The Cheesecake is Rich

(Back home aaaagaaaain, in Cheesecake Ciiiiity)
Anyway! We just walked in the door from our trip to the Frozen North (and Frozen it was – it snowed in both IN and OH), so now I feel safe in promoting that we weren’t home the whoooole time.
Highlights:
In Indiana, we hung out at Mom and Dad’s house, opened [...]

Nothing new on the baby front – one of us kinda freaked the eff out about actually paying for the care n’ upkeep of a Small Person, so the other of us is just Not Thinking About It But Hopes For Better News in Early 2010.
(Oh, and one of us respectfully requests no Plan B [...]

Please update your Amazon.com wishlists. (This means you, Mom and Michelle!)

So, I’m in Ohio right now. (Please do not rob my house). At some point this year, I decided that I wanted to take a full week off work and do the Indiana and Ohio visits and :: theatrical sniff :: I deserved a FULL week of vacation, complete with BOTH weekends so I would [...]

So I’m writing this from the luxurious TownePlace Suites on 71st St in Indianapolis. I should probably be packing, but Gene’s still asleep so I can’t turn the lights on. Next stop, another Marriott property and the in-laws and a wedding on Saturday (yay!).
Indianapolis has been wonderful. Mom and I spent a ton of time [...]

So, back in the day I had a Speak and Spell and a Speak and Math (or whatever the math version of the Speak and Spell was called*). I credit the Speak and Math with my ability to do simple math in my head. (I also credit my mother’s handy memory tricks such as “Refrigerator [...]

So I guess I have to give Mom back to Indiana. Yesterday, my actual 29th birthday, was awesome. I wish I could say we did all sorts of fabulous things, but it went like this: donuts, grilled cheese, home improvement TV, walked the dogs, more TV, dinner, watched the Candidate, sent Gene to bed, more [...]

So, I’m going to Indianapolis for my birthday. Yea!!!
Now “all” I have to do is book a flight. Somehow, doing this is harder than I imagined. My travel dates are air tight and can’t budge, plus Gene may be out of town when I go so I have to figure out how [...]

So Gene’s devotedly playing Fallout 3 on his XBox. I have no idea what game is about except that Gene is very proud not to have eaten any corpses (???), but I do know that the soundtrack is very limited and VERY maddening. It’s a fairly endless loop of “Anything Goes” and other old songs [...]

(Sorry, gentle readers! There is simply no other way to title this)
Ball State University, alma mater to both David Letterman and your friend LaineyD, is the #24th ranked college football team. And NO, not in Delaware County, Indiana, but in the entire country. And by country, I mean the United States, not some sort of [...]