found on
msn my
financial horoscope of the month:
Pisces(February 20th – March 20th)
It’s a month of great financial potential for the Fish People, so this is a good time for boldness in both career and investment decisions. But Pisces folk need to ensure that the basic underpinnings of their financial lives are bolted down too. If you have a family or other financial obligations that will continue on after you, start your review of the basics by visiting the Life Needs calculator at to determine what amount of life insurance would be appropriate for you in your current situation. Good financial planning is all about managing the risks that are manageable. Get back to the basics on that even while you step out to take advantage of the current positive astrological climate.
i checked my
Life Insurance Needs Calculator and i'll need $19,000.00 of life insurance in order to ensure that my family is covered in the event of my death. i may be only 30 yrs but i'm thinking about it! yah, never know when i'll croak!
So now I'll start on
my Boston vacation/conference days:
Friday (10 Oct):
left to Boston... around 10am... thank god the car had been rented the previous night (Oct. 9th, around 8-9pm) at
budget (ben's x-job/present, what ever. he's no longer my bf so bla bla... just a quick acknoldgement on this) or else we would have had to go in his car (which is a no, no. we wouldn't have gotten far!). So as we leave we're like so what route do we take. now we're scrambling for the maps and guess what? they are safely back at Boo-G's house. also, thank god we were only a few minutes away and turned back. yah! so then he goes to get them and we are finally on our way! now, the reasoning starts what do we do? well, our glorious traffic never fails even at 10am in the morning, heading to
pont champlain. then we take route 10, which we took going west instead of east. we trace back and we go to the right way! We got into a bit of a fight but not too big as i was caffeinating myself during that trip down to boston. the border was no problem! Easy as pie....
we ended up staying at the
travelodge in Natick (1350 Worcester Road). not a nice place (2 star).. the freaken bathroom gave me the willies! and i had to take 2 showers in that forsaken place... as the people coming out of town to see the games (
SOX vs
YANKEES) and the
ACEP meeting of 3,000 Emergency doctors was going on (Boo-G is one of those) but well we booked late. i waited for him to make the arrangements and i should not have done that! cuz we had to stay in 3 different hotels (
travelodge,
holiday inn express,
best western terrace inn) all during our stay in boston, but it was all good!
We stayed 2 nights(Friday night and Saturday night) in the
travelodge motel/hotel.
That night we just rested for a while. we went a driving and yep gotta us a little lost, and frustrated we stop due to going to west on the 30 (route). went shop hunting! heee... all the malls were closed but it gave me time to see where i wanted to shop and what i wanted to buy!! we had
TACO BELL for diner... let me tell you it may be fast food but we ain't got none of mr.
TACO BELLS here! so, Boo-G liked it and as it was connected to a
KFC we also order the chicken fingers with fries!i truly love the "USA," almost all the restaurants and fast foods have
DR.P my favorite gassy drink, I miss the US, dang!!!!
On Saturday (Oct. 11):
we slept late and Boo-G was trying to get us boked at another hotel but to no avail nothing was available... as saturdays is the big don't stay home night, go to hotel time!! Boo-G needed to go to registered for his courses at the
Hynes Convention Center. I went with him and talk to the cleaning people. I caught them speaking a dialect which had a mixture of hiatian (french/creole), portuguese, spanish, and some bits of french which caught my eye, of the bat! i went wondering a bit and saw the halls which are well plain but quite big, being prepaired for the conference which would be held in the next 3 days. all i can say is dang, pharmacutical companies try to buy you (physicians), such goodies that they give out for free (bags, totes, pens, clips, lotions, little lamps, free books, panflets galore, and all sort of trinkets)... i got me a few! but no bags... as they had the logos of companies which i didnt find to appealing!
