HI LTOP or Highs and Lows

Yesterday there were a lot of highs and lows.

High: we cooked at the soup kitchen this weekend and it went off without a hitch and for the first time since we've moved the kitchen to a new location there wasn't a low point where the tunnel had closed in and I was so miserable I ended up yelling (not just snapping mind you, actually yelling) at my boy. We also had a good amount of very responsive help.

Low: there was a fair amount of food leftover and we didn't realize until 3/4 through that the rubber mats weren't down so we had sore feet the rest of the day.

High: My boy and I got to spend the entire day together at our leisure with no schedule.

Low: we ran out of errands at about 3pm and we were waiting till dark to shoot some pictures.

High: We went to the Christmas Tree shops because we happened to be near there and found a lamp shade for the hideous chandelier that's been in our apartment since we moved in. Plus, we found perfectly respectable hardwood frames for under $10 for a wall montage we want to do in what I like to refer to as our kitsch-en.

Low: When we got home we realized the shade was about two inches too narrow.

High: my boy rigged it with some wire so that the tips of the chandelier which held ugly glass plates before just sort of stick out the top. I found some faux chandelier crystals in a drawer and we've got a slightly strange looking but far more appealing looking chandelier.

Low: Turns out somewhere along the line the shade got mildly bend so there's a little crease around the bottom on one side, it looks fine from the outside but drives me nuts when I look up at it from where I usually sit on the couch when I see the white creased inside the shade.

High: we managed to find enough things to keep us busy that we were ready to shoot pictures on route one aka the Massachusetts's equivalent to the strip.

Low: the shot we wanted most of Hilltop Steak House wasn't possible since part of the cactus was out and the sign actually read HI LTOP SILAK House due to various lights being burned out there. Also, we were hoping to take a picture of the leaning tower of pizza at prince pizzeria but it wasn't lit very well so we weren't sure how well it would turn out and we were a little too discouraged to try.

In the end though, it was a good day, and even though it's currently snowing out and the heater in my car has chosen this weekend to stop working, today is a pretty good day too!