My Triumphant Return to Pine Street

Last week, Jillian and I went to Philadelphia to look for an apartment. I forgot how cold it can get in the Northeast, but we both adapted pretty quickly. Anyway, after a crappy first day in which two people stood us up, we saw a lot of so-so places, and I questioned whether I had made the right decision; we found a cute two bedroom apartment on Pine Street. For those of you who don't know (or didn't live with me), 4011 Pine Street was my home for two years in college. This new apartment is across the Schuykill and won't be occupied by 7 twenty year old girls, but it should still be a good time.

In honor of my second home on Pine Street here is a list of things that happened at 4011 that will not happen in my new home:
- Furniture will not be stolen from the porch.
- Guys will not show up on the doorstep with chocolate cake and a handle of bourbon and state that all a girl needs is chocolate and bourbon. (Although I do not necessarily discourage this behavior)
- no one will be criticized for not knowing the Redemption song by heart.
- there will be no earnest, yet lame, playing of the guitar by people who only know how to play the Redemption song and Closer to Fine by the Indigo Girls.
- there will be no old school nintendo; only because I don't have one anymore.
- people such as Sideburns Boy, Medical Student #1, Medical Student #2, Medical Student #3, Sushi Mike, Dental Dan, Last Card, etc. will probably not stop by.

Ok, back to the present. I am sure I will have new memories on Pine Street. They will just involve the cute baby pictured above, rather than booze and COLLEGE! type behavior.

On another note, I would also like to point out that Jillian has been so good on the plane. When we deplane many people come up to us to say that they didn't even know there was a baby on board. I guess I am just noting her good behavior as a proud mom.

Oh and the movie "The Lake House" with Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves sucks. But it probably brought in a significant amount of money because I think there are a good number of people out there that will go see a movie just because Sandra Bullock is in it. And a good number of people that will just go see sucky romances. If I was more technologically savy, I would draw a ven diagram to illustrate the set of people who are both Sandra Bullock fans and connoisseurs of sucky romances. I bet you there is a lot of overlap.