sarah and i spent some time this morning discussing the failiness of pat kane having his own posh apartment while sidney crosby still lives with his owner. also, i am wearing sarah's bruins draft hat (tm)! bwee!

i love my life. also, hockeys. the end.

i dreamed i ran into vladimir sobotka on my way to rookie camp at ristuccia, and when i saw him from afar, i sort of tipped my head to the side and said, fondly, "vlado." he smiled, and i had him sign his card in my pack of peebs cards that i just happened to have with me - i'm betting i stole them from your glovebox, sailorscully - and then i asked if he needed a ride to ristooch. he was very sweet, and we muddled through my awkwardness and his faily english. it was a very nice dream!

in other news, it is friday, and it actually feels like friday, and i get to see my girl again (late) tonight. instead of working tomorrow i get to go to llamapalooza (tm) at my old boss's house and drink and eat stuff off the grill and hang out with cool former coworkers and, hey, llamas! pretty awesome. then i close on sunday and have monday off for my fourth of july holiday. three work days after that - which means missing rookie camp in real life, sadface - and then i go back on vacation, this time to my family's lake place in northeastern wisconsin, and two days after i get there, sarah gets to come, too. BWEE. my little brother and sis-in-law will be there the first weekend, too, so that's awesome as well. they'll get to meet my girl! and i'll get to see everyone! WIN WIN WIN.

chia, did you sign kes and hunny yet? PLEASE DO. the end.

BITZYCAT. THE END.

nice to hear about the sox yesterday after the DNW of the night before. missed the whole game while at work, of course, but good news is good news. ;D

as for free agent day of insanity, i'm kind of stunned at how big of a mess it all seems from here. it'll take me while to sort out who belongs to whom now and to get used to our new guys. (it seems a mixed bag on begin so far, but i'm being as open minded as a kid can be.)

ps - chia? jenny still wants hunny & kes. (which, really - goes without saying.)

the red sox lost last night?! o.0

also, whoa, it is pouring rain out right now. welcome to july!

another busy day at work on the docket, which is excellent BECAUSE I HATE TODAY. ::clings to bruins' UFAs and RFAs::

how is it still three months until the hockey season? time, you go by SO FAST and SO NOT FAST all at once.

blueberry muffins - from my favorite recipe in the history of ever - are in the oven right now. NOM. sarah has been in montreal all weekend for the nhl draft, and following her escapades on twitter has been an absolute riot. my gf is amazing, you guys. no lie. anyway, she's not here, so quiet times for jenny need to turn into A PRODUCTIVE DAY. i need new work pants, so to the mall i go. YOU GUYS HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH I HATE SHOPPING. am trying to be optimistic, though. bwee?

dinner to follow with the much-missed wildgreentide and her man. cannot wait. (sarah may get to join in, depending on when she comes home tonight. yay!)

sunday not-at-work ftw!

ps - GIP! made by the lovely and talented badalice. SIGN KES PLZ CHIA OR ELSE WE WILL HAVE TO CHANGE THIS ICON. DNW. thank you! ;D

BELLAFACE DOES NOT LIKE THUNDERSTORMS.

THE END.

ho jeez ho jeez ho jeez DO NOT WANT:

MONTREAL -- Boston's interest in acquiring Tomas Kaberle, reported here on boston.com last night, took an interesting twist here today when tsn.ca's Bob McKenzie reported that the Bruins have offered Phil Kessel to the Leafs for Kaberle and the Leafs' seventh pick in tonight's NHL draft here at the Bell Center.

chia noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

you cats will txt me at work if this happens, please?

in lieu of a real post (BORING WORK UPDATES ARE BORING), here, have some hilarity, linkage courtesy of sailorscully:

Mock Drafting the Top NHL Draft Phrases

a sample (and my favorite bit):

29. “Sportswriter’s dream”

It doesn’t take much in the NHL. English-speaking is preferred. Maybe a tattoo?

hee. OH HOCKEY. NEVER CHANGE.

kitty sleeping at my feet (in bed, in my room) is making it hard to get up and make dinner and get ready for red sox baseball.

life? good.

;D

home!

sarah and i spent yesterday in DC so we were very sad to hear about the metro accident after we were safely back in baltimore last night - scary stuff, but we're both fine, in case anyone was worried. before news of tragedy reached us, we enjoyed the company of badalice - briefly but awesomely - and we saw where the caps play and we ate where my cap - that would be brooks laich - eats sometimes and we enjoyed the sunshine and the big city - of no skyscrapers - and i told sarah every five seconds that i'd been born there - ok, in alexandria - but still.

back in baltimore we ate many crabs - with our bare hands, NOM - and we brought home ice cream and we went to sleep wicked early because today it was EPIC DRIVE HOME DAY - but not before i got to meet lovelyracketeer. bwee! hugs made the long day in the car all worth it. great vacation, though - hands down, all around. GOOD TIMES.

the real world will be waiting for me at 630 tomorrow morning, so i'm off to bed. alone. SADCAKES.

hooooooo boy drank too much last night. sarah and i polished off (nearly) three bottles of wine between us. um, yeah. SO. faily jenny? SO FAILY. it was a fabulous night, though. we went to boordy vineyards for their saturday night outdoor concert series/dance party/lots of wine drinking good times. we packed an awesome picnic (sarah made the brownies, i made the chicken salad) and had so, so, so much fun. the music was great - the band playing last night was the fabulous hubcaps, who cover all sorts of familiar stuff from the 50s and 60s - and the wine was excellent - duh - and the weather was perfect - after a day of pretty nutty thunderstorms. such a great time. (i just need to remember to say no a little earlier to that more-wine question.)

don't know what's on the docket for today - other than calling my dad to say HAPPY FATHER'S DAY! - but the sun is out and i'm with my girl and i'm not hungover in the least and eee. VACATION.

ps - i have a vague and fuzzy memory of sarah saying "what's a CG?" and me saying "COMPLETE GAME" and her saying "beckett threw one and the sox won 3-0" and me saying "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE." might've passed out right after that, though. ;D ATTA BOY, BECKETTY BOO.