After that we went to chinatown ate some yummy chinese food! my fav. drink "
bubble tea" took a picture of the stablishment which was called "
grand chau chow seafood restaurant" (83 Essex Street [Chinatown], Boston; 617-338-8158). We also saw chickens which were being kept in cages and one was on top of the cage, sort of like kissing one of the chickens that was inside the cage, caught that with my
baby-digi-cam. Got a belt for $6 bucks (brown) & the kid was sweet so i gave him a dollar. then i saw a sing for a tailor and i wanted to hem my pants, so we went up the stairs through some dingy hall and got to the rackety place. took off my pants and handed them to the italian tailor. we spoke a bit after and bla bla... left... went next door and bought 4 tea cups that match my other japanese plate set, chopsticks, chopstick holder, some regular plates and a martini shaker for my bubble tea making days! we walked around and looked in at a few jewelry places but nothing caught my eyes. ended up driving around for another hours just looking around and getting sorta lost. anyways, we made our way back to Natick!!
Sunday(Oct. 12):
we woke up a bit late but managed to get a coffee at the Starbucks accross the street! rainy day! yuck!! Boo-G's conference was starting today (8.30 am until 5.50pm)! no joke, i slept in the car for a few hours due to the fact that i was still tired and that we hadn't yet registered at the
holiday inn express (2nd hotel) yet! Yep, due to me not able to drive i got stuck in the car just a little after 9.30. I went walking a bit and noticed that the umbrella was a bit warped.at around 10.30 went to meet Boo-G! had a walk around and ate at
SBARRO another joint that we dont got here in the good old north! Boo-G liked it alot! took a few pictures of us there and a few of the mall! he left at 12.30 back to the conference and i was left to shop my panties off. but i was not to into the shopping yet got my feet wet with buying a new key pad for my cell quite nice... ^.^... then decide on a book "the wok bible" and the cinema caught my eye and watched a movie "
casas de los babys," (at the loews copley movie theather) which i thought would be good but only brought my spirits down a bit! then i headed off to more shopping! bought a few garments but then had to head off to meet Boo-G but while exiting the mall bought i bought a holster for my cell!! Saw him talking to some of his colleagues. ackward intro but quite nice peeps! too much of the doc in them... bla... a little more and then excused ourselves... we got into the car and went to the hotel to registered! ^.^... dang going to the hotel it was dark, rainy and traffic on the 93 was hell!! we spend 20-30min on the freakin freeway, exit 18 was coming up so slow i thought the turtles were moving faster then us. got there and showed him the stuff i bought and the things i bought also for him. he likes the sweater i got him from the gap! i'm so happy!! after talking a bit decided to return to chinatown and eat somewhere there. ended up eating at this japanese/korean restaurant! order some yummy food and ate most of it with a bubble tea, of course. and took one to go, too! i might be a bit obssessed and hooked on them! found out the restaurant was open until 2am! dang! can't quite remember the name of it but it was passed the restaurant we ate at on Saturday. ended up not getting lost this time, which was a surprise and we were pretty happy! ^_^... but we got into a conflict that night and there was no making up... nothing :(... bed was not a good place that night!
Monday (Oct 13):
packed as we were heading that evening to our final destination the
best western terrace inn (1650 Commonwealth ave). but it was another day of change but the last one. i staye this time as check out time was 12 and Boo-G was coming to get me at 11.30am. it was good. we didnt eat as he had to go back to the conference. i decided it was time for another day at the movies i watched "Le Divorce" (at the loews copley movie theather). Then i went shopping a bit more... took me for ever to find a place for pens...crap! then i wrote Boo-G a nice letter (mondo knows of them). Spend the last 20 min. doing that and then went to join him he was waiting for me... i was sorta glad he was not talking to anyone, cuz we just left! went to the
best western terrace inn, to registered. the place was nice it had a kitchenette which was really cute and the bathroom was not bad but it made an awful noise, i think we were under some sort of transmission thingy or something like that. in any case i made Boo-G go and see if they had the same but in another part of the hotel. they did have another room but it was kinda dingy and i decided that we would stay in the one that made the noise. the A/C was on so we didnt hear it too much and after a few days we hardly noticed it. Plus we had a kitchen with a stove and mini-fridge which was great! the bathroom was big and had a bath tub! went back out and drove around. stopped at this really nice thai restaurant called "
Bangkok City" (167 Massachusetts Ave, 617-266-8884). It was really good and we took some of the desert home (fried bananas), it was so good... took some pictures there and it was so nice... wow, they had a traditional way they eat in Thialand.
