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Thursday, December 27, 2012

November 2009 on FB


The cast of Glee sings the national anthem prior to the Yankee win in game 3!
November 1, 2009 at 12:27 am Friends

Uh, Brett: maybe you could stop blowing your snot on the field every time the camera pans to you. Hillbilly.
November 1, 2009 at 6:30 pm Friends

Arod doubles to left to drive in Damon w/ two outs in the 9th . . Yanks now up by one.
November 1, 2009 at 11:39 pm Friends

and kudos to Damon on some great baserunning!
November 1, 2009 at 11:43 pm

Yanks win! 3-1 Series lead!
November 1, 2009 at 11:48 pm Friends

Although not a scoring play and no out was recorded, THIS was the single most important moment of Game 4.

11.01.09: Johnny Damon steals second base, then sees that no one is covering third and takes another base
November 2, 2009 at 12:58 am Friends

2 outs in the ninth, tie ballgame . . . ARod, I bow to thee.

11.01.09: Alex Rodriguez lines a go-ahead double to left field in the ninth inning, plating Johnny Damon
November 2, 2009 at 12:59 am Friends

Howdy - pecan Supremes, peanut butter cups, mint trefoils, malted milk balls, honey roasted peanuts, fruit slices, dulce de leche, cranberry trail mix, choc covered raisins, choc covered peanuts = all $5 each.

choc covered almonds, or a can of whole cashews = $6 each

whole cashews gift box = $8.

Thanks!
November 2, 2009 at 12:38 pm

I'm watching the absurd hatchet job Nightline is trying to pull off . . . Lisa is literally laughing on the couch. Be biased, oh mainstream media - you all are - but for God's sake, at least pretend to have taken a journalism class. Geesh.
November 3, 2009 at 12:29 am Friends

A disproportionate number of 'Caillou' episodes seem to center around losing and searching for Gilbert, their cat. Just ck out the one playing on Sprout right now. It's like a children's program spawned from Danny phobias.
November 4, 2009 at 1:44 am Friends

Yanks up by 6 in the 5th . . blood in the water, Yanks starting to feed at will. C'mon boys, finish this!
November 4, 2009 at 9:59 pm Friends

Yanks win! Yanks win! 27 ringz baby!
November 4, 2009 at 11:54 pm Friends

Ah, Fox sports is so thoughtless and tacky, asking Matsui if he'd like to return as a Yankee next year just as he receives the MVP trophy. They know full well he's gone next year. Jerky thing to do.
November 5, 2009 at 12:12 am Friends

jeez, Peter Gammons. I love me some Yankees, but your man-love for Jeter and Mo is almost . . . uncomfortable. Tone it down a bit. No need to recite a sonnet about them everytime the microphone is passed your way.
November 5, 2009 at 1:26 am Friends

Heading off to bed. Lu had two teeth pulled yest evening, so I'm sure this morning will be a happy, joyous parenting experience.
November 5, 2009 at 2:56 am Friends

Good news.

A baby missing for five days was found alive and well under her baby sitter\'s bed, and Florida authorities said Thursday they plan to charge the sitter, her husband and the child\'s mother.
November 5, 2009 at 10:23 am Friends

Surprise of the day: Smiley's beaming face is featured in a local weekly paper. We had no idea and were about to toss it out when the photo caught Lisa's eye. How bout that?
November 5, 2009 at 12:06 pm Friends

"The guy wins the World Series, what does he do? He stops to help," said Westchester County police officer Kathleen Cristiano, who was among the first to arrive at the accident scene. "It was totally surreal."

EASTCHESTER - On his way home from winning the World Series, Yankees Manager Joe Girardi stopped to help a woman who had lost control of her car on the Cross County Parkway and crashed into a wall.
November 5, 2009 at 3:27 pm Friends

7 dead, 20 wounded as of the last (unconfirmed) report

Multiple deaths and multiple injuries have resulted from shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, according to a Fort Hood spokesman.
November 5, 2009 at 3:29 pm Friends

Is it just me, or is Pam on the Office really annoying since she got engaged (now married)? The character seems off this season.
November 6, 2009 at 12:39 am Friends

The Southridge store is on the list . . I loved Waldens as a kid. What a shame.