VACATION.

aside from NYC trafficfail (RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU ARE SURPRISED. AGAIN.) which prevented the visiting with antheia (SADCAKES) everything has gone swimmingly so far. mom & stepfather were awesome and are letting me & sarah bunk together in the big guest room (BED IS HUGE) and omg i love vacation.

sarah went to play in hershey pa with other lovely caps fans today so it is jenny-and-mom time. we're doing my laundry right now! this is awesome. there will be hiking and errand-running and spaghetti & meatballs for dinner tonight and sarah will come back with stories and bedtime and eee. HAPPY JENNY IS HAPPY.

oh and THE BRUINS WON THE NORRIS, THE VEZINA, AND THE ADAMS. MY LOVE, IT IS EPIC. THE END.

no time for a real post (RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU ARE SURPRISED) but here, i want to share the awesomeness that is bruins.nhl.com keeping tabs on my boys' summer vacation plans. eee!

off to work, last day of eight. VACATION, HERE I COME. om nom nom.

seven down, one to go. whoo hoo, freakishly long string of work days! getting tons done, though, which is awesome. makes sense that i am DEAD TIRED right now though. zzzz.

sox looked good for the two seconds i got to watch baseball tonight. pedey looks to be coming back from the recent-dead, too, which is excellent. i love that smug little bastard.

in related news, sarah didn't know dustin pedroia was my favorite until, like, yesterday. I SUCK. (i'm sorry, pedey! i promise to profess my love more clearly and more often going forward!) silly jacoby ellsbury, weasling into my red-sox talk constantly and confusing her. IT IS ALL YOUR FAULT, ELLS. go atone.

hmm. bed? bed.

good morning from jenny's crazy work-run up until vacation: three down, five to go then sarah and i hit the road to go see my mom & stepfather in baltimore. bwee! car time with sarah! and the hopeful meeting of assorted caps fans! this could be epic! between now and then, though, in addition to all those fun work-shifts i just mentioned, sarah and i will also be jaunting to northampton to (finally) meet some of my pals from that neighborhood, and we've got fancy dinner plans for monday night because that'll be the three-months-together mark (HOLY SHIT, TIME, YOU GO BY FAST). it would be nice to have another day off sprinkled in there somewhere, but when i punch out wednesday afternoon at 430 i don't have to punch back in until the following wednesday at 800. i'll take it.

also, because i am the luckiest girl who ever luckied, i booked two flights last night: sarah and i are going to my cabin in wisconsin in july. i get to go early (friday) and be there for the weekend with my little brother and sis-in-law, then sarah will arrive sunday evening (probably missing my brother, sadcakes) and stay through thursday evening when the two of us shall fly home together. i even managed to nab seats next to each other on the planes home. YOU GUYS I HAVE NEVER BEEN THIS EXCITED ABOUT ANYTHING IN MY LIFE. oh, hyperbole, what would i do without you?

two upcoming vacations with my girl. MY LIFE IS AWESOME.

in other news, hockey is done until september. congrats, pens & pens fans; congrats, mineral re: your shiny new mvp-of-the-series trophy; congrats, sid: this time you can cry with joy. SEE YOU NEXT SEASON.

hey, lookit! time for work. bwee!

in lieu of a real post:

( hockey & whatnot you might want to know about me )

holy god that just took me A LIFE AGE. (i am such a faily homer.)

wow yesterday was awesome.

so, sarah has this list of things she wants to do before colorado, and i am all on board for helping with it, but we have this thing about inertia on days when she sleeps here and then neither of us have to work. like, we stay in bed wicked late and then we lounge around with coffee and chattery and laptop-time and lo, the day does disappear (happily, of course, but not with a lot of outside activities). yesterday, though, sarah gets a gold star for MAKING THINGS HAPPEN - we went to the beach.

we slept later than we meant to (of course) but coffees happened quick-like and we actually packed up and hit the road before too late AND WE WENT TO THE CAPE. WHERE I HAD NEVER BEEN. EVEN THOUGH I HAVE LIVED IN NEW ENGLAND FOR FIVE+ YEARS NOW.

the sun was shining and we drove with the windows down and the music up and we chatted about all sorts of great things - car-time with sarah ftw! - and driving all the way to p-town takes A LIFE AGE even without traffic but it was totally, totally worth it. lobster sammiches at the lobster pot and ice cream on the beach and exceedingly wee hermit crabs battling in a tide pool (!!!) and wandering the p-town streets and sunset while driving home again and the question game in the car on the way home and then beers & epic nachos at the bar you can walk to from my house FOR THE ABSOLUTE WIN.

such a great day. again, please?

p.s. hockey could be over for the year tonight. DO NOT WANT.

p.p.s. beckett/burnett at 7 p.m. on NESN. DO WANT. WANT WANT WANT.