Tuesday (Oct 14):
woke up at around 10 am took a shower and took a cab to the
Hynes Convention Center, Boo-G was waiting for me to go for lunch. we walked out side for a bit and decided to go to the "
Shops of Prudential Center" but stop first at the automated photo developer. you just put in your meme card and it only cost .45 cents for the shot you wish to develop, pretty cool. we decided that we wanted one and i used my CC for that... heee our first develop pic in foreign soil! then we headed to the food court "
Panda Express" to eat. Ok, food! too bad we didn't have time to go eat at the "
Cheese Cake Factory Restaurant." He had to go back to the conference and i shopped a bit more and then took the subway (metro) back to the hotel. which took a bit of time as i had given Boo-G the maps! i had no way to know where the hell the subway stations, there were no signs to go there. oh well, i asked this chick that was eating a Mc D's cheese burger. and she just pointed and told me with all the food in her mouth (YUK) to ask at the subway station which way to go! so, i cross the street and went down to pay for the ride which is pretty cheap a $1... wow, we pay $2.50. so i take a look at the map for about 10 minutes to decide where to go as there are 3 lines to the green line.. but Boo-G's voice sounded in the back of my mind.. "...remember... you need to take the "B" green line to the hotel..." so thank god for that memory as i didnt know if to take B, C, D or E... do they have complicated things.... sheesh... so anyways, i take it then i see that im going the wrong side of stairs and make my way back to the opposite side, now i see a train coming but it said C line... then a D line and finally the B line... took about 5-10 min to get there... took apic of the place...dirty as hell.. yuckky!! the ride was like 20-25 min... most of the peeps on the subway were students as Boston is the ant central of Colleges/Univeristies. Got off at washington stop and walked up the hill to the hotel. the room was not made yet, so i decided to take a walk to the laundry place. which was 1 1/2 blocks away. i packed all our dirty clothes and made my way there. Took me 1 1/2hr to do the laundry... not bad, by the time i came back the room was made and i put all the clothes away. god, reminded me of home... CRAP!!! then i just took a nap, woke up watched some tv and waited for Boo-G to come back... He was pleased of the work that i did and said i shouldnt have but if i hadnt we would not have no undies or sockies to wear! nice but nuts! heee.. We went to eat at
Giacomo's Rest thanks to
ms. ginger for the info., didn't go to Mike's pastry shop for the canolli. but
Giacomo's was really good! Nice place... ^.^...
Had a good night!!!
Wednesday (Oct 15):
today is Boo-G's last day at the conference... 1/2 a day (8.30am to 1pm)... Not bad! He finds that this conference is one of the best that he goes to. As he goes to 2 every year and he can write them off on his taxes... he's allowed, dang he pays more then 8 grand every 3 mths to the gov't... can you believe being a DR is expensive... they make the bucks but they pay for many things that we normal people dont even know about...all the courses, books, conferences, etc... i can keep going but this is about the Boston trip! So i slept til noon...took a shower and watched a bit of tv... was really lazy, as i stayed up til the wee hrs of the morning watching tv which the shows are so good, the kept coming one after the other, here we dont have nothing, so its easy to go to sleep! Anyways, he came home, i was ready to go... we went to
Quincy Market (it was a windy and chilly day). We thought we found parking but no it was just a temporary solution. we went to ask in a store but they said if you are lucky you wont get a ticket or be towed if you are lucky... no chances on that... so we circled around like crazy for 10-15 min and no parking to be had! this is were we got frustrated and decided that Boston had hundreds of oneway streets! so we decided on paying $21 US for parking... man i could have bought something with that! oh well, went shopping around...got some stamps, flag, magnets, shirts, and found yummy lobster bisk (which i had never had!). it was so good!! that we couldnt wait to take it back to the hotel and we had it in the car. it was getting late so we decided to head back to the hotel. we were tired but Boo-G more then me... so, instead of asking him to go somewhere else, we just went back to the hotel and talked of what we would do tomorrow.
