Another Thanksgiving weekend is upon us, and so far it’s been wonderful for us. Thanksgiving dinner was deliciously cooked by my husband and our guests who were kind enough to bring yummy dishes to share. We played some games afterwards and watched the movie “21” -not very Thanksgiving-y, but a good movie nonetheless. The night […]
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Day 1 is almost finished. 5 years ago today, I found out that my wife had terminal cancer. We knew it was cancer before that day, but we didn’t know anything about the kind of cancer. At the University of Michigan Medical Center we found out it was a very rare aggressive cancer, most likely
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This is the long-awaited post (by some anyway) that details the uncanny coincidences of ride break-downs we encountered while in Orlando, Florida. Here is a list of the following rides that stalled or broke down while fellow blogger jamiahsh was along. Not to blame him, but… 😉 Epcot: Spaceship Earth, the boat ride in Mexico, the boat
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Round two started around 5.30 when my mother’s brother and sister and their children and children’s children arrived. By the end, we probably had 25-30 people in the house. We keep talking about renting out the local hall or church basement (prolly impossible for the church I think our organist has a life time resevation
Here’s a fun game for the holidays, providing you like Superman and the show Seinfeld, for that matter. I read an interesting little blurb in the paper the other day about how Jerry Seinfeld is a huge fan of Superman. So much so that there is a reference or an image of the “Man of
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This is the post you were expecting today. Happy Thanksgiving! My mother, my grandmother, my uncle, and I got together on this fine day for our nonstandard (read: restaurant) meal, followed by pumpkin and apple pie at home. My brother and nephew always spend this day with Alex’s relatives on his mom’s side, so they
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Let’s see… I got up around 8.30 for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade and to bring the long table and chairs down to set up. That is my job, set the table and chairs up… kind of easy… get it done and over with (then again, I have to haul them up later). Parade time: floats,
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This is one to be appreciated by spy show enthusiasts everywhere. Apparently someone in Italy was caught with a gun disguised as a cell phone. Read on: A 28 year old man was arrested by the Italian police in a Naples suburb. He was caught with a gun disguised as a phone. The phone gun
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Many things to be thankful for. Good Friends, family, wonderful daughters, decent health, and a decent steady job. The job of course means food on the table ect. But there are times I don’t feel like giving thanks. I just want to hide out for a few months until this winter holiday season is over.
On the cover of our extremely late newspaper this evening (inserts for Black Friday sales, but really the store did not get their supply until after 6.30) there was an article detailing various peoples mishaps in the kitchen. Invariably, this causes my mind to wander to two incidents that I have heard tell about time