Borders has announced that it will close approximately 200 stores in its Waldenbooks Specialty Retail group in January. The store closings will leave Borders with about 130 mall-based outlets. About 1,500 positions will be eliminated in the downsizing, most of which are part-time jobs.
November 6, 2009 at 3:48 pm Friends

[dabs tears of joy from eyes] I DVR'd the whole thing . . .


NEW YORK (AP) -- Crowds roared, church bells rang and streams of paper rained down on Broadway as the New York Yankees celebrated their 27th championship Friday in a way only this city can, with a parade up the Canyon of Heroes.
November 6, 2009 at 4:08 pm Friends

Did Neanderthals Have Sex with Modern Humans? , Neanderthals were the closest relatives we had, and new hints from researchers suggest that we might have been intimately close indeed.
November 6, 2009 at 3:57 pm Friends

My Mom was hospitalized today. Any extra prayers would be appreciated.
November 6, 2009 at 4:16 pm Friends

Ah, listening to Jonas Brothers sing "I fell in love with a pizza girl, now I eat pizza, now I eat pizza, now I eat pizza everyday" while LuLu sings along perfectly, note for note.
November 7, 2009 at 3:38 pm Friends

LuLu: "Why'd you post that? Thank you for woo-ning my life"
November 7, 2009 at 3:39 pm

Just finished watching the Dr. Who episode "Turn Left". Great episode, wonderful character development, and a grand performance from Catherine Tate. Here endeth my dork status report for the night.
November 8, 2009 at 1:57 am Friends

A 2000 year old mystery may finally be solved.

The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located.
November 9, 2009 at 6:03 pm Friends

RIP

First diagnosed in 1992, Wilson became a very public cancer survivor and a constant advocate for others fighting breast cancer. Long a television reporter and anchorwoman, she became a founder of After Breast Cancer Diagnosis - ABCD for short - a one-on-one mentoring program for cancer patients.
November 9, 2009 at 11:58 pm Friends

My ballot: Herzog, Martin, Autry, Marvin Miller.

Twenty former major league managers, umpires and executives will be considered for election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame for induction in 2010 by two Veterans Committees, with results of a Dec. 6 vote to be announced Dec. 7 at baseball’s Winter Meetings, it was announced today.
November 10, 2009 at 5:42 pm Friends

Washington-area sniper John Allen Muhammad was executed Tuesday by lethal injection, a Virginia prisons spokesman said.
November 10, 2009 at 10:45 pm Friends

Some guys mugged a guy in Milwaukee . . . and then returned the wallet with a 'thank you' after seeing his military ID inside.
November 10, 2009 at 11:55 pm Friends

Danny Gokey's first song will be released soon on country radio . . .which means I'll never hear it.
November 11, 2009 at 10:22 am Friends

I'm giving you plenty of warning. Someday, somehow, this is what our front door will look like.






A WTF complaint: Smooth Jazz 106.9 just posted this on FB: "Alicia Keys talks about her HIV/AIDS" and then, in a smaller font, continues w/ "Foundation" on the next line. So if u aren't paying attention . . . Damn near gave me a heart attack.
November 11, 2009 at 1:11 pm Friends

Every weekend is the same: Grace moaning that she never goes to anyone's house/we never have anyone over, blah blah. What a crock. Barely a week goes by w/out some sleepover.
November 13, 2009 at 3:40 pm Friends


Seven months after Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan left for New York, the Vatican on Saturday announced his successor, naming Bishop Jerome Edward Listecki of La Crosse as the new spiritual leader of Southeastern Wisconsin's nearly 700,000 Catholics.
November 14, 2009 at 12:19 pm Friends

Venice may be a ghost town soon.