Thursday (Oct 16):
we got up late around 11-noon. decided to make our way to Natick mall and on our way we stopped at a net cafe for a little internet... that is my 10-16-03 post! we also found out how much we could spend and take to Canada. On our way to Natick we stopped at the Cambridge
Cheese Cake Factory Rest. It was nice.. but got into an argument.. dang, being with someone is crazy sometimes... spent about 1hr in the car fighting.... oh well... then we ended up making up and decided to go to Natick for the shopping... and it was fun... spend a few hundreds... was going to buy a coat but decided that no... cus we only had 750$ CAD to take across the border and we had sorta passed it... and Boo-G was a bit neurotic about this, so i stopped spending... dang, and i was on a roll! So we headed back to the hotel pretty late... we had had enough of the food that afternoon to maintain us until the next day. we watched tv and had a bit of fun... and slept like babies...
Friday (Oct 17):
we got up late 8am. we needed to get up at aroun 6.30 am but mr Boo-G turned the alarm off.. so we slept... hee so we got ready and left the hotel around 9.45-10 am... had the continetal breakfast really fast... took most of it with us (begal, cream cheese, 3 cheese danishes, 2 baby croisants & orange/rasberry juice mix "Boo-G's mixture"). He was in such a fret... dang. i told him to calm down that we would make it but then the traffic got to him... i guess he made a dicission to please me.. as i had been saying too bad we arent going to take any of the lobster bisk with us... all of a sudden he makes his way to
Quincy Market and says go get your lobster bisk with such adoring eyes. i melted and gave him the biggest kiss ever. for a guy to think of my stupidities like that, he must be special! dang! i was filled with such love, appreciation, respect and all of the lovey lovey stuff... i went ot get it and came back... with a 16 oz and 32 oz and tons of oyster crackers... heee.... he had some on our way back to montreal. the border was ok.. she only wanted to have a piece of evidence of when we left last Friday (10th), as to apply for the
$750CAD. Plus, I spoke to her in French which made it much easier as Boo-G is from the West (
Edmonton), only Anglais (English). Well, I shouldn't talk my first language is English... haaa... i just use my French more then him and I keep it upto date or else i would sound like an Englishy! heee... ooh well!! came back around 4-5 pm. Mr Boo-G had to work that evening. I started washing the clothes and stayed over at his place arranging his stuff. Ended up sleeping, instead of waiting for him...
Sat (18 Oct), Sun (19 Oct), Mon (20 Oct), Tue (21 Oct):
were spend at Boo-G... he has the slowest (snail) connection to the net. i have no patience for that so i made a dicision to get him
Sympatico high speed and i told him i would hook it up but this weekend i will get more RAM for his PC dang.. he needs his machine upgraded.
Wed (22 Oct):
i came back but i was too lazy to finish the writing on the
Trip to Boston. but now its done!! it took me 3 days... man, am i becoming old by the days....
Thur (23 Oct):
such a lucky day... i went to the bank and got my new
Visa! the receptionist said if i was looking for a job and i said yes and she said that the
Royal Bank was hiring then i came home and went to apply. got into the motion of applying to all sorts of jobs in the end i ended up applying to 50 jobs that were posted at
monster,
workopolis,
office team and
career click. today, i got a few emails from people on some of the jobs. i have a 10am interview already and i just did this yesterday night. i think i'm truly lucky and i just got another which i will confirm i guess on monday, too bad it's
Friday! dang!!!
So, this was my update of the days that were missing on my blog. thank god i catched up... now i have my memories... cool... also, updated my
fotopages! yes... it has the photos of
TO and
Boston... i still need to impliment the ones from Vancouver but should i [ ^.^ ???] now that its been 2-3 months but i'll see...
i lost count of how much i bought by the end of the trip but it was fun! laterzzz.
