Monthly Archives: December 2009
5 awesome things about this decade
Now that we are officially just hours from 2010, I thought I’d take a moment to recall the five most awesome things about the past 10 years. These are not necessarily the top 5 things just for me (because that … Continue reading
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Happy Anniversary to ME!
Everyone, gather around and get ready to wish me a good old fashioned HOORAY! It was 10 years ago today, Dec. 29, 1999, that I sat at the bar at a neighborhood pub in New Orleans called “The 19th Hole,” … Continue reading
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In case I wasn’t clear…
Holy Santa Claus Crap. TOO. MUCH. EXCESS. This first photo is the best one to demonstrate just how overboard we went on Christmas. The photo turned out fuzzy… kind of like our sense of reality about how much children actually … Continue reading
Christmas – a time for obscene spending habits and tagging my garage
Yep, that about sums it up this Christmas Eve. Let me start by saying that Hank has been gone with a certain red-headed tool for the past six days, and I am fairly miserable about it. I have missed him horribly. … Continue reading
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Mary Kate meets Kansas
My sister Laura often tells people that she looks like everyone they’ve ever met. It’s her explanation for why she is constantly asked, “Don’t I know you?” Now, despite Laura’s witty personality (she gets it from me), she never uses my reply: … Continue reading
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Where have you gone, JD?
There are a lot of bad things happening in this world today. War. A faltering economy. Climate change. Unemployment. Health care crisis. People are suffering. People are unhappy. Life is hard. But let’s talk about a real monstrosity. This is … Continue reading
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Save the Earth? Bah, humbug!
Because I have an affection for all things political, especially politically scandalous, I throughly enjoyed the movie Frost/Nixon. And one of the best lines out of the movie, in my opinion, came at the end, where it is noted that one of Nixon’s … Continue reading
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