Hot dog! In light of the current blizzard, Marquette canceled Smiley's speech therapy session, saving me a trip across town. Whew!
Published writer, compulsive reader, Old School Whovian, Match Game enthusiast, NKOTB fan, data hoarder, and - surprisingly, given that list - married with four kids. Welcome to my take on life, fatherhood, entertainment, and whatever strikes my fancy. Enjoy!
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Silver Linings Playbook
Watched Silver Linings Playbook. Great cast, strong story, a little rom-com-y in the last half hour. Grade A
Monday, February 25, 2013
Amazing Race
We just finished watching Season 12 of the Amazing Race! Congrats (5 years later) to TK and Rachel on their win! What a great team, and what a special couple. I hope they're still together.
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Bad News for the Yanks
Yankee Curtis Granderson is out 10 weeks with fractured forearm suffered on a HBP. Damn.
And a court has ruled that the New York Yankees are "The Evil Empire" - at least when it comes to using that phrase in merchandising. Quoting the Wall Street Journal "The panel of judges sided with the Yankees, ruling that the Yankees are strongly associated with the phrase. Allowing anyone else to use the phrase exclusively would likely cause confusion, ruled the judges." You go boyz!
Free
I have a 50" Toshiba flat-screen projection TV that I'm looking to part with; I offered it to my parents but they inexplicably turned it down. It's too big and passe for most modern living rooms, but it's a fully working HD capable TV that would be perfect for a den or a basement rec room (won't fit down our stairs). Years ago one of the kids damaged one of the built in speakers, so we hard-wired a much better pair of speakers to it, and I'll include those too. If you're interested, comment here. Thanks!
Saturday, February 23, 2013
As I just tweeted (you *do* follow me on Twitter, dontcha?) we're about to step out for our 18th anniversary. It - well Feb 22nd - is the anniversary of the day we met. I'm not one of the hippie-dippie posers who demean marriage as a mere 'slip of paper', but I do value this date more than that of our wedding. There is faint difference between life on Oct 25th, '96 and all the days that followed it; but there is no end to the difference that Feb 22nd 1995 made in my life. Thanks for putting up with me Lisa
My Thoughts - The Oscars
I'm getting really sick of the Oscar hype. I love movies (obviously) and I adore the Oscars, but in the end it's just a bunch of pretty millionaires arguing over which pretty millionaire gets a gold statue for doing the job they're paid to do. It's not worth as much ink as it generates.
Friday, February 22, 2013
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Tomorrow will be 18 years to the day that I met my soul mate.
A few months after that I will have been with him longer then being alive, lol. Yikes. Time flies. Hope everyone has or finds their lifelong love! I had to post this today, just to beat him to the punch...ha! I got to it first Danny! Also: in person job interview tomorrow morning, wish me luck...phone interview was intense! - Lisa
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Rise of the Guardians
Rise of the Guardians was OK, but a little on the dark side for an animated movie. Lauren insisted on sitting on my lap, and once tracked me down when I wandered away. From an adult perspective I thought it was ho-hum, just another variation on the tired super hero them, but props to the bad guy: the Boogeyman was wickedly done.
A Health Update
First of all, the picture I posted yesterday was taken weeks ago, so to all of you who said how awful I looked and how I must be in pain to look like that: [redacted] you.
Second, I wound up getting the hip ck'd out, and it was diagnosed as a 5"x 7" hematoma (a pool of standing blood outside a blood vessel). They're giving it til Friday to dissipate on it's own, otherwise it'll have to be lanced and drained. I'll have to deal with it 'til then.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
During the snowstorm a week ago last Thursday I slipped and fell down the back stairs and landed on my right hip. It's been bruised and painful since then, but I'm fully mobile, even taking long walks with the kids. But at around 11 this morning it all but exploded; intense pain followed by a raised bump the size of a pair of softballs on my hip. No idea why - I was just watching TV when it happened. As loathe as I am to see a doctor, I went over to Urgent Care but they couldn't see me for hours so I said F it and returned home to ice it and pop some Advil. Not a great way to spend an afternoon.
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Mindy McCready
Country music star Mindy McCready, perhaps best known for her reported affair with Roger Clemens, has reportedly committed suicide at age 37. RIP.
Zoinks
Yesterday, in our standard Saturday evening post-Mass dinner out, we stopped into Hamburger Mary's. If you're not familiar, Hamburger Mary's is a kitschy, gay-themed eatery here in Bay View. During dinner one of the TV's was playing the movie "My Best Friend's Girl".
When asked how everything was, I told the waiter "The foods fine, but how can you play a Dane Cook movie and expect people to want to eat?" The table was suddenly quiet. Apparently, Lisa (and possibly the waiter) heard it as "How can you pay a gay cook and expect people to eat", which is just a weeeeee bit of a different thing.
Zoinks!
Today in History
Today is the 70th anniversary of Joseph Goebbels's Sportpalast speech, which warned Germany that dire days were ahead and that victory was in jeopardy.
Congratulations to Danica Patrick
Congrats! "Danica Patrick became the first woman to win the pole position for the Daytona 500, posting a lap of 196.434 mph Sunday. In doing so, she also became the first woman to win a pole at any NASCAR top-division race."
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