Historic Venice is approaching the dread status of living museum, with a population now below 60,000 — a largely symbolic threshold considered by some to signal the end of the city's viability.
November 14, 2009 at 12:25 pm Friends

Angel (one of our cats) knocked over a fish tank last night and ate YaYa's Beta. Tears this morning, mitigated by her respect for Angel's prowess. We'll have to buy another soon.
November 17, 2009 at 2:32 pm Friends

Grienke wins the AL Cy Young. His 16-8 record looks modest, until you consider his 2.16 ERA and the fact that he pitches for the lowly Royals.
November 17, 2009 at 2:36 pm Friends
[He would soon be a Brewer]

I just spoke to my Mom, her surgery is due in a few hours. I'll update on that later.
November 17, 2009 at 4:00 pm

You can't blame this one on McDonald's: Researchers have found signs of heart disease in 3,500-year-old mummies.
November 17, 2009 at 9:12 pm Friends

As of an hour ago my Mom was out of surgery and doing well (knock on wood)
November 17, 2009 at 10:55 pm Friends

Project Runway finale tonight. I'm rooting for Carol Hannah, but I think the wise money is on Irena (although I didn't care for the preview of her Bryant Park designs).
November 19, 2009 at 10:25 am Friends

After 55 years the USPS pulls the plug on the program.

Ho Ho No: Postal Service Drops Santa Letters Program, Thousands of starry-eyed children all over the world are writing letters to the jolly man at the North Pole this holiday season, but they will not likely get a response from Santa Claus or his helpers.
November 19, 2009 at 10:33 am Friends

Oprah Winfrey will announce on Friday's "The Oprah Winfrey Show" that she will end her talk show, said a spokesman for Winfrey's Harpo Productions.
November 20, 2009 at 12:40 am Friends

C Penney is discontinuing its "Big Book" catalog.
November 20, 2009 at 2:25 am Friends

What is the point of a Kurt Cobain documentary that contains not one note of his music? I detest Courtney and relish acts of defiance against her . . . but if she denies you his catalog then STFU and shelve the project.
November 20, 2009 at 3:11 am Friends

Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum director said Friday.
November 20, 2009 at 9:02 pm Friends

A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus. Experts say the historian may be reading ...
November 20, 2009 at 9:01 pm Friends

Listening to a Midway special. Horrific trivia I didn't know: the Japanese took American pilots captured in the battle, bound them hand and foot, attached weights to them and dropped them overboard to drown. The rationale/explanation: they were 'angry at news of their defeat'.
November 23, 2009 at 1:01 am Friends

This is YaYa ice-skating on Sunday. Thanks to my mother-in-law for taking her!


the earlier videos show my granddaughter kind of shaky, the more she went around the rink the better she got.
November 23, 2009 at 10:50 pm Friends

I just took the garbage out and happened upon a possum in our backyard, the first I've ever seen. It looked at me as if to say "WTF dude?", then calmly walked beneath the trampoline. I've been wondering what's been crapping in our (fenced-in) yard. Now I know.
November 23, 2009 at 11:42 pm Friends


Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Boxing Day 2012

On annual Boxing Day tradition has continued: Team Slap made another road trip. Last year was House on the Rock. We'd planned to visit Cave of the Mounds this year, but time and $ came into play and so we journeyed to Gurnee to eat at Rainforest Cafe. A  post will surely follow in the days/weeks/years to come, but everyone was happy :)

Hypocrisy?

Yesterday I watched Dark Knight Rises and prohibited the kids from joining me due to the graphic content. Tonight I rented Resident Evil: Retribution and gleefully watched it with Lu and YaYa  Hypocritical? No, mon ami. DK is a stark retelling of the world as it sadly is, while RE is but a cartoon fantasy. Plus, the children must know how best to handle the upcoming zombie apocalypse, and I do feel they picked up a trick or two.

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Merry Christmas from Team Slap!


Christmas 2012 - the Cliff Notes version

Christmas 2012 (shorthand version). Eve: spent with family and friends followed by 10:30 PM Mass with Team Slap. Today: breakfast with my father-in-law, a long nap, and our new tradition, a movie (Frankenweenie). Then we drove through Candy Cane Lane and had a scrumptious Christmas dinner - at McDonalds!

Charles Durning


RIP character actor Charles Durning  Age 89.

Monday, December 24, 2012

Jack Klugman

RIP Jack Klugman. From The Twilight Zone, Odd Couple and Quincy, I loved your work. And what an instantly recognizable voice. RIP



t's a Wonderful Life

Lisa and I are watching "It's a Wonderful Life" on NBC. It remains my favorite movie ever. No contest - there's not a scene that doesn't make me smile and/or cry.  Just seeing it on the screen makes this awful Christmas week nearly tolerable.