Category: Me And Mine
Would Your Child Eat Spinach Every Day For A Year If It Meant Getting The Presents That He Wanted?
My oldest son turned 17 a couple of days ago. In the days leading up to his birthday he asked a lot of questions about his birthday presents. What was he getting? Was it vegetable or mineral? Was it electronic? Was it alive? Where was it? Was it in the house? Would I give him [...]
Happy 17th Birthday To My Son!
Today is my oldest son’s birthday. He turned 17 years old today. To be honest, I have no idea at all where the time has gone. It doesn’t seem like it’s been 17 years since that magical day that he was born. Having him was one of the best moments of my life. I loved [...]
Update On Our Parking Problem
A while back I mentioned the problem I was having with our neighbor. He doesn’t like anyone parking on the street if any part of the car winds up in front of his house. So, what he does is park that his back bumper basically sits even with the property line between our two houses. [...]
Updating The Dining Room
We did a little updating to our dining room a couple of years ago, adding a rug and changing the drapery fabrics. The furniture in there consists of a dining room table, four chairs, and a china cabinet. The set was my grandparent’s set. While it is darker than I would choose myself, I cherish [...]
Taste In Holiday Lights
You can tell Thanksgiving wasn’t that long ago. How can you tell? That’s simple. Drive through the area and you’ll notice that there are houses decorated with Christmas lights that didn’t have them five days ago. Many people take advantage of the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend to not only enjoy a great meal and time [...]
The Checkpoint Charlie Incident – My Own #ConnectingFlights Story
Have you by chance seen the new Connecting Flights video yet? The commercial reminded me of some of the funny things that have happened to my family while traveling. My Mom travels a lot. Sometimes it’s tp use her time share and sometimes it’s just to go someplace. Several years ago my family went to [...]
Chica’s Getting Her Own Show On @Sprout And We’re Going To See Her On Thanksgiving
The Sprout channel is my son’s favorite tv channel. He loves the shows and the hosts. I received an invitation to the Sprout Thanksgiving Day Party. Now usually I stay home on Thanksgiving. But this year when I got the invite to this party I weighted my options and was deciding if I should accept [...]
Till Death Do Us Part – Financial Decisions After Marriage
We insure our cars. We insure our homes. We insure our tech toys. But, many of us don’t insure ourselves. It’s true. It’s funny how things change once you get married. You are not only emotionally attached to your spouse, but you are also financially attached. When I got married, I never really thought about [...]
Wordless Wednesday – Vanellope Val And Her Only A Little Flabby Arms
Recently I was sent an email asking me some questions about my body following Lap band surgery, specifically if there was much extra skin. In my case, there really isn’t. That’s not to say there isn’t any, but there isn’t as much as I thought there would be. This picture of me wearing my new [...]
Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One. Two Hoods And A Robe
Before, when I was morbidly obese, I was almost always hot. Now, I’m almost always chilly or cold. Apparently I lost my insulation. I’m part of a closed online group that’s all had Lap band surgery with my doctor. I asked if anyone else was also always chilly and like 20 people responded yes. I [...]
CampusBookRentals – A Site I Wish I Knew About Sooner
As you may know if you’re a regular reader, I went back to school this year. I am a full time student once again. I attended full time for the Spring 2012 semester. Then I took two 5-week summer courses. Now, for the Fall 2012 semester I am full time once again. Something I didn’t [...]
Time To Organize The Burrow
I often refer to my home as The Burrow. That is partially because it can be pretty cluttered, like the Weasley’s home The Burrow in Harry Potter movies. It’s organized clutter, but clutter none the less. It’s far from perfect, but I love it. Our area was hit hard by Hurricane Sandy recently. After finally [...]
Hurricane Sandy Aftermath – It Turns Out Hurricanes Are Not Romantic
I live In the same neighborhood I grew up in. As an older teen I recall a time where a hurricane was headed our way. At that time I had a crazy crush on a boy that lived a few houses up the street. Upon being notified a bad storm was heading our way, my [...]
Is this thing on?
I feel a bit like Mike Teevee from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. I’m trying to set up posting by text so I can make short updates from my cell phone. Our area of New Jersey is right on the water and we were hit HARD by Hurricane Sandy. We still gave no power [...]
Funny Signs – Good Neighbors
I saw this sign in new York City recently. It made me wonder if there’s a sign that says “bad neighbors let their dogs poop all over the neighbors lawn”. Also, what if your neighbor doesn’t have a dog? The fact that they don’t have a dog doesn’t make them a good neighbor.
