Confidential to my family…
Please update your Amazon.com wishlists. (This means you, Mom and Michelle!)
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» Read the rest of this entry ...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 [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...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 [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...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 [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...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 [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...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 to get [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...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 [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...(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 [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...Happy Birthday to You! Happy Birthday to You! Happy Birthday dear Daddy! Happy Birthday to You!
» Read the rest of this entry ...Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Birthday Macauley/Bill, and Gene and I are on vacation in Indiana after a fabulous run in Ohio. I think we’re leaving tomorrow. We had a marvelous late Xmas with our families. I gave Gene a Mr. T in your Pocket toy and my family gave me not one but [...]
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