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Not cooking the Turkey Day dinner.
My spouse and I have four grown children, his two and my two. We haven't done Thanksgiving at our home for at least 10 years - his two go to their aunt's home, my youngest, her 3 sons (our grandsons!) and her spouse go to her in-laws, my oldest is either working (for the airline) or at her current beau's home. So, we don't cook a traditional meal ( Read more... ) -
tax class
i go to the hell that is tax class today to take my final. Think of me, please.
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Joey DeFrancesco had dinner at my place last night! Again!
I'm still freakin' busy with tax class and deadlines but I made time to have Joey, his lovely girlfriend and singer Colleen, Jake (the guitarist), and Rich (their bus driver and fixer of all things Hammond Organ related) over for dinner last night. It was a success and we had fun and these are the sweetest people in the world. They arrived with a ( Read more... ) -
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Borrowed from Baron Dave and Supergee and using their criteria. It looks like I've read just about every book on the list.
An Unread Book List
Borrowed from the supergee branch of the library.
These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). As usual, bold what you have read, italicize what you started ( Read more... ) -
So busy...
Between tax class and the October 15th IRS deadline (I haven't even done my own tax return, shit!) I am so busy that I can't even think of posting, I hardly have time to lurk. See you all in a couple of weeks. I will try to read everyone's posts though, I do like to keep in the loop. -
Oh yeah?
This just cracks me up no end. I really like to drive (I love road trips, especially on my lonesome) I like doing repetitive things (sometimes) and I really, really like traveling, my state, talking about my state, and telling people where to go and what to do. I have actually discussed being a tour guide with my spouse and people have urged me to ( Read more... ) -
I'm biking to work
I biked to work and back yesterday. This is a big deal for me because I haven't done any serious biking in over 5 years. I only just brought out my bike from storage a month ago and the farthest I have traveled on it this season is a couple of easy miles on the Midtown Greenway. But, ever since a fitness center with showers (showers being the ( Read more... ) -
zzzzzzhonk wha?
I just started tax class. Seems I have to take the basic before being allowed to take any advanced courses. Of course, the first class (Tues & Thurs, 3 hours each day, runs until Nov. 6th) was mostly introductory with all of the usual boring stuff: introduce yourselves, this is the course syllabus, this is your textbook and workbook, blah, blah, ( Read more... ) -
We're all okay - I can't stand the coverage
Most of you probably know by now that the 35W bridge over the Mississippi River collapsed yesterday during rush hour. The only one in my family who drives that route regularly was home safe when it happened. After e-mail and phone check-ins with almost everyone we know we can breathe a little easier today, they are all fine, and everyone that they ( Read more... ) -
Grandkids
Grandkids - gotta love the little shits. Physically, I probably have some of the cutest grandsons out there. The 6 year old is too pretty, people keep mistaking him for a girl. The middle kid (2 1/2) has big beautiful eyes and a whimsical smile, the youngest (15 months) looks like he will be the practical joker of the family, the one who will be ( Read more... )