Archives for October 26, 2009

Love: Hilary Swank

Hilary Swank was on Ellen this morning promoting her new movie: Amelia Earhart. SO EXCITING! LOVE Hilary Swank. She is most definitely one of my favorite actresses. On Ellen I found out that she loves Halloween and her dogs. She rescued one of her dogs, Karoo, when she was filming in South Africa. He was full of worms and had a million flees and ticks, but she adopted him despite all that and brought him home. I really admire her for doing this because I personally don’t think I would have done that. But then again, I’ve never been in South Africa and found a little pup, and have also never come across a sick dog. Anyways, love her in all the movies she’s in. She is the 3rd youngest woman to win 2 Academy Awards. She’s clearly amazing and fantastic.

This pic is from the movie Freedom Writers. It’s one of my favorite Hilary Swank movies because she plays a young teacher trying to get her students, tough “city kids”, to love writing. GREAT movie.


Here’s a pic from the new movie, Amelia Earhart. She looks JUST like the real Amelia Earhart and from what she told Ellen (she worked for 8 weeks perfecting her accent and studying her) I bet she’ll portray her perfectly. Can’t wait to see it!

Burns’ in Boston.

So on a regular basis the only Burns family member I see in Boston is my sister. I’ve been lucky this weekend though because I not only got to see one Burns cousin, but two! A rare and most excellent occasion.
We hit up the Boston Book Fest on Saturday afternoon to see Peggy and Tom who were in town working at their company’s tent, Drawn and Quarterly, selling comics and the like. We hung around the book fest for a few minutes, before deciding anthropologie was slightly more fun. It was so great to see you guys, even if it wasn’t for that long!
See you at Christmas!!


My cousin Virginia was also in town with my Uncle Dean
for the NFDA convention, which is here in Boston this year at the Expo Center. They are staying at our family friends house, also in Brookline, so we had everyone over for dinner tonight! Crockpot sloppy joe’s and my special mustard dressing salad. Quite the enjoyable evening, I’d say.
Here’s a pic of me, Meg, Ginia and Leigh from tonight:


Great to have everyone in town and glad they
could swing by for some eats!

a bushel and a peck.

Today was gorgeous! A perfect fall day… so we decided to head out to the country and pick some apples! We chose Honey Pot Hill Orchard in Stow, MA and it did not disappoint. Apples, apples, everywhere, oh so many apples. I have to stop here and admit that I don’t even really like apples. HA. It’s something about the skin and the cold on my teeth. Just turns me off… BUT I do like apples baked, like apple pie and apple crisp. YUM. And I like apple cider and especially apple cider doughnuts. With lots of sugar on top. So even though I’m not in love with eating apples straight from the tree, the day was spectacular and the adventure was totally worth my while.
We got 30 pounds of apples. Oh my, we have a lot of baking to do.
Remember that song?…
A bushel and a peck.
(and a hug around the neck).
Here’s some pics from today. The colors were phenomenal.