People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis it is between you and God
It was never between you and them, anyway.
--Mother Theresa (written on the wall in her home)
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Sunday, October 04, 2009
The Move and Other News
We recently relocated from Cambridge to downtown Boston. It has been a whirlwind! Thanks to all those who have helped out. We had several friends who were lifesavers on moving day and we couldn't have done it without them. We are now (a month later) feeling like we are almost moved in.
Just a run-down on the moving experience: Mel reserved the moving van for 2 days because we had to be out of our place in Cambridge by midnight on August 31st, but we couldn't move into the new place until 10 a.m. on September 1st. When Derrick went to pick up the UHaul, they told him they didn't have our reservation in the system for 2 days and that we couldn't get the size of moving van we had reserved. As a result, we were fortunately able to get the key early from the landlord and move in early. However, the landlord wasn't able to go in and clear out everything beforehand. When we arrived, the apartment was full of old furniture, food, clothing, etc. that we had to clear out. In addition, the landlord wanted to paint the place, but wouldn't do it before we moved in, so we had to leave all of our things in boxes and cover it with plastic. The painters couldn't come during the day, so we couldn't sleep at our place for 3 days and had to live out of suitcases and stay with friends.
To make things even more exciting, apparently the 2 girls that were living in the apartment when we looked at it several months ago, had sublet it to 5 guys for the past 5-6 months and it was a HUGE mess. Mel has literally spent 15 hours on the bathroom, alone (you don't even want to know. . . ). The carpets were totally disgusting. We cleaned them twice with a steamer and then had a professional carpet cleaner come in as well. Anyway, enough of the not so positive details. :) Long story short, our move was horrible, but now we are loving where we live and our apartment is clean. Yay!
We took a trip two weeks ago to Baltimore area to visit Nick and Natalie Gottwald. It was great to catch up and spend some time with good friends. Last weekend Derrick went to Hartford, Connecticut for an American Student Dental Association conference (aka a huge party). Derrick came home with no voice from going out and having a great time. Highlights: dancing with his friend on his shoulders at a club with a guy dressed as uncle sam who was standing on stilts; eating at Buffalo wild wings; going to great meetings; and eating big breakfasts every day.
Derrick threw a surprise birthday party for Mel on Monday night. She was totally shocked. He made a 4 layer chocolate cake by himself. Super impressive! (Derrick has always held out that he is only capable of cooking things that require a spatula- - - he has now proven otherwise).
We LOVED conference this weekend and enjoyed listening to the sessions with friends and eating yummy food at the same time. Life is good in beantown.
Just a run-down on the moving experience: Mel reserved the moving van for 2 days because we had to be out of our place in Cambridge by midnight on August 31st, but we couldn't move into the new place until 10 a.m. on September 1st. When Derrick went to pick up the UHaul, they told him they didn't have our reservation in the system for 2 days and that we couldn't get the size of moving van we had reserved. As a result, we were fortunately able to get the key early from the landlord and move in early. However, the landlord wasn't able to go in and clear out everything beforehand. When we arrived, the apartment was full of old furniture, food, clothing, etc. that we had to clear out. In addition, the landlord wanted to paint the place, but wouldn't do it before we moved in, so we had to leave all of our things in boxes and cover it with plastic. The painters couldn't come during the day, so we couldn't sleep at our place for 3 days and had to live out of suitcases and stay with friends.
To make things even more exciting, apparently the 2 girls that were living in the apartment when we looked at it several months ago, had sublet it to 5 guys for the past 5-6 months and it was a HUGE mess. Mel has literally spent 15 hours on the bathroom, alone (you don't even want to know. . . ). The carpets were totally disgusting. We cleaned them twice with a steamer and then had a professional carpet cleaner come in as well. Anyway, enough of the not so positive details. :) Long story short, our move was horrible, but now we are loving where we live and our apartment is clean. Yay!
We took a trip two weeks ago to Baltimore area to visit Nick and Natalie Gottwald. It was great to catch up and spend some time with good friends. Last weekend Derrick went to Hartford, Connecticut for an American Student Dental Association conference (aka a huge party). Derrick came home with no voice from going out and having a great time. Highlights: dancing with his friend on his shoulders at a club with a guy dressed as uncle sam who was standing on stilts; eating at Buffalo wild wings; going to great meetings; and eating big breakfasts every day.
Derrick threw a surprise birthday party for Mel on Monday night. She was totally shocked. He made a 4 layer chocolate cake by himself. Super impressive! (Derrick has always held out that he is only capable of cooking things that require a spatula- - - he has now proven otherwise).
We LOVED conference this weekend and enjoyed listening to the sessions with friends and eating yummy food at the same time. Life is good in beantown.